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.