Day 35 (S23-25)

day 9 of DI
Started going to Greenwarf, Ended in Bloodletter contest
Rina day 30
We decide to split temporarily, girls going south along the city’s edge, Rina really doesn’t want to deal with Caspian right now. They talk to some fisherman on the outskirts of the city, but not much more info - only that the small/med sized fish started disappearing first. Alice uses commune with nature and we find out that there are multiple things in the lake that are all connected in a parasitic relationship.

Kin and Aurelius go to the Greenwarf adventuring guild, only to step into a fight thats already happening. Some of the other adventuring parties were fighting over getting the same mission we are on. Aurelius calls for "danger" with the blending, so the girls come running with the Golem carrying them. Rina going very begrudgingly.

One guy in the guild mentions that he believes he knows what is causing the Missing Fish - Guppo is his name

Rina, Alice , Neely and the golem run into a group of Luminus soldiers.
around the corner, a young man with sandy blonde hair, sees Rina and beams with a smile from ear to ear. He winks at her and waves - Enoch’s blue magic seen in the wave. This is Caspian - Agronoch's 2nd warlock. This… is day 30 of Rina’s contract. Day 9 of the 2 weeks of diplomatic immunity

Started off with Alice , Rina , and Neely with their Golem staring at a group of Luminus soldiers. The one guy in the middle was one of the Cardinals of Luminus who wore gold armor. They notice the circlet and want it back. They say it’s the Middle Finger’s - Roy Richmond - weapon and demand it back. We eventually did and it diffused the situation. As they walk away, they mutter some positive things about us as The Bound.

Caspian was on the roof with a fireball that he didn’t know how to handle. Alice thought we could put it in the bag of colding. After Alice and Rina squabbled over Alice not getting it after her explosion last time, Rina opened it enough for Caspian to throw it in there. We now have a fireball within the bag of colding whenever we need to use it. It will explode immediately though.

Alice still has her Golem but it doesnt follow orders quite as well. We go toward the adventuring guild, Caspian in tow, Alice paying for her Golem’s damages along the way. There is no fight when we get there, but kin and Aurelius were talking to guppo who said he knows why the fish are disappearing.

He takes us all to his house, and his brother Darwin has created a lab in his basement. Lots of ink on his hands and arms from writing, tons of papers everywhere. He also has fish tanks with different sizes of fish.

He shows us a small minnow sized fish called a Kandaroo that is doing just fine on its own. But as soon as he put it in with a bass, it hijacked the bass and the bass died. Darwin took the fish out with a net and pulled the minnow out of it. The minnow was fine after. Kin tried to get into its mind, it does not seem to be possessed by the Jarl - once kin’s face touched the water, the minnow became somewhat sentient. Implying that it needed the host to feel safe, while it went up his nose and into his lung. We also learn that, when given the opportunity to enter a host, it seems to become something other than a simple Kandaroo. These fish typically kill their host within hours, and it is unclear if they are also able to kill larger hosts. This is why the medium fish have been dying first.

Then kin used spirit guardians to destroy it. Kin says he feels like he was zapped, and Darwin mentions that it sounds similar to the Electric Catfish. It seems there is a massive number of the Kandaroo being produced in some colony of them somewhere. Kin uses commune with nature to determine that the fish are being produced at the bottom of the lake, and we are reminded of the Spliced soul of the Golem and the Elemental. The source of the issue was way beneath the earth, somewhere on the other side - the underdark which is basically a reverse of our planet. Oara shows kin a memory of a young boy catching one of these catfish.

We agreed to give Darwin & his brother each a share of the money, plus pay off his 1300g debt.

Darwin, Guppo, Kin, Alice, Neely, Aruel, Rina, Party fund. 8 total shares of 35kG. So that’s ($4375 x 2) + 1300. Each person in our party to take $260g from their personal share for the 1300. So we would each get $4115. (Party fund would still get 4375)

We then decide to go back to Castle Frey for the Bloodletter contest, Rina also sends a letter to Darrian with a copy of her bloodletter attached.

We spend some time eating dinner at home, with Caspian there with us. Alice instructs the cook to only give Rina broth for dinner. Rina puts some of the deer jerky from Duskford / Boggy Roger into it to make it an actual stew. She tries to talk to Caspian alone, but everyone can hear anyway. Caspian says his mission is to kill Edward Falsewater who is apparently in Greenwarf. (Barron of Fishes was noted but i can’t remember why). Caspian is... not that smart, and only 18 years old. He's also loud, especially about Agronoch and their contract.

