# Chapter 1: Scions and Newcomers # session 0 (27/12/2023) - ship - not as planned - tourist attraction - not as planned - *fill later meeting* - boat goes out - *fight scene and script* - pretend combat ensues - Nybarg runs to the invading pirates and scares them out with the pretend weapon - Jezz doesn't bother witha weapon and bonk ppl hard - Calcine puts two of them to sleep - captain stops the combat - this was a bit too much - we are put to the side - nobles liked it anyway - we can either stay in our quarters of mingle with them - the three of us pas out after drinking - middle of the night - room is hotter and more humid than it should - it wakes up the party - lighting up the fire hair to see better - Jezz opens the door - fish ppl rifling through the passenger's belongings - they turn towards the party - *fight script* - passegers are wrapped in seaweeds on their beds - the sahaguins yell in aquan - Jezz rushes in and slashes the first sahaguin - sahaguin priestess goes to Jezz and slashes - the sahaguin retaliates in a blood frenzy on Jezz - the sahaguin coral smasher rifles through the bodies and pulls out a coral necklace and yells at the others - the second sahaguin priestess rifles and finds another one - Nybarg transforms into his hybrid form and grappls the first priestess - Calcine - understands that they were yelling "traitors !" - blesses the Nybarg, Jezz and herself - Jezz finishes up the sahaguin - the first sahaguin priestess tries to get rid of the grapple on herself to no avail - the second priestess fails a hold person on Calcine - Nybarg lays on the first priestess he has grappled - Calcine throws her hair flame to the second priestess that tried to hold her - Jezz finishes of the first grappled princess and repositions to hit - the coral smasher attacks Jezz with the warhammer and cracks her - Nybarg tackles the coral smashers down the stairs to the lower deck and the realm beyond - Calcine heal back up Jezz a bit - Jezz runs after the last standing second sahaguin priestess and flurries her - the last sahaguin priestess fled to the porthole and jumped in the ocean # session 1 (20/01/2024) ***Date is 30th Marpenoth 1519*** - it's liar's night - heart and stone cafe - run by a young half elf/half tiefling named Aurora - Jezz walks in - been a month since coming back to waterdeep - sees a familiar face - it's Aurora > it's been a while ? did your mom know ? - Jezz moms knows - Jezz orders amareto in coffee - Jezz asks if there is deliveries - not anymore - Aurora mention his son is in the next room with "the spawn of Erodrin" - Aurora yells > Vincnt Kenedi LASTNAME *(need it didn't hear it)* where is the jam i ordered two tendays ago ? - Royston jokes about it - Aurora snaps back and order the both of them to get her the jams she needs for the festival - Aurora leaves after giving them a pouch of money for it - Vincent and Royston bicker about it - Jezz steps in with her breakfast - *desc* - tall - purple skinned Tiefling - shoulder length hair - horns have piercings and are etched - leather pants - boot up to the knee - jacket - bottoms up the coffee > you know i though i heard about a stick in the ass - *Royston desc* - 6ft2 - brown hair - generic white man look - green eyes - clean shaved > that's an interresting way to start a conversation - Royston is eating a dried mango leaning back in his chair - *Vincent desc* - 6ft1 - nice red silk jacket with safran embroidery - red hair - 6 to 8 earrings - lots of jewelry - Vincent is eating a scone and looking angrily at Royston > Jezzy it's been a long time - talks about their moms - Royston makes a joke - Vincent warns him about it - Jezz overheard about jam - Vincent complains about needing to run around with Royston - Jezz don't understand what kept them from doing it - Royston porposes to hire someone to do it - the rest says no - Jezz asks why they need it - Vincent points that it's Liars Night and they need it for the family stall - Vincent asks Jezz to help him wrangle Royston > Jezz you know i moved past my handsome chiseled phase after like 13 ? - Royston looks happy about the comment > Roy shutup ! - center street - small makeshift booth - Nybarg is selling - *desc* - dark grey skin scarred - tusk chipped - lots of barcelets - metal clasps - trying to haggle on stuff he mayde - 2 for 5sp - the elf buys it > is that a wood pecker ? - she asks for a bag - Nybarg pack it in a box - Nybarg points to Calcine selling jelly - Calcine corrects that it's Jam not Jelly - customer asks if Nybarg has a shop for more - where we are now is lucky - usually more in a smaller market - Duck is looking around - disgusted from the sight of the faux hunters (butchers) - they did not hunt the meat - *desc* - 3ft tall - harrengon - green cloak - dagger with a red gem - very big feet - contemplating if he can eat the oranges - likes the oranges Calcine sells - closer to feywild ones - Calcine is stressing about selling her jams - sells 2 jars to a customer after tasting - the group of three arrives - Royston got attracted to the market in their hunt for jams - Nybarg advertises the stuff sold in the stall (crafts and jams) - Jezz sees Nybarg and Calcine - Vincent comes to the stall - Vincent buys the rest (all 92 of it and the crates) - Vincent metions that Calcine might be able to meet someone for more trades - Vicent is very flirty to no avail - the whole group needs to relocate the stuff - road to the Market - Nybarg, Calcine and a bear Royston carry stuff - Vincent, Duck and Jezz open the way - need to be there in 1h30 - ETA 1h - 30 minutes of leeway - a parade of children are here - Jezz uses her scary mask - the kids make way for us - assaulted by a group of ~~bandits~~ kids - we trade candy for our lives - the party chooses to take waterdeep way - less packed but longer - lose 10 minutes - broken scafolding on the way - too long to remove it - going back in another street - drunk people - Nybarg mounts on bear Royston and roars - people move out of the way - at the Market - the jams are delivered - Aurora tastes them > did you make them ? - Aurora likes them and she will talk later with Calcine about them - *rent was made !* - everyone enjoys the party - Duck talks to Aurora - tries to redeem Vincent to his mother - Aurora sees through - Duck mentions that Vincent might be *too* flirty - Aurora thinks he isn't improper > probably picked it up from that spawn of Erodrin - Duck note it on a piece of paper and walks away - Nybarg placed back his stall - he sells 2 more - people thought he ment gold ands not silver - profit was 10x to 5gp - Royston - fails to seduce *the one NPC* - Jezz - tries to use the oportinity too and fails - drops a beer on her - the NPC gets out of the Market - people in blue robe come in - chanting in a language no one understand - some of the stab themselves and explode into monsters killing people around with blue shard shrapnel - *fighting script* - Jezz runs after the closest one and lays into it - Aurora grabs a bread peel - snaps it in half > this will do - goes ham on the blue robed individuals - Duck blinds two of them with color spray - Royston rolls his *6th crit of the session* and finishes the one Jezz attacked - Nybarg slams down on one of the blinded ones and kills him - Calcine blesses Nybarg, Duck and Vincent who feel their blood pulse in their temples - one of the attacks Nybarg - one of the tries to flee Aurora but dies trying - Jezz ends another one - Aurora - pulls out a horn and blows into it - attacks two others > save everyone you can - Vincent tries to hold one of them for interrogation but they resist - Duck casts chromatic orb and kills one - Royston iceknifes a group of them - Nybarg transforms and runs to more of them - Calcine casts burning hands - one casts acid arrow on Calcine - Jezz misses the one in front - Aurora starts escorting people out - Vincent tries a crown of madness - Duck misses a ray of frost - Royston punches one - one casts a fog cloud - one hits Jezz - Nybarg rushes down the one in contact with Royston - Calcine burning hand again and takes one down but takes the rest of acid arrow - one casts witchbolt on Calcine, it connects and breaks the bless concentration - Jezz activates armor of agathys - Vincent dissonent whispers one that runs into the fog cloud - one hits Jezz and thet get hurt by armor of agathys in retaliation - Duck chromatic orbs the one concentrating on the witchbold on Calcine - one hits Royston - Royston wildshapes into a bear and retaliates killin him - Nybarg pounces on one killing him and goes on the next one - Calcine put the one concentrating on witchbolt to sleep - Jezz runs after one hiding and knocks them unconscious - Vince tries a dissonant whisper - Duck barely places a trap under the legs of the unconscious one - bear Royston claws one - Nybarg takes one more down - their blood smells weird - Calcine heals herself - Jezz attacks one and makes him stand down - Jezz impeeds him from swalowing a capsule - Vincent fails a dissonent whisper - Duck realises that the beartrap could be placed on top instead of under and eats a tomato - Royston finishes the last conscious one, leaving the asleep one and the incapacitated one - Nybarg starts feeling a pull from the sky # session 2 (03/02/2024) ***Date