quartz/content/Journal/Day059.md

2023-04-14

• wand of locate object still directs us to ../Places/Bard's Gate/index
• we proceed there
• arrive early afternoon
• ../Characters/Luka Votsk goes to grand plaza
• Pulls out wand of locate object
• guards accost us
  • ../Characters/Bayden convinces them that we were reciting poetry
• we go to burned section and it seems like it's underground
• we find a door that it's behind
• a few thugs can see us
  • tells us it's Rob's Appraisals
  • we say we have jewels to sell
  • thug is named Thomas
• we try to go around behind
  • sign says "pest removal service"
  • ../Characters/Belorin Forechaser spies a pit trap just inside
  • locked door on the other side of the pit trap
  • Corrin uses clairvoyance to see/hear other side of door
    • hallway and storage room, doesn't hear anything
    • dimly lit
• Bayden works on the door with a crowbar
  • pries open after 2 tries, door swings open
• Bayden hears strange clacking sounds
• Bayden finds secret door and works on it with crowbar
  • pops it open
  • sees woman in early forties
  • wearing leather armor, short sword, and dagger
• corrin tries to go up stairs
  • stairs collapse

2023-04-20

• Woman ambushes us when we try to leave, popping out side door
• She surprises ../Characters/Bayden and kills him
  • ../Characters/Bayden dies a heroic death
• explore down a hallway
• see a prisoner in a cell who says - what? you're not Galera - very loudly, he's missing both ears
• Galera was an assassin
• Thorfin thinks he had a bounty on him
• Galera injected him with poison many times
• detect thoughts shows us that he is not a bad person but others may have grudges
• ../Characters/Corrin Grosbeak unlocks cell with Galera's keys
• we tell Thorfin about the trap and he jumps into it and dies
• we short rest in Galera's bedroom
• she has piles of assination contracts
  • we are in the pile of incomplete contracts, including ../Characters/Kal Banal
• there is a chest with 3 locks
  • we find gold and platinum inside
  • red dress, makeup kit, perfume, velvet, shoes
    • clothing is very nice
• ../Characters/Corrin Grosbeak finds 2 potions of greater healing
• we find a table full of alchemist chemicals
• Corrin inspects the chemicals and then goes into a seizure
  • Belorin gives him a potion
  • ../Characters/Corrin Grosbeak wakes up but is still poisoned, passes out again
  • takes another healing potion
• wrelen looks at desk, sees a bunch of vials marked:
  • 4 A
  • 2 BL
  • 10 RSV
  • 5 RCV
  • 6 RPV
• ../Characters/Belorin Forechaser says they are all poison
  • A is arsenic
  • BL is black lotus
  • RSV is from spider venom
• explore through other secret door
  • see a small hallway
  • walk into back door of a fence's booth
  • see several gems
    • pearl necklace
    • ruby
    • topaz
    • etc
  • smash the display cases using ../Things/Lord Kyle's Sword
  • we see the gem/necklace stolen from Winnefred Balm
• ../Characters/Wrelen Steamsparker searches Galera
  • magic armor
  • magic goggles
  • potion of greater healing
• we leave with ../Characters/Bayden's body
• ../Characters/Kal Banal had told us he was looking for the ../Places/Temple of Tyr
  • we could get the scroll there?
• at ../Places/Temple of Tyr
  • rows of benches and tall stained glass windows
  • acolytes milling about
  • see a group in prayer led by ../People/Baufford the Just
  • eyes are drawn to ../Characters/Kal Banal but with an arm regrown!
  • ../Characters/Corrin Grosbeak tries to get ../Characters/Kal Banal's attention
  • ../Characters/Kal Banal still has the scroll but can't use it to help ../Characters/Bayden himself
  • ../People/Baufford the Just can help but asks if this is what ../Characters/Bayden would want
  • takes us to funerary chamber
  • ../Characters/Kal Banal presents the scroll to ../People/Baufford the Just
  • Baufford seems very capable, ../Characters/Bayden begins to heal
  • as scroll disintegrates, ../Characters/Bayden's eyes open
  • it's an ordeal coming back from the dead, but ../Characters/Bayden will heal in a few days
• ../Characters/Kal Banal asks if we want to join on the quest to recover the shrines of ../Gods/Tyr and Mir to the North
  • he will send for us
• ../Characters/Bayden recalls rising out of his body
  • Galera says he would murder him and collect the bounty
  • get the sense from other spirits that she has killed a lot of people
  • she specializes in poison, not selling jewels
  • the Red Blades sent a notice to kill us
  • ../Characters/Bayden pledges to kill them all
  • Robb "Bauble" Bore is a deep gnome
    • got necklace from a male halfling and 2 thugs
• went to ../Places/Bard's Gate/Felled Ogre for the night