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Session 32: Favored of Selûne

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	== Memes ==		== Memes ==
	*		* "Pike off, berk!" :D

	== DM Thoughts ==		== DM Thoughts ==
	* The party is attempting to turn B'ian Ch'k Ch'k against me. Proceed with caution.		* The party is attempting to turn B'ian Ch'k Ch'k against me. Proceed with caution.

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			[[File:Glenn's Greeting.png\|right\|600px\|thumb\|"Pike off, berk!" :D]]
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			[[File:Lore Accurate Diedric - Favored.png\|right\|600px\|thumb\|Diedric, Favored of Selûne]]

	The Beetle Bazaar yielded only a bronze ring of feather fall, though the party eyed an unattended Belt of Giant Strength and haggled fruitlessly with an Iron Golem peddling a Potion of Gaseous Form for its absent master. At the Bleeding Horn, Sparax demanded fifty jink for portal use until Xarannos's name waved the fee; Glenn fed the stool his cowardice as a secret, earning a gray vortex.		The Beetle Bazaar yielded only a bronze ring of feather fall, though the party eyed an unattended Belt of Giant Strength and haggled fruitlessly with an Iron Golem peddling a Potion of Gaseous Form for its absent master. At the Bleeding Horn, Sparax demanded fifty jink for portal use until Xarannos's name waved the fee; Glenn fed the stool his cowardice as a secret, earning a gray vortex.

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Session 32: Favored of Selûne

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	The Beetle Bazaar yielded only a bronze ring of feather fall, though the party eyed an unattended Belt of Giant Strength and haggled fruitlessly with an Iron Golem peddling a Potion of Gaseous Form for its absent master. At the Bleeding Horn, Sparax demanded fifty jink for portal use until Xarannos's name waved the fee; Glenn fed the stool his cowardice as a secret, earning a gray vortex.		The Beetle Bazaar yielded only a bronze ring of feather fall, though the party eyed an unattended Belt of Giant Strength and haggled fruitlessly with an Iron Golem peddling a Potion of Gaseous Form for its absent master. At the Bleeding Horn, Sparax demanded fifty jink for portal use until Xarannos's name waved the fee; Glenn fed the stool his cowardice as a secret, earning a gray vortex.

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	== Summary ==		== Summary ==
			[[File:Octavius's Third Eye.png\|right\|600px\|thumb\|Still not a doctor by the way]]
	[[File:Sparax at the Bleeding Horn Tavern 2.png\|right\|600px\|thumb\|Sparax at the Bleeding Horn Tavern]]		[[File:Sparax at the Bleeding Horn Tavern 2.png\|right\|600px\|thumb\|Sparax at the Bleeding Horn Tavern]]
	[[File:Lilia in Sigil.png\|right\|600px\|thumb\|Lilia in Sigil]]		[[File:Lilia in Sigil.png\|right\|600px\|thumb\|Lilia in Sigil]]

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			[[File:Lilia in Sigil.png\|right\|600px\|thumb\|Lilia in Sigil]]
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Session 32: Favored of Selûne

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XP Award

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	* 600 XP for Glenn offering his cowardice to the stool — the secret it had been waiting for		* 600 XP for Glenn offering his cowardice to the stool — the secret it had been waiting for
	* '''The Unity of Rings:''' 1500 XP for the Howling Island kobolds reaching their home plane, concluding their story ~~from the Howling Island~~ as Diedric is named Favored		* '''The Unity of Rings:''' 1500 XP for the Howling Island kobolds reaching their home plane, concluding their story as Diedric is named Favored
	* 400 XP for finding Ember and the trail to Vistra Runehall in Vos'Ultok		* 400 XP for finding Ember and the trail to Vistra Runehall in Vos'Ultok
	* 400 XP for Octavius's Third Eye spotting The Unseen mid-ambush		* 400 XP for Octavius's Third Eye spotting The Unseen mid-ambush

