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~~
  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~~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

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
  - REDACTED

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