# 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