Session Six

Note

Session date: 2nd May 2026

Temple of Selune

Ground Floor

• He was orphaned by Bhaalists, taken in by the temple of Selune, & raised by Kivia - probably abusively, but he is completely loyal to her
• He was hired in the palace as a knight for the first prince, Jupiter
  • Jupiter only trusted Juno, Juno fell in love with him
• Mal gets a sending from Venus, informing her that a Goliath came to the Diver’s Guild looking for her - someone Mal grew up with, wouldn’t say why
  • Venus wants to know what she’s been threatened with, Mal promises to talk to her about it later
• We go through the office & find a records book, with large donations made by Jupiter
• There is a storage room with a single shallow cut in one wall, made by a dagger

First Floor

• Uppies check: Mal & Fugue both fail & are hit with the owies
• We enter an altar room, with large swathes of one wall covered in crimson thread and a hatched giant spider egg in red (I’m sure this won’t come up later)
• Mal grabs some red spider silk as a spell component, Pan burns the rest
• There is a painting of moon & stars on the floor and a secret door behind the spiderwebs
• Radiant damage on the stars to open the door - Fugue & Mal (via scroll) cast & the door opens

Second Floor

• A statue of Selune holding an orb
• Fugue feels Shar’s gaze on him
• Pan goes for the orb, Mal stops them
• There’s a painting of a serpent overhead that feels like it’s watching, before it addresses us:
  • I sense the curse of Shar upon you. Do you seek clarity? Enlightenment? The lifting of the veil?
  • We have all had our memories modified, except for Tiel

Orb Visions

• Mal remembers the attack starting, Shiax appearing at her house, going out to investigate afterwards:
  • she remembers hearing talk of a black dragon rising from the dark, and someone else was taken - one of Mal’s criminal rivals, Swiftstep, and the Diver’s Guild managed to capture a monster
    • this monster: a skinless dog
• Pan remembers going to the Guild, trying to bypass the bureaucracy, thinking they’ll just head straight down after Elin, when there’s a roar, a shockwave
  • a black dragon rises from the void, a hound with no skin grabbed by the Divers
• Fletcher (AFTER the Naga fight) remembers going with the Apothecaries to help the wounded
  • a black dragon rising from the void, a skinless hound in its talons - it drops it somewhere out of sight, and Sebastian orders them to stay in the square and continue helping the wounded
• Fugue is ordered not to look in the orb by Shar

Naga Fight

• Fugue accidentally admits to being a Sharran in front of the big Selunite spirit

• The Naga can also sense the Sharran artefact Mal is carrying

• Fight!

• We level up yayyyy

• Fletcher harvests some venom

• After the fight, Mal unlocks the vaults, finding:

  • 1 - a set of prayer beads (allows you to max out a healing spell, 5 charges), and a healing potion
  • 2 - 3,000 gold pieces (which she does split up among the party)
  • 3 - a band of black metal, a collar of primal determination; Mal identifies it as cursed, but Pan puts it on anyway and it chats to them ← I’m sure this is fine

• Fugue comes to sit with Mal while we rest

• Asks her why the snake sensed Shar in her; Mal shows him the cube

  • Fugue senses that Shar wants this back, badly - it’s an artefact used in Sharran rituals to create new clerics and remove memories
  • Mal doesn’t give it back:)

Tunnels

• A pack of cranium rats eating a regenerating arm
• We talk them into giving it up, Mal & Pan give them a little bit of food in payment
• We meet Iindra, Kaylin’s mother - she’s an alchemist undead, still running her store, waiting for Kaylin to come home, with her mushroom colleague, Ydel
• We do some shopping here, then head back to the tunnels
• Making our way through, we hear footsteps & hide
• Mal fucks up her stealth check to peek at them & they spot her, but she manages to blow up a torchstalk and fireball them before they can act
• Combat, again: Mal gets a crazy sneak attack, thank you Fuguey<3
• Speak with dead on the mage

Speak With Dead

Note

Question: Who are you? Answer: My name has no bearing. Question: Who do you work for? Answer: Hex will bring about Her will, something about the Cult of Lolth? Question: What were you doing? Answer: We were to finish clearing out the temple. Question: Have you seen Cassiopeia or Arran? Answer: The scout - he will be forfeit. All we need is the last wayward child.

• Fletcher marks our spot and we head back to camp
• Warn Kaylin that Hex is after him
• Ask Juno to keep an eye on Kaylin (we don’t trust Riza)
• Give Kaylin the arm

Session Five