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Session 3- Is It "Breaking and Entering" If it's Already Broken?

October 10, 2022

.Paws and Vic’s conversation turns towards Roallet:  what was her relationship with the party?  Is she trustworthy?  No complaints out of Paws!


·         Once the group congregates, they discuss the prospect of investigating.  Vic mentions he has some experience in this area.  Paws explains some of the baggage her and her friends have around cobbler’s shops and recounts the events that transpired the first time they came through Daggerford.  Kas attests to Valon’s integrity despite some unusual circumstances.


·         The course of action is set:  it will be a nighttime investigation.  In the meantime, though—shopping. Kas has a list and the others are mostly along for the ride.  Daggerford’s alleyway markets are a tinkerer’s dream.  Paws finds enough bits and bobs to finish Harvey’s night vision goggles and the pair return to the inn.


·         Vic, Kas, and Searos proceed to the Temple of Oghma, god of knowledge, and the city’s de facto library.  Kas identifies the group by way of Paws’s textbook donation and Brother Corin’s delight and appreciation brightens the cramped, soot-stained room.  He has made headway in attracting new learners to the narrow, book-lined temple.


·         Corin points Kas towards the neighborhood of the cobbler’s shop for diamonds—such valuables can be acquired in Daggerford through unsavory channels.  Corin does not deal in these channels directly.


·         When asked about the Shadowfell, Corin produces a text which features a basic diagram to illustrate a theoretical orientation of the planes and how the Feywild and Shadowfell can overlap with the Material Plane and, rarely, with each other.


·         Vic’s interest in undead gets a referral to another priest in Daggerford:  Sister Edina, keeper of the Temple of Lathander.  He characterizes her as a busybody, but suggests that she possesses a knowledge of undead that rivals the folktales to be found in his books.  The interest in death and undead prompts Vic and Kas to swap stories of their own “near” death experiences.


·         Come nightfall, the group strikes out to launch a discreet follow-up investigation without the prying eyes of interested citizens.  They are met by a patrolling guard, Ned, who is ecstatic to meet Roallet’s elite crew who, with their captain, slew the massive render.  He refers to them as “Roallet’s Investigators” and ensures he and the two other guards patrolling the area will ensure the area will remain secure from unwelcome attention.


·         As Ned’s torchlight fades, Roallet’s Investigators quickly survey the ruined ground floor, locate the spray of glass shards initially observed by Searos, and one by one make their way down into the hole from which the render emerged.  Harvey remains above, keeping watch.


·         Paws slips through the bars of the render’s cage in to the basement proper and finds large, shattered glass cylinders, like those that were carrying the carnivorous plants in Loudwater.  Looking back to the group, she also spies a ruined bronze frame, twisted and blackened from fire damage, leaning against the far wall of the render’s prison.


·         Kas moves to inspect the frame and finds large shards of shattered mirror, fallen from the frame.  She can see where the fractures line up with each other, clean breaks, except for a round void in the center of the shattered mirror, forming a ring of charred and splintered glass.


·         Deeper into the cobbler’s shop basement, Vic finds three circular platforms, teleportation circles with their ring of glyphs obliterated.  As Paws thinks aloud on the events that transpired in Loudwater, information relayed by Vippi and Nin, and the duplicates in the warehouse, a plot unfolds:  a trade in rare, living creatures that unspools from the coast, nearly to the borders of the Anauroch.  One of their hubs, it would seem, lies in ruins, charred rubble beneath the feet of Valon’s Valor. 


By Kasiana

3 snack crackers. 1 to Paws, 1 to Vic and wants to give 1 to Harvey or searos. Smiley faces on them

Gotta give carrots to harvey. Check in with him in Auran.

Mention Valon more.

Clean the pot.

Brew the beer more.

Ask paws about what she knows of the shadowfell and how we could communicate or get there. LIBRARY?

Thing to do 

Buy 1-2 Diamonds worth 300gp.

Write Valon letters in the evening  + Cook in the evenings. =Reflections. Kas is now chef feat. reflections in a cooking pot. maybe that's how I update Valon. Or burning letters.

Valon's chili making recipe. Add it into the regular rotation. Chef Special Food. Gotta get ingredients.


Keep practicing herbalism.

kas asks searos about cleaning the cauldron.

he is def willing to help.


vic and paws were chatting. vic steers the convo to current events.

orcish language. is she trustworthy. upstanding citizen?

cobbler shops. bad history.

nighttime investigation.


inspector something. good book. 

giant hole in the ruined building.

Vic needs paint supplies.

Kas askes about Vic possibly painting an image for her beer she is brewing.


Valor of Valon. Valon's valor. 

complex ale.

taste testing.

Valon is not shaddy!!


Kas checks in with Harvey in Auran. He can speak normally!

I give him carrots. he is okay. Don't go back to dead.

 bllood feels good and weird in my veins again.


Just Kas has a shopping list. everyone else is tagging along.

can't find a spot. no jewelry establisment. 

not the best area for this. more under the law ways. not above board. Kas realy isn't in that world.

asks if anyone else needs anything. Vic needs cigars.


daggerford, tight crowded alleyways of flea market.

Paws needs components to finish the googles.

Paws haggles. fails. but they love her and give her some random knickknacks.

paws goes to the common room of the tavern to finish harvey's googles.

Harvey goes to brush krick and krack.

Searos willing to kill a little time.

Kas is looking for ingredients. and Library. though she could just ask Paws who is basically a library herself. Vic is interested in a library or bookstore. 

