Session 4 (Vanedir)

Bolen wakes up from under a blanket in the cart

After being conspicuously absent since we left holrens

After entering Barthon, we see lots of people on the streets, all races, dressed in rags, blankets, etc

Sizing us up, seeing if we're easy marks

Gralys says a mix of refugees and recent homeless

Businesses and such that relied on trade with the continent have fallen on hard times

(note landlords are bastards)

Refugees are sailors/travellers from the continent, or from other cities/towns that want to return to the continent

Sailors don't want to sail due to ships not returning.

We fail to perceive a thief running past us being chased by a guard

They disappear into an alleyway, where we hear a sword unsheathing and then a scuffle, followed by the guard leaving the alley

Katarina goes to investigate, the guard limps away, and there's no corpse, but a bloodtrail leading to a bin with a hand sticking out of it

There's a well-built half-elven corpse, well kept, but naked

Suspect the corpse is the guard?

Not our first priority - we're lead by Gralys to a large house with a storefront attached to it

His home and business

Some of us go to a local tavern, Vanedir and Katarina stay with Gralys at his home

Teevo leaves us, staying at the Stoic Sailor tavern

B'rock goes to stay in a garden for the night, alone

Sorrin speaks like peter griffin from family guy

Day 5

B'rock awakens to being pissed on by a dog

He's in a private garden surrounded by a pack of dogs

He transforms into a dog and starts talking with the dogs

Gets into the house to scout it out

Very rich place, very fancy, ballroom, servants cooking, etc

He finds the front door, starts whining to be let out, starts barking and howling

In an attempt to shut him up, the servants get him a massive hunk of meat

He unshapes, thanks the servant for the meat, and swings the door open and legs it out

Tavern the others are staying in is owned by a Leonin

Mahala inquires about the river to the Leonin

People attacked by a fast moving creature (singular), seems to approach from the sky, it's hungry

Leonin's name is Leo

The morning is very animated at Gralys' place on account of B'rock and the dogs

Durnevihr pisses against the front door before stepping in

The dogs zooming around, listening to B'rock

Slobber everywhere

Gralys has a breakdown

Orders everyone out

"Are we fired?" - Bolen

B'rock breaks down laughing for 5 minutes

Gralys says that Durnevihr and B'rock aren't welcome back

Closes the door on us, starts sobbing

On the way out, he handed Mahala a piece of paper with a map of the path the brothers would have taken on the river

Along with names of two horses used to pull the barge, name of the barge itself

The name is Wee Keir

Katarina checks the renter's agreement B'rock snatched

It's a very dodgy contract for housing

The renter agrees to give away their rights to life if unable to pay (become a slave)

Name of landlord T.B.D (Rob can tell us later once he makes a name)

Vanedir gets a ring and an amulet appraised at a jewellers to be sold, followed by a thief, a lunatic, a mute, and a warpack of hounds (the latter of which staying outside)

Mahala goes to walk around the block to look into the homelessness

Picks a fight with a rich bitch

Backs off from the bodyguard that's just trying to make aliving

Katarina sees guards taking bribes, receiving coins from the shadows of the alleyways

We return to Gralys

Near the entrance to the city, there's an inlet to the river

This is where the barge is loaded and unloaded from

One barge returned, floating back down the river, nobody was aboard, found a few km upriver

Caliope is the name of the barge

The owner is Theodred Cronwhelp

The inlet has a loading bay belonging to Gralys' company

We go shopping for supplies and head to the barge park to investigate the ghost barge

Workers are milling about, not really working as nobody wants to load a barge to travel, and all the barges are unloaded

Bolen goes to investigate the Caliope, jumps on, opens a box, nearly vomits, then finds a box of furs

B'rock finds talon marks on the side of the boat

Vanedir and Mahala find body parts, blood, clear claw marks as well as the talon marks

Arm of the barge where the horses were attached was destroyed, blood and fun