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Spell scrolls: spell level x 125, limited to the party's current level or less.

Yes. I needed it archived here when I realized that I couldn't find the notes I had about Alice in the DM thread.
I was also in the middle of Lurk's private thing and didn't have time to say what it was.

Also of note: Fenia has seen lady parts before, sure, but Demonia's are more impressive.

Plans for next session:

Broad consensus - Talk to Lucca and affirm certain possibilities from her. Make sure she sticks close to the party and doesn't go straight back home, both out of concern for her well-being in case Josephine sees fit to dispose of her, and because she is an asset.

Dandy's suggestion - Use the BK Paladin's armour as a disguise to set-up Josephine, by posing as a conspirator making a report to her.

Punk's plan(?): Wants to go to the music store. Thinks we could sneak into the castle and clonk Josephine on the head, take her back for questioning. Lucca's approval pending.

Neo's plan(?): Stop by the arena.

GX's plan(?): Follow the Thread on Lucca, talk to Towa. HEAVY IMPLICATIONS FROM CROW she may or may not have seen: The Fateweaver(s) could possibly view the origin of the letter which Lucca seemed to right. Making a fake Tarrasque totem could be used to flaunt to the right people to assess involvement.

Someone else's plan(?): Stop by the library/bookstore.

Cheese's plan: Case the alleyways a bit for suspicious activity between the castle and any shady, slummy areas. Especially for someone matching Josephine's description going out for secret dealings.

Possible leads:

-Both Velka's captivity and the binding of these werewolves and seekers from the hellholes involved magitek.
-Alistar's death was followed up by necromancy. Not many people besides the seemingly innocent Aimie could be implicated in that.

Feel free to add any leads or plans.

Crow: Villainous Icons: The Jack, The Dark Mistress, The Savage Lord, The Deathless One
Players: I Think you mean Friend Icons

She's just able to change shape so she appears friend-shaped.

Summary stuff!

The party meets back up at Sefa's shop, finds she and Adam have been having a good time for 33 hours straight. Giggity. Lots of teasing ensues.

The party goes to find Saya Celeste, she's staying in Henry's Inn. We have a chat that starts off really awkward. Greil ends up being party face for the conversation. Tanith has fun talking to Saya. Greil ends up being a little dense, gets shot the glare of all glares from Tanith. Tanith realizes with horror that she might be turning into her mother(Who is apparently far worse than Actual Satan).

We agree to help Saya get ahead of her biggest rival for the High Elf Iconship, one Ievus something or other who's basically the CEO of TMDF Walmart and is the biggest slimeball in the world. We need to delay his return to the Queenswood by a few days, so we go to his main warehouse in town to ruin his day.

Tanith distracts Ievus and leads him away, while the rest of the party sneaks into the warehouse. Voyage puts the nearest guard to sleep and Fenia casts Ritual Color Spray, dousing the whole warehouse in multi-color graffiti and doing minor damage. We get away without being seen.

Meanwhile, poor Tanith puts up with the biggest, most elfy-elf asshole Slimeball and she is reminded why she *fucking hates* most other High Elves. He hits on her, she trips him in the fountain right in front of the palace, causing a big scene. She escapes in the chaos and meets back up with the party at the north gate to Axis. Poor Tanith is vomiting from her experience. ConcernedGreil.JPG

Saya gives us the Glass Slippers and promises her aid when she becomes Icon. Sherk the Shitbird annoys Spriggan the Bestbird a little too much and gets swatted out of the air. Voyage is very upset and insults Spriggan and Saya. Greil manages to smooth things over, keeping the newfound alliance intact.

Party decides to go their separate ways again and meet up back in the morning to go searching for Red. It's not going to be difficult to find her. Greil and Tanith leave together, and he helps Tanith get the slime off(It's exactly as giggity as you think).

Meanwhile, at the Dark Mistress's BDSM Yuri Tower....

Hunann comes back from the pits much earlier than expected, thanks to the help of a new guy cutting in front of the lines from hell. Alighieri, level 11 silver haired badass hot guy with the Archangel's sword. He's refined and cultured and pushes all of Astrid's buttons in all the right ways. He becomes the new Guard Captain, and he and Astrid very quickly bond.

