CoL Recap: The Recovery of Quill

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Xiu does flippy attack on Thuranni assassin and bruises her. Alain uses greater magic weapon to boost Xiu and Magnus while hitting Thuranni assassin lady. Torgen hits Thuranni assassin with jagged axe. Xau is still blind. One of the assassins runs away. Torchy shoots Alain, who resists poison. Magnus attacks Thuranni with his axe and misses her. She turns invisible and flees out the door to where Torchy is. Other assassin tries to stab Torgen and misses, he runs but takes AOO from Torgen, joins the others.

Xiu moves in and bait and switches Torchy, who is bloodied. Alain fires burning weapons with crossbow at Torgen. Torgen rushes in, drawing AOO from Torchy, calls out a challenge to mark all bad guys, uses arc of vengeance on all of them. Xau is still blind, moves to the wall and then saves, taking damage. Torchy hits Torgen with poisoned short sword, he is bloodied. Magnus uses come and get it on the two other assassins, dropping Torchy. Torgen takes AOO on Lady Assassin, she moves away and becomes invisible to tremorsense as well (probably by going into the water.) The other assassin becomes invisible, draws AOO from Torgen but manages to run over the bridge. Xiu cannot spot either assassin, throws dust to show which square the assassin is in. Alain heals Torgen, fires aggravating force bolt at other assassin and drops him. His bleeding wound kills him.

Torchy was local talent, hired by Lady Assassin to bolster their forces. The job was to kill Renslick and the people he was meeting with, he clearly underestimated Brenner. Alain asks where he was hired, he was hired at a tavern called the Cup and Die. We decide not to use him as an invisible pinata, and to take him to the law instead. Xau and Torgen go to take the bodies and assassin in to the law, tell them that we were attacked while wandering the town, while the rest of us go back to our temporary headquarters.

Xau and Xiu hire an inquisitive, Drenna d'Medani (half-elf) to look for Brenner, we tell her to deliver information to our base of operations. Alain spends about an hour making heroic tier antivenom for the group. We go to Orien lightning rail station to see what we can find out about Brenner/Quill meeting. The Danger Twins look for a book recording who has anything in the lockers, she finds keys and some are missing. They pick the locks on the eight lockers whose keys are missing. They find clothing, bribes, alcohol and a bloody foot. The bloody foot is only part of a chopped-up body in the locker. We put it in Xiu's bag of holding, Magnus goes to talk to the approaching patrol. We flee out the back exit as Magnus tells the patrol that he saw lockers open and blood on the floor. Magnus goes to rent a room at the Cup and Die.

We pull the body out at our base, and discover that it's elven. Xau sends message back using shadow emblem asking if Quill has a dragonmark. We positively identify him, check the lining of his cloak as requested and find three flexible daggers and a slip of paper. Coded message that only Xau and Xiu can read. He had learned of an upcoming transfer of stolen funds in the 2 million gold piece range. Was going to meet his contact for confirmation. As we decide what to do with the body, Drenna shows up.

She reports Brenner has left town, appears to have left by water via the cliff. She intends to pursue unless we have other instructions. Her intuition (mark of detection) tells her he will travel north and then out of Karrn Bay. We tell her to send us a message when she catches up to him.

In the morning, an officer comes to the Cup and Die to talk to Magnus about the investigation at the Orien Lightning Rail Station. He gives him mostly straight answers and allays suspicion. Xau and Torgen go to check in with the Watch before leaving town, they are cleared of any suspicion. We go to Lightning Rail station in the morning, it is full of graduates from Rekkenmark, including the Prince of Breland.

We go to House Phiarlan to report in, present them with a bag of body parts and our story. He gives us a letter of credit and tells us to come back tonight to talk to Quill.

Quill found a fence in town trying to move something pretty big, and his name was Brenner. He posed as a thief trying to sell an item, went to Brenner, discovered that he was buying anything stolen, the bigger the better. Quill told him he would steal a magical gemstone from the Rekkenmark Academy, Brenner agreed to fence it. Went back to check out Brenner's place of business, found a draft of a letter saying that he would be visiting Stormhome on Nymm 15 to deliver the package as agreed. Signed "Forward the New Age!" Intention was to get back to where he was staying to report, but doesn't remember making it back.