Session 23 Recap

The Party moves into the Great Room while Alex organizes the staff to clean up the mess we made in the dining room. Our group is getting some suspicious looks from the rest of the party like “ who the hell are you and what the hell just happened?” Everyone agrees they would like no more surprises tonight. Bang!!! Loud crash through the front door. It’s Nalagon wearing full plate armour ready to help fight off the intruders. Nalagon realizes she’s too late and then notices us and says “I see this was your handy work.” Nalagon says a kitchen girl ran out the back door and into town seeking help and she would have been here sooner but it takes awhile to put on full plate armour and walk up to the Manor House.

Tiberius acts like nothing happened and the party resumes and Nalagon states. Meanwhile our group is discussing the lack of law enforcement in this town and how they really should look into it. It's now time for the speeches and presents. Alex gives his speech, and even though Tiberius doesn’t like presents, gives him a present. “An old Family heirloom”. It's the signet ring (the one we got from the keep). Alex says “it's about time someone in the family wears this again”. Garrett is surprised Alex has the rings and someone in our group fills him in on how we got the ring from the Keep for Alex.

The party continues. The Dwarfs are hanging together. The princess get drunk and starts becoming smitten with Vistra. The mayor of Eisgfion talks to Sorcha about a potential job opportunity should we ever travel through the area. The Bards are discussing the writing of a new song about what transpired here tonight. Nalagon goes up to Tolvin and says there’s something different about him. Tolvin then goes to chat with Chastity, who runs the Stormraven interests in Fiodhalart. Tolvin asks her if she knows his parents. Chastity knows of them through the reputation of their fishing business but doesn’t personally know them. They chat about how things are around the town; it's a mostly quiet town with more smuggling. Tolvin tells her not to say anything about him to his parents.

The party starts to quiet down and guests start saying their goodbyes and leaving. Tiberius tells Jenkins to ready some rooms for us to stay in for the night. The rest of the party attendees seemed troubled by our saying at the Manor as they wanted us to escort them back to town for their safety. Nalagon says she will take care of getting them all back safely. Alex goes to one of the windows and gives an okay signal to someone outside who lights a giant fire inorder to burn all the dead bodies from earlier.

Tiberius has this look on his face like he wants to ask us something but Naomi tells him it's time for bed. Jenkins leads us to our quarters while Alex, Garret and the now past out Dwarf princess stay in the living room. We are led up to the spacious second floor which houses the boys rooms, a library, a study, and a washroom. We are then taken up to the third floor (a lot of stairs for a dwarf). THis floor is cramped but still large. Our rooms are located on this floor. Jenkins tells us who’s in which room, breakfast is in the morning, there’s no indoor plumbing, and a house staff member will be in the hall all night “in case we need something”.

Once in our rooms, we hatch a plan so Sorcha and Vistra can explore the house. Althena asks the hall boy for hot water so she can take a bath. WHile the hall boys leave his post, Tolvin meets Sorcha and Vistra in the hall and uses his fancy magic to make us invisible. But before he did that he gave Sorcha a Wand of Detection and Wand of Secrets.

Sorcha and Vistra leave to explore (rest of party listening in through the bracers). The rest of the third floor is just guest rooms, nothing really interesting. Head to the second floor. We go to the rooms Jenkins didn’t mention. There’s a female attendant outside of the washroom where Althena is splashing away. We tell Althena we need to head back upstairs so we can explore these rooms without the attendant noticing. Althena comes up with something to make that happen. There are three rooms. We go to the left door first. It's unlocked. It’s a large bedroom with a family portrait of Tiberius, Alex, and Garret. This was Tiberius' room before he couldn't climb the stairs. Middle room is a smaller bedroom that has an adjoining door to Tiberius’s old room. This must have been for a servant’s use. The Right room is locked. Althena is on her way back up from the kitchen and quietly leaves her lock picking set for Sorcha to use. Stealthy 1 and Stealthy 2 try to open the door. We drop the lock picking set with a loud bang and stand still for a moment. Then we hear footsteps; it’s Alec and Garret carrying the Princess up to bed. They head up to the second floor. We try the door again and we manage to unlock it and open the door with a loud creaky sound (we just can’t win). This door clearly hasn’t been used in a while. Alex and Garret return to their rooms. The room Vistra and Sorcha are in was clearly used as a nursery for Alex and Garret. On the wall is a picture of a much younger Tiberius, his wife, holding a baby Alex. We take a closer look at the picture and notice that there is a baby bump there as while and the math is just impossible. THis is why the room is locked.

We then head down to the main level to grab some food. On our way back upstairs we decide to stop in the library and have a look around. We use the Magic Wand but nothing glows. We then use the Wand of Secrets and the wall that is shared with the study glows. We go to the study (Mr. Green in the study with a magic wand). In the study is a large desk spread with papers, there a painting of Stormraven Keep. On the desk there is a pen and inkwell that are magically glowing with enchantment magic. There is a painting on the wall and it becomes clear to us that one side of it is on hinges. We move the painting and see a locked safe. The study just so happens to be directly under Tolvin’s room so he teleports Archimedes into the safe and sees piles of Platinum, Gold, and business papers. Arch comes out of the safe and goes to the desk so Tolvin can examine the pen and ink well. We then leave the room to head back upstairs to our rooms. We are no longer invisible and just walk past the attendant like hey what’s up. He was very confused. Everyone heads to bed.

Next morning

Sorcha is the first of the group up and heads to the main level. As she passes Alex and Garret’s rooms she sees they are both up as well. She heads to the dining room where she hears Garret and Tiberius talking. Sorcha enters the now spotless dining room and starts eating. The rest of the gang comes down and joins in. Azi points out that Tolvin’s beard is longer again but he’s also getting tanner. The Princess comes in and is clearly hungover. After breakfast, the princess leaves the Manor, Garret says he’ll be leaving shortly as he has to catch a boat back to Galarion and Alex says he may have another job for use and leave about on business.

Tiberius asks us how the secret mission to destroy the ring is going. It’s a work in progress. We ask a couple of questions about the boys and Tiberius’s wife. There's a bit of conversation back and forth. Tiberius says he will put us up in the Inn.

Back in town. We go to Nalagon’s shop and chat about the events from last night, plan the trip to Verul’s forest, and Tolvin's tanning looks. Head to the Armoured Goat. The tent city is collapsing down as people are leaving to go back home. In the Inn Garret is chatting with Amanda. Archie asks us if we want anything to drink (did he really just ask if Vistra wants a drink). We give Garret a letter to give to Alex. We sit peacefully chatting amongst ourselves. The door of the Inn opens and four guys in cloaks with green mask symbols walk in. Garret tenses up almost immediately. Garret leans over to the group and says he may need out services rather immediately and then says the four men “Aren’t you on the wrong continent?’ Then a voice come from behind Amanda saying “Yes but we came to make sure you don’t return to ours” A Drow Mage appears along with 3 Cult Fanatic and 4 Cultists.