Session 5: Old Galead, Shmold Shmalead

Having cleared the dangerous spiders, the group decides that heading deeper into this mansion is dangerous and unnecessary, so they continue on their way. They soon arrive in Rathgard and arrange passage on a fishing ship to Old Galead. Once at sea, the only other passenger reveals himself as a kraken priest. He attacks by summoning strangling tentacles and by commanding a nearby sky manta against the group. Thorim distracts the sky manta by climbing onto its back while the others barrage the water-walking kraken priest with projectiles. The priest approaches and hits Vojta with an explosive pimp-slap, but Vojta transforms into a seal and clamps onto his leg. Ahrm then finishes him off with a kick to the face, causing the sky manta to flee. On the priest’s body they find a magic dagger and potion, but no indication of his motives.

When the ship arrives in Old Galead, Vica and Ahrm are detained and questioned by the guards for having no identification. In the meantime, Thorim seeks out a familiar brewmaster, who identifies the kraken priest’s potion as a malevolent mind-reading potion that causes the drinker to read the minds of everyone nearby, dealing mental damage to them in the process. The black ooze is identified as a philter of shadows, which the brewmaster notes is highly illegal. Arran also inspects the dagger and identifies it as a dwarven-bane enchantment. Vica and Ahrm are eventually released by the guards after providing enough information about their background, during which Ahrm lies about the criminal organization he used to work for. They go to the docks and find a ship willing to bring them to New Galead. After a Benny Hill sequence of running around town trying to find each other, the group is eventually reunited.

Thorim brings them to a shaman who can open Tusk's remaining memory trinkets. Vica receives a memory of a caravan in a tundra, heading into a ravine with a large moon-shaped building inside. The caravan crosses a bridge which collapses under them. Receiving this memory jumbles Vica's mind, causing her to temporarily believe that she is a tiefling. Arran receives a similar memory of a caravan on a volcanic plain heading towards a giant building. The caravan likewise collapses while crossing a bridge. Ahrm receives a memory about a chained man who is about to be executed, surrounded by a crowd of humans, orcs, and dwarves with red markings. The Spike can be seen nearby.

Vojta receives a memory of Tusk and a group of others climbing a mountain in an arid land. They look up and see something so horrible that it damages Vojta's mind and he can’t remember it when he wakes up. Ahrm explains that this place is God's Rest near Glyckheart. God's Rest used to be a warlock college until someone performed a summoning ritual from the divine plane, causing the place to be cursed with a terrible presence.