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15 Tarsakh 1471, (Day 20)

Morning

Wyrven Tor

• After thoroughly looting the Many-Arrows hideout at Wyvern Tor, Orthanc begins to get a bit peckish and, taking a cue from Persi’s questionable gustatory decisions, decides he is going to eat Gorg, the ogre
  • Rig objects not at the act of eating a sentient being, but because she does not want Orthanc to bring the entire ogre body on the road with them
    
  • Orthanc spends an hour butchering Gorg into 5 rations of Questionable Meat (Ogre)
• The Party takes a Long Rest in the Wyvern Tor hideout

16 Tarsakh 1472 (Day 21)

• The Party awakens to Heavy Rain and Orthanc uses his Druidcraft to tap the magic of nature and see the weather for the remainder of the day
  • The first ½ of the day would see Heavy Rain, followed by 8 hours of High Winds, and then Clear Skies at night
  • The Party decides to continue camping at the location for the day
• Rig uses her training as a healer and some supplies from her Healers Kit to treat Orthanc’s Fractured Vertebrae Injury, removing 1 level of Exhaustion
  • Rigalso mixes up a tincture to help ease Persi’s terrible case of Gruumsh’s Revenge
• Rig spends a considerable amount of time marking the most valuable-looking furniture as her property, hoping to eventually find a way to get it back to her boyfriend's house to decorate.
  • She admits to Vala that they love antiquing together which Vala adores.
• The Party collects 20 Fresh Water Rations from the clear pool in the cave
• Slûûp informs The Party that he’s been looking after the welfare of Persi while he is ill
  • Slûûp reports that he continues to nurse Persi but cannot cure his illness
    • This level of Gruumsh’s Revenge is debilitating but not life threatening
    • Once the Revenge leaves Persi’s system, he will be well again
  • Rig emphasizes that neither she nor Vala want to smell the piss and shit from Persi’s illness
    • Slûûp mentions that his life as a slave to Orc and Bugbear masters was full of many lessons in cleaning up excrement
  • When Rig gives Slûûp 3 GP for helping out with Persi, he is blindsided by the revelation that was the first time anyone gave him his own, personal money
    • Slûûp vehemently rejects the money, citing that slaves are the property of masters and may garner no wages
    • Vala offers his freedom and fair wages as a member of The Party
  • Slûûp doesn’t understand at first, but The Party emphasizes that Slûûp has not been property since they free him from Klarg, the Bugbear servant of Iarno "Glasstaff" Albrek
• Slûûp is surprised and elated by both his new-found freedom and companionship with the members of The Party
  • Slûûp’s body language and posture seem to change from very defensive and servile to independent, upright, and proud
  • Slûûp explains to The Party that he has been training in secret for all of his life to be a cleric of Oghma, the God of Knowledge, the Binder, The First Bard
    • Slûûp shows them his Holy Symbol of Oghma, a tiny runecarving of a blank scroll on a piece of polished, obsidian stone that hangs around his neck from a simple leather strap
    • Slûûp learned of  by reading tomes looted from his masters’ raiding bands
  • Slûûp mentions that his mother was a very powerful shaman of the Goblin deity, Maglubiyet, who performed disgusting and heinous rituals to the accursed deity
    • Slûûp was drawn toward the light of Oghma because he was enamored with harnessing clerical power drawn from knowledge itself, rather than from the debasement he witnessed in the blind worshippers of the Greater Deity who led the Goblinoid pantheon
  • Slûûp demonstrates some of his power with clerical magic to:
    • Summon a glowing orb of light
    • Mend Rig’s damaged stilettos - retcon this with Cara
    • Cast Identify on the gnome-sized short sword which Vala found in the hollow behind the false stone wall in the cave complex, seeking through the infinite library of Oghma to learn its entire provenance
• Silverwing’s Talon
  
  • 1 charge, Channel Divinity: Radiance of the Dawn 
    • Requires Attunement to access magical properties
    • Radiance of the Dawn: (Action):
      • Sword dispels any magical darkness within 30’
      • Each hostile creature makes Constitution Saving Throw, DC = Spell Attack Bonus (Wisdom)
      • 2d10 + Character Level radiant damage, half on save
    • History:
      • Crafted for Orda Smallfist Griggs, a gnomish squire in the Griffon Cavalry of Waterdeep, in 1463 DR
      • Commissioned by Sildar Hallwinter, Knight of the Waterdeep Griffon Cavalry to serve as a token of honor for Orda’s many years of service and as Hallwinter’s sponsorship of Orda’s entrance to the training school of the Griffon Cavalry
      • Soon after receiving it, Orda wore the sword into battle at the Wyvern Pass in the Sword Mountains
• The Party gives Silver Wing’s Talon to Slûûp, who cannot believe he is being given such a generous gift and swears to protect the sword with his life
• While searching through the stolen goods from the many caravans that were waylaid by the orcs, Vala finds Cook’s Utensils and adds them to the group loot on the horse cart
• Orthanc questions his strength and stamina after having been downed in combat for the first time in his life, taking 5 Stress
  • In an attempt to find something useful for himself to do and ignore the crushing ennui, Orthanc spends time sharpening his battle axe and regripping it, providing it with the Sharpened Condition
• The Part takes a Long Rest at the Wyvern Tor hideout

