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
- 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