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everyonesomething · 8 years ago
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Session Seventeen
Edith Runekill: "We're adventurers tracking down a very dangerous individual."
Capridi: "I heard something about a lich committing grand theft auto. It was in all the papers. You're not very good detectives to assume everyone you come across is in cahoots."
Malkas: "Sydney's the only detective."
Sydney Gaydos is DEVASTATED... SHE'S THE GREAT DETECTIVE.
Capridi: "Can I put my hands down?"
Grim has not lowered her gun
Pepper: "If you wanna get shot at again, maybe."
In this session we make some new friends and make new discoveries.
The set-up: We've rested up in the library for an uneventful 8 hours and we're just about ready to get going again.
The Game: While Mal and Edith are resting up, Grim takes the opportunity to try to set Pepper straight on what happened with Edith earlier in the day.
Grim: "What you said to Edith today, you don't ever do that to a person."
Pepper is keeping her voice down. "What, that? It was a joke and it wasn't even about--however she took it. You'd think it would've been a LITTLE obvious from context what I meant."
Grim Looks At Pepper
Grim: "You're too smart to play dumb."
Pepper LOOKS back.
Grim: "You got a weapon in your words, and it don't take much looking at you to see that you know it."
"You ever raise it 'gainst an innocent again, I will mark you."
Pepper bristles. "Yeah, I've got a mouth but y'know it's not all on me, here. How am I supposed to expect she's gonna jump to 'eaten alive' without someone SAYING it in so many words? Half the time you can't tell WHAT'S going on in her head. Half the time SHE can't tell what's going on in her own head."
Grim: "Guess that's for you to figure out. I've said my piece."
Pepper snorts. "Yeah cuz YOU'VE never done anything shitty to someone around here."
Grim: "Hell of an eye you got for other folks, for someone who don't like to watch herself."
Pepper keeps her voice low. "Hell of a high horse you've got when you're going around flirting with someone's girlfriend right in front of them."
Grim gives Pepper an odd look
Grim: "Say what"
Pepper gruffs up her voice. "'Oh Edith you're the only one I trust to hold my stuff. Oh Edith, feel my abs.'" She rolls her eyes.
Grim continues to just look at Pepper in mystification
Grim: "You are just gettin' all cooked up in your own head, huh."
Malkas makes telltale sounds of being awake.
Malkas: "Edi, wake up."
Edith Runekill: "Whhh... wha...?"
Malkas: "We gotta ... um. Door."
Edith Runekill peels her face off the spellbook.
Malkas rubs his eyes.
Edith Runekill: There's some backwards writing imprinted on her face, where she fell asleep on some notes she'd made where the ink was still wet.
"Oh..."
"Door."
Pepper lowers her voice and grins a bit. "You're wasting your time on her, anyway."
Grim almost looks sorry for Pepper
Edith Runekill casts Major Image and the room floods with brilliant morning sunlight; by all appearances, it's the crack of dawn. With a flourish, she adds the sound of a rooster crowing.
Grim blinks at the change in atmosphere and glances around
Pepper is bathed in light and shrugs. "But you're right, I should be more careful around the less observant."
Grim looks back at Pepper
Grim: "You keep on the way you're startin' down, you just be careful around me."
Couldn't have gone better!
The door opens to Edith's spell and we're ambushed by a stranger: a sheep-looking dragonborn with a sickle who demands to... see our library cards? Grim raises her gun at her as the stranger tries to tell us she's the librarian and we're not authorized to be there.
Tries to, anyway. We're not buying it: Edith points out the place had been warded for the last 400 years and the wards have only been down a short amount of time. The stranger tries to stand her ground and Syd tries to encourage the group to use a more friendly approach, but Grim shoots a hole in the wall by the stranger's head and that's the end of that.
We introduce ourselves, anyway, and the stranger tells us she's been stuck inside for about a week. She stumbled on a patch of feywild magic that teleported her into the library while the wards were still up and couldn't find a way to get out. We're not sure if that's what brought the wards down, but it would explain the boggles we ran across earlier.
Edith and Mal are convinced by her story, though Grim is less trusting since the stranger did lie to us and wave a sickle around for a bit. Regardless, we decide to bring her along: if she's hostile, it's best to keep an eye on her and if she's not, we can help get her out of the library.