Session 32: Favored of Selûne

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[[File:Favored of Selune.png|right|600px|thumb|Favored of Selûne]]

== Summary ==
[[File:Sparax at the Bleeding Horn Tavern 2.png|right|600px|thumb|Sparax at the Bleeding Horn Tavern]]
[[File:Ember cataloguing sensory stones.png|right|600px|thumb|Ember cataloguing sensory stones]]
[[File:Gurincraag, the secret city.png|right|600px|thumb|Gurincraag, the secret city]]

The Beetle Bazaar yielded only a bronze ring of feather fall, though the party eyed an unattended Belt of Giant Strength and haggled fruitlessly with an Iron Golem peddling a Potion of Gaseous Form for its absent master. At the Bleeding Horn, Sparax demanded fifty jink for portal use until Xarannos's name waved the fee; Glenn fed the stool his cowardice as a secret, earning a gray vortex.

Pulled sideways from the conduit, Diedric stood incorporeal beside Selûne herself as the surviving Howling Island kobolds emerged from a moonlit shelter -- "Guide the lost to me, favored one" -- and rejoined the party in the Hive with a silver streak through his hair, weeping, while the others promptly accused an opportunistic red tiefling of horrific deeds.

At the Civic Festhall, Ember directed them to a spirit-seeker named Vistra Runehall, frequenting a dwarven suckhouse called Vos'Ultok in Gurincraag below Sigil. Threading luminescent teal and magenta smoke through abandoned mineworks, Octavius's third eye caught The Unseen mid-ambush -- a duergar, two svirneblin, a drow -- and the fight closed with a Clay Golem conjured from a thrown rubik's cube and Smokescale slipping after the fleeing drow.

== XP Award ==

* 600 XP for Glenn offering his cowardice to the stool — the secret it had been waiting for
* '''The Unity of Rings:''' 1500 XP for the Howling Island kobolds reaching their home plane, concluding their story from the Howling Island as Diedric is named Favored
* 400 XP for finding Ember and the trail to Vistra Runehall in Vos'Ultok
* 400 XP for Octavius's Third Eye spotting The Unseen mid-ambush
* '''Total: 2900 XP'''
* '''Current XP: 64564 XP -> 67464 XP'''
* ''(Required for next level: 85000 XP)''

== Things That Happened ==

=== Browsing the Bazaar ===
* '''Date:''' 1st of Mirtur, noon, 1372 DR
* Marti and Diedric haggled with the tall ring merchant over a bronze ring of feather fall.
* Octavius browsed and spotted a Belt of Giant Strength, with no vendor in sight, along with a strange club with obsidian spikes inserted into it.
* Lilia sought an artifact of Baba Yaga, to instead only find an Iron Golem selling a Potion of Gaseous Form. It had a delayed activation.
** There was a failed negotiation with it, stating that its master needed to make a profit. It deactivated to end the conversation.
* Their shopping concluded, the party left the Beetle Bazaar and flew at road-height to the Bleeding Horn.

=== Octavius's Third Eye ===
* During the travel, Octavius began a habit of activating a third orange eye, allowing him to see invisible creatures.
** He shooed away two imps that were tailing them by throwing a fire bolt in their direction.

=== The Bleeding Horn ===
* A faint scar on the road where an ice wall had been conjured during the Blood War skirmish was visible outside the iron structure, magma flowing into it from one of Ribcage's ribs.
* Inside, Sparax served tieflings, cambions, and other humans.
* On approach to the stool that served as a portal to Sigil, Sparax notified the party he was charging 50 jink per use.
** They negotiated it for free, citing their relationship with Xarannos, Ribcage's new leader.
* Glenn tried to speak his favorite color as a secret. The stool was unimpressed.
* Glenn then spoke of his cowardice in fleeing his homeland after suffering his affliction and defeat. The stool was excited.
* A gray swirling vortex appeared.
* Glenn sat on the stool to assert himself, then crawled into the vortex, followed by Diedric, Octavius, Lilia, and an opportunistic red tiefling.
* The party had a brief glance of the astral plane as they careened through an astral conduit, before the sensation of knives sliding over their skin led to their destination.

