Threads of Loyalty

Campaign DM'd by DayBed

Prologue
=Alklos= After the success of ritual, Alkos and Soleya entered a white void with only a slightly visible outline of building in a unrecognizable city. It was then that Aklos and Soleya drift to different areas.

In front of Aklos arrives Zenedrake, a man with light colored skin dressed as a magician weaking a top hat an a monocle. He gives a lightl bow while adjusting his pocket and his hat. He is quickly revealed to have four arms.

Zenedrake questioned his name and purpose speaking in an abstract manner as usual about to deny his presence when a glowing figure came out. It was none other than Lathander that accepted Aklos's visitation to the world.

There he learned in the region he was dropped to make contact with the Arch Mage Von Brandon Archemaedus of Thentia to learn more of what options he has in this new world for his old home.

Aklos had a modest day job sweeping a flower shop, but spent time around a student of artifice Adrian Plasses of the Merchant house Plasses. In a bit of a quid pro quo, but not fully noticed, Adrian traded willingness to have a meeting for Archemadus for accepting a mission. Adrian often spins himself to be the victim and underdog and appealed to AKlos's good nature.

=Regis Malone= Regis is a mild mannered man who is rather timid most of the time spending time at the unseen armadillo. While quetly eating, he was approached by a courrier who gave him a message with a seal of the Bruil family (A BEAR, a BAER).

Regis takes the invitation, where he is let in through the gates and eventually into the house as a private study. Richard Bruil stand tall with a large belly, wide shoulders and large mustache.

Richard Bruil is happy to see Regis and offers him an exclusive spot in adventuring initiative. While there, he mentions that he will get paid extra for the job for spying on the others and keeping an eye on Phlan. Regis seems unsure of Bruil in this state and appears to show his concern for loyalty among the other houses.

Regis reluctantly agrees and gets details of the nature of the meeting in advance.

=Santiago= Santiago spends his days quietly between jobs. He too often eats at the unseen armadillo. While eating dinner there, he receives a message from a courier to go to Plasses Mannger sigil (Dragonfly) and goes there. There me meets with Adrian at the door who is excited to meet him. At this point, he divulges details of his concerns for the adventuring initiative. Santiago is his most trusted mercenary that does work for him. He will later invite Aklos knowing somewhat of his skills and good nature, but used Santiago as a body guard for some time.

Santiago is unsure and feels uneasy at the pressure of Santiago, but relunctantly agrees to go after being offered an additional 200 gold.

=Ezra= Ezra spends her time mostly by herself without social contact. She receives a sending from Madam Valendra Belshebas from the hour Belshebas to go into her estate. It is clear from the the meeting that she was originally from Thay and shows almost a mentoring relationship with Ezra. She promises her gold, fame and the ability to hone her skills if she accepts. She is willing to accept where Valendra gives a positive message that she will keep an eye on her.

=Danga= Dagna after a successful sailing mission goes to the drunken clam where she does to drink. There, she gets challenged by a blond somewhat muscular man to a game of arm wrestling. Dagna with her sailor buddies take bets on her as he embarrasses himself by losing almost instantly. Angry, he goes an extra 1oo gold after betting 75 and loses even harder.

At that time the bar keep walks over and tell Dagna the patron Leyraghon has called to meet with her specifically to offer her a special job. She is invited and walks straight into his war room where he stands like an admiral looking over as he excitedly greet Dagna. Mordeaux admits that this initiative is on shaky ground, but knows that it is great money for someone who has more honorable things to do with it and despite what isn't said, the point is to deal with all of these murderers that have been popping around.

Session 1: The initiative of the Nobels
=Meeting at the Black Hut= The next day in the evening, all five of the people gathered showed. Though 10 were initially expected, they were eventually turned away due to a screening to reveal that they had been planted by mercenary groups and later removed. Once time has passed, both Richard Bruil and Dodgrick Mennindrome will stand speaking amongst each other before Richard pulls our a horn and uses it as a microphone to start speaking. He mostly speaks to try to appeal to the nature of adventure, while doesn't particularly capture the crowd as he goes on about the nature of adventuring and the opportunity of this iniative. While he does it, he does speak the rumors about serial killers in both here and Phlan that have been targeting people. Santiago breaks through a pause in the speech and asks who the targets are.

