# Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus # Prologue # session 1 (25/09/2023) - A Pair of Black Antlers - summoned by our factions - leaders are meeting in the tavern A Pair of Black Antlers - meeting to discuss activities of the cult of the dragon - they are robbing nearby - in hopes to resurect Tiamat - player presentations - Diana - elven woman - long silver hair in a thick braid - light skinned - slick armor and white clothes - sabaton shoes - 5ft 9in - amber eyes - Thelder Hezire - tall and thin - red dragonborn - baggy robes - starry patterns - mumbling about rocks - La'garde - man in his late 20s - clean shaved face - piercing midnight blue gaze - black and red clothes - miniature rabbit in his hand - Lavasham - nearly 5ft tall - fully shaved - bracers - baggy pants - no shirt - Dro Grimbeard - crimson outfit - shield in his left hand - emblazoned - small but very bulky - dwarf - rough looking - scar around the right eye - Ravenguard arrives > Ontharr Frume, a paladin in the Order of the Gauntlet, pounds his fist against the table, calling the room to order. He begins to speak: “My friends, I am glad to see you gathered here today to discuss the growing threat of the Cult of the Dragon. We have received troubling news that the cult has burned down the town of Greenest to the south. There are rumors now that the cult has become bold enough to even conduct rituals in the Elturgard Woods due north of here. “Together, we can deal a swift blow to the Cult of the Dragon by attacking their forces while they scheme in our local woods. I say we put aside our own squabbles and act. What say you? - asks to act all together - the other 2 leaders agree > this concerns all of us Gideon - Gideon asks Diana directly - Diana unconfortably agree with all the gazes on her - Gideon looks at a woman > Reya you will guide this group to where they must go - young looking - hellrider since the age of 14 - Reya Mantlemorn goes to the group - Thelder asks if we see rocks to point them - leaves the party to talk while preparing - Gideon comes over and blesses the party - **Advantage on Saving Throws for 24 Hours** - Reya comes back with the horses and manacles - a travel through the city - peaceful atmosphere - guards are not threatening - passing near a park on the way out - wedding ceremony - priestess of Lathander - Groom ![](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/989637197735026688/1155626722671202354/kingxen_a_large_barbarian_male_short_clean_haircut_detailed_tat_b9be771f-6b63-461b-bc1d-1ebc6c52e764.png) - Bride ![](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/989637197735026688/1155633541699342376/kingxen_female_elf_with_orangegold_skin_f21bfba1-ba66-42a6-8e82-a48d3c19b9d6.png) - child on a picnic blanket ![](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/989637197735026688/1155633331975770282/kingxen_red_demon_wings_and_tail_cbf33865-db04-48b6-aed7-e5a59829ef9c.png) - we assist the ceremony - recomitment ceremony - giving a bracelet - child comes over and gives bracelet ceremony > thank you for witnessing my mom and dad ceremony - the child is a winged tiefling - everyone but Dro accepts it > fuck off kid - the child goes away - tears swelling - groom and bride go to the child - give an evil eye to Dro - aknowledge the bracelets on the others - out of the city - following the paths - someone is screaming for help - female voice - party goes after it - pack of wolves surround a small halfling in a tree - bright rainbowed colored scarf - throwing rocks and stick at the pack - the pack notices the party - *combat script* - the girl bonks one that tries to go up in her tree - all the adults wolf are dealt with - Thelder gives the wolf cub food - cub eats it - Thelder pets him - Thelder has now a pet - halfling comes down of the tree - whistles - name is Grace - a fucked up donkey comes - named Lonkey - she lost all her stuff in the forest > do you have any money ? - Diana gives her 5gp > i never had that much from scavenging - she gives Diana her rainbow scarf in exchange - she promises to Diana that she'll repay her once in the academy > if you want to repay me, go to the temple where my mother works and volunteer - back on the road - there is tales of an old evil druid conclave - used to stay in this wood before the companions - terrain is suitable for giant owls and owlbears - Thelder tracks down 3 paths - 2 bad ones - 5 distincts sets of footprints - heading into the woods - hours cold - damp indicating a creek or river - rushing noisy river - footprints on the other side that are fresh - following the river path - cultists can be seen - female human - praising Bane - it should be a dragon cult here - why is the cult of the Dead 3 here ? - party gets the jump on her - *combat script* - Lavasham shoves her in the river - everyone pile up on her as she comes out of the river - Lavasham cuts her head off - the two bodies she was torturing were dragonclaw - the woman had a necklace of Bane - dishsheveled man and a skeleton - doing a ritual - altar stone - the skeleton notices the party - *combat script* - skeleton rushes - Lavasham and the skeleton exchange one blow - Le'garde takes the cultist out with a ray of sickness - the cultist had a spellbook, and ritual components - the altar had a dragon claw body on it - continuing on for more cultists - a cultists ambushes the party - stabs Lavasham nearly to death - *combat script* - nightblade is jumped by the rest of the party - second one is done by Diana's guiding bolt before he can do anything - someone is stabbed to the altar - healed him - doesn't want to be captured nor killed - still captured - had a letter on himself > Head to the bathhouse in Baldur’s Gate and retrieve our Queen’s stolen treasure. The bathhouse is located in the northern portion of the Lower City. It has a walled garden  frolicking nymphs carved into its front gates. If Duke Vanthampur thinks she can use our Queen’s treasure to buy the loyalty of the Cult of the Dead Three she is sorely mistaken. I’ll be looking for you in Baldur’s Gate when I arrive. Bring the treasure to me then or Ultiss will come for you. > > – Wyrmspeaker Rezmir - heading back to the city - prisoner on the shoulder - city flicker - cries of childrens - Material Realm tears open - Elturel is sundered into Avernus ![](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1151410925866323998/1156170456571846676/kingxen_An_endless_smoldering_jagged_pit_of_a_chasm_straight_to_84d348d8-6ee5-44ff-9400-53ddc2c6437a.png) # Chapter 1 # session 1 (25/09/2023) - A Pair of Black Antlers - summoned by our factions - leaders are meeting in the tavern A Pair of Black Antlers - meeting to discuss activities of the cult of the dragon - they are robbing nearby - in hopes to resurect Tiamat - player presentations - Diana - elven woman - long silver hair in a thick braid - light skinned - slick armor and white clothes - sabaton shoes - 5ft 9in - amber eyes - Thelder Hezire - tall and thin - red dragonborn - baggy robes - starry patterns - mumbling about rocks - La'garde - man in his late 20s - clean shaved face - piercing midnight blue gaze - black and red clothes - miniature rabbit in his hand - Lavasham - nearly 5ft tall - fully shaved - bracers - baggy pants - no shirt - Dro Grimbeard - crimson outfit - shield in his left hand - emblazoned - small but very bulky - dwarf - rough looking - scar around the right eye - Master Gideon Froom arrives > i'm glad to see you gathered here today - cult burned down a town in the south - cult doing riitual in the eltugard woods - asks to act all together - the other 2 leaders agree > this concerns all of us Gideon - Gideon asks Diana directly - Diana unconfortably agree with all the gazes on her - Gideon looks at a woman > Reya you will guide this group to where they must go - young looking - hellrider since the age of 14 - Reya Mantlemorn goes to the group - Thelder asks if we see rocks to point them - leaves the party to talk while preparing - Gideon comes over and blesses the party - Reya comes back with the horses and manacles - a travel through the city - peaceful atmosphere - guards are not threatening - passing near a park on the way out - wedding ceremony - priestess of Lathander - man - woman - child on a picnic blanket - we assist the ceremony - recomitment ceremony - giving a bracelet - child comes over and gives bracelet ceremony > thank you for witnessing my mom and dad ceremony - the child is a winged tiefling - everyone but Dro accepts it > fuck off kid - the child goes away - tears swelling - groom and bride go to the child - give an evil eye to Dro - aknowledge the bracelets on the others - out of the city - following the paths - someone is screaming for help - female voice - party goes after it - pack of wolves surround a small halfling in a tree - bright rainbowed colored scarf - throwing rocks and stick at the pack - the pack notices the party - _combat script_ - _fill later_ - Thelder gives the wolf cub food - cub eats it - Thelder pets him - Thelder has now a pet - halfling comes down of the tree - whistles - name is Grace - a fucked up donkey comes - named Lonkey - she lost all her stuff in the forest > do you have any money ? - Diana gives her 5gp > i never had that much from scavenging - she gives Diana her rainbow scarf in exchange - she promises to Diana that she'll repay her once in the academy > if you want to repay me, go to the temple where my mother works and volunteer - back on the road - there is tales of an old evil druid conclave - used to stay in this wood before the companions - terrain is suitable for giant owls and owlbears - Thelder tracks down 3 paths - 2 bad ones - 5 distincts sets of footprints - heading into the woods - hours cold - damp indicating a creek or river - rushing noisy river - footprints on the other side that are fresh - following the river path - cultists can be seen - female human - praising Bane - it should be a dragon cult here - why is the cult of the Dead 3 here ? - party gets the jump on her - _combat script_ - Lavasham shoves her in the river - everyone pile up on her as she comes out of the river - Lavasham cuts her head off - the two bodies she was torturing were dragonclaw - the woman had a necklace of Bane - dishsheveled man and a skeleton - doing a ritual - altar stone - the skeleton notices the party - _combat script_ - skeleton rushes - Lavasham and the skeleton exchange one blow - Le'garde takes the cultist out with a ray of sickness - the cultist had a spellbook, and ritual components - the altar had a dragon claw body on it - continuing on for more cultists - a cultists ambushes the party - stabs Lavasham nearly to death - _combat script_ - nightblade is jumped by the rest of the party - second one is done by Diana's guiding bolt before he can do anything - someone is stabbed to the altar - healed him - doesn't want to be captured nor killed - still captured - had a letter on himself > Head to the bathhouse in Baldur’s Gate and retrieve our Queen’s stolen treasure. The bathhouse is located in the northern portion of the Lower City. It has a walled garden  frolicking nymphs carved into its front gates. If Duke Vanthampur thinks she can use our Queen’s treasure to buy the loyalty of the Cult of the Dead Three she is sorely mistaken. I’ll be looking for you in Baldur’s Gate when I arrive. Bring the treasure to me then or Ultiss will come for you. > > – Wyrmspeaker Rezmir - heading back to the city - prisoner on the shoulder - city flicker - cries of childrens - Material Realm tears open - Elthurel is sundered into Avernus # session 2 (09/10/2023) - party goes to Baldur's Gate instead as Elturel is sundered - The Basilisk Gate - *desk* - reeks of blood crime and opportunities - nobles look to refugees with contempt - more and more refugees are flocking from Elturel - flaming fist gained more power - but it's head is missing - flaming fists closed down the gates of the city - a mob formed - encampment are in front of the gates - Dro approach the Fists - cpt XXX is in charge here - replacing the head for now - looking discheveled - fresh Fists are here too - unsure about that roughing up of civilians - Dro talks to the captain - cpt recognise him - Dro back from a mission - talks about why the civilians are locked out - ppl fear the welcoming of civilians will give the same fate to this city - Hellriders are being arrested - ppl think they are responsible in some capacity - they have hell in their names - Dro asks to pass - cpt asks if some of the party are Hellrider - Dro lies and say no - to pass we must be conscripted - Dro comes back to the party - explaion what we must do - party begrudgingly agrees - some civilians try to pass and get roughed up - party really disaprouves teh violence of the repression - Reya stays back and aid the refugees - party goes in the city in direction of the bathhouse - Baldur's Gate's Lower City - Dro guides the party towards the bathhouse - party plans for what to do - looking for clues of the cult of the dead 3 - maybe not boast the badges - *ambiance* - guards on the streets - passerby don't linger - weapons are visible on most ppl - ppl are on edge the situation is ready to blow - a flaming fist gives a missive to Dro - from the captain - because of our mission against the dead 3 we are summoned to see a contact names Tarina - at the Elfsong Tavern - she is a contact in the under belly, a "hands off" person - Dro is a lt. in the Flaming Fists - at the Bathhouse - party realises that the lack info - decides to go to Elfsong Tavern to meet Tarina - Elfsong Tavern - tavern is very busy - it is rumored that sometimes the disembodied voice of a female elf fill the tavern - ppl come to it to try and hear it - no one knows how/why/when it happens - security - there is a large female half ogre keeping an eye on patrons - customers tussling over a bet - not interrested separating them - there is a suit of animated armor named Clank - they are here mainly to protect the staff - Dro sees Alith the proprietor - half even gentlemen - older years - kind soul - share with others in contrast to the typical Baldurian - Tarina is not seen here - Dro asks Al for help as he is on official fist business - asks if Tarina is here > she is around - Dro will start to ask all patrons if needed - Diana asks too but gently as it is very important - Alith a waiter where she is - Tarina is upstairs playing - upstairs - it is a gambling den - crowd up here is tougher - there are also a couple nobles - Tarina is here too - playing Baldur's bone - Diana asks for a Tarina - everyone looks but nobody answers - Diana asks again - still no answer and the go back to playing - Diana menaces to charge them for obstruction against the Flaming Fists - Diana looks to Dro > alright everyone up against the wall - tapping the warhammer on the ground - *redacted because missunderstood the desc ?