# 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