is 30th Marpenoth 1519*** - at the Market - Nybarg starts feeling the pull from the moon - Nybarg still has a bit of control and asks Calcine if she has the chains - Calcine pulls out the chains - Vincent banes him Nybarg - Jezz tries to place a basket on Nybarg's head - Nybarg tries to bite Nybarg - Calcine casts calm emotion - Duck asks for details about the trasnformation - Nybarg points that he needs to be restrained and brought home - Vincent picks up some of the terrorists shards - Calcine hogties Nybarg even more - Royston transforms into a bear and Nybarg is loaded up on it - Duck goes to the last cultist and slit their throat - road to Calcine's and Nybarg's home - Jezz removcs the bag on Nybarg's head - the party pass through the least crowded streets - at Calcine's and Nybarg's - Calcine opens up the trapdoor to the basement - a deep ladder going do > it is deep and silent as we need that - *desc* - down in it there is a second set of manacles tied to the walls and floor tightly - in from of it there is a nearly empty wine aging cabinet - Nybarg is attached to it and falls in a slumber taking exhaustion - Vincent feels the shard move in the bag - Jezz asks why Vincent brought the shard home - Vincent wants to investigate the shard for information - Duck is sold on the idea - Duck tries to investigate the shard - not from the material plane nor the feywild - not sure about the exact origin - Duck doesn't wish to keep studying it - Jezz proposes to asks Force Grey for more info - Calcine comes back up from the basement with a half drinked bottle of wine ***Date is 1st Uktar 1519*** - Duck stays behind and asks questions to Nybarg > Do you have a different name or persona when you transform ? - not really - Nybarg mentions Calcine mentions Calcine attempted a ritual - not enough for his case - ritual was usually performed by stronger casters - Duck asks if he can try something - Nybarg agrees - Duck cuts open his palm and presents it - Duck asks if Nybarg has the urge to attack him - Nybarg doesn't feel it anymore as the moon waned > you are quite a fascinating monster - Duck goes and gets a breakfast - Roystone goes to his night quarry - Jezz, Vincent and Calcine go drinking - *concequences* - Jezz > You wake up in the communal lodge of an esoteric order. The room is full of burned out candles. There is a pen in your hand and a note, but the handwriting isn’t yours. It is a letter to you from a long-dead friend or relative detailing fond memories or talking about how well or poorly you are doing carrying on the family legacy. - in north waterdeep - hangover is not too strong but there was some poison in it - Calcine > You wake up in a sumptuous bed in a beautiful hotel. Along with the room service breakfast of caviar and sparkling wine comes the bill. Pay 2d10 gp or find a way out. - Calcine pays up - Calcine takes home part of it and arrives home 1h after Nybarg woke up - Royston > You wake up in jail, pending charges for a serious crime (Treason, sedition, grand larceny, etc.). You didn’t do it. - give his full name: Royston McLaren Cornwallis Sanderson - guards arrive - they heard a report that Royston was with the terrorist - Roystone has one person he can call to vouch for him - Roystone tries to get the blue Tiefling but doesn't know the name - Roystone also gives on the side the names of Vincent Aressius and Jezz'abel Sat'ann - Royston sends the paper bird to Vincent in the end - the guards know who Vincent is > this got more complicated... - they need to talk to the captain - Vincent > You wake up in your bed. You are 2d6 gp poorer. Within the hour, 300 freshly baked pastries are delivered. - not from Aurora's bakery - Vincent recieves the summon as a witness for Royston under the charges of terrorism - Vincent gets a sending > get your house in the jail, get your frienda and check with your mother - Vincent groans and winces - Vincent goes to "Calcine and her roommate"'s home - Calcine's home - breakfast is made with stuff brought home - Calcine shows the sheets brought home - Vincent and Jezz join Duck, Nybarg and Calcine - Vincent announce that we have to go to jail as witnesses to bail Royston - Vincent hands the paper bird to Jezz > OH FFS ! - Duck is reluctant to go to the jail - Jezz and Vincent try to bribe Duck into coming - Jezz presents it as a clown show - Duck is in - Nybarg and Calcine are coming too - Vincent will pay for lunch - Vincent will arrange a meeting with his mom, Aurora, for a jam selling deal - *fill fashion banter part* - Castle prison - Vincent presents the paper bird - Royston is in manacles waving at the party - guard captain