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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
      • 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