Alternative selves were still in the arena
Yondalla "promoted"?
Vibe check on Yanef: shocked, traumatized, her first fight. On a bad religion check: Druidic gentle repose
Hops teleported away with his "Hoppin' spells"
Manny talks to Dara about Umstrek
"I don't know how to tuck tits"
"Locking Beards"
Questions to Youthstone:
1. What were your instructions?
a: to seize the day and conquer the city
2. What was the goal of the Brothel Plan?
a. Where else do you think the most important people go?
3. Why does Abbathor think Shug-wai is kind?
a. She was warm and inviting
4. What other deities are you working with?
a. The Divine Accord (DM said that literally none of us know anything about it, and meta-wise he literally only came up with a name for it like, days beforehand)
5. What happened w/ Lolth and Abbathor to cause fighting?
a. I know not of any conflict (then why did she tell Merrli to kill those cultists on the mtn.?)
Merrli calls Lolth-against all of our insistences He basically gets eaten by the earth and has an audience f2f with Lolth. Her Worshippers and bodyguards were around her, and she was in a nest.
Lolth: "Abbathor's plaything was getting annoying"
Merrli: "You don't take a clown and shoot them in the back of the head"
Lolth: "His toy grew tiresome" (the wizard?)
Merrli: Was this Abbathor-endorsed? Does he want what we have?
Lolth comes out of the nest, seemingly angry "You answer to ME. Not the other way around. You will kill Locke keyfiddler. Accept my demands?
Merrli refuses. Lolth: "I will gather my punishment later"
Merrli asks is the Raven Queen is a bitch? Calls some deity a bitch I think.
Yanef is FREAKED out, thinks Merrli is an abomination.
Dorath and Dara convo: Dara trying to convince him to actually lead, but he pulls age on Dara. Fun Fact: Dorath is 279 years old
Dorath: "Umstrek, never have kids" Umstrek: "I'm a lesbian, never having them anayway"
I pull Yanef away to try and talk to her. Eles kind of loses it and tells Yanef that she needs to follow them, that she knows it doesn't make any sense, but the Matron sent her on this path for a reason. Kindly DM let me roll a religion check to use my religious knowledge to persuade Yanef that things are chill or w/e
Yanef bowed to me as a peer, not as a mentor to student. Eles wants to apologize to Yanef about this "outburst". She still has things she needs to tell Yanef.
Dorath was "distraught" over some reaction of Dara's.
On our investigations to the brothel, none of the corpses look like commoners, 2 people were alive. Eles is casting Spare the Dying whenever she can to help stabilize people. We meet up with Captain O'Hare. Perception check on the bodies; 4 dead, 1 mostly dead. Small round, polished brass amulets, Abbathor cult amulets!
Next group was 5 people, all looked professionally killed. At the 4th brothel, larger, more popular, more affluent. Hairy Goat-14 dead outside. One of the clan leader's associates among the dead.