This week's session begins with the characters split up: Tiberius
and Dylan crafting, El Guapo following up on leads, and Lucas seeking a quiet
chapel while Havaok looked for Audry.
Lucas finds his familiar chapel under duress as Monsignor Seymour
(a secret cleric of Bane!), Arton Delmis,
and a Zhent named Grodvoth trying to grapple and pin a screaming and thrashing
Commander Orgauth
Veruni who was just attacked by a ‘seed of insanity’- a detached eye from a
youngling beholder. Lucas jumped in to aid, moments later as did Havaok and soon they
had the foreign eyeball plucked from Orgauth’s now unconscious body.
After some discussion it was learned that a five-eyed
creature resembling Elazarin attacked Orgauth by having one of its tentacle
eyes detach from its orb body and fly into Orgauth’s empty eye socket. The event was maddening to
Grodvoth.
Soon Audry arrived to join Arton in his activity only to
learn of the attack and a chance encounter with Havaok. Audry learned of the
attack and of Havaoks pending departure. She has not been affirmed by the Ministry
nor does she believe she will be; she expressed interest in leaving the Citadel
of the Raven post haste but is stuck like most everyone else. She attempts to press Havaok
on the details of his travels, but he is not forthcoming. She will hopefully be
returning to Mulmaster soon with Yorel (High Commander of Castle Burmstone) to
fight the infestation
taking place there.
Lucas suggests spreading word of this attack on the
Zhentarim to the leadership and they (the characters) should take this dead beholder eye
to the Magisters. Seymour agrees to heal and care for Orgauth until Grodvoth
brings help. Arton and Audry continue work on a magical item and Audry says
goodbye to Havaok.
Lucas and Havaok eventually find Dylan and Tiberius and locate El
Guapo who is sill at the Tesseract talking with Rylestrum and Velmarius who provide much
information on the beholders and their four stages of development and growth cycle into
a true eye tyrant.
Next the characters travel to Greystone where Magister of
the Cloak Tedric Vexx awaits with his apprentice. Without any pretext Tedric
leads the characters through the winding halls of Greystone until you reach a deep
chamber where the drow Aunrae and Zaida await with an underdark trail map. The map
featured an abandoned drow outpost and a deep body of water labeled the
Shadlowlake and The Keeper.
The characters give Tedric the seed of insanity eyeball and
begin exchanging information on beholders and the deep route out of the
Dragonspine Mountains. The route to the Shadowlake would take all night (approx 6 hours) taking them past
the drow outpost, but the characters learn the Keeper exacts a payment to cross
the Shadowlake. At this realization, a visit to the black market is suggested to attempt to purchase a
suitable ring or wand for the Keeper. As far as the beholders are concerned,
when El Guapo asked why after over 50 years of no aberrations are the beholders
attacking now? Tedric suggested it is because Elminster
was believed dead.
It was evening when the characters arrive at Bridgeton and search
for ‘Broadnax’ and the black market. Lucas made contact with a striking woman
who, after an exchange of key phrases, led the characters under Bridgeton and a
secret corridor in the hollow inside the bridge archways. Here the characters find
carpeted areas where items of artistic expression are displayed- items the
Ministry would consider contraband. Dylan fences an amulet, Havaok purchases a
ring for the Keeper, and the other characters purchase an array of alchemical
items and potions.
Later, the characters visit Castle Hawkehelm presumably for
the last time to retrieve personal items and to report to their Commander
Guthbert who has some follow up information on Daggerdale. The Zhentarim, in a
region such as Daggerdale, will typically relocate low folk who do not cooperate with Zhent
directives; those who do remain become part of the Zhentarim peripherally if
not directly. Guthbert gives the characters a thirty day timetable to bring the
dale back under Zhentarim control. In addition the characters are issued Vrag’ral
a cunning and obedient Orog and information on Daggerdale agents to look for.
After visiting the property department, where the characters
learn Castle Brumstone was under attack by trolls or ogres or even cyclops; the characters
return to Castle Greystone where your characters set out into the underdark.
The travel underground was swift thanks to two drow and an orog who could see in
the dark. It was not long before the characters eventually found the abandoned drow outpost. The outpost,
covered in webbing, was now home to a hand full of chitine and a choldrith priestess. The
combat lasted less than a minute and yielded some treasure that was divided
out.
We begin next session here at the drow outpost.
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