13A:Play/25 Grading on a Curve
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Starring: 📜Elistheren, 🐾 Kaelon, 📚 Annalana, 🌲 Qistis
Guest Starring: Grayban; Elviro; Triple P (Prince Princess Princesson); Mr Eschew;
Challenge: So many visitors
Location: Glitterhagen
Date Played: 2018 Jan 17
📚 Annalana: We hop on our ship, The Peacock, and sail back to Shadowport. Uneventful and short trip.
We examine the items to attempt to divine what they are.
- Labyrinthine Grimoire, p7
- Dwarflaw Ring, p20
- Staff of Prophecy, p49
Chateau Pieu Pieu
📚 Annalana: We agree to meet Grayban at Chateau Pieu Pieu, where gnomes put on an illusory display. We arrive before Grayban does. We decide to return the book and staff. Grayban says that he has to go somewhere for 20 minutes but Annalana has concerns. We tell him that we’ll meet him at the ship but we actually stay at the restaurant. Qistis goes to the boat to meet with Grayban.
Grayban arrives at the boat, where he has updated the contract for us. It wasn’t a trap. We all arrive and sign the updated contract.
Triple P
📚 Annalana: The lot has been modified, with fortifications all around, including a wrought iron gate. The guard won’t let us in, demanding that we leave and send a note to get the password.
Returning to our Home and Elviro is There
📚 Annalana: Elviro has returned from vacation. Qistis finds a duplicate invitation to the Elf Queen’s court. Annalana has an invite that says “Whenever you care to, visit us in Drakkenhall. Regarding your memory problems.” (Light blue paper with dark blue ink.) We also have a letter from Charlize, “We’re going toward the abyss to find out more about the Great Gold Wyrm.” Elis replies that the GGW sucks, LOL.
We also have our appointments for next semester. Kaelon, greenhouse care; Qistis teaching academic writing and formatting; Annalana is requested to be a co-teacher for the mind charmer class (persuasion, focus on nonviolence); Elis has been hidden in the archive.
There is a letter, waxed with a P
📚 Annalana: Invitation to come to Triple P’s place. We get to his place and the guard lets us in. The insides are austere, fairly spartan, with cloth tapestries hanging on the walls. Triple P is now going by Lord Peerage.
He hands a writ to Qistis after commenting about needing to halt the Elf Queen. The writ is concerning Qistis but not for her.
Flashback to Elis deciphering Greydove’s journal.
Qistis is told that Triple P will address it if she doesn’t open it. Elis surmises, correctly, that this is a letter for a member of Qistis’ family. Qistis then tears it open and it is a divorce decree for her father from any and all people. Elis mentions that her father’s book was his “Fuck Journal”.
Qistis learns that all the invites were for her father’s wedding, which seems like it will be to the Elf Queen. Annalana is SO EXCITED for the chance to KILL THE ELF QUEEN.
Mysterious Streak Outside
📚 Annalana: Annalana sees a streak outside the window and when she investigates finds nothing. Kaelon sees the streak and goes outside, finding a dagger at his throat and is told that it is poisoned.
They want us to sneak them, all 6, into the Elf Queen’s wedding but they refuse to reveal themselves. They whisper a location to Kaelon, where lots of poisonous mushrooms grow.
When they leave Annalana rushes out of the door, catching a glimpse of a lithe humanoid with spikes coming out of all of their joints.
The next morning, a knock on the door
📚 Annalana: A carnivorous yak (life support system for teeth), being ridden an Imp so fat that it can no longer fly. Escorting this on either side are two humanoids with bright red cloaks, and they have orange skin and lots of claws. Trailing behind them are 6 piles of humanoid flesh “disguised” as children.
The fat Imp speaks in a high pitched and squeaky voice, “Good morning. You are the one known as Elistheren? We’d like to have a word with you.” (When speaking among themselves they are speaking Pure Demon.)
The Imp’s name is Mr. Eschew and he wants to talk about the visitors that we got the previous night. He wants directions on where to meet the Briarlings to kills them. Kaelon gives directions not to them, but nearby.
Another Knock on the Door
📚 Annalana: Elis opens the door to find a squadron of GGW soldiers. Elis gives them directions near to where they were going.
Outhouse Druid
📚 Annalana: Kaelon is in the outhouse and is visited by a Druid lady, who talks with him about our latest visitors and the green dragon scale. She is interested in getting the scale before it gets to Drakkenhall “or else we lose our leverage”.
Briarlings claim that they are a lost race of elves, and they are the closest to the Elf Queen. They sometimes go by the name “Shadow Elves”. They are not to be trusted.
Commotion in the Morning
📚 Annalana: Annalana is woken up by a commotion outside and she rushes into the fray. Outside is a basilisk that was sent to kill us.
