session 6 (30/03/2024)
- Gloomreach day of arrival
- Shadowfell echo of Waterdeep
- grotesque carricature of Waterdeep
- no light
- skeleton dudes
- it oozes dispair
- it's fucking silent hill
- there are shadar-kai
- "people" here are psychos
- they do anything they can to feel emotions
- otherwise they disappear
- other prople here are called shadowborn
- less infused by the plane
- they aren't as much at risk of disappearing
- some people here still have color in their eyes
- visitors from other planes ?
- it is easy to get lost here
- roads seem to move
- Nybarg tries to smell the road back home
- it smells of dust and decay
- like when someone is been away for a while
- abandonned smell
- not able to smell a route
- it smells of dust and decay
- party is in the equivalent of the Dockwards
- Jez interrogates a bystander
- slamming that person on the wall
- Jez wants to know who is very good at magic here
- appart from the dragon
Maybe one of the Unkind
- the ones who enforce the raven queen
- they are a bunch of ravens
- more could be known near the castle
- the dragon is weirder now
- he goes through phases
- god of death and undeath for dragonkind
- Kronapsus: god of death
- He Who Shall Not Be Named: god of undeath
- Jez stops holding him to the wall
- bystander points out to Calcine she should extinguishes her hair
- it is super bright to denizen of the Shadowfell
- even if it doesn't give Calcine light, she becomes a lighthouse and a blinding beacon
- if needed the party can buy shade lantern or seeing googles
- lately more people arrived
- few days ago a mass influx
- people at a festival arrived not knowing what happened
- cultists are regulars here
- coming and going
- he doesn't know how they do it
- the cultists travel to the Barrens
- no one knows what they are doing there
- not even the Unkind
- doesn't seem to be an issue to the cultists
- everyone else passes with boats to avoid the region
- few days ago a mass influx
- party goes and tries to find a tavern
- large building
- ruckus noise inside
- 2 well armored flying through a window
- not pulling punshes
- they both seems to enjoy it
- on cut the tip of the finger of the other
- they stop and go back inside to drink together
- a lot of species here
- mundanes and not
- waiters are shadowfell quicklings
- some pets
- only take shape when looking at them
- otherwise looks like a small ball of arm of hadar
- inside of the "mouth" is a big nope
- a goth cantina
- people enjoy the place as an oasis
- ruckus noise inside
- Roystone tries to be crazy for a while
- Jez and Vincent stop him
- for now
- he still is talking to random people in the bar
- asks the 2 fighters what is a good souvenir from here
- they show daggers made in the Shadowfell
- Roystone asks if he can have one
- he has to win a 5 fniger fillet
- Roystone is allowed to cast magic to help himself
- best of 3
- Roystone wins it by a land slide
- the shadarkai stabs himself on purpose ?
- Roystone get the knife
- Jez buys food and drinks for everyone here
- a lot of mushrooms and cave aged cheeses
- thick ale
- all is bland and muted
- Vincent goes over to Calcine
- she is not feeling good
- Vincent hand a cigarette to calm her
- Vincent called her "darling"
- she is burning hot
- tried to raise her temperature to fight the cold feeling the plane gives
- the place is cold
- the places makes her feel cold
- not working so far
- proposes to go towards the bar to get info with her
- to go ask for information
- maybe trade work for a way out
- Calcine sticks with Vincent giving her a task to focus on now
- at the bar
- bartender
- female elve shadowborn
- not shader-kai
- Khala
- Vincent mentions the cultists going in and out of the Barren
- asks information about them
- people here don't trust them
- rumors say they are not from here
- obvious from the smell (smells like hell)
- no one knows what they are doing here
- cultists just are here
- don't interract a lot
- come here from time to time to buy stuff
- sometimes have scuffles with the Unkind
- most of them are "alright"
- keep the undead here in check
- Vincent asks them if they recruit in exchange for a way out
- bartender realises we didn't plan to come here
- some sorcerer are powerful enough but are dicks
- unkind are not feeling well now
- Vincent asks if it is because of the dragon god state
- the bartender feels unsure about what she can say
- Vincent tries to reassure her to the party's intentions
- rumors that the Ravenqueen has abandonned the place
- Ravenqueen is one of the things that keep the dragon "in check"
mainly rumors
- bartender offers a job here
- Vincent refuses
- Calcine asks if she can help in the kitchen to take her mind of for a while
- Calcine can go in the back ask Mako the cook
- Vincent buys 2 rooms for the night
