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
- Crowe
- 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
- on a page about purge contamination 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
- it'll copy the ritual for purge contamination on a piece of paper
- 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
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- 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
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- Herton goes to the mephits
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
- 2 doors
- no secret door
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- northern room
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- 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
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