Session 14

BAYOU

• Before long rest, will need to tie down Mark and Vrae
• Mak'Ti takes first watch, spots a small, gnomish creature approaching, disguises himself as rock and shines bright light. Creatures tries to hide. Mak'Ti drops illusion as he wakes up the group. Suddenly, a Psurlon leader appears behind him and tries to grapple him.

• Slowly all of the Psurlon's forces arrive, 3 Clockwork Horrors, 2 Gnome Ceremorphs (the powerful leaders of the group complete with LASERGUNS, 2 Psurlons, and 1 Psurlon Leader
• Party realizes they are outnumbered and outmatched, especially with Vrae still tied up under the net and Mark still tied up by the Kusa
• Battle ensues, T'nin does manage to subdue some of the Psurlons and Mark gets free, but when they Gnome Ceremorphs arrive and sent out both their psychic blasts and shoot Lykalada'ath with their Laserguns, things look DIRE
• Bord manages to get into Mark's bag and take out the IRON FLASK and free the DISPLACER BEAST, naming it "Sharon" and having it help them, instantly falling in "non-romantic" (?) love with Sharon
• Da'Ath tries to surrender (down to 1 HP), Mak'Ti will not accept it though, despite Da'Ath telling him to
• Mark is suddenly possesses once more by Tiamat, watching the proceedings, but not yet interfering. Mak'Ti sees this, and calls out that they should not dare to cross "Warriors of Tiamat," inadvertantly asking the dark Dragon Queen for aid, which she has available in the form of the Black Abishai left in the area (originally there to guard the Green Abishai emissary)
• Mak'Ti then teleports Da'Ath some distance away as they all begins to fight once more, trying to flee the cresche. 

• Vrae turns herself into an Elephant using polymorph, breaks free of the net, and runs south. In freeing herself of the net, force throws her HALBERT and 1 of Da'Ath's Javelins in the Bayou (She finds the Halbert later that night, but another Javelin is lost)
• Mark grabs his stuff and the Kusa and runs east toward Brightshell Harbor, pass a strange, black, half-flying/half-running creature on the way
• T'nin and Da'Ath run West, followed shortly by Mak'Ti and Nuri once he spots them running that way
• Mak'Ti also runs right past a Black Abashai charging into the cresche
• Black Abishai take out the Illithid allies while the group runs, casting spheres of MAGICAL DARKNESS to trap their enemies and jumping inside to kill them
• An hour later Vrae becomes human again, and trudges back to the cresche, finding everyone gone. She makes camp to await her friends in the morning. With everything that has happened, she passes her final TERROR OF THE NIGHT test, and does not turn. She has mastered that aspect of her Lycanthropy
• Mark make camps just off the path they took to get there, finding he has a strong KINK/ attraction toward the Kusa, and wraps himself in it
• Mak'Ti, T'nin, Bord and Da'Ath make camp where they are, and are approached by one of the Black Abishai, who informs them that they DOUBLY owe Tiamat as she sent two Abishai to their aid, citing Mak'Ti specifically for asking for aid (Mak'Ti DENIES he did this). As the Abishai leaves, the group realizes they are now in debt to Tiamat, and have also promised to bring her the MASS RAISE UNDEAD SPELL. 
• They make camp and sleep for the night
• LITTLE DO THEY KNOW the Illithid part had a flying boat near the cresche that they used to get around. But the party did not ask about it/ search for it, so they did not find it. 

• Main group makes way back to Cresche, finds Vrae, and then heads toward Brightshell
• Eventually find Mark along the road, where he reluctantly returns the Kusa to T'nin, and then demands the Iron Flask (and Sharon) back from Bord, who does so reluctantly as well. 
• Vrae tries to use Druid magic on a Squirrel (Taurel), trying to force him to follow them and warn the group about anyone chasing them. She is too harsh, and accidentally kills it and destroys its home as the tree collapses

• Dense fog rolls in, Vrae leads them astray and they lose a day on the journey back
• Mak'Ti gives Da'Ath the Artificing Lvl 4 Book
• While they delve into Mark's backstory, he reveals that he spent a lot of time on Bronzehook, and was kidnapped and raised as a child slave by NERABAN THE BEHEADER
• Also learn that BORD himself once played a show for Neraban

• Bord flies in the air and spots the road back to Brightshell in the distance
• HEAVY RAINSTORM happens, miserable walk through the Bayou/ swampy grounds back
• Everyone suffers 1 point of Exhaustion next day due to grueling conditions
• They follow his directions back to Brightshell, arriving late at night and deciding to stay at the Squeakers Brothel

BRIGHTSHELL HARBOR

• They arrive late at night and meet Xinlid at the side door, she lets them in, not caring at much because the heavy rain has driven out most of her clientelle
• She gives them two rooms, including the one Da'Ath ruined with his Tiamat drawing
• He offers to pay to replace the wall, and she says she will give him an estimate IN THE MORNING
• Mak'Ti and Vrae celebrate her lycanthropy mastery of Terror of the Night by turning into Ravens in their room and dancing before bed
• The rest get a nice bottle of WHISKEY from Xinlid and drink and play Slap Fights into the night, but are still exhausted and do not stay up too late

LONG REST into morning of Jamarro 29th

• In the morning, Mak'Ti shares his Olisuba Leaf and makes Tea to cure everyone BUT MARK of their exhaustion from the previous day
• Then he heads out to collect his new cloak (i.e. THE WHOLE REASON WHY THEY HAD TO COME BACK TO BRIGHTSHELL HARBOR AGAIN)

• Ja Kronum presents Mak'Ti with his Cloak of Displacement when he arrives
• Warns Mak'Ti about Blink Dogs, tells him about eternal hatred between Blink Dogs and Displacer Beasts and that Blink Dogs will attack on sight any Displacer Beast, or one wearing a Cloak of Displacement
• So Warned, Mak'Ti heads back to the Brothel to meet up with his with his friends

• NOTE - Mark still has 1 POINT of EXHAUSTION on this day!!!