# 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