Session 7 — Recap

Session 7 · recap · what actually happened

The recap

• Cold open 12, The Shore, ran at the top of the night (Jack, 2026-10-16). It is not in Damien’s notes. Trill rolled a natural 1 on Perception and never saw Cole’s body; it sank beneath the waves. Trill rescued Nonne and hid him, and the wreckers left them alone, so the document stayed with him.
• Godwin’s first note. Haxami bought the morning sheets from Tam as usual. Among the print was a line of Thieves’ Cant: “He killed men on that ship. I watched.” Tam did not linger the way he usually does. Haxami kept it to himself.
• At the Long Crossing, Trill and Nonne brought word from Miriam: Emil’s spirit is not at rest. To lay it, they need the truth of his death or to undo what was done to his spirit.
• Dita came to the Long Crossing, tired and bedraggled. She played games with the deal: she did not remember promising 500 gp, and said the job was not finished because they had not brought back an object Dalton had.
• Marellius tried charm and got nowhere. Haxami walked over and raised the Inquisitors: an Ino in a Ferrante warehouse, and Dita accusing the party of stealing “an alleged object that has something to do with Ino.” She cracked.
• When they showed her the Cold Kiss, Nonne nearly went for her, pointing it at her like a weapon. Trill defused it.
• 800 gp: 250 for the warehouse and 550 for their silence. Dita gave Trill another 100 gp for being “cute.” Haxami formally fired Dita as their employer. They split the gold outside, 200 each.
• Haxami asked Marellius nothing about it, only: “I have questions for Godwin, that’s all.” The party heard Godwin is new in town: tall, gangly, magical, not Dita’s. He hangs out at the counting-house.
• The Cold Kiss at Haxami’s house. Marellius’s Arcana found great power and no clear function, then that it works on spirits: it makes Ino by trapping and corrupting souls. Haxami broke, visibly horrified. “We do not want that anywhere near us. That needs to be turned over to the animist.”
• Marellius pushed back: “You have no curiosity about how it came to be?” It escalated. Then: “I want my fucking inheritance. I maybe want to get in with this family and have some prestige.” Nonne: “It’s all about just money for you. Fuck Emil.”
• Marellius to Haxami: “You, sir, are just like the rest of us. And that’s okay.” Marellius questioned the Pact itself. In the end even he agreed the Cold Kiss was dangerous. Haxami tipped his glass at him: not an apology, an “I told you so.”
• Keep it, no. Give it to Dita, no. Destroy it, they don’t know how. Take it to Miriam.
• Miriam Dol, at her cottage on the eastern edge of town, meditating on her pier. Haxami made the sign against evil at her door.
• She confirmed it: the Cold Kiss is tied to the Ino in Onda. Emil was not the first. Two died before him, and House Sai covered it up. Tuck, the Sai liaison at the accounting office, threatened her into silence.
• Haxami showed her the ledger pages. She confirmed the fourth symbol is the Cold Kiss: it marks the corrupted shipments.
• “The Inquisition is on the way.” At great risk to herself, Miriam sent them a message. They are delayed, but coming.
• Something scraped at her door. Trill was out first and saw a figure running. On the threshold: a shattered black pearl, the Ophidian’s calling card (Jack, 2026-10-14). As they left, Nonne took the Cold Kiss back.
• The chase. Trill marked the runner with Hunter’s Mark, Haxami cast Longstrider and then Pass Without Trace, and the party ran through Onda in the fog. Marellius boosted Trill’s tracking and they closed the distance.
• It ended at Emil’s grave. The runner was bait. Figures behind the bushes. Isa held between two armed men. Quiet Jory leaning on the gravestone, relaxed and amused: “That’s far enough. We don’t want anything to happen to our friend here, do we?”

What did not fire

• The register fight. Tuck did not come to Miriam with the writ. The party met her at her cottage, not on the strand at dawn. Tuck is a name now, not a face.
• Miriam’s offer to wake the Cold Kiss once is not in Damien’s notes.
• Haxami and Losam. Not reached again. Dita’s version has had another night to land.
• Nonne and Thor. The Second Thought. Neither came up.
• Cold open 13 did not run. It opens session 8.

Loose ends

• The grave. The session stopped at the top of the grave fight. Session 8 opens on it.
• The Cold Kiss. Nonne still carries it. He grabbed it as they left Miriam’s (Jack, 2026-10-14).
• The black pearl at Miriam’s door is the Ophidian’s calling card, not House Sai’s, and has nothing to do with the Ferrantes (Jack, 2026-10-14). The party read it as Sai’s.
• Godwin. His first note reached Haxami through Tam’s papers (Jack, 2026-10-14). Haxami does not know it is from him. Haxami wants to talk to him, and he hangs out at the counting-house.
• Losam will pretend he has not talked to Dita. He has, and he knows. He will probably lie about it (Jack, 2026-10-14).
• The Inquisition has been sent for, by Miriam.
• Dita is fired, 800 gp lighter, and has been told twice now that the Inquisitors are coming.
• Haxami and Marellius said the true thing out loud. Tested, not broken.
• Gold. 200 gp each, Trill 300. A little spent on Miriam’s wine, Tam and Ma Silva.

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