Mormeddan

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Minutes for 2018-01-24

Lenora goes to T'odd to get him to explain the bear, and whether it's more likely to be a lycanthrope. Mildred casts Detect Thoughts on the bear. The bear is thinking about a pub, a frosty beer, and a cold steak. Mildred shouts that the contest is rigged. Coll tells the handler that next time the bear's in town, he'd like to buy the bear a drink.

Ceridwen goes in search of more info on Brittany. Mildred and Lenora head after Renner and the winner. Snow, T'odd, Noz and Coll go in search of beer. They agree to meet up at the Horse & Hound later.

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Minutes for 2018-01-17

At the Old Arena, Renner has arranged another ticket-winning event for the party, "a contest of strength". There's a bear chained to a pole, wearing boxing gloves, and a huge crowd watching.

There's a contest - contestants have to chug a beer, jump across a couple pilings, then trade blows with the bear (Alvin Marvin Calvin). Coll goes first. He has some trouble with his first beer, but Mildred helps him chug the second. Lenora quickly uses Lay On Hands dispels the effects of the beer before he jumps up on the first piling. He hits the bear three times, but is knocked off his piling by the bear's third blow.

A bystander goes up next, and goes down just as quickly.

Snow quickly chugs her beer. Ceridwen casts Guidance on her, and Lenora uses Lay On Hands. Coll does a quick shot with Snow before she jumps on her first piling. Snow roars, and trades blows with the bear for a while until she's knocked off balance by a jab from the bear.

The bear's owner won't let Coll bring the bear a beer.

Mildred chugs a beer. Ceridwen and Lenora use Guidance and Lay On Hands. She makes the first jump, but splashes into the filth after missing her second jump.

The woman who goes up next manages to knock the bear over, then immediately races over to Renner to demand tickets. Coll and Snow head towards the bear with beers but are interrupted by Butch Crenshaw, who calls them fools.

A blonde peels herself from the audience and heads to Ceridwen. It's Brittany of Worcestershire, scion of the family that stole Ceridwen's father's fortune. Her older sister Heather married Ceridwen's former fiance, Gloucester, after Ceridwen ran away. Brittany rubs the fact that she's been invited to the dinner, and heads away through the crowd, Ceridwen muttering in her wake.

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Minutes for 2018-01-03

Principe diMedani is roughly the size of one of the quarters of Baerstun. About a quarter of the horses are animated skeletons. It's not hard to find the Baron's house - the party is directed to drop them off around the back. On the way around the house, they notice a small tiefling boy climbing out of a chimney, who rolls over the roof ridge and out of sight. He looked like he was holding a mesh bag in his teeth.

Around back, they're directed to unload into the north cellars. Mildred asks for a receipt. The servant looks at her funny, but takes her around front. The guard at the front offers to run inside with the servant, but Coll and Lenora grab him before he can bolt inside. Mildred offers to have the guard sign off on a receipt she wrote up, but Coll, sensing that they're full of it, asks to speak to their master.

A man comes out, demanding to know who you are. Coll gets all up in his grill, and scares him into writing them a receipt with a florid loopy signature.

T'odd (or George Willbury, as he goes by locally), mentions they'll might find Renner at a bar called the Stinking Rose. The Purple Egg is also a possibility, but that one's more of a long shot. The Horse & Hound is too high class, more like the kind of place where Renner might look for them.

The Stinking Rose is something less elegant than a dive. A belly flophouse. The smell of garlic wafts through the air. The barman is blind, but guesses that the party wants 6 beers and an apple juice, which the party accepts. They take their food orders, and a waitress comes up to chat with Noz.

It turns out she knows Renner, and the party asks her to tell him "his friends from the road from Ravensport to Zithershire are here".

About halfway through the main course, the blindfolded bartender comes up looks over his blindfold, asks if he's Noz, then sends over someone dressed in a furkin, who turns out to be Renner.

He hints that if they can get good at catching pigs, that it'll be useful. Boxing and running in the dark in peril might also be useful skills.

