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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 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
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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