Arc 3

its been about 1.5 months since the beginning. about 2.5 weeks since Val was taken.

It is roughly the second week of Amim

Days 38-40
the party got to Ano Serine and got lodging in the Greengrass Inn in the Trade district, next to the Green in the center of town. The inn is run by a female elf names Thira.

Khaliya went to the library while the rest of the party went shopping for some better armor. Riley Jo got studded leather, Cel is getting the elven chain re-sized (it'll take 2 days) and Thana got +1 mithral scale mail. they then headed to Botanica Magica, a magic shop, and ran into Irvin Wolfe, which Thana didn't appreciate considering he's Sadian.

Riley Jo helped him pay for the Rod of the Pact Keeper +1 after he used suggestion on Nelalwe (the shop owner) and Cel got her the Boots of Elvenkind that she'd been looking at. they also got several potions.

The party talked a bit more about the discrepancies in their memories and decided the next day to go visit the temple of Lira to try and get their memories sorted out. Riley Jo decided to bring Irvin along and after talking to the cleric a bit about what had happened they cast several spells on the party to try to detect and dispel and memory modifying magic, but it didn't change anything.

Everyone decided to figure out what's up with Riley Jo another time, and agreed to all stick together and head to Lorcana.

Days 40-48
Get tickets on board the Elise with captain, Lorilla Leffery, Female Gnome Captain.

Alysys - helf-elf sailor -

harpy attack

Irvin and Thana talked, he confirmed that her brother is alive and that he knew him well and was like a brother to Asher.

Lourcana
Arrive in Lourcana on 11/12/7996

Plan
While in Lourcana Riley Jo hears a bard singing a song about Cass Pendleton and his deeds, but it refers to events that seem to have transpired much more recently than when Beth Ann and Riley Jo last heard from him. Town crier: Sadian Armies Amassing Near Leomagne Peak! The council reaches its 10th day of war debates!
 * if she finds him, he's gotten tied up in some shady stuff paying off a debt that he owes someone for helping him on one of his escapades
 * thieves' guild is led by elven wizard, Edar Chosk, with a barn owl familiar that fucked up riley jo

Cel's mom is at home, working on her next book, but her father is still at work in the Moonrock district. Minli is also at work trying to convince Nyfi to intercede on the side of Kelnys in the war.
 * you're MARRIED??!

If they go see Landri, he's much different than he used to be, he now has a scar across one side of his face and uses a cane.
 * Landri recently returned from a mission that went badly and is now regulated to desk work while he recovers. He has a burn scar across the left side of his face
 * He isn't on good term with Minli due to her political work, as he is worried how entering war against Sadian will impact his family and home.

Day 49
The party arrived in Lourcana where we got a Cel Lore drop. Celandine’s family is rich. Their house is nice and large and they have a housekeeper. Priza (Cel’s mom), welcomes the group into the family home. While tea and snacks are being brought out Cel’s mom pulled her aside and addresses her concerns about Landri, Cel’s soldier brother.

Irvin talks to the family cat, Thana and Riley Jo still confuse each other, and Khaliya is supposedly the only normal one among Celandine’s new friends. Cel’s mom brings up that there are talks in Nyfi’s council about whether or not they should involve themselves in the Kelnys-Sadian conflict.

At the Lourcana Zoo, Cel and Khaliya try to sneak away to see Landri, Cel by invisibility and Khaliya can fly so it all works out. Irvin talked to some winged cats and they told him one of his friends was, “...shiny and glowy.” He pretends not to notice, but then decides to take Riley Jo and go stakeout Landri’s house. He wanted to see what Landri knew about the Kelnys-Sadien conflict.

During all this Thana watched baby owlbears playing with each other in the snow, unaware of all her friends leaving her behind.

As soon as Thana started looking for Irvin, Riley Jo bolted. She went to find the local thieves guild to ask what their cut from crimes was. At the docks Riley Jo ran into an elf wizard from her backstory. At first she didn’t remember him, but then she did and she BOLTED. Running away provoked two attacks of opportunity. She got knocked out in hit.

Once the group (sans Riley Jo) was all together again in the stakeout house, it was agreed to allow Irvin to talk to Landri--on the condition that Cel be present. Landri lunged for Irvin on sight, and once the group was somewhat settled Irvin used his helm to detect Landri’s thoughts, causing Cel to leave the room to cast detect thoughts to read what Irvin was thinking.