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Minutes for 2017-10-25

Mildred hurls a fire bolt at the skeletaur from her hiding spot behind her riding lizard, but it misses. Lenora moves to Peanut's aid, and whacks the remaining gnolbie with her flail.

Snow attacks the skeletaur and hits him with two great blows from her sword. Ceridwen attacks as well with bites and claws, and T'odd hurls a chromatic orb of flame at the skeletaur, giving Coll an Inspiring Word.

The skeletaur collapses in flames. Coll races over to Peanut, and finishes off the final gnolbie.

The party searches for the riding lizards that had run off (Sneaky Pete and Angelcakes), and find a centaur holding the reins a little down the road. He asks if the party is all right, and Ceridwen introduces herself and the rest of the party.

He explains that the gnolbies weren't witherlings. Witherlings are the revered dead, these gnolls had their teeth yanked and were killed and reraised roughly. There's some city folk who have come out in the past month or so and been raising lots of dead.

The party rests for about an hour, getting everything back together while T'odd plays songs of rest. They notice that one of the casks of water has sprung a small leak, but Ceridwen casts mend upon it and repairs it.

After their rest, the party soon arrives at Principe diMedani, the capital of Moremeddan. It's a crowded city with a tall stone wall all around it. The gates are painted with a red diMedani crest. The houses have charms hung by their doors.

T'odd declares that he would like to be introduced as Wilbury in this town, for reasons thoroughly unrelated to legality.

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Minutes for 2017-10-18

Mildred casts mage armor on herself then reaches out to grab onto one of the skeletaurs with a shocking grasp, then jumps down from the cart. One of the skeletaurs swings at her and catches her mid leap with his axe for 12 damage, but is caught in a wash of flame from her hellish rebuke.

With a pair of blows, Lenora crunches a gnolbie with her flail. Snow smashes one of the gnolbie with another pair of blows, dropping him, then rushes over to confront the skeletaurs.

One of the gnolbies claws at Ceridwen's bear shape. Ceridwen claws it back, knocking it out of the fight.

T'odd creeps under the cart and hits one of the skeletaurs with his scimitar, then creeps back to hide under one of the lizards.

Peanut bites one of the gnolbies, emitting a yell afterwards in disgust at the taste. Coll takes advantage of the gnolbie's distraction to hit it three times with his glaive, dropping it with the aid of Moridin's blessing.

Noz casts scorching ray to send three beams of fire across the field, singing one of the skeletaurs and sending a gnolbie up in a pillar of smoke.

One of the skeletaurs attempts to gore Snow but she dodges out of the way. The remaining gnolbie by Coll bites at him, but its teeth clatter on his armor. One of the riding lizards, Crumpet, moves to Snow's aid and bites the skeletaur by her.

The othere skeletaur slashes Mildred with his axe, then backs up, preparing to ram her.

The remaining gnolbie by Ceridwen claws her bear shape, paralyzing her with the poison they carry.

The gnolbie by Lenora catches her with its claws but she manages to maintain her concentration on Moradin's blessing. The gnolbie gets caught in a blast of flame from her hellish rebuke, and drops to the ground as ashes.

Lenora's steed Regulus rides to Mildred's side, and attempts a kick at the skeletaur by Snow, but misses.

Mildred dismounts and retreats behind Regulus and casts a firebolt at one of the skeletaurs. Lenora and Snow follow up with a pair of blows, crumbling it to bits, and Snow runs up to Ceridwen's side and transfixes the gnolbie by her with a javelin.

T'odd casts cure wounds to grant Ceridwen back 8 hit points and then gives Coll some bardic inspiration. Coll trips the gnolbie next to him then charges over toward the remaining skeletaur shouting "Come on if you think you're hard enough!"

Noz fire bolts the gnolbie by Ceridwen, reducing it to ash.

The gnolbie by Peanut stands up and catches her with its claws, and she drops to the ground, paralyzed.

