DavesGaming

Leaving Ulgoth’s Beard we had come up with a plan of keeping invisible until we get to Scar or Duke Eltan. We have plenty of potions and Imoen has a ring, so this should not be a problem.

We quickly learned how much upheaval the city had seen since we left. Scar had been murdered, Duke Eltan poisoned. We found the Duke, he was in the care of healer who was in fact a doppleganger keeping him sick. We fixed that!

We left the Duke with a friend of his, the Harbor Master, and returned to the Iron Throne building to once again look for incriminating evidence against Sarevok. We did learn some assassins he’d hired were in the Underceller.
They were a husband and wife team, he (Slythe) engaged with swords. We could hear his wife (Krystin) casting, but not see her. She was apparently invisible and was prepping herself.

Apart from wanting to kill us, these two had plans to attend the coronation and kill the other Dukes.
We took their invitations and set out for the palace.

Why anyone thought this guy would make a good Duke is beyond me. I think the imagery someone embraces says something about what’s in their heart, look at this guy, seriously.
I would say we exposed his dirty dealings, but his dark plans were exposed raw at this point. We disrupted his doppleganger attack and set out after him.

Which led us directly to Sarevok. After all this, he was not such a hard fight. And the support team he had did not exercise good tactics. They lost hard.

Which led to us enjoying some down time at the palace, we were the guests of the Dukes.
One of them, Liia Jannath had noticed Imoen’s budding interest in magic and offered to take her on as a trainee.

Trust me, we had some very good times too. The rest of our team, our friends all went off their own ways.
Soon we had a new crisis. For several weeks refugees had been pouring into Baldur’s Gate. They were escaping a Crusade being waged to the north, led by Caelar Argent, for unknown purpose. We’ve seen a lot of people in desperate straits, pushing local resources to the breaking point.
Then one night we were attacked in the Palace. Imoen was stabbed and poisoned. We slew the attackers, but found they carried a portrait of me! And carried tokens marking them as Crusaders.

Game on.

We’ll need a new team, and Imoen will be in no shape for travel for a while.

We all thought we’d need a scout, since we were missing Imoen. We had the Rogue Safana with us briefly, she under contract with the Flaming Fist. But honestly, I didn’t like her. All sleeze and filthy inuendo. But we’d been told she was at the Elfsong Tavern so we thought we’d head that way. In my mind I was thinking we’d look around and see if a better option presented.
There were a number of refugees at the Elfsong.

This made me very happy. Erato was obviously a better fit with us than Safana had been. And a cleric too, bonus!

We set out the next morning. When we stopped at our first camp we set out to survey the area. Talking to Captain Corwin I asked if she would join with us for a while.

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Erato is an NPC of my own design. I have her installed via Argent77’s NPC Generator Mod. She will always be available for me in SoD at the Elfsong Tavern, for games where I want her. Which has now been the last three runs.

Half-Elf Female, CG

9 – 17 – 15 – 11 – 18 – 17

She comes aboard as a 6th level Cleric/Thief, very close to 7th level thief. But with no equipment at all. We have all of Imoen’s gear so equiping her is no problem.

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I expect I’ll get one more update in about a week for all of SoD. Then things get crazy for a few weeks with the holidays. Maybe only a couple for all December? I’m not going away! Things should get back to normal in January.