quartz/content/Journal/Day229.md

2024-05-11

• meet Daimaan at rendezvous point
  • all shined and polished
  • divides up the vials of holy water
• re-enter sewers
  • secret door covered with moss opened to a damp and muddy hallway
  • brick wall with slightly different color we took down before
  • head down long hall where we think Corrin went
• hunt for Corrin
  • head down hallway and up the stairs
  • long hall has some side rooms
  • in one of the rooms we find some chests
  • find gold, jewels, and a 2 sets of thieves' tools
• Daimaan casts locate object
  • somewhere above us
  • Bayden tries to open door at the end of the hall with thieves' tools
  • it wasn't locked
• Find a room with a ladder up to a trapdoor
• some shadow rats appear
  • Daimaan makes one of them explode
  • party dissipates another group of rats
  • destroys the third group
• inspect the trap door
  • don't hear anything
  • no traps
  • raise the door and look around
• this was a watch tower to see what's approaching Rogue's Island
• we see Corrin's body lying on the ground
  • Daimaan cradles his partially decomposed body
  • Bayden notices Corrin's body is not casting a shadow
  • Daimaan wants to find his shadow
  • casts speak with the dead
    • is your spirit still trapped as a shadow? yes
    • do you know where it is? no
    • if we destroy the shadow, will you be able to find rest? yes
    • what killed you? a shade
    • Daimaan asks if Corrin ever really loved him? yes
  • Bayden hugs Daimaan
• there is something unholy about this place, shades are drawn to it
• loot another of the theives' dorm rooms?
  • more gold and theives' tools
• and more of the same
• shade attacks Bayden and Corrin
• the shade seems stronger than the ones before
  • perhaps something is increasing their strength
• there are 2 secret doors
• lead to more hallways
• find a room which looks like someone's quarters
  • has a secret language but reading it hurts their heads
  • symbol on top looks like a dagger pointing down
    • skull behind it where the eyes are filled in
    • making infinity sign close to hilt of the sword
  • symbol of the grey deacons
  • notorious thieves guild in ../Places/Bard's Gate/index that disappeared years ago
• another room had 8 shades
  • none halfling size
  • we destroy them (mostly Daimaan)
  • dartboard with the face of a guild leader
    • has many marks on it
    • one of us recognizes and knows he was tough on crime
  • Mo sees 400G hidden and a secret trapdoor
• we find a bunch of high quality thieves gear
  • another secret door, Bayden and Daimaan enter
  • shades come through the walls
  • Mo and Daimaan go unconscious
  • we defeat the shades
• open a door and find a path down to the water
• short rest
• +618G, xp to 22953

2024-05-29

• explore inside a secret
• many shadows appear (9)
• Daimaan casts channel divinity, takes care of 5 of them
• others kill Bayden but party defeats, we revive Bayden
• advance into next room and see 6 more shades
• Bayden, Daimaain, and Wrelen all go down during combat
• gallows in the room seems not tall enough for normal height - for halflings?
• escape out to sunlight
• shades probably won't follow us
• we hunt for a boat but there is no boat
• Daimaan casts water walk on us
• we approach the shore
• a few people gather and point at us
• Bayden and Mo try to say we didn't cast the spell
• Daimaan says his god rescued them
• guards aren't buying it
• Mo and Daimaan surrender
• Wrelen heads out of the city to the tent city
• Bayden plays dead and then heads north
• Luca heads east
• Mo and Daimaan taken in to K5
• sergeant details the story, factual without embellishment
• puts them in a holding cell
• they will be questioned for being affiliated with troublemakers
• weapons are confiscated
• man in brown with curled mustache appears
• Daimaan panics a bit and apologizes for casting water walk to save us
• constable asks if he needs time to calm down and offers water
• leaves for a few minutes, brings water
• not in serious trouble, fines 50G each
• asks for information on acquaintances
  • Cuphet
  • Tenebris
  • one of the ../Organizations/Birds of Prey
• Mo gives name and location of tent
• Daimaan gives name of god
• constable goes on a sandwich break
• comes back an hour later
• brings in a picture of ../Characters/Belorin Forechaser
  • body was found in the tent
• scrying sensor in the corner, heard the discussion
• will hold them overnight and use zone of truth
• it will go better for you if you're honest

2024-06-05

• Wrelen rents a tent for the night
  • hangs out in the lodge/tavern
  • hear the story of the vault of ../People/Larenkar
  • designed tomb like an adventurer
  • exercise in traps and deadly combat
  • 3 gems needed to open the door