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~~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