Once she discovered what Irvin wanted to get from her brother, Cel pulled out her daggers and attacked Irvin. Khaliya stayed out of the scuffle while Thana tried to intervene by invoking Asher and Riley Jo’s names. Irvin stopped because he does care about Riley Jo, but doesn’t believe he was in the wrong about his methods. This led to an argument between him and Cel, ultimately dragging Thana into it too and Khaliya (still somehow the normal one after watching this chaos ensue), actually reminding the group what they should’ve done instead.

After a hasty departure from Landri’s the party went back to Cel’s house. Celandine had a scroll of scrying that was used to see if they could find Riley Jo. While it was successful the scry didn’t provide much useful information. Just that Riley Jo was alive, chained up and missing her prosthetics.

Hoping to find out more about the thieves guild, Cel and Irvin found one of Celandine’s old friends, Cartra. They work in a tinker's workshop. Cartra didn’t know much, just that there was a new shady elf, who was taking over some of the organized crime.

Based on this news Irvin and Khaliya went to the west docks to find this shady elf, who had an owl on his shoulder. Irvin asked to see the guy in charge to make a deal for information on the Sadia situation. Edar Chosk agreed to give Irvin the information he wanted in exchange for a favor. He also lied and said he hadn’t seen Riley Jo. Thankfully the Helm of Telepathy allowed Irvin to read the guards minds and learn that she was nearby.

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Landri
 * was on a boarder patrol came across a group of simic hybrids attacked him - male sorcerer
 * Irvin thought of a female simic hybrid
 * landri isn't sure who started the fight

Day 50
A Long rest was had. Thana used a restored spell slot to send a message to Riley Jo. She was alive, didn’t know where she was, and didn’t know if she was being watched.

Because Cel and Thana hadn’t been seen by the thieve’s guild yet, the two of them went to the west docks to see if they could get an exact location on where Riley Jo was. They were successful with the use of Invisibility and locate object. Celandine tried to lift Riley Jo’s spirits.

The party regrouped and tried to plan...with mixed success. A very loose plan was formed. Irvin, Khalyia and Thana would create a distraction in the front of the building so that Celandine could break down a wall and free Riley Jo. The distraction worked wonderfully.

Irvin cast Crown of Madness on a guard through a window. That guard managed to kill one of his friends before the spell was dropped. Breaking down the wall took more spell slots and longer than expected. Eventually Riley Jo was freed. By that point the distraction had turned into a battle. Both Khaliya and Thana went down, it was not pretty. Sneak attack is a bitch.

Once everyone saw Riley Jo as free, the party booked it. Edar Chosk allowed us to run away.

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need to get Riley Jo new new stuff They go to the Nestled Trollhouse - run by a troll named Greg
 * basic equitment - can get in the trade ward easily enough
 * prosthetics - maybe going to Cartra
 * 10 gp for each set of claws, 30 gp for basic tail 200 gp for mechanical tail
 * will offer to upgrade the claws to include thieves tools for 15 gp

2/5/2020
Riley Jo bolted and the rest of the party followed her to an alley. Thana noticed someone following us so we spent the night in an inn, with a lot of drinking and conversations.

Celandine and Thana grilled Irvin on where he learned his magic. He was evasive, claiming he picked up his magic here and there and that he learned it from someone named Klere.

Celandine and Irvin bickered like the married couple they aren’t, and then picked up some basic supplies for Riley Jo. She and Irvin are both broke, so they planned to go rob a house, but Thana showed up before they could do that.

Khaliya and Thana had a deep conversation. It ranged from why Thana is a joy cleric to how to be joyful when someone you care about dies. After that conversation Khaliya finally read her letter.

The next morning we headed back to Celandine's house. Thana told Celandines mom that Irvin and Celandine were fake engaged. The group decided to discuss their opinions on the current political situation. Thana and Celandine are of the side of Nyfi remaining neutral. Irvin is firmly on the side of bringing Nyfi in on the side of Sadian. Thana argued that Nyfi joining the war would just lead to more suffering. Irvin said something like, “How would you know anything about being a soldier and suffering? All you’ve ever done is run,” which made Thana zone out and eventually leave the room.

Riley Jo followed Thana outside where Thana was not having a good time. Despite Riley Jo’s and Lily’s best attempts at comforting her, Thana continued to dig her fingernails into her arms and broke down crying. Celandine came outside and everyone agreed that Irvin is a shithead, and the entire party needed some alone time to chill.

Irvin asked his weapon, “What next?” and his weapon said, “Life."

