From the prior session. (Perra had rolled a successful knowledge check on a clue in the history that Merl has revealed from the Eye if Igurse. The result of that roll was revealed at the beginning of this session.
Lore: From the prior session on the history of the eye – “The 4th owner only held the item very briefly. It was a kobold. A cleric. Likely a Tiamat worshipped. This owner died violently.
AND
The 5th owner was a red dragon. It held the item for a long time. Maybe 300 years.”
Perra draws a connection between this information and some history that he has learned. Studying dragon-ology. He knows that as demi-human civilization declined during the rise of the plaque, the Cult of Tiamat began to thrive in this part of the world. It’s reign was brief, before it also succumbed to the plague. There was a red dragon named “Skakoan” in this area who was the object of their worship. The Dragon appears to have disappeared from history at that point. No record of its death has been found.
For this session
The party set out for "The Kraken's Back", a tavern in the Ostwick neighborhood. They knew from their scrying of Egilina in the prior session that a messenger was to deliver something to a man called Kairon at this location. This is a high crime slum area. They staked out the tavern for a long period of time. Nothing interesting happened for several hours.
Nesnan Starkbit arrived, with a hobgoblin bodyguard. Starkbit is a wealthy gnome. Known to be the owner of a lot of property in Ostwick and a member of the city's guild council.
The notice that the bartender give Starkbit instructions to go upstairs, and soon enough he returned carrying a parchment with an inscribed message.
The message was delivered on the roof top by the winged messenger the party had seen in their scry earlier.
Two simultaneous events occurred.
1) Mahlkeir confronted Starkbit, demanding to see the message. Starkbit tried to run away. Mahlkeir, John's character, and Chases character defeated the bodyguard and recovered the message. Starkbit escaped. (Note that John and Chase were playing alternative character's in the session.)
2) Perra, Sam, and Tik caught up to departing messenger and captured him.
The message they recovered was a hit list, sent by Egilina to Starkbit. "Kairon", they later learned, was Starkbit's code name in Pale Moon.
The message:
Dear Kairon,
I hope that this message
finds you well.
The time has come for us
to make our presence known. The best
thing for us would be to have the head removed from the snake. Actually 5 heads from 5 snakes to start. I know that you will do the right thing.
I am not worried about Mr.
S. He is concerned with matters outside
of the city these days, and he is rarely even here. We should observe his shop, and make every
attempt to lay low when he is present.
He has a gang of quite powerful followers. But they are often just a distracted as
him. We need to be careful of them. If need be, I will deal with them myself.
Let me know what you plan
to do, and how I might provide more help..
It will be key that these events occur in quick succession, within a
matter of days or weeks. The creature
that delivered this message is called Moroi.
He has a particular set of skills.
He is at your disposal, but I expect you will have to recruit others to
aid in this mission. Having visited my
court, you know that I have allies that we can engage in this, at your
discretion. Don’t ask for Uzidalf
though. He is quite powerful of course,
but bringing him into this could blow up in our faces.
The list
Mr. Z in the Hall
Ms. R at the Tower
Mr. D at the Garrison
Any of the lords in
Calumet
B from W.S. If we can lure him out of his hole
And don’t leave out the
wrinkly blue reptile
The messenger was a stirgoi named Moroi. They returned the Si's shop with him. As of the end of this session, he is imprisoned in the basement there.
They learned from Moroi the location of a portal that would take them to Egilina's castle. They journeyed to this portal. They had to fight Shambling Mounds and a Hydra to reach the teleport sigil. They succeeded in doing so.
The next session will begin at the gates to Egilina's castle.
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