# 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