=== He Was Right Behind Us ===
* Glenn, Octavius, and Lilia appeared through a threshold of a collapsed building in the Hive District of Sigil, the City of Doors.
* Behind them, Diedric was nowhere to be found.

=== Favored of Selûne ===
* Diedric felt himself pulled sideways out of the conduit, then stood incorporeal on a rocky outcropping, dozens of feet tall like a giant, watching stormy gray terrain below.
* Two vortexes of air tore across the landscape, ripping up trees and stones. A dark presence pulsed within the stormclouds.
* Time passed. The vortexes moved on.
* A silver moonmote rose from the ground, spinning lazily over a specific spot.
* A trapdoor opened. A one-winged red kobold poked his head out, scanned the sky, and hopped free — the shaman Diedric had spared on the Howling Island.
* The moonmote circled him excitedly as he helped other kobolds — red, green, brown — climb out of the shelter. They had survived and made it to their home plane.
* He looked up. The clouds parted, revealing two moons and sparkling Tears of Selûne trailing behind them.
* A tall woman shimmered into existence, or was there all along, alongside Diedric: white robes layered with silver scales, long white hair with straight bangs, two hands resting on a silver sceptre. Selûne, in the aspect of the Moonmaiden.
* She watched the kobolds, then looked sidelong at him, smiling.
** "Guide the lost to me, favored one."
* She touched her hand to Diedric's head.

=== The Hive ===
* Diedric burst into Sigil, weeping from the experience. He now had a silver streak of hair.
* The party <s>came to Diedric's emotional aid</s> immediately accused the red tiefling of performing horrific acts on Diedric.
* The tiefling sprinted away like Forrest Gump.
** "Not you lot again." an old woman said from an upper building, slamming shut her window.
* As with a previous visit, the Light Boys appeared to still be on strike, many of the city's lights unlit.
* Taking in the sights, Lilia observed two drunken dwarves vomiting and a black-robed collector wheeling bodies toward the Dustmen's headquarters.
** She also observed a Harmonium member in reddish armor, a gray orc, patrolling the alleyways in this area.
* There was no sign of the blockades that the Alley Reapers had placed, but there was still natural razorvine.
** Lilia studied its leaves and sharp stalks closely, using her own blood to observe their growth in real time.

=== Tour of the Cage ===
* Excited to see the city, Lilia lit her witchbroom lantern and rode along the ground. The party rode higher up in the carpet, keeping a lookout for trouble.
* During the flight, the party sighted the Mortuary above them, with the architectural charm of a pregnant spider, the Great Foundry dumping smoke between the two layers of the ring, a burned down poetry shop, and the grime of The Hive giving way to the Lower Ward and Clerk's Ward.

=== Return to the Civic Festhall ===
* Two dabus, glyphs swirling over their heads, hovered past the party as they sighted the Civic Festfall, with its tall central structure with an organic design to its stonework and flanked by pools and fountains.
* The party flew to the location of the third sensorium.
* Now that it was night (which a friendly bariaur pointed out was antipeak), it was not as busy as last time.
* The bariaur directed the party to the fourth sensorium when they inquired about Ember.

