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