session 19 (18/01/2025)

date is 24th Uktar 1519DR*

• day of the meeting
• party meets up for breakfast at Nybarg's and Calcine's
  • Jezz has a brilliant idea
  • weed infused jam
  • Calcine thinks about it
  • to be worked on together later
• after a moment there is a know on the door
• Rolen is waiting outside
• Calcine invites him in after removing his shoes
  • Vincent is hiding in the kitchen to no avail
  • Rolen enters and Vincent is nervous
  • Rolen declines breakfast invitation and sits down
• Rolen tells the party to ask away
  • Jez asks if there is a way to mitigate the Shadowfell effects
  • the party is not to go back there
    • the cult has activity in the city
    • need to deal with them here
    • party will act to avoid martial law
    • cult seem to want the unrest cause by it
  • Jezz asks if the cult might not be stir the gangs in the city
    • no answer
• Calcine serves Rolen coffee
• Rolen is spreading out scrolls on the table
  • Calcine closes the windows
  • notes written in Harper code
  • there are locations on the map circled out widespread on all the map
  • tracking movements of groups in the city
  • leader is Malacor
    • known as the whisperer of the void
    • suspected of trying to conduct dark ritual
    • constructed a temple beneath the dockwards
      • 40 or so cultists at any given time
    • believed to be the one coordinated the efforts
    • may have key waterdeep figures in his pocket
      • possibly a masked lord
    • has summoned an umbral stalker in it
  • 3 lieutenants in the city
    • Alara Nightveil
      • roguish type
      • might be the one stirring the gangs
      • rumored to be working in the castle ward
      • might have ressources in warehouses
    • the Revenant
      • the enforcer
      • large gentleman
      • leading raids outside of waterdeep
      • reports of people missing
      • recently seen near Amphail
      • between Waterdeep and Redlark
      • camp might be in the forest or the ruins
      • planning operations attacking outside the city
      • to draw away
    • Syvindran
      • spy master
      • false identities to infiltrate the nobles and council
      • nobles claim to have seen a shadow dragon at night ?
      • tries to get inside the blackstaff tower
      • appearance unknown
      • 2 suspected aliases
        • Aloran Darke
        • Rendril Sarven
• Rolen says the party can get out but Waterdeep needs the party
  • party doesn't back out
  • after some discussion the party decides to go after the Revenant