59 - Serenity Circles

Goals

Investigate the Broken Bones Coven. Find out more about Habor (Zook knows he is in a prison of Griestein). Learn of the teleportation circles. Players have some available time to prepare stuff with their homes/families/background stories.

Setup 58 - The Silver Towers of Kinros

Dion left Lex a letter informing him about a portal to the Nine Hells near the town of Kerlau, a heavily guarded portal called the Gates of Hell. The party travelled to the city of Kinros to meet with the Lady of the Silver Towers. Met lady Grace Eleanor Hurley who gave them a visit of the Greatest City of the world, and promised to invite them to an event in the evening involving a bagpipe-soprano duo from Torchio. Travelled to the Met Alison Cunningham (an adult silver dragon) and she challenged the party to a fight in exchange to giving up Pelor's Shield. Won, received the item, end of session.

Locations

• Arburg
  • Temple of Life
    • Prepare a ritual for the children.
  • Spiegelfest
    • 100 activities
• Kinros
  • Brentwood Palace
    • A private dinner is organised for dignified guests of the Kingdom of Arden. A Bagpipe-soprano duo from Torchio called Fratelli Panefassi are playing their most recent songs about love between a princess and a common man.

NPCS

• Veronica Korsch (female half-elf paladin, calm, strong)
  • Uses some sending stones to contact some of the people working for her to send the children to Arcastle instead.
  • Wonders why Habor is no longer answering.
• Maximus (male human noble, friendly to the party)
  • Will default to Dion and Lex's opinion on the matter about saving the children. Gives Lex and Auron as a Paladin of the Kingdom carte-blanche to organise what they need. "It's what Hilde would want"
  • Regarding Veronica, conflicted. A punishment is required for kidnapping children and slaying them, but understands the gravity of the situation. Didn't believe her back then (an advisor of the king of a descendant of Veronica's father and she, Wendelgard Korsch, hates her).
• Aaron Bahr
  • Created 5 maps to locate the children, and is working on 15 more.
• Sister Imelda
  • Prepare a Dagger for Quinn. Whoever is killed with is on the material plane will have their soul sent to the nine hells. If they travel to the nine hells and kill that person again there, their soul will be forever trapped in the nine hells with no possibility of escaping. The dagger is called the Soul Binder.
• Myria
  • The party has been gone 2 weeks, how did they come back so fast? Did Zook use magic?
  • Very excited to see Pelor's Shield. She didn't imagine it was real.
  • She and Lex will prepare a ritual for the children. The party is free to do what they wish until the ritual is ready, where they shall be called upon.
• Habor Grief
  • If scried on, if chained up with burn marks on his torso, unconscious in a dungeon.
• Alison Cunningham
  • Thanks the players for the fun. If they are ever bored, they should come and seek employment with her. They are obviously capable, and she could use some strong motivated people.
  • If asked what kind of jobs, she just says "confirming legends, recovering forgotten artefacts, and becoming so rich that money is no longer any concern."
  • Will teleport the party downstairs and give them each 300 platinium. "As a motivation to come again".
  • If they want a job, tell them that she wants to send a party in Elder's Rest in Frynia to confirm the name on a tomb in the Gardens of the Everlasting.
• Grace Eleanore Hurley (human female, old, kind and gentle)
  • Happy to gossip more about her old rival Barbara, an aweful woman.
  • Wants to introduce the party to the mayor, Juliette Egan, who has invited them for supper.
• Juliette Egan (half-enven female, noble)
  • Not enjoying herself, misses her days as an adventurer. Will ask about the party's deeds and where they have travelled.
  • If they mention Owlchester, her father butts in.
  • After her father leaves, will ask when they travel back. Asks them to visit her at the Gideon Institute in the morning.
  • Next morning, in the university, at the top of a tower that is progressively more guarded, the party are introduced to the Serenity Circle. Portal that when activated will send up to 10 people to another serenity circle. This can be activated once every 10-15 minutes. Rivandol is financing these in various capitals to promote diplomatic ties on the continent to avoid wars. She hopes that with the party knowing of these, they will use them to conduct diplomatic missions and come more often.
• Martin Egan (elven male, loves himself)
  • Leader of the republican guard. Wants to know if they heard of him while in Kinros. Will go away if they haven't, sad.
  • "No one tells the stories of heroes these days anymore!"

Encounters

(3 White Abishai (mtf 163) or 3 black abishai) + lead by Zekrol (Flind, volo 153) reskinned as a hag-like creature, working for the hags, tracking Victoria.

End of session

Last session: Levin sent the drow in the feywild a letter asking for help.