Session 6

Fact Sheet: all the bodies hit the floor

Date: 31-08-22

Date in-universe: an unspecified Friday

Players present: Ecchima, Marty, Meinhart, Vinnie. Tuur had to leave after the first 45 min. Dins was our DM.

Major developments:

Notes

Early on Friday morning, Fyllion stares at the swoops and swirls of his name on the bloodied letter. With an exhausted sigh, he decides to hide the letter & keep it all a secret from the rest of the crew.

When Storm wakes up to find Ezra playing with their sand storm, they both notice Enza isn't in the room anymore. While heading to breakfast, we see her coming out of Skourja's office: she was looking for a job, not because she urgently wants to leave us, but just to know her options.

Eldrin is eager to pick up their sword and heads to Manzur on their own. When they step into the blacksmithy, they're accosted by a furious Manzur: the sword is a foul item that Eldrin never should have brought into this workshop! It's a sentient sword that Manzur couldn't repair even if he wanted. Eldrin confirms they know about this, they've heard the voice calling out to him. Manzur finds this a horrible omen, but Eldrin mentions the sword only wants to help. Manzur spits that reforging alone isn't enough, you need to at least know the sword's name & it's master's name.

Manzur wants Eldrin to leave, accepting the 10 gold just to get them to go. Manzur's chipper energy has turned frazzled, like just being around the sword drained him somehow. When Eldrin leaves the shop, they observe that the sword looks repaired, but the blade appears bitten by insects and gives off an oppressive aura.

Storm picks up the augmented armour.

Wandering through town, we happen across Sabor, who makes meaningful eye contact with Eldrin & gives them a kindly nod.

While Storm and Eldrin grump that the magical store isn't open yet, Hali and Ezra decide to act on Fyllion's uncharacteristic quiet. Fyllion mentions the message he found written on his body in his own handwriting & we discuss this for a moment:

no one knows who Skara is, though we're aware that Fyllion is a fey prince
Hali can't find anything relevant in her Compendium
Fyllion speculates he might have been aware he'd forget his memories

Inspired by this last speculation, we reveal we didn't notice anything during our baths. We decide to check each other's back for tattoos, Ezra sheltering us with their coat and the magic sand!

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By 8 a.m. we head to Akram, to witness Saatia's magical interrogation at the hands of the town wizard Mi’Kal, and we notice there's a lot of commotion among the guards. One shutter on the top floor of the HQ is open.

The guard at the door ushers us immediately towards Akram. A young elvish man is tending to an unconscious Basri and 2 unconscious guards. There's a residue of gas or mist in the room.

Akram appears startled to see us alive:

during the attack, all 5 guards were knocked out & then paralysed
Saatia was killed
before she died, Saatia had told Akram that Simeon Ibn Seif was travelling with us before she even met us.

Akram is quite suspicious of us, but

Fyllion mentions his shapeshifting abilities & with Ezra and Storm's back-up, we're able to mostly convince him we'd deceived Saatia
Hali offers her help the the young elf, Mi'Kal the town wizard to treat the guards and Basri. They seem okay & Mi'Kal mentions they were probably paralysed by an injection of black snake venom. That poison is somewhat of a calling card for the Sable Serpent...

Akram trusts us a little less, but remains dependent on our help.

Eldrin wants to know if anyone is helping Saatia? Can she be healed, or revived? The coroner hasn't arrived yet, so officially she's not pronounced dead yet, but it doesn't look good... and no one in Koh'Shar is powerful enough for resurrection magic, not even Sabor, the esteemed religious leader... Moving into her cell to view Saatia's body, we notice

she was sitting close to the bars & doesn't appear to have fought or struggled
she only has one wound: a slash on the artery of her neck, with a lot of blood, indicating that she died very quickly
both her earrings are missing

Ezra mentions we gathered from travelling with Saatia, that she was expecting to be killed as soon as we turned her in, either by the guard for her crimes or by her colleagues as a means to keep their secrets...

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Despite the tense situation, we decide to split the party!

Eldrin wants to implore Sabor to help & Storm tags along
Hali and Ezra decide to check up on Frei for us (since Akram apparently thought Saatia wouldn't have been the only target in the night)
Fyllion picks up a guard and goes back to the inn to get some more rest

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rest