# Session S36 > [!overview] > [campaign:: [[60 Games/62 Campaigns/2022-09 Hoard of the Dragon Queen/Hoard of the Dragon Queen|Hoard of the Dragon Queen]]] > [session:: S36] > [prev:: [[2024-01-28_S35]]] > [next:: [[2024-03-03_S37]]] > [session date:: 2024-02-25] > [campaign date:: ] > [my pc:: [[Lenore Sigyn]]] > [dm:: [[Kai]]] > [player:: [[D(emu)]], [[Hyraxas]], [[jethoof]], [[Leah Ferguson|Leah]], [[Nisshoku]]] > [pcs:: [[Astrid Dawngaze]], [[Enzo]], [[Faust Huxley]], [[Gomash]], [[Lenore Sigyn]], [[Ryk]]] > [active npc:: ] > [discussed npc:: ] > [active locations:: ] > [discussed locations:: ] > > --- > > (tldr:: Summary.) %% ### Starting notes: - [[jethoof]] will be away [[2024-03-03]] but we can continue without him. %% ## Notes - We sit down at [[Teasci]]. Both [[60 Games/62 Campaigns/2022-09 Hoard of the Dragon Queen/05 NPCs/Freya|Freya]] and [[Treya Oakhallow]] are there. They were contacted by their "Mother" and wants [[Faust Huxley]] to go back home… a black letter of summoning… - Family has been invited for a meeting of lichs, with Huxley invited as a part of the entourage. But he doesn't say the "lich" part aloud. - There's a meeting of necromanctic individuals meeting… - Astrid asks Huxley not to mention [[Daurgothoth]]. - [[Faust Huxley]] and [[60 Games/62 Campaigns/2022-09 Hoard of the Dragon Queen/05 NPCs/Freya|Freya]] both leave. [[Treya Oakhallow]] stays. - [[Enzo]] gets tea. We go to a more private room to talk. - How long have you been working with [[Ontharr Frume]]? A couple months. - How long have you been with the [[Order of the Gauntlet]]? A couple months? - Joined to help out [[Baldur's Gate]]. - Ontharr has briefed him on the caravan. - He seems very untrustworthy LOL - Everyone else goes to look around the neighborhood while Kassandra stays behinds to meet with [[Evan Starhold]] and [[Tiana Starhold]]. - Lenore takes off the circlet off, and uses disguise self to have blue eyes and different clothes. - Hears Evan out talking to the woman out front. - Comes in, dressed in travellers cloths. Tiana looks more like her mother, but face more like her father. - In BG to travel and work; sick of the farm - Big hugs! - Warns that people in the city may be looking for her; that they had looked for her on the farm, befriending her mom - Kass says she heard about a murder in the Upper City - Happened *in* the Upper City; believed that they got through the lower tunnels into the Upper City; would have to know the tunnels well. - Suggests she is travelling with someone who may be able to help… - Break in or invite from a high house. Gated community, not a part of the City's security. - Kass asks about what they know of the [[Cult of the Dragon]] - They keep asking them to join them. Sounds like them specifcally. - They're the ones who got to mom, or at least Kass thinks so. - They stay at the guards barricks, sometimes at Wyrm's Rock when they're on bridge duty - Are thinking about travelling to [[Waterdeep]]. - It's just a really pleasant happy family reunion. - Kass dips out and reapplies the disguise self every hour, and keeps her eye on the main room… it's a quiet day. - Everyone else's experience… - Enzo is a tour guide. - Astrid asks about a Temple to [[60 Games/62 Campaigns/2022-09 Hoard of the Dragon Queen/05 NPCs/Bahamut|Bahamut]] in Baldur's Gate… and there isn't. - They go to the High House of Wonders. It's a museum and workshop. - They go shopping for a bit, and head back to the [[Blushing Mermaid]]. - Kassandra does show [[Evan Starhold]] and [[Tiana Starhold]] what she look slike with the circlet on (since she can't travel around as Kassandra) and heads back to the [[Blushing Mermaid]] as Lenore. - On her way back to the [[Blushing Mermaid]], she is very clearly being followed. - Generic complete stranger, unwashed, greasy hair - She sends an urgent message to [[Langdedrosa Cyanwrath]] and says "I'm being followed on my way back. I'm going to the [[Shrine of the Suffering]]." - Someone moves directly towards me as I'm walking through the streets. - Someone else, also unwashed, greasy hair - Says I dropped something. Kass stops. He seems genuinely afraid. - He sets down a bag for her. - She hands him a piece of silver. - Bag is extremely expensive looking. Is surprisingly heavy. - An envelope, black envelope. Wax seal of a skull and snake winding through eyes. - Black sleek box. Has most of the weight. - She puts it in her bag of holding. - She arrives at the [[Shrine of the Suffering]] and shows her companions the box - Enzo is aware of them. The skull and snake is a crest of