DavesGaming

Sarah

After three months, our adventure takes us back to Chuck’s home, Candlekeep. I expect this will be a heavy burden for him, Chuck is a sensitive soul. He’ll be seeing many friends for the first time since the death of his father. I will need to be aware of his mood, although I’ve seen Chuck in enough tough situations to know he’s stronger than he first seems.

Actually, there’s probably more exceptions to that rule than books ever collected. When I was here last as a guard I paid no book toll. Residents and workers are not generally expected to pay. I expect we could have gained entrance between Chuck, Imoen and I. But due to the nature of our investigation we accepted a book from Duke Eltan to use for an admission, kept as quiet as possible.

I told Chuck I’d quit my job today! The Watchers had already concluded I wasn’t coming back.

The next day we entered the library itself. Seeing some of the monks was entertaining, they loved telling stories about Chuck the precocious child. There is still so much of that child in the man.

They made threats, but there was nothing happening for now. We will need to see if we can confront them and get something more interesting than threats.

Back in the main room a monk informed Chuck there were some valuables, and a sealed scroll for him in Gorion’s old room.

Gorion’s scroll said Chuck was a child of Bhaal. That is, the murdered God of Murder. Bhaal had known he was about to be slain, and spread his seed in the world in some scheme to ensure his survival. No one knows how many Bhaalspawn there are. But they are prophesied to bring chaos and destruction. I don’t know all the details, but I know Chuck is a good man, the best. I will stand on that fact.
The letter also said Sarevok, the man who had killed Gorion, was a half-sibling of Chuck’s.
We were all coming to terms with this, when a number of Watchers arrived to inform us we were under arrest for murdering the Iron Throne representatives.
I believe in Chuck, but there’s no doubt chaos has ensued. We saw them all less than half an hour ago. That doesn’t help our case.
We spent a couple hours in a cell, when the head librarian, a monk named Tethtoril helped us escape into the catacombs beneath the Keep. It is interesting to me that *most* of the monks (not all!) clearly believe in Chuck regardless of events and circumstance.

The last part of our escape was through natural caverns.

We’re wanted for murder, and still don’t have any actual evidence against the Iron Throne. Sarevok may be the main villain of the story? That seems likely. But no proof of anything.
Chuck suggests it might be a good time to keep away from the city for a while. We’d been asked to look for a missing dagger at Durlag’s Tower. And we have some Sea Charts to deliver to a scholar in Ulgoth’s Beard. Not sure how long this distraction will last, but maybe things will cool off in a couple weeks?