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
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
- ‘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’
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 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 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
Next day
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
Guards are alerted
Commander shows up
Commander recognizes zone of truth type effect, says to lock em up
Jin bolts, gets caught, dragged off