The skeletaur's charge comes up short against Coll. Regulus comes over to lend aid, but his kick goes wide.

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Minutes for 2017-10-04

Down at the bar, T'odd and Mildred start singing songs about Ashardalon, muddying the waters about how he died. They attract the attention of other bards, who take notes. They perform the night away, and the party heads out late in the morning, with T'odd and Mildred asleep in the wagon.

As they're driving the wagon down the road, a group of ten horribly shambling undead gnolls appear on the road ahead of them.

Mildred shoots awake, jumps to her feet, yells "we're under attack!", and fires off an Acid Splash at two of the gnolbies, splashing one across the face.

Lenora leaps off of her horse Regulus and casts Bless over Snow, Coll and Ceridwen, granting them +1d4 to attacks and checks for the next 10 rounds (or until Lenora loses concentration).

Snow moves up on the gnolbies, stabbing one with a javelin twice and downing it.

A gnolbie moves up and threatens Noz. Ceridwen dismounts and shrugs into her bear form, biting and rending the one by Noz.

T'odd stands up in the wagon and casts Sleep on the four gnolbies to the north, but the spell rolls right off them. T'odd then gets down off the wagon and hides underneath Noz's lizard.

Coll jumps down off Peanut, moves up next to Snow, dodging a gnolbie claw, and feints at one of the gnolbies, then drops it with two swift blows of his glaive.

Noz casts Shatter on the group of four gnolbies to the north, sending a ripple of thunder through them.

A gnolbie tries to bite and claw at Snow but can't get through her defense. Then, suddenly, a minotaur skeleton runs up and rams the wagon Mildred's still standing on.

One of the gnolbies distracts Coll while another one claws him for 6 damage.

Another skeletaur runs up and attack Mildred with a greataxe, but swings wide. A gnolbie claws at Ceridwen for 5. A pair of gnolbies run up to Lenora, just in time for Regulus to try to kick them, but he misses. Angelcakes the riding lizard moves up on the other side of the pair of gnolbies, but his bite misses too.

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Minutes for 2017-09-27

The party presses on to Dulcimer. The party notices gnolls and kenkou trailing them occasionally, but they don't approach. They arrive in Dulcimer with two barrels of fresh spring water, and proceed unmolested to the Mayor's office.

The Mayor, impeccably clean and well groomed as always, greets Ceridwen, who introduces the rest of the party, and presents the casks of springwater. Ceridwen mentions that they'd like an audience with the Countess, so he sends a runner over.

The Countess arrives shortly, she's happy to see that the water has arrived safely. When Ceridwen mentions the Moon Clan, the Countess sends the Mayor and his servant out of the room. Coll explains that the Moon Clan expects swords from Darius DeZither, and will consider the DeZithers foresworn if they didn't deliver within a week.

She is a bit put out, but thanks the party for their discretion. She produces two tickets to the Baron's festival, and hands them over, confirming that tickets may be procured in this manner. She mentions that Renner has been busy in their absense, and may have other tasks lined up for them to obtain more, and has gone ahead to the capital to set up the festival.

The Countess charges the party to take the casks of water the rest of the way with them to the Baron's festival. She encourages the party's mages to check out the collegium at the Baron's - apparently there's books there not available anywhere else.

Ceridwen asks who the Baron's nephew is marrying - the Countess can't remember her name, but knows she's from a trading family in Galina.

(So Renner is in the capital, setting up a festival. Nobles will donate their tickets to the Baron's nephew's weddings to use as prizes for festival games in exchange for various consessions Renner is arranging. He's holding the games for the party, as quid-pro-quo for what they've done so far).

When the party comes out of the Mayors, Butch (Cpl Crenshaw) warns Lenora that he and his buddies have their eyes on her, and that they best not try anything at the capital, as that's Count Scnedlosch's territory.

The party stays overnight at the tavern. While T'odd sings for his supper that evening, a bard bursts into the room and reports that news has reached Ravensport that the dragon Aschardalon has been slain, then launches into a song about how the Paladin Octavia slew Aschardalon along with seven magicians named Bree.