Day 51
Woke up at the inn and went to Cartra to see about getting Riley Jo a new tail prosthesis and went to the artificer's guild to get amulets of proof against detection and location (2 for 2500 gp each)

Heist
Home -
 * get some art pieces (magic alarm) safe (lock pick DC 20-25) with gems, money, and a dead to a house in [INSERT PLACE HERE, island off the coast of nyfi]
 * Safe has a 6 letter combo - there is a sticky note on the underside of the desk with a clue (DC 15 Investigation) - firstborn 3 wrong guesses will set off an alarm. various photos around the room showing a family of 4 humans, the parents and two daughters who look very different, but about the same age. a search of the office bookshelves will find a old bible with a family tree in the front pages, a childrens book with the inscription "to the best granddaughters in the world, Sandra and Marion, with love -grandpappy"
 * Human neighbor’s of celandine - the Abbott’s, Lonnie, Kelsey, twin daughters Sandra and Marion
 * Safe password is one of their names, whoever is the oldest (Marion)
 * They have 2 big dogs and guard dogs and various wards. If any of the family catch you you’re fucked

Day 52 - 53 - it snows a few inches that night
Riley Jo left the house and went to pick up her prosthetics. We don’t really know what happened because someone decided to go into the spilt the party chat. She did manage to pick up her tail and make it back to the house without incident.

Irvin used the time to go to a guild hall and find a side gig. A ship mysteriously went missing a few days ago. The lighthouse had seen it, but the ship never made it to the dock. The guild offered 50 gp for info on what happened. Irvin managed to get paid despite rolling two nat ones and finding nothing.

Thana visited a temple of Lira, gave a priest 500 gold and meditated on if running away made her a coward. She got a response to her meditation, in the form of a counter melody to her playing.

Khaliya spent the evening at a bar, listening to a bard. Why? Who knows, because the rest of us clearly don’t. (Casey knows). Around sunset she found the highest point of the city and just vibed there for a bit

Parker once more pulled Frankie into the side chat for a mystery night time heist. When they rejoined the party, Riley Jo wanted to talk to Cel and Thana privately. Thana already wanted to go to a graveyard, so Thana, Cel, Khaliya and Riley Jo went for a morning graveyard stroll while Irvin went back to the ocean to see if he could roll better on his investigation checks.

Riley Jo showed Cel and Thana what she had stolen the night before. She managed to snatch the helm of telepathy from Irvin. She wanted to bury it in the graveyard, but Thana and Cel decided to put it in the Handy Haversack. Thana checked in with Khaliya emotionally, because graveyards and skeletons of the past.

Thankfully Irvin rolled better on his second attempt to find the ship. On the bottom of the ocean he found some big ass rocks, lava? And a sign in a language he couldn’t understand. He tried scanning with his helm of telepathy and found out that it was a fake!

Someone switched it out in the middle of the night. He was understandably pissed when he returned to the house, but he still needed someone who could read any language. Cel being the party’s nerd seemed like the obvious choice, and she immediately set out to find a way to breath under water. She got 4 potions of water breathing and the spell Alter Self.

Thana talked to Irvin, trying to find out why he needed the helm. Irvin was focused on finding out where the helm was. Neither of them got the answers they wanted.

Day 55 - 11/17/7996
Thana decided to be nice to Irvin by anonymously leaving him 1000 gold. Irvin, being a paranoid fish man, did not trust random amounts of gold but took it anyway. After a breakfast of hashbrowns and sausage, the entire party (Cel INSISTED that the entire party come) rented a boat to go wherever Irvin needed to go.

Unsurprisingly Riley Jo and Khaliya decided they would rather stay above the water. Thana, Cel, and Irvin headed down where they met different weird fish people. These fish people did not look like Irvin and spoke some language none of us understood. Thanks to Comprehend languages Cel could understand them but couldn’t talk to them. The party tried charades, bribery and sneaking, none of which worked. These fish people did not want us to go into the temple. Fighting broke up when Irvin cast blur and decided to go in there anyway.

Turns out fighting a legendary monster with 3/5 of your party isn’t the smartest idea! Thana got a chance to Spirit Guardians and it was super cute. Her guardians are tiny chibi versions of her friends, including Val. Thankfully no one went unconscious and the party managed to get into the temple alive, albeit with low health from the wizard and cleric. Irvin was absolutely fine.

