Quartz 4

Session 01

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Preamble

  • Everyone is in the town of Hillford
  • Nicholas Powers: famous adventurer, rumored to be in town investigating the disappearances of small children

WE BEGIN: TAVERN

  • The party walks into a tavern!! A classic
  • WE START WITH ME OMG
    • Gnomish barkeep! Gives homie a beer
    • I get 9 silver back from getting a room
    • Apparently Nicholas Powers isn’t super popular with most people 🤔
    • Camille gets excited to see him!! Homie’s a fan
      • Hovers around him telling stories in the corner
  • Kaya
    • Knows a little about Nicholas, here to do some snooping 👀
    • Sees a few folks around Nicholas, including my character!!
  • Lily’s character
    • Sees an ambitious and flamboyant half-elf telling stories in the corner
    • She’s hesitant to enter bcs this ain’t her scene, but she knows from books that you usually walk up to the bar in this sort of situation!
    • Asks for wine 💀 (the barkeep says “maybe”)
    • Anxiously fiddles with cards, mentions that she’s looking for an adventure — the barkeep interrupts her and points her towards Nicholas Powers

Meeting Nicholas Powers

  • Insight:
    • Cordelia: 5
      • Cordelia fully believes him
    • Kaya: NAT 20
      • Kaya can IMMEDIATELY tell that this guy is lying through his teeth — the only truth is that he has two guns
    • Camille: 11
      • Camille isn’t sure if he’s lying or telling the truth (skeptical)
  • Camille catches up to the dude, gives him their beer
    • The story they get is one about Nicholas going against a band of bandits — this time it’s not entirely a lie (Camille can tell) but is embellishing the truth
  • Kaya needles the guy about the mission
  • Cordelia asks about his guns

THE GANG GETS TOGETHER

  • We all agree that this guy is kinda incompetent and definitely lying
  • Cordelia drops that most people in the military don’t have guns 👀 so it’s interesting that he has two
  • Bartender brings us 3 flagons of nice alcohol (left behind by Nicholas)
    • He points us towards Burt Maclyn (tall, Orchish man, balding, always carries a broach with him)
  • We agree to adventure together!!

BURT TIME

  • Burt’s chill as hell! Took Camille’s drink
    • He tells them to meet him at the back of the tavern (and to leave a few minutes after he does)
  • Camille reports back to the party!
    • Cordelia’s apprehensive and suspicious (Camille casts Calm Emotions on her)
  • We were in the bar for an hour or two, it’s now around 6 PM
    • The bar is named the Foo Bar
  • Perception
    • Cordelia: Nat 1
      • Walks into a pool💀
    • Kaya: Briefly blinded by how bright it is outside
    • Camille: dirty 20
      • Sees Burt talking through a door into one of the shops (talking to someone)
  • Cordelia sneaks up to the dude
    • Camille casts Guidance!
    • Stealth: 17
    • She sees that the shop is an explosives shop
    • Hears the latter half of the conversation:
      • “yes, three of them, yes, behind the bar, yes.”
  • Cordelia reports back to us
  • Kaya climbs the bar to keep an eye out for us
  • Burt tells us that there’s a bandit camp that he knows the location of, but he can take us to it

Going to the “Bandit Camp”

  • What we found out about from Burt:
    • Bandits have been here for a few weeks
    • 7 children have gone missing so far
    • Burt takes more of a “proactive” approach to the bandits than most others
  • We stealthin!!
  • Burt asks the party what their names are
  • Camille DEX save
    • The wind pushes their back and they NARROWLY avoid an arrow
  • BURT ADMITS TO WANTING TO KILL US, LIKE THE BITCH HE IS
    • Camille says they “don’t like liars” and goes to hit him

INITIATIVE

Turn Order: Burt, Camille, Kaya, Cordelia

Round 1

  • Burt misses Camille
  • Cordelia takes 7 damage
  • Camille
    • Teleports Cordelia 60 feet away
    • Healing Words Kaya for 9 HP (back to full)
    • Runs their full movement away (40 ft.)
    • Takes an attack of opportunity from Burt (6 damage)
  • Kaya
    • Attacks Burt using Poison Spray (misses)
    • RUNS (40 ft.)
  • Guy jumps out of the woods (between the 3 of us)
    • Fires an arrow at Cordelia (MISSES LIKE A LOSER)
  • Cordelia reaches for her tarot cards
    • Pulls out the Fool (a random creature will fail the next attack roll or saving throw they make) — a light beam shoots into the woods down the path we’re heading
    • SHE RUNS DIRECTLY INTO A GUY 💀 BUT IT’S OK!! THE GUY GETS SHOT BY A DIFFERENT DUDE AND DIES
  • NICHOLAS SHOWS UP
    • Shoots a chunk out of a dude’s arm (WE’RE ALL SCARED OF HOW LOUD IT IS)
    • Shoots a different guy

Round 2

  • Cordelia faints 💀
  • Kaya kicks ASS
  • Camille shakes Cordelia awake and casts Zephyr Strike
  • Cordelia casts Firebolt and HITS BURT IN THE CHEST!!! (he stumbles but is still standing — the broach he’s wearing falls into the mud)
  • Nicholas tries to shoot Burt (misses) and hits a different guy
  • Burt tries to punch Nicholas
    • BURT SAYS “THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE SACRIFICES, JUST LIKE THE CHILDREN”