- it is currently about midday
- there are clocktowers outside to check time
- not always on balance when there is a quake
- Vincent asks if there is a time parity with material plane
- she doesn't know
- hard to know from the Shadowfell
- to help visitors mainly
- shadowfolk don't need it and are open 24/7
- there are clocktowers outside to check time
- Vincent messages the info back to Nybarg
- Nybarg is first confused
- info is still passed well
- multiple options
- hell smelling ppl
- Vistani
- Unkind
- bartender
- Calcine goes to the kitchen
- open kitchen
- Nybarg watches over to
- Markos
- male Shadowborn Orc
- big boi
- very chill
- likes his job a lot
- Markos is impressed with her performance
- Calcine learned Markos mushrooms stew
- in exchange offers some Orangette
- Jez and Roystone in the bar
- Jez is busy with a gay panic over the Shadar-kais
- table of ex was safe today
- Nybarg asks Jez if she wants help with a ice breaker
- Jez is embarrased as hell
- Jez is busy with a gay panic over the Shadar-kais
- Nybarg goes to the shadar-kai table
- 1 male
- name is Vale
- looking 30
- broken glass wrapped fists
- 2 female
- older
- name is Breña
- larger
- double bladed weapon
- younger
- name is Tryn
- bladed whip
- older
- 1 male
- Nybarg asks them were they got the dagger
- chipped the obsidian from the mountain
- Nybarg offers and arm-wrestle
- caltrops are placed on the table
- Nybarg shows the fire hand (crimson rite)
- Nybarg goes hybrid
- Shadar-kai picks a caltrop
- hurs himself
- starts raging
- shadar-kai is winning at first
- Nybarg counter attacks with his curse of bloated agony
- Vincent cheers on the side (bardic inspiration)
- Nybarg finsishes winning
- shadar-kai enjoys the pain
- Calcine brings Shadar-kai and Nybarg some food
- chef snacks
- spiced up the mushroom soup with the spice pouch
- Shadar-Kai feels the difference in taste :D
- Nybarg considers a piecing as a memento
- Vincent is against having some himself
Calcine, remind me to not get some
- also Vincent wants his horns untouched
- Duck makes a comment about handlebars
- the Tieflings reacted hard
- it is a sensitive subject in Faerûn
- one of the female shadar-kai takes a professional piercing kit out
- Jez wants a piercing
- belly button piercing
- obsidian one
- Jez takes the operation like a champ
- shadar-kai gives a goodberry to help fight infections
- Vincent is against having some himself
- the party and the shadar-kai enjoy bonding over a meal together
- Vincent gets a bonus Orangette
- Nybarg asks some questions about the cult
- after some drinks
- reiterate the information already given
- they believe too that the Ravenqueen is distant
- they heard the rumors also from friends in other Shadowfell cities
- the influx of creatures in not only from the Prime Material Plane
- death seems to have traffic jam
- souls are no sent to the Fugue Plane
- lingering in the Shadowfell
- 2 hypothesis
- Raven Queen has stepped away
- Dark Ones might be involved
- dark evil:tm:
- some people are still alive when coming down here
- they get converted after a while
- note to self: do not accept the fatality of the Shadowfell
- Barrens are further than it looks
- like a shadow they can strech for an inch or a hundred feet
- tip for Calcine
- don't cast a shadow or it will come to life
- consider taking a shadow lantern for non darkvision people in the party
- Vincent goes to bed
- Vincent is not alone in the room after 20 minutes
- takes his hand crossbow
I give you 6 seconds before i shoot
- a kenku reveals themselves
oh nonono, please no shoot
- kenku asks if Vincent is from the main realm and where in it
Waterdeep, and apparently this place is the reflection of it
- kenku picks a book from Vincent
what's this ?
- Vincent's private journal
- Vincent agrees to answer if the kenku answers questions
- name is Quickquick
- Quickquick reflexively tries to steal
- Vincent shows him the flute to distract him
you help me get back ? I'm from there.
- Quickquick is from Baldur's Gate in the Prime Material Plane
- Vincent asks Quickquick if he knows the Vistani
- he knows them
- when they show up it is heard from easttown first
- Vincent asks about the cultists
- Quickquick knows them
- they cause a lot of trouble in easttown apparently
- Vincent takes a closer look at Quickquick
- REDACTED
- takes his hand crossbow
- Vincent is not alone in the room after 20 minutes
- Calcines goes to bed
- pats Jez on the should when she leaves
good luck
- casts guidance and doesn't turn back
- pats Jez on the should when she leaves
- Jez goes on the offensive for Tryn
- it goes better than expected
just me ?
- rest of the party leaves
- Jezz spends a night with Tryn but also Breña and Vale
- it goes better than expected
- large building
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