We meet at the tavern I work at. The Proprieter is Rusty, a Half-Orc. Kora Whistlegap, halfling emissary of Lavinia Venderboren. She gives us a misive inviting us to a dinner party. We go the next day, bumping into the Jade Ravens on our way out. Lavinia needs us to break into her parent's vault, by looking for the ring keys. We need to get money back from Solar Vark and investigate the ship for her father's ring. "The Blue Nixie", located on pier 5 in the merchant district. Harbormaster, Lord Islaren is Solar's boss.
We try to get aboard by delivering food. The men guarding immediately try to kill us. We slaughter them. A giant spider escapes from the hold and almost kills us, but I throw it into the sea. All told we kill 8 men and one spider.
Loot:
- 7x leather armor, bucklers, rapier, crossbow, bolts (10)
- 35GP
- 2 potions
- masterwork studded leather, buckler, rapier, light crossbow
- earrings worth 50GP, silver ring worth 25GP
We also find the ring which we return - guards determine it was an illegal smuggling operation.
irl date: 2024.04.07
Lavinia is happy with our performance, and offers to put us on retainer (100GP/mo).
Macklash Gristwhistle, Dredger's guild master. A obese dwarf finds us at The Pirate and thanks us for "Cleaning up the city". He brings the spider.
We open the vault and find all the treasure gone. There is a single chest filled with IOUs. There is a small bag of coin ~3000GP which Lavinia gives us. We interogate the cleric and he tells us that Lavinia's brother Vantis cleaned it out 1 day after her parent's death. We return to the manor.
We move into our rooms (I make my bed in the kitchen) and go shopping for food supplies with Kora. I cook lamb, fladbread and a greek salad. Then, to sleep.
irl date: 2024.04.14
We begin our search for Vantis at the mermaid's secret. They point us to the Gull's Nest. A Zenna womman there directs us to the Empty Grave. We get some cigars and some info. We go to the shrine of Wargle. Then "It still floats". There we interrogate Pinchy, a dwarf. He admits to helping load oil onto a dingy for Vantis & Co. We take him captive, chaining him up in Vandorboren Manor.
irl date: 2024.04.21
A drunk man named Sheftan shows up at the gate, offering information about Vantis. He leads us to Parrot Island. We trail behind Aquilius and Sheftan till they arrive at a trap door in the ground. Aquilius takes sheftan back to the manor and chains him up in the basement. I search his pockets and find two dice, a hair effigy, a stone with a spell inscribed on it, and a (almost) clean cap. Oh, and a stone shaped like a duck. Ellie, Aquilius and I head back to Parrot Island where we left Voss and Callum watching the trap door.
We decend into the hold ~40ft down a tight tunnel, only to be locked in by Vantis. We explore the dungeon and find three zombies which we dispatch, wonder around before returning to find two more zombies and a heckuva in the room we had just cleared.
irl date: 2024.04.28
We explore further and find a trapped chest and two more with treasure. Amongst the treasure we find a key which lets us further into the dungeon. We continue to explore and find Pinkus' dead body. He has some treasure on him and more around him:
- 5 potions, wand of Hold Person, earth elemental gem, small scroll (tensors flying disk), 5800GP
We update Lavinia and get some rest after a crab dinner.
irl date: 2024.05.26
We head to the taxidermy guild hall. Wllie scouts it out and Aquilius goes in disguised as Pinkus. There is a brief fight with the taxidermist, and then we find a secret door. Also find 600GP. We continue to explore, eventually finding (and killing) a kobal cook. We find 53GP on him. We also find and kill a massive wolf. We find a torturer. Aquilius kicks over a brazer of coals. Ellie throws oil at his feet which ignites him and I kick him into an iron maiden, killing him six seconds after entering the room. The man who was being tortured was a silk merchant who offers to reward us. We pillage some loot from the room:
- Rapier, cleansing knifes (200GP value), Sap, 1 clear bottle, 2 sludge bottles.
irl date: 2024.06.02
We find out that Mr Raincourt is actually a torturer and off him. We find a barracks and slaughter 7 more henchmen and find:
- 7 tinctures, 2 hand crossbows
We find another kobal making Rum and force him to help us into the locked doors. We explore more, killing a giant spider with a flaming barrel of rum, and a powerful undead creature. Cookie (the kobal) joins the gang.
irl date: 2024.06.02
Exhausted we camp in the dungeon with the taxidermist and cookie, taking watches. We are woken by a noise at the end of the last watch. After taking time to prep for the day, we explore further and stumble upon Rowyn Kellani, Lady Lotus. After a brief parley, we fight her and her raptor.
- 10 poison bolts, leather armor (damage)
- 2 wands, 2 potions, rapier, hand crossbow
- gold earring, necklace, literal skeleton key,
- collar
We search the room and find:
- 300GP, 14 gold & silver necklace, 12 rings of gold, set of common & rich clothes, scandalous robe of shimmering.
- A bunch of perfumes, Mer, Sigil, Blackmure, Alfime
We find a secret room that contains a trap, and the vanderboren treasure:
- 8600GP (vanderboren), 5450GP otherwise.
irl date: 2024.07.28
Lavinia is informed. We go to sell loot.
