## [[../Sessions/2023/2023-02-02|2023-02-02]] - [[Shithead|Shithead]] seems to have a little more life this morning - [[../Characters/Corrin Grosbeak|Corrin Grosbeak]] and [[../Characters/Kal Banal|Kal Banal]] investigate slave market to prepare for assualt this evening - [[../Characters/Bayden|Bayden]] asks around about the Maiden's Kiss play by the [[../Organizations/Fool's Entourage|Fool's Entourage]] - Everyone has heard of the play and loves it - Most of the actors not well known - Everyone seems to know [[../People/Lady Asmerissa|Lady Asmerissa]] - [[../Characters/Kal Banal|Kal Banal]] waits in line for tickets at [[../Places/Bard's Gate/Motley|Motley]] - [[../Characters/Luka Votsk|Luka Votsk]] is back to transcribing books - Decides to armwrestle wizards - Luca defeats two of them - The others chicken out - [[../Characters/Wrelen Steamsparker|Wrelen Steamsparker]] looks for how to make ant pheremones - Needs a "proper" alchemist's set - No time to look today - [[../Characters/Bayden|Bayden]] meets [[../Characters/Kal Banal|Kal Banal]] at [[../Places/Bard's Gate/Motley|Motley]] - Tickets were 20G - One person offers 50G - Another offers 75G - A third offers 100G - A big guy tries to intimidate them into handing it over for free - They sell for 100G gold and a diamond - As they hand off the ticket, the recipient gets stabbed - The whole bridge erupts into chaos - 4 guys pull the ticket "master" out of the window - [[../Characters/Corrin Grosbeak|Corrin Grosbeak]] sends [[Shithead|Shithead]] to jump on one - [[../Characters/Kal Banal|Kal Banal]] shoves one away - [[../Characters/Bayden|Bayden]] takes off his mask and growls, one flees - [[../Characters/Corrin Grosbeak|Corrin Grosbeak]] trips another with his staff - [[../Characters/Bayden|Bayden]] throws him over the bridge railing - They rescue the ticket master [[../People/Braldo|Braldo]] - Not injured - He hasn't seen the play, seems normal - Lets [[../Characters/Kal Banal|Kal Banal]], [[../Characters/Bayden|Bayden]], and [[../Characters/Corrin Grosbeak|Corrin Grosbeak]] observe rehearsal - Someone cleaning orchestra instruments - Trapdoor down from orchestra pit - Performers are not that great, probably assisted by magic - [[../People/Lady Asmerissa|Lady Asmerissa]] is not there - Side stage door probably does to street - Sneak behind the curtain, go through door - Small hallway with 6 doors, suspect changing rooms - Kal opens one of the doors - Costumes, desk with mirror, makeup - No one inside - Same thing behind other 5 doors - Exit hallway back to stage - Sneak down through orchestra pit trap door - passage leading to backstage - another passage goes down further than expected - they climb down - one rung breaks, falls, and makes noise, but nobody falls - reach the bottom - stone passage lit with darkness, lit by torches - explore down hallways to first arch - collection of elegant musical instruments - doorway barred like jail cell with 3 musicians inside - musicians seem nervous - there's a window leading to next room, can't see through - another arch with 6 or more undead behind bars, don't like that music stops briefly - undead look dressed up - very decomposed - travel down corridor for awhile - reach a chamber - stone disc with symbols reminiscent of musical notes - getting close to sunset, 4:30pm ish - symbols are musical notes of the song "guards" were playing down the hall before - [[../Characters/Corrin Grosbeak|Corrin Grosbeak]] tries to play it on the shawm - runes glow and them stop glowing - door with light coming from other side - hear sounds of a riot - open the door - under the bridge - camp where [[../Organizations/Fool's Entourage|Fool's Entourage]] relaxes and spends evenings - people milling around between tents - [[../Characters/Wrelen Steamsparker|Wrelen Steamsparker]], [[../Characters/Belorin Forechaser|Belorin Forechaser]], and [[../Characters/Luka Votsk|Luka Votsk]] approach [[../Places/Bard's Gate/Motley|Motley]] - see a riot, find that our companions started it over scalping tickets - hear that they rescued the ticket master [[../People/Braldo|Braldo]] - has heard the play is excellent - [[../People/Braldo|Braldo]] agrees to let us in - Shows us where [[../Characters/Bayden|Bayden]] pushed one of the rioters off the bridge - We see the rest of the party below - [[../Characters/Corrin Grosbeak|Corrin Grosbeak]] drops [[Shithead|Shithead]] at [[../Places/Bard's Gate/Felled Ogre|Felled Ogre]] - we proceed to black market entrance - sun goes down, we hide in some burned out buildings - 6 women approach, stand out real bad - definitely our [[../Organizations/Maiden's Cross|Maiden's Cross]] people, [[../People/Jeanette Holycraft|Jeanette Holycraft]] among them - we tell them to wait 30 min so we can approach from other entrance - we get inside and loiter around opposite entrance - wait for commotion - surprise 2 guards near us - take 1 guard down - take 2nd guard down - there are 14 people in the room, 11 scatter - we deal with 1 thug and 2 others run - Kal hears music that made him become a slave months ago - We open the door and see the clowns from a couple days ago ## [[../Sessions/2023/2023-02-09|2023-02-09]] - Kal shoots the accordion that was playing music - we team up on him and kill him - Another clown has a glass vial - he goes down too - Battle axe clown goes down too - Kal unmasks accordion clown - looks disturbingly like a clown under the mask also - Kal takes the wand - slaves are escaping - [[../Organizations/Maiden's Cross|Maiden's Cross]] soldiers are wounded, we see [[../People/Jeanette Holycraft|Jeanette Holycraft]] - [[../People/Greeley|Greeley]] is with her - [[../Characters/Wrelen Steamsparker|Wrelen Steamsparker]] casts detect thoughts and triggers wild magic - does 10 damage to everyone within 30 feet - [[../People/Greeley|Greeley]] dies - [[../People/Jeanette Holycraft|Jeanette Holycraft]] is not pleased - will take some time to decipher the code on [[../People/Greeley|Greeley]]'s papers - someone in the temple district may be able to speak with dead to [[../People/Greeley|Greeley]] - should investigate [[../People/Duloth|Duloth]] - return to [[../Places/Bard's Gate/Felled Ogre|Felled Ogre]] - rest for the night