Session 1 Notes

DM recap
We begin three tendays after the events of Torque Trouble. Fie entrusts Val with her first mission ever as a trainee Harper. She's sent to collect an eclectic group of companions to aid her in Aurelien's mission to track down the loose ends that emerged from Torque Trouble. Luskan, Zhentarim/organized crime, treachery in Neverwinter, etc. Val and Gil met in the Blacklake District as she was on her way to the docks district, when she was harassed by a brutish thug. Gil interceded and successfully intimidated the guy into backing down, and the two continued on their way to the Lame Duck.

Dungar and Thistle were at the LD playing to an empty space and generally being emo/punk/goth/grunge, when Gil and Val walk in. Val is trying to convince them that they need to come with her but it isn't going well. Aurelien makes a surprise appearance and ushers the group into a meeting room in the back - shockingly clean, this isn't her first time here. After a lot of back and forth and sincere apologies from Aurelien, the team decides to accede to her request and take on the mission - which will be "led" by Val, the apprentice Harper.

They go back to the Pearl for a bath, where Thorn (formerly known as Thistle) decides it would be a great idea to try and break into the private study of the Harper Master of Neverwinter. She epic fails, and is left with a semi-permanent ink tattoo on her face for her efforts. Following their bath, the team gets rations and alcohol from a helpful Kelly, and make their way to the grove where they are supposed to meet the last member of the party. On arrival, they meet the incredibly brusque Doctor (no other name), a heavily armored dragonborn woman on a mission to find a body.

The team enters Neverwinter Wood (Dungar having a brief run in with one of the citizens of Thundertree), where after some investigation they eventually hunt down the body of one of the members of the trading caravan the Doctor learned about when healing the victim of a deadly ambush.

Val reveals she has the power to speak with the dead, casting it on the body of the brutally killed half-elven man. Five questions later, the team doesn't have that much more information but they at least have a direction - deeper into the Wood...