14. 11/10/2018 Session Writeup

Session Summary
Taer discovers that someone (probably Dithas) stashed another seemingly empty bag within their bag. The party quickly figures out that it's a bag of holding. They head back to Kotumi, arriving after nightfall and pay extra to stay at the Drunken Dragon. There they meet up with Maike, who hands them the gold that was meant to be their reward for the first mission. They also meet Barrakas, who would like a break from Maike. The party gets some rooms and heads up to try and make a plan. . . but instead they all get drunk and start pulling out everything they could think of from the bag of holding. They find a lot of gold, some strange and interesting items, a possibly useful key, and Professor Zaur's notes. They also decide on a name for themselves - 'The Thundering Jaimar'.

The next morning, most of the party is enjoying their baths while Taer goes downstairs to talk to Barrakas. She's suitably impressed. The rest of the party makes their way down and they agree to put Barrakas on retainer for a while, eventually filling her in on everything that's going on. Taer, Paolo, and Barrakas go shopping at the common magical items place, and Paolo flirts with Zaal (she is suitably impressed). The group then goes down to the lower level of the city to talk to Trina, who still seems optimistic that everything is going to turn out fine. She refuses to entertain the possibility of selling her shop, but does tell Taer who her contact is - Naernys. Barrakas has heard of him and finds him near the fighting pits. They convince Naernys to allow Taer to pay for whatever her mother owes the thieves' guild. Naernys needs to talk to his boss first, but come with terms to the Drunken Dragon that night. Taer then goes to buy a good draft horse, and sees some riding dogs.

Meanwhile, Farideh, Masina and Lu leave the inn and head to the bard college. On the way, they find flyers about the upcoming debate and frame Zaur's findings as lies. Farideh leaves the party at the college to try to use their teleportation circle. Masina and Lu talk to Professor Zaur, who is very glad to get her notes back. She is unsurprised by the fliers, but agrees to try to get the college to upgrade the security for tomorrow. She refers them to the Bard's law professor, who in turn refers them to a few lawyers that are capable of extraplanar contract law. Masina and Lu then do their own shopping, seeing a still-swooning Zaal, and then a much more sensible Lilli Lugash.

The party then meets up back at the Drunken Dragon to wait for the thieves guild to show up.