🗓 Session 12 – 🏚️🌀 Chaos in the Sunlit Square

📅 Date of Session:

2025/11/16

👥 Party Members Present:

• Zane Umbralight
• Nelvax
• Voss Dain
• Harlekk Wynnchym
• Eldvarr Ulfridsson

🎲 Session Events

🛠️ System / Rules Notes

• Nelvax’s Uncanny Metabolism triggers on initiative, restoring focus and HP.
• Harlekk lost concentration during Hypnotic Pattern, causing rubble to fall onto a spider.
• Voss undergoes domain shift → becomes Tempest Cleric.

🎭 Event / Encounter 1 – Emerging Into Chaos

The elevator opens into dazzling noon sunlight—and immediately into a scene of destruction. Screams echo from collapsing buildings. Dust and debris fall. In the ruined square ahead:

• Market stalls are smashed.
• Two people are pinned under rubble.
• A child screams uncontrollably.
• Wereknights battle two giant spiders and a giant humanoid.
• One guard is already down.
• The party rushes toward the chaos. Zane grabs churros for everyone on the way.

⚔️ Event / Encounter 2 – Chaotic Multi-Faction Combat

Highlights:

• Harlekk disguises himself as a child to infiltrate the area.
• A giant spider kills a guard.
• Zane shields the screaming child and fires Eldritch Blasts at the guard captain (knocking him back 5 ft).
• The giant uses a guard corpse as a bludgeon, then tries ripping off the captain’s leg.
• Nelvax attacks guards and spiders, calling one a “bad dog.”
• Voss casts Guiding Bolt (3rd), detonating the captain inside the giant’s mouth.
• The child screams even louder at Zane.
• More civilians are nearly attacked as one spider shifts toward the trapped pair.

⚡ Event / Encounter 3 – Suggestion, Kidnapping, and Hypnotic Pattern

• Zane casts Suggestion on the giant: help save the pinned people and return home.
• The giant fails and picks up Harlekk and a trapped civilian, carrying them off.
• Eldvarr mistakenly thinks the fight is over and tells the giant to “take them home.”
• Fearing for Harlekk’s life, Nelvax kicks and punches the giant’s legs.
• Voss casts Hypnotic Pattern:
• Harlekk, the giant, and the rescued man all fail.
• Harlekk drops concentration → rubble crushes a spider.
• Guard 2 attempts to flee.
• Voss and Zane make OAs.
• Zane decapitates the guard cleanly.

🧩 Event / Encounter 4 – Escape & Moral Reflection

• The rescued man is brought to Jory the Healer.
• As the party leaves the city, roars and screams continue behind them.
• Questions arise:
• Zane: “Are we the bad guys?”
• Voss: wonders what screams they’re hearing—guards? giant? civilians?
• Eldvarr alone has no regrets, being fully pro-giant.

🎒 Event / Encounter 5 – Twill’s Unchartered Bazaar

• The group meets Jorban Twill, a perceptive kobold merchant with a massive bag of goods.

Items & Deals:

• Twill gives Nelvax Twill’s Summon Card (say his name 3× to summon him once/day).
• Voss pays for information on Alira.
• Eldvarr pays for Twill to "put in a good word" for him ("standard 10 inches").
• Nelvax buys Harlekk a whispering lantern (reveals invisible/ethereal beings).
• Twill shows a 3-foot waving tentacle sword—Nelvax buys it.
• Twill also notes possible bracers, magical ink, and disguise items.

Ominous Incident:

• Twill’s eyes glaze white.
• He retrieves a smooth black stone and hands it silently to Harlekk.
• Harlekk takes it; Twill "wakes up" and moves on as if nothing happened.

🏰 Event / Encounter 6 – Return to the Bastion

• On the way back to the Bastion, Nelvax sends Ember to leave a note at a Thieves' Guild dead drop to investigate Twill.
• The Bastion is heavily reinforced
• Signmonder’s soldiers on patrol.
• Catapults aimed outward.
• Signmonder appears exhausted and older.
• The party reports their menagerie descent and meeting with the builder-architect.
• Eldvarr displays the 3D stone model (“George”).
• Signmonder notes there should not have been more than ~10 monsters down there.
• He warns they must prepare for what’s coming.

🚨 Session Highlights

📌 Notable Moments

• The party kills more guards than monsters.
• Twill's prophetic trance and the black stone.
• The Bastion’s militarization.
• Voss’s dramatic subclass transformation.
• George’s destructive “upgrade attempt.”

🗨️ Quotes

Zane: “Are we the bad guys?”
Party: “We saved the people… right?”

✅ Things to Do

1. Learn how to access the schematics stored in the Builder’s eye.
2. Receive Thieves’ Guild report on Twill.
3. Study the black stone’s link to Harlekk.

📚 Leads & Discoveries

Completed Leads

• None resolved this session.

New / Ongoing Leads

• Lead - (Completed) What is the nature of the black stone - is this item dangerous? It seems to be cursed so Harlekk cannot part with it. converted to quest The Black Crystal’s Pull
• Lead - (Completed) Investigate the royal lineage - converted to quest Suspicious Royal Lineage

💰 Loot

• Whispering Lantern (Harlekk)
• Tentacle Sword (Nelvax)
• Black Stone (Harlekk)
• Twill’s Summon Card (Nelvax)

📍 Locations Mentioned:

• The Haunted Manor — The party's bastion, base, and home

📦 Items Mentioned:

• Twill’s Summon Card — A card used to summon Twill

🧍 Active NPCs:

• Jorban Twill — A perceptive kobold merchant who travels with an oversized sack of magical curiosities, strange artifacts, and unpredictable wares.
• Lord Signmonder — Protector of the Crown, commander of The Redcloaks
• Voss’s Mother — A composed and intelligent magistrate serving the Tower, secretly aiding her son from within.
• Jory the Healer — A reliable healer in the city.

🗺️ Quests Updated: log

🏳️ Factions:

• Wereknights — Former loyal knights transformed into monstrous warriors by Athena.
• Thieves' Guild — A guild, of thieves

🧭 Bastion Downtime Actions

Zane

• Conducts Are the Wereknights Lost in the library.

Voss

• Studies a possibly falsified letter from his mother.
• Experiences a powerful dream, where divine figures speak to him →
  Voss becomes a Tempest Cleric.

Eldvarr

• Attempts to merge Lorhaine’s heart with the stone model of George.
• George groans, strains, and splits into four pieces.

Harlekk

• Investigates The Black Crystal’s Pull; it resonates unnaturally with him.

Nelvax

• Sells wine from the Storehouse at a profit.
• Learns cryptic lore: multiple queens & one princess (three hag queens, the princess, the original queen, the prince).