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