Session Six

(temporary posting, may be edited later on)
Attending: Corrin, Dunban, Fortune, Meriele
Running: Hunt for the Heir

Whitefall mercenaries for an upcoming party.

Fortune has been stuck in council chambers with her family trying to convince her to stay. It is noticed that there are a lot less older tieflings around than when she was here last. There is a party tonight that has been in preparation for weeks and has the place in an uproar.

Walking towards the Malkos house, we walk past the White Camel, which is a tavern catering toward tieflings with a human behind the bar. We continue on, where we pass House Divito, which looks a little downtrodden and quiet. The gates are shut. We arrive and pass through defensive walls and gates, and the guards, noticing Fortune, let the party through without issues.

Arriving at House Malkos, and explain a bit about the House. Old ally of Sulfurios, greatest profit is in stability. Malethor has been friends with Fortune since childhood, and Pride has never liked him as she never thought he was good enough. If House Malkos was not allied with Sulfurios, they would have fallen long ago.
The party arrives at the House and is ushered into a parlour to wait for Malethor. Malethor explains that he is a little disturbed  by his travels and since he is busy currently he has invited the party to his birthday party tonight, which is a masquerade. The party heads back to House Sulfurios to comission costumes for tonight. With Fortune as a black dragon, Meri as a bird, Corrin as a rock and Dunban dressed as a stag. The costumes have hidden places for weapons.

Fortune, Corrin and Dunban head to the Favourable Blacksmith. Fortune buys a very fancy magical dagger for 300g. +1 frost dagger. Corrin buys a rapier. Dunban then heads to Vara's Tools. Dunban buys a +1 glaive.

There is a large explosion and smoke coming from across the river. Fortune continues to the jeweller's store, where she sells some jewels that she has found along the way. There is another explosion and the ground trembles, there is smoke coming from the other side of the river again. Dunban heads back to Sulfurios manor as well as Fortune. As Fortune is heading back and she is looking east, sees a big flash of light. Talking to the guards at the entrance to House Sulfurios, they explain that the light is not dangerous. We arrive at the crossroads near where the lights were earlier. One person was seen running down the alley. We turned around and decided to investigate the explosions.

The guards try to stop the public from going to the slave quarters. Fortune intimidates her way onto the bridge to talk to the mercenaries who are supposed to be investigating this section. After coming to the conclusion they they will check it out again tomorrow, they go back and get ready for the party and arrive. Blue-haired man at the party called Decimation Divito. Dunban runs into Maurice, a Whitehall mercenary who was a troop with Dunban before joining the company of adventurers. Malethor greets Fortune and chat with two small children. Chatting privately, we uncover that he brought back two books and left them in his study as they were personal and he didn't want to discuss it. The magic issue seems to be going for 2 weeks. Corrin is relegated to finding the study with these books. The books Corrin finds are called "Lineage of the Infernal Empire" and "Elves of the Sea of Fallen Stars".

A human-looking tiefling has come to Dunban saying that he promised to marry her a couple of years ago in Waterdeep. She explains that while she was trying to get him to fall in love with her, she seems to imply that Dunban was handsome. Another of the party-goers is suspicious and talks to a guard about the strangers at the party. By getting the guards involved and a bit of fancy persuasion, the woman is angry and transforms into a succubus and the people at the party go running. After Meri attacks the creature, Fortune can tell that the thing can only be hit with magical items. The succubus attacks Fortune and tries to charm her. Fortune manages to not succumb to it and becomes immune to the creature's charms. Fortune uses her frost enchanted dagger against the succubus and the creature gained frostbite on her toes. The battle rages on. Meri creates an illusion that only the succubus can see, an ice cage slowly compressing in on to the creature. The succubus turns towards the guard captain and charms him, and the captain turns and pulls out his swords and marches towards the company. Dunban manages another attack on the creature, and the succubus dies. The party appears shocked about what just happened and the party-goers all go home.