17 Tarsakh 1472 (Day 22)

Morning

• As The Party begins stirring in the morning, getting themselves ready for the day, Slûûp informs them that they missed a meteor shower overnight, which he saw while on watch
  • Slûûp explains that through accessing the Knowledge of Oghma, he now knows much about celestial events
  • Slûûp informs The Party about the unexplained anomaly of the nearby Starmetal Hills, 25 miles north of their location
    • Meteor showers tend to happen with supernatural frequency in the area, dropping many lodestones into the Starmetal Hills
    • Vala mentions that she knows of the place due to her family’s heavy involvement in mining in the Neverwinter region
    • Rig notices it “odd that Vala’s father was a miner,” thinking it would be a strange working class job for the father of such a high falutin’ Lady
    • Vala clarifies that her father was more of an owner of mines, and that he also happened to be a piece of shit
    • Rig is also surprised to find out that Vala is of noble blood
    • Slûûp had figured out Vala was a “Lady” upon their meeting, for him she seemed to have the natural bearing of person of means
• Orthanc casts Druidcraft and reaches into his close bonds with the land to see that the day will have weather amenable to travel
  • The Party decides to begin Travel back to Hamund Kost

Noon

• The Party travels west out of the mountains and back into the highlands of the Lost Hills
  • Vala successfully forages, finding 11 food rations and 4 water rations

Afternoon

• Orthanc easily finds his bearings in a familiar terrain, succeeding on guiding The Party the full 25 miles back to the outskirts of the

Night

• The Party decides to set camp one hour’s travel to the Hamund Kost
  • Orthanc spends some time cooking skewers of Ogre meat over the fire but fails to successfully cook an edible meal
    • The meat smells of rancid fat and puss
    • Orthanc eats it anyway, upon being offered a skewer, the remainder of The Party declines
  • Vala spends time practicing on her harp and successfully plays an inspiring tune for Orthanc, who gains +1 Inspiration
    • Rig very demonstrably pulls cotton from her healer’s kit and stuffs it in her ears
      • Vala continues to take this as scathing criticism to her musical talents
• The Party takes a Long Rest in a camp just outside of The Old Owl Well

18 Tarsakh 1472 (Day 23)

Morning

• The Party awakens to a heavily cloudy but otherwise pleasant day and breaks camp, heading the remaining distance tothe  Old Owl Well
• As they approach the Old Owl Well , The Party notices numerous undead wandering the area
  • Zombies begin shambling toward The Party but return to aimless milling about when they get within distance to recognize them
• The Party huddles to determine what they want from Hamund and how they want to present themselves upon reaching him
  • Vala and Rig clearly recognized Hamund Kost as a Red Wizard of Thay and that makes him dangerous
  • Slûûp mentions that it is a strange place for a Thayan to be, but Thay has tradesman, archeologists, and arcanists studying places of power in all parts of Faerun
  • Vala and Rig are immediately set on killing Hamund, simply because he is a Thayan necromancer who they do not trust to be here.
    • Vala speaks vehemently against slavery and slavers, condemning the entire nation for the practice.
  • Orthanc describes that slavery is unknown to his people. He had heard it described and knows that his people would never support such a social institution. Goliaths would believe that if a slave was strong enough and able to kill his master, that the slave should be rewarded with his master’s social status. 
    • He has no opinion of Hamund Kost or his ways but is also fine with the idea of killing him if Vala supports it
    • Vala says she feels it is her personal responsibility as a mage to use her gifts to rid the world of evil magic users who would use their arcane power to harm and control others, hoping this statement will soothe Rig's distrust of her.
• The Party advances to 50 ft from the entrance to the Hamund has set up his “diggings”
  • The Party then stops and seems to have an animated conversation amongst themselves as the zombies stare at them with witless eyes
  • Rig then climbs into the horse cart with Persi, quaffs a Potion of Invisibility, and begins to advance to the southeast corner of the compound
  •  The remainder of The Party then begins walking toward the entrance to the Old Owl Well Again
• Hamund’s booming voice erupts from the compound, announcing that he had been scrying them the whole time and that he was curious as to why Rig suddenly disappeared
  • Vala pulls the two Many-Arrows banners from the horse cart offering him the Kingdom of Many Arrows Skin Banner, masking her disgust.
  • Vala cheerfully announces to Hamund that they had completed the mission for him, attempting to distract his attention from the “Rig Situation”
  • Hamund is annoyed at Rig’s absence and agrees to exchange proof of the destruction of the Many-Arrows raid party for the reward to be mediated by some of his zombie
  • Rig succeeds on sneaking closer and closer toward the wall of the compound to get a line of sight on Hamund
  • Hamund recognizes the Many-Arrows symbol but is very surprised to see it branded on a banner made from flayed human skin
    • Hamund also expresses his gratitude for the effective completion of the quest and one of his zombies gives Vala 200 GP
    • Hamund says he can offer The Party some additional business but that he would need to see the WHOLE party for their discussion to continu
    • Numerous zombie guards then climb out of the ground
  • Rig successfully sneaks closer to Hamund, but he hears a noise coming from behind his tent

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