Skulls and Skulduggery
Skulls and Skulduggery
Episode 3 was chock full of shenanigans, friends. Was the smoking gun on the roof, or is that just the rest of the house burning? Commit arson with "Skulls and Skulduggery"!
Key Scenes
- The Party breaks into Wultram's apartment
- Pyramus takes a diseased man to get healing
- The Party finds several key pieces of evidence hinting at Wultram's backers and affiliations
- The Party fights some flame skulls and escape a burning building
- The Party jumps off a bridge to escape the Graywall Militia
Breaking and Entering
- The Party take sky coaches to Graywall, a Karrnathi enclave within Middle Tavick's Landing. In transit, members of the party learn that Jacopo hates "gobos" and that Cinder fought for Cyre - on opposite sides of the War to Nazari and Zelandris.
- The Party arrive at Graywall and find a crooked tower matching the address for Wultram's Apartment. They break in and find a pair of wooden cages: one, with a ghoul; and the other, with a gaunt man named Jonas. After questioning him, the Party realizes he had been captured and deliberately scratched by a ghoul. Zelandris surmises this could be a Karrnathi attempt at creating self-replicating undead.
- After failed healing attempts, the Party ask Pyramus to take Jonas to a Jorasco house while they investigate the rest of Wultram's Apartment.
- The Party discovers that Wultram Kazkov was a former Blademark of House Deneith. They find a receipt for the bag and crossbow from a man named Lan Hazal, as well as a letter from Lan praising Wultram's service to Karrnathi ideals. Jacopo finds a pendant of the Order of the Emerald Claw and a manifesto espousing Karrnathi supremacy and calling for a return to war.
- The Party find a spellbook alongside three large Dragonshards in Wultram's Apartment: an Eberron, a Siberys and a Khyber dragonshard. They surmise this was a ritual for summoning undead.
Fight and Flight
- Cinder steps through the summoning circle and three flaming skulls animate and attack the Party. The skulls are dispatched but the apartment lights on fire, forcing the group to flee as Wultram's Apartment burns down with any remaining evidence.
- The fleeing party members are chased by the Graywall militia, led by a man they would later recognize to be Mikhael Fedorov. The Party escape using feather tokens and jumping off a nearby bridge (except for Lark, who shape changes to escape). They regroup at the Glum Gryphon. The rest of the Party questions how Lark was able to get away without jumping.
- The Party splits up for the night. Cinder and Jacopo stay at Talos's Apartment in Upper Menthis. Zelandris attempts to heal Nazari's ghoul wound at their run-down apartment. At the Glum Gryphon, Lark plays a traditional Cyran song to comfort Angelica Mediri.
Trackers
- #CurtainCallConspiracy The party investigates Wultram's Apartment in Graywall. They find caged undead and a man deliberately scratched by a ghoul. Additionally, they find correspondence with a man named Lan Hazal, a pendant of the Order of the Emerald Claw, a Karrnathi supremacy manifesto, and three large Dragonshards in a ritual summoning circle. The house is burned down by undead flaming skulls before more evidence could be obtained and the party flees the premises.
- #ThePlightOfPyramus The party sends Pyramus out of Wultram's Apartment to take the caged man Jonas to a House Jorasco healer.
- #HouseDeneith Wultram Kazkov was a former Blademark of House Deneith.
- #OrderOfTheEmeraldClaw The party finds an Order of the Emerald Claw pendant in Wultram's Apartment in Graywall.
- #battle Cinder steps through a summoning circle at Wultram's Apartment and three flaming skulls animate and attack the party. The skulls are defeated but the house burns down in the process.
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