* - Le'garde goes around and asks questions - a drunk rushes near him hand slips a not in his pocket > tell your friend ot shut up - Le'garde relay the paper message to Diana - Party goes in the room - in the room - bedroom - door on the side to another room - female looking dissapointed at the party - lots of gold coins - some loaded dices - throws electrum away > you there with all the garbs, do you realise i'm off limits ? - Le'garde asks if she has information about the bathhouse - not for free of course - we need to kill her old shipmates for her - she stole money from them on the Uncivil Serpent - they want her dead - it is a pirate ship - cpt was Murosko Sessprin - last she heard he is dead - Lekard "Dead-Eye" Cadavrus should be the new captain - there was a whole crew of 20-30 ppl - she stole like at least 5000gp - knows her as Randa Thunderbell - get Dead-Eye's eye for proof - downstairs - party discussing about what is next - *i'm sorry missed part of it :/* - best lead is the dead three in the bathhouse - not sure if the cpt can be trusted - low hush in the crowd - a low voice starts singing > O sing a song of Elturel > > Of water, woods, and hill > > The sun dawns on her ruddy cliffs > > And fields green and still. > > This land of long-abiding joy > > Home of the strong and brave > > Renowned by all, across the realms, > > And never once a slave. > > O sing a song of Elturel > > When foes are at her door > > Her fields torn by cloven feet > > From some infernal shore. > > Arise the mighty Hellriders > > Take up your swift, keen swords > > Then charge into the hellish fray > > And scatter devil hordes. > > O sing a song of Elturel > > And when the night does fall > > Sleep safe beneath Companion's light > > Until the dawn does call. > > We're bound by mortal covenant > > That only ends with death > > And so we'll sing of Elturel > > Until our final breath. - everyone seems disturbed by it - this is not the usual song - the Hellriders gained their name because the once went to hell - to fight the devils - not a lot of the came back after it - to the docks - passed a group of pirates - none of them fit the description - arrived at the docks - party asks where the Uncivil Serpent is - party is pointed to a boat docked in the harbor - a full crew is at work on it - boxes transported on and off it - at least 11 ppl there - party talks about how to deal with the situation - party will talk about Randa to lure the captain out - party goes on board - Diana hails someone on board - requests to see the captain > why ? - Randa Thunderbell - pirate asks for a bribe to pass the message - Diana smacks his forearm with her warhammer that he is thrown overboard with his ribs cracked - Lavasham asks if he should try to retrieve him - Diana says no - Lavasham will be needed here - Pirates turns towards the party - *combat script* - Lavasham runs up the gangplank and beheads a pirate - pirates don't approach and miss their shots - party misses too - rest of the pirate attack Diana and Lavasham - Le'garde burning hands two of them - Dro mines the head or a pirate out - Diana is grievly wounded by one pirate - Thelder throws one overboard - pirates are getting killed - Lavasham goes up to one and offers to stop - they just wanted to talk to the captain - but one pirate tried to get a bribe for that > he is not here - more pirates getting killed - Lavasham grabs the sole survivor - Lavasham asks about where the captain is - the captain is going to the Elfsong tavern # session 3 (20/11/2023) - back to the Elfsong Tavern - waiting for the captain - next morning - Jeff's character arrives - *desc* - tabaxi - 4 ft 9 - grey fur - snow leopard - wooden crate on the back - leather armor - oversized flaming fist tabbard - male (?) - name is Vivian - waving summoning orders and seeks the party - approaches the table - planning on how to take care of Lekard "Dead-Eye" Cadavrus and get his eye - Skuna has a message - Lekard "Dead-Eye" Cadavrus is waiting for us in front of the tavern > get your asses out here ! - party comes out - *fighting script* - Lekard attacks instantly Diana and Lavasham - Lavasham squares up against Lekard - Le'garde throws a caustic brew at 5 of them - Vivian casts faerie fire on Lekard and part of its crew - the pirates take position - Thelder sniffs his black rock and casts guiding bold on Lekard - the pirates that were affected by caustic brew attack Le'garde - Le'garde loses concentration on it because of a crossbow bolt - Diana ripostes with a guiding bolt to Lekard - Lavasham slams his giant infused axe on Lekard throwing him in the air and killing him - Le'garde rips the throat of on of the pirates with his bare teeth - Vivian dissonant whispers a pirate - two pirate flee - Thelder is panicking under as a table and calms down - Lavasham chases on of the map - Vivian finishes one - end of combat - Skuna scritches Vivian on the head - eye is collected > Tucked in Dead-Eye’s vest is a pouch containing 32 gp and 15 sp. He also wears two gold necklaces (25 gp each) and a blackened gold ring with a white pearl set in it (125 gp). Each of the other pirates carries coins in the amount of 29 silver - the party is back to their seat - patrons cheer at the spectacle that was given - Tarina descends the stairs towards the party - looking rough - somebody caught her cheating (?) - completely smashed by alcohol - picking through the plates on the table - Lavasham pulls the head and the eye out - Tarina scribbles on the map the location of the bathhouse > go in there and there is deffinitly a dungeon, they are doing weird rituals - need to go in and look out for the ~~south~~ north massage room - lay down and wait > i'm here for the 3 person job - if a female masseur comes we are good - we will be handed down robes - there is a puzzle on the north to figure out - if solved we get in - Tarina goes back up - comes back down with a small chest - pulls out an empty bag - fumbles with it - 6 coin purses each with 200gp - leaves the bag on the table - Le'garde takes it # session 4 (04/12/2023) - Elfsong tavern - talking about how to scout - just taking a bath there and look from inside ? - not possible to do an expense report sadly - to the bath house - Thelder finds a tiny silverbell and a glassjar with flesh in it in the city trash - Thelder purchases a pair of beaded necklace for 2gp - Thelder places the second necklace over Vivian's neck - refuses to elaborate - walks away - Vivian purrs - we arrive about 1h after - the bath house - *desc* - 1 story building - stained glass - clay rooftop - courtyard with smiling nyphs images - trimmed shrubery - marble benches - there is some activity - the party enters - central bath hall - androgynous elf - asks what are we here for - details the services - name is Jabaz - Le'garde mentions that he is here for the 3 person job - the elf seem confused about the question - bathing is free, the rest is extra and tips are appreciated - everyone enjoys a nice bath after more than a tenday without - intricate wing tattoo on Diana's back - Thelder asks for some scale services - about a month without treatments - takes a lot of work - caretaker small talk - she doubts the magnitude of the sundering - gossips about the duke's son - Le'garde insists again about the 3 person job - Jabaz is not convinced > i think you should leave - Le'garde intimidates them into giving it to him - they ring a bell - *fighting script* - 3 shadowy figures appear in the room - Le'Garde shows the symbol of Myrkul > the bone lord calls me here - figures seem to stand down - Jabaz asks Le'Garde to work on his delivery a bit - end of the combat - everyone gets dressed up again - Diana takes a while with heavy armor - party helps her - Jabaz hits a jewel in the wall - secret door slide - down in the dungeon - *desc* - foul smelling water up to the knee - no light - carved out of the limstone - 2 paths going out - marching order - Lavasham - Vivian - Le'Garde - Thelder - Diana - path nº2 - door to bhaal - it opens - small room - coming from the top - door on the right (bane) and bottom (myrkul) - stairs going down to the left, tapestry on the wall - Vivian goes to look at the tapestry - 5ft tall - faceless figure screaming - edges are growing mold (hard to see the color of it) - room to the right - flooded tunnel - small room - large stone altar - covered in entrails - large iron mask - a shrine to bhaal - continuing - shirtless backstabbed figure - with a bhaal mask - a dead end - myrkul door - pale bodies of 3 humans - arranged in a triangle - staircase is visible on the left - the bodies animate - they get stomped - down the stairs - partially collapsed chamber - empty carcophagus - Le'garde steps on a rotting stair - foot goes through - small bundle of books there > Spellbook 1 is bound in red leather and contains the following spells: burning hands, detect magic, disguise self, fog cloud, ray of sickness, silent image. > Spellbook 2 has the personal rune of its previous owner burned into its umber cover. This book contains the following spells: charm person, find familiar, identify, magic missile, sleep. > Spellbook 3 is bound in scaly black reptile hide and contains the following spells: cloud of daggers, darkvision, detect magic, feather fall, mage armor, magic missile, Tasha’s hideous laughter. # session 5 (01/01/2024) - down in the dungeon - path nº2 - last door - no noise - party is bad at stealth - small corridor - ends in a flooded part - once Lavasham goes in he gets hit by an arrow - *fight script* - Lavasham - lasers for the rage - reckless axe swing - Diana toll the dead on the one Lavasham axed (saved) - Le'garde misses a chill touch - Lavasham gets maced twice - Thelder thornwips her - the second spears Lavasham once - Vivian starry wisps and healing word Lavasham - Lavasham finishes the first one with a strike of the giant - Diana - sees a man on the altar looking important - 2nd lvl inflict wounds on the second one - Le'garde chill touch the second one - Thelder - thornwhips the second one - healing word the man on the altar - second one spears Lavasham and tries to flee screaming - Vivian tries to silence her and inspires Lavasham - Lavasham runs aftaer the second one and finishes her off - *shiny head laser did nothing :(* - Diana and Vivian go and talk the noble > did mother send you here to save me ? - he is Klim Jhasso - no one knows who he is - Vivian gives him food and water - he will be kept safe in the myrkul room while we finish clearing the dungeon - ignoring the magic plate armor with bad vibes - down the south door - someone mumbling - Lavasham opens the door - on the west room there is a myrulite - *fight script* - Lavasham rushes down to her - the rest of the the party rushes after in the room and piles onto her - a swarm of bone rats attacks Vivian - the myrkulite misses Le'garde as he shields - Vivian unloads a shatter on the myrkulite - Thelder crit thornwhip the myrkulite and vomits nearly on Diana - Le'garde finds a spellbook on her - Diana warhammers the rats - Vivian crits and kills with a starry wisp the rats - decaying bones on the back wall - freshly dissected bodies for rituals - continuing on the corridor - taking the north east door - dark candles on an altar with grave dirt - looking like a necrolite altar - Le'garde takes a closer look - the candles are ceremonial - usually placed within a certain range of hidden messages - Le'garde takes Lavasham's tinderbox and light up th candles - Le'garde see's on the wall like with a blacklight > Rise and be counted - Le'garde complained about no loot here - 3 skeletons rise up and are under Le'garde's control - Eye's of night end - Lavasham gives Theldar a torch - further in - Lavasham smell explosive gas - Thelder extinguishes the torch - Light cantrip by Diana for Thelder - flooded dug part - small corridor going up a flight of stairs - first door - stuck - noisy push open - collapsed carcophagus room - second door - opens well - plain cacophagus - relief on top - humanoid - Le'garde recognise it as a relief of a mumified human - 2 intricated jade gems worth 50gp - not trapped - placed in the relief - looks like a ceremonial coffin - fit for a leader - potentially necrolyte - might have loot in it - Lavasham pulls open the lid gently - mummy individual inside - grasping a small bag - everyone prepares themselves while Lavasham pulls the pouch out - *it's a bag of beans :D* - third door - moaning on the other side of the door - Lavasham opens the door - *there are 6 zombies* - *closethedoorclosethedoorclosethedoorclosethedoor* - *fight script* - Thelder casts Flaming sphere and starts cooking the back - Diana casts moonbeam on the rest of the room - zombies start to pile up in the room at the door - Vivian misses with the rapier - they all died to the spells - last door - sounds of pain - door is locked - Diana uses keys and open itç - *desc* - a lot of blood on the ground - dead body - elderly farmer - salt everywhere - young tiefling woman - beaten - tied to the chair - sobbing - Diana unlocks the tiefling - looks like she was fown here for quite some time - Vivian offers food and water - tiefling takes it all - Diana asks her name > Vendetta - Vivian gets her clothes - Diana asks i Vendetta knows about more to come - sounded like the walls were moving - to the east - many more to come - not seeing them come back - Vivian is sent back to safety - door to the north - light creeping bellow it - opening the door - slight wistling, someone on the other side hears and screams - *fight script* - the fist of Bane flees - Diana rushes after and toll the dead - Le'garde crawls on the ceiling in the corridor - too tired to properly write the rest of the fight (tldr they dead we won) # session 6 (15/01/2024) - down in the dungeon - last session's room - Thelder is having a mental breakdown - old woman crying for help - Diana and Vivian go in the room - old woman is in farmer clothes and attached to the wall - the room has an altar with a vivisection on it - Diana unlocks the old woman from her predicament - the old lady is intact physically (she was mentally tortured by mentally witnessing the horrors) - Vivian gives her a ration and some waer from the waterskin - Vivian asks her some questions - name is Nebra - been here for "so long", maybe 3 or 4 days - was tending her garden before she got kidnapped, near the elfsong tavern - Diana mentions that it's weird - here for a long time but no physical torture - the area around elfsong has no gardens - Nebra was a fake name and she is a baddy - Le'garde mentions the weak wall - Le'garde and Lavasham go inspect it - Lavasham can't make it budge - Le'garde makes it slightly move - grooves into the floor - this wall has give a bit - might be a latch on the other side - *fight script* - Vivian misses a satrry wisp and calls for Le'garde and Lavasham - Diana misses with the warhammer - Nebra lands 2 strikes on Diana and turns invisible - Le'garde runs back in and holds an attack for the aggressor's return - Vivian heals back Diana with a 2nd level healing word and holds an attack - Diana casts feary fire to try to reveal Nebra but no success - Lavasham holds his greataxe at the ready - Thelder heals Lavasham - Nebra appears and attacks Lavasham - it hurts a bit - Lavasham misses the axe - Vivian hits the Starry Wisp and Nebra can't go invisible - Le'garde mindspikes Nebra - Le'garde casts chill touch on Nebra - Vivian reaplies a Starry Wisp and heals Lavasham - Diana steps and slams Nebra - Lavasham finishes her of by cutting the head - the head stays disguised - the corpse turns into the cultist uniform - *(thats a hat of disguise identified by the age old spell of axe to your neck)* - Vivian asks for the head as it might have an item - the wall has streaks of blood on it - Vivian notices the torche fixture has a small gap - Vivian pulls the torch and a wall opens - the wall Le'garde and Lavasham tried is opened - going in the wall - explosive smell no torch - Lavasham and Diana take a potion - Diana casts light on Lavasham's head - Le'garde takes the lead - there are rotten pillars and skeletons everywhere - Diana goes to the front to help Le'garde on the skeleton matter - nat 1 - Lavasham uses magic awerness, the are past expiration date and not animated anymore - around the corner - combat noises and someone falling - *combat script* - a slash and a scream are heard - Vivian rounds the corner - a figure in tattered robes is attacking a larger man with no flesh on the skull cackling histerically - 2 other figures on the ground with apparent skulls that are caved in - hold a starry wisp unsure who to attack yet - Le'garde casts suggestion on the shrouded individual > stand down, I'm in charge of the situation, you will obey me ! - Thelder guidance on Diana - Lavasham runs to the front - the large figure slams on the shrouded figure - Diana runs to the front and heals the large figure - Vivian unleashes the held Starry Wisp on the shrouded figure - the shrouded individual stands down and wait orders completing the suggestion - Vivian runs to the front getting a better view and throws another wisp and the shrouded individual - Le'garde portent 20 an acid chromatic orb on the shrouded figure - Thelder iceknife the shrouded figure - Lavasham breaks a javelin on a nat 1 - the large figure turns the shrouded figure into a pulp > I thank you for your assistance, i wish you could have come a bit sooner but i appreciate - name is Mortlock Vanthampur - the Vanthampurs are the ones who runs The Bathhouse and are a noble family - Diana asks if he was captured - Morthlock was betrayed by his family - the family payed the cult of the dead 3 to kill people - Mortlock was captured but they underestimated him - Diana asks that Mortlock escort the civilians out - can't escort them to the Fist as they are in it - the goal of his mother, the Duke, is to get the fist in power to become Archduke - Mortlock fears that there is evidence that Baldur's Gate might follow Elthurel's fate - Vivian mends back the broken javelin - the rest of the party hears a droning chant comming fromm the north - Lavasham goes first - north room - 3 cultists praying around a body on the floor - *fighting script* - the first cultist plunges a dagger on his own chest - casts wither and bloom - Lavasham goes down - the cultists sacrifice himself - the life essence goes in the body on the ground - Vivian - heals back up Lavasham - starry wisp the third cultist - the second cultists tries to stun Vivian - Le'garde chromatic orns the third cultist - Diana pops out the wings - cristaline wings jetisson out of the garments - flies to the third cultist - channel divinity harness power - third cultist continue the ritual - thelder - starry for chalice - cure wounds Lavasham for 15 - Lavasham - rage for extra shiny head - slashes at the second cultist - reaction to no damage - Vivian starry wisps the second cultist - second cultist attacks Lavasham but the rage cancels the aura of murder - Le'garde misses a chill touch on th ritual