Session 26 Notes

You're in the Cutlass. It's late at night on your first full day in Luskan. The patrons of the tavern are a mix of armband bearing pirates, travelers and traders of different races and dress. The room is still abuzz from the song Dungar and Guil sang, Cups to Uthgardt. After seeing the wreckage of Fennel's office, Bristan is getting deep into his cups, wizards hat tilted ajar and red tinging his cheeks. Thorne Val Guil and Dr. Yglesia are seated at a table with him. As the final beats of the song trail off, Dr. Yglesia marches to the stage to retrieve Dungar and Gil. Val immediately begins lightly interrogating Bristan as to his relationship with Fennel, any information he can share about the halfling. It is quickly revealed that Bristan was more a source than a friend, feeding the halfling rumors and gossip from within the host tower of the arcane and less of an operational role. As Val dug deeper, laying on the flirtation heavily, Bristan invites her to the Tower for a "date" where he will show her around the facilities, and maybe find a way for her to learn more spells. Thorne was incredibly helpful in pushing Val to use her most feminine whiles, aka displaying her tits. Meanwhile, Dr. Yglesia is able to corral Gil back to the table, where the two of them begin reviewing the documents recovered from Fennel's office and Bruenor's belongings. Yglesia reads the documents from Fennels office, evidence of a months long investigation into ashmadai influence in luskan. maleron, the host tower, the houses. kurth experiencing disappearances, suljack aggressive and rude, taerl questionable, baram probably fine, rethnor whatever. Fennel meeting with Orban tomorrow, supposedly. All of maleron's servants have names that begin with E, have vanished within six months of meeting him. And that's certainly weird. She also discovers Aurelien's original orders for Fennel to investigate the cult. After setting up Val and Bristan, Thorne stepped outside for a moment and had a wild..vision? sending? Whatever that was, the mystery of her lost family may soon be unraveled. As soon as the next Evenstar. You travel back to the Mangled Mongrel, running into Tim along the way, who implies that word is out of about some nosey purple haired weirdos....hmm, who could that be. Back at the Mongrel, you discuss what to do next and ultimately decide to cast sending to both Fennel and Aurelien. Both conversations went...well? Fennel was interrupted by a scary sounding dude calling for your death, but not before she told you she needs help, he's taken her, the ashmadai are here, and it may be too late. Says she hasn't seen the sun for days, the water is dripping. a rough voice comes back says they are his prey, he's hunting, and he wants their death. the ashmadai will win. Aurelien tells them that there may be a sewer hideout, rumors of illusk. Val knows that there was a pre-Luskan civilization, the last remnants of Illusk are where the map is, there are tunnels and dungeons beneath, maybe, as the older dwarves delved deep. neverwinter is unstable in the civil war, but managing to hang on. And then you decided it was best to drink. Guil took a quick look at Bruenor's diary and learned that Mithral Hall has been beset by a mysterious set of maladies impacting the royal family. At this point, only one son, the youngest, remains. The Hall is in chaos. Dungar calls Dewey, abortive call. He tells dewey to excpect the uthgardt refugees. We ended with Thorne and Dungar sharing a drink, with the elf revealing she's been hearing things...things telling her to do scary stuff, murderous stuff. fin.