Underwater temple
Ship disappeared into thin air at the edge of the bay of Lourcana. was carrying copper components for mechanical shit in lourcana

swam down to the bottom and [finally] see the trench, swam down. saw lava, found the entrance, eldritch blasted his way through, got to the first door. touched the sword to the door and runes lit up (4th level glyph of warding on the door DC 20 investigation, 6d8 cold damage) isn't triggered if the person that touches the door has a hexblade weapon

the runes read "a single coin can pave the way, not gold or silver the price to pay" in primordial (specifically aquan) - answer touch a copper coin to the door and it will open

Sahuagin realized someone was there with the broken boulder - they are now patrolling the area with a strange creature

As you head past the door the walls and floor change from rough hewn natural stone to a finely crafted man-made hallway of grey stone with veins of copper. The floor steadily climbs upward with faintly glowing crystals embedded into the walls intermittently giving off just enough light to see by.

Find the ship - abandoned except for a strange woman (warlock druid) Zavari

Lourcana
talked to the captain of The Caledonia about passage for 4 people 817 mile trip - 30 miles a day - 1 sp per day

Day 56 - 11/18/7996
left lourcana headed to idolan

Thana sent a message to Beth Ann Samuels "Riley Jo is a friend of mine, and she's bringing good friends. We're on our way to Idolan. Be careful. She made an oopsie." she responded "She's coming back? I haven't seen her in so long. Is she okay? What happened? When will you get here? Do I need to meet-" you somewhere?

Celandine messaged Shavaris "Should I trust Irvin?" "No, whatever you do not trust him. Where is he and what is he doing, I need to find him urgently." "Ah, Thank you. Why should I trust you? ps. whats your name?" "He's a traitor that caused our family's murder. He needs to be stopped and investigated. If you have information on him I need to know."

messaged val asking if he was still in ygorg - hes not

3/11/2020
White stuck on the boat waiting for their friends, Riley Jo had a mostly one sided discussion about favorite insects. (Riley Jo’s is a butterfly, and Khaliya’s is a dragonfly) Under the sea, Irvin and company heard someone rummaging through the ship’s wreckage. Irvin managed to stealth over just fine, but Thana and Cel managed to run into each other and alerted whoever was there.

A perfectly normal shark swam out. Cel used detect thoughts, and found out that the shark was a person--more specifically a tiefling. After some tense conversation, and quite a few threats from Irvin, the tiefling agreed to follow them to the boat. Irvin was convinced that Zavari had stolen something from the shipwreck that he needed. Eventually the party outvoted Irvin and let Zavari go. Of course Irvin immediately followed her, Cel followed him to make sure no one got murdered.

She managed to eavesdrop on a juicy conversation between Irvin and Zavari. Both of them are warlocks of the same patron (possibly Mishipeshu?). Irvin eventually figured out that the thing he was sent to find wasn’t an object, it was Zavari. If she finds out anything more from the temple she can contact Irvin with an animal messenger.

Most of the party headed back to the house while Thana and Riley Jo secured passage for the group to Idolan. On the way back from that, Thana sarcastically called Irvin a “pretty face”. To which Riley Jo responded by asking if she had a crush on Irvin. Spoiler, she does!

Cel managed to roll two nat 1’s to try to lie to Irvin, so he knew she heard that conversation. Irvin lore dump: as told to Celandine, about a year ago Irvin found a sword underwater while he was doing some military training. The sword talks to him and gives him orders, like most swords do. It told him to get two things, the helm of telepathy and the badass staff he has. Currently his main goal is to kill his sister…so there's that.

After that conversation, Irvin had a talk with Riley Jo, where he agreed to come with the party to Idolan. Then Thana showed up to talk to him and apologize. By the end of that conversation, Thana told him to let her know when he wanted the helm and she would give it back.

Boat time! The journey is going to take an entire month, so there is plenty of downtime for talking, and learning new skills. Celandine and Riley Jo are spending the month to learn at least the basics of boating. Cel also helped Irvin create a fake wizard spell book, to help him lie to other people. He also asked her to Identify the mysterious bag of gold... it was just a bag of gold.

Later while Irvin was teaching Thana how to play the Lute, she fessed up that she gave it to him. Thana copied the spell Sending so that Cel had it. Sometime early in the voyage, Thana sent Riley Jo’s mom a message to let her know they were on their way. Later during the month she sent a message to Asher, “It’s been a long time, are you mad at me? I met your friend Irvin, it’s complicated. Can you tell me you’re safe?” He replied (!!!) “Thank you.”