Fast forward a couple days, and emissaries from the Savage Lord show up unannounced at the tower. They thought it would be faster to kill the demon diplomats and send them back to the pits. Plebs. Astrid and Ali escort them to meet Velka, who fills them in on the Blood Knight and his pet Tarrasque. Vugga, chief "Tactician" of the Savage Lord doesn't seem to believe her, Velka brings in Towa to help back her up. SL crew and Towa immediately recognize each other, Vugga says "She belongs to SL" and immediately becomes the second most written name in Astrid's Book of Grudges. Towa apparently used to be a slave to the Savage Lord. They seem to have no idea that Towa is an Icon now. Vugga agrees to put the issue aside for now and report back to SL. The Gorrilla Orc, Garga the butch human slave, and SKRAAAAAAAAAAAA the female Fateweaver Kobold stay behind. Everyone gets shown to their rooms. Velka and Towa have a quick private chat about freeing the demon prisoners, and Towa wants Astrid and Garga to go to Glitterhaegan and meet up with the Heroes(Party A) and bring them back to the tower. Velka flies off to Horizon, leaving the tower with... Priscilla in charge for 3 days. Welp. Hopefully things will be fine.

Astrid and Towa have a private chat with a half-naked bound Towa. Unfortunately, it does not go full giggity. Astrid was too preoccupied and worried and I couldn't figure out the right opportunity to make things happen. Oh well, probably for the best.

Things Astrid and Towa talked about: Towa's time as a slave, Alighieri could become a perverted demon-version of the Archangel that would split Velka's Iconship(Potentially making them both stronger, but making Velka in charge of Devils and Ali in charge of Demons, like Prince of Beasts and Untamed). Also the succession of the Archangel is erratic, so it might not go to his kids but someone who actually hated demons or worse, which would obviously be problematic to Velka and Astrid. But it's fine so long as he only has the sword.

Towa and Astrid do have some bonding time, she gives Astrid a GO bracelet like the main party has, and tells Astrid she's not nearly as evil as she thinks. Astrid is confused and conflicted, but has a pretty big realization, so all in all lots of character development for her. Astrid goes off to sleep and leaves in the morning, grumpy and worried. The end.

Summary time!

Convince Sefa and Lucca to go talk to HK. Find Red beating up gangs. Help her out, take her back to inn, tell her lots of stuff. She flies away to confront Josephine. Fenia listens in with magic while the rest of the party splits. Party meets back up at Sefa's store after 1&1/2 hours. Fenia tells the party what she heard, apparently it was HK himself who ordered the hit on Alistar, Josephine just wrote the letter. According to her. May or may not be lying. Red finds us easily, brief talk before she gets ordered back to Drakkenhall by one of Deghinsea's Organization 6. Uber stronk black dragon in black hooded cloak.

Tanith saw more Org members coming. Half of party waits for Sefa, other half goes to get a caravan to Glitterhaegan. We get the Bladed Fan, convince Sefa to skip town. Greil namedrops a town named Pith and tells Sefa to go there if she thinks her life is in danger.

5 days on the road to Glitterhaegan. Greil spends a fairly large amount of time while in the wagon in stasis, which is an extremely deep meditative state(But not the whole time, I'm retconning that bit).

We get to Glitterhaegan, pass through the checkpoint easily, Mos sees an old friend named Tallen(Mos ship?). Greil goes to get an audience with Malatyne, easily does so and skips the waiting line. He and Malatyne know each other from years ago. Voyage, Greil, and Tanith go shopping for nice clothes.

Meeting with Malatyne begins, she's pretty awesome, negotiations with her go well, we trade the Glass Slippers for her Greatvine Anklet, we hold onto the Bladed Fan for now. She wants our help with a dangerous mission while she thinks about our offer of an alliance, but wants to test the party's strength in a sparring match first. Malatyne's magic is chaotic and unpredictable and can cause changes to a character's appearance, but thankfully they are always temporary. Greil refuses however, he doesn't need anything else weighing on his mind before a dangerous mission. Malatyne is fine with this, she knows Greil can take care of himself. Next session will be sparring match with Malatyne and probably dungeon time.

Draft of Eschaton: Immediately end all ongoing damage and effects, pass all saves for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, pass a DC 30 CON check or be too dehabilitated to fight the rest of the day.

Midnight Tincture x2: Creates a small cloud of darkness (range 10); all non-Drow take -4 to hit in the cloud.

Potion of Spider Climbing x2: For 5 minutes, can climb on walls and ceilings as easily as walking.