22 Eleint 1385

Session 24

(LEVELED UP TO 6)

The party agreed to head back to the Crystal Clear Creations and after helping Sigen Kursk clean a little more, the party decided to sleep and rest. The party did however notice before sleep that some of the wounds Sigen acquired appeared to not have fully healed even after receiving some medical attention. They also realised that Hildo’s corpse had a strange residue where the blade slashed, and Anthol Spyley and Penelope Rock both appeared to have suffered similar injuries with a similar black ichor residue on their wounds.

The following morning, the group of adventurers headed over to The Circle of the Gilded, the large religious institution in the city, and began to look for their wounded friends. They eventually found the human soldier who was watching over Anthol and Penelope who said that they’re both stable, however they appear to be unable to awaken no matter what the priests and holy people could do. They decided to head over to Svetlana Trigg to report, and to ask what happens next.

Upon walking over to the guild, they entered and immediately noticed the members appeared to be slightly on edge even though they appeared to be going about their merry business as per usual. The group began to walk to Svetlana’s office and noticed some Sons of the Sword in the hallway, flanking both entries as well as the doors to the office. Approaching, the party was asked their business and after a moment were allowed entry into Svetlana’s office. Upon entering, they saw the Guild Master sitting up in her chair, papers across her desk, and a look of slight anger on her brow, a single vein showing across her temple. Across from her pacing on the other side of the small room was another woman. She appeared to be half-elven with a light amount of makeup, a silver tiara on her brow, crystal earrings, a slim figure, wearing a silver-white dress with small patterns embedded into it; nothing overly fancy but definitely proving whoever this is has expensive taste. She also wore white elbow-sleeved gloves, yet the faintest of markings could be seen where her gloves and skin meet…possibly burn marks? Tattoos? A skin condition? Whatever it appeared to be, it seems this woman was deliberately covering them up.

Upon entering, the party was asked several questions, and introductions were given, revealing this woman to be none other than Queen Alicia Kendrick herself, and by the way the two interacted, it appeared Alecia and Svetlana have been friends for quite some time as, very quickly, it seemed they treated each other that definitely should not have been allowed given their status’ respectively. Alecia and Svetlana agreed that Omaric had now become a greater threat than they would have liked and, after some discussion, agreed that the location of Omaric and his goons would more than likely be at the old guild hall, the Cairn of Cymrych Hugh. They would have to go through Blackstone Keep, a potentially heavily fortified city in order to get to the old hall, yet the main issue is that the hall was abandoned as well as Blackstone as a plague, sickness, or disease of some sort came across the hall and forced them out of their home, with no one having come up with a solution or cure in the meantime. The party was therefore tasked with heading to Blackstone and the old guild hall and investigating Omaric’s dealings and, if possible, stop him. Both Alecia and Svetlana made it clear that they do not expect anything more, however they did mention that if the curse had lifted or they discover a way to return to the hall without risk of sickness, that the information would also be incredibly valuable.

With this information, they were given a scroll of teleportation only to be used in a pinch, and the group set out on their way to discover Omaric’s motives, his plans, where he is located, and thinking of the best way each member of the party can best get back at him for what he has done to them.