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
          • inspires 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