Game 82

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The group decides to remain at the Moonstone Mask after Merius generously decides to treat everyone to the stay. The party (save for Otto who beds down) avails themselves of the baths. Inside, they overhear a conversation between two men who are discussing the blight. One says that a case of it was spotted in the Shamblers…

Outside, as Aziola is looking for a tree, she overhears a conversation “I’ll do anything… wait! He’s a nobleman, god damn it!” Aziola sees a figure in the cart, covered and not moving. “Look, you have to help!” Aziola hears the younger man shout “I’m Talmund Terrywine, and we demand you give us quarter!”

The proprietor pushes the younger man in the chest and shouts something in dwarvish and goes back inside to lock up for the night. Defeated, the young man goes back to the cart and buries his head in his hands.

As Aziola attempts to investigate further, she sees that the individual in the cart clearly has Nalavara’s revenge. But she recognizes Brohain Cloudbeard to be the individual.

“Are you trying to heal him?” she asks Talmund.

“Yes. But no one will help us. We got kicked out down the road.”

“What if I were to help you?”

Talmud looks at her skeptically. “Look, if you’re trying to rob us, it won’t work.”

“Look, I know that man… it is Brohain Cloudbeard.”

“How do I know you aren’t trying to con us?”

Eventually, she persuades him to wait while she fetches the rest of the group.

…

Rowan goes into Brohains dreams. He is on a ship. There are 100s of ships all across the ocean. Brohain is cowering, holding his head. Rowan tells him that what he sees around him is not real. He hears the cackling of the which of fire and wood. Brohain looks for his axe. The witch throws a bolt of green energy, rending the ship apart. Brohain and Rowan are thrown into the ocean.

There is a dwarf with a blurry face, taunting Brohain to set fire to a house. He refuses. Smoke begins to fill the air. A woman screams and runs into a house. Rowan begins to choke on the air, but Brohain steadies him.

They see a golden chariot ahead of them, as black bloods stream in and break against the dwarven shield walls, which begin to buckle under the onslaught. The pair begin to fight their way to the chariot.

Brohain sees the form of Hegel, pierced by a dozen arrows. Hegel calls out to him, exhorting him to help him. But Brohain steals himself, and sees it for what it is… a collection of eyes, watching him malevolently.

Brohain enters a hut where he sees the form of his father, Daruk. Upon seeing that his father’s face too is blurred, he disperses the form.

From there, Brohain and Rowan work together to defeat the witch and awaken from the slumber. As the blight disperses in the air, a voice in Brohain’s mind hisses “You know this isn’t how it ended…”

Ophola Cheldarstorn is the patron of the innkeeper at the Moonstone Mask. The innkeeper mentioned her as the source of the Fey wine. The innkeeper also balked when he saw Rowan’s matrom.

The group ultimately ends up deciding to try to track down Geradun at the House of Song. The first person Rowan speaks with doesn’t recognize the name, but Tolfor gets his attention by whistling the Harper's tune. He tells Rowan that to find Geradun, they will need to go to the House of Thousand Faces.

Ereb arrives at a gate with skull motifs etched into the stonework. Using detect magic, he sees that it seems to be protected by abjuration magic.

He examines a statue. A lot of its features seem fairly nondescript. It may have had a weapon at one time. The rest of the statue looks like it may have been angrily attacked. Ereb begins to probe the base and dig around. He eventually hits on old stones. Very old stones. As he pries at one, it drops into darkness. Ereb follows.

Below is a copper pipe that has multiple heads, but does not appear to have any water flowing through it. But there is a stagnant pool below. Over in the corner is an opening that leads down a passageway down a larger canal. This drops into the sewers of Neverwinter.

Ereb realizes that the pool is not a pool, but a magnagraphic circle. There are several conjuration glyphs that appear dormant. Working, but not active.

He decides to leave the hole, but makes a mental note of it for later. He buries two gold, and says to the beheaded statue. “No wonder I’ve been having such bad luck… I mean look at you.”

As he moves on, he passes by a house of Red Wizards storefront that appears abandoned. He detects an aura of necromantic magic coming from the shop. He approaches a woman to inquire about when they left.

He enters the shop. He finds that most of it has been picked clean. But he discovers in the basement is evidence that Merrick’s formula was used here as well. This gives an unsettling indication that though we stopped it elsewhere, it may not have prevented it from percolating across Faerun elsewhere.

He makes his way to a dive bar managed by a gnomish gentleman. He sits down to play cards and “loses” to get information from them. He asks about a baker, to which they respond there are no bakers, only wolves.

They point out the man at the bar and indicate that Ereb should take him out. The man starts to run, and Ereb follows as a flock of ravens. He overtakes the man, reforms, and attacks. He dispatches the man quickly and recovers a pin of the blue sparrows on him. He takes it back to the men at the bar, gives them the pin and says. “All right, lets talk real business.”

…

At the House of Thousand Faces, lining the walls we see the collection of a lifetime of adventuring.

Painting

We see a painting with Martine, Aiden, Merrick and a younger version of the man that we see standing before us. There is a beautiful woman standing among them is Midnight. There is also Cyric Karsus. Midnight is also present. There is a man with a half-cocked smile. Another woman is there as well. Beautiful and pale. (Quile Veloran)

Rowan introduces himself and delivers the news.

Geradun tells us Martine was headed to the Moonshae Isles looking for a relic, a black tablet said that it could save the war and change the world. Tolfor’s father also went on the journey. Geradun recommends that we look at the records of Skyhold.

Otto asks about Talos’ pendant. Geradun tells about a point where devotees of the storm lord gather. He indicates on the map that it is at D18.

Rowan asks about the painting. Asks what made Merrick change. Gerridan says that he’s not sure, but that he would hear him at night calling to his brother. This is news to Rowan. He asks what happened to Quile Veloran, his mother. She is a young girl in the painting. Same age as Aiden and Merrick. Geradun says to talk to her sister, Laereal Silverhand…, attendant to Nashear Alagondar, the smirking guy with a ponytail,

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