A man at the bar tries to raise Coll in conversation about the treasure, but is rebuffed. He tries again with Mildred to no more success.

The party heads off to bed.

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Minutes for 2017-08-09

Coll is still holding Amphineme's scarf, and she holds out her palm, demanding its return. He attempts to bargain for some of the water, but she says she is bound only to give water to the Zithers. She may give it to those the Zithers has asked, but not without proof.

Coll agrees to give her the scarf if she kills the werewolf. She drops the werewolf against the ground, to the leaders protests. Coll tells the leader to make him an offer to call her off. The leader attempts to threaten Coll, Coll has Amphineme drop the other werewolf again. The leader then offers the "back half of the promise", giving the DeZithers a week's grace period to deliver the swords they owe the moon clan, so the water would maintain its power for that time. The lady confirms that this could be necessary.

Lenora tacks on the condition that the werewolves not threaten the party or their mounts, which the werewolf leader agrees to. Amphineme wants an apology from the werewolves, which Coll demands. The leader (Arusz) comes up and apologizes. At Mildred's prompting, he even rolls over and bares his belly to Amphineme. She thanks Coll and accepts Arusz's apology.

Coll returns her shawl; she kisses him on the forhead, and returns to her fountain happy. The other werewolf is released. Lenora asks them who promised them swords, and the werewolves call out "Darius DeZither".

The party produces the letter from the Countess DeZither charging them to procure the water for her.

The nereid Amphineme is happy to help the party gather the water into barrels. She asks Ceridwen to find her new acolytes to tend the temple, and either teases or flirts with Coll.

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Jenny’s notes

I wrote notes last session planning to pass them on to our missing party members, and never got around to it. Mea Culpa.

Broadly, because I don't actually have the notes with me:

Snow pulled Noz safely away from the blue ooze, and Noz then shoved the whole batch of goodberries in her mouth. Snow rode toward the Werewolf that emerged at the end of the prior session. Mildred unloaded every fire spell she had at blue ooze while trying not to look like she was retreating away. Finally she succeeded in burning off enough of it that it stopped ...tentacling.

Ceridwen and Lenora finished off the other color (yellow?) oozes, and turned to the real issue of the water lady and the Werewolves.

The Water (Nymph? no one ever did a monster knowledge check on her!), after Mildred tried to reason with her, indicated she might not attack the party anymore if the shawl the Weres had stolen from her was safe, and held off directly attacking on her next turn, although she made herself invisible. The Were started to rip the shawl as punishment and the Lady reappeared and screamed. Regulus the Very Smart Horse bravely tried to steal the shawl away but failed. Mildred used "Suggestion" to make the Werewolf drop the shawl... right as a second Were emerged from the brush.

The Weres claim they are holding the spring against a shipment of weapons they were promised, (I think three barrels of longswords). They indicated they needed weapons because whatever they are planning they will do in human form. They were confused that we showed up and thought only a member of the family could draw the water. (if someone remembers who it was the Weres named, I can't remember, although Mildred would.)

Someone, I think Col, grabbed the shawl the Were dropped, and the water nymph lady switched sides and started helping the party by encasing a Were in water and it started to ...drown on dry land. It was freaky.

Ceridwen tried to engage the Weres in some shapeshifter diplomacy, but they didn't seem to know what to make of someone who can take any shape.

Lenora used Command to tell the lead Were to surrender, and he told the other Were he'd decided they should fall back and regroup to fight another day. However, the Command spell doesn't have a long duration...and we STILL haven't done a monster knowledge check on the Water Nymph lady. And we haven't gotten any water yet.

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Minutes for 2017-07-19

Snow throws another javelin at a slime monster; the javelin skewers it and is absorbed. She then heads over to the woman by the pool.

Ceridwen's bear form takes a giant bite of the ochre jelly. It tastes like burning.

