Session Twenty-One Summary (Graveyard of Empires: After the Fall)

Session 21, November 25 2020

Introduction

We continue at 10PM on the 16th of Tenrilden with the party returning to House Herig from the Drow Arena after their meeting with a representative (Ilsske) of the conspirators planning to assassinate Jherlana at her triumph ...

Session Summary

We go back to House Herig and reveal the plot to Herig.

Herig agrees to "go along" with the plot, as long as he can send "delayed" warning. No one likes Jarlana and want her dead.

We ask for 20,000 gp in gems, but get 18K, with half up front. Plus the freedom of the two slaves, Timon and Azra, and the pech Seepa. We have no chance to buy the freedom of Aubrey Grotecop, The Righteous Halberd. He is too great an enemy of the drow.

We go to the war college and ask for Ilska. We are led there by Seepa with a new letter from Aqil Herig allowing us into the upper city.

We meet Ilska and the plan is for a priestess of house Herig to launch the assassination with a poisoned blade. We are sent to her chambers as a backup to the assassination plan.

We are led to a servant's chambers to wait. Sadi of House Teneliu is our guide. He is to wait with us until near the time of the assassination. He is to pull away some of the guards to ease our escape.

About halfway through our waiting time, a servant of House Thule forces their way in past Sadi, and turns to flee, but we stop him and kill him. We load him on Fisher as the "assassin" we leave behind. He has keys which we take.

When the time comes, Sadi leaves and we go to the chambers. One of the keys opens the doors.

We search the room, only one entrance/exit that we see and three rooms. We open the chest with TikTok and ask him to read the contract from Yellow Hat, and to alert us when Vikram is coming.

Laris searches the desk and finds some papers and a Spider carving that is very realistic. He puts it and the papers in his pouch/pack. He managed to prick his finger on the poison needle, but was unharmed.

Soon, TikTok warns us that Vikram is coming.

The door bursts in. Vikram is carrying Jarlana. She does not look poisoned.

Laris tries to sneak up and snatch the ring, but is spotted by Jarlana.

We all make preparations for a fight hoping to kill Jarlana and get the ring before Vikram can kill us.