The Story So Far

Cook off: Zverina and Irek have been challenged to a cook-off by Aldric Headstrong. Thanks to their brains, magic and a fish noodle recipe they have beaten their opponents and won their respect.
Duke visited: Thanks to their connection to Aldric Headstrong, they managed to be granted an audience with the Duke of Redguard. Veyric offered him a deal - gold trade and access to the meteorite in exchange for help agaist traitors (Aldric, Elijah and others…).

Observatorium: Party decided to pay visit to Ichor, Duke’s astronomer. However his observatorium appeared to be empty and all signs suggested, he was abducted. Closer investigation revealed, that he was tracking objects in the Constellation of Warrior and he seemed unsettled by the fall of the meteorite. Veyric retrieved a book and notes that could give party a clue about the Ichor’s work.
Suspicious beggar: Zverina decided to help an armless beggar, who tried to bite her when she wanted to heal him of his disease.
Talk with Aldric: Conversation with Aldric revealed he was going to stay in a tavern for the night, which gave the party an opportunity to investigate his manor in Highwater.
Informant Chantal: Zayne had a talk with Imperial informant Chantal Marie-Ann who warned them about a cult - Blind Messengers, and provided a fast carriage to travel to Highwater. Chantal promised to find out more about the cult.
Irek’s departure: After an especially vivid dream, Irek decided to leave the party and travel east.

Aldric’s manor: The party stealthily entered the coastal building, which was already being raided by someone else. The opposing party was in the process of investigating an Aldric’s office. Party battled an elf wizard and a tabaxi assassin, managed to fatally hurt the latter one and take a tabaxi archer hostage.

Duke’s sceptre: Zaine tricked the archer and made her find and open the Aldric’s safe, promptly killing here after. The documents in safe revealed that Adric hid a Duke’s scepter in a nearby shipwreck. Zaine managed to retrieve the sceptre despite the underwater creature’s attempts to drown the party.

Loyalty: When Veyric heard screams and felt odour of blood and rot from the docked ship Loyalty, that belonged to Lord Dunhart of the Eternal Court, party decided to investigate. Party managed to stealthily infiltrate the ship, where they revealed remains of various aberrant creatures and their victims. First, a corpse whose abdomen was opened from the inside, with marks after countless small bites. Second, a corpse whose hand was melting into the floor. Investigation prompted the corpse to get up and imitate the party member, revealing its shapeshifting nature, after which it was dealt with. Last, an imprisoned woman, who was quickly identified by Veyric to be a Night Bride, being dealt with as well.
The party also revealed an office of Lord Dunhart, full of countless morbid curiosities in a form of aberrant body parts and preserved anomalous creatures. The office revealed a list of all parties interested in the aberrants, specifically Kane Keaton, Nivara De Veneris, Kharak, Lord Lothar Opalhide and Lord Elaim Rumnaheim. Secret door have revealed Dunhart’s personal laboratory which he used to brew charming potion to make his subjects loyal. The party also acquired evidence the potion was also used to drug prostitutes in various Ellyrian brothels, along with the names of numerous buyers. Party borrowed few samples of the potion, rummaged through the Dunhart’s safe and made their escape, blowing the ship up in the process.

Back in Redguard: Party returned to the Redguard and reported to the Duke, providing him a sceptre and documents proving Aldric’s and Elijah’s involvement. Duke decided the party will participate in a royal hunt, at the end of which he will show them where meteorite is stored - ancient ruins Loth Rakk.
Preperation for the hunt and the Festival of Rebirth: Veyric bought bottle of ink, that upon drawing circle on the ground opens portal to a pocket dimension containing a small archive. Zaine and Zverine met with an odd lady Rosalinda, who sold them Kempel’s Gas capable of paralyzing and suffocating organisms in an enclosed space and a Gem of Seeing. Zverina also promised to return to Rosalinda after the hunt, as the old lady wanted her to meet someone. Veyric managed to win a magical stone reciting words in a foreign language in a street game.

Village of Ansben: Party participated in the Duke’s hunt on deer and boars. Duke made a stop in an Ansben, where all the villagers were slaughtered, their bodies mutated and blended into one spiral. Per found journals of the village elder the perpetrators are believed to be the Blind Messengers. Party also met a small girl Sussane and her monstrous dog Onyx. Conversation reveals Sussane’s uncle sent them on a hunt for Uriel Cabeth. When the girl and the dog meet with the Duke, he appears to be afraid and calls her a “daughter of death”. Before departing Sussane promises Zaine to come back for him soon.
Royal hunt: When the dogs sensed elves, Duke managed to imprison one female elf and commenced hunt on her partner. The party helped the elf couple escape without getting exposed.

Couple of Fools (Baragoru/Trio magorov): Zaine suggests investigating Molgrath Fenn and Lady Evoren. Party decides to offer the Subject 0 to the God of Death, Sussane reveals herself to them. Sussane tells them some info - Azatoth is dead for a few thousand years, Uriel Cabath acquired a piece of Vorath (the previous god of death) and he is after someone who is working against Malady in Vesper. She reveals a former Knight of Death - Crassus Arrkoth, who might be interested in the empty throne. Sussane and party make an alliance and she disappears to chase Uriel further, promising to return when she learns more.

Contingency: Party visits late Verdugo’s lawyer - Leonardo Savio and learn about the upcoming elections for the Syndicate leader.
Talk with Dynamite: As Zaine receives an invitation for lunch from his associate and one of the powerful Syndicate representative Nazar “Dynamite” Dyres, party visits Zaine’s contact - Errant - to learn some rumors about Dynamite. Errant tells them Dynamite killed his wife in a fit of rage which was quickly hushed down. Party meets with Dynamite who offers them an alliance but refuses to be loyal to some ‘cutthroats’. Raging, he threatens to hurt Veyric’s sister and throws them out. Party returns during the night, steals the letter from Nivara to Veyric and sets his apartment on fire. The letter reveals to be an invitation for wedding between Nivara de Veneris and a certain Enato Nekka and a plead for help.

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