=== The Fourth Sensorium ===
* The party approached and entered the fourth sensorium, its walls made of blue marble.
* A spiral staircase led to a third story where the party could hear someone working.
* Lilia hovered up on her broom while some other party members walked up the stairs.
* Confused at first, [[Ember]] stopped her cataloguing of sensory stones upon seeing the stranger Lilia, but ran happily to hug an awkward Octavius as she recognized the party.
* Glenn demonstrated his curse was cured, she complimented Diedric on his armor and the silver in his hair.
* [[Ember]] inquired about Galdren and Neribion. The party explained how Neribion had been replaced by B'ian.
** The party proceeded to coyly describe and insult B'ian as if he were a real person. Odd.
** She recognized the last name as Chuultan and pronounced it more accurately.
** She indicated that her groom-to-be sends her wind whispers, and that is how he will communicate to the party when it is time for them to wed.
* The party explained their purpose -- they needed to find Navarra's petitioner spirit in the afterlife.
** Ember knew her name.
* Ember directed them to find a spirit-seeker, [[Vistra Runehall]], who frequented a rough dwarven establishment in an area of Sigil that was secretive and not legal.
* After some coaxing, she explained that it was called Vos'Ultok ("wild meeting place" in dwarvish), in the hidden city of Gurincraag within the underground part of Sigil known as "The Below".
* She explained that dwarven suckhouses were not her preference to visit.
** Octavius ruined the eventual reveal by knowing immediately that dwarven suckhouses were smoking halls, where vases filled with scented and flavored liquids were smoked out of multiple hoses protruding out of them.
* Ember provided directions to an entrance to Gurincraag, an iron grate near the Hall of Information. She asked the party not to be seen.

=== The Gulp ===
* Backtracking a bit, the party flew to the Hall of Information, spotting the described iron grate.
* They waited for a large Harmonium patrol to pass, led by a woman with brown hair and dark skin.
* Each party member ented the hole, Unit 137 barely fitting.
* A small tunnel with the earth around them seeming strange, with the texture and hardness of stone until it was chipped away, then immediately disintegrating to dust with nothing remaining.
* A few everburning torches lit the way to a very narrow spiral stone steps descending further below.
* Unit 137 could not fit and was unsummoned with a 🤘 hand gesture, disappearing in brimstone.
* Walking sideways in order to fit, the party descended several levels until they burst into a much larger tunnel, large enough for wagons and carts to drive by and pass each other.
* A dwarf was driving his wagon filled with grain, led by two ponies, when Glenn greeted him with "Pike off, berk! :D"
** The dwarf stepped out of the wagon, not believing what he was hearing.
** He eventually established that he was likely daft, and pointed behind him was the way to Gurincraag.

=== Gurincraag, the Hidden City ===
* The tunnel opened into a grand underground dwarven city, with real stone construction and architecture, the ceiling much higher and grander.
* A dwarven woman asked if they were there for the suckery. The party confirmed, and she indicated that they just need to follow the smoke.
* In the distance, they could see teal and magenta smoke coming off a side corridor.

=== Following the Smoke ===
* The party walked through the city, passing a bank and several shops, until they proceeded into the side corridor.
* This broke off into small tunnels that went every which way, but the luminescent smoke was always there to guide them.

=== Spotting the Unseen ===
* The party eventually ended up in a series of tunnels that appeared to be abandoned mining operations, including a rail system and abandoned carts.
* With his third eye, Octavius spotted an ambush ahead -- a duergar, two svirneblin, and a drow, all invisible, blocking the path to Vos'Ultok.
** They appeared as translucent to his eyes.
* He murmured a warning, but their body language gave them away as having spotted the ambush.
* The duergar shouted that they were protectors of this area and that the party just needed to pay for their protection, declaring themselves as "The Unseen".
* As Octavius began to cast thaumaturgy to assist Diedric in intimidation, the duergar charged as the drow slinked around a corner.

=== Encounter: The Unseen ===
* Highlights:
** Synaptic Static dropping the svirneblin to near death, a yellow streak of energy bouncing between their minds and the more-resistant duergar.
** A butterfly-filled faerie fire revealing the svirneblin to the party.
** Glenn surprising the duergar by effectively slashing him despite his invisiblity, sensing the vibrations in the air.
** A guiding bolt from Diedric disintegrating a svirneblin.
** The drow attempting to ambush Octavius, only for him to have foreseen this and non-chalantly dodged it by barely moving away from the poisoned crossbow bolt.
** In desperation, the drow manipulating a metal rubik's cube, throwing it down until it used the earthen material to create a Clay Golem.
** The Clay Golem hammering away at Octavius, acid melting some of his feathers.
* Smokescale trailing the drow around the corner, spotting him right as he was about to drink from his invisibility potion.
* The session came to an end.