target - Diana inflict wounds on the ritual target - third cultist attacks Diana - Thelder thornwhip the third cultist and misses - Lavasham greataxe at the second cultist - Vivan misses a wisp on second cultist - second cultist attacks Le'garde - Le'garde tries to go away but gets downed by the second cultist - Diana attacks the third cultist and misses - third cultist stunns Diana - Thelder thornwhips - Lavasham - head light blinds the third cultist - attacks the second cultist > you and me don't touch the others - the cultist answers > the dead three will take what they are owed, this one will not get away - Vivian misses a wisp on the third cultist - second cultist attacks Lavasham - Diana flies after the third cultist and hits him - the third cultists blindly swings at the wall - Thelder 2nd level cure wounds for 23 - Lavasam crits the second cultist - Vivian missed a wisp - second cultist - first hit on Lavasham - cultist sacrifice himself to the ritual target - Le'garde bites the ritual target - bad blood not tasty - might be someone similar to Le'garde - Diana - hits the third cultist - the cultist loses the grip on the ritual - the aura of the 3 idols stop going in the ritual target - third cultist > the lords will get their due, you may have this one but they will get you - runs to Lavasham and stabs him - Lavasham is barely up - Thelder bonks the cultist and disengages - Lavasham attacks the third cultist but he blocks it - Vivian zooms past the cultist and hits him - Le'garde - continues to suck on the ritual target - still a very sick drink - Diana crits the third cultist but is not enough - third cultist - finishes Lavasham - stabs him on the ground - the dagger corrodes in Lavasham's chest - Thelder misses a thornwhip on the third cultist - Lavasham corrodes with the cultist as he dies - the ritual target wakes up - it was my character :p - Le'garde has his caprisun woken up - Mortlock point at the stuff from his family - looting stuff will hurt the cult - the party decides to loot the place - all the rescued civilians make it out # session 7 (12/02/2024) - dungeon of the dead three - Reinhold wakes up - remembers only but his name - Le'garde recognizes Reinhold - he looks like the man in the wedding ceremony - Reinhold barely remembers anything appart from the start of the sundering and the wedding ceremny - Mortlock Vanthamper comes in - he was betrayed - the party saved his life - his family pays the dead three to murder and kidnap people - he is trying to prove the inefficacy of the flaming fist - they want tu usurp the grand duke - Mortlock thinks they plan on sundering Baldur's Gate too - his mother is part of the council - she convinced the grand duke to go to elturel - Mortlock thinks she is in cahoots with the cult - both his other brothers are also helping his mother in that endeavor - Mortlock wishes out of the city - Diana asks if he wants to help by testifying with the rest of the party to the flaming fist - Mortlock first needs to rest - after he offers to go after his brother Americk that manages the bath house and that spies - Vivian gives him the hat of disguise to help - Vendetta is escorted out - the Klim is a liar - wont pay - he was dissowned by his mother - on the path back to the Elfsong - Mortlock can wait another day - Diana confronts the Fist about the finding in the dungeon - Vivian helps in that - they believe what Diana said - Mortlock is kept anonymous - the Fist will not recruit as aggresively anymore - Diana tells him that the party will raid the Vanthampur house - he awards an extra 100gp to the party - Reinhold recognises someone - young darkd plate elf - finishing to kill a Fists - aproaches the party > oh you made it out - this is Reya - Reinhold barely remembers her - Reya remembers him - mentions the wedding and Dro making Reinhold's daughter cry - Reinhold briefly remembers it but it passes - Diana takes appart Reya - Reinhold was found dead in the dungeon - memory troubles - maybe be careful with what is mentionned - Le'garde pokes around Reinhold to try top learn more about him - 6ft9in tall - 275lb - bleach white hair - cadaveric - tint of blue as if from hypothermia - left arm covered on blue runic tattoos - right arm thin skin, you can kinda see muscles and bones under it - Le'garde and Diana mention there is a new lead - Americk Vanthampur - Reya was also trying to track him down - Reya heard of rumors about Americk with someone - downtime before confronting Americk - Le'garde scribes spells - Reinhold gets his bearings - doesn't remember much - he can grow larger in combat - blood tastes bad - doesn't need to breath - tries to avoid Le'garde's investigations - Vivian sketches Reinhold's left arm tattoo - Reinhold studies the tattoo - **REDACTED** - Vivian looks for the temple of Suny - Diana gets funds for refugees - meeting with Mortlock - his brother is in the Low Light Tavern - pretend we want money from him - kill him # session 8 (26/02/2024) - in the inn - Vivian gives the potion of fire breathing to Reinhold - casters prepare spells - Thelder leaves the party - Mortlock waits impateiently to take us to the Low Lantern - The Low Lantern - tavern in a docked boat - seagulls everywhere - group of bandits are having a seagull vs raven fight club - ravens are winning by a landslide - going in the first deck bellow - _desc_ - 10ft ceiling - people are drinking - not a lot of food is served - kenku bartenders - a place for drinks mor than food - low lit - social room - no trouble here - revelry sounds on deck bellow - party takes some drinks to wait a bit courtesy of Vivian - a woman comes up and hails the party - name is Laraelra Thundreth - captain of the ship and bar - it's a place to drink and gamble - Mortlock last time was thrown out because of fighting with his borther one deck bellow - asks if we need something - Vivian gives the drink order to Larealra - meads, spirits and some water - the kenku repeats it perfectly - Le'garde asks Mortlock to stay up to avoid conflict - Mortlock sits down guards the stairs - Le'garde wants to try a diplomatic option - masking as people needing some money to approach him - asking questions about the family's involvment with the Dead Three and Elthurel's sundering - hoping to get one of the sons of the Vanthampur to help going in the property - one deck down again - people down there - some not paying attention - the brother, Amrik, is counting money - some gazing us - Vhaltus - red hair - head body guard - Mortlock warned us about him - Diana stares down Vhaltus - Vivian goes to Amrik with Reinhold right behind him - Amrik invites everyone to a drink before starting to talk about money > it's on the house - Vivian is drinking the wine - Diana tests it and it is safe - Reinhold is drinking - Vivian asks for a loan of not money but information - Amrik usually deals in money - Vivian tells him that they are here to get access to the manor - the family is accused - but not him - Amrik sas that the only one Vivian could accuse is him - Vivian says that not it's his mother - Amrik says it is a very dumb thing - Vivian starts to ego him - Amrik is listening - Vivian insists that the party needs access - Vivian and Amrik agree to the terms - Amrik would be thanked for his involvment - Amrik would be helped to be named as her successor - Amrik will not shake people for their money - Amrik will write a summon to the manor and seals it with his signet - 2 days from now - gives Amrik time to get his affairs in order - Le'garde interjects - mentions what Mortlok revealed to us - passive aggresive conversation - Le'garde threatens Amrik - Amrik starts sweating - Le'garde suggests that Amrik goes have a conversation with Mortlok - portent to roll a 2 - all bodyguards sitting in chairs stand up - _fight script_ - Vivian - holds in case of conflict - inspire Diana - Grimboot dissapears from view - Diana - casts spiritual weapon and hits Vhaltus - hammers down on Vhaltus - Kasharra, a spine devil - attack Le'garde for 17 - Le'garde loses concentration on the suggestion - Le'garde mind spikes Kasharra - Vhaltus misses Diana with his mace - Vanthampur throws a smokebomb and starts fleeing - Reinhold - runs after Amrik - gets bitten by Kasharra - rage and becoms large - fails to grapple Amrik - Skadric fails to crossbow Reinhold - one of the guards reconsiders and doesn't attack - Vivian - gets the zoomies to get to Amrik - Vhaltus misses an opportunity attack - threatens Amrik with his rapier - inspires Reinhold - Grimboot - was shoved out by Reinhold gigantifying - hits Reinhold with an attack - Diana - spiritual weapons Vhaltus - Vhaltus saves a toll the dead - Kasharra flies to Le'garde and misses because of mindspike - Skadric hits Vivian and taunts him - Le'garde destroys Kasharra - Valthus misses Diana - Amrik - hits Reinhold with a dagger - saves the freezing of the fury of the frost giant - end still in range of Reinhold - Reinhold - smacks down Amrik with his Glaive - freezes him in place with strike of the Giant - Vivian - dissonant whispers on Skadric - flees past Reinhold for an opportunity attack - Grimboots attacks Reinhold with a toothpick - Diana finishes a desesperatly flirting Vhaltus - Mortlock comes down in front of a frozen in place Amric > getting the cold feet Amric ? _- Le'garde_ - Mortlock smashes in him - Skadric attacks Mortlock - Le'garde starts slurping on Amric - Amric gives up - Vivian asks him to follow - Reinhold and Mortlock manhandles him - Diana finds a pouch of gold on Vhaltus - gives it to Laraelra for the damages - Reinhold smashed a lot of furniture when becoming large - Amric had four bottles of Torpor poison - for now Mortlock is handling Amric on the way to the council house - in the council house # session 9 (11/03/2024) - in the low light - waiting 1h for Mortlock - Vivian rests on Reinhold - Reinhold gives Vivian breathing exercises - Vivian can stay like that on him - Le'garde intimidates Amric - Amric pisses himself - Vivian is in the puddle - Reinhold grabs Vivian by the scruff of the neck and lifts him out of it - Vivian cleans his feets - on the deck - Reinhold gives Vivian uppies - Vivian is now on Reinhold shoulders - Seagulls are falling dead from the rafters from fighting ravens - Vivian thinks they are just birds - Amric looks scared of the birds - Diana sees it - maybe his other brother's spies - going to the council house - 1h30 of travel - Vivian gets a new perspective on the world from up there - Amric follows without raising attention - council house - near the castle grounds - a few of the gards notice the party - we were expected - Mortlock made sure we are good to pass - in the council chambers - an elderly gentleman is on the other side of the room - Duke Portyr - the party is annouced - the charges against the duke are announced - lady Hlune is in absence - the party are asked to state the proofs - Le'garde come up - mentions the bathhouse events - the cult present down there - mentions the implications of Mortlock's brothers and mother - mentions the visit to the tavern - the duke mentions that it was out of order to speak that much - usually nobles first - still thanked for the statement - asks for _physical_ proofs - the party produces the books Armic had - there is a note about lady Hlune - Duke Portyr asks what Amric has to say for his defense - asks for immunity and he'll spill the beans - Portyr assk for more up front - Armric spills the bean like he did in the tavern - last brother and mother are planning to sunder Baldur's Gate too - his role was to keep the money flowing - Portyr asks the party to do something for him - he'll send someone with the party - Diana sees someone behing the party - tarnished leather and metal - white porcelain mask but silver eyes can be seen - no weapons drawn - arms crossed laying on the door - Armic gets shot by a dart - air starts to feel heavy and sulphuric - an imp materialises > Stop talking ! - _fighting script_ - excited imp misses Reinhold - Reinhold - walks to the greedy imp - rages - grabs the tiny thing in his large hand - Diana obliterates the excited imp with a guiding bold - Le'garde magic missles greedy imp - inconsistent imp stings Diana - two statues come to life - broke helm horror attacks attacks Mortlock - sliggish helm horror attacks Reinhold - gallant imp stings Reinhold - Vivian - healing word vivian - misses inconsistant imp - cloaked figure (Val not known yet) - head pats Vivian - hops on the table - misses broke helm horror - suggests to Duke Portyr to leave - important imp misses a sting on Val - unpredictable and nervous imp bite Reinhold - Reinhold swings down on gallant imp who barely survives - Diana - misses spiritual weapons on sluggish helm horror - misses on inconsistent imp - Le'garde - magic missles - down gallant imp - injures inconsistent imp - spider climbs on the ceiling - inconsistent imp bites Diana who is now very hurt - Mortlock misses the broke helm horror - broke helm horror retaliates on Mortlock - sluggish helm horror - goes to Amric ignoring Reinhold > Armic you should have shut your fucking mouth - attack Armic - Vivian - zooms to Diana - casts heroism on her - inspires Val - Val - disengages from important imp - hits the sluggish helm horror thanks to the bardic inspiration - lifts the mask and wails at inconsistent imp killing it (phantom rogue) - important imp bites Vivian - unpredictable imp bites Reinhold - nervous imp fails to bite Armic - Reinhold kills important imp - Diana - spiritual weapon misses unpredictable imp - flanks broke helm horror with Mortlock - Mortlock swings down on broke helm horror - the horror lacks it usual resistances - Le'garde vortex warps Armic to safety near Duke Portyr - broke helmed horror - swings on Mortlock - misses Diana - sluggish helm horror attacks Reinhold - Vivian casts shatter - nervous imp dies - sluggish helm horror fails the save - brasier explodes and burns the helmed horror - hides between a statue base - Val - steady aims for elven accuracy - sneak attacks the helm horror - it - extinguises Vivian -mers broke helm horror - Mortlock hits broke helm horror - Le'garde - skitters on the ceiling - slides down on Reinhold weirdly - bites and kills unpredictable imp - broke helm horror explodes - Mortlock and Vivian are on fire - broke helm horror is no more - sluggish helm horror - still burns because of the brasier - runs towards Mortlock - explodes on the rest of the party - Vivian is down - Vivian is still burning on the ground - Val crit fails a stabilization on Vivian - Reinhold extinguises Diana and is still burning - Diana heals and extinguises Vivian - Le'garde extinguishes Reinhold and is still burning - Vivian wakes up and extinguises Le'garde - Amric is shoked - Duke Portyr wants us to deal directly with the Vanthampurs - Portyr asks Val to accompany the party in the raid - Portyr did nº2 out of fear - Vivian asks Portyr to seize the Vanthampur assets while the party deals with it directly - Portyr will pull the guards and flaming fist from near the manor - Le'garde asks what is to be done for Amric - Portyr doesn't care - Le'garde wants to bit him down - Vivian agrees - Val intejects > don't he needs to be emprisoned, my husband disagrees - no one is near - Val asks what Vivian is - Vivian is intimidated - Reinhold steps in front - Vivian uppies on Reinhold shoulders - Val removes her mask - very pale shadar-kai - Le'garde asks if Amric would escape his cell - Diana cuts the debates by smashing Amric's kneecap > stay focus on the task of tomorrow - Diana asks for information on the manor to Mortlock - Mortlock knows the place well - there is a dungeon - _end session here so we think about the questions_ # session 10 (25/03/2024) - some supplies and spells are bought - elfsong tavern - with Mortlock planning the manor - Mortlock shows the map of the house - guards and imps - cultists down in the cellar - mother might be down there - Reya comes in the tavern - Le'garde greets her as a lieutenant - Reya tells him to not call her like that - Le'garde exposes the plan to the Vamthampur villa - Reya is interested as they have Thadeus Krieg - Le'garde flashes the fist badge saying it is an insurance - Reya flinches - she is researched by the fist - an "unfortunate incident" - Reya trusts the party for now but wont hesitate to turn on the party if consider surrendering her - Slobberchops - is a Tressym - is a dick to the family but Mortlock - has a statue in the manor - is the pet of the family - Mortlock and Slobberchops like each others - Mortlock wants to take him - Le'garde casts find familiar and gets a Tressym - Vanthampur Villa - exterior - _desc_ - 12ft tall walls - livestock noises in the stables - guards patrolling the inside garden - extinguished lanterns - Le'garde starts spiderclimbing the wall - Reinhold hoists Vivian to see over the wall - _Reinhold is not stealthy_ - a spear misses Vivian - _fighting script_ - Reinhold - rages - goes over the