session 7 (13/04/2024)

date is Uktar 3rd 1519DR ?

• in the tavern
  • during the night Jezz managed to slump back in the room after the "fun"
  • Duck is nowhere to be found
  • Roystone left a note and will catch with the party later
  • Breakfast talks
    • Calcine brings the breakfast
      • standard stuff in the realm but with some spices
      • Jezz get an extra madeleine with yerba mate inside for some energy
    • Vincent talks about his nightly encounter

      I met someone of the Unkind

      • will talk to us today
      • name is Quick
      • he is a kenku wearing a nice jacket
      • no one sees him
    • party decides to go towards the Barrens
• Shadowdeep Streets
  • party hears a bird whistle
  • it's Quick
  • Vincent checks that the party is alone here with Quick
    • coast seems clear

      are these all your friends ?

  • Quick is surprised there are not more than the 4 present
  • Vincent asks Jezz to bring the rest of the group
    • Quick asks if we are companions of Vincent

      yes

  • Quick is willing to trade a way out for a service
    • his eyes still have a little bit of color
      • Calcine believes he has a way out
    • he wants to prevent the cultists to do stuff

      they are trying to make this a realm of undeath

    • Vincent mentions Quick's link to the unkind
      • Quick can pull strings with them through services due
      • Quick wants the party to first prove themselves
        • Quick notices that Calcine is desperate to get out of here
  • the party hears a painful moan in the near distance
    • Nybarg asks if the party should do something
    • Quick doesn't say no
    • Nybarg goes take a look
      • Calcine guidance
      • Nybarg goes stealthily
      • Nybarg sees a couple amorphous shadow
        • none has seen Nybarg yet
    • Nybarg reports to the party
      • the party is starting to decide what to do
      • more shadows and shadow mastiffs appear
      • Nybarg activates rites and transforms
    • fight script
      • Vincent
        • inspires Jezz and Nybarg
        • shoots cold shadow mastiff
      • Calcine
        • blesses Vincent, Jezz and Nybarg
        • pulls out her silver dagger out of her boot
        • toll the dead on cold shadow mastiff
      • Jezz
        • runs to naughty shadow
        • axes and flurry of blows it
      • Nybarg
        • slashes down naughty shadow
        • runs to nasty shadow mastiff
        • slashes at it
      • nasty shadow mastiff misses Nybarg
      • Quick crits cold shadow mastiff
      • Vincent
        • moves away from cold shadow matiff
        • spray of cards vapid and confident shadow
        • vapid is dead
      • Calcine
        • goes up to cold shadow mastiff
        • slices it with her silver dagger
      • Jezz
        • goes to cold shadow mastiff
        • axes and flurry of blows it
      • confident shadow
        • goes to Jezz
        • it misses Jezz
        • Jezz ripostes
      • chipper shadow misses Vincent
      • cold shadow mastiff bites Calcine
      • Nybarg
        • wins a staring contest against nasty shadow mastiff
        • it is cowering
      • nasty shadow mastiff runs away
      • Quick attacks chipper shadow with his shortswords
      • Vincent
        • sees a menacing figure creeping towards the group (Bodak)
        • mentions it to the party
        • dissonent whispers cold shadow mastiff
          • Calcine hits a toll the dead on it
        • inspires Jezz again
      • Calcine tolls the dead cold shadow mastiff who barely lives
      • Jezz finishes confident shadow and cold shadow mastiff
      • fluffy bodak
        • joins the fray
        • don't look at it !
        • stare at Jezz hurting her
      • chipper shadow
        • drains Quick of 1 STR
        • Quick finishes it as it tries to leave
      • Nybarg
        • charges fluffy bodak away from Jezz
        • takes damage from ending close to it
      • nasty shadow mastiff runs back in
      • Quick
        • misses fluffy bodak
        • hides behind a wall
      • Vincent
        • casts vicious mockery on nasty shadow mastiff but it resists
        • takes the fluffly bodak aura damage
        • asks Calcine help with cold shadow mastiff
      • Calcine
        • casts burning hands on cold shadow mastiff
        • doesn't like it at all between fire damage and necrotic
        • moves to avoid it from moving towards Vincent
      • Jezz
        • looks at fluffy bodak and tanks it
        • axe and kicks fluffy bodak
        • attack does full damage
        • there is a blue spark getting out of the impact
        • takes fluffy bodak aura
      • fluffy bodak stares at Nybarg who saves it
      • Nybarg
        • stares at fluffy bodak and saves it
        • charges fluffy bodak prone
      • nasty shadow mastiff bites Calcine
      • Quick finishes nasty shadow mastiff
      • Vincent
        • moves away of fluffy bodak
        • unsettling words fluffy bodak
        • dissonent whispers fluffy bodak
        • Jezz hits an attack of opportunity
        • goes and helps Calcine up
      • Calcine
        • takes one step
        • toll the dead on fluffy bodak
        • doesn't let go of Vincent and says thanks
      • Jezz
        • gets saved from the stare by bless
        • stomps on fluffy bodak
        • gets away from it
      • fluffy bodak
        • gets up
        • stares at Jezz who barely saves and survives (#blessed again)
      • Nybarg
        • runs at fluffy bodak
        • nearly saves the gaze
        • slashes at it
        • it resisted the cold damage
        • takes the aura damage
      • Quick misses fluffy bodak
      • Vincent
        • makes a snarky comment at Jezz
        • casts dissonent whispers at fluffy bodak killing it
    • Calcine
      • goes with Vincent towards the very hurt Jezz
      • heals Jezz and gives her a snack

        i know you have my back

      • starts scolding her recklessness

        this is exactly why i tell you you were reckless, i know my limits

    • fluffy bodak
      • shadow essence leave it
      • a physical body is left behind
      • a distorted version of a grey
        • elongated face
        • hollow
        • distorted death scream
      • a blue liquid is seeping out of it before fading out
        • Quick looks very panicked
        • it did not go away
        • it should have
      • Quick goes to it
        • Vincent joins him and helps him
        • Quick finds a burnt symbol on leather

          oh no. oh no. oh no. oh no.

      • everyone but Calcine recognises it

        this is the symbol of Orcus, this is not good

        • the lord of undeath
        • this is not his realm, he should not have power here, nor even be here
        • maybe possible because the raven queen has gone missing
        • Quick say he needs to go contact the Unkinds
        • all that means that Orcus has started to break free of his chains
  • Quick asks if the party is staying to help
    • Quick asks if the party can gather reinforcements in the material plane
    • Quick mentions that the smell is smilar to the other cultists
    • Quick confirms he'll talk about it to the Unkinds
    • Vincent mentions calling upon the Harpers for help if we are brought back
      • Calcine mentions it is the first time he mentionned it
      • Quick poke at Vincent about being secretiv about it
      • Vincent pulls out a Harper pin
        • it was in the basement near where the party went in the Shadowfell
        • blames himself about it
        • Quick said it might not be his fault
    • Quick hands out a sachel to Vincent
      • rest for now
      • 100pp inside
      • key to a set of lodgings

        stay here this is safehouse

    • Quick cuts the head of the bodak and places it in the bag
    • Quick will first try to convince the Unkind
      • the head will serve as a proof