== NPCs Encountered (or mentioned) ==
* [[Mote]], the Iron Golem
* [[Jaarl]], the fleeing Tiefling
* [[Baahram]], the helpful Bariaur
* [[Vistra Runehall]], the Spirit Seeker
* [[Du'Godaar]], the Insulted Dwarf
* [[Kos Vos Toa]], the Duergar Leader
* [[Nivilleal]], the Drow Skirmisher

== Memes ==
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== DM Thoughts ==
* The party is attempting to turn B'ian Ch'k Ch'k against me. Proceed with caution.

The Broken Cycle

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Chapter II: Convergence

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	* [[Session 30: Against the Rain]] (2026-03-08)		* [[Session 30: Against the Rain]] (2026-03-08)
	* [[Session 31: What Souls Are Worth]] (2026-04-19)		* [[Session 31: What Souls Are Worth]] (2026-04-19)
			* [[Session 32: Favored of Selûne]] (2026-05-03)

	==== Chapter III: Apotheosis ====		==== Chapter III: Apotheosis ====

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The Broken Cycle

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The Outlands: Ribcage

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	* [[Sparax]], the Proprietor of The Bleeding Horn		* [[Sparax]], the Proprietor of The Bleeding Horn
	* [[Vyrshara]], the White Abishai		* [[Vyrshara]], the White Abishai
			* [[Morwen Nyx]], the Demure of Disposition
			* [[Fizwick Ostlewinkle]], the Ancient Gnome
			* [[Vorne]], the Gambler Merchant
			* [[Yllumarra]], the Reed of Rings
			* [[Dornic Twin-Braid]], the Shield Merchant

	=== The Outlands: Flowering Hill ===		=== The Outlands: Flowering Hill ===

Session 31: What Souls Are Worth

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Session 31: What Souls Are Worth

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[[File:The Devil's Own Luck - Lore Accurate.png|right|600px|thumb|The Devil's Own Luck - Lore Accurate]]

== Summary ==
[[File:Wand Haggling.png|right|600px|thumb|Wand Haggling]]
[[File:The Pomeranian.png|right|600px|thumb|Caption]]
[[File:Anything Bigger.png|right|600px|thumb|Anything Bigger]]
[[File:The Gambler.png|right|600px|thumb|The Gambler]]
[[File:The Demure Servant.png|right|600px|thumb|I said demure!!!]]
[[File:Shattering the Coin.png|right|600px|thumb|Shattering the Coin]]
[[File:Xarannos in the Citadel of Cinders.png|right|600px|thumb|The Shaper of Ponds]]
[[File:The Ring Merchant.png|right|600px|thumb|The Ring Merchant]]
[[File:Shield of Selune.png|right|600px|thumb|What are the odds?]]

[[File:The Devil's Own Luck.png|right|600px|thumb|The Devil's Own Luck - Alternative Version]]

The party returned to the Beetle Bazaar to spend their plundered jink, threading through a string of strange merchants and witnessing Unit 137's geometry-themed upgrade -- a silver pentagram on his forehead and a freshly summoned lemure, promptly named Happy. Sent to seek leave from Ribcage's new ruler, they reconnected with Xarannos at the Citadel of Cinders, who confirmed Zelza had been eaten by Bel and explained the moral economics of soul coins, wincing over an innocent girl who'd sacrificed herself for her brother. Diedric clocked the implication immediately. In their curtained suite at the Gymnasium of Steam, they sorted the Moss Hag's thirty-three coins, identified three innocents, and watched Unit 137 lance each with hellfire to release the souls in silver light. Morning brought another shopping run -- a sharp-toothed gambler who vanished into a sudden inrush of air, a reed-thin pantomime ring-merchant, and a split-orange-bearded dwarf with an actual Selunite Shield of Vigilance looted from a Blood War battlefield.

