Session 18

Date: December 13th, 2021

Continuing from where we left off last session, we are standing in front of the (locked) entrance to what we believe to be the Baron's quarters.

Xanie manages to find a key on the guard after we fail to pick the lock. We enter what appears to be an office. The Baron snores in his bedroom, through a door at the back of the room.

Suleiman's original plan was basically: "beat some sense into him" but we manage to find some interesting tidbits throughout the office.

Xanie notes that the desk looks relatively empty. The room as a whole is relatively barren of the finery one would expect of a well-off barony.

New Plan
Knot looks around and finds an odd bookshelf, which Suleiman lucks into opening.

Inside, we find some documents indicating that the Baron has been cooking the books. He's massively in debt, and we find a note:


 * Payment comes due, -M

Our *new plan* is to forge a document (both Suleiman and Knot are capable of this) telling the Baron that his time is up. We do so, and leave a note:


 * Time is up. Leave. -M

The note is pinned with a dagger to the head of the baron's (large) self-portrait.

We also steal the (portable) valuables in the office, leaving with 320gp worth of treasure (including a ring with an emerald).

The Ring of Cyric
As we prepare to leave, Xanie notices a faint magical aura coming from a drawer in the desk.



We find a ring engraved with the mark of the patron deity of assassins, Cyric. Xanie recognizes what it is, and we immediately pivot.

Xanie transports the ring onto the Baron's pillow with Mage Hand.

Satisfied, we head out of the keep the way we came. We escape without incident, but Knot "bribes" the tied up guard with a gold piece.

The Aftermath
We head back to the inn and settle in to see what befalls Salshear. We bathe (much needed after our dip in the moat), and sleep.

In the morning, we overhear a commotion. It appears that the Baron has fled Salshear!