8/3/26 7-9pm

the Party

Arda, lvl2 halfling wizard apprentice, banished, lawful follower of Madeera (Kim)

Hiralia, lvl2 elvish seeker-priest of the Lost, neutral, wanted (Sophia)

Yuri, lvl2 human wizard apprentice, noble, lawful follower of Ord (Stuart)

TL;DR

poke it with a stick

• Zeb spends some alone time keeping his churgeon's skills sharp by dissecting a dead raccoon just outside of Corvin's Crest.
• Fresh practice will allow him to administer assistance to health-related checks (see rat tunnels).

fortunes

• Hiralia, Arda, and Yuri visit Willie the Red, a handsome and eccentric halfling fortune teller dressed from head to toe in red velvet. He has a vast collection of divination tools for hire. Most of his advice is very broadly applicable, though well meaning. He is not shy about asking for more money to access deeper fortunes for his clients.
• Yuri's card pull: Justice
• Hiralia's card pull: Judgement
• After Hiralia's card pull, Willie involuntarily enters a trance. A voice not his own points Hiralia vaguely north, into the swamp, in search of answers about the Shimmer.

rat tunnels

• Arda easily integrates with the work crews (hired out by the Roothaulers, not Roothaulers themselves) demoing what remains of the Golden Castle and discovers a rat hole in the basement. Armed with food and drink for the work crews, Arda, Hiralia, and Yuri descend, intending to rid the Mulch of the rat problem that Tzatlin identified.
• A large, extremely damp cavern spirals off into three winding tunnels. The tunnels are the remains of the ancient, hollowed-out root system of the massive stump on which Corvin's Crest is built. Traveling the left root, the group encounters a pack of enormous rats. Outmatched and wishing for a pack of enormous cats to help, the trio retreats, but not before the rats get a few bites in.
  

END

• Yuri is diseased and must make CON checks daily!
• We learned that Arda is from Fairhollow, a town to the west

XP Gained

• Arda: 1XP

Proper Nouns

• Willie the Red
• Roothaulers

Reflections & Observations

• clearly articulated activities when a player is absent confers in-game benefits and/or has in-game results
• threads to pull
  • sprucing up the ruined tower
  • exploring those roots and killing those rats
  • shimmer to the north
  • a favor for a boat discount
  • wilderness exploration
  • what's up with Pol Symon your ally