Wall AoT style - Glaives down one guard - Vivian - misses a starry wisp - inspires Diana - deceitful guard spears Vivian - Diana kills deceitful guard - Reya kills bone-idle guard - Le'garde - pulls out his skeleton shooting squad - shoots down narrow-minded guard - Reinhold dashes to a patrol of 3 guards - enterprising and irritated spear Reinhold - Vivian - enlarges Reinhold to _huge_ - inspires Reinhold - bitching guard - spears Reihold - runs away - Diana - runs in the the house - it is a gallery - elderly female bust (duchess) - Amric - Slobberchops - very fancy wax statues - elderly gentleman butler cowering in the corner - Diana intimidates him - asks where the duchess is - she is in the temple - butler escapes the scene after - narrow-minded guard misses Le'gard - Reya takes down 2 guards - Le'garde shootsing squad down the last of the groups - Reinhold - cleaves down 2 guards - goes to the last one - guard surrenders and flees - inside - Diana tells the rest of the party that the duchess in downstairs - kitchen - Slobberchops is eating food - meal mid prep - staff fled after Diana kool-aided the door - nice and expensive wine bottles - 16 bottles of fine wine - 8 gem encrusted goblets - _loot on the way out_ - Le'garde directs Slobberchops towards Mortlock - downstairs - wine cellar - Diana shares Eyes of Night - 3 spine devils bust out of barrels of wine - _fighting script_ - Reya attacks hiphop spine devil - Diana Toll the Dead hiphop spine devil - Reinhold - misses hiphop spine devil - inspiration mote explodes on hiphop spine devil - second swings connect but resistance damage - hiphop spine devil - attacks Reya - flees in the corner - Vivian - finishes hiphop spine devil - takes cover in a box (cat be cats) - Le'garde chill touch woke spine devil - woke spine devil - misses tail spines at Reinhold - hits tail spines at Diana - 2 cultists arrive in the room - joyful cultist scimtars Reya - inofensive spine devil misses Diana and Reya - well-spoken cultist falls in the pile of box reaching for Vivian - Reya hits joyful cultist - Diana kills woke spine devil - Reinhold misses well-spoken cultist - Vivian - climbs down the pile - dissonent whispers on inofensive spine devil - Le'garde bites joyful cultist - joyful cultist retaliates - inoffensive spine devil - misses Reinhold - spines Diana - well-spoken cultist misses Le'garde - Reya - kills joyful cultist > you dragon cultist you know something about Elthurel - kills well-spoken cultist - Diana misses a toll the dead on inoffensive spine devil - Reinhold grabs and slams inoffensive spine devil between everyone - Vivian misses inoffensive spine devil - Le'garde chill touch inoffensive spine devil - Reya slams inoffensive spine devil - Diana misses inoffensive spine devil - Reinhold skewers inoffensive spine devil on the glaive - loot - _there is a fuckton of wine in here_ - 23 fine wines bottles - 6 rations - 18 gp # session 11 (22/04/2024) - Vanthampur Villa Basement - going to the prisons in the south - coast seems clear - _it is not_ - 2 cultists walking from the north side - heavily armored under the robes - party tries to hide around the corner - yeah no that's a fail... - they come running towards the party - _fight script_ - horny spined devil - runs in - Le'garde unleashes his chill touch - hits Reinhold - flybys away - constant cultist - runs in - hits Reinhold - untruthful spine devil - flies around the corner - hits Le'garde and Vivian - lawful cultist - runs in - Reinhold prevents him from blowing an alarm horn - misses Reinhold - Diana retaliates on horny spine devil - Vivian - backs away - dissonent whispers on untruthful spine devil - Reinhold takes down the 2 cultists - Le'garde - hears footprints closing in - finishes horny spine devil - jealous cultist - comes out from behing Vivian - hits Vivian with his scimitar - untruthful spine devil - spines Le'garde - flies away - pretentious cultist - goes to Vivian - slashes Vivian - Diana misses a toll the dead untruthful spine devil - Vivian - takes a step back - gets hit by an attack of opportunity - casts spray of card on the cultists - both save for half one is dead - Reinhold - cleaves down the last cultist - long range crits the last spine devil - healing is done - further in the tunnel - Le'garde is keeping guard - the room to the east is the prison - 3 prisoners - Vivian opens the locks with his paintbrush > the jailer will be back soon - went to get tools to torture them - Vivian hails Le'garde back - Vivian proposes the party to lie and wait for an ambush - Le'garde asks Smallfield, his familiar Tressym to keep watch - Smallfield sees teh jailer coming back - party lies in ambush - _fight script_ - Diana misses toll the dead - Vivian hits a starry wisp - Reinhold grapples the jailer - Le'garde bites the jailer - Diana - spiritual weapon on the jailer - misses toll the dead on the jailer - jailer - retaliates on Le'garde with his beard whi shields it - misses Reilhold with his glaive - Vivian holds for Reinhold - Reinhold - pushes the jailer prone - fails to wresle the glaive away - Vivian stabs the jailer - Le'garde mind slivers the jailer - Diana - spiritual weapon the jailer - toll the dead - jailer - beards Le'garde - misses Reinhold with the glaive - Vivian rapiers the jailer - Reinhold removes his glaive - party bullies the jailer to death while it is prone on the ground - Vivian resumes conversation - merchant is from Candlekeep and was sent to investigate Thirstwell - he has a contract in an infernal puzzlebox - containing a devilish contract - name is Falaster Fisk - his colleague - tiefling women - name is Sylvira Savikas - Vivian and Falaster agree to collaborate to bring the Vanthampur down - the last cell had someone dragged out - the last noble of the council - Satiir Thione-Hhune - Le'garde negotiates for Candlekeep access > bring the infernal puzzlebox first - Falaster informs of the precense of a secret shortcut - Reinhold is complaining about ash and soot on his cargo pants - doesn't know why but he feels like they are some of his old favorites - Vivian cleans them up for him - continuing on in the tunnel - near the pointed secret spot - Le'garde finds it and opens it - the wall fades away revealing a room - room - _desc_ - altar - made of obsidian - 9 candles - 3 resseced windows - chanting coming out of the other room - angel shaped statue there - altar has infernal runes ad an angel carving - the carving bares a resemblence to Zariel - chanting from the next room - praising the archdevil Zariel - Le'garde asks Reinhold to destroy it - it is not enough and makes a lot of noise - the chanting in the next room stops - duke Vanthampur orders someone to attak the party - _fighting script_ - jolly barbed devil throws fire at Le'garde - Reinhold - rushes down towards duke Vanthampur - rage - glaives and freezes in place duke Vanthampur - Le'garde - comes in the room - lighting bolt at a nasty angle on duke Vanthampur - dumb cultist barely injures reinhold - loving cultist misses Le'garde - Diana - rushes in the room - casts spirit guardians - dumb cultist dies from it - itchy cult fanatic - casts hold person on Reinhold - Le'garde forces the save with a portent 19 - Vivian - comes in the room - casts detect thoughts on Duke Vanthampur - surface thoughts: fight or flight - resists the probe - goes back in the altar room - dizzy cult fanatic - fails a hold person on Reinhold - Duke Vanthampur - misty steps away - eldritch blasts Le'garde - jolly barbed devil - claws at Diana - spirit gaurdain is lost - Reinhold - pursues Duke Vanthampur - slashes and freeze her - Duke Vanthampur casts hellish rebuke - Le'garde finishes her and loving cultist off with a second lightning bolt - Diana recasts spirit gardians on jolly barbed devil and itchy cultist - itchy cultist misses Diana with inflict wounds - Vivian - comes back in the room - casts dissonent whispers on ditzy cult fanatic who saves - ditzy cult fanatic - inflict wounds on Reinhold - Reinhold retaliates with a fury of the frost giant killing it - jolly barbed devil takes down Reinhold - Le'garde casts - caustic brew on jolly barbed devil and itchy cult fanatic - itchy cult fanatic fails - Diana - spiritual weapon misses itchy cult fanatic - toll the dead killing itchy cult fanatic - Vivian - runs to Reinhold - brings back up Reinhold - zoomies back to safety - jolly barbed devil - tails Reinhold who retaliates with a fury of the frost giant - claws Diana - Reinhold > you should have aimed for the head - stands up - flanks jolly barbed devil - rages - swings at jolly barbed devil - Le'garde - looms over Duke Vanthampur's body - magic missles towards jolly barbed devil - Diana - spiritual weapon jolly barbed devil - misses toll the dead - Vivian starry wisps jolly barbed devil - jolly barbed devil - misses Reinhold - claws Diana - Reinhold swings at jolly barbed devil - Le'garde finishes jolly barbed devil - Le'garde is hungry as hell - Reinhold pulls him back - Vivian and Diana check on duke Vanthampur - she is dead-dead - Le'garde is barely kept under control as he rushes towards her - Diana lashes at him > control yourself for gods sake, we'll get you a cat - _Vivian did not like that_ - apparently it is legal to drink blood from cats (not Tabaxies) - Vivian goes towards Le'garde and offers some blood - Vivian asks Reinhold to let him do it - Le'garde can't even take it being weak - he'll get some from the fresh corpses instead - the statue in the room has a crack in it - holy energy can be felt inside - the ritual that was interrupted - a mace can be seen in the crack: > in this cavity is a +1 mace that can be removed only if the statue is destroyed. The head of the mace sheds bright light in a 5-foot-radius and dim light for an additional 5 feet. The wielder of the mace can extinguish or ignite its light as an action. # session 12 (06/05/2024) - Vanthampur Villa Basement - main room - party starts a short rest - Vivian keeps guard - Val sneaks upon Vivian and surprises him - no one interrupts the short rest - party continues exploring the tunnels - there is a group of cultists around the corner - _fighting script_ - Vivian casts heroism Reinhold, Diana and Le'garde - wonderful cultist - moves around the corner - hits Le'garde - sensitive cultist - moves around the corner - hits Le'garde - Diana flanks sensitive cultist and hits - itchy cult fanatic - misses Diana with a spiritual weapon - Diana dodges the sacred flame - pretentious cultist runs towards the action - Val - elven accuracy steady aim - takes down sensitive cultist - wails of the grave wonderful cultist - Le'garde bites and kills wonderful cultist - ditzy cult fanatic runs towards the action - Reinhold - runs to itchy cult fanatic - attacks him with his glaive - Vivian - runs to the intersection - starry wisps itchy cult fanatic - zoomies back to safety - Diana kills with toll the dead itchy cult fanatic - pretentious cultist - runs to Diana - misses with his scimitar - Val - moves towards pretentious cultist - kills him with a dart - wails of the garv jealous cultist - Le'garde chromatic orb ditzy cult fanatic - ditzy cult fanatic retaliates on Le'garde with 2 daggers missing both - Reinhold - runs to the group - kills ditzy cult fanatic - walks to jealous cultist - jealous cultist - hits Reinhold - Reimhold kills him with fury of the frost giant - some noise is heard in the room bellow - Vivian unlocks the door - Reinhold opens it - bottom room - someone is hiding - elderly figure - shadow is not matching the form - Diana guiding bolts first and and asks questions second - Le'garde and Vivian joins too > drop the disguise now ! - he was enclosed here - he is the former adviser of elthurel, Thavius Kreeg - Diana forces him to look at the weird shadow he casts - he starts reaching for something in his pocket - smacks Diana - he is taken down - his body burns away - the shadow goes away - the room contains quite a bit of treasure - 30 electrum ingots (10 gp each) - 100gp - 100pp - twenty azurite gemstones (10 gp each) - broken fancy draconic dagger - letter > i brought you the shield as intended, now we will be able to summon Gargauth - very ornate shield - Diana goes towards it - Diana mentions the shield will be useful later on - _the shield speak to the party_ - Thavius was guarding the shield - held in the shield by Zariel - need to go to forges in Avernus to free him - it is Gargauth - was going to be used to sunder Baldur's Gate and maye summon Zariel - Le'garde identifies the shield > While holding this shield, you gain a +2 bonus to AC and resistance to fire damage. > > The shield has 3 charges. You can use an action to expend 1 charge to cast fireball or 2 charges to cast wall of fire from the shield (save DC 21 for each). The wall of fire spell lasts for 1 minute (no concentration required). The shield regains all expended charges daily at dawn. > > Anytime during your turn, the shield can choose to radiate an aura of dread for 1 minute. (This is not a power of the shield that you control.) Any creature hostile to you that starts its turn within 20 feet of the shield must make a DC 18 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the creature is frightened until the start of its next turn. On a successful save, the creature is immune to this power of the shield for the next 24 hours. Once the shield uses this power, it can't use it again until the next dawn - party takes a while to sweep the rest of the basement - 127gp - 65pp - 2x 100gp diamond - 1x 500gp diamond - spellbook - +1 dagger - +1 leather armor - cloak of protection - periapt of wound closure - potions psychic, lighting and force resistance - rope of mending - talking doll - 5 unbreakable arrows - Vanthampur villa ground floor - combat sounds upstairs - female kick at a door - it's Reya - Vanthampur villa first floor > Thirstwell open the door before i take it down - Reya slams the door open - Le'garde enters the room - 4 helmed horrors animate to defent Thirstwell - _fighting script_ - Le'garde - executes Thirstwell instantly - misty steps out - Diana - goes in the room - attacks XXX helmed horor - Val attacks sad helmed horror - Reinhold - goes in the middle of the room - misses XXX helmed horror - near-sighted helmd horror hits Reinhold - sad helmed horror misses Reinhold - Vivian - misses near-sighted helmed horror with an alchemist fire - inspires Le'garde - gracious and sociable helmed horrors miss Diana - Reya - comes in the room - asks for someone to pick the box and get out - attacks near-sighted helmed horror - Le'garde - comes in the room - sees the box on the other side of the room - Diana - goes to the box - gets out of the room with it - healing word Reinhold - Val attacks near-sighted helmed horror - Reinhold - chucks Reya out of the room - Le'garde is carried away by theforce of the throw - goes to the door - near-sighted helmed horror gets a last hit on Reinhold before deactivating - Reya mentions that the box was what Reya searched for - _infernal puzzlebox my beloved_ - rest of the loot - The vanity holds six bottles of fine perfume (20 gp each), a silver hairbrush inlaid with lapis lazuli (100 gp), and a wooden jewelry box with electrum filigree (75 gp) holding a pearl necklace (250 gp), a platinum cameo shaped like a winged cat (50 gp), and two potions of healing in thin crystal vials. - 73 gp, 120 sp, and a potion of healing, as well as a black-covered tome titled Apocalypto—a poetic prophecy by an unknown author envisioning the end of the multiverse (worth 50 gp). - it contains three thin, black-covered ledgers with entries written in Infernal (records of Duke Vanthampur's legitimate business dealings), a set of calligrapher's supplies (15 gp), a poisoner's kit (50 gp), a coin pouch made from a sheep's bladder (containing 22 pp, 85 gp, and 113 sp), and pipes of the sewers. - twenty rare first editions (25 gp each) - 150 gp.2 silvered daggersThe vases, rug, and tapestries are valuable art objects, though they don't go well together. Each of the sixteen vases weighs 2 pounds and is worth 25 gp. The rug weighs 50 pounds and is worth 250 gp. Each of the two tapestries weighs 5 pounds and is worth 75 gp. # session 13 (20/05/2024) - next day after a well deserved rest - Le'garde starts scribing spells - Legarde sells a couple spell books of - Diana and Vivian - liquidate Vanthampur assets - search for a magic item shop - cloak of protection for Vivian - set of silvered darts for Val - +1 Glaive for Reinhold - Diana buys a plate mail - potions are bought - Diana donates some 50gp to the Elthurel refugees - party asked for an audience to report to Duke Portyr - day after - getting the armor for Diana - rounding up the shopping - night in the street - party banter - interrupted by the apparition of a woman in the symbol of Bane > it time to recover what is ours - a couple skeleton appear from nearby building - _fighting script_ - Val steady aims on the woman - Vivian - moves in - spray of cards