Ven'Lynn Siroso

Morning comes and we leave the bar, going for a shopping spree. Ven’Lynn takes this time to thoroughly annoy and creep out the barkeep, also interrogate him. Looking for her next fuck, she learns that Debza was arrested sometime last night. She asks about the slavers in the desert, not much information there. All we learn is that Drakaar is Drow word changed, means something similar to “wall or barrier”. I believe it means something about the group themselves being a barrier. They are lurking in the desert a lot of the time and act as kind of a wall. If you go through the desert, you go through them and you follow their rules. I doubt that little interaction we had will be the last.   After the small amount of information, Ven’Lynn rejoins the group to go shopping. We enter a magic shop, Ethan forgot to give Eli coins so he has no money (lol). Ven’Lynn finds an amulet worth 250 Gold Pieces, it is an Amulet of protection. Too much money and Ven puts it back. Uri decides on a staff with snake head (didn’t get name) and attunes it, being a snazzy warlock. Bo takes interest in a Magic Missile Wand and buys it, as well as two healing potions for himself. Ven helps both them out plus buys a health potion and drops about 180 coins at the magic shop. The shop for magic,, that she does not use. That the other two use quite a bit… and she does not. Idiots, I tell you.   As we are finishing up, a sort of Vagrant walks into the shop, looking rather sickly. He leans over the counter and asks the shopkeep if he had some kind of item (we couldn’t hear what he said.) The shopkeep says no and asked him to leave. Suddenly, the man lunges out and attacks him with a shard of obsidian. It looks to be a kind of knife, but as he moves it, it is blurry with red and blue energy. He slashed the man and he immediately falls down and has a seizure, foaming at the mouth. He then turns his attention to the group, starting with Bo. Lunges towards him and Bo gets to try out his new toy. Then, the man attacks Ven’Lynn and slashes her across the chest. She has a successful dexterity save and does not have a seizure. The man makes a fist and twists it, and suddenly we are all thrown to the ceiling. He has the ability to shift gravity. Eli makes great move by misty stepping closer and grappling with the man, getting the obsidian shard out of his hand. Once the shard is out, he falls unconscious. Ven’Lynn goes over to the shard and tries to intercept it / take the evidence. She reaches for the hand and suddenly loses control of her body, floating down to the floor perfectly. She makes the same hand gesture and the group is thrown back to the group. In a series of movements, she attacks Bo and beats the ever loving CRAP out of him. She then makes a move to slash Conny, but in a brilliant move, Eli casts a spell and it is transferred to the vagrant. Ven’Lynn succeeds on her next turn of a wisdom throw and drops the knife, regaining her body. The exchange is now over, everyone sits to collect their thoughts for a moment. Bo casts detect magic on the knife and sees some very scary images.   Guards come in after hearing a commotion and ask what happen. We briefly explain and they take the Vagrant out of the shop. We hid the knife and said we don’t know where it went, but made sure to not handle it with bare hands. After a minute or two, we gather ourselves and head to the guard station to talk a bit about what happened and also speak with Debza. We learn she had been arrested but doesn’t know why, so we speak with her for a bit. I love my wife <3 After speaking with her about the exchange, we see that the knife is cursed. It is most likely used by a cult of some kind and has been used to sacrifice people. Fun. We leave and promise for help Debzania out of her pickle.   ~~~~~~   Next session, we wake up and go downstairs of the Tavern. Head out back to the shop and speak with the shopkeep and check on how he is doing. He is a bit better, a bit shaken up. We talk to him about the knife and he comes to the same conclusion that this thing is fucking weird and he wants nothing to do with it. It is from another plain, not our own. We make a deal with him and hug the Amulet for 100 gold after saving his life. Ven is flat fucking broke now, god damnit. We now have the amulet to protect us from being followed. Yay. We next head to the library and get some information on tons of things. Bo is reading up a storm and learns about the history of shadowgate and other things (Lowkey forgot, David if you see this what did you read-). Euri finds out that Shadowgate does not have a great relationship with the feywild for some reason. The entire book section for the feywild has been removed, for some reason. She can also not find and books about the arch fey. She reads about changelings and finds a book about one from (forgot name, lower left of map. Island) Ven’Lynn looks for books about preservation magic and the history of Heritage. She doesn’t find much about the school itself, but sees something interesting in the back of one of the books. There is a forest drawn in the book, but all of Khalvor is more like a desert. There is also drawings of a white flame that is said to have ravaged the world long before this. It is written in a mix of old common and old primordial, so Ven only half understands what it says lol. Ven’Lynn also buys flowers from a shop and gives them all to Euri and Bo. Asks Euridiphi to help her preserve the flower to send in a letter home. They bond and make up :))) Eli buys two bouquets. One for his mom and one for Euri.   They leave and go to sleep, wake up next day and go downstairs. We see a cart roll through town with black, Volyrus flags on it. We learn that this is the grand inquisitor. He only is sent by the king when something bad happens. We are taken by a guard for the guard post where he explain what happens. He takes us in and we learn that… Debzania is dead. MY FUCKING HEART BRO WAAAAAAH She was said to have gone crazy. She gutted herself and wrote on the walls with her own blood. We see, on the wall, the symbol of the square, circle, triangle, but with an eye in the middle this time. It is written in her blood. On the ceiling, words are written in Elvish “The Unwavering Eye Sees All,” what the fuck. Her head is smashed in front bludgeoning, most likely she banged her head into the wall repeatedly.   The gang is in shambles. Everyone is heartbroken. Bo goes into an orcish rage and is inconsolable. Euridiphi and Eli are both deeply troubled. Ven’Lynn searches over the body and sees that one of her medalians on her cloak is missing, similar to how Felen’s silver coin was taken. She takes off one of the bangles on her wrist and slides it on to Debza’s. She kisses the back of her hand and then walks out, taking a minute to process things. Bo is filled with anger and won’t listen to anyone, snaps out of it and starts to cast detect magic in the room. Just then, the grand inquisitor shows up. He forces his way into the room and ushers us out. Bo is casting his spell and about to finish, but the inquisitor stops him. He and Bo have a heated interaction and Bo ends up taking A LOT of damage from this man. He is at 1hp when the group runs back in to help. It is at this time that we get into an argument with this man. We learn that he is actually Eli’s uncle. He is very scary and can use puppet magic. He forces everyone to their knees in an ego trip and makes them all say “I understand”, then he leaves. He is very fucking scary.   We all leave and Bo breaks down. He is terrified of the blood on his hands, even if he didn’t hurt Debza. He is worried he did that and is scared that he lost control, having a panic attack. He is scared sick. Euridiphi comes in clutch and charms him, slowly calming him down from his panic attack. Poor baby. He is glued to Ven’Lynn‘s side, hugging her and following after her.   Ven’Lynn begins getting angrily drunk and storms off for the bar while Eli and Euridiphi investigate the corpses in the morgue. They learn of all the corpses and the tattoos connecting them all. The very first body is covered head to toe in those similar tattoos. They leave and we start to head to Eli’s mother’s house. Bo and Ven’Lynn get into an argument. Bo insists that they should leave, because he fears that this issue is much bigger than them. He wants to see his mom and doesn’t like the threat of the symbols and the murder. Ven’Lynn presses that now, that is an even bigger reason for them to continue. They do not resolve the fight, Ven joining Eli and Euri to his mothers house.   