23.02.2020 - Kithri

• Eik mysteriously dissappeared.
• Our employer is someone from the noble branch of the Mountain
• The guards look tougher than normal guards
• She says there's a rumor that one of the murderer's allies are coming to the capital, and her missionaries are converting the masses
• She wants us meet with her associate in the capital, and wants us to find out if the murderers are an enemy to the throne/king.
• We'll get 250 gp for the job we did, and more (ooc didn't catch how much) if we keep working for her (+ we get to keep any loot)
• We get 5 gp for travel money, good horses, get to keep the signet ring
• Kithri disguises herself as a farmer to og buy stuff for Nort (He has nothing). Shopping list:
•  Ninja stars (10)
•  Katana (1)
•  Nun-chuchs
•  Caltrops (20 Small spiky things(bent nails) + pouch 6sp: 206 sp)
•  Smokebombs (5, nvm too expensive)
•  Food (Beef jerky 5 rations: 2.5 gp)
•  Bedroll (really big blanket: 3 sp)
•  Backpack (Large leather sack/satchel: (haggeling, cast friends) 5 gp (from 20 gp))
• Total: 28.4 gp
• Nortle sees someone come into our room, search it (we left nothing) and scribbles the watch symbol and "The watch thanks you" on the table.
• We head to Tidehaven (capital)
• Nortle talks to someone in thieves' cant, and notices among the refugees white robed people with symbols carved in their foreheads (tree trunks with a moon over) avoiding the main road
• Pretty bad musicians at the inn, someone else takes over: more rowdy sea shanties
• We meet the associate at the inn (human male)
• The white robed people are the missionaries
• Might be operating from a newly converted temple
• Sanctuary of Agruer
• Minor temple close to the walls
• Get in without being noticed. Don't make a noticable fuss (If at all possible)
• Stealth, disguises as new converted etc.
• They have some stuff to help us out if we need it, but the less connection between us the better.
• Most temples doesn't have much security
• Any acolyte/priest/priestess has to know the right passage to get into the deeper areas
• Common hall is open to everyone
• We need to get into the inner sanctums
• He'll meet us same place same time tomorrow
• Nortle notices Manath walking by in the streets
• We get a room and make a plan
• At the temple:
• Flowing water by the entrance we have to go through
• A guy is turning a wheel to pump the water from somewhere else
• A few more people praying at different basins of water
• No windows, but opening in the top of the roof (1m in diameter)
• N casts Pass Without Trace and we try to sneak across (N: 24, K: 36)
• Words in each opening
• Glory <6>(in common): wave and new addition: crecent moon
• Pedestal with button in the centre of the room
• "Sever heathen, opinions"
• 10 red gems evenly in horizontal line
• K casts Comprehend Languages
• ioth <5> (glory, same symbol)
• A wounded warrior mannequin in centre
• Mirror w/ golden frame on wall reflecting the mannequin, holding a rolled up scroll (not outside the mirror)
• alagh <4> (glory )
• Stone statue of minotaur, warhammer, scroll. Golden key painted on chest.
• Shadow in the wall with the golden key
• Etched on forehead, tree trunk and moon
• alcar <3> (glory)
• smoked glass sphere, 8ft long string
• Something is inscribed on the inside of it
• Aglar <2> (glory)
• edges of room lined with realistic (very lifelike) human-sized statues
• Complicated pattern of linked pattern
• Goat
• Lion
• __
• bird
• horse
• Manticore
• griffin
• Sphinx
• pegasus
• .
• Faun
• Chimera
• The statues' foreheads have the symbol
• On middle pillar: "Ordered first then last"
• Temple of Valkur, but moon stuff not his symbolism
• We're supposed to create a poem
• We go into alagh. A metal door slams shut. Inscribed on door in gold keyhole
• Nortle pokes the shadow
• The minotaur starts moving and shadow disappears
• The minotaur stops and the shadow returns
• We manage to turn it and unlock the door. The scroll is released
• "Gath'ring knowledge won the magi" won is golden lettering
• Enter ioth.
• Wounded in mirror as well
• K tries to Healing Word the mannequin. The reflection gets more wounded.
• Doesn't react to threat, so she heals the mannequin again.
• The mirror image slumps to the ground and releases the scroll revealing the mirrored poem line:  "Ev'ry soul is free of torpor" Free is golden

We stop here, but have time to do the rest before the rest of the players are back