Not spending much more time there, we all go to the bloodletter.

It is kind of underground, everything is warm and mushroomy. King Sullivan Frey is sitting with his oldest friend, a blonde lady vampire named Zina. Rina asks how old she is, but everyone basically says she’s rude for asking. She says she’s 300 and just wondering, the lady Dhampir sighs with “ahh to be that young” - literally the first time in 2 centuries Rina felt young. They all ate some food.

There is a giant glass jar full of bloodletters from people in the city. The tradition was kept alive by the Three Fangs as Druse people used to have to speak very little and quietly when they lived in fear of the original Dhampir.

Aurelius: Writing is telepathy. Kin: Home & Family (written in actual blood). Alice: Dont let anyone dim your light. Rina: Son i never saw you as temporary, your short life only means that every breath you breathe is that much more precious to me.

Rina’s was most appreciated by the Dhampir, with its sentiment from someone long-lived. She and Drake stared at each other the whole time.

Alice won, she got a bag of Holding that Drake is not all that sure is super great. She also gets 10 entries to the Vampire Lottery that she can use for whoever she wants. It’s an exciting thing - all of Castle Frey looks forward to seeing who will be put into the Vampire Lottery.  Alice gestures toward Rina, who was not expecting that. Rina had said to everyone before that she had no intention of taking vampirism.

After the contest Rina was leaning against the wall of the dining hall, and Drake came up beside her to wall-lean, too.

She asked how he was doing. He said it was a good day, the Bloodletter is always uplifting. She asked if he reads them. He said he does, especially since he likes to know how the people are doing. “If you’re asking if I read yours…” he started. She said “That isn’t what I meant but…” He said “I really felt it.” She asked if he had kids. He said he used to, but time caught up with them. She answered, “That must have been devastating.” It is obvious to both of them now that they're both attracted to each other.

The moment interrupted by a Long Necked man with an ostrich head. Rina just ran up and hugged him - happy to see him safe. She knows this has to be Longneck Razorbeak, The other Fearsome 5 member. Them and the Salt Slayers showed up… But without Gunther

End session, same day. day 30 of Rina’s contract. Day 9 of the 2 weeks of DI.

S25

We learn that Gunther decided to stay back at Drusk sort of as “insurance” that the rest of the group will come back. But he is ok.

Sullivan Frey then asks Aurelius to the side room of the dining area - there he again asked Aurelius for his armor. Aurelius still didn’t just give it to him. So Sullivan looked it over, and said it is not the same as his own, thats why he wants it. He tells Aurelius that he wants to challenge him to a game, Aurelius gets to pick. He picks Boulder, Parchment, Sheers. The king laughed so loud everyone could hear, but accepts. He says once we are back from our mission, thats when they will play. If Sullivan wins, he gets the Black Dragon hide armor that Aurl got from Phesoi's Realm. If Aurelius wins, we get our debt to the ShapeSmithing school/ shop cleared, as well we getting Sullivan’s Golden Dragon hide armor.

Godfrey then convinces Drake to go bar hopping, despite him clearly not wanting to. Rina asks if he’d like to go somewhere else, he just says “yes, home” but still leaves with Godfrey.

We get back to our house and Caspian is asleep on the couch. We see he’s covered in blood, and we all get worried. He tells us that he’s already dead, and Agronoch is why he’s alive. He seems to only have 3 days left to live. He was beaten to death by Edward Falsewater’s men when he tried to keep Edward from taking his sister Elysia. She had apparently gone with him before, but came back “broken” emotionally and mentally. Kin is more worried about getting the sister, and Rina is just worried about helping Caspian with his goal.

Caspian suggests we try to intercept Edward’s ship as he enters the harbor, and convince him to go on the Missing Fish mission with us. He’s a very vain man, but not worth his salt. We could use this to get him alone and find a way to kill him that way. He said if we get close, he will just go kill him himself. This is the one thing he wanted, and the deal he made with Enoch. Rina used modify memory on him to agree to wait until we are done with the fish quest and come get him to do anything rash. The rest of the party did not want to go through with his plan because its so short notice. We intended to just leave him at the Manor, but we decided to take him with us and leave him in Darwin’s lab while we do fish quest stuff.
Rina asks Caspian what Enoch told him about her. He said she would "Smell" like a Warlock, Rina doesn't know what the means. He also said she was really charismatic.