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A new member (S22 - 18/08/2024)

  • getting out of the city
    • party finds a bunch of scrolls
    • party avoids the silver order by going further west
    • party encounters a weird tree
      • gets stuck into quicksand
      • gets out of it
      • the tree starts speaking
        • tells the party to be careful
        • that tree heard about the party's good deed with trees in Queen's Park Garden
        • thought the party was made of 5
          • party tells him that Paracelsus is no more
        • apologizes for being late
        • offers to escort the part to the edge of the forest
        • name is Oak Heart
    • Oak Heart takes the party to the edge of the forest
      • Quake asks if the party can do anything for him
      • the trees don't like the silver order camp
      • Oak Heart gives the party a piece of bark
        • one use of entangle
    • party is on the other side of the silver order camp and on the road towards Emberwood
    • takes the rest of the day
  • in Emberwood
    • night time
    • take a tour of the villages
      • Crowe
        • Emma is liking blacksmithing
        • everyone seems fine there
      • Red Lion Hotel
        • Kosta Stavros
        • discussing with someone
          • Stavros seems happy
          • he is throwing out the other person
          • the other person says that Stavros should know who he is
          • the person mentions that he is named Valkyss
          • Stavros calls him a liar and that he is tarnishing the reputation of a dead man by saying that
          • Valkyss tries to convince Stavros that he is indeed who he says he is
          • Valkyss asks Stavros to let him talk to his cousin who for sure will recognize him
          • Stavros refuses and kicks out Valkyss out of the Red Lion Hotel
        • Valkyss mentions he might just go to the river to wash a bit
        • party talk
          • party mentions that there is a bath here in emberwood
          • Valkyss didn't know and thanks the party
          • some plasantries ar shared
          • party asks what happened to him
            • he was hired by his cousin with a group of mercenaries
            • he got backstabbed
              • at night the group was trying to get out of the city
              • Valkyss was at the front
              • the group got found by monsters
              • the group stabbed Valkyss in the back and left him there to die as bait so they could escape
            • managed to survive and got to the hooded lanterns' outpost at Shepherd's Gate
            • there he got treated for a while by Alena Kruger
            • after a while recuperating he escaped the rest of the way to here today
    • Chapel of Saint Ardena
      • chapel is a mess
      • Herton tries to see the footsteps here with his cobblers tools
        • heavy footprints
        • no light footsteps
      • Baz looks at the book left on the floor
        • on a page about purge contamination spell
          • too high level for Baz (3rd)
          • her own handwriting
        • Baz looks at other pages
          • note at the back

          in case I am gone

          • hastily written
        • Baz folds the note
        • Baz hands the book to Quake to study the spell
      • after the suggestion Valkyss goes to the bath house before meeting the party in their room
      • Quake starts studying Hannah's book
    • tavern
      • Baz makes so Valkyss is redirected to the party once back from the bath house
      • party takes something to eat
      • after a while Valkyss comes back to the party
      • Quake starts learning the spell
        • with no teacher it'll take days and components to research
      • Quake shows Valkyss what that turning into soup was about
      • Herton summons a tiny servant
        • it'll copy the ritual for purge contamination on a piece of paper
          • imperfect copy
          • might needed to reference back to the original one
        • it'll clean the room
      • party asks Valkyss what he can do
    • Valkyss fights Old Rattlecan to show his abilities
      • monk
      • uses a polearm
      • does crazy jumps
      • after a jump can sweep and push back targets in an arc
      • can attack people approaching him
    • debrief with party
      • seems convincing
      • Valkyss tells the party he is here for monster hunting
        • let him kill named monsters
        • he'll help in exchange
      • party asks Valkyss where he was sleeping
        • Red Lion Inn
        • Quest asks Valkyss his name as this place is expensive
        • it is Valkyss Jones
      • yes noble but not the best standing
      • trying to get back some standing so he can have a nice retirement later
    • night
      • Valkyss takes a separate room for tonight
      • Baz takes a watch
      • Tobias Crowe runs to the party
        • both Emma and Sybil are gone
        • took some cake and their slings
      • Baz wakes up the party and Valkyss
      • Tobias asks where they might have gone
        • Baz mentions that Emma talked about Eventide Manor during the tour
        • Baz apologizes for giving the girls slings
      • party prepares for the manor
    • Eventide Manor
      • Valkyss lights up his lantern to see something
      • lights can be seen inside in the east wing on the ground floor
      • Quake opens the main door
        • desc
          • foyer
          • cracked floor
          • lots of dust
          • chandelier with missing crystals
          • cobwebs
        • Baz eyes of the grave
          • no undeads around
        • tiny servents look inside
          • they see tiny creatures
          • point towards the room
        • Valkyss notice
          • cobwebs are thicker all the way to the back near the stairs
        • Lump takes a look inside
          • goes where the tiny servants pointed
          • they are dust mephit
        • Baz sees 2 sets of footprints
          • small girls size
          • going both directions
      • Herton goes to the mephits
        • desc
          • dining room
          • stuff is dusty and broken
        • Valkyss and Quake go too
        • Herton shows his ring and ask friend or foe
        • asks if they saw 2 girls coming here
        • mephits ask for shiny
        • Herton throws some silver coins
        • the mephits ask for more
        • party is allowed to stay for a bit
      • Baz starts moving stealthily
        • Valkyss points the creaky planks
        • Baz steps in
        • more cobwebs
        • Baz activates the ethereal lantern
        • starts moving towards the lit up room
        • there is a painting of a woman
          • Lennith Eventide
          • member of the Amethyst Academy
      • southern room
        • desc
          • lounge
          • yellow seats
          • tiny spiders
          • small table with a fire place
        • door going further south
          • 2 doors
            • right is a back room office
            • left is a steward office
        • no secret door
      • northern room
        • desc
          • big bookshelves
          • moldy tomes
          • dusty
          • disturbed by small tracks
          • a small lantern can be seen on the floor
          • near a reading table with a tarnished silvered monocle
        • the lantern is suddenly thrown towards Herton
          • it misses and starts burning a bookself
          • Herton snuffs it with control flames
        • Baz enters the room and reveals the ghost with the lantern