She is very excited to see Eli but also worried for him, seeing as they are all covered in blood and look hurt. Eli realized that Bo wasn’t there and goes back to get him after a very long back and forth. He brings Bo back and we talk to Eli’s mom to learn more about the murder and the inquisitor. We learn that the inquisitor is evil (duh) and was sent away at a young age. He didn’t return the same.   HE HAS A SIMILAR MARK ON HIS CHEST TO THE CREEPY MONK. HE IS CLOSE TO / IF NOT, FROM HERITAGE. HOLY FUCK.   The session ends :(

blurge ----> Pick up after beating shitless monk guy (no name), we go in and interogate. Going one at a time, we all interogate him. Monk is brainwashed, will not tell us name. We learned last session he is from Heritage, claims he is from a sister location. (I don't buy a sister location idea, we weren't told too much about that in the academy.) He tells us that the magic symbols on his hands have tracker qualities and a higher power / force has been watching us for some time. There were the same symbols on the trees in Etherwood and on the way to Umgor. Bo casted detect magic on the tree and probably set it off so the guy got back on our trail. He reveals that we are 'scared kids in the middle of a war' and he came to test us. for what bitch- He threatens Bo's mother and Bo almost kills him. We gotta hold him back so he doesn't attack him. He says some things about them and it scares Ven'Lynn, she leaves the room. Bo leaves. Monk fellow says that his purpose is over and just fucking drops dead. He mentioned he stole something from Ven, Ven walks in and checks his pocket. Finds Felen's silver piece. Thinks he may be after Felen / Wyrmwood. After mention of war, Larethar gets scared and kicks us out of town. Ven mouths off to him and he shoots back. They all leave and start to walk into the Dread Plain.   session two- we begin to walk in the dread plains to a refugee camp and a small caravan of soldiers walk up to us, one of those poeple in the party being someone named Eli Matias. He takes our weapons and leads us into the refugee camp and we set up. We learn that a caravan party went out and did not return. We go out and get our weapons from the General, Julian Matias and offers us a job. We head out into the dread plains and have to find the missing caravan party. He will pay us very well for the job, sends Eli with us. We learn that it is a big group of Orcs and are very dangerous. Euridiphi shapeshifts after seeing one of them and now looks like an Orc (fancy changeling powers) and we devise a plan to go in to look like one of them. There were wolves in cages and they broke out, killing two Orcs as we walked away. Eli and Bo turn invisible while Euridiphi takes Ven'Lynn in as a 'prisoner'. Ven'Lynn is screaming and being an idiot in Primordial, we walk over to another Orc and he slaps her. After Ven starts acting up again, he hits her across the chest and then just picks her up and carries her to a seperate cage. She gets put inside but invisible Bo unlocks the cage as the orc walks off, then goes to follow with Orc Euridiphi as they walk around. Invisible Eli comes up to Ven and is like "what the fuck", goes off to find the prisoners. The war-master orc comes up to Ven'Lynn's cage and starts to yell at her in Orc and something else, then shaking and tipping her cage over a cliff- area in the camp. He knocks her down and the cage falls with her inside, Euri and Bo half catch it from down below. Prisoners are there. War-master comes down and knees the cage, pinning Ven inside and begins with a great axe to try and kill her, cage blocks. Euridiphi casts darkness (why tf would you do that) and now everyond cannot see in the circle. After a few missed hits, we manage to take down a few. War master is angry with all of us and manages to take down Euridiphi and Eli, Bo and Ven still up. We take down the group of Orcs and free the prisoners, looking very sick and hurt. But- holy fuck, we did it.