== XP Award ==

* 600 XP for navigating the Beetle Bazaar's stranger merchants and emerging better-equipped
* '''The Rule of Three:''' 333 XP for three soul coins shattered with hellfire
* 2000 XP for liberating the innocent souls from the cambion's scheme, undoing the harm at its end-state
* '''Total: 2933 XP'''
* '''Current XP: 61631 XP -> 64564 XP''' (Level 10!)
* ''(Required for next level: 85000 XP)''

== Things That Happened ==

=== Shopping the Ribcage Bazaar ===
* '''Date:''' Greengrass, evening, 1372 DR
* After laying waste to an elderly woman's shop, the party got to work spending their hard-plundered gold.

=== Search for a Cloak ===
* Octavius perused the Beetle Bazaar, seeking information on a Cloak of Displacement that he had read about in a tome.
** He idly spotted a Scroll of Flame Shield on display.
** He ultimately spoke with an elderly gnome, who bore a Wand of Wonder, plundered from a treasure trove belonging to followers of Gond.
** A feeble attempt to haggle led to the gnome dismissing him.

=== The Goggled-Floof ===
* Lilia, meanwhile, in the form of an ankylosaurus, spoke with Fingers McFinney (who now bore a few artificial fingers) about googles that would allow her to see in darkness.
** He had two, a red that would allow the wearer to see any creatures bearing blood, and black that provided darkvision.
** He asked her her true form, and she reverted to it, bleeding out on the ground. He squealed and she changed into a fluffy canine.
** Shaking coins loose out of her fur and piling them with her nose, she purchased the black goggles, wearing them in her dog form.

=== Something Bigger? ===
* Glenn approached, asking what the wooden handle with a metal tube attached was. Fingers explained that it was a blunderbuss.
** Octavius went into detail describing the island of Lantan, the invention of smokepowder, and gnomish engineering.
* Glenn asked if Fingers had anything bigger.
** Fingers pulled a large cannon with a rope, but judging its weight and size, Glenn found it not a viable purchase.
** Glenn inquired if there was anything that would let him hold a greatsword in one hand. Fingers suggested he just become bigger.
*** Fingers mentioned in passing that some gnomes in Mechanus built mechanical suits you can step into.
** Glenn purchased a pocketwatch.
** When sundials were mentioned, Fingers asked what a sun was.

=== The Gambler ===
* Seeking enchanted stones to improve their fortune, the party inquired and a series of touts ultimately led them to a thin man in black leather armor and multiple earrings.
** He mostly sold gambling fare, cards, dice, and other games of chance.
** In a low voice, he explained that some of what he sold was forbidden to be used in Ribcage.
** The party agreed to his price, stating that they needed to appraise their soul coins prior to the purchase, as he told them their value can vary.

=== Happy the Lemure ===
* Checking on Unit 137, Kraxx'Tor revealed his upgrade -- a pentagram inscribed in silver on Unit 137's forehead.
** With intense focus, Unit 137 demonstrated inscribing an infernal pentagram, and with the words "Ad-zekar. Vel-kuthar. Sothiq." (I inscribe. I bind. Rise.), summoned a fleshy creature of despair and suffering, a lemure.
*** The party immediately named it Happy.
** When ordered to speak, the Lemure just responded with "Observation..." repeatedly.
* Unit 137 dismissed it with a metal expression.
** Smokecale and Kraxx'Tor were both proud.
* The party inquired as to where they should spend the night.
** Kraxx'Tor explained that he wasn't sure if they were still welcome in the Gymnasium of Steam, and to check in with Ribcage's new leader.