Mildred moves behind Noz, pops off of Sneaky Pete and casts Detect Thoughts on the lady by the pool, trying to figure out why she's attacking the party. Mildred catches a montage of images from the lady

werewolves abducting the acolyte from the pool,

pinning the lady down and stealing a sea foamy shawl from the lady, to her great horror and pain,

a werewolf peaking from the juniper bushes watching the lady do what she was told

Mildred surreptitiously looks around for the werewolf, shifting the spell to search the area, but doesn't sense anything hiding immediately nearby. She calls out to "whoever the real power" is here, taunting him to come out and face them.

Todd casts Vicious Mockery on one of the jellies, then uses more words of bardic inspiration on Coll. Coll spins his glaive around and splits the jelly next him in twain, and thumps one of the resulting lumps with the butt of his weapon.

Noz steps back from the jelly next to her, then casts a fire bolt at it, scorching it. Lenora comes around the pool and smacks one of the jellies next to Coll with her flail.

The scorched pudding follows Noz and smacks her for a pseudopod for 25 points of damage.

The lady by the pool becomes invisible, then tries once more to kiss Coll, but Coll once again manages to confuse her.

Lenora's horse Regulus trots to Noz's rescue, and kicks it.

The slime over by Ceridwen attempts to smack her, but Ceridwen dodges. One of the ones by Coll attempts to smack him, but misses.

Snow rides her lizard by Noz and yanks her up onto her lizard.

Ceridwen bites and slashes the jelly by her into shreds, then moves over by Snow and Noz. Mildred hurls a chromatic orb of fire at the the ochre jelly by Noz, focusing its anger on her.

T'odd moves over to Noz and casts cure wounds on her, healing her for 8 points. Then he slides off his lizard Angelcakes, and hides under the wagon.

The slime by Lenora attempts to smack her with a pseudopod, but is rebuffed by her shield.

Coll wipes some slime off the blade of his glaive over his lips, to the audible disgust of the lady by the pool. He takes a point of acid damage, and after failing to smack the slime next to him with the butt of his glaive, punches it.

Lenora smacks the slime next to her with her flail, and it explodes into small fragments of jelly.

The black pudding over by Noz smacks out at Mildred for 29 damage in retaliation for the chromatic orb, and her hellish rebuke washes it in flame again.

The lady by the pool winks invisible again. A fist forms out of water and gives Coll a glancing blow for 8 damage, soaking him in water.

Regulus, suffering from a few acid burns, disengages from the nearby slime at Lenora's behest and starts heading her way.

The remaining half-slime moves to Lenora, and she catches its attempted strike on her shield.

A hideous wolf-looking humanoid steps out of the bushes holding a long knife and a piece of shimmering fabric, calling out for the lady to show herself and drive the party off.

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Minutes for 2017-06-07

Beltar draws up copies of a contract for their agreement - the rings for the locations. The three party members assent and sign, as does Beltar. The three head out.

Meanwhile, Renner arrives at the Ring And Bell. Renner's associate has a few tickets, but is unable to sell them because of a spell on them. However, there's a loophole. His friend has been asked to gather water from a sacred spring up in the mountains. His family has, as part of their coat of arms, a bucket of water, indicating their duty to the Baron to bring sacred water for ceremonies.

Renner's associate believes that he can give you the tickets in exchange for fetching the pails of water, inviting you as guests of the family. At which point, since the tickets will have been given, they'll be available to use or sell the tickets. Renner's friend may not have enough for everyone, but if his plan works, it'll prove to the other nobles that they can dispose of their tickets by using them as "fabulous prizes" at a festival, allowing Renner and the party to acquire theirs in turn and corner the market.

The party attempts to ask about the twins ("who are dead, and dwarves, and you've forgotten them. If you remember their names, that's not the ones we're thinking of"), but just end up confusing Renner.

The rest of the party returns in time to catch Renner, who dearly wants to know why they let Mildred drink coffee. He then leaves, agreeing to contact them with details in Ravensport.