a thieves guild, the [[Hellvipers]]. They are assassins outside of Baldur's Gate, too. - Thieves Guilds that act in the Outer City, one of the larger and more influential ones. - Known for killing, money laundering. - Known also for mining and underground. - Enzo has worked with them before… very professional, but very spiteful. - Kassandra opens the envelope. - Dear adventurers, We've heard of your interests in certain areas of our city. Able to offer help for the right price. Find us outside the city in [[Stonyeyes]]. We will know you if you arrive. — [[Liason Parks]] - A heart symbol and lipstick mark in black - [[Liason Parks]] is what their group signs. - Kassandra opens the box. The box itself is lined with lead. - Sealed and packaged items. - 1 x greater healing potion - 1 x healing potion. - 1 x +1 dagger - 1 x vial of potion - Says that it's a gesture of courtesy. More to come if we sign on for a job… - We head back to the [[Blushing Mermaid]] - Kassandra messages [[Grey]]: - Can you get us access to the Upper City? Can we meet tomorrow, and if so, where? - Technically yes, and I can meet you at the [[Blushing Mermaid]] early in the morning. - We have 5 rooms available to us with single beds - [[Treya Oakhallow]] bunks with [[Langdedrosa Cyanwrath]] at the [[Shrine of the Suffering]] - Astrid gets a knock at her door. She opens the door, and most of the doorway is taken up by the size of the figure… a shadowy dragon-like figure. The armor is familiar… as is the voice, with a smile in it. - It's [[Odonth Darkwrath]]. "Hello Astrid. Would you like to talk inside of your room, or out here." - Astrid is in regular clothes, no armor. She invites him in, so she can get closer to her weapons. - He walks inside, silently. - He was in the area and wanted to check up on his favourite little warrior… he'll be leaving soon. - He's not just checking in on Astrid; there's someone else being checked in on as well. - Astrid asks if Hayla is with him, after avoiding trying to say her name. No, [[Hayla]] is currently in [[Waterdeep]]. - One of Hayla's sisters is traveling with her… [[Icelyn]]. - Astrid says to invite her in. - Astrid asks who he's planning to meet… it's Lenore. - The door opens and [[Icelyn]] enters. Astrid shifts to her weapon. Odonth has disappeared. - Astrid talks with Icelyn. "What's your deal." - Icelyn says her particular talent is killing people… but unfortunately, Icelyn won't be killing her today. She doesn't do it quickly, and likes to take her time. - Odonth goes to Kassandra's door. - Just dropping in to say hi. - Has a castle to make sure is in order… - He can just walk through doors. - She throws up spirit guardians, has her cuffs and armor on after scrambling to don them while talking through the door, and grabs her shield. - The door just opens without any effort, and the door just crumbles. - Already had a chat with Astrid. Quite amusing. - Kassandra asks about the castle… what castle are you heading towards? - He will leave a breadcrumb trail - Odonth says he's not actually with the cultists. He's just having fun. - Kass says her fight isn't with him, and she will not fight him. - Enzo cast pass without a trace without verbal components so he can eavesdrop. - Icelyn isn't moving away from the door, so Astrid tries moving past her in the door. - Ryk and Gomash come out of their rooms, weapons drawn. (Gomash is naked.) - Astrid stops him and asks why he would send assassins after her. He didn't. Doesn't know who gave the order. - Kassandra is still in her room, but hear's Icelyn's voice (and both Astrid and Odonth mention Hayla's sister) - Kassandra hides. - Icelyn asks if they're going to pay that family a visit… Astrid says to leave all our families alone. - Lenore steps into the doorway, but stays within the room. - Kassandra studies Icelyn - Each of the sisters have something that seems very off of them. - Hayla the most; Snow the least. Icelyn is in between. - She's like looking into a funhouse mirror. Nothing there, but just reflecting back. - She twitches towards someone with negative emotions. - She was staring towards Kassandra's direction, even before she stepped out of the doorway. - She gives off zero body heat; is corpse-cold. Astrid would have noticed this. - She has something clenched in one of her fists. A spherical candle, but made out of ice. - Behind her, two holes in the back of her outfit. …like for wings. - Enzo makes a general pass at Icelyn… - Kassandra sends [[Langdedrosa Cyanwrath]] a sending message - Warning about Odonth; come stay with us at the tavern.