In the next room there's a plaster model of a dragon on the floor and a familiar-looking jeweled book on a table. Edith picks up the book and it's off into another pocket dimension for her, Syd and Pepper close behind. Mal tries to talk the stranger—Capridi, she says her name is—into following us in. It would be silly to leave her outside if she does mean us harm and there's monsters inside we could use her help fighting.
When talking doesn't work, Grim does some harder persuasion with her rifle pointed at Cap to much better results.
Inside, the scene is a little marshy and a lot dragony. We all jump into the fray, except Cap who backs off away from it. Syd does her hookshot thing into it like she did with the last dragon and whacks it a bit. We take turns pounding on it before it smacks Mal around and spits acid at Syd and Edith.
A minor set-back!
Cap heals Syd, she's at least determined to help the least-shitty one of us so she doesn't have to fight a dragon herself. Speaking of, Syd smashes it good and finishes it off, sending us back out of the book.
Malkas: "... I feel like these things go down a little too easy."
Grim picks herself up and reloads her rifle, then slings it back over her shoulder
Malkas is bleeding profusely.
Capridi: "Are we done?"
Edith Runekill: "I got drenched in acid so I'll say it didn't go down easy enough."
Malkas: "We'll get you a new hat, Edi."
Edith Runekill turns to Capridi. "Hey. Thanks for looking out for Sydney, there."
Grim: "Malkas, see to that wound."
"No good trailin' blood after us."
Sydney Gaydos: "Yes! Gaydos will return the favor ten-fold Newbie Gumshoe!"
Malkas nods at Capridi and cracks open a can of Carbonated Healing liquid. "Yeah, I got it, Grim."
Capridi: "I'm forced into a book by some weirdos, I sure as hell am not getting stuck there fighting their battles for them"
Edith Runekill pops open a can of Healing Pop, too.
Sydney Gaydos: "... understandable But now we--" Sydney walks over to pick up the key. "Can move on!"
Malkas: "Well, thanks for your help, Capridi. I hope you can get out of here."
Pepper: "They forced you in? Jeez."
Grim: "Nothin personal."
Capridi: "Totally personal"
Malkas: "I held the boggles downstairs off with a bag of candy. I didn't think that'd work on you."
Grim heads for the door
Pepper rubs her chin and shrugs. "Just seems a little rude, that's all. Threatening someone into a weird magic book." She digs a candy out of her pocket and eats it.
Malkas: "... You are... probably right. So, sorry about that, Capridi. We're a little on edge because we almost got killed by a kraken like two days ago."
"But, uh, I'm pretty sure we've got the way out of here, if you wanna stick with us."
"Instead of living alone, forever, in a flammable, fey-infested library."
Trust Pepper to know rude when she sees it, I guess.
The next room is different from the ones before: it's filled with piles of gold coins. Edith examines one of the coins, but it doesn't match up with anything she's ever seen before.
Might be because it's a group of Mimics in the shape of piles of coins that then rise up to clobber Edith and Pepper. They give us an undeserved beating, nearly taking Syd out in the process before Cap can get her healed up a bit. Mal breaks out a Hellish Rebuke on one of them, Grim shoots a storm of thorns at another, Syd does her smashing, and Edith and Pepper throw magic at them until they go down. Something. Weird almost happens to Pepper, but then doesn't. Probably nothing.
Pepper looks slightly off somehow for a second.
Pepper is pelted with shrapnel.
Grim cleans off her rifle, gross
Edith Runekill leans on her staff, looking exhausted and bloodied.
Malkas: [Infernal] "Are you okay?"
Edith Runekill: [Inferna] "That was REALLY FUCKING COOL, that thing you did."
Pepper flops down onto the ground, a little shaken.
Capridi heals Sydney a bit
Sydney Gaydos is going to also sit down on the floor, still looking pretty bad but not as bad as she was with three hp.
Malkas: [Infernal] Thanks. Don't think I ever did that before.
Edith Runekill: [Infernal] And you did it for me.
Edith Runekill kisses Mal on the cheek. She's filthy and bloody, it's kind of gross.
Canned Cleric: Heals the group a bit more
Edith Runekill gently scoops Millicent up and puts her back in her purse.
Pepper rolls onto her back on the dirty floor, she don't care.
Pepper: “[Elvish] That sucked.”
Sydney Gaydos waves a bit at Capridi! "Thank you again for the assistance! Gaydos now owes you twice as much!"
