2016/09/14

- We were taken to the prisoners and tried to come up with a way to interrogate them with very little time to discuss

- Margaret asked the Fade agent questions and the rest of us as well

- Said the "pale one" (the Fade agent who killed himself in the pub at the start of the campaign) gave him a tattoo that was used to communicate; was offered money and power, he was desperate; they somehow knew his secrets and blackmailed him. Tortured him as well until he "learned to love them". Doesn't even remember where home is. Said that the amulets are a "key" to somewhere. Offered him an amulet, he said he would show us how it works. He drew something on the floor and then turned to mist. 

- Gudrun booked it and Katar as well. The agent eventually cornered himself against the entrance to the audience chamber. The guy managed to somehow cast a soul sucking spell at the prince once he broke through the door, we thought he might lead us somewhere but instead he seems to be assassinating the prince... yay

- Jon managed to kill the Fade agent before he could finish the job. 

- Had to deal with a very livid bodyguard, Jon failed to persuade them. A couple others chimed in without making it sound like we gave them the means to escape though Jon told them the truth in the end, persuasively! They took the prisoners out for immediate execution.

- Lil J went to see Blane while the rest of us watched the execution. Blane said how the Fade had taken Alistair. Lil J asked if there was a better way than the Heartstone for finding Alistair with one of his belongings, but he didn't seem to know. Gave us a harpy feather in case it would help us find the Temple of the Harpy, though he'd never heard of such a Temple. 

- Margaret, Jon and Lil J went to pay their respects at the Pellor temple, some priests took them to Alistair's room, investigated it. Looked like they'd been looking for something, checking small drawers or for secret compartments. The party couldn't find any when they checked. 

- Lil J took something of Alistair's so we can try scrying for him. 

- Katar managed to find a dog in the forest and start taming him!

- Decided to split the party, one group would go to Stillbend and do some scrying and the other would track the footprints from the Temple of Pellor; Quest, Gudrun and Jon would go to Stillbend and the rest on the tracking party. 

- Gengis the dog led the tracking party to a cavern, courtesy of Alistair's sock! Found bonfire remains in it and remnants of a camp. Wasn't much there. Footprints continued north and some hoof prints as well. Katar perceived they were there a day and a half ago. Lost the tracks, they scattered at the Red Plume camp. Katar investigated, some tracks headed to the mountains and others headed into wilderness. Katar took the route to the wilderness and followed until 4:00am or so! Made camp. 

- Jon and co found a charter boat to take them to Stillbend. Went to the tower and tried to use the Heartstone but unsurprisingly it had security, Quest got his brain fried, survived though! Decided to go and find Jostyll. But didn't know where to look! One of the guys at the pub said she was at the pub this morning. No idea where she is now. Got the gist that she was at the Temple of Ioun. Went to her tower with her. She found a crack in the Heartstone and said she wasn't sure it would even work. Needed to see someone about it. Quest persuaded her of the urgency. Had her scry with the amulet. A beacon appeared and pointed northeast. And then another crack formed in the stone and we all got psychic damage. 

- Jostyll livid when she inevitably found out that we broke her stone yay! We made some reparations with gold and apologised, she stormed off said we were free to try it again if we must with the harpy feather, Jon decided that we had to try

- The beacon pointed northeast again so that was good. But then the psychic blast hit us again and Jon and Quest were incapacitated. 

- Gudrun managed to stabilise Quest but Jon was in bad shape, she just barely managed to stop him from dying.