11. 08/18/2018 Session Writeup

Session Summary
After the fight, the group manages to reconvene on the correct side of the boulder (after some work). The rest of their walk that day seems to be uneventful until they reach Veronica's grave. Taer takes a few minutes to pay her respects. The party passes by the sky burial area, and Zuza is somewhat clued into what probably happened to the gryphons. Luckily for the party, it doesn't appear that she cares very much. Zuza remembers that there are a few wilderness huts nearby, and the party spends the night there. The party has a close encounter with some giant goats and a fire newt, but managed to get out of it unscathed.

The next day, the party runs into a half-elf carrying Veronica's old bag. He bought it from a merchant outside of Kotumi because he thought it was cool, and the party lets him go. Near the end of the day, they pass the area where Taer had accidentally set off an avalanche earlier in the week - it looked like some dwarves in uniform were working steadily to clear the route.

The party returns to the Merchant's Cross and finds that the selection of jobs has changed - Kvari Keep is now looking for a better class of guards, Ivan Ivanson and Karolina's Jewelry no longer have their requests up, and the merchant's guild in Lanketi is offering their own reward for finding the runaway guard.

Tami decides to try alcohol. She likes khachpuri better, but still down enough to bust a move. Paolo tries to talk to Zuza, but Zuza isn't cooperating.

The next morning, Paolo passes by Zuza as she heads out in the morning - Paolo looking for a nice shave and a decent haircut, while Zuza's plans remain unknown. Masina tries to find some items to make a thieves' tools set, and is also unsuccessful. Taer and Lu head over to Trina's shop, but are waylaid when they get a mysterious note telling them they’ve secured help from someone who thinks they are a lot more sneaky than they are. After puzzling over this for a while, the party enters Trina’s shop to find out that the contents of it were destroyed. It seems that Trina had made an agreement to the thieves' guild for payment, but now that someone had renegotiated the trade agreements with Boudin, the guild is worried that Trina will stop paying, and decided to give her a warning by smashing her goods. Taer and Lu spend a few hours trying to clean up.

Taer and Lu then head up to the upper level of Kotumi to sell the statues at Lilli Lugash's Lovely Lucre. Lu sells the statues at market rate but manages to convince the shopkeep that future sales should be purchased at a price 10% over the standard market price.

Tami, Paolo, Farideh, Zuza and Masina all take the funicular up together. It's educational. Tami finds her way into the school's library with the help of a special symbol, and Zuza wanders off. The rest of the group goes to talk with Professor Zaur. It turns out that she has three days before there will be a large debate with the divine right, and she needs her notes before then if she wants any chance of winning. However, the conversation starts with the group informing that the entity who created the basis of Zaur's life's work also wants her work destroyed, then degenerates further from there. Zaur kicks the group out of her office, but Masina convinces Tami and Zaur to talk to each other. It appears that Zaur convinced Tami enough to give the information needed, and Zaur pays Masina for her help.

The party meets up afterwards with Zuza and Taer explains about the mysterious note she received. The party decides to go back to the unmarked tavern and sends a signal that they are there to meet with the divine right. Temitah, a druid, proposes that they quickly gather enough for an all-out assault, since the Order of Emanation are already stepping up their recruiting efforts. The party finds out that the fort is surrounded by an anti-divine magic shielding, but they don't seem to notice when someone who does have access to divine magic walks in. The shielding is probably etched within a permanent sigil on stone or wood, and could be broken by physical means. There does appear to be a contract library inside. The party suggested that Tami should stay away from Kvari Keep, but Tami refused, saying that her coming of age required her to go to Kvari Keep and discover what was happening there.