Capridi: "I take cash, whenever that's convenient"
"Or you can just help me get out, I'm so tired of this place"
Our team's finally come together, y'all.
Now that the Mimics are gone, we can examine the room freely and find a door locked by a puzzle and a mural nearby. The door has different dials laid out in a 2x2 grid showing both an environment—each corresponding to one of the four books we've been in—and a picture showing a time of day. The nearby mural shows the order of the times of day, but it's up to us to remember how to match them to the environments. We succeed, though, and are rewarded with a key.
During this, we fill Cap in on the situation. She doesn't sound too happy she might have been in a library with a lich for a week, and even less happy we're going to find him and that he might be in the next room.
Turns out there is an undeaded hooded figure in there, but it's not the lich we're after.
Edith Runekill 's mouth falls open.
Grim reaches for her rifle
Sydney Gaydos slowly raises her maul. "It's Undead."
Capridi: "Is this the guy?"
Edith Runekill , in a low voice: "He's not anyone I recognize."
Edith Runekill: "It's not Tam..."
Grim lowers her gun again
Edith Runekill: "Grim...?"
Pepper whispers, "[Elvish]A baelnorn."
Grim: "Hells. Never thought I'd come across-" She glances at Pepper.
Edith Runekill: [Elvish] Oh.
[Elvish] So that's what they look like...
Capridi: "Ask him if there's a way out"
Grim climbs up through the hatch
Edith Runekill follows.
Grim removes her hat
Edith Runekill: [Elvish] Er, hello. Sir.
Helia (GM): The Baelnorn looks up. "Well howdy."
Grim: "How d'you do, sir."
Capridi waits at the bottom of the ladder in case they get themselves killed
Pepper follows the group.
Helia (GM): "Oh, you know. Candlekeepin'."
Edith Runekill: [Elvish] I am beyond honored to be in the esteemed presence of a baelnorn.
Grim: "You're the protector of this place?"
Sydney Gaydos might as well follow. Still a little on edge because Undead, but he's a nice one. She guesses.
Helia (GM): "Ah. Thank you. And yes. Somewhat."
Baelnorn are elves who turn undead with a purpose to preserve or protect something, rather than go mad with power like a typical lich. This one—Tharnis, they tell us their name is—has been watching over Candlekeep for the past 200 years and tells us the wards came down as part of a plot to trap our lich: The hope was he would enter the library and then be trapped in the feywild. Unfortunately all they managed to trap was Cap.
Tharnis tells us they have a passage from this room to a small outbuilding on the library's grounds, we can use that to leave. We make nice with them for a bit before heading out.
Helia (GM): "I moved in merely 2 centuries ago."
Helia (GM): "I had thought the people of Baldur's Gate remembered, but ... Perhaps not."
Edith Runekill: "What's your name?"
Edith Runekill: "I'm Edith."
Helia (GM): "I am the Baelnorn Tharnis."
Grim: "We 'ppreciate your vigilance here. It's good to know there's still some watching over folks."
Helia (GM): "A pleasure."
Grim nods
Grim: "Is there anythin' we can do to help out your post here?"
Capridi tries opening the magical looking door while the others are talking
Sydney Gaydos still unsettled but, helping is what she does. "Right. We are here to help!"
Edith Runekill: "Yeah, we kinda thought this place had just been left unattended. I'm glad there's someone looking after it."
Helia (GM): "Mm, not that I can think of, my dear. Should Szazz show up, my fey companions and myself will prove to be a challenge."
Pepper gives a little bow. "[Elvish] I'm uh," and glances at Edith. "Adralei Aitphen. Thanks for your service."
Helia (GM): The lich bows, [Elvish] "Of course, anything to serve my people and my world."
Grim glances at Edith, then back at Tharnis
Malkas: "We, uh, took a bunch of magical treasures out of the master bedroom. Hope that's alright."
Edith Runekill: "And, um, I took some books. Books we don't have on the outside anymore." She shifts her weight uncertainly, and reaches into her bag. "I can give 'em back..."
Helia (GM): "No, no, enjoy them. I cannot enter that bedroom as it is, there is no way to play the game alone."
Capridi turns her head back from looking through the doorway, the doorway shes unsure where it leads. She's incredulous at how honest these lot are.
Grim: "Runekill's a vigil keeper too, in her own way. She's been real concerned about the books in here fallin' to waste, sittin' unread and all."
