Ran: July 11th

Title: It's looking pretty heccers

Recap/Intro

Last we left off, our Adventurers had a hearty meal cooked by Norman and waited for the afternoon for the raid of the Darkonis Estate. After confirming details and the plan with the Coincounter Knights, they made their way to the estate, along with Morgrun, Bruna, and Cyrano. making their way into the estate, they quickly located the cursed item, which looked like a doll resembling Norman B with his mouth sewn shut.

Taking the item, however, appeared to activate some form of magical trap. The party then found themselves locked inside and swarmed by Zombies. fighting them off and the door being inaccessible, the party began to look for an alternative exit.

Locating a door requiring some crests behind the main staircase, the group quickly searched the estate and located them, and the door opened, revealing a passage leading deep into the earth.

Walking down revealed what appeared to be a necromantic ritual room, as the disembodied voice of what seemed to be Eleyhra Darkonis stating that they've proven capable of her service, and the zombified corpse of a Beholder appeared to take their measure.

After a long, tense fight, the Zombie Beholder lay defeated, and with the far room door unlocked to let them proceed. and that, is where we left off. what would you like to do?

Summary

made it through the sewers topside to rest. after noticing more guard presence, went back to the coincounters and learned from Cyrano that "Zephyr" made a large order of Arcis Lumber which is a bit strange. Morgrun finished the ritual to dispel the curse and they interrogated Norman B. they learned that he was bribing a water genasi man with a braided beard, the ship was The Mad Fortune, and that they were taking the barrels north.

After a long discussion about what to do next, Morgrun offered a potential meeting with their Benefactor, who after a sending, seemed to agree to meet with them at The Lucky Dip tonight. however, the group decided to confide in Count Darius Tyrell, Norman G's boss, and see if they can get permission to investigate the harbor masters office.

After a brief meeting with Gurgash to corroborate stories, whereupon Gurgash gifted Lagaruk a pair of hand-axes, they made their way to Norman's work to talk with Darius. providing the evidence of the tampered Darkonis file and the persuasiveness of Norman's argument, Darius provided them a letter stating that they're doing an audit of the harbor masters office.

They made their way to the docks, and despite Lagaruk, Grub and Daisy catching the attention of some guards, were able to get the information they wanted from the harbor masters office, being that the imports are likely coming in from Cutters Cove, are being disguised as various monster parts, and are being sent to the wild wardens warehouse in the north. the name of the Genasi harbormaster is Ulada Saltborn.

After learning this information, they met back up and went to The Lucky Dip to meet the benefactor of the Coincounter Knights, who was revealed to be Count Torinn Rubyeye