Post-Combat

  • Nick asks Camille why they didn’t kill Burt
    • “Well, I don’t want to kill anyone. And anyways, in the stories, when adventurers encounter bad guys, they keep at least one alive to question for later.”
  • Nick lore drops:
    • They need 10 bodies for a ritual
    • All sacrifices need to die at the same time
  • WE SHORT REST!!!
  • Nicholas asks Cordelia what her name is, and mentions that he knows her family!! (not well tho)
  • Nicholas asks Camille if he wants to heal Burt, otherwise Burt will lose his arm
    • They begrudgingly heal him
  • Perception check!!
    • There is nobody standing guard at the camp
    • There are a bunch of charred bullet holes in dead bandits at the entrance
  • Nicholas says that he’s not good with children, which is why he needs us
    • WE’RE NOT GOOD WITH CHILDREN EITHER 💀
  • We establish that Nicholas is irresponsible as hell (and also an alcoholic)

Investigating The Ritual

  • Camille is too distracted by kids to look around
  • Nicholas says that he needed a scholar to look at the ritual area
  • We’re in a stone area with murals on the walls
    • Cordelia recognizes a specific portion of it:
      • Small hole/alcove in the wall, with channels like wires running along the sides
    • The murals depict the War from nearly 800 years ago
      • The Spade Kingdom is turbo destroyed, with craters and shit
      • Depicts the mountains being raised
      • Between the mountains, there is an Orb (the aforementioned divot in the wall)
        • Cordelia rolls and concludes that this Orb could be a key of sorts, but has no idea as to what it’s a key for or why the hole is there specifically
  • Nicholas splits the contract with Kaya
  • We walk the children back to town!!
    • Cordelia tells Camille about the WAR
  • WE TIE UP BURT OUTSIDE THE BAR

Returning the Children + Questioning Burt

The Children

  • First child is returned home safely!!
  • Before the second child is able to be returned, a bell starts ringing in the distance — townsfolk start emerging from their homes to see what’s up and the children start going towards the bell

Burt Maclyn

  • Cordelia KICKS HIM IN THE BALLS!!!
  • Cordelia yells at him and then leaves to go inside the bar and get a glass of mysterious wine
  • Kaya intimidates the FUCK outta him with her spear 🤭
  • What Kaya and Cordelia learn:
    • Burt believes that “the benefit of the few outweighs the benefit of the many”
    • Mentions that the mural is really a door (we been knew)
    • Burt tells us that the “key-orb” is with his benefactors, who would kill him if he gives them up
  • Cordelia tries to BRIBE Burt 🤑
  • Burt bargains for his death so long as the party kills him
    • No deal is made yet, but around this time the bell starts ringing
  • WHAT BURT SHARES
    1. “You should never make a deal with the devil”
    2. “I know nothing”
  • KAYA REALIZES THAT SHE JUST SIGNED A VERBAL INFERNAL CONTRACT WITH THIS BITCH
    • Now that Burt’s shared everything that he knows, Kaya’s required to kill him (and kill him quickly)
  • Cordelia asks for elaboration
    • Burt’s benefactor is in Diamond**
    • He was paid to “find the Orb” (AKA the key)
    • Burt suspects that they key is in the Capital

Back to the Kids

  • Camille is congratulated by a bunch of people!!
    • They give credit to everyone in the party, including Nicholas (who deserves “medium appreciation”)
  • They (Julian? Julius? Old man with a broach that’s different from Burt’s) ask us to deliver a letter to the Capital
    • The letter will be written tonight
    • We will receive the letter tomorrow morning, when we meet with the bigwigs of this town
  • Our rooms are paid for!!!

Back to Burt

  • Kaya is asked by a random dude to take whatever BDSM shit she’s got going on with Burt to a private place (she goes behind the bar)
  • Burt does a double-take at Cordelia’s card deck, and looks terrified
    • Burt asks Cordelia how long she’s had those cards (since her 11th birthday)
    • Burt asks Cordelia how old she is (21)
    • He’s met someone who had a similar deck before, but that was a VERY long time ago
      • “Oh, sweetheart. You don’t choose that school, that school chooses you.”
    • He says Cordelia’s not well-versed in them yet
  • Camille casts Zone of Truth
    • Everyone fails except for Camille and Cordelia
    • Camille asks who owned the cards before Cordelia
      • An old, wild wizard(?) owned the cards 25-ish years ago
      • The cards are a type of wild magic
      • WIZARD USED SHE/HER
  • PEOPLE NOTICE BURT IN FRONT OF THE BAR!!
    • Cordelia lies about Burt eating some bad mushrooms and being a danger to other people
    • KAYA KILLS BURT IN FRONT OF EVERYONE 💀
      • IT’S OK SHE EXPLAINS IT AWAY
      • The townsfolk take care of the body
    • Camille introduces themself as “Camille Xotli”
    • Cordelia receives wine and doesn’t say no to delivering a letter requesting aid to the Capital!!

Solo Character Scenes (Long Rest)

  • Camille
    • Takes a long, hard look in the mirror
    • Drops an effect caused by an ability
    • “We did it. They’ll remember you. Well… not you, but [Uses an ability]… you.”
  • Kaya
    • Taking it ALL in
    • This type of room is worth like, one or two jobs, so she’s FULLY enjoying it
  • Cordelia
    • She takes in everything that happens today
    • Decides to write a letter to her school, stating that she will not be attending classes for the foreseeable future. Sends it!
    • Writes a letter to her friend, saying something along the lines of “If I don’t see you in the next few months, don’t worry. I love you.”

Dream Sequence Timeeee 🤩

Cordelia’s Dream

  • She’s back in class and learning! The topic is something that she’s learned countless times before, so she’s daydreaming
  • She smells lavender, at first
    • It’s a smell that makes her feel happy and peaceful
  • The smell changes to smoke and magic — it’s metallic, reminiscent of iron
    • She looks down and sees bodies. Blood on the ground.
    • When she looks up, all she sees is fire.
  • In the sky, there is a man in a cloak
    • He turns to her, and she feels as if IT is her fault.
  • Cordelia wakes up.
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