[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 9th 802av at 6:00 p.m.
- The party exited the castle’s main gates at sundown and discussed next steps in the city.
- Lucian noted the King’s Guard had agreed to handle arrangements for his shop/building needs.
- The group reviewed that the popular energy potion vendor’s storefront had been visited previously and that the company distributed widely to major institutions.
- The party recalled finding unlabeled vials at the warehouse wreckage, with uncertain linkage to the vendor.
- Noah stated the warehouse-area fire appeared to have occurred roughly 9–10 hours earlier.
- Cyras Vey proposed finding nearby hospitals or churches to locate any burn victims as potential witnesses to the fire.
- The group planned to put Lucian into the public eye later to bait out the perpetrator targeting his business.
- Aerendyl chose to revisit the original shop with the horse incident; Cyras Vey headed to a nearby shop selling the energy potion; Rick “Ricky” Stone and Lyssandra went to a hospital; Lucian accompanied Aerendyl toward the shop.
- The party referenced a previous session’s report of a hooded figure seen leaving the warehouse area, influencing the search for witnesses.
- Cyras Vey reached a modest general goods store about half a mile from the warehouse, with a two-floor layout and an Elf Shopkeep stocking shelves.
- Cyras Vey bought 10 bottles of the energy drink from the shop’s front display at a sale price.
- Cyras Vey asked the Elf Shopkeep about the nearby fire; the shopkeep had seen the morning’s smoke.
- The Elf Shopkeep reported a man in a long cloak, human, average build, who asked for directions and wore a golden chain necklace under his shirt.
- Cyras Vey produced a competent sketch based on the shopkeep’s memory to help narrow identification.
- On request, the shopkeep examined a bottle and could not identify ingredients beyond likely magical properties.
- Aerendyl and Lucian headed to the original shop with the horse-cart incident; a passerby remarked on Aerendyl as a “famous adventurer” and mentioned an older dragonborn yelling for mercenaries nearby.
- Aerendyl told Lucian he would operate undercover and asked Lucian to act publicly and be ready to distract any guards if needed.
- On arrival, the original shop was taped off as an active investigation site; the back alley was bloodied with fallen horses; guards stood out front and none were at the rear.
- Aerendyl cast Alter Self to appear as a scruffed lowborn elf before approaching via the back alley.
- Aerendyl confirmed the back alley behind the shop was empty and quiet.
- Aerendyl opened a crate by the back door and found about 200 vials labeled as samples and “final test draft v2,” matching the type found at the warehouse.
- A second crate near the horse area contained saddles, feed, and general horse supplies.
- A third crate off to the side was nearly empty but had a false bottom concealing a thin layer of Coffee Beans and a Small Notebook.
- Aerendyl took the Coffee Beans and the notebook and wiped down touched surfaces to avoid leaving prints.
- Aerendyl slipped inside via the back door, cast Invisibility, and approached the shop floor behind a curtain.
- Aerendyl observed Two Uniformed Officers speaking quickly in low tones, behavior that seemed out of place for a legitimate guard investigation.
- Aerendyl opened the front door to trigger the bell, distracting the two officers, who then pointed and appeared to use the Message cantrip to communicate.
- Aerendyl knocked something off a table; the two uniformed figures dashed toward the back door to flee.
- Aerendyl, still invisible, slipped out the front and expertly bypassed the stationed guard without detection.
- Aerendyl used Misty Step to appear in front of the fleeing officers, bodily obstructed them, and caused the lead runner to stumble while the second sidestepped.
- The pair insisted they were on official guard duty and continued fleeing; Aerendyl inspected their uniforms but noticed nothing definitively irregular and let them go.
- Meanwhile, a Large, Muscular Dragonborn Guard escorted Lucian to a guard post, delivered a recruitment pitch with promised benefits across Amerihya, and gave Lucian a business card.
- Rick “Ricky” Stone and Lyssandra located Holy Angels Hospital, the closest large hospital to the Warehouse District.
- After compensating the front desk, staff provided a document about recent burn cases, including a current patient due for discharge.
- Rick “Ricky” Stone and Lyssandra visited Yashidar, a dragonborn factory worker burned when a beam fell during a neighbor’s house fire on the outskirts of the Warehouse District; he had received a healing potion and was cleared to leave.
- Yashidar gave his address and offered a small bag of coins to falsify a report that his own house had burned down, seeking insurance compensation.
- Hospital staff indicated security relied on city guards and gave directions to the nearest guard post; no permanent security was posted at the hospital.
- While in the hospital, Lyssandra covertly rifled through patients’ clothing and acquired a golden set of dice.
- By day’s end, no hospitals reported intake of victims from the warehouse fire.
- Near 10 p.m., the party regrouped and exchanged findings in the street.
- Lyssandra handed the Golden Dice to Lucian, which exhibited a tendency to pull together and granted him two usable fives to apply before his next rest.
- Aerendyl gave Lucian the recovered bag of Coffee Beans and the Small Notebook taken from the false-bottom crate.
- The notebook contained brief research notes on magical testing of the beans; the experimenters failed to determine the beans’ special qualities but had tried filtration steps.
- The group inferred that substituting a magical potion for water during brewing could yield unusual effects, per hints in the notes.
- Aerendyl reported the two suspicious uniformed figures rummaging in the shop and suggested they were impostors seeking Lucian’s recipe or supplies.
- The party agreed to elevate Lucian into the public eye the next day with a presentation or comeback story to draw out the thieves.
- They debated repairing Lucian’s shop and dealing with his landlord later versus moving directly to public outreach; torture was proposed by Aerendyl and rejected by others.
- Aerendyl, a high elf with a military background from Thalassiril, stated Xerosil had been wiped off the map in war and admitted long-standing animosity toward dark elves, though he was no longer obligated to kill on sight.
- The party decided to secure rooms at their prior inn and rest; Cyras Vey and Aerendyl planned a brief setup for the next day’s outreach.
- Lucian mentioned needing to deliver a personal item to a woman but chose to postpone until after resting.
Session begins Skyfire 9th 802av at 10:00 p.m.