=== The Shaper of Ponds ===
* The party walked to the Citadel of Cinders, allowed inside by abishai who recognized the owlin.
* The statue of Zelza had been removed, only its base remaining.
* Inside the inner keep, they reconnected with Xarannos, his many contracts hanging from hooks in the chamber, ash swirling around the column of flame that led to Avernus.
* Xarannos, happy to see his tadpoles again, gestured to the pond they had helped him shape, and revealed that Zelza had been eaten by Bel, Lord of the Avernus.
* He granted them a free stay at the Gymnasium of Steam, in private quarters.
* When asked about the value of soul coins, Xarannos explained that it depended on the soul within. The innocent and those who had fallen after corruption were most valued. He felt one, wincing, lamenting about an innocent young girl who sacrified her soul to save her brother.
* Diedric: 🤨

=== A Curtained Suite ===
* The party flew past the Steam Gate, past imps bathing in magma pools, and entered the Gymnasium of Steam.
* They were led to their suite by a sullen, demure glassy-eyed woman in white servant's robes with jet black hair and pale skin.
* It was a two story chamber, with spiral marble staircases, but inexplicably sheer curtains instead of doors for most rooms, and to Octavius's chagrin, no study.
* Sliced beef and platters of fruits and cheeses and wine were provided.

=== Counting the Till ===
* The party ate and, after some discussion and arcane analysis on the nature of soul coins, Octavius agreed to allow the party to destroy the stones containing innocent souls.
* They then proceeded to pile coins into "good people" and "bad people".
** Octavius was surprisingly resilient by the act of handling soul coins.
* After identifying three innocent souls (the young girl, and two bariaur who had been conned by The Moss Hag and the cambion Luciel), Octavius identified that hellfire could destroy the coins.
** The party moved the table to clear some space, worried about an explosion.
** Unit 137, after being stopped from drawing a pentagram on the coin, instead focused a thin beam of hellfire from a sharpened point, bursting three of the coins into inert chunks, freeing the souls within in a flow of silver light.
** Lilia finally left her canine form, Diedric rushing forward to heal her wounds with Selune's blessing.
* The party claimed their rooms and retired for the night.

=== A Lucky Purchase ===
* '''Date:''' 1st of Mirtul, morning, 1372 DR
* The party returned to the Beetle Bazaar, presenting the thin black-leathered merchant with their soul coins and jink.
** He ran his fingers over the coins, smiled revealing sharpened teeth, and fiddling beneath his booth and a false panel, handed the part four black bags.
** Within each bag was a small clay tablet inscribed with a strange four-cloved leaf.
* Octavius used Identify spells to confirm their legitimacy.
* The man disappeared suddenly, air rushing toward the vacuum where his form had been.

=== The Reed of Rings ===
* Seeking magical rings, the party was led to a reed-thin woman nearly ten feet tall, with elongated limbs.
** She pointedly did not have pale skin or black hair.
* She spoke in gurgles, and could not understand common, but Glenn was able to pantomime a ring to allow jumping, and Octavbius a ring to shield his thoughts from others.
** Both rings were purchased, made of a simple bronze and iconography of a frog and an X.

=== The Shield Dwarf ===
* Diedric sought a Shield of Vigilance, common in the higher ranks of the Selunite order.
* He was led to a dwarven man with a split-orange beard, who indeed had an actual Selunite shield of that type in his inventory. It bore the symbol of Selune.
** It had been looted from a battlefield in the Blood War. He did not know its story otherwise.
* The shield was purchased.
* The session came to an end.

== NPCs Encountered (or mentioned) ==
* [[Kraxx'Tor]], the Chain Devil
* [["Fingers" McFinney]], the Gnome Artificer
* [[Xarannos]], the Shaper of Ponds
* [[Morwen Nyx]], the Demure of Disposition
* [[Fizwick Ostlewinkle]], the Ancient Gnome
* [[Vorne]], the Gambler Merchant
* [[Yllumarra]], the Reed of Rings
* [[Dornic Twin-Braid]], the Shield Merchant

== Memes ==
* "Can you be mean to me?" The fuck was that.

== DM Thoughts ==
* I need to avoid black hair and pale skin with this party.

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