innocent and sneaky skeletons and the woman - the woman is blinded - dodges the opportunity attack from sneaky skeleton - annoying reaper of bhaal - appears from the shadow - moves towards Diana - missing Diana - handsome skeleton - shoots and misses diana - multi talented - shoots and hits reinhold - innocent skeleton - runs to Reinhold - hits Reinhold - Diana - in a more centered location - casts spirit guardians - Reinhold - moves to the blinded woman - rages - slashes at the woman - Le'garde finishes innocent skeleton - loving reaper of bhaal charm persons Reinhold - calming master of soul - comes out of a building - attempts to cast fireball - Le'garde counterspells it - sneaky skeleton gets blasted by spirit guardians - professional skeleton misses Le'garde with his shortbow - civilised black gauntlet of bane - moves out of an alleyway - casts silence on the party - insane black gauntlet of bane (the woman) - succeeds the spirit guardian - stumbles away from Reinhold - dodge action - Val steady aims annoying reaper of bhaal - Vivian - moves in front of the silence - casts dissonent whispers on civilised black gauntlet of bane - Le'garde portants the save to 8 - civilised black gauntlet of bane flees maintaining concentration - inspires Reinhold who is deafened - annoying reaper of bhaal fails the guardian spirit save and dies - handsome and multi-talented skeleton miss Reinhold with the shortbow - Diana - moves to calming master of soul - crits him with the candle mace - summons spiritual weapon in the fray hits loving reaper - Reinhold - monologues at insane black gauntlet of bane - attacks insane black gauntlet of bane - feels sad realising he talked in the silence - Le'garde - moves out of the silence - fireballs - all the remaining skeletons - insane black gauntlet of bane dies - loving reaper of bhaal saves - loving reaper of bhaal - moves in the spirit guardian - attacks Vivian - calming master of soul - saves the spirit guardian - scoots around - hits Vivian - civilised black gauntlet of bane - moves back near the action - casts hold person - Reinhold saves - Diana fails and spirit guardian drops - Val - flanks calming master of souls - sneak attacks hits - second attack is shielded - wails of the grave kills loving reaper of Bhaal - Vivian - turns towards calming master of souls - casts dissonant whispers - Val finishes him as he flees - gets the hell out of here - gives a bardic inspiration to Diana - Diana - saves the hold person with a nat 20 - spiritual weapon hits civilized black gauntlet of bane - finishes civilised black gauntlet of bane with toll the dead - Vivian is not that good - Diana heals - Reinhold hands in a potion - Val offers a congratulatory group hug - Le'garde tries to avoid it - Reinhold tries to grapple him into it - Le'garde dodges with misty step - Le'garde starts considering which corspe are useful to him - Diana and Val tell him to stop - small confrontation - Le'garde holds off for now > fine by me girl scout # session 14 (17/06/2024) - night in the streets - party goes towards the inn - walk and talk - Reinhold doesn't need to sleep - Vivian is given a shoulder ride on the way back - Elfsong - some more discussion - Reinhold apparently doesn't need to eat - Val mentions maybe to equip ourselves for the heat of hells - some talks about maybe potions - Reinhold just mentions to just wear less clothes and demonstrate by unzipping the cargo pants legs into a cargo short - Le'garde produces the puzzlebox - Le'garde wants to try to open it - Vivian want to show it to Duke Portyr so he is the one dealing with it - Le'garde insects it more - it is *very* hard to open - Le'garde mentions bringing it to Candlekeep - Val is excited to discover hell as she has never been there before - Reinhold uses dad voice (thaumaturgy) to ask for refills on the table - Le'garde mentions that he doesn't need normal food - he can still enjoy it - can also drink blood - Vivian say he understands - Le'garde go to bed - Le'garde discussion - *tl:dr: stay alert for him* - Diana wants to keep a close eye on - Vivian says he'll try to steer him in the right direction with his words - Reinhold says he'll help intervene if needed - Vivian says he is not that bad of an egg - still need to be careful - Reinhold says he'll stay with the party unless he suddenly gets a memory flood telling him the party is evil - memory flood - just met them now - aside from Le'garde they don't seem like evil ppl - memory on the cusp - Diana and Le'garde standing with a few other figures - duergar - dragonborn - genasi - standing in a park with Reya - a small figure placing bracelets on their wrists - small possibly child - there is another one on Reinhold's wrist too - Reinhold asks Diana and Reya to show they right wrist - there is the bracelet - Diana wanted to tell earlier but not sure how Reinhold would react - Reinhold asks for more information - daughter is Sophia - wife is Eluun - a good family man - Diana met them a the temple a few times - Reya mentioned she saw all three of them as a happy family in the parc - last time they were seen was right before the sundering during a recommitment ceremony - Vivian tries to peer in Reinhold's mind from information - manages to get a view of both Eluun and Sophia - starts painting them and shows them to Reinhold - big hug from Reinhold - Diana compliments the drawings - Diana casts sending towards to one of her moms > Mama, We have figured out who here sent elturel to hell. Please tell me you and Mum are ok - the message goes through > we are not, but we are alive, i don't know where we are, we're in a cell it is cold and dark...please help - in a hushed under breath voice - the mug in Diana's hand breaks - Reya understands and tries to reassure Diana - Le'garde in the room - pulls the 3 skeletons out of the bag - orders them to sort and fold everyone's stuff - they proceed and there are neatly ordered piles on the respective beds - wait in salute after the command - Diana and Vivian enter first - Vivian is very happy about the now cleaned brushes - for Reinhold it's the exact 4 same copies of what he is wearing right now folded on the bed perfectly - in the morning - Reinhold is reading the gazette cross legged with a hot cup of double expresso on the table - Val comes from her home - rest of the party descends - party goes to see Duke Portyr - council chambers - Reya, Mortlock, Duke Portyr, Sylvira Savikas and an unknown woman - discussing a bit before the party arrives - Reya informed the council a bit of what happened - Le'garde - produces the infernal puzzle box - informs that the duke and her son are dead - Vivian presents the narrative as they would have rather died than cooperated - unknown woman speaks up > oh so these are the so called maniacs that stirred every rats nest in the city - name is commander Liara Portyr - she now takes command of the city - the party tells her about the treatement given by the former captain for the forced conscription - complains that Sylvira Savikas was captured - Sylvira Savikas - mentions that this happened only because she trusted a noble who invited her for a drink to get information - that box was what she was looking for - she mentions she is in the party's debt for getting it - mentions she'll now bring the box to Candlekeep for further studies - Vivian mentions that this was the party's plan too - Vivian mentions the rest of the incriminent information and the statue of Zariel - Sylvira Savikas will get to Candlekeep first and expects the party to join whenever they are ready - the party will be provided with some equipment - riding horses for everyone - wagon pulled by mules - food and drink for the journey - tents, bedrolls, etc... - bag of 50pp - after confirming a last time the transfer of the box Sylvira Savikas teleports to Candlekeep with it - travel to Candlekeep - first 2 days are uneventful - 3rd day - there is a bridge - very busy - group of younger teens going in the party's direction - tried to pickpocket the party - not successful - they scatter seeing the failure - settling for the night - Diana uses sendings to get a clearer picture of the situation - will be written at some point between the games - Vivian has finished working on a piece - it is Reinhold and his family - Reinhold is in a loss for words and thanks Vivian - Vivian offers him a painting case to protect it and places it in the bag of holding for safekeeping - Val - is sitting away from the camp fire - Reya asks if she can sit with her - Reya asks more about the Shadowfell and if the rumors are true about it - Reya hopes that the shadowfell did its role to save some people of Elthurel for Avernus - Reya is afraid of what will happen to people that are stuck in Avernus as it even managed to corrupt a celestial like Zariel - conversation continues with Val comforting Reya in her own weird way - Reinhold - tries to remember more - but to no avail - even with the help of the pictures - like trying to remember a dream - 4th day is uneventful - 5th day - Candlekeep can be seen over the horizon now - every time people look at it it is different - it shifts a lot - it is a magical repository of knowledge - it is impossible to map as it is ever changing - all teleportation magic and planar travel is very limited - 6th day - Vivian and Reinhold see an older gentleman riding on a cart - heading our way with intent - asks if the party needs some hay for the horses - Vivian politely refuses - old man hops off and inspects the horses and inspects them before insisting again - Reinhold agrees to buy some hay for 5 silver and starts to help the old man unloading the hay - Diana feels something suspicious as the old man keep looking at her shield - as Reinhold pulls the last hay reveals some hidden armored figures # session 15 (01/07/2024) - travel to Candlekeep - 6th day - hay merchant encounter - *fighting script* - Vivian - zoomies near the ambushers - casts fear on them - 2 fail - zoom away from frightened veteran+ - inspires Le'garde - warm veteran - is frightened - gets of the cart - dashes away from Vivian - saves on the fear with the cart hiding Vivia - Reya - moves the the old man - fails to grapple him - the old man turns into a rd skinned devil - it is a cambion - misses the canbion with her longsword - Le'garde - walks up to the cambion - casts vampiric touch on the cambion - portents the roll to a total of 23 - orders the skeltons to wait on warm veteran - cambion - flies up 30ft - Le'garde and Reya retaliate - fires a fire ray at Le'garde and misses Reya - frightened veteran - moves away from Reinhold who slashes at him - saves the strike of giant - moves behind a rock - fails the fear save - Val - steady aims - misses pro-active veteran with her sling - pro-active veteran - moves to Val - hits Val with his longsword - uncanny dodge - Diana - spiritual weapons the cambion and misses - toll the dead the cambion who succeeds - Reinhold - moves towards the cambion - rage - asks Vivian for a boost - gets ready to grapple the cambion - Vivian - enlarges Reinhold - Reinhold choke grabs the cambion - moves away - inspire Reinhold - warm veteran misses Vivian with a crossbow - Reya - walks to pro-active veteran - slashes at him - Le'garde - moves to pro-active veteran - crits him with vampiric touch - skeletons shoot the cambion - cambion - tries to charm Reinhold - bardic inspiration saves the day - frightened veteran misses Reinhold with a crossbow - Val - finishes of pro-active veteran - moves towards Reinhold - Diana - hits the cambion with spiritual weapon - tolls the dead the cambion who saves - Reinhold - slams the cambion on the ground - slashes with his handaxe - Vivian - casts dissonent whispers on the cambion - doesn't move recharging zoomies - Reya - runs to the prone cambion - unleashes on the cambion - Le'garde - moves too the prone cambion - vampiric touch the cambion - cambion - prone and grapple - tries to planeshift - Le'garde counterspells it - frightened veteran - shoots Reinhold - flees out - Val - walks to the cambion - slashes at him with her daggers - Diana - walks to the cambion - attacks him with her mace - the shield is laughting in her head - starts moving the spiritual weapon - Reinhold - swaps the grapple with his foot - grabs back his glaive - crits and freezes to the ground the cambion - Vivian - zoomies to the cambion - rapiers the cambion - inspires Reya - Reya unleashes on the cambion all her attacks - Le'garde vampiric touches the cambion - cambion - is pinned on the ground - fails to command Reinhold to flee - Val plants her daggers into the cambion - Diana crits to death the cambion with spiritual weapon - loot in the cart - small chest - 120gp - bag of dust - vial of a thick salve smelling of aloe - a note > they've left Baldur's gate assuming for Candlekeep, get us the shield, do not fail us. if you fail us we'll punish you Kaddrus - Vivian and Reinhold drive the new "free" cart - Le'garde identifies the items - salve is a full jar of Keoghtom's Ointment - dust is dust of dryness half full - traveling now with 2 carts Vivian holding the reins on Reinhold's lap - afternoon - the grey walls and spires of Candlekeep can be seen closer now - at the gates - 3 monks come to greet the party - human - dwarf - elf - monks of Deneir - they ask for a book or scroll that is not in the archives yet for entry - Le'garde hands out the black scaled spellbook - party is allowed in - in Candlekeep - *desc* - large courtyard - a lot of ppl - species - rich - less well off - everyone seems to be welcomed - there is an air of not fucking around and not finding out - staff is way over your league - party look all around everything - Sylvira sees the party, waves at them and continues her conversation - after a moment she invites the party to see her crack the puzzlebox open - party enters her laboratory - very high ceiling - ladder bookshelves - a lot of magic stuff - an assistant gives her a vial - she pours the content on the box - the box crack, click and falls completely appart - there is a scroll in infernal inside - Diana reads it > Be it known to all that I, Thavius Kreeg, High Overseer of Elturel, have sworn to my master, Zariel, lord of Avernus, to keep the agreements contained in this oath. > > I hereby submit to Zariel in all matters and for all time. I will place Her above all creatures, living and dead. I will obey Her all my days and beyond with fear and servility. > > I recognize the dispensation of the device called the Solar Insidiator, hereafter called the Companion. In my capacity as High Overseer of Elturel and its vassal territories, I acknowledge that all lands falling under the light of the Companion are forfeit to Zariel. All persons bound by oath to defend Elturel are also considered forfeit. I further recognize that this dispensation will last fifty years, after which the Companion will return whence it came, taking Elturel and its oath-bound defenders with it, if that is Zariel's wish. > > All this is my everlasting pledge. - Diana asks where the nearest portal to the hells is - no portals can't be opened in Candlekeep - Sylvira could planeshift but is needed here - someone owes Sylvira a favor and might help us - someone named Traxigor is guarding them - Sylvira escorts the party to a tower > I might be able to do one better than horses - atop the tower are griffons - once we leave we can uses them to go to see Traxigor - Vivian suggests party does researches before going to Avernus - Sylvira warns the party about Traxigor - bring seafood as he likes it - was polymorphed into an otter - liked it so much he wished it to be permanent - downtime stuff - Le'garde learns phantom steed - Reinhold - tries to get help to learn more about the runes on his left arm - some informations might be gathered in the next few days - party leaves before though # Chapter 2 # session 16 (15/07/2024) - Candlekeep - last minute purchases - 4 vials of acid - 4 vials of holy water - Val named her daggers powerword and kill - Vivian named his paintbrush Ambrosia afterv his favorite desert - Reinhold names his glave Sphia's Gospel - travel to Traxigor - the party rides griffons there - up to a floating tower - group lands inside - Traxigor's tower - *desc* - wide open - bigger on the inside - cluttered chamber - candles everywhere - papers loose - an otter is in the room - clad in red - speaking to itself in common - about a tuning fork - it is not speaking to itself but to someone else - Val and Reinhold see - something small with golden fur - a small holyphant flying around the room > oh our guests are here - they are both looking for the tuning fork - without it there is no avernus - they asks help from the party to find the lost tuning fork - Vivian manages to find it - it is a black metal fork - it reeks of sulphur - the holyphant is named Lulu - she is from Avernus - she might be able to help the party and guide them there - Traxigor picks the tuning fork - Traxigor is