🗓 Session 13 – 🗝️📦 Quest for a Box

📅 Date of Session:

2025/11/30

👥 Party Members Present:

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

🎲 Session Events

🌅 Morning in the Bastion

• Eldvarr wakes grieving George’s loss; he studies giant magic and successfully summons a small version of George as a familiar. His new armor feels unnervingly cold and light.
• Harlekk is drawn to his onyx stone, which grows heavier the longer he holds it. His first saving throw of the day will be at disadvantage.
• Voss studies his new patron’s abilities.
• Nelvax practices with his tentacle sword.
• Zane starts the day with coffee, researches the castle, and checks in with Mortain.

🐉 Twill Arrives With News

• A guard drags Twill in after catching him trying to climb up to the second floor.
• Twill reports he found Voss’s mother—held as a “guest” at a Tower outpost.
• Twill displays items he has acquired:
  • Nelvax: chooses gloves of thievery
  • Eldvarr: +1 greatsword
  • Zane: spell inks
  • Voss: storm gauntlets and javelin of lightning
  • Harlekk: cloak of many fashions and hat of disguise
• Heavy bartering leads to discounted prices.

🏛️ Job Offer: “Get the Fang & We’ll Refund Your Money”

• A nearby town’s old Tower contains a vault with the fang of the first kobold.
• If the party retrieves it, Twill will refund 1,620 gp.
• Stealth is recommended.

📜 Meeting Ricio

• Ricio Tane hides in The Haunted Manor library with a map already laid out.
• Vault details:
  • Two vault doors
  • Four switches
  • Labeled rooms
  • Bold warning: DO NOT TOUCH THE PAINTED CLOCK
  • Ten-minute timer after activation
• His wife Arathia attempted the heist alone, was teleported to an anti-magic crystal chamber, fled, stole a chest, and later vanished.
• He requests that Master Rayenburg be taken alive.
• Ricio Tane provides:
  • Copies of vault keys
  • Cologne of dispelling
• The chest he intended to give them? He forgot it at the Lucky Leap.

🚶 Into Town

• At the gate, Harlekk tests a magic-detection device using an illusion. It pings, but he evades suspicion.
• The group enters the Lucky Leap, now dusty and staffed by strangers.

🍻 Inside the Lucky Leap

• Locals whisper when the party isn’t looking.
• Ember and George scout upstairs and hear muffled screams behind a guarded door.
• A guard fires at George; the familiars flee, and the party rushes to help.

⚔️ Surprise Tavern Combat

Round 1

• Eldvarr banishes George.
• Nelvax takes a patron hostage.
• Zane covers the entrance.
• Harlekk creates a distraction and inspires Eldvarr.
• Voss charges and instantly kills the upstairs guard.

Round 2

• Eldvarr finds Voss over the dead guard.
• Nelvax nonlethally KOs the barkeep.
• Zane arrives upstairs; combat pauses.

🚪 Breaking Into the Back Room

• Eldvarr kicks open a blocked door.
• Inside is a guard and Ricio, suspended by his wrists and tortured.
• Harlekk heals him.
• Ricio retrieves the Containment Chest from a hidden nook.
• Eldvarr finds a childish note reading: “I love you.”

🗡️ Interrogation & Aftermath

• The captured guard admits he’s a commoner conscripted by city guards.
• He fears the Hollow Fangs (tattoo: skull with missing incisors).
• Zane intimidates him; he claims the Fangs will protect his family.
• Ricio takes Voss’s dagger and kills the guard instantly.

🚨 Session Highlights

📌 Notable Moments:

• Reesio’s full vault explanation and warnings.
• Twill’s update about Voss’s mother.
• Ember and George discovering the torture room.
• Recovery of the Containment Chest.
• Reesio executing the guard.

🗨️ Quotes:

“You’re a little late.” – Ricio
“The Fangs will protect my family.” – Captured guard

✅ Things to Do:

1. Plan the vault infiltration.
2. Prepare for teleportation circles and anti-magic effects.

📚 Leads and Discoveries:

• Lead - Hollow Fangs - New group that is made up of civilians being turned into supporters?
• Lead - Tower is relocating magic items - Twill says The Tower is relocating all stored magic items. Possibly taking them out of Onadbyr?

💰 Loot:

• 2 sp (claimed by Voss)
• +1 Greatsword – Eldvarr
• Gloves of Thievery – Nelvax
• Spell Inks – Zane
• Storm Gauntlets – Voss
• Javelin of Lightning – Voss
• Cloak of Many Fashions – Harlekk
• Hat of Disguise – Harlekk

📍 Locations Mentioned:

• Onadbyr — Capital city of Aglarion
• The Lucky Leap — A well-known tavern in Aglarion, run by Ricio Tane. The party frequently meets here between adventures.
• The Haunted Manor — The party's bastion, base, and home

📦 Items Mentioned:

• Containment Chest — A rune-etched magical container currently holding a dangerous idol; suppresses magical auras and is believed to be the only way to safely contain the cursed Crown of Aglarion.

🧍 Active NPCs:

• Jorban Twill — A perceptive kobold merchant who travels with an oversized sack of magical curiosities, strange artifacts, and unpredictable wares.
• Mortain — Unseen butler for the The Haunted Manor
• Ricio Tane — Owner and tavernkeeper of the Luck Leap
• Voss’s Mother — A composed and intelligent magistrate serving the Tower, secretly aiding her son from within.
• Master Rayenburg — -

🪦Deceased NPCs

• Arathia — Ricio's "dead" wife.

🗺️ Quests Updated: log

🏳️ Factions:

• The Tower — A powerful magical order, feared and respected in equal measure, whose agents once acted as enforcers, bounty hunters, and arbiters of arcane law — now revealed to be broken, with magic roaming unbound in its absence.
• Hollow Fangs — Informal civilian auxiliary group