Edith Runekill: "Yeah. A lotta dangerous stuff got locked away here. But a lot of knowledge was locked away with it."
"Things we've lost, things we've forgotten..."
"Stopping Szass Tam is more important, of course. But..."
Grim: "Reckon there's any kind've deal might be struck? Libraries lend books, don't they, s'long as they're cared for an' returned?"
Helia (GM): 'Hm, I suppose. But so many of the books here are dangerous. I will have to go through them..."
"Keep the ones you've gathered, if you find them useful."
Grim: "I vouch my honour you can trust Runekill with the importance of what you hold here. She's a good head on her."
Edith Runekill: "Less useful, more just... well. Beautiful. Enlightening. Answers to questions we've had for centuries. There's things important besides being useful."
Helia (GM): "I shall.. endeavor to maintain safety standards, once the threat of Szazz Tam has passed."
Edith Runekill: "Thank you."
Grim nods to Tharnis
Edith Runekill bows deeply.
Our group has such good synergy, y'all.
And with that, we're finally out of the library. We thank Cap for helping us with healing while we were fighting monsters and she turns to take her leave when Grim stops her. In the light of day, Grim can see her better and recognizes her from one of the bounty papers she carries around.
Oh.
Cap tries to run off—despite Pepper warning her that would just get her shot—and. Grim shoots her. Nobody else seems to approve of this chain of events, but Grim goes to handcuff her anyway. Mal examines the bounty paperwork and finds it was issued by an agency clear on the other side of the continent from us—we're a bit out of their jurisdiction.
Malkas: "Okay, let's not get all ... Bounty-Happy here, huh?"
Malkas puts his hands up placatingly at Grim.
Grim looks at Mal
Capridi: "Yeah, curb your gun wielding psycho"
Malkas: "Don't be rude."
Edith Runekill: "D-don't talk about Grim like that..."
Capridi: "Tell her not to shoot me, maybe we'll see eye to eye"
Pepper to Edith. "[Elvish] Really? This is like the third time that gun's been at her and twice a bullet's come out."
Grim: "I got my own job to do, Malkas, I ain't turnin' a blind eye to convicts just 'cause we got bigger fish to fry further down the road."
Pepper: "[Elvish] Kind of a rotten way to treat someone that's spent a week stuck in a weird library funhouse."
Malkas: "Okay, well I'm not saying let her go... But uh, notice how we get Almost Dead a lot?"
Edith Runekill: "She... she DID heal us..."
Capridi: "Yes, I'm a hero."
Edith Runekill: "I mean. Speaking for myself. But I'd probably... you know. Be sort of."
"Dead...?"
"Just a little."
Sydney Gaydos: "That's right! She saved Gaydos! Twice!"
Malkas: "Very heroic. So, here's my proposition."
Capridi stands up
Grim looks at Mal and Edith, initially annoyed, then at Sydney
Grim frowns slowly
Capridi: "Looks like we're all in agreement that turning me in is a waste of your time and I'm owed a get out of jail free card for the favors I did for you."
Malkas: "Didn't say that."
Edith Runekill: "I mean... I guess she did some real bad stuff...? Or she wouldn't have a bounty on her."
"I don't know."
Grim throws down her cigarette and looks at Mal
Edith Runekill: "I'm not equipped to make decisions like this."
Grim: "Alright, here's what."
"She's your bounty now."
Edith Runekill looks SO TORN right now.
Grim: "Do what you will."
Edith Runekill: "I mean. I know this is important to you, Grim. Like the books were with me."
"Like... I don't know."
Grim looks at Edith, it's the first time she's looked really annoyed with her
Capridi thinks (wow edith is a nerd)
Grim: "No, Runekill, you don't know."
Malkas: "Okay, I say she sticks with us and ... well, does that healing magic that none of us know. We're heading west anyway, Thay is near High Imasker, isn't it?"
Grim looks back at Mal
Grim nods to him
Edith Runekill: "I... I don't. No."
Capridi: "Wait wait, don't I get a say in this? Isn't the healing I did an equal exchange?"
Edith Runekill takes a step back. And shuts up.
Malkas: "So, maybe she repays her debt to society in Heroism."
"You get a share of whatever treasure we find or are rewarded with."
Grim: "Maybe, Malkas. It's on you now."