nearly the same size as Vivian - Reinhold is thinking very loudly about petting the otter - Traxigor warns him not to - after asking if everyone is ready Traxigor planeshifts the party to Avernus - ***level up to 6*** - sundered Elturel - *desc* - a black orb of darkness is seen in the sky - the city is ruined - rivers of fire - crumbling fortress - it has been nearly 3 tendays since the sundering - Reya is awestruck and determined to look for survivors - Lulu starts to emanate some celestial energy - Reya looks where to search fir survivors - the high hall cathedral - a place where people can take refuge - party proceeds to there at a fast pace - laughing from the dark can be heard - 4 monsters with snakelike beards are around the corner - they are surrounding a woman with toddlers - *fighting script* - bearded devil > more for the imporium i guess - goes after the woman non lethally who falls unconscious - Val - steady aims a sling on the fourth bearded devil - wails of the grave the first bearded devil - Reinhold - rage walks to the middle of the bearded devils - the glaive is encrusted in ice - attacks the first bearded devil - he resists cold - second bearded devil - wounds Reinhold with his glaive and it burns a lot - misses with his beard - third bearded devil - leave Reinhold's reach and gets attacked - walks to Diana - misses Diana - Vivian - creates a large wooden doll - inspires Reinhold - Le'garde misses a chill touch - fourth bearded devil - misses Reinhold wit the glaive - hits with his beard - Reya - moves to the second bearded devil - misses with both swords - Diana hits the third bearded devil with her mace and spiritual weapon - first bearded devil hits Reinhold twice but Reinhold saves - Val - crits a silvered dart at the third bearded devil killing him - wail of the grave the fourth bearded devil - Reinhold - slams the glaive on the ground making it vibrate for thunder damage - slashes twice at the first bearded - he doesn't resist thunder - second bearded devil misses Reya - Vivian - turns his large doll into a male version of Val with the same mask - the doll flies towards the fourth bearded devil - inspires Le'garde - Le'garde - moves forward - chill touch to finish the first bearded devil - the devil stays dead and does not disappears - fourth bearded devil hits twice Reinhold who saves - Reya hits the second bearded devil with her longsword - Diana - moves to the fourth bearded devil and hits him - moves the spiritual weapon to the fourth bearded devil and hits him - Val - dashes to the second bearded devil - stabs critically the second bearded devil - Reinhold - reckless attack - injures the fourth bearded devil - finishes the second attack - Vivian orders the doll who kills the second bearded devil - Reinhold closes his open would - Le'garde acid splash the flesh off the skull of the third bearded devil for later use - Diana and Reya go to take care of the unconscious woman - the woman will live - the children are fine hiding under her - party manages to find a safe place to hide # session 17 (24/08/2024) ### ***THIS SESSION'S NOTES GOT CORRUPTED BECAUSE I DID A BAD MANIP ON MY LAPTOP RIGHT AFTER THE SESSION SO THESE ARE THE ONLY SURVIVING NOTES*** - sundered Elturel - small bit of respite of the streets - the woman and her children are carried there - woman is still unconscious - the children are crying - Diana lay on hands to wake up the woman - Lulu is playing with the children to distract them from the conversation to be - the woman looks panicked but sees that both her and her children are safe and calms down - discussion - the woman thanks Diana and the party - the woman asks why the party is here and how - Diana mentions that the party just arrived and is here to save the city - the woman tried move to the high halls before getting attacked - Vivian and Le'garde mentions that the group attracts attention and that following the party might get attention - Vivian asks the woman to hide - the party will start clearing the way - they should follow after 10 minutes - Reya protests on that > if you don't take them to the high halls i will ! - she doesn't want to leave them alone - Vivian agrees on that and gives them some ration and his waterskin - Diana wants to keep them with us - Le'garde considers giving a phantom steed but it would not be good enough - if there is a distraction needed Reinhold can provide - Le'garde still summons the phantom steed just in case - Vivian heals back up Reinhold a bit - Reinhold gives some ration sand his waterskin to Vivian to replace the ones he gave # session 18 (12/08/2024) - High Hall Cathedral - shouts and laughters in infernal can be heard - screams and sound of combat - fiends are laying siege to the place - place looks a bit ruined - person that opened the door asks for help - party agrees - Reinhold barricades the entrance they came from with rubble - party proceeds in - giant crabs, hell hounds and more are here - Vivian summons his creation again - Legarde and Reya roll a nat 1 stealth - *fighting script* - some crabs and hellhound start approaching - Le'garde - chill touches a giant crab - skitters up a wall - crab crits Reinhold - Vivian - animates the puppet into Reinhold - jean shorts - Coolest dad ever apron - wields a giant spatula - smacks a crab with it - inspires Reinhold - more crab come closer - Diana - finishes a crab with her mace - spiritual weapons another crab - Reya - moves to a crab - smacks it silly killing it - Barbed devil - pissed about his crabs being killed - runs to the fray - misses Reya with his hurl flame - crab claws Reya - hell hound - runs to the puppet - bites into it critically - Reinhold - turns to Vivian to ask for the same apron - tells Vivian he wants an apron like this too - rages turning his glaive into fire - cooks two of the crabs - merrengon shoots a crossbow at Reinhold - hell hound bites Reinhold - Le'garde - wither and blooms crabs and Reya healing her - skitters on the wall some more - Vivian - moves near Reya and three crabs - thunderwaves the crabs killing one and pushing another - inspires Diana - puppet reinhold slams its spatula on a hell hound - zoomies back - crabs misses Reya - Diana - misses a crab with the spiritual weapon - tries to get away from the crabs but gets grabbed - maces down the one grappling her - moves all the way to the barbed devil - Reya - kills the two crabs near her - moves to the barbed devil - barbed devil - completely misses Diana with both claws and its tail - Diana's shield starts screaming at it > Jailor ! let me free ! - it becomes frightened - starts fleeing - Diana warcasters toll the dead - Reya hits it with her sword - hell hound bites the puppet - Reinhold retaliates hard on that hellhound - white abishai attacks Reinhold - merrengon attacks reinhold - hell hound breaths fire on Reya and Diana - hell hound bites Reinhol - Le'garde - casts wither and bloom around reinhold and the enemies surrounding it - Reinhold heals for 17 - Vivian - finishes a hell hound near Reinhold - inspires Le'garde - climbs 10ft on the wall near Le'garde - Diana - spiritual weapon misses the hell hound in front of her - crit misses inflict wounds on the hell hound - Le'garde portents it to hit - consumes the inspiration for more damage - Reya - moves to the barbed devil - unleashes into it - barbed devil - is no longer frightened - barely hits Reya - tries to move away from Reya - Reya misses the opportunity attack - Reinhold kills another hell hound - white abishai - reckless attacks Reinhold - tries to move away - Reinhold strikes it - it saves the strike of the giant - goes to Le'garde - merrengon fails to grapple Reinhold - hell hound bites Reinhold - hell hound crits Diana - Le'garde and Vivian tag teams the white abishai - Vivian dissonent whispers it away - portent the save to 1 - Le'garde vampiric touches it - Vivian rapiers it - Diana - spiritual weapon hits the hell hound - misses the hell hound with inflict wounds - Reya - chases the barbed devil - slashes a it with her swords - barbed devil - misses Reya again - tries to flee - Reya misses the opportunity attack - Reinhold - smacks the merrengon - strikes of the giant locks it in place - white abishai continue fleeing - merrrengon - hits Reinhold - can't move - hell hound bites reinhold - hellhound misses Diana - Le'garde - asks Vivian if he has Reinhold - flanks towards the hell hound near Reinhold - dodges the merrengon opportunity attack - misses teh hellhound - Vivian - moves to Reinhold - cure wounds Reinhold zoomies up on the pillar - Diana - spiritual weapon misses hell hound - hell hound saves toll the dead - Reya - runs after the barbed devil - attacks the barbed devil - barbed devil - flees away from Reya - Reya hits the opportunity attack - throws flames at Reya and Diana missing both - Reinhold - reckless attacks - kills the merrengon - takes a step forward - checks his glaive at the barbed devil - hell hound misses Le'garde - hell hound misses Diana - Le'garde empower bites hell hound - Vivian - skitters along the wall - starry wisps the barbed devil - climbs on Reinhold - Diana - spiritual weapon misses - barbed devil saved toll the dead - Reya finishes the barbed devil - Reinhold whacks the hell hound near him - hell hound bites Le'garde who shields - hell hound misses Diana - Le'garde - moves away from the hell hound - moves towards Diana's hell hound - botes it - Vivian misses a starry wisp on the hell hbound from Reinhold's shoulder - Diana - spiritual weapon misses - toll the dead finishes the hell hound - Reya - moves to the last hell hound - finishes it off - Reinhold shows that he can chuck his elemental glaive - Vivian gives Reinhold 2 healing potion - Vivian harvests the hell crabs - about 28 uncooked legs - the two Reinhold killed with fire damage are not cooked enough - Le'garde harvests the hell hounds - a poorly skinned hell hound hide - Diana and Reya move the barricade to let people in - the abishai can be seen perched very far away now - the high hall is secured for the moment - the hell rider that let us in - barricaded the path down - there was a druid down there - might need to get him back - was a survivor, name unknown - hell rider asks to call everyone back now that it is safe - Reinhold - uses his dad voice (thaumaturgy) - gives the dad order for everyone to come out now that it is safe - someone comes out after a couple minutes - Vivian does prestidigitation fireworks of victory as Reinhold poses for the success - elderly wood elf - the druid - beckons everyone to follow him - party and civilian moves after the druid # session 19 (09/09/2024) - high hall cathedral - Diana heals herself and Reinhold a bit - party follows the druid - downstairs - *desc* - used to be the rectory - winding stairs - in poor shape - smeared in ash and blood - 15 or 20 ft underground - makeshift beds - 30 to 40 people here - the druid presents the situation - name is Seltern Obranch - a lot of people fled here - they sustain of the magic of the druid - Vivian produces the hellcrab legs and offers to cook them - Diana tries to look for veterans or soldiers - there is one young guard - shellshocked slumped accross the wall - name is Trevick Thantorme - Reya recognise him too - Diana and Reya approach - he is startled by them - he is having a panic attack at the moment > everything is gonna be ok... everything is gonna be ok... everything is gonna be ok... - Diana reaches for his hand - trying to calm him - not working - Diana drapes him in a blanket - Le'garde asks about Master Gideon's or the Grand duke's whereabouts - the druid doesn't know - some survivors crossed path with a priest working at the temple - in the crypt further bellow - name was Pherria Jynks - directed them to come here - she was looking for information on what happened here - might have over heard that the grand duke's entourage was near Pherria - not sure about it though - talks about that with the party - Diana suspects that some bodies might have come back to life - there might be corpse eating devils - Vivian prepares the meal - Reinhold assist by grilling and cracking the crab - Vivian does a show out of the cooking - seems like it is effective as the mood in here starts to lighten - 3 bottles of fine wine are also opened - Lulu seems like she is getting bigger - good actions seemed to affect here - started to glow a bit - party takes a short rest - party descends into the crypt further down - Le'garde passed too close to the defaced altar - he looks like he is starting to decay - moving away it reverses - crypt - sarcophagi are open and empty - Smallfield doesn't feel any invisible things - first room - big - rests of shattered supplies - 2 fonts - looks like water fonts - there are celestial writings - used in the ceremony of creation for holy water - enough for 50 vials of holy water - small button under the lip of the font - Vivian presses it - the floor slides and the content of the font flows into a gaping hole - th river styx flows under that hole all the way down - more than 500ft down - going north-west - hall of scholars - a large conference room - passing tombs - Vivien sees something thanks to Lulu's light - tomb is opened - bones are intact - bag with 9 red amethysts - potion of greater healing - end of the corridor - noises coming from the south - woman - bad shape - holding a book - ceremonial mace - standing between the party and maybe 100 survivors - Vivian fails to calm her - Diana manages to calm her - party starts escorting the survivors back - Reinhold and Diana at the front - Vivian in the middle - Le'garde at the back - starting to feel an intense blood lust (nat 1 save) - fails to select the good target (nat 1 stealth) - knocks a brazier - every survivor in the back sees a blood crazed Le'garde - *fighting script* - Le'garde - a man interposes from the frail woman - Le'garde bits him empowered - Vivian - moves nearly to to the scene - warns Diana and Reinhold that there is a problem - Diana - bamfs out the wing - flies towards the back - Le'garde - bites the man again killing it - skitters up the wall - guards notice him - guard - throws a spear at Le'garde - Le'garde shields - Reinhold - sees the crowd panicking - with dad voice calms the crowd - starts moving towards the back - Vivian - lunges and grapples Le'garde - starts berating at Le'garde - Le'garde is still in his blood lust - Diana moves further to the back - both guards miss Le'garde - Le'garde - frees himself from Vivian - runs away into Diana - Vivian hits the opportunity attack - misty steps further in the corridor towards Reinhold - Reinhold - moves to Le'garde - rages - grabs Le'garde - impales him with his glaive - Vivian - moves towards Le'garde - misses a starry wisp thanks to the shield - inspires Diana full of anger > do what needs to be done - Diana - flies to flank Le'garde - inflict wounds down Le'garde - Le'garde doesn't roll a 20 save - Reinhold - finishes off the downed Le'garde - shouts that the coast is clear and the danger was dealt with # session 20 (21/10/2024) - crypt - Le'garde aftermath - there is panic at the end of the civilian group - Vivian goes there to calm them down - a civilian asks why he should be trusted as he brought Le'garde down here - Vivian apologizes for it - Diana goes to the front - Reinhold stays in the middle - Reinhold wraps the body of Le'garde in a spare cape - Diana hands the bag of holding to Reinhold - Reinhold stores Le'garde in the bag - party starts to move people back - a scream can be heard - *fighting script* - Vivian - dashes back - there are 3 mummies here - Vivian starry wisps a mummy - screams back to tell the party - Reinhold dashes in the room - first mummy - walks towards Vivian - glares at Vivian who is now paralized - second mummy - walks in the room - glares at Reinhold who saves - Diana dashes through the corridor - third mummy - walks to Reinhold - kills a commoner - commoners start to flee the room - Vivian is paralized - Reinhold - rages with fiery damage - kills the second mummy - moves between the other ones - first mummy - hits Reinhold - Reinhold saves - saves the fury of the frost giant - second mummy misses Reinhold - Diana dashes in the room - Vivian - sprays of card first mummy - moves back - inspires Diana - Reinhold kills first mummy - third mummy - hits Reinhold - Reinhold saves - saves the fury of the frost giant - Diana maces the third mummy - Vivian - moves around the room - starry wisps the third mummy - inspires Reinhold - Reinhold - burns to a crisp the last mummy - Reinhold slowly starts to calm down - takes Vivian on his shoulders - both reassure each other - party escort people back up - cathedral - people up here are surprised with the influx of survivors - it is a drain on ressources but they welcome them - party stays here to recuperate for a long rest - Diana and Vivian asks around for information about Duke Ravengarde - he was looking for a way to the grand cemetery - where Gideon