Session 5

Session 5 Still in the catacombs beneath the church

• Party goes to the shimmering door
• Dorr has a handprint, party tries their hands, doesn’t work
• Use Selene's (DB) hand to open the door

Party enters, they hear the sound of a gavel
3 spectral judges in the room
Judges ask if we have a burden or secret

• Sol reveals sacrifices for her patron

Judges ask who betrayed someone unknowingly

• party got it wrong, takes psychic damage
• It was solara killing the guy that jb let go in the sewer

Asks who is looking for power

• No one really is, take psychic damage

Party convinces judges they are worth to take the scepter

Party get the scepter, it doesn’t really vibe with anyone

• Moss gets the scepter

Scepter makes liars glow, zone of truth kinda style

Court adjourned, we black out
The entire party sees visions, everyone sees everyone else's vision.

Vesper’s Vision

• See a flickering lantern kind of dim
• See tents, not the past ones color drained
• Taste copper, like blood in the air
• Hear panicked laughter

Masked performer escorts child into main tent

• Performer turns, the mask is Vesper’s
• The crowd points at vesper (Vesper watching the vision not Vesper IN the vision)
• ‘You were part of this’
• There’s a circular well of pale fire

Masked vesper drags the child to the edge

• ‘The Anchor feeds on what you abandoned’
• Vesper watching rushes to save the child, the Vesper in the vision pushes Vesper and the child in

The child is an anchor

Solara’s Vision
It’s the Night Solara made her pact with her patron (Glasya)

• She’s standing in a large cathedral
• Sol calls out to her patron
• Candles flared pale light

Was not patron pale white fire figure

• ‘You made your pact with me not her’
• Sol does the sacrifice, but the souls go to the figure

Solara sees her nanny crying

• The fourth anchor
• The ember throne

Sol sees her own beauty rot

• ‘Did you truly think she shaped you’
• ‘Glasya believes she owns your soul, but she’ll never have the one that i claimed’
• ‘When the fourth anchor breaks your true form will be revealed’
• Sees true face smiling from the throne

Sol’s Nanny is an anchor

Moss’s vision Damp heavy rain in a forest that has stopped growing

• Scent of rot
• Lantern flickers in the distance

Lantern of bartholomew, one moss left behind

• Moss follows footprints into grove
• Cloth rope gear hangs from branches

Stuff is Bartholomew’s

• Roots coiled around person, its Bartholomew
• Voice rises from soil
• ‘The forest does not forget who was abandoned’
• Bart gets pulled down under, with a silent scream

‘The third anchor’

• Bart breaks free a little ‘you left me’
• Pit shuts lantern goes out

Bartholomew is an anchor

Gimbol’s vision The Forge at Durim’s workshop

• Anvil cracked open like a ribcage by pale fire light
• Durim hammering, doesn't respond

Second figure (Parsons) wrapped in pale white flame watching Durim

• Parsons says: ‘He waited for you but you weren't here, you were somewhere else’
• Gimbal is on errand on a street full of decay, a pale white figure blocking an alley, merchant that wasn't really there calls out to Gimbol
• Parsons: ‘You think you chose to leave him alone but I needed you gone’
• Durim, hollow eyed: ’Gimbol why havent you come back’
• With pale fire, Durim is pulled beneath the stone

Durim is an anchor

Moss appeals to the scepter, scepter says it will help him if he feels its just

Discuss what to do with JB’s body

• Ring on his finger, insignia of stormcall

Goto Tavern

• Guy outside tavern laying on stoop w/ bottle
• 2 guards poking him

Its Jin

• Sol invites him to drink

Jin has big hands

An Emissary of stormcall has note for Gimbol from Lysander

• ‘Joyboy please give us an update, having hunters disappear near the observatory, may need help’
• Gimbol tells him JB is dead
• Gimbol embellishes the truth a little, the lies make him glow

Emissary arranges to take JB’s body

Return to mansion
Sol hears from her patron, Glasya, Glasya says to sacrifice more, Sol wakes everybody up

• Glasya has possessed one of Sol’s maids
• Glasya tells Sol to sacrifice her favorite maid, sol totally offs the maid
• Glasya tries to get soul, doesnt work, now Glasya knows
• Glasya goes to fix sols scar, doesnt work
• Glasya seems happy that Solara will be hideous because without her the beauty will fade. And she is pissed
• Glasya walks off through hell gate

Turns out her Glasya didn't have the pact, white flame figure had the pact

Long rest
Sol's lover boy is back
He has news, Sea league knows about artifact

• Sol calls meeting still at night to tell party

Party agrees Moss should take the bag of holding and the scepter

• Sol and moss bang

Gimbol meets up with stormcall emissary

• Tells em just about everything

Party decide to deal with shadowsong stuff, nanny etc in sea league territory
Party goes to the guard barracks to get Jin's stuff

• Sol convinces guards to let them in

Jin goes in armory, jumped by 3 dudes

• Knocks one out, but gets beat down
• Moss hides on Jin as a spider and heals Jin

Guards are alerted
Commander shows up

• Jin lies saying he had stuff to pick up, but spider-moss is on him, and moss has the scepter, glows cuz of the lie

Commander recognizes zone of truth type effect, says to lock em up
Jin bolts, gets caught, dragged off