2025-11-29 The Baddie In The Courtyard

Summary

• The monster is resistant to piercing and bludgeoning damage. Immune to poison damage.
• The Order of the Scales is a cultish group of investigators inside of the Church of Siaska and Haya

Log

• Continuation of 2025-11-02 Sauna Attack
• We went to the church for healing, took a moment to put our armor on and caught up.
• A light warden, Violetta Witchalder, offers us all a boon, creating a sphere of moonlight and casting Blessed on us all.
  • Add 1d4 to an attack roll or save (1 minute)
• We get the townsfolk to evacuate
• Nia Moonwhisper touches her tattoo and wild shapes for the first time. She turns into a horned creature - a blueish white almost horned rabbit. Small with big feet. Called a Squitch
• I kick a man out of his home and tie up his wife,
• Water, in a cube shape, fills the center of the square. The townsfolk are swimming to safety.
• Krixaris hides up in the belltower to catch the monster by disguise. Launches an arrow with deadly speed - 11 piercing! The monster is resistant to piercing though...
• The monster steals a black crystal amulet from the man from the house, and absorbs black energy from it.
  • He uses it to heal himself (2 fate spent by Chris) for 27 HP
• Jeremy's black crystal in his pocket becomes hot and pulled towards the monster.
  • Jeremy smashes it, destroying the amulet, which releases a blast of radiant damage. It seemed like the radiant damage "escaped" from this Free Magic container.
• The creature can become nearly invisible underwater.
• Hmm...my new Blackrazor Daggers seemed to chuckle when I hit with them for the first time. Might want to look into that.
• I find out Blackrazor does magic damage.
• 7 armed people run into the situation
  • One hits with a crossbow, one hits with a moonlight spell, as the monster flees down the well. The bald guy with the moonlight spell is dressed as an acolyte of the church. His name is Brinsley. Apparently he's worried about extraplanar or heretic activity and he basically accuses us of wrongdoing.
  • Brinsely is part of something called The Order of the Scales
  • The head guard, Marshall Saoirse wants to make an inquest and asks us to come down to the Customs House
    • She takes us to the side door of the Customs House.
    • The The Order of the Scales is a religious order of the church, investigates cults. Pretty fanatical. Brinsley is not yet part of the order, but he wants to be. Worth looking into.
    • Head guard says she knows we're doing good work, but she's also aware that people are maybe worried about us newcomers in town.
    • She asked us questions about the extraplanar stuff that's been going down, asked about demons. She took Krix's ring to see what's going on with it those stones.
    • She grilled each of us individually.
    • Eventually let us go, but we only got the benefits of a half of a long rest.
• The head guard has ankheg armor.

2 Austas

• We wake up the morning of 2 Austas
• On 2 Austus, I write a letter to General Leokian Balcaryn, Commander of the Army of The Six Clans, who had originally hired us to keep the child safe.
• At breakfast, we see Red the Lumber Buyer having breakfast. He lies to Krixaris about not knowing about the people going missing in/around Gloomsedge. Can't tell if he's just trying to get rid of Krix or something else.
  • I pick the pocket of his satchel bag, rolling a 19. A small carved wooden flute. Elvish design.
  • I picked Red's pocket and found a small, carved wooden flute of elvish design. Why did Red the Lumber Buyer have it?
• I spend a short rest attuning to my Blackrazor Daggers. Need to talk to Chris about how they work.

Tournament Day!

• The tournament takes place in a large outdoor field, fenced in, barricades and stuff inside. Tiebold from the customs house is checking people in. We are known as The Drow Hunters.
• Hubert is sad because Magic Mike is mad at him for selling the butterfly dagger to me for such a steep discount. Krix gives a motivational speech and Hubert gets over it to join the team.
• Pepnik is there. Tweed blazer. Blue hair, slicked back. Megaphone.
• We learn the weight of the berries in the berry guessing contest. Jeremy won 345 gold!!