arrives - captain says that Royston came back to the crime scene looking for a blue tiefling girl - when asked what he was doing here Royston threw a beer at the guard - reenacting his part of the combat - jumping on the table - growling as like bear - but kept his pants on - was arrested as terrorist - Vincent's mother already gave a statement - captain mentions that Duck killed the last living suspect - captain mentions that the party took something from the scene - there could be a trade for Royston's freedom for the shard - Vincent suggests that Duck's gives the shard - Duck says he owns it after it was given to him - Vincent mentions that Royston could be endebted to Duck - Duck asks Royston who confirms that as bros he'd do anything - Duck hands over the shard - after a few minutes some guards come back with a chest - as a thanks for protecting the people and giving the shard - they know about Nybarg - they were asked to ignore it as a thanks - in the chest there are 6 bags of 100gp - the party needs to leave a body sample as spell components for scrying and the like - the guards know that the group was religiously motivated - standard doomsday cult - but this time some of their plans worked - not focused on a central deity - preaching about "The Sundering" - they think the spellplague never ended - trying to bring out the ultimate end of it - they have pamphlet > what if you knew the truth ? - on the way to Aurora's - *fill bloodbook discussion* - Nybarg feels a ruffle in his pockets - nothing is missing - there is a note > What are you doing ? Transforming like that in public. Meet us at the sewer entrance behind the Yawning portal in two nights. If you don't we will solve it for you. - Nybarg crumples it back in his pocket - Vincent gives 45 pies in his house to Nybarg - Heart and Stone - very busy morning - Vincent joins her mother for the rush of work - tell his mother that someone is here to apologize > is that you ? - it is Royston - Aurora asks why he fled the crimescene - mention that we had a werewolf situation > you could have sent a message, this is what triggered your father. - Vincent is trying his best but Royston is hard to handle - Aurora heard about what Royston did - Aurora heard about Vincent buying 300 pastries from another shop - Vincent mentions that Calcine is here - Aurora wanted to talk to Calcine about that - Aurora also sold the sculptures from Nybarg - Vincent calls both to the kitchen - Aurora talk - she sold the sculptures for 5gp each - a tyotal of 10 for 50gp - Nybarg aks about selling in the shop here > I was planning on asking you that - Aurora turns to Calcine - Aurora said that Vincent could and should have paid more for the quality of it - Aurora gives Calcine 50gp - Aurora wishes to continue buying jams - about 300 per month - Calcine could do that in a few days - an agreement is struck - Aurora asks what Duck wants to eat - just straight raw carrots - carrots are from Vincent's uncle Arsen - Aurora asks Roystone to get rid of the prison smell - Aurora thanks him for looking after Vincent for once - Vincent protests that his father contacted him because of last night > he was just stern - Vincent badmouths his father and Duck doesn't believe him - lunch is served # session 3 (17/02/2024) **_Date is 1st Uktar 1519_** - Hearth and Stone - small talk - Calcine thanks Vincent about keeping his promise about the Jams - it was but courtesy - Vincent asks about Blaze and Flint in the Bloodbook - they are Calcine's parents - Calcine aopoligized for not keepin up with Jezz - weather and winter talk - Jezz asks about the cult to Vincent - Vincent wants to nip it in the bud - Nybarg mentions the note he got given - people know he transforms - he has to be there tomorrow - moms are scary, Aurora punch baking break - Vincent has 3 sisters - 1 older twin - 2 youger - Calcine is considering to get some more spices - Vincent starts to think about where - Aurora gives a card with a recommendation - Quilvara's Oddities and Apothecary - Vincent complains about adress managment in Waterdeep - Jezz asks about the gang situation in the city - big gangs are very quiet still - small gangs pop here and there - small gangs stopped being punched by Jezz - the codlane crew came back together - Aurora asked if Nybarg ate enough - to the Apothecary - Calcine asked Vincent's help as he has his way with words - Calcine gave Vincent her pouch to pay - the owner is the Blue Tiefling - she asks if we know Jezz and Royston - Vincent apologizes in their stead - Roystone flees the shop - Calcine is looking for spices - Quilvara has Heward's Spice Pouch - Calcine is interested - Calcine and Vincent give the card from Aurora - Quilvara gives a reduction - Duck buys a spell scroll - Quilvara asks if Nybarg is here too - she was happy about the statue - Calcine go get Nybarg - Nybarg goes and talks to Quilvara - Quilvara asks if it could be possible to make a really large size one - plague doctor - creepy - bird - Nybarg has if she has a reference of her commission - Quilvara will bring it to him tomorrow - Jezz blows her money on a fashion shopping spree on the way out - Vincent takes out a cig - Calcine asks for one - Calcine puts some orange peels in it for flavor - Vincent swings by Aurora - everything is fine - Aurora gives filled flatbreads for the night - Nybarg goes to the Rathill to get started on materials for the sculpture - Calcine invites the group for a night of drinking - on the way back shows the shop of Papa Petrichor - earth genasi - sells - booze - cigs - good stuff - Jezz asks about the thing that got high - a ritual drug to contact people - like going to a medium by yourself - Jezz buys the weirdling tea - at Calcine's - 11 bottles of wine are left - Vincent had a 12th one he picked up last time - it's the last sweet wine - 3 are opened (8 left) - enjoying the night - drunk people outside home are rowdy - the party gets out to meet them - Nybarg grabs one a places him back - Calcine calms emotion - Vincent tries to shoo them to the nearest tavern - one of them is insistent to Jezz - he doesn't stop - Jezz punches him in the mouth - the rest of them leaves - the flatbread is burning because left in the oven during the encounter # session 4 (02/03/2024) - Royston walks out because he has a date (player out for the session) **_Date is 2nd Uktar 1519_** - day stuff - work stuff - Calcine preps the Jams for Aurora - Nybarg does some metal bending - Jezz brews some stuff - none of the do well on it sadly - tired from the adrenaline crash of the past days - Duck is not feeling well - **_REDACTED_** - Vincent goes buy a hand crossbow and a 100 bolts - Vincent and Jezz do some strret performance - Jezz does terrible with her instruments - Vincent accompanies it well acapella - people think it is on purpose and they get 17gp - Waterdeep seems to be under martial law today - everyoneis watched carefullly - need to be careful about what is done - 3 to 4 GTA stars in the city if there is a crime - Calcine gives some orange pastries to Nybarg and Vincent - evening comes - Nybarg smells the track to the rendez-vous - the party follows him - behind the yawning portal - sewer entrace with a very peculiar smell - it feels like the right one for tonight - Jezz creates a mask for the odours - it feels like the rats are watching us - the party advances into the sewers - the tunnels are well kept and lit up - Calcine does the fire hair for some light - Vincent recognises the cantrip Produce Flame - Vincent was surprised by it - Jezz is curious about it - Duck asks why it feels weird for tieflings to feel weird about it when they don't have cloven hoof - tiefling traits discussion - one of Vincent sisters has cloven hooves - Vincent has 6 fingers - Nybarg follows the scent - rats are going there too - the rest of the party follows behind still in that conversation - after a pipe it leads to an open area - _desc_ - signs of life can be heard - conversations - noises - etc - looks like a central gathering hub - were-creatures - changelings - all seen with their aspects - looks like a robust morning market - smells like the rathills to the party - a wererat comes to the party > glad you took notice of what we said d'ja, with d'ja - Nybarg came here with us just in case - the letter was addressed to Nybarg and not the rest of us - we are not their kind - the wererats don't like our presence here - need to talk to their leaders - Jezz answers with a who the fuck are you - the wererats repeat that they need to talk to their leader - Duck asks if their fur are soft - gets ignored - the wererat is name Kriter - Kriter runs of to seek someone - a werewolf come up - _desc_ - older - very large - white wolf - shamanistic robes > this is a problem... - Nybarg apologizes for bringing everyone - the werewolf mentions that Nybarg smells feral - the werewolf asks if Nybarg can control it - it is not the case - the werewolf asks if the party is his pack - at least Calcine - not sure about the rest yet - the werewolf asks if Nybarg would die for them and vice-versa - philosophical discussion - the werewolf asks the rest of the party if they care for Nybarg - Vincent would help Nybarg - Nybarg helped people dear to Vincent - he would like to repay in kind - Duck would