Day 36 (S25-28)

day 10 of the 2 weeks of diplomatic immunity
We teleport to our tree near Greenwarf and the orphans of Greenwarf have all taken to guarding our tree. These are a small group of kids all under 10. Rina gives them the 7 silver from Boggy Roger's deer meat sale, and she tells them about him. They basically worship the tree and call us the saviors.

We get to the lab & Caspian is falling apart and not doing well. When we get to the there, Enoch Agronoch shows up. He’s concerned that we are not going to have enough time for him to kill Edward Falsewater because he’s not doing well. He acts cavalier, but we can tell he’s annoyed that he isn’t our highest priority. He mentioned that Caspian’s soul was falling really close to his realm, so he flew up and caught him, and gave him the deal to get his revenge. He said he's excited because he's never made a deal like this before. He says Caspian is going to die regardless, “it’s not like it matters… I get his soul anyway.” Enoch says, but seems to be hiding nervousness. Alice tells him off, and he disappears after a brief conversation. Alice could tell that Enoch is being heavily monitored. Enoch can't tell Rina

Guppo and Darwin both talk to us about what could be the source of the Kandaroo.

The Kandaroo breeds within other animals, so it must be a very large animal that they’re breeding in. One that doesn’t get harmed by this because it is so big. We are planning to fish it up to kill it, thats the only way to do it. We learn it is a giant Electric Catfish that these are living in. Guppo says it will be a few hours and he can make a fishing line for it.

We spend that time going to the Gallian - the Greenwarf adventuring guild- try to get more information about Edward. We learn that not many people are concerned about a missing person. We also learn that Edward will take girls and disguise them so it isn’t as obvious that he is kidnapping people. He always keeps guards around him, Rina wonders if they are these women. But someone suggests they could be a maid or a servant so it doesnt look like he has sex slaves.

We then see a server taking a honey+Mead shot to a table in the corner, the person there is hooded and staring at Alice. Alice feels a twinge of the moonlight in her when she sees this person’s eyes. The server then takes the shots back with only the honey gone. This person starts to leave and passes by us, Alice and Rina follow - along with Neely. We round a corner and Rina get stunned by the woman. She pauses and said she thought Rina would be more violent, and thought we might kill her. She then un-stuns Rina, and then her cloak starts to buss and hover from her body.

She has dark skin with white hair that’s shaved closely to her head. She said she’s a member of the Twilight Coven. We tell her we are of the Sprite Light coven, and she remarks that she will see us next week with the Witch contests. She addressed Alice as the Pradhana, the world ender. Rina asks if she’s one that studies the future, because that’s what Therius told Alice to look for. Her name is Mayoay. We ask why she was only taking honey, and she opened her cloak - there’s hundreds of bees. Rina listens with beast speech and they all just want honey. Mayoy asks if any of us want the bees to engulf them, Rina does. It’s uncomfortable just because… bugs. But Rina is glad to have experienced it.

Aurelius goes to the docks and helps Guppo work on the fishing pole on his ship.

Kin goes to a gathering he sees around a Church of Luminus where priests are gathering to give an announcement. Pontifex Coldwell announces that there will be a Pilgrimage to Mt Luminus in 9 months. and all believers should go. He tells them to “rise up in their clay forms”

Pretty much everyone recognizes kin, and he tries to play it off. But people start to as him if he will help them as an adventurer. He says to people close to him, “No Luminus is doing a GREAT job of that.” This eventually gets the crowd to chant "screw luminus" and “the church is shit” and “luminus doesnt exist” because they are tired of the church not doing anything about the Missing Fish. Kin sneaks away, but sees a kid throw a rock at a Priest. Kin keeps running. But behind him we see a giant flash of magic from luminus.

Alice and Rina finish with Mayoy, she says Alice is the center of a cycle, but she cant tell us more until we are officially a part of the coven in a few days at the Witch contests

Rina asks Mayoy what the Twilight coven has been worried about and she indicates its the Jarl.

We all make it to the docks and we get out of there in a hurry. There is a lot of flashes of magic over where the Church was. it takes us 2.5 hours to get a bite on the giant bait.

The catfish was 550 ft down, and we had to roll above it's strength to reel it in. If we hurt it, it got disadvantages on things as it got hurt.

We started with Aurelius reeling it up, then Rina helped. Kin gave us all water walk. Alice put up a fog cloud so no other ships could see what we were doing.

As we brought up the fish, Kin controlled the water to part it so we could more easily see the fish. We got a few attacks on it and started to damage it pretty well, Then it knocked Aurelius and Rina off the boat with its tail. Thanks to water walk, we were on top of the water, so the Kandaroo could not get us as easily. Rina dimesion doored the 2 of them back up after Aurelius got a few more hits in.