At this point, Dodgrick goes into what details have been provided and what is known. He mentions that Phlan has kept most of their intel to themselves, but they have posted a job and found a connection between the serial killers. In Melvaunt, all that is known is that one of them was spotted after death to briefly have an imp by his head whispering in an unknown language before disappearing. Dodgrick mentions that they will get paid what is paid here, and there to learn what is going on.

After the meeting, Richard Bruil calls for Regis and gives him an additional side mission. He talks about the secret king of Phlan known as Desmond Teragon and a rumor he heard that the Brotherhood of the Cloak is now working with him instead of the High Blade of Mulmaster. He lets him know to reach out and see if he can find any proof of this and asks for any information on anyone that appears a wizard around Valjevo castle. If he can get in or close to try and figure out if this is the case mentions that he will pay a great amount of money for any solid information proving or disproving this rumor. He mentions a business adviser and someone else by the name of Shen Romanov V when trying to name contacts. Regis accepts this extra side mission before going back.

=Enter Phlan= The group disperses and sleeps before departing the next morning. On the next morning before leaving for Phlan, the group is provided horses and basic adventuring materials for the ride. The ride is uneventful sides the view of the world crashing around them.

Once Phlan is reached, there is a guard asking the group what business they have in the city. It's Santiago that mentions a the note from Richard Bruil about the job. At that point, the first guard, inexperienced passes the note to a more experienced guard who escorts the group into the city. When escorted to the closest barracks to the gates, they are brought to the captain of Red Plume, a mercany camp that acts as a guard presence in Phlan and lead to the Captain of the Red Plume, Griswald Morden. He is a taller half orc in polished steel plate with a large feathery helmet (think Roman soldiers). Once escorted, the group is told to hand over their weapons.

Griswald goes over the details of the map and marks the location. During his explanation, he mentions how he sent several teams to the caves only to either lose those teams or need to retreat when being attacked by the Eraka barbarians. Dagna snickers at the result as Griswald mutters angrily about the barbarians always attacking them for cutting down the forests and trying to push them off their lands with additional settlements. Santiago asks the size of the companies that went in each group when Griswald mentions about 10 strong causing another snicker. The last bit is him mentioning the size of the payout for the mission before the group departs from the barracks. The cave is approximately a 3 days travel and everyone decides to sleep.

=The Lavender Swan= While most are willing to go the Goblin Inn, Aklos preferring style decides instead to take the group out and treat them to a wonderful meal at the Lavender Swan, the nicest restaurant in Phlan. This place is very close to Valjevo Castle. While there, Aklos does well to keep the party optimistic and happy. It is at that point where Regis looks across the table and listens in the perhaps the second finest meal going on in the place, a meal with a group of mechants that he is very familiar with and some that Dagna is familiar with. There, a man is speaking loudly about a generous donation of Silver to the church of the Triad. He hears one of the merchants refer to this man as none other than Shen Romanov V. Regis is shy, but decides to greet the table. Several of the Merchants recognize, greet and vouch for Regis as a reliable man and a good worker. Regis asks for context, when Shen Romanov takes the time to rebrag his donation of Silver to the Church of the Triad in its war effort against Hell. The conversation moves away from Regis quickly, but he is able to get Shen Romanov talking to him by bringing up the tensions between Melvaunt and Phlan. There is a decent conversation between need and control that sprouts out as he admits the problems are somewhat cause by the haste of the newer laws developed by the current business adviser of the leader of Phlan. The conversation moved to the topic of the people being killed by the random serial killers. During this exchange, it was brought up that Shen Romanov knew more than he was letting on about the situation. When asked about it, he let Regis know that his contact and the best person to ask is someone that lives in the city and that the King Rolin Dregard would likely not let anyone communicate with him without meeting them first and that likely wouldn't happen without first completing the mission.

Once the meeting is done, Dagna will go out to pick up chicks and Santiago shortly after to sleep early. Aklos will likely take Regis and Ezra leaves on her own to the GoblINN to sleep.