[Session:: True]
[Recorded:: true]
DM - [Butter:: True]
Aerendyl - [Dragon:: True]
Cyras - [Nate:: True]
Lucian - [Fluxy:: True]
Lyssandra - [Glo:: True]
Rick “Ricky” Stone - [Andrew:: True]
Session begins Skyfire 8th 802av 1:00p.m.
- In Columa around 1 p.m., the party continued investigating the break‑in at Dawn’s First Brew, Lucian’s coffee shop, following a clue tied to “Emergency Energy” elixirs.
- Rick “Ricky” Stone, a nature‑inclined warrior, revived Lyssandra with an improvised smelling salts mix (shrooms and vinegar) and Aerendyl splashed her with a bucket of water; bystanders glanced but ignored the scene.
- A blue‑scaled Dragonborn approached, asked about a copyright for the wake‑up mixture, and handed over a business card; Cyras Vey claimed a formal patent and agreed to contact him.
- Aerendyl advised Lucian he owed no rent since he never signed paperwork; Lucian agreed to prioritize the investigation.
- Lucian left for his inn to collect belongings and intended to send a Sending message to an unnamed woman before rejoining.
- The party headed to Healthy Brews and Goods, an elixir store on a busy main street near narrow alleys and a rear service road for carts.
- Healthy Brews and Goods was an older wooden building with pruned vine spirals; it was open but had no entering customers despite the busy area.
- Inside, a bell chimed; the store was well‑lit and homey with tables of bottles; one table section had been recently cleared off.
- Kusgo, a young, well‑dressed purple‑scaled Dragonborn shopkeeper with somewhat elven features, greeted them and offered a first‑customer discount.
- Cyras Vey flashed a Minor Illusion badge and questioned Kusgo about a robbery at Dawn’s First Brew and cart tracks leading toward this area.
- Cyras cast Modify Memory on Kusgo, erasing their initial conversation and resetting him to a sales pitch about “Emergency Energy.”
- Kusgo recommended Emergency Energy for casters but declined to reveal sources, citing trade secrets.
- Aerendyl and Lyssandra moved to recon the back while Cyras and Rick kept Kusgo occupied; they agreed to await Lucian’s return for identification of stolen goods.
- Behind the shop, Aerendyl found a service road with two carts and two stabled horses; two large Dragonborn stood watch like bodyguards.
- Aerendyl turned Invisible and examined the carts without notice on a dirt and gravel surface.
- Aerendyl identified an older cart with broken wheel supports and a snapped board that perfectly matched the wood fragment found at Dawn’s First Brew; both carts were empty and the warehouse was not on‑site.
- Aerendyl returned, dropped Invisibility, and reported the cart match; he suggested regrouping once Lucian arrived.
- Lucian returned, used Disguise Self to appear as a younger Rick, and reentered Healthy Brews and Goods with the team.
- Kusgo reiterated that Emergency Energy restores a caster’s stamina; insight suggested he was truthful about no side effects.
- Cyras coordinated telepathically while Aerendyl readied a Web spell; the group pressed for information.
- Cyras attempted Friends; Kusgo resisted and asked them to leave and teleported to behind the counter; Aerendyl fired Web but only splattered the counter and wall.
- Aerendyl bought one Emergency Energy for 15 gold, then resumed questioning with a cover story about underground contacts.
- Aerendyl’s deception about mafia ties landed; Cyras used Detect Thoughts and sensed Kusgo’s surface thoughts repeatedly about his sons.
- Kusgo admitted a damaged cart from deliveries but denied involvement in theft; he said warehouse details were recorded in the shop’s books.
- Aerendyl paid 50 gold for the disruption and left a contact address; the team warned that guards might question Kusgo’s sons.
- The party formed a new plan—Cyras Vey to pose as Kusgo to confront the sons while Aerendyl took the roof as overwatch.
- Aerendyl deployed an Eldritch Cannon Sniper—a silenced, long‑range Force Ballista integrated with his metallic arm—setting it up on a rooftop bipod.
- Lyssandra created a diversion on the street by accusing a random bystander of assault and placing her severed finger on his lap; a crowd formed and Rick took the man’s business card before withdrawing.
- Behind the shop, Cyras Shapechanged into Kusgo, confronted two Dragonborn sons acting as guards, and claimed the other Kusgo was an imposter.
- Lucian observed nearby as the sons drew swords in confusion upon recognizing Lucian and seeing two “fathers.”
- Cyras’s dominating persuasion convinced the sons he was their real father, and they leveled swords at the actual Kusgo.
- Pressed by Cyras, the sons admitted robbing Dawn’s First Brew and moved to “finish the job.”
- One son’s strike was deflected by Kusgo’s spell; the second son slashed Kusgo across the chest, dropping him bleeding.
- Cyras knocked Kusgo unconscious with a kick and ordered the sons to secure him and question him later.
- The sons said the stolen goods were stored at a new warehouse “off that road,” with the address recorded in the shop’s books.
- The sons loaded the unconscious Kusgo into a cart and departed; Lucian, visibly upset, wiped away tears.
- From the roof, Aerendyl saw the sons’ cart turn around and race back toward the group and whistled a warning.
- Aerendyl fired twice at the front right wheel but only gouged the cart’s side planks; the cart maintained speed.
- The party braced; Cyras stepped into the service road and cast Fear in a 30‑foot cone at both horses (and riders) to force a stop.
- The frightened horses split directions, collapsed, and tumbled; the cart smashed to a halt, ending the flight.
- One horse died impaled on a wooden support by the wall; the other fell onto Cyras, pinning them and causing heavy bludgeoning injuries.
- Both Dragonborn sons were flung onto the gravel, badly injured and bloodied but alive.
- Detecting that Kusgo’s position at the back made the impact lethal, the team executed a rescue as he tumbled forward.
- Aerendyl cast Levitate on Kusgo mid‑tumble while Rick hurled Lyssandra to intercept.
- Lyssandra acrobatically caught the levitating Kusgo against a wall and held him suspended before descending with him.
- Kusgo remained unconscious but alive following the Levitate‑and‑catch maneuver.
- Rick and Cyras together muscled the surviving horse off Cyras, freeing them from under the animal.
- Aerendyl descended from the roof, reassured Lucian of the goal to recover his stolen goods, and the party surveyed the wreckage.
- The Back service road held a wrecked cart, one dead impaled horse and one dead horse on the ground, two injured Dragonborn sons, and Kusgo unconscious in Lyssandra’s care; the group prepared to pursue the warehouse lead recorded in the shop’s books.
Session ends on Skyfire 8th 802av at 4:00 p.m.