Location: Kashin, Tongue Wrecker Tavern & Inn

Date: Cal 15th, 1333 Avard

Characters: Beth, Mialee, Mara, Wellby, Gruck, Selis

Beth and her entourage were invited to go somewhere the next day and have lunch with one of the lords of the city, a baron of some sort. Realizing that it was a trap, the team wanted to visit Norion at the Lyle House, and research other ways of finding their enemies.

Barely out of the Tongue Wrecker, the team was fired upon by assassins with crossbows. Most of them melted away on the roof tops after their barrage of crossbow bolts, and a miss from Selis with a fire-based spell set a rooftop on fire. The team put out the rooftop after a rough battle, and then escaped with a prisoner before the Guard arrived.

Their previously captured would-be assassin was gone, and that realization made their handling of the new prisoner a bit rough. After an interrogation round involving a candle of truth, Beth took his body to a back alley somewhere else and killed him. She then dismembered him, and removed his face and genitals, and left the corpse and its parts hidden under some trash.

Eingrim had been hurt during the hail of crossbow bolts, and the adrenaline and its subsequent crash put them into napping mode through the afternoon.

Later that evening, they went to the Lyle House via carriage and cover of darkness and a few disguises. There, Selis managed to copy down a new spell, and Eingrim discovered a potential way to track down the butcher woman called Zhaneesa, a known associate of the demon-summoner Ayra. Mialee cooked for Norion, who nearly attacked Gruck after the goliath decided to be playful with the demon-tormented man.

After dropping Eingrim off at the Tongue Wrecker, the team went ahead to the address listed on the invitation, hoping to scope it out before the attack. Mialee knew the manor-owner next to the address, Sir Reginald of Habrems temple guards. Sir Reginald let the team observe the manor next door from his fence.

Seeing candles moving about inside of the manor, the team infiltrated the home in a blast of chaos and disorganization. Inside, Ayra directed two other women in the completion of a summoning circle. The first layer of the circle was a protection wall that held living things in, and kept living things out. The women had nearly completed an enormous summoning circle that would likely be used to either kill the party or drag them to hell once it was covered with a big rug.

Gruck burst in after Mara's noisy movements, and Ayra summoned another tentacle demon while speeding up her chanting and continuing to direct the two women finishing the summoning circle.

Mialee turned into a giant spider and spit webbing at Ayra, keeping her tied up while Gruck and Mara attacked her. Selis and Wellby dealt with the tentacle demon, while Beth worked at getting the high ground in the manor. Beth's patron and mentor Ixlnb proved invaluable, showing them how to both complete the circle so that it held the summoned demon, and how to defeat a necrotic rotting trap that got Gruck and Silver.

A truly massive demon was summoned within the circle, but it could not escape, and finally went back to where it had been summoned from. Ayra's body was carried out by Mara, and Gruck carried an unconscious Silver, and the rest fled to Sir Reginald's as quickly as they could. The entire neighborhood had heard the demon's inhuman rage, and seen the infernal fires of its summoning – and then the absolute silence left in its passing.

Elsewhere in the city, a visiting priest was asked to help in her old role as coroner. A body had been found, horribly disfigured, and perhaps the work of demons. The spirit of the body told the coroner what it could about its death. The last people it had seen were Mara and Wellby, but Beth had killed him.

Date: FEB2020

DM's Notes: It was good to have everyone at the table for this one. There was a bit of frustration with littles interrupting every five seconds, and the dog being a pain in the butt, and hunting for Mushu only to find Michael sitting on her, and Sommer bowing out in mid combat due to stressors, and Saige being so upset over her character being wanted for murder, and…

Reference: Campaign X
Previous Episode: Xs2e4

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