Magic Items:
- Rogue Rapier (transmutation) +1 rapier
- Dragon Collar (transmutation) +1 armor
- Earth Elemental Gem (strong conjuration)
- Stone w/ rune (ioun stone +1 AC)
- Duck (boat in a box)
- Hat (bag of holding type II)
- Chain shirt (from taxidermist)
- Wand (Hold person x23)
- Wand (Animate Dead x5)
- Wand (charm person x35)
Items sold:
- Alabaster Statute: 350
- Displacer Beast 100
- Unicorn 500
- Necklaces 300
- Rings 550
- Courtier outfits 90
- Noble outfit 75
- robe of shimmering 450
- 7x leather armor 35
- 7x bucklers 52
- 7x crossbows 122
- 70 bolts 35
- Mer/perfume x2 600
- 20x perfume 10
Items Identified
- 7 tinctures -> 6 cure light wounds, 1x cure moderate wounds
- Potion -> gaseous form
- Potion -> cure light wounds
We head back from the busy market day to find Lavinia back with a new face: Fr. Rufus. (an old teacher from Kaldron). The info we brought to light will bring about major political uphevals. We need to get Vanthis at Kracken's Cove. Should leave tomorrow.
irl date: 2024.08.04
After deliberation, we decide to hire onto a privateer ship to get to Blood Bay. Along the way we identify the two wands. Amila Svengali is the captain. We agree on 20GP/head and 100/day waiting.
We stop at the port of Renkin to drop off supplies and spend the night there. I have a steamy night with the cpatain. We leave in the morning and get to Bloody Bay. There is smoke in Kraken Cove. We depart in a row boat. The jungle is silent. We go into the cave and find and find two large ships aflame. A third ship is undamaged but beached. There are corpses strewn across the shore. Around the beached ship we find:
- leather sack of saffron
- remnants of a fist sized pearl (5 chunks)
We explore the ship itself but find nothing. We contine to explore further into the cave on foot. We battle some crustacean type monsters, and I get bitten and infected by something that seems to start turning me into one of them. On the last monkey like on we find:
- 2 potions, slippers, a gold ring, silver chain, and ruby ring
irl date: 2024.08.18
We explore further into the cave, hoping to find a laboratory to craft a cure. We find a hideously powerful monster that rips McGregor in half instantly. We flee successfully, frantically rowing back to the Bilge. Amila has a potion of minor restoration which gets me back almost to good. We decide to make for Sasserine to get supplies and more healing.
We arrive in Sasserine late that evening. Ellie and I head immediately to the church of Kord to seek help. We meed Rolf, Father Torminal and Ogwin Stormcrow (of Lendar). Ogwin cures me and points me to Zaster Grenkis of Zelkaron's Horns.
We go to sleep for the night and inspect our loot in the morning. We find two more magic items which we identify:
- +1 silver dagger of undead disruption (9000GP)
- +1 glamor chain shirt
- Spider Climb slippers (2400GP)
We sell the other items:
- Ruby ring
- dishware
- nose ring
- silver chain
I track down Grenkis and tell him about the monsters. He has never heard of them but offers 500GP for one alive. I agree to fight later that night - a fight against an ogre which I handily win. I am branded "The dog kicker" which I work to get out of unsuccessfully.
irl date: 2024.09.01
We go to find more work from Grenkis. On the way we come across a murder scene. Upon further inspection it's a duel's looser. We ask what happened and find that the loser threw a falcion into a nearby well. The victor had long blond hair and weilded a super skinny rapier - he tried to get the falcion but was scared off by the crowd. I dive down into the well and retrieve the sword which speaks to me: "My savior!"
Aquilius gets the dead body into a bag, and pays a priest to use speak-to-the-dead. We ask:
- Who are you?: My name is Taoc, a high ranking Oquon operative
- Who killed you?: A disgusting Cabinite with one of their cursed blades
- What should be done with your sword?: Saborhawk should be protected
Ellie remembers tales of two theives guilds who were at war 300 years ago, but they were wiped out.
We talk to Saborhawk and he exposits: "The war has been clandestinely fought. His friend Hoard Cutter is in danger at the Feather Whisper bath house. If we help him fight the cabinite, he will aid us with his powers - clairvoiance amongst other things." We head to the bath house. We get a brief tour and find that the mid baths are closed - obviously where we need to go. We determine that the three woman are cabinites and surprise them. We kill a bunch of them (9 women) and Zarina and get two swords of Cabinite. Zarina has some scrolls and we find:
- 6 Scrolls: Cats Grace, False Life, Spider Climb, Ray of Enfeblement, 2x Stone Shape, 2x transmute stone into mud
- 6x assorted jewlery
irl date 2024.09.29
We snuck out of the Feather Whisper bath house and walk with Saborhawk and Hoard Cutter. They are lead by Solohand and Triage. We go to sleep and cast identify on Hoardcutter, Dutches and Saborhawk (Neutral Evil, Chaotic Evil, Neutral)