Journal Entry - 04/14/20

Day 9 evening - Hal goes to the bath houses, gets a massage, an hour in the baths and the secretary sends a messenger to reserve a room in a nearby inn.

Akmenos finds a beggar to interview and buys him food to build rapport. He convinces the beggar to take him to some tweaked out drug addicts that flew over the cuckoo's nest and they explore Outter City.

Avarra and Rhak go to meet the blacksmith, Grenaar where Rhak can get his greataxe silvered for 75 gold, what a bargain! Rhak turns it down citing that he needs to liquidate some funds. Grenaar has a dragon tattoo on his wrist that weaves down his hand holding a knife which is Grenaar's fingernail. The blacksmith shares that the king is running the city with an iron fist and is oppressive towards the people.

Mishal takes a boiling hot bath. Irritated by how cold the bath was when it stopped boiling, Mishal rings the bell and requests for a scalding hot tea.

Akmenos starts a demonic ritual on a large wooden plank. After attracting the attention of passerby, Akmenos offers to use his demonic Tiefling powers to tell his fortune for 5 copper. He uses minor illusion make it sound like the beats of a drum thrummed from the gates of hell. He looked terrified and exclaimed to the passerbyer that he must belay his upcoming life changing decision or grave consequences would befall him! His only recourse was seeking out a priest immediately and receiving a blessing. He ate it up and literally ran off to find a priest. Akmenos then brags to Tom Bombadil that they'll make a gold if they stick together and rebuild Tom's shop.

Mishal gets out of her bath and asks the receptionist where to buy rare exotics gems. Everyone meets up in the lobby of the bath house.

After successfully liquidating (heh heh heh...) enough funds in the bath house, Rhak returns to the blacksmith. The blacksmith offers to silver the axe overnight and should be able to prepare it by the next night.

Business in order, the chaos crew heads out of the