Edith Runekill: "...sorry."
Capridi ponders the possibility of making a few bucks
Sydney Gaydos: "Do not worry Grim. Gaydos will put her straight on the path of righteousness!"
Pepper: "I'd think stopping a lich would get you a pretty good chance for a clean slate from the courts, too, right?"
Malkas: "And if you try and take off on us, then... Well, I'm not responsible for Grim's actions."
Pepper rubs her chin.
Malkas: "But you're outta my hands at that point."
Grim wanders off a little way to let them hash this out between them
Pepper: "Call it civil service. Commuted sentence. Etc."
Capridi says with vague sarcasm "Yes, I will see the righteous path and mend my maladaptive ways"
Malkas: "We'll plead your case in Imasker."
"Hey, we're all for Maladaptive, we've got Pepper."
Pepper grins and thumbs up.
Synergy, group coming together, etc.
For some reason, it's an awkward car trip back to the police station where we pick up our reward for investigating the library. We turn in to the hotel for the night, we've had a big day and we're facing down a long road trip soon.
Edith, Mal, and Pepper hang out for a bit in Edith and Mal's room where Edith tries to process all of what happened. She doesn't agree at all with how Grim treated Cap and even though Mal tries to reason with her that Grim seems used to thinking fast and solving problems on her own with a gun, she's still upset. Pepper takes a moment to apologize to Edith. Sort of.
Pepper mage hands a shrimp in Edith's direction. "You know I didn't. Like. MEAN to joke Mal had been eaten alive, right?"
Malkas: "You did what?"
Pepper sprawls out over like three chairs. "In that stupid book the boggles threw at me. Edith was all 'where's Mal' and I'm like 'feeding your kids' and well." And she waves an arm around.
Malkas: "Hmm."
"Seems like you knew how that could've gone down, Pep."
Edith Runekill: "It's just... even if you didn't mean it on purpose. I'd been alone in there a while. I was already scared. And then everyone but Mal showed up..."
"You... you coulda been a bit more thoughtful, is all."
Malkas grabs the shrimp bucket.
Pepper slaps a hand over her eyes. "Well don't worry about that, Grim's gonna shoot ME the next time it happens. 'Course with Capridi around now, maybe she'll forget that little promise." She grabs some roll off the table and eats without sitting up.
Pepper chews. "Have I said how GLAD I am to have Grim around."
At that, Edith is back to thinking about what happened with Grim and Cap. Edith was touched by Grim praising her work in front of Tharnis and she can't understand why the whole situation has her so messed up in the head, especially when she thought she had Grim figured out. Mal—dear sweet kind Mal—bites the bullet and chases Pepper out of the room to have a long-needed conversation with Edith.
Pepper launches a roll at Edith's head. "[Elvish] Don't go for the wine after this."
Malkas: "Take the wine, Pep."
Pepper makes a big show of dusting off her hands as she stands up.
Edith Runekill: The roll bounces off and rolls under the bed.
Pepper gathers up like four bottles of wine why did we order so much.
Pepper waves goodbye from the door, nearly dropping a bottle. "And uh, sorry. About the book shit. I know you REALLY care about Mal. REALLY. Like. Solid. Okay, I'm going to bed." And leaves before the awkward.
Edith Runekill waves goodbye to Pepper. She still looks sort of confused, like everyone but her is in on some joke.
Mal gently breaks it to Edith that maybe she's got a huge a bit of a crush on Grim. Edith thinks that's ridiculous, she's never had a crush on a woman before... except that one time. And that other time with their coworker. And—
Edith Runekill: "[Infernal] Fuck.”
Mal's not upset—he knows Edith didn't mean anything by it—but even so, she feels terrible that it looked like she was flirting with someone else in front of her boyfriend. And that everyone but her seemed aware of it.
Well. Almost everyone.
Edith Runekill: "I've had a crush on Grim for weeks and didn't even realize that's what it was. It it makes me feel like I been lying without even realizing it all this time?"
Edith Runekill: "I... I should. I don't know what I'd say, though."
Grim pauses when she gets inside and looks quizzically at the adjoining wall, hearing Edith's confession.
Grim :|
Grim sits down and lights a cigarette :|
Edith Runekill: "I'm still kinda reeling, to be honest."
"From... from all this."
Grim exhales a lot of smoke
Grim just wanted to kill a lich
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