Lightward might be holding with some survivors - Diana sends a message to duke Ravengarde - asks him to hunker down in the catacomb and wait for backup - Ravengarde is at the cemetery, get here as fast as possible, demons and undead - Reinhold stays near Vivian during the rest as comfort - next day - party decides to go see Ravengarde through the catacombes - Diana asks Reinhold for the bag of holding - Reinhold hands the bag and distracts Vivian from what Diana is doing - Diana dumps Le'garde into the hole to the river Styx - Vivian asks if we should dump the skeletons - it is done - party moves through the catacombs with little issue - bodies are strung across fences - they are corrupted companions - path to the cemetery has been cleared - like a sickening red bloody carpet - Vivian doesn't seem to care - *nope, uppies it is, don't sully the feet of the boi* - party hears a heated argument inside - graveyard - Giedeon is talking to someone - Tiefling - pale - armor - bone and steel sword - long dark hair - tiefling looks pissed > you have to the count of 5 to explain to me - he seems angry - he accuses gideon that he is lying and that he brought the sundering - gideon was apparently with Zariel ? - party is running in at that point - Diana asks what is going on - the tiefling lashes out - civilians should be staying out of it - Gideon accuses the tiefling of being a fiend - the tiefling says he has a name - Lemartes Eidolon, 3rd Captain of The Palantine host - Eidolon accuse Gideon of being a fiend - Diana uses divine sense to know more - Gideon has an undead smell - Eidolon has a slight feindish smell - Gideon sense it - mutters in abyssal - a giant skeleton and minotaur bones rise - *fighting script* - Eidolon - goes to Gideon - smites Gideon who takes additional damage - casts shield of faith - first minotaur skeleton dashes to Vivian and Reinhold - Diana - runs to Gideon - casts spirit guardians excluding the party and Eidolon - second minotaur skeleton - enters the spirit guardian and fails - runs to Diana and gores her - Diana succeeds the saves - third minotaur skeleton - dashes to Vivian - gores Vivian - Vivian is thrown away - fourth minotaur - runs to Reinhold - misses the gore attack - Vivian - stands up - goes to Reinhold - enlarges and inspires Reinhold - Gideon - saves spirit guardian - the radiant damage prevents his regeneration - uses withering gaze on Eidolon - Reinhold - rages and goes now Huge - smacks twice with one crit at the third minotaur - giant skeleton attacks Diana and Eidolon - fifth minotaur - runs at Reinhold - gores Reinhold who doesn't move - Eidolon - uses his conquering presence - frightening most minotaurs - first minotaur misses Reinhold - Diana - spiritual weapons Gideon - smacks Gideon with the candle mace - second minotaur - fails the spirit guardians save - misses Diana - moves away from Diana who maces it - third minotaur - moves away from Reinhold who attacks him - Reinhold gets an opportunity attack - is frightened so can't charge - fourth minotaur gets back and charges at Reinhold - Vivian - climbs on Reinhold - whisps Gideon - inspires Eidolon - Gideon - takes spirit guardians damage - disengages out of the spirit guardians - Reinhold reckless attacks the fourth minotaur - giant skeleton attacks Diana - fifth minotaur - runs to Eidolon - gore misses Eidolon - Eidolon - moves to Gideon - smites Gideon and kills him - all the skeletons fall to the ground - Diana its on the ground battered - Eidolon uses lay on hands to heal her - Diana asks what happened to Gideon - a display of the power of Zariel - Eidolon asks why the party is here - searching for duke Ravengarde of Baldur's Gate - Eidolon is surprised that Baldur's Gate is still around - evades the questions the surprise - no more threats can be sensed at the moment - Diana casts sending to Ravengarde - party is here, Gideon is dead, where to meet him ? - no response - Diana looks through Gideon's belongings - a twisted holy symbol of Zariel - personal journal - Eidolon looks at the chapel - he recognises some of the names written on the statues - name of heroes - Agnithar - Bertra Zomes - Yevina Druen - Xivik Looren - Whrenk the Bloody - Vivian - takes the body of Gideon and burns it - while passing near Reinhold is muttering about cursing the soul of Gideon - Diana mentions the failed sending - not good - this is one of the main defensible areas - hopefully he could be here in one of the other chapels - Diana sees some flyer activity in the distance - Vivian asks Eidolon if he joins the rest of the party and he agrees - Diana mentions the flyers - might be a clue for where to go - party goes towards it # session 21 (18/11/2024) - to the chapel of mourning - undead shambling around - pack of skeleton - with tools in hand digging a grave - working as asked by whatever animated them - chapel of mourning - *desc* - there are corpses of hellriders - also flaming fists - but not Ravengarde - some corpses looks as if raised - place sustained heavy damage - no immediate threats - Diana enters the chapel - Eidolon kneels near a helldivers - mourns them - no hellrider should fight after their death - Vivian joins Eidolon in it - Eidolon seeks revenge for this - Vivian agrees - party follows Diana - Reinhold has a vision - Reinhold mimics the procession - Vivian follows Reinhold - Reinhold follows the procession path - Reinhold after listening silently to a sermon to the south goes to the altar - Reinhold places his has on the altar - the broken shards of glass glow - Lathander gives a last blessing to Reinhold - glaive becomes a +2 now - Diana checks for undead inside - nothing of note - Vivian finds 3 scrolls - mass healing word - tongues - remove curse - Diana sees traces of people going down - party descends in the underground - chapel underground - first room - *desc* - looks like a wreck here - large mess of preserving chemical - smells like sulphur - the track continues forward - marks of someone limping can be seen - others walking fine - door in front open - Eidolon divine sense no one here - party stands in the intersection - right side jars - left side bones - a bit too long - a pulse of necrotic energy hits the party - from corrupted holy symbols - Diana uses faerie fire - no creature can be detected - the symbols don't stop glowing - party goes on the right side first - it is the vault of honor - 5 statues are here - 4 of them are destroyed - last one is still here - Lanish - one of Torm's champion - wielder of the helm of Torm - party advances to take a closer look - specters come out of the broken statues - *fighting script* - first specter - goes to Reinhold - misses the life drain - second specter - goes to Vivian - hits life drain - Vivian resists the max hp drain - Diana - moves in the center - uses channel divinity to turn the specters - healing word Vivian - third specter - goes to Diana - misses the life drain - Reinhold - rage - fire glaive - hits twice for half damage - Eidolon - moves near Reinhold - attacks twice a specter - Vivian finishes a specter - rest of the turned specters flee - the last intact statue is missing its helmet relic - left path now - big room - Eidolon uses divine sense - fiend and undead towards the north west - party advances - Diana divine sense - the undead is very close - Vivian summons his puppet - a dark copy of himself - Diana gets spooked by it and misses it with her mace - it alerts the monsters in the meditation room - *fighting script* - Diana - move to the entrance - blocks it with a moonbeam - Wraith - goes through the wall - misses Diana - Eidolon - flanks the wraith - casts branding smite - attacks the Wraith - first ghast - goes through the moonbeam - misses Diana - second ghast - stands in the moonbeam - misses Diana - Vivian - inspires Reinhold - moves the puppet - puppet slams the first ghast - starry whisp the first ghast - Reinhold - moves to the entrance - reckless attack the wraith - *double ones on an attack ffs* - Diana - moves away from the ghast who misses - toll the dead on the wraith who is immune - wraith - saves the moonbeam - hits Diana - Diana resists the max hp drain - Eidolon slashes at the wraith - second ghast - fails the moonbeam - slashes at the puppet - Vivian - puppet slams the second ghast killing it - starry wisp the wraith - Reinhold crit finishes the wraith - Vivian jumpscares Eidolon from behind - Vivian explains it is an ability of his - after a moment Eidolon calls it cute - Reinhold agrees - meditation room - Diana inspects the dias - a broken part of it is on the ground - Diana mends - Vivian sits at the table with his dark puppet - wonders if the puppet eats - Vivian is down to try - Reinhold hands a chocolate bar to both - shouts in abyssal and celestial can be heard further in - party rushes in after Diana - pool room - cadavers of flaming fist and hellriders are here - pool of black ichor - Ulder Ravengarde is standing in the middle of the pool - clutching a helmet in his hands - having a dialog with 2 voices in celestial and abyssal - fighting for his control - Diana asks Reinhold and Eidolon to grab Ravengarde - Reinhold moves for a grab - 4 minotaurs appears from the ichor pool in all the corners - *fighting script* - Eidolon - casts spiritual weapon - attacks the bottom left minotaur - Vivian - casts fear on the bottom 2 minotaurs - inspires Diana - puppet slams the bottom left minotaur - bottom left minotaur - is feared - reckless attacks the puppet - Diana - casts wall of fire on the top minotaurs - doesn't manage to grab Ravengarde - top right minotaur - moves out of the wall of fire - misses a gore on Reinhold - top left minotaurmoves out of the wall of fire - Reinhold - moves Ravengarde behind him - drags the top left minotaur back in the wall of fire - rages and taks it place preventing him from moving away - bottom right minotaur crits Reinhold - Eidolon - spiritual weapon misses - hits bottom left minotaur - Vivian - puppet hits bottom left minotaur - starry wisp bottom left minotaur - Diana - moves to the right - fails to shove top right minotaur in the fire - Ulder is still in pain - top left minotaur hits Vivian - top right minotaur misses Vivian - Reinhold - grabs both top minotaurs - drags them both in the fire wall - bottom right minotaur misses Diana - Eidolon attacks bottom left minotaur - Vivian - finishes bottom left minotaur - asks to help Ravengard - Diana - goes to help Ravengarde - the celestial voice asks to help # session 22 (16/12/2024) - chapel underground - Ulder is not moving after the attempt to remove the helmet - Eidolon and Vivian fails to know more about the helm of Torm - Diana - 2 entoties are trying to get control of Ulder's mind - the further Ulder gets from the portal the more in pain he is - although the abyssal voice gets fainter - not just a simple curse - Feria in the temple might have a way to help - Diana asks Reinhold to help moving Ulder - Reinhold hands Diana the glaive - Reinhold potato sacks Ulder outside - outside - Eidolon uses find steed to summon a warhorse - Ulder is placed on the horse and is completely limp - party rushes back to the crack of the catacombs - vrocs flying overhead - carrying big bodies - one slips from their grasps and falls on Diana bludgeoning her - it was a merchant's corpse with a backpack - Reinhold grabs the bag - doll making kit - small clothes - seemed to be a toy merchant's pack - there are a lot of stray bodies on the floor - people that fled out after the Le'Garde incident - burnt and with slash marks - party arrives at the cracks - the steed is let go as it doesn't fit - Reinhold and Diana carry the body of Ulder - party is exhausted - party makes it to the high hall - high hall - only 30 people are in here - the bodies in the street were indeed part of the people down there - Ulder is taken care of - Selturn calls the party on the side - thanks the party for saving Ulder - the party can't stay with the survivors because of what happened with Le'garde - Feria is tending to Ulder - waves at the party she'll b wioth them in a moment - focuses on Ulder first - figures the issue after a moment - Feria joins the party an escort them upstairs - upstairs - Feria asks where Ulder was ound and in what state - Vivian explains where he was found - Diana explains that the helm of Torm was corrupted - Baphomet was speaking through the helm to Ulder - it is beyond Feria's individual power - the helmet needs to be cleansed - an altar in the temple was corrupted - it needs to be cleansed - there are fonts of holy water downstairs if needed - Vivian hides behind Reinhold as he had flushed one of them - party has 4 vials of holy water - requires another artifact of Torm to anchor the ritual - someone is also needed for the ritual - it would weaken the presence in the helmet enough for Ulder to regain consciousness - Baphomet would retaliate during the ritual - Ulder has at most a day until his minds completely collapses under the pressure of a god and a demon lord fighting for it - party goes to the library - to find clues about artifacts - to rest there - Vivian and Reinhold campfire talk - Reinhold pulls Vivian to a side - Reinhold thanks Vivian for the portrait of Eluun he made - it allowed Reinhold to recognise her in the vision he had in the temple - it gave Reinhold hope about regaining his memories and seeing her again - Vivian is someone that helps a lot people around him - if Vivian ever has doubts, needs to talk or a shoulder to lean on, Reinhold is here for him - the place here was rough but Vivian held high and should be proud about it - Vivian thanks him about it - makes him feel like the party is a family - like the one he had in the caravan - Reinhold mentions he still wants his apron - Vivian starts sketching it - Reinhold also shows the doll maker backpack to Vivian - Vivian looks excited about it - Reinhold mentions maybe he could do a doll for Sophia - Eidolon flips through his book - he swears - it is a dated book about the hellriders that swore the oath - he has been down here for like 139 years - Diana casts tiny hut - Vivian peruses the books for clues on artifacts - greatsword for the unknown fallen hero - hellrider who took up his sword in defense of Elthurel - held the line on the later named Torm's bridge - artist book - a paintbrush is dancing on the pages - Vivian grabs and pulls it out of the book (new shiny !) - more pages fill - Diana stares holes in Eidolon's skull - Eidolon is part of the forst ride in - Diana asks who he worships - technically Torm - Eidolon had to learn who to stick by down here to survive - Eidolon still swore an oath to the city - Eidolon is not under Zariel - Zariel broke her promise to Eidolon about not harming the city - the promise was made when she was the general - she is now the archduchess - maybe did not felt it held anymore - party takes a long rest # session 23 (20/01/2025) - party discover further down a temple - statue with a man with a sword - there is a 15ft long carcophagus - could be used for the ritual - too big to transport - Diana divine senses the room - still a holy site - a bit damaged with the sundering - party goes back to inform Pherria - high hall - Pherria is waiting for them - Ulder's body and soul are in a battle between Torm and Baphomet - the ritual must be maintain through concentration - if broken it must be start again - it might take longer depending on the resistance and the hold of Baphomet - no longer than 10 minutes - Diana has an idea to protect physically - Eidolon lends his steed to Diana for her to go ahead first - rest of the party starts bringing Ulder towards the ritual site - ritual site - Diana starts preparing a magic circle - rest of the party arrive while Diana is nearly done - Lulu offers to help Pherria inside the circle - Vivian summon his puppet - shadow Vivian form - eyes are more orange than red this time - Vivian hands Pherria 3 bottles of holy water - Reinhold drinks a potion of fire breath - Pherria casts sactuary on herself - Vivian casts heroism on Ulder - the ritual begins - Vivian helps Pherria - Pherria starts well the ritual - a psychic scream pulses out of the helm - party manages to hold it back - 1 success - Vivian inspires and helps Pherria - Eidolon blesses Vivian, Reinhold and Eidolon - large section on the ceiling falls - Pherria continues the ritual - splashing holy water on Ulder - Ulder is calming - 2 successes - a portal opens up in the room - *fighting script* - a hezrou comes out of it - barrels to the party - misses Reinhold and Diana - hits Eidolon - Eidolon - saves the stench - hits the first hezrou - a second hezrou comes out of a portal - runs to the party - takes out Shadow Vivian - Reinhold - saves the stench - rages - smacks the second hezrou - Vivian - reanimates the puppet with a 3rd level spell - inspires Diana - Shadow Vivian hits the second hezrou - Diana - saves the stench - casts spirit guardian - flames sprout from the ground burning the frist