RC Then Taps Out the Gettysburg Address in Morse Code

We make the two-day journey out to Jalanthar as our next stop. One night at camp, Bahmut, who is much bigger now, having grown from being a dragonette, is now able to fly around with RC on his back. They fly around in the air showing off their flips and loop-de-loops as the party cheers them on.  

    One evening Glittr receives a message from Lliira on the pedestal he is familiar with. He advises him to stop in Waterdeep to see Lliira the wizard before heading out west to Reythum.

After the two-day journey, we see a large village off in the distance. It is about as big as Daggerford or a more robust Phandalin. Similar to Phandalin’s mine, Jalanthar draw is that it’s a pilgrimage site, a religious area They are mostly neutral gods such as Savras, Lithander, Kelemvor, or Gond that are worshipped here and have shrines.

We walk in and see cobblestone roads. We look around and the village looks very normal, knowing that there is a “hideout” here for Brother and Sister. As we walk into the village Baptiste looks around at the people around us to get a vibe check. As he does, he notices people are shy away from us. They are actively taking paths avoiding us and keeping a distance.

    We split into three groups:

        RC, Pearl, and Baptiste - RC tries to notice the types of people walking around, and they’re a mix of all races. Pearl approaches a friendly woman, trying to get her attention. She is crass towards Pearl and spits at her feet, calling all adventurers trouble. She tells us to head to the Bubbling Cauldron. 

        Brylwynn and Glittr - The further we head into the town, the worse people’s perceptions and vibes against us are

        Caulkin goes alone - The further he goes into the city and tries to be deceptive to the people shooting daggers at the group. He tries be play off the “Oh look at those out-of-towners” to which a passerby comments that the group needs to get out sooner than later. 

We meet back up and decide to head to the Bubbling Cauldron. As we head in, Pearl notices two people who a non-adventurers, look at each other, and then get up and leave the bar. The other adventurers in the bar don’t seem to mind us. The human behind the bar is a human female who greets us warmly. She introduces herself at Rota. Brylwynn comments the cold glances we’ve been getting from everyone and Rota avoids answering the question. 

    We banter with Rota and Caulkin pisses her off. We rent a suite from her for the night. Rota shares that there is a large general shrine in the center of town for all of the deities.

    We talk with the other two adventurers very briefly. One is a paladin to Lathander, but they don’t share too much information. 

As we approach, we see 5 symbols above the door, one for each of the deities we know about and a 5th symbol of the Raven Queen. We see Lathander and Savras shrines on each side of the walls upstairs and in the center of the room is a banister leading down. We see two people outside who head in as we approach, and when we go inside, we see them head downstairs. RC checks the two of them out who appear to be toying with us, trying to get us to follow them. He gathers the shrines for Kelemvor, The Raven Queen, and Helm are likely downstairs. We make our way downstairs.

    We see the two people we followed downstairs and three alters for The Raven Queen, Helm, and Kelemvor. 

    At the Raven Queen, we see a staff being held by magic and two figures. Glittr and Caulkin notice on the altar of Kelemvor a woman with a number one on her chest, and on the altar of Glittr’s father also being siphoned away. Next to the staff near the Raven Queen is the similarly shadowy figure we saw after we defeated Imiyrith.

    “Well, well, you have taken the bait and the allure was too much to exist. I have been trapped in the Shadowfell for far too long.” It looks at Brylwynn and says, “You were taught magic in the weave, using my skills, tugging at my energy… I cursed the girl with dragon scales on her face’s family, but she wasn’t meant to survive.” Looking at RC and Bahmut, “they say that their descends are the reason Bahmut can be alive right now, tethering Haephestus to the material plane.” 

   “You see, the shadow shards bind me, but I can’t seem to find my phylactery, and you are going to help me find it, or perish.” 

We all know a Phylactery is a boogie man’s tale. It’s the magical item where a lich stores its soul, to keep it immortal. One of the shadow shards is Haephestus’ phylactery, but he doesn’t know where it is.”