>[!clue|paper-b no-title] ># Hell is Empty... ><div class="sessionday">7</div> ><div class="sessionlocation">Session 5</div> ><div class="sessionsum">Making it to Brightmere, the group find it overrun with the Dawnguard looking for an unwanted fugitive.</div> >[!grid] >###### [[2025-04-29|⟸ Previous Session]] > >###### [[2025-05-28|Next Session ⟹]] >[!infobox|manifest wider no-title] <span class='at-badge ghost at-md'>Session Overview</span> > >|Session|Session 5| >|-|-| >|Date|14th May 2025| >|Day|Toilday<br>14th Fatimara, 4361</br>| >|Season|Spring<br>Season of Fertility</br>| > >>[!footer] Index >>- Received Item _[[Exorcism Kit]]_ >>- Discovered Item _[[Piece Maker]]_ >>- Discovered Item _[[David Jones]]_ >>--- >>- Completed Quest _[[Deliver the Goods]]_ >>- Updated Quest _[[Uncharted Frontiers]]_ >>- Gained Quest _[[Deliver the Goods]]_ >>- Gained Quest _[[An Eye For An Eye]]_ >>--- >>- Discovered Organisation _[[Dawnguard]]_ >>--- >>- Learnt Game _[[Pursuing Sheep]]_ > >>[!location] Locations >>- [[Gortle]] >>- [[Brightmere]] <span class="new">new</span> > >>[!npcs] Characters >>- [[Caroline]] >>- [[Piltberry]] >>- [[Merketh]] >>- [[Calad]] <span class="new">new</span> >>- [[Kathel]] <span class="new">new</span> >>- [[Erik]] <span class="new">new</span> >>- [[Zephyr]] <span class="new">new</span> >>- [[Gorge]] <span class="new">new</span> >>- [[Marvin]] <span class="new">new</span> >>- Calvin <span class="new">new</span> >>- Jono <span class="new">new</span> >>- [[Peter]] <span class="new">new</span> > >>[!izeroids] Izeroids >>- Finneas Riding Horse >>- Zephyr Military Portrait ## Session Notes #### One Last Dicking-Around - the group goes Gortle Tavern - Meet [[Merketh]]'s co-workers - Green Dragonborn Man: [[Calad]] - Half Elf Woman: [[Kathel]] - Dwarven Man: [[Erik]] - Merketh tells Izre to talk to [[Gorge]]; mayor of Brightmere - Group agree to help Merketh take a shipment down to Brightmere - the group play the "Pursuing Sheep" dice game - The pot: - 3 sp - a deck of cards - A sandwich - A small quartz rock - ~~4gp~~ - Iridescent glass cup with dragon carving - Beaded hair tie - Quarter drunk Horny Elk Lager - Shot of Silver Honey Vodka - Izre cheats and casts [[minor-illusion-xphb|Minor Illusion]]; admits to cheating and takes 4gp back - Abby wins the real game - The friends leave, and the group speaks to Merketh; Diletta tells him about how she is here for 'necromantic research' - Diletta tells Mei "Being mean makes [Vindarr] respect them" - 'The Holy Town of Gortle' - Absence and Diletta 'bless' Piltberry's office - Diletta spits on his desk - He takes the napkin that cleaned up the spit from Absence and displays it on a shelf - Sister Caroline gives a departing gift to the group :) ([[Exorcism Kit]]) --- #### New Problems - The group find Vindarr at the cart; he is wet - Diletta loses Vindarr's bet, gets 1gp 9sp - Vindarr's warpick is named '[[David Jones]]' - Vindarr reveals he met one of Absence's kind; he was a pirate selling exotic lizards before Vindarr killed him - Vindarr has yellow bones - Absence was not born a Tiefling; became one in Lavitra - Diletta calls Vindarr 'Special' - Izeroid: Finneas Riding Horse - Arrive in Brightmere; a lot of the Queen's Guards patrol the area - Two boys shaking an outhouse out of town - Go to Gorge and ask to where to deliver goods; told to go to Marvin, the coffin maker - Told of a paladin in the barn house who blocked off entry into the Stone Forest - Diletta and Vindarr go to Marvin - Absence, Izre, and Mei go to the barn - Meet Captain Zephyr Moonblaze, a Spectre of the Queen's Guard (Has spectre sword) - Izeroid: Zephyr Military Portrait - The group head back to the coffin shop - Detect magic: Divine magic still on party, a large amount of undead magic, and a dot of transmutation - Izre and Mei disguise themselves and pretend to be a Dawnguard soldier and WorkBeyond Enterprises representative respectively; convince Marvin they are here for paperwork in regards to Louis, his Undead Worker - Absence and Diletta sneak around the side, Absence helping Diletta up to look into the window and see what she can spot - Diletta is <span class='frightened'>[[conditions|Frightened]]</span> by the sight of Peter, the youngest child, who stares at her through the window; he mouths a few words to her - "Diletta" - "I Have Been Looking For You" - "She Wants You" - "I Want To Help You" - Vindarr keeps an eye out on Louis incase he tries to defend Marvin - Diletta climbs down from Absence, and scrambles away; goes to cemetery to curl up and lay down - Vindarr helps her up; gives jacket and becomes concerned; holds out Warpick - Absence lets Izre know they are leaving; plan to meet at barn - Absence, Vindarr, and Diletta walk to the barn; attracting suspicions from the Dawnguard - After finishing paperwork and taking and izeroid of the official papers on Louis, Mei and Izre meet up with the other two - See them sitting on the fence outside the barn, Diletta pressed between both tieflings - The group gather in to the barn, closing themselves off in a corner with hay bales - Diletta talks about her time in [[Avernus]] - Was a slave; used as entertainment, abused - Used to be an aasimar, treated more poorly - Managed to escape (broke her bones) - Many attempts; died often and returned to Virgilia after each death - Makes it out; returns to body which was returned into her body; buried underground - Kept repeating til miraculously her return coincided with Grey's autopsy/necromancy - Group decides what to do next; there are a few truths: - Alerting [[Dawnguard]]/[[Zephyr]] about the child will likely have the family killed for harbouring a fiend - The fiend is there for Diletta - The tools [[Caroline]] provided can help perform basic exorcisms