hezrou - Pherria - maintains the ritual - Ulder's body lift ofthe ground - a blast of radiant energy comes out of him - burning the hezrous - portals take a hit - first hezrou - saves the spirit guardian - claws and bites Reinhold - Eidolon smites the first hezrou - second hezrou - saves the spirit guardian - claws and bits Reinhold - Reinhold - smacks the second hezrou - fire breath on the second hezrou - Vivian - helps Pherria - inspires Shadow Vivian - Shadow Vivian punches the second hezrou down - Diana - casts spiritual weapon - hits the first hezrou with the spiritual weapon and the candle mace - the floor rumbles - Diana, Eildolon and the first hezrou become prone - shadows crawl out of the portals - first shadow dodges around the spirit guardian - Pherria - first shadow avoids a sacred flame - maintains the ritual - first hezrou - fails the spirit guardian - stands up - attacks Diana and Eidolon - Eidolon - stands up - attacks the first hezrou - second shadow - moves to Reinhold - gets obliterated by spirit guardians - Reinhold - finishes the first hezrou - smacks the portal close - Vivian - starry wisps the first shadow - inspires Reinhold - Shadow Vivian poofs the third shadow - Diana - sprouts out her wings standing up - flies to the second portal - spiritual weapon moves - fourth shadow gets obliterated by spirit guardian - portal gets disrupted by the spirit guardian - closing - big psychic blast resonates in the room - a shadow demon commander comes out of the center of the room - pissed at the party for making it difficult - has an ornate armor - moves to Diana - fails the spirit guardian - his armor absorbs energy - his armor pulses knocking Diana against the wall prone - Diana blocks the claws - Pherria barely maintains the concentration - Eidolon - moves to the shadow demon commander - guided strikes and smites the commander - the armor pulses again - slamming Diana and Shadow Vivian - Diana is unconscious - second attack hits - shadow demon commander legendary action misses Eidolon - Reinhold - moves to the shadow demon commander - glaives onces - the shadow demon commander sprouts a mirror image - glaive hits a mirror image - Vivian - uses the scroll of mass healing word everyone - helps Pheria - Diana - is conscious - moves away from the shadow demon commander - healing word herself - shadow demon commander - casts darkness on himself - moves - Pherria prays and maintains concentration - Lulu - joins the frey - flies to Diana - casts cure wounds on Diana - Eidolon tries to move out and gets taken down - Reinhold - fails to grab Eidolon - moves out of the darkness - Vivian - moves to the darkness - casts fear in the darkness - zooms back in the circle - Diana - dashes to the circle - drops the candle mace - grabs her glowing holy symbol - mutters "mother moon forgive me for this" - screams Gargoth and slams the shield on the ground - Diana's features darken - a pit fiend crawls out of the shield # session 24 (03-02-2025) - ritual ground - *fighting script* - Diana - had summoned Gargoth out of the shield - healing word herself - Ulder - has shadows creeping - Pherria manages to push it back back thabks to Vivian's inspiration - the shadow demon commander loses concentration - the shadow demon commander - is unseen after the darkness - pops out near Gargoth - misses Gargoth completely - Pheria casts bless on herself, Diana and Vivian - Gargoth - grants everyone the blessing of the shield (+2 ac, attacks and saving throws) - unleashes on the shadow commander nearly killing it - Eidolon is on the ground - Reinhold - moves to flank the shadow commander - drops the elemental infusion - cleaves in half the shadow commander - Vivian - goes to Eidolon - stabilizes Eidolon - drags Eidolon back - puppet guards Vivian - Diana - moves the spiritual weapon to Eidolon - asks Gargoth if more are coming - answer is yes bellow and above - Pheria - steels herself - helps Ulder on his next saving throw - Ulder fails the save against the mental barrage - Gargoth investigates the room interior - Reinhold - moves near the center hole - holds his attacks - rage drops - Vivian - drags Eidolon back in the magic circle - casts mass healing word bringing Eidolon back up - helps Pheria - Diana - steps back in the magic circle - healing hands on Eidolon - Pherria - asks for everyone's help - she has a last ditch effort or the ritual will fail - everyone pitches in - Pherria succeeds - Ulder is cleansed - all fiends close by are banished - Gargoth is sent back to Avernus - Ulder starts waking up - party goes back to the temple upstairs - temple - some of Torm's energy is still lingering protecting the place - Ulder is quite and withdrawn - party takes a long rest - Diana - cuts the hair affected by the unholy - Reinhold looks over her concerned - Reinhold tells her that if she ever needs to he is here to talk - Diana asks him to help finishing to cut her hair - Eidolon - asks where the pit fiend came out of - Vivian answers that Diana called it out of her shield - small talk happens - Pherria - goes to Diana - asks to see the shield - making sure there is no lingering presence in it - Diana hands out the shield - Eidolon - ***REDACTED*** - Diana - ***REDACTED**** # Chapter 3 # session 25 (17/03/2025) - Elthurel - party is brainstorming how to get down - it is impossible to just stick the landing - Diana has wings - Vivian could created a glider or a parachute - the chains are big - 30ft long links - spanning 20ft wide - 1ft barbs - Eidolon climbed up here using it - parachute plan is chosen - Vivian creates a large piece of cloth for the operation with his performance of creation - Vivian starts doing the rope and knot work - Eidolon checks the strength of the ropes if it holds - Reinhold attaches a cart to it for people to get in - Diana mends the cart - party places it near the edge - Vivian enlarges the cart then animate object the ride down - party jumps in and starts the descent - The Fall - *desc* - large open battlefield - river styx - lots of conflicts going on - legions of devils on one side of the river - demons on the anchor points of Elthurel - steam ships full of winged demons on the river Styx - a small outpost in the distance that looks calmer - Vivian starts steering the cart to the small outpost - Vivian moves right above the outpost unseen - descent starts - heavy winds are blowing - party manages to hold on - the outpost is more in view - fortified compound - crater potted - jagged wall of rock bones and metal debris - a giant rusty looking hand - not really stone - giant hell machines used for the wall - walls have lookouts - there are patrols - Eidolon knows this place as Fort Knuckle Bones - Vivian lands the party down - party is now on the soil of Avernus itself - wave of uneasiness - the place itself is not friendly - it is the hells duh - very hot - non-evil creatures will risk more exhaustion - hearts can be tainted - party disembarks on a hill away from the fort itself - from the distance people can be seen approaching - Vivian and Diana mend the wheels of the cart - party approaches the fort on foot - the 2 buggies see the party is approaching - turn back to the fort - were here apparently just to scavenge the wreckage - Fort Knockle Bones - there is a gate guarded by some redcaps - about 6 or 8 of them - looking at the party - ask for a password - Eidolon refuses - there is no password - they ask Diana to entertain them - asks her to convince Reinhold he is a chicken - Diana asks Eidolon what the hell is going on - Reinhold asks Diana to pull his finger - Reinhold thaumaturgy a chicken cackle from the one asking - they laugh at the joke - ask Vivian to given them his boots - Vivian show he has no boots - ask for the other boots - Vivian inks his paws - prints on a paper - throws it as an airplane - a redcap falls from the walls - the redcaps laugh - they were just buying time to open the door messing around with the party - party is invited inside - a lot of redcaps in here - vehicles being repaired - a couple of kenku are bickering on one being repaired - Eidolon tells the party the engines run on souls - the kenkus stare at Lulu with a sense of recognition - kenku wave the party over - names are Clonk (weilding a hammer) and Chukka (weilding a spear) - Clonk ask the party to stay here before they bring their boss - Clonk comes back with a very tall creature - she is taller than Reinhold - covered in soot, oil, blood and more - wild eyes - raven on each shoulder - behind her a larger creature even - amalgamation of flesh - she looks at the party and Lulu - asks how did they find such a treasure - Diana and Eidolon steps in front of Lulu - the lady seeks treasures from Zariel - Lulu has memories of Zariel falling - asks for a deal of the memories - Eidolon asks for her name - name is Mad Maggie - Maggie offers to trade a vehicle or two - if Lulu's mind is strong enough she might keep the memories - Maggie will need the party to anchor the ritual - Eidolon ask what Lulu wants - Lulu is unsure of her memories and is afraid but curious - Maggie wants the emotion of the finely aged memory more than the knowledge - Lulu agrees - Magie tells the party to settle down and browse her wares while she prepares - Maggie points at a bigger one - if all goes super well we might even get this instead - a tormentor that is a little broken down - Maggie goes to prep - party goes to the demon grinder - Eidolon pick up Vivian on the way - Reinhold comes too to see the biggest ride - Diana goes to see a devil's ride instead - Clonk and Chukka are arguing over a fix - Vivian and Reinhold find the issue and point it - it is a stuck cog demon issue - Clonk asks Diana to help purify it as a cleric - Diana casts dispel magic on it - as a thanks they offer to do a fix - tormentor is lacking armor and a harpoon gun - devil's ride has no wheels - some imps threw them outside - the redcaps just laugh - Diana and Reinhold want to get them # session 26 (31/03/2025) - Fort Knuckle Bones - Diana and Reinhold look for Pins and Needles - 2 imps - they threw the wheels outside - they are hiding under a tent - muttering that a certain Wazick will kill them - Diana yanks one out - Diana asks why they threw the wheels out - threw them overboard - Wazick is a Mad Cap - Mad Caps and Redcaps that were here for too long - imps ask to get rid of Wazick in exchange for the wheels - after some talk Diana and Reinhold agree to go see Wazick before deciding - Diana drops Pins - Pins and Needles transform into ravens and leave - the same ravens that were on Mad Maggie's shoulders - Eidolon and Vivian look for Micky - they found it surrounded by Red and Mad caps - making him "dance" - Eidolon manages to intimidate them into dispersing - Micky has trouble communicating with no mouth - Vivian casts detect thoughts - Micky is in pain - there is a large spike of hellfire metal in his foot - Eidolon rips the spike out of Micky's foot - Vivian mends the wound afterwards - Micky is now happier - Redcaps don't like it but stay away from Eidolon - Diana and Reinhold look for Wazick - asking Redcaps and Madcaps - their are pissed about Reinhold being big - found the difference between redcaps and madcap - redcaps dip their hat in blood - madcaps dip their hat in fiend ichor - makes them even madder - point to a large dining hall - Wazick is apparently there - dining hall - giant flaming skull throwing firebolts at caps - name is Barnabus - asking for its tooth back - sees the party enter and asks it for help - Eidolon tries to track it - casts command "Give !" on the one holding it - the redcaps did not like that - *fighting script* - Barnabus fires a fire ray at a redcap - redcap - is too far up to be hit directly - throws its sickle at Barnabus - redcap - runs to Eidolon - kicks his shins with his boots - Eidolon is prone on the ground - Reinhold - rages with cold damage - slams non lethally to the ground the one that kicked Eidolon - tells the redcaps to chill out - Eidolon - moves to the commanded one with the tooth - tells them to disperse - uses conquering presence to frighten them - Diana - moves forward - asks who is Wazick - not successful sadly - thinks she sees Wazick - dashes to him - compelled duel fail - commanded redcap - takes psychic damage because too close to Eidolon - gives Eidolon some pocket trash - tells her he is not Wazick - Vivian - casts psychic lance on Wazick - the one near Diana fails and flinches - Mad Maggie appears - asks what the hell is happening here - Barnabus shrinks back - tells Diana that she doesn't mind Wazick dying - the redcaps grows on the ground in the Feywild - like mushrooms it seems - Reinhold throws his glaive at him to finish him - it was not the first time Barnabus had this issue - tells the party that Pins and Needles told her they asked Wazick to die - she loves her imp/crows - they will get the wheels for the ride # session 27 (05/05/2025) - Magie guides the party to the ritual chamber - beds are arranged for the party - a large black pillow in the center for Lulu - hands the party a sleep tea - party drinks and falls asleep on the beds - dream space - *desc* - warm - empty void - party floating in space - Lulu lands on the shoulder of a beautiful angel - a meadow appears as they walk - party manages to push forward - this is a mental safe space for Lulu - Maggie asks the party to make Lulu move past it - Eidolon float down to Lulu - asks Lulu to continue - he also needed to accept she is no longer his general - scene shifts - smell of hell - section of a battlefield - an unconsious angel on the ground - 6 spine devils are closing on Lulu - mortals are fleeing the battlefield through a portal - Maggie asks the party to defend them both - *fighting script* - spine devil - runs to Eidolon - attacks him - Vivian - summons Shadow Vivian - inspires Reinhold - puppet misses a slam - Reinhold - rages - smashes down one of the devils - steps over the angel and Lulu - spine devil - throws tail spine at Reinhold - flees upward - spine devil - tail spine shadow Vivian - puppet is immune to psychic damage - spine devil - bites shadow Vivian - puppet is immune to psychic damage - Diana - casts spirit guardians - moves in the middle of the spine devils - spine devil - fails spirit guardian - misses Diana with tail spine - flies away - spine devil - tail spines Eidolon - Eidolon - activates his sword that starts to glow - strikes the spine devil in front of him - Lulu - hovers above the angel - casts cure wounds on Eidolon - spined devil - flyby away from Eidolon - tail spines Vivian - Vivian - retaliates with a dissonant whispers killing it - puppet misses a slam - Reinhold - chucks his glaive finishing one - slices at another - spine devil - misses tail spines on Reinhold - spine devil - fails save against spirit guardian - misses Diana - spine devil - succeeds save against spirit guardian - continues to swing at the immune puppet - Diana - toll the dead one down - runs to Reinhold to be picked up - Reinhold picks Diana for uppies - spine devil - is now in range thanks to uppies - he dies to spirit guardian - Eidolon - runs to a spine devil - skull grabs it - slashes it down - Lulu - tends to the angel - Vivian - misses a starry wisp at the last spine devil - puppet moves closer - Reinhold - sits Diana on his shoulders - throws his glaive twice at the last spine devil killing it - Vivian looks half jealous half happy for Diana - Reinhold sets down Diana - Diana goes to check on Zariel - very bruised and beaten - breathing - unconscious - spine devils start to move - as if controlled - one voice only speak through - offers assistance - Eidolon consideres it - rest of the party refuses - the corpses transform into a black sludge - sludge starts crawling on everyone - Diana - attempts to help Vivian out of it - fails - takes 22 psychic damage - starts sinking - feeling sorrow and regret - Vivian - inspires Diana - prays to Selune - puppet pulls Vivian out - the feeling of sorrow stops - Reinhold - fails to pull Diana out - starts sinking - Eidolon - gets out - extent his arm to Diana - Diana - gets out thanks to Eidolon - extents her arm to Reinhold - Vivian positions to help Reinhold out with the puppet - Reinhold gets out - sludge congeals - perfect circle - feel like falling when looking into it - scene change - at the bottom golden specs - Lulu - resting upon a black cushion - similar to the one in Maggie's hut - feeling stops - Lulu is shining brightly - there is a brass spyglass near here - Lulu looks into it - recoils with a gasp - surprise and joy - Lulu knows where Zariel's sword is - Eidolon doesn't believe it - was lost on the battlefield - no one but a hellrider could wield it - Lulu never said it was carried - the sword is in a very scary place - Lulu starts waking up - scene change - surrounding in a sudden cold - everyone feels tied - open snowy field - party hears a voice - talks in giant - shouts Reinhold's name - ***REDACTED***