--- title: "2024-02-08" type: Session created: 2025-12-22 00:35:42 modified: 2025-12-26 19:23:03 --- # 2024-02-08 * Recap * On the road to [[[[5aa11353-d0ab-4616-9527-a77543e0b0ff|Kastor]]]] and dealt with [[Illgoblins]] * They demonstrated creatures may be more powerful than 5e normalized characters * Took the time to burn the dead, etc * Traveling in style * Just made it to the town of [[[[5aa11353-d0ab-4616-9527-a77543e0b0ff|Kastor]]]]. Run by a duke known to be the cousin of the Queen ([[[[a889e042-4332-4622-a442-4f6f326c2a6f|Gadrome]]]]) * [[[[5aa11353-d0ab-4616-9527-a77543e0b0ff|Kastor]]]] is more refined than [[[[a35f7e62-fc1c-4b9a-ad8d-eae0a6ccfcce|Thistlehold]]]], stone and more well established since it’s not right on the border of [[3e83a8d2-ac9a-42ee-8d7a-4b68b68ff4a0|Davokar]] * We have a reservation at [[[[5aa11353-d0ab-4616-9527-a77543e0b0ff|Kastor]]#^fb1be7|The Rusty Dragon]] (nicer inn in town) * We look nicer than everybody else around us * Approaching [[[[5aa11353-d0ab-4616-9527-a77543e0b0ff|Kastor]]]] * Smoke rising from the City - maybe a bonfire * Holdup and line forming at the gate to enter * Takes ~40mins to get in front of some guards, who seem on-edge * Need to add our names before entering the town. There seems maybe to be an outbreak of sickness? * Must check in with [[[[ab2fc406-e471-49c6-8322-6806185fbee5|Cagliastro]]]] * Coming in through the West Gate, past the town hall and sun temple, to the south then to the [[Rusty Dragon|Rusty Dragon]] * Guards on street corners, something happened * North of Market is known as slum district * On the way to [[[[5aa11353-d0ab-4616-9527-a77543e0b0ff|Kastor]]#^fb1be7|Rusty Dragon]] * Asking what happened of a town crier - heard that members of the town council were found murdered. * Sun temple smoke, somebody damaged the annex and there were some deaths * #resources Made a friend by tipping higher * Also passed the inn, [[[[5aa11353-d0ab-4616-9527-a77543e0b0ff|Kastor]]#^389c9b|Chieftains Bell]] but it’s a little more rough and tumble * [[Rusty Dragon]] * Innkeeper: [[[[c09e114c-8183-45f8-adad-098a4e588062|Ramogal]]]] * Notes that we’re planning to stay a week * Rooms were arranged by [[[[c1c51c18-6734-4007-bc9b-cde63bfb90ef|Adria]]]] * One to share - 10x14 * Talking with bartender * State of emergency w/curfew * Members of town council attacked w/some deaths * Member of church attacked * [[#[[7dc4c906-1b88-4ff9-92d5-d508417fb09d|ugma]]]] approaches locals * Antiquities dealers are in the market district * One has a family member in the town watch * 4 members of the council including the mayor Selima were murdered the other night * Emergency council meeting, [[[[e2c31e5c-deb4-4f1e-9816-e97016bcdd39|Grendel]]]] appointed as mayor pro-tem * In the town hall with the rest of the council, guarded by guards * [[[[3ffc31cc-4268-40d1-bf94-ccc07d447454|Father Karstark]]]], heigh priest was burned, [[[[5aa11353-d0ab-4616-9527-a77543e0b0ff|Kastor]]#^3c0912|Sun Temple]] Annex was burned to the ground * Layfolk and priests are guarding there now * [[[[5aa11353-d0ab-4616-9527-a77543e0b0ff|Kastor]]#^f62bc4|Bell]] that [[[[5aa11353-d0ab-4616-9527-a77543e0b0ff|Kastor]]]] is famous for is located in the north * Next morning * Smoke rising from [[[[5aa11353-d0ab-4616-9527-a77543e0b0ff|Kastor]]#^3c0912|Sun Temple]] * Meet with a local guy, introducing us to [[[[58e52574-fec3-4002-a94c-4fd53a4ba55c|Belago]]]] - [[[[3ffc31cc-4268-40d1-bf94-ccc07d447454|Father Karstark]]]]’s second * Inside the temple * Remains of 4 bodies in what used to be a dining hall in the complex * Town watch watch commander and medics will be in later * Some bodies don’t appear to be the same, looks out of place, maybe not a member of the clergy * Have there been others murders recently * [[[[5aa11353-d0ab-4616-9527-a77543e0b0ff|Kastor]]]] is a large city and there are those who walk in the dark” - nothing unusual recently * Are the rest changelings or doing blood shrouding? * [[[[c908a529-fcee-4b5a-a7cf-a728679ec259|Malliano]]]] - do you have medical training? Not a medicus, but must be respectful * Looking at ears to see if they’re elven * One is priest * Other corpses are wearing some sort of damaged leather armor beneath masking clothes * Approached by the new lead Therug [[[[58e52574-fec3-4002-a94c-4fd53a4ba55c|Belago]]]] * Looking at stab wounds * [[[[bf5ea573-86af-4bc3-8e75-1e86cf2ec7f3|Darda]]]], didn’t she have these, we assume she may have died * Better to have convo in private * Lead away, “quickly, I must be seen by the flock to be taking care of things” * Directed to the ordo tower to cleanse permanent corruption * [[[[e3403b23-7ce9-40e0-8f34-c4cce1a41fd0|Koves]]]] looking for [[[[3efd51ab-9051-40c4-93eb-6fa73b91ae13|Guralo]]]] (Buralo?) * Used to be associated w/the church, burned for heresy in a town just north of here with other suspected sorcerers or “heretics”. * Friends with [[[[bf5ea573-86af-4bc3-8e75-1e86cf2ec7f3|Darda]]]], now missing after the attack * Fallen parts of the annex could be obscuring more bodies End Scene