Episode 2 "Reckless Changeling Endangerment"

Session #2: 6/21/2020

2nd of Dalian 2350 of the 5th Age

Recap

 * The party has decided that before finding the Cutbeard's Sharpsugar Stash, they would sneak into the gate guard post and steal back their gear.
 * To make their plan work, the party needed to acquire some guard uniforms. They set a trap in an alleyway where Roxanne and Lorem (Disguised as the dwarf Opal) would pretend to have been attacked while Quirkell and Belrose waited to attack.
 * The party murdered the guards and hid their bodies in the alley, stealing all their weapons, armor, and coin.
 * Opal used some sort of magic that Roxanne didnt recognize to disguise herself as on of the dwarf guards they had killed while Quirkell used normal magic to disguise herself as a similar dwarf.
 * The party travelled to the guardhouse, an inverted tower hanging from the cavern ceiling above the city gate, and scoped the area out.
 * They saw that a group of guards approached a stone platfrom below the tower and entered some sort of sequence into a magical tablet that caused the stone platform to elevate them to the tower.
 * Quirk and Opal walked to the platform and tried to figure out how to make the elevator work while Roxanne and Belrose watched from outside the iron fence.
 * Opal decided to try a random sequence of numbers on the magical tablet and see what happens. This causes a booby trap to activate, causing the platform to explode in a massive Fireball.
 * This fireball incapacitated Quirkell and outright killed Opal.
 * Roxanne and Belrose rushed to aid their companions and found that Opal was no longer a dwarf, but instead a silver haired, white skinned, vaugely featureless changeling.
 * Belrose used a potion of healing he had taken from the guards they killed and revived Quirkell and then grabbed Lorem.
 * Then the party booked it out of there.
 * They headed to a small, dirty, rundown temple to Hermes, the god of thieves. They hoped they would be able to barter to get their friend resurrected.
 * The gangly human priest was initially uninterested in helping them but eventually came around. He told the party that he would revive Lorem, but only if they would do something for him.
 * His church is under the protection of the Cutbeard Boys and there is a Minder Lieutenant causing them a lot of problems. He needs them to kill Gedan Roughstone, the dwarf who hired them to find the Cutbeard stash.
 * The priest raised Lorem and placed a ring on her finger that would kill her again in 10 days unless the priest removes it. He promised to do so after Gedan is dead.
 * The party left the church and then tried to decide what to do.