We kept attacking it, and kin finally got it up out of the water after we all did more reeling in. We continued to attack it as it hung over the side of the boat, but we see a circle of a storm clouds starting to form above us. If it rains lightning down it could destroy the pole.

Rina gets is completely up on the boat, it looks like it may not have much HP left. Kin attacks it, but its too late - he was unable to kill it, and the lightning came down right on top of the boat.

End session.

The giant catfish rained lightning down on us. Rina used Tomb of Levistus to block the majority of the damage, but everyone else in battle went down. Guppo died immediately, Darwin is hiding. Both Neely and Kin are on the boat and are at saving throws, Alice and Aurelius are thrown from the boat and land on the water, Alice going unconscious. The fish continues the thrash, and breaks Rina’s tomb of Levistus. She uses eldridge blast, finally ending the battle with this large fish and killing it. Aurelius sees that Alice is going to explode, so he picks her up and carries her far away from the ship - she explodes, killing Aurelius in the process. RIP.

Rina revives kin with a potion, then Kin gets Neely up. Neely finds Darwin who was hiding in the supply room. Rina tells him he needs to steer the boat, because he’s the only one who knows anything about it. He is shocked to see his brother dead, but Rina tells him he needs to lock in and we can mourn later.

He steers the ship in the direction Rina points, which is directly between the shore and where Alice and Aurelius are. Kin misty steps over to Alice to get her up, and they both grab Aurelius’s body. His left arm and leg are basically fried with black veins.

A ship of luminus and 2 others come through the fog, and start to throw spears in the direction of alice and kin. Alice uses water wall and a water elemental to get 2 of the ships off our backs, but the ship of Luminus is still moving toward us slowly, starting to run parallel to us.

Kin and Alice get Aurelius to the boat, Alice turning into a giant spider to get them all on board. The people on the ship of Luminus say they want to parlay, but Rina puts up a wall of fire about 15ft in front of their ship to stop them from moving - not menacingly, but she explains they need to get to the shore and get to safely before they do any talking.  The luminus ship respects the boundary and doesn't move closer.

As we get to the docks, adventurers are trying to keep Luminus away from us. We get off the boat slowly, with Alice’s spider form carrying the fish, and kin, Rina and darwin carrying the bodies of Aurelius and Guppo. Rina tries to console Darwin, but he’s checked out.

The adventuring guild gives us our money, and Darwin just wants his original agreed upon amounts. The whole town is cheering, we offer to give them the fish to make into food for everyone.

We see 2 fingers of Luminus just outside. The Middle finger and the Pinky. The Middle finger, Roy Richmond, wants to talk to us. We agree. He says he is not looking good to Luminus right now and He wants Aurelius’s body to get better favor. We are hesitant to give it to him, but we agree to do so at 9am the next morning. He agrees to take some of the heat off us if we do. We wanted 24 hours, but he would only give us a little over 12. He asks us what happened on the water, since there was a huge explosion and smoke and lightning. We give him few details, but enough that he’s satisfied.

We hear other members of Luminus outside, one of them mentions that a suicide bomber tried to kill Edward Falsewater, but failed… and died in the process. We know that was Caspian, and it did not end well.

Known Fingers: Middle finger = Roy Richmond, has greatsword; Pinky finger = Woman unknown name, has dagger; Grasping Finger = Alric Ravenwood, has hammer. One other seen in Kin’s vision (Axe?), Ring and pointer fingers are unknown.

End session

After our conversation with Roy, Kin used sending to contact Therius to determine the proper rites for a paladin of Therius. Therius replied “Curious (CURIOUS cuRIUS curius CUrius)... Release (release) the memories (MEMories, memories) from the body (boDY, BOdy) to rest (Rest REST) his soul (Soul, SOUL, soul…)”

We interpreted this as needing to burn his book of memories and his holy symbol, which was made of paper and looked like very complex origami.

During the night we read as much of the book as we could. There was a lot of information on the inner workings of Luminus. Information of the high cardinal and the names of the 5 fingers. We also learned that the church of Luminus genuinely does not see death as a bad thing, they see it as a gift they can give people to get to the other side.

As we read through the night we got tired, Rina and Alice became exhausted. Rina then could feel a strange pulling within her mind, it feels like Enoch Agronoch. She leaned into the feeling to try and get closer to him. She heard him in a conversation that was not at all about her, or even to her… “Yes, my father is coming soon! Yes, looking forward to all the festivities. No, let me get YOU another drink…” He then starts just speaking under his breath to Rina, “Rina… I need to talk to you directly. I need you to get as close to death as possible so we can speak in private. Do it soon.” She mentions this to the group, and they ask we just wait til after 9am when we give Aurelius’s body to the Church of Luminus
Originally Rina wanted to burn his body so that the church could not splice souls into it. But we decided to play it safe and give the body to Roy.