Session 7 - In which they piss on the curtains and find a cool snake skull
The party consulted with the music box and learned that the Ballet Troupe don't know anything about the fangs, but they still want them to steal it from Dr. Heto so that they can foil whatever plan she has. They also wanted the party to either send the fang to them, or come to wherever they are so that they can hand over the fang. The party agreed to the latter option, and the ballerina told them she would send an operative to them, with the challenge-response of
"When does the redblossom bloom?"
"Under the light of the full moon."
The party then headed out to rob the UW Conjuration Department. Durk turned into a possum and hid in Kri's pocket, Kri and Thuvaur each wore UW student pins, and Yagga disguised herself as Dr. Heto. They found Dr. Heto's office locked, and accidentally triggered a protection rune, but the conjured spectral elk believed that Yagga was Dr. Heto and dispelled itself. They also found that the door was locked. Durk decided to run around the room, causing a chaotic distraction while Yagga tried to pick the lock. Kri and Thuvaur helped Durk as they pissed all over the curtains, then ran up and broke the curtains off over some students and Thuvaur, while Kri pretended to fall on top. Durk then ran over and used their tiny possum fingers to help Yagga pick the lock.
Durk ran to the center of the room and played dead, with Kri giving a very convincing performance of grief. Yagga snuck in to Dr. Heto's office and looked around, finding the viper skeleton and fang in a birdcage, and her encrypted notebook and notes on the fang in Vaukveubor on her desk. They stole all of that, along with eight potions:
- Minor healing
- Minor healing
- Oil of slipperiness
- Enlarge
- Reduce
- Mind reading
- Unfinished resistance
- Unfinished resistance
The PCs then escaped into the night.
In the lobby, the Hive, Samtha, Threestrings, and Uwelta all chatted nervously. Durk turned into a cat to spy on them, and learned that the bride at the party they had been to had been killed shortly after they left.
During their long rest, Kri noticed movement within the birdcage. They discovered the fang reassembling the skeleton, and spoke with it. They learned about the other fangs, the secret-erasing power of the fangs, and that the map from Dr. Heto's office likely shows the location of another fang. Kri took the viper skull and stored it in her pocket.
In the morning, Zia came to see the party. She asked them to hand over the fang, but Thuvaur lied and convinced her that it had been imposters at the wedding and that someone else had the fang. She warned them that if they didn't obtain the fang themselves, Malwae's hit on them would be reinstated. Then she left.
The met with Nalca in the lounge and learned from him that Threestrings had vanished after leaving the hotel last night, although Nalca seemed to know more than he was letting on (and possibly implying that Threestrings had, in fact, faked his own death). Nalca decided to travel with the party and is curled up inside Durk's bag.
The party decided to leave town and head south, seeking the second fang. They decided to travel by ship, and successfully bartered with Captain Borlak of the good ship Visaya to pay 10gp each and work for their passage. Then they set sail.
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