Session 14 Notes

Rain patters at the roof and windows of the Black Pearl, thunder rolls in from the sea to the west. Flashes of lighting break the night, albeit infrequently.

You are in the common room, fire light flickering and serving staff bustling, although at a slower pace given the reduced number of patrons. Kerri idly flips and twirls glasses, practicing bartending tricks, tossing a wink every now and then to whomever meets his eye.

Still digesting the information and urgency conveyed by Aurelien, you plot your next steps for the journey to Luskan….it is evening in Neverwinter.

Dungar, waiting till tomorrow morning?

Gil asks if someone can give him a beard. Thorne says she’ll do his make up. Dungar offers to help. Left and right?

Val says she should learn how to play the viola, she can read music but doesn’t know how to play the particular instrument. Yglesia asks to do the makeup while dungar instructs val and thorne.

Dungar doesn’t actually read music. Val hands him the viola, they learn how to play - val is apparently quite good. Thorne casting mold earth in form of music notes and conductor's baton.

Dungar tries to send a message to Tommy two times: hey Tommy, long time, hope you’re still alive. Heading north tomorrow morning, chilling at the black pearl tonight. Come over. Miss you.

Tommy responds: dungar baby I’m in a bit of a tight spot, call me when you get north wherever that is.

Trixxy: stuffing folks in barrels to the east.

Thorne is skeptical. Val asks who gloria is (when the TT crew mention her)

Dungar, not sure if she survived….Thorne- everyone is dead

Yglesia asks dungar if he killed gloria. He doesn’t know….did I get her killed? Thorne says she probably got her killed. Thorne: life is a circle, everyone gets everyone killed.

Yglesia - so tomorrow when we leave we start with the code names.

Yglesia calls gil Bill by request, bc he has a beard now. Gil is heavily compensating for years of mockery, real big huge beard down to his belt, tucked in (like Thorin from the hobbit) Kerri comes and trolls them about Bill/Gil, sashays away to get the drinks.

At some point Aurelien stomps down the stairs and you hear another door slam upstairs. She goes to Kerri and growls a couple words in infernal before leaning over the bar and grabbing a bottle of ale and stalking to to your table. She takes a long drag then sits down at the head, reversing a chair. “Women.” She huffs. Takes another drag, wiping her mouth with the back of her hand.

"It occurs to me that some of you may have little to no familiarity with Luskan." pulls out a map, and starts describing locations and histories. Potential access points? Where should they stay? Where is the mangled mongrel? Rat Alley. Dodgy part of town but you should be fine. Gives them the blueprint like map to take with them. Impresses upon them the importance of discretion for this mission.

Heron’s grip is another inn they can stay at, east of the market by the winter palace area.

Val asks Thorne if she can go shopping with her. Aurelien tells them Thelonius will meet them at a cafe in the market. At the end of the conversation, Aurelien thanks them for their time. She nods to them and then takes her bottle and goes to sit in a corner to stare in the fire and drink alone, looking tired and a bit haunted, but also still mad.

Bill asks Aurelien if they are paying for their alcohol. Aurelien shouts at him. He goes back to the table.

Val asks Kerri if she can just have water tonight.

Dungar asks Thorne if he would make a good blond. They decide to go do the makeover in the suite upstairs.

Yglesia gives val some herbal tea. Asks Val to send them up some food. Kerri tells her he was fucking with them about the tab thing….

Yglesia smoking a special cigarette watching the makeover. Dungar - is it supposed to burn so much. Thorne, that’s how you know its working! Yglesia - yeah, like I’ve been saying. Val asks if they should all dye their hair. Thorne is going to have two buns, dark purple.

Dungar silver white blonde with purple tips, everyone else has a slash of purple in their hair

Yglesia shows them the egg, it’s a different color! Its a brighter version of the dark brown speckles.

Some discussion and trolling ensues of Yglesia’s egg and it being maybe named after Gil.

Plan: buy a wagon and horse tomorrow morning. Visit the bathhouse, provisions, clothes, etc. find a cart that’s going and hitch a ride. Kerri might know! Maybe sign up with a caravan.

Yglesia goes to bed curled up around the egg, does a nature check and the egg glows a bit a streak of firelight across the shell, it rocks a little. Thorne orders wine from kerri using the harper messenger (just called harper?), he sweeps into the room to party with wineeeee. Flirts with all folks, he’s not a field agent but knows some things. They play music for him, he loves it, decides to sweep off again not answering their questions.

Night ends, long rest applies, full healing and spells. Aurelien returns to her room, pauses outside the study for awhile, then goes in. (If you recall the layout Fie’s room [their room? Who knows] is the next door over)

Morning comes…..you are all well rested. Yglesia prays, thorne snorts a leaf and finishes the wine. Val reads a bit and goes to breakfast (yglesia joins). Awkward chit chat about what happened last night re music. Thorne joins, slams herself into the seat next to them. Music was AWESOME!!! Gil comes downstairs, asks if they heard the awesome song last night? trolling yglesia. Bc of course.

They troll Kerri, he goes to get them food muttering about how he should be paid more.

Troll Kerri some more, he asks them to bring back a trinket. Decide not to say farewell to Aurelien. “Spike" casts mold earth, hey Aurelian, G2G, baiiii. How to treat your boss with respect. obviously.

Fie gives them a kinda soft sweet farewell (bc Fie). Tells them about the caravan and the departure times, 12 o’clock the soonest. They leave, Thorne casts same mold earth for Fie. Bc of course.

They go to the artisan district to find a caravan and end up with Bruenor the Braggadocios again….but met Daelin the Bai'Fall!!

Spend 130 gold on various equipment for the trip and two healing potions while heading towards market north.

They enter the market north and go for a "quick bath.” 50gp as a group. Y’all were very dirty.

10am.... Thelonious hands Val a satchel with scroll of sending and full of wizard components, and runs the fuck away. Nervous dude.

Spend abut 45mins in the clothier. Got your clothes, spent 135 gold. Remainder 190 gold.

1045am….

As you’re closing out you hear a large explosion to the east. You run outside and Dungar sees what looks like Ragnar the Ruffian fleeing the area, leaving behind a box by the market square. As he runs, he flips Dungar off.

End of Session.