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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
    • 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
    • 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
      • 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
        • 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 avenqueen 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
          • Vincent messages the info back to Nybarg
            • Nybarg is first confused
            • info is still passed well
              • multiple options
                • hell smelling ppl
                • Vistani
                • Unkind
      • 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
        • 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
        • 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
        • 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
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      • Calcines goes to bed
        • pats Jez on the should when she leaves

          good luck

        • casts guidance and doesn't turn back
      • 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