Temple of augma. dark and smokey. narrow space. tapping in religious ceremonies.

diamonds? information on the shadowfell?

largest collection of books in daggerford here.

i mention paws. a line of 5 desks for teaching with a textbooks. must tell paws. attention with those!! 


Kas askes about information on reviving the dead. looking for diamonds. had some bad luck and hoping. daggerford. not bloted down, it will get stolen. could help. 

books on the shadowfell. Odd request. very niche request. VERY dusty book. very thin. portfolio with some drawings. therotically diagram of the cosmos and the planes. shows how the material plane and the shadowfell and feywild are mirrors of each other and can overlap on the material plane. which we saw in person in vermilon. reference material for our order. not specific. 

Cobbler shop would have been the spot to look for diamonds. those still in that line of work. if you hang around long enough, you might find anything.

tell paws the loan of the book is indefinite. repaid many times over. 

Vic introduces himself as Brother Vic, amanator, order of light. partially unknown. new member. esoteric.

endira, priestess of lathandarr. busy body. concerned member of the order.

Corin the priest of this place.

more truthful to history. 

Vic is looking for books on the undead. local history of undead. haunted places. towers. You should really see Endira.

Ask Vic!

cobbler shop. New friends talk about it

Vic died and came back. He came back ASAP. weird tingling feeling. Same as you? I was dead walking for a long time. He will show me a painting he made. Dying really changed him. gave him a new purpose.

task getting rid of a undead creature. Kas offers to help. always better as a team than alone.  Head back

Paws has finished the googles of darkvision for harvey. has magnifying glass. 

one goggle. magical item. harvey doesn't thank her.

paws makes friends  I tell her about the temple and the children learning.

frost just at the edges of windows.

searos will cast bonfire in the fireplace

Vic doesn't have darkvision but he is okay.

 how are we approaching the cobbler shop.

I never got to see inside last time.

Kas is lost in a memory following Valon through the night. Just like old times huh Ori? Oh. nothing is there.  (not stealthing)

Paws, searos and harvey stealthing.

no longer on fire is the cobbler shop.

harvey splits off secretly to walk around the building.

guard actively looking at the burnt out building. paying attention with a torch.

sees the hole that the grey render broke through and across is the strong wall.

an illumination come around the building. torchlight.

Oh! a city guard. we should ask him.

Vic picks up a piece of wood with light. Vic asks the guard for information. Cpt rolatt sent us.

Rolatts investigators. Odd hours. but we've been briefed.

we are the talk of the barracks with how we handled the massive creaure.

Searos the horse????

Vic asks why a cobbler shop was targeted? as an out of towner.

Ned the guard. Vic has an accent suddenly. offers a cigar.

warned about fires. searos lights the cigar. vic teaches cigar procedures.

guard will let the 2 other guards know about us. muddy standard issue guard shoes.

Harvey lightes the dagger up behind the guard surprising him. Paws talks frm the shadows but the guard had seen her.

3/4 of the barracks has your back.

I can't find the alley from last time.

harvey lends vic his dagger of first light. dagger on loan, no keep.

Paws flexes about her dragon friend.

paws tries to tell a joke. Vic liked it.

dragon memories.

we all step in.

crowded. charred nubs. makes harvey uncomfortable.

black hole now appears like a chasm. reminds us of the sinkhole from the tunnerler and the trapped skeleton's that were trapped.

good thing Valon isn't here for going into the hole.

kas is interested in the shiny glass. paws helps. the glass shards sprayed out from a point against that far wall. going towards me.

any more to pick up? harvey and searos was the largest. not here.

Harvey asks Searos why the glass didn't melt? Searos isn't sure.

he could try to melt it.

Searos goes to the hole. Sees into the pit. looks like a deliberately built chamber of this structure. iron bars rising from the basement. a cage where the render probably was. 

The chamber continues on behind and underneath.

the render was probably pretty cramped for his size.

vic and Paws go down.

Kas decides to follow and fails the landing! Paws tries to  catch her but kas crunches her. sorry paws. she still loves me

Paws catches Harvey.

Harvey sees the glow from the guard torches. hears a call and response.

relatively untouched basment. ask and rubble everywhere. things disloadged.

at the very far end, stairs that lead up.

paws looks for books or anything that could give info.

the things that draw paws attention are three large glass cylinders. reminds of the plants from loudwater. the plants we found and fought. 

looking behind the rest of the group, there is a shiny bronze frame. a large oval frame. little bits of glass clinging to the edge of this. about 5ft sized.

did the creatures like looking at themselves?

seems weird. summoning.

teh frame kinda has a familiar ness of the portal in vermillon. 

Kas wants to grab a piece. it looks like it fell from above. 

several large fragments. clean breaks between the breaks. in the middle is a hole that is edge in the same charring and little fissures. something punched a hole in this mirror and left a perfect circle and the mirror fell.

Kas picks up the piece of the fissure. reflective. it is a mirror. i see myself. the pieces from harvey and searos fits in. one edge is blackened. Kas just wants to look at it. the idea of mirrors is interesting "mirror plane". what is this. why did somone punch it and why does it remind me of the portal?

Vic looks at platforms in the area underground. raised circular platforms. Were once at one point inscriptions. teleportation circles. the teleporatation circles destination glyphes are gone now.

Vic calls us over. why would a cobbler shop have these items.

Paws explains about loudwater. smuggling operation for exotic creatures.

torchlight separates out of view.


Look into the mirror at night

Harvey come with us. Don't be alone again.


need ingredients and library.

Kas needs the shard of mirror.