Ceridwen explains the contract to Lenora and the rest - one will be designed with Ceridwen's crest and the other to fit Lenora, so the two can still communicate when Ceridwen is in one of her animal shapes.

The party sends a contingent to the forge over to deliver 20 dwarvish speckweight of dragongold and let them look at the book as proof of the dark magic that made them forget the names. Mildred requires that if she finds the names of the twins, that the deeds of Rak be recorded in their family history, which Beltar agrees to.

The trip back to Ravensport is uneventful. They head over to see Bubbles, and attempt to explain that Rak is missing. Following that, he asks if they had managed to secure the Desert Star or Brogar's Luck, so the party shows him the haul from the Barrow. He's impressed.

The enchanted quiver (Gynvael’s folly) is apparently made of elfskin. He thinks Gynvael probably attempted to kill the dragon with arrows, and the dragon made that out what was left of him. This causes Lenora and Mildred to sputter. Coll asks Bubbles to take it away and deal with it properly in such a way that the party never has to see it again.

The party decides to let Bubbles sell Brogar's Arms, Brogar's Luck, and the various non-magical items they found in the barrow.

Lenora explains to Bubbles the deal they made with Renner.

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Minutes for 2017-05-10

The party gathers to plan over breakfast. Noz casts alarm on the cart in the stable so that Coll can join them. Ceridwen and T'odd discuss what his place will be in her entourage for purposes of their cover story.

Ceridwen - woman of leisure

Lenora - international relations

Mildred - expert on Arcana

Noz - historian and archeologist

Coll - body guard

Snow - problems just melt away

T'odd - recent history / gossip monger

The party decides to talk to Renner's associate, and to check out the Winterhelm forge that Grandmother Owl mentioned was still in Dulcimer.

Lenora, Noz, Mildred, and Coll stay at the inn to wait for Renner

T'odd, Snow, and Ceridwen go to visit the Winterhelm forge

The Winterhelm's shop is in a well-appointed building in a nice part of time. The forge outside the shop matches the one depicted in the tapestries within Brogar's Barrow. There's a young dwarf outside making steel rings for tack, and a tiefling working the bellows.

The dwarf is a Winterhelm. He nods the trio inside to talk to his uncle. There's an older dwarf inside, who greets them and introduces himself as Beltar Winterhelm. Ceridwen takes the lead, and asks if he knows much of his geneology. Beltar laughs, and says he knows enough stories of the clan to bore them to tears.

She asks what he knows about Brogar, and any twins in the family around that time, grandchildren of Jonas. He says it sounds familiar, but can't think of any names. He feels shamed, but Ceridwen tells him there is some dark magic at work here.

He pulls out a copy of the clan history, but it looks like someone has spilled ink on the page right where the twins ought to be. They were dishonored apparently. When Brogi went to Galena, he left the forge in the hands of Beigi's sons, the twins. When Brogi got back, he found the forge closed and the twins in jail for murder, locked up by the Baron himself. Brogi paid their bail and their debts, but the history doesn't say much of them after that. It took a year or two for Brogi to scrape together the funds to reopen the forge. Brogi always insisted it was a trumped-up charge, but it's not recorded here who they supposedly killed. According to the records, this was in 725. When they were convicted of murder, the magic rings they'd made of dragon's gold were siezed and not recovered. The rings may have been used to let the brothers communicate by thought alone. This seems like insufficient reason to Beltar to frame them for murder - at the time, the forge still had enough dragon's gold that another pair could have been forged on commission.

Ceridwen shows Beltar the signet ring the party retrieved from the Barrow. It sets him back. He challenges their right to carry it. Ceridwen explains how they reconsecrated the barrow following its defilement by a necromancer, and how Brogar's ghost entrusted them with his treasure. Beltar calls in his nephew to take the ring to the back, and demands that he buy it from Ceridwen.

He bars the shop, and takes them to his office to talk. He explains that the Winterhelms and the Brogars would be in the party's debt if he would entrust the location of the barrow to them. Ceridwen says they can have it in exchange for a pair of rings like the twins had. Beltar wants to know who they learned it from, Ceridwen demurs, saying it was a "nice old lady".

