Session 5 — Recap

Session 5 · recap · what actually happened

The recap

• Cold open 14, The Blowgun. Trill touched the dirt on the warehouse floor and saw it: saving Toto from the snake bite in the Juhasa. It ended on a voice: “How cute. How useless.”
• On the main floor, Marellius found strong, dirty magic coming off the sealed casks. Emil’s casks are all over the floor, and the empty ones have gone to rot inside.
• In the office, left in a hurry, the party found papers and tallies in the marks that tie back to the ledger, with the fourth mark on them. This ran as half tally board, half papers. His ring took one. Whoever wrote it felt what Emil felt before he died: fear. Haxami told the party this is bigger than Emil, and that it runs through Dita’s family’s warehouse.
• Haxami still wants to go to Losam: carefully, make themselves useful, find out what he knows. He trusts none of them.
• Nobody opened a cask. They went down into the cellar: flooded to the knee, sea coming in through a broken wall, the magic strongest toward the water. Haxami did not want to go down.
• Wat’s Ino came up out of the water with two drowned men (behind the screen: mercenaries Dita had sent in earlier). Hard fight. Nonne was paralyzed more than once, and while paralyzed his body blinked out and back ten feet away. Marellius was grabbed, cut himself free with his cloak, and put Darkness on the cloak.
• Marellius fired the fireball from Dita’s Bracelet. It burst the cursed casks, and the souls in them went out screaming. Those souls are destroyed.
• Marellius killed Wat with a chromatic orb that jumped to the last crewman and killed it too.
• Only Nonne saw it: Wat’s spirit, standing where the Ino fell, holding out the Cold Kiss handle first. Nonne took it. Wat left, grateful, through the wall. Nonne has the Cold Kiss.
• Nonne told Marellius: “It’s Wat. He is gone now. He forgives you.”
• Haxami said nothing. The ghost shook him.
• The night ended in the cellar, right after the fight with Wat.

What did not fire

• The doors. The Five Fingers did not arrive. Fetch, Greave, Hobb and the Pull are all unmet.
• The rest of the tally board. The inbound line, the short count and the grey cask on the bench did not come up.
• The trapdoor. Nothing about the first two groups was found. They were Dita’s hired mercenaries, and two of them were the drowned men (ruled 2026-10-01).
• Cold open 6, One More Thing. The bracelet was used, but time ran short. It runs next session.
• Cold open 10, Try This.
• Thor has not been told.

Loose ends

• The next session opens in the cellar, right after the fight, with One More Thing owed. The Five Fingers can still be at the doors on the way out.
• The Cold Kiss is on Nonne. Thor wants it destroyed. Dita’s crew want it. Whether he keeps it is his.
• Wat is gone. His spirit left of its own accord once Nonne took the mace.
• The voice. “How cute. How useless.” Nothing on the site says whose it is.
• Nonne’s blink. Something moved his body while he was paralyzed. Nothing on the site says what.
• Haxami’s ring holds a Ferrante shipping page with the fourth mark on it.
• Casks the fireball missed. Whether any are left, and whether they carry one out, is not decided.
• Losam. Still the plan. The party think the conspiracy runs through his warehouse.

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