1 Hammer 1491
Session One
- MAC and Minaeva Rinn talk a bit until Algrex takes Mina to see the captain
- Captain Renchayiks tells Mina that he was asked to bring her to the Rock of Bral. It is implied that he is to bring her to someone on Bral but he is going to do exactly as he was asked and nothing more. He was asked to do this as a favor for someone (we don’t know who).
Rock of Bral
There is a Koalitio Capital Ship. It’s always strange to see a Koalitio ship on Bral (last time was about 10 years ago according to Luigi) but it’s even more unusual to see a Capital Ship (they are here for Mina)
Starmoth picked Mina up 8 days ago
- Mina had been captured by The Return, a terrorist organization. Mina doesn’t know why they took her or why they left her on a dead space whale.
Rusco arrives on Bral on the Capital Ship, believing they will find their people that were kidnapped. They are offered a tour by Lt. Kylen. Despite Rusco’s wishes to focus on finding their comrades, Kylen insists on the tour (but then admits she doesn’t really know Bral, and that in fact anyone with the Koalitio isn’t even really welcome here). They make their way toward a tavern.
Happy Beholder
- MAC, Fluke and Mina meet Mortimer “Morti” Shiiki at the tavern
- Morti has a book that he draws in. He isn’t a great artist but seems to really enjoy doing it.
- MAC pulls a bunch of junk out of her bag and makes a model of a Beholder
- MAC and Morti trade the drawing for the model
- Mina druidcrafts vines
- Fluke seems to be MAC’s property (refers to her as master) which is common for Warforged to do with their owners.
- Tavern is run by a blue and yellow beholder, Luigi
- The bartender is a Harengon, Arwik
- Lt. Kylen of the Koalitio and Rusco arrive at the Happy Beholder. Rusco is overwhelmed by unexpectedly finding Mina with a whole group of strangers. Lt. Kylen is rude and demanding. She insists that Mina and Rusco leave with her immediately. When they refuse, she takes a chair from Bob and gets kicked out of the bar by Luigi. She says she will wait outside for them to finish up but still insists that they all leave quickly.
- Mina finds out that she was gone for over a month
- Rusco wildshapes into a direwolf, inadvertently terrifying Arwik.
We get a room in the tavern to talk.
- Rusco convinces Kylen to let them stay for the night. Kylen voices concern that this place is dangerous, to which Rusco responds that so far Kylen is the only person who has caused anyone harm here.
- Everyone is reluctant to have Mina and Rusco return to the Koalitio. The feeling in general is that the Koalitio is not to be trusted, but so far not for any specific reasons other than the incident with Bob.
- Fluke seems to be pretty knowledgeable but doesn’t know how or why he knows all these things
- Arwik and Rusco connect over their peoples’ respective reverence for the moon
- Arwik presents us with a quest to help a blacksmith solve a murder
- AGTC - Arcane Grounds Trading Company, might deal in Astralium
Session 2
Violet Anvil
Arwik introduces himself to the Blacksmith (Ozrakir Omen)
- The body is stuck in a sewage drain
- swollen and grotesque (somewhat resembling plasmoid)
- two entrances to alley - blacksmith and one other building (Carpentry Shop), doesnt appear to have a latch/lock
- body stuck with head and shoulders out of sewer (crawling out?)
- gutter orientation - coming from inner city to docks
Morti Speaks with victim
- Name: Dimetrius (deceased)
- doesnt know how he got there
- was in the high city, has one family member there
- what did this is “unknowable”
further investigation
- Mac finds a scrap of silk in the garbage, from victim’s shirt?
- Wound on the back of his head, larger hole surrounded by 7 smaller holes (mind flayer?)
- brain is mush
- tattoo of old fashioned spelljammer on leg
MAC talks to Ozrakir Omen
- freaked out when he found out The Unknowable One might be involved
- explains some of the politics of Bral: Prince, Underbarons
- investigation likely to stir up trouble and gain us unwanted attention
- Wants the body gone as quickly as possible. Offers us 25 gp to dispose of it
Fluke, Arwik, and Rusco go through the door in the alley
- It’s a carpentry shop
- We’re told later that it’s owned by someone named Avi
- There are no tools that could have caused the injury on the corpse
- Fluke finds a secret drawer full of coins
- He leaves them and closes the compartment
- This seems to be a dead end
We talk to Large Luigi
- Gives us some info on Bral’s history
- Implies that Prince Andru may have killed his brother to take the throne
- Tells us about a mind flayer colony that used to reside in Bral’s underground tunnel system. Seems to think that The Unknowable One might be a survivor from when the colony was destroyed but no one really knows
- Tells us about the Eisvoli