# 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