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Minutes for 2017-05-03

The party makes it back to the gates of Dulcimer by night. There's only one guard on watch. "Oh," he says, "you came back with a wagonload this time. What'd you bring us?"

Ceridwen explains how they came upon a circus under attack on the road here, the guard is a little upset; he'd heard that they were going to come through in a couple weeks. T'odd explains that he's the last of his company and the rest died.

The party heads back to the Ring and Bell, to meet up with Renner in the common room. Coll stays outside with the wagon.

The innkeeper asks if they want rooms for the night, and the party assents. T'odd offers to pay his way with song, and the innkeeper notices he's new. He tells T'odd he'll have to pay up front, but he'll pay him a percentage of the bartab, and he and T'odd negotiate for the rate.

Renner had been drinking with a friend, who ducks out when Renner walks over to the party. Renner greets them enthusiastically.

Meanwhile, a man cases out the wagon for a moment, until he notices Coll. After a couple (unsuccessful) attempts at conversation, he heads away.

Lenora attempts to pay Renner, but he demures. He claims he doesn't want to be seen getting any money, as his creditors might start getting ideas about being paid back. He asks if he can get a favor in trade instead - he's got an associate who's got some extra tickets to the Baron's nephew's wedding. If the party can help Renner do a favor for this associate, they'll all get tickets to the party; the party can use theirs to meet fancy folks like they'd asked him about, and Renner can sell or barter his away covertly for a profitable markup. Lenora says the party needs to talk about it, and needs to know more about the nature of the favor involved.

The party takes most of their stuff up to their rooms. Coll sleeps out in the barn with the mounts and the wagon, which still has the chests on it.

T'odd's performance goes well. The crowd loves him, and a few ask if he's an advance man for a circus.

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Minutes for 2017-04-26

The party heads back to Dulcimer, planning to stop at Grandmother Owl's on the way. Near to where they think Grandmother Owl's home is, the party comes across a line of knee-high mushrooms blocking the road. As they draw close, a pulse seems to travel along the line. As Ceridwen gets close, it seems to whisper to her in Elven "to the left." Coll remembers the moss-covered trees which guided them to Grandmother Owl's.

The party follows a deer path around to the left, and after witnessing a number of arcane oddities, make it to Grandmother Owl's. She welcomes them in, and has a small half-elven boy, Frelja, serve them soup. She notes a party member's absense, and the new addition of T'odd, who Ceridwen introduces. The boy, on noticing Ceridwen, greets her in halting Druidic, and Ceridwen inquires about his studies.

After serving, Frelja returns to a back room. Mildred tries to see if Grandmother Owl remembers anything of Rak. Grandmother Owl notices the hole in her memory, and Mildred explains the fight with the demon. T'odd and Mildred try an experiment with the party's memory.

Mildred shows Grandmother Owl Efram Dogwood's Necronomicon, and she flips through it. She thinks he seems rather studious, maybe they should check the rolls of the nearby college.

Coll gives her fortune casting rubies.

The party starts asking about the animal-people near Dulcimer, and the werewolves in the city. Apparently they've been there for a long time. They work for House Vedani (the Baron's house) as muscle. Some other lycanthropes too - wererats and a werebear or two. Grandmother Owl thinks they're using the city to pen the people like livestock.

They ask her about

Delacroix/Renner ("is okay boy, I know his family")

Butch/Crenshaw ("he is in Silver Knife clan, no?" "Is he a werewolf?" "Oh, yes, yes").

Mayor Ludwin ("a fainting coward, the countess's little lapdog")

Countess Zither ("she was dealt bad cards, but she does okay. Zither family got screwed.") - apparently there's not much in Zithershire apart from Dulcimer.

Ceridwen tells Grandmother Owl about the Baron's nephew's bride from Galina, who apparently no one has seen. It's news to her.