Session 37

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Title: **

Date: 4-6-2025

Locations: Pillartown, The Sway

Characters: The Rust Queen

Groups:

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Session Summary

• Drop the captive mercenary with Etron at The Second Sunset and head to The Sway
• At the center of the sway, a group of pirates is getting obliterated by a hydra
  • Above the arena is a complex series of cranes and hooks to get monsters in and out of the arena
• The Blackstars approach a goliath and a goblin arguing over a thrown fight
  • Gino and Gattenk offer to take the fight
• The fight is against a Vrock and a Drider
  • These monsters are veterans in The Sway, they’ve killed a number of duos before
• Gino and Gattenk succeed; they give their winnings back to the goliath in exchange for him putting a word in with The Rust Queen
• Upon getting back to The Second Sunset, Jeraime notices a pallid grey raven on the wheel with two pupils
  • Not quite the same as the usual The Lord of Whispers crows
  • Nos says the bird had been there all day
• Jeraime interrogates The Kirrasa mercenary
  • The mercenary says there’s ‘a secret to the tower outside of Carcosa’ in the islands south of Shai
  • Jeraime decides to just disembowel the guy instead of interrogating further
• Gino and Hen try some of Athelia’s new potion, and it teleports them to the nearest body of water
• The Blackstars wake to a huge band of pirates at the base of the pier, ready to take some of the party to see The Rust Queen
  • Gino, Adder, and Jeraime go to see The Rust Queen
    • The pirates escort the group to The Rust Queen’s Castle
    • Questions
      • Breeze - Doesn’t know about his towers - He’s only come to Pillartown once before - Sold some stuff to The Rust Queen - Doesn’t know where he went
        • Hen’s door
          • Not up for offers until we become ‘more ingratiated’
        • Carcosa
          • Sometimes get some oddjobs from there
          • Doesn’t really like the King in Yellow
          • Doesn’t know about The Amphora
        • The Camaraderie
        • Liches
          • Doesn’t realize they’re still around
    • Jobs
      • There’s something hidden in The Sunken Basilica
        • She’s sent a number of people in, but they haven’t returned
        • The city rumbles at night, and their numbers grow. The Rust Queen worries she will lose power to The Sunken Choir
  • The rest of the party goes to Aphun’s Tower to pick up a Meridian
    • They take a pit stop to grab a metal vessel in the market for Phari to pour the molten metal from Polly’s Flask into - it’s molten lead
    • They grab the Meridian
    • Aphun says he’d appreciate if we could get The Kirrasa to stop pursuing us

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