Story 12/6/2020

The session started off with the group in an intersection of 4 different branches of the Mortal Plane. As they were leaving the Shadowfell, their path was seemingly intercepted by Desmond, forcing them to the intersection. At the intersection, Shadar-kai were killing people, and preventing their souls from entering the Shadowfell. Klon did a quick heal on one of the injured and stabilized him.

The group fought against the Shadar-kai, who all had the ability to teleport between the branches, as well as psychically arc their damage between the group. They could also control the movement of the group to an extent, and caused havoc moving people around and invoking opportunity attacks.

Through a combination of area attacks and crafty movement, the group was able to defeat the Shadar-kai. They also figured out that the space between the branches was a location that contained 2 branches/pieces of the Mortal Plane in the same space (ie both places occupying the same area). This caused some difficulty and quesy-ness when moving between the areas.

They found 3000g on the bodies of the Shadar-kai and talked to the human that Klon saved for a bit. He was a travelling merchant moving between Miradore and Taluga, who had been stabbed by an amateur bandit. While he was bleeding and trying to patch himself up, the 3 Shadar-kai appeared and finished him off. This confirmed that not only where the Shadar-kai able to teleport between the Shadowfell and the Mortal Plane, but that they were finishing people off close to death and capture their souls for some nefarious purpose.

Klon performed a ritual, which sent 6-8 of the Shadar-kai souls back to the Shadoell, basically ensuring that they would be caught, exposing the treachery to other Shadar-kai.

The group then noticed the area around them starting to fragment and collapse, and decided to ride it out and finish the journey leading them back to the well in the circle of trees. From there, they finished their journey to Gewalo.

Gewalo was a town known for it's Vice-Dens, basically places where people could gamble, drink, and do general party/vacation type things. Other towns didn't necessarily ban these activities, but they were the best in Gewalo. The town also had a lot of visitors from other continents, and was generally a well visited place. The largest Vice-Den was called the Golden Agora, presumably owned by "The Gambler," who was the person the group was looking for.

After buying a few local items, the group went to the Golden Agora. Inside they found a fairly raucous casino like place, although the rowdiness was generally contained and seemed to be the norm. Beorn played up that he was a drunk gambling newbie having the time of his life, and was invited to the VIP area. Lunashe learned the rules of the game in the VIP area, and also made it back there. Khaelis played some rounds with some drunk jambroni's, and then also went to the VIP area on a tip from another player. Erevan sampled all the local drinks, the most popular being a slightly fruity drink that had a really strong kick, getting people to gamble even more. Shalara kept an eye on the place, and noticed that the group was being tracked by the wait staff (although all other people were getting tracked too). Klon recruited 3 ruffians to the Order of the Raven Queen by helping to turn their luck against some elves that were tricking them, although a 4th ruffian wasn't having any of his religious crap. Eventually, an Eladrin with 2 Half-Orcs in the back of the VIP area came up to Beorn, Lunashe and Khaelis, and asked them to come to a private gaming table to play a special game with them. Around the same time, guards seized Erevan and Klon, while other guards ushered Shalara to a back room. Klon resisted the guards, and eventually broke free, but found himself surrounded....

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