help Nybarg > don't hurt him or i will hurt you - Jezz asks for more details before commiting but then says yes - Calcine obviously stands with Nybarg - don't do more than the menacing to Nybarg or else - but you also carry the hope for a progress in the last 5 years - the werewolf snaps fingers - 5 chalices are brought up - a trial in the mental realm - the party can join Nybarg to help him - the party drinks the liquid - it burns - feels like we are pulled into the sensations of the beast within Nybarg - it subsides - awaking - it's dark for all but Nybarg - he is in the basement of the waterdeep home ? - _initiative_ - Nybarg - calls in Calcine - transform in hybrid from - smells 5 other entities in the room - one is Calcine - Calcine - pitch black room - connects to Nybarg with a Crimson Bond - starts walking towards Nybarg to find and reasure him - is stopped and attacked - didn't reach him - Nybarg - hears Calcine getting hurt - tries to find Calcine - sees she is fine - starts to wake up Vincent - turns to the wererats - asks to not hurt the party - the wererats asks Nybarg to prove himself of being worthy of being a pack leader - Duck - is still in the dark - feels people on almost all sides of himself - pulls out his dagger - create a safe space with rope trick - Jezz - still in the dark - feels boxed in but still might be a way to move - casts armor of Agathys on herself - closes her eyes and try to hear more than see - breathing of Nybarg - nervous energy of Duck - crackeling of Calcines hair - Calcine - the bond was broken with the attacks - lights up her hair again - now everyone can see - casts a shield of fait on Nybarg - Earnest Wererat - attacks Nybarg > you smell wild, learn from us, control it - Vincent - approaches the Earnest Wererat - unsetteling words it - casts spray of card > you mess with one wolf, you mess with the whole pack - Jackalwere - steps forward > you prove yourself worthy - attacks Nybarg - Nybarg - bloats the Earnest Wererat - full nelson grapples him - commands Jezz to attack it - the Earnest Wererat is dead - Weretiger - shifts back into his human form > there are more ways for your blood to do things for you, you are not subbject to this beastial form - attacks Nybarg - Duck chills in the rope trick - Jezz - swings at the Jackalwere - takes it down > rely on your friends, focus as a pact, know this is not a curse but a blessing - flurry of blows on the weretiger > it's not on you, trust your friends, trust your allies, learn to feed the pact - Calcine - realises it is the basement where Nybarg is kept - tries to sleep the other wererat - Vincent - unsettling words on the weretiger - hold person on the weretiger > you do well with your strengths bard, i tip my hat to you - Nybarg - lays on the now paralised Weretiger - has Vincent act with a dissonent whisper - Weretiger saves the hold spell - Duck - pokes out of the rope trick - casts magic missle at the weretiger - Jezz lays hard on the weretiger - Calcine - gives Nybarg her silver dagger > I think mom would like it to be put to use onces and hopefully, and not against you - Nybarg first hesistate > trust me - Nybarg takes it - Vincent - talks the weretiger down - the were people after a monologue pull the dream vision out - Rabbit you knew when to hide - Bard you know when to talk - Cleric you knew when to support - Warrior you knew how to fight - Nybarg you surpassed you instinct - the cups had blood of the pure blood in them # session 5 (16/03/2024) **_date is 2nd Uktar 119DR_** - werebeast hideout - elder Lycan speaks - asks how Nybarg feels - Nybarg needs a moment to focus _(player is out)_ - asks if the rest of the party is ok - Royston says yes - Calcine says she has even more control over her powers - manipulates a blob of blood easily above her hand - the werewolf warns her very intently about showing blood powers around - looking at him he is old - like 600 years old - talks from a place of a lot of experience - a tip given as someone close to Nybarg - Nybarg is feeling the new found control - Royston asks for effects from the First Wolf blood that was drinked - no adverse effect - maybe a boon was left - everyone gained a feat at the end of last session - elder Lycan asks the party to not talk about what happened here - worried about werecreatures being scapegoats for what happened - Vincent asks if they saw what happened in the market - they have many eyes on the city - the terrorist attack was against the city - Vincent asks if they saw where the terrorists fled - the elder doesn't want to be involved with that - the elder goes to consult some other smaller were-kin - they might be somewhere between where the fish and the docks meat - Calcine asks if she can contact him if she needs couceling for hemocraft - he can't - warns Calcine again about showing her powers - wererats escort the party back out near the Yawnig Portal - surface near the Yawning Portal - it is lively - party is considering what to do tonight - Royston wants to bar crawl - Calcine not up to it - Vincent wonders if Vrok is still open - it is not - passing in fromn of the Yawning Portal - a kobold hails the party - he is handing flyers for the next event - _he knows Jezz_ - (37 on the ex table) - from her mother Lucy ? - Jezz was fighting about someone with her mother - he asks her to take the flyer - the flyer is to an aftershow made by bards - they are the Twin Horns - Vincent and Jezz know them - their parents used to know them - the party thinks of going to the event - Jezz loks at the paper closer - weird markings on the paper - Jezz doesn't recognises the hidden bar from it - there might be more from this invitation - Royston and Duck look at it too - nothing weirder is seen - towards the event in Selûne's Smile - Jezz still feels iron in her mouth - Calcine proposes her an orange > where do you even get them ? are they even in season ? - Calcine starts eating anotherone - she has a producter at home - Jezz takes the orange - the set list is weird - at Selûne's Smile - door is closed - there are Symbols on the door - looking like musical notes - Vincent starts moving down the street - Vincent recognises the music symbols - the timing in that music is guidance to a place > doors down, 1 street up - the real place is the Soaring Pegasus - between sail street and dock street > where the fish meets the docks - Soaring Pegasus - empty but open - party enters - no one is seen inside - Vincent says a code word but no one answers - Vincent sees a glint somewhere in the room - **_REDACTED_** - Vincent goes in and picks it up - it's a coin - Vincent asks the party to search for more - Royston snags some fresh crisp fries - Vincent asks insistently Duck to help - Duck negotiates for a favor - Royston uses his Lute - it sounds weirdly flat - like the walls don't reverberate like they should - Duck smells ozone and ash - like 2 days ago in the Market - Duck points it out to the rest - the rest of the party has issues smelling it - Duck goes down towards the basement - party follows - Duck looks very driven - like he is following a very string smell - Duck points a bootleger's door to Jezz - with the help of Nybarg and Calcine Jezz manages to open it - not enough dust for how stuck it was - party goes down the hole - every one jumps but Vincent who does it delicatly - Vincent feels cold when going down slowly and slightly more gravity - down the hole - the hole above is not anymore - Vincent, Jezz and Duck see something close the door - Duck has trouble seeing - **_REDACTED_** - Calcine's hair doesn't light as much as it should - light up like twice less - the atmosphere is very oppressive - Duck is panicking a lot - slithering sounds can be her > we need to get out of here ! we are stuck in the shadowfell ! - Calcine casts Calm emotions - Duck calms down - Jezz looks around - it looks like a copy of the normal stuff - all the wood and stone is now bone and obsidian - Jezz locates the mirror of the hole - 20ft up - Jezz create a makshift pile - Jezz climbs through it - Jezz ends back in the starting location - Vincent asks Duck where and how you escape planar magic - Duck rambles about it a bit - if you don't have the object linked to the portal it is a one way ticket - blue cristals and shattered obsidian start lighting up the area - it smells like sulphur - cristals are the same kind used on the attack - everywhere starts growling - all but the eyes on every one are muted and grey - going out the door - Jezz looks out - sees the guardians of Waterdeep stand in Obsidian statues of tyranny - Jezz doesn't recognises the place - it was what Jezz saw "that night" in a dream - everyone feels cold - this is not the Waterdeep that the party recognises - everything is obsidian and bone - Jezz point out something to Calcine - we should be able to see the castle from here - there is a spire of obsidian wrapped in a blue glowing veiny gem instead - flying overhead there is a massive dragon - 200 to 300 ft of wingspan - obsidian scales - Duck recognises the dragon - Duck looks very scared - starts stuttering a word startin with N - the dragon flies a bit closer - one of Calcine's memory is being pulled away - Calcine's barely resists it and keeps it - what should be Castle Waterdeep is a dragon's nest