Continued on from the fight of earlier, the group stormed off in their seperate ways after Euridiphi's great reveal. We learned that "Connie" is actually a shapeshifter named Euridiphi. She hid this from us for fear we would abandon or kill her. Bo got extremely upset after learning that his trust was betrayed and lashed out at both Ven'Lynn and Euridiphi. He turned the question of "hiding things" to Ven and she snapped at him. We all storm off in our seperate areas.   Ven'Lynn went and bought some parchment, creating a fake letter that looked pretty similar to the one we are supposed to deliver. Ven'Lynn goes back to the tavern and gets a drink to fill her waterskin with and walks up to the shared room with Euri. Euri locks her in and forces the two of them to have a conversation. Euri asks why Ven'Lynn got so upset and Ven'Lynn apologies for blowing up. As they begin to calm down with each other, a knock is on the door. We think it is Bo but after Euri looks through the peephole, we see its a human. A human in a blue uniform and shaved, army haircut. He says "authorities" and demands that we open the door. After we do not, he blows it open and pushes into Euridiphi. As Ven is about to throw a hit, he stunning strikes her in the throat. She gets stunned.   The man walks over to Euridiphi and throws her pouch out the window, rendering her helpless and not letting her cast certain warlock spells. Ven'Lynn goes to attack and strikes him a few times before Bo walks in and WHIPS HIS SHIT YES BO THAT IS MY SWEET BOY-   Anyways, he jumps out the window and begins to book it. We all follow after him, jumping out the window and chasing him down. We corner him in an alley way and he climbs up the wall and gets to the roof. Ven'Lynn follows suit and we all get onto the roof. We attack him until he just gets to 2 hp. Ven finishes him off and we knock him out, Bo takes a lot of the blows for the party as the tank of the group. which- YES BO FINALLY THANK. YOU FOR TAKING THE HITS AS THE ABJURATION WIZARD FUCKING FINALLY Bo was the total mvp of the fight.   As we are fighting, we see that this monk can actually redirect magic. Normal monks can redirect crossbow bolts and arrows- but this one can actually grab magic in his hand and throw it back. O H don't matter now tho cause we got em.   I help Conny down from the roof since I a spooky monk and she would get hurt. (picked her up hehe- cute moment.)   Larethar Gulgrin, the dwarf who had ambushed us is now sort of helping us out as we navigate through Umgor. He and Inte, a sister of mercy, had followed after us and were helping to capture this guy. We tie him up with rope thanks to Larethar and we haul him back to the station.   When we get to the station, Inte heals us (thank you my love) and we are all asked the story by Larethar so he can write a report. He gets a report from both Bo and then Euridiphi and now it's Ven's turn. He says "You would have the most information on him," he says and I learn that oh- this is someone from Heritage. Which wouldn't be a problem unless ya know- HE DIDN'T TRY TO KILL US JUST NOW!! He has his branding mark on his chest, not his back. He could be a teacher or a higher ranking student since others got theirs on their back.   We are now going to interogate him. I would like to go in first and question him individually before calling the others in.

Beginning on the path to Volyrus, we pass through the side of the mountain. As we camp and continue to travel forth, we notice several markings on the trees. Some are marked with Xs and circles, others are marked with triangles. As we get to a side of a cliff, we are ambushed by three dwarven guards. Umgor is under attack by Volyrus and don't let any outsiders in.   The dwarven guards kick our little shit in. As we are about to lose, a giant bird came down and attacked us. It killed one of the soldiers and wounded the rest. Killed two horses out of three. The bird took one of our horses and flew off, deciding the fight was not worth the meal. Larathaar, the chief soldier, is kind to us for helping them fight the monster.   Larathaar leads us into town and delivers us to Umgor. We are put up in the Slumbering Oaf Tavern. We take the dead body to the home and the wounded soldier away.   As we enter the tavern, we see Inte. A tan skinned woman with white hair. She is apart of the sisters of mercy, a guild that follows war and tries to prevent unnecessary violence to innocents.   Ven'Lynn overhears some drunk ear veterans arguing about the war. They want to press on to the war and show Volyrus that dwarves are not to be messed with.   We get a drink and sit down. Talk with bartender, Merry, and learn about there are different things to do.   Ven'Lynn gets fucking HAMMERED and goes to bed.   We wake up the next day and run over to the hot spring. We fuck around for a bit and Ven'Lynn swims over to Conny and sees that: oh, shit, that's not Conny. Euridiphi now looks different. She is now extremely pale skinned and has long, white, ghostly hair.   Bo gets upset that Euridiphi didn't tell him everything, starts an argument. He gets on Ven'Lynn's ass about it and Ven'Lynn shoots back at both of them. Euridiphi didn't want to tell us because her past best friend died for knowing her. She didn't want us to die.   All three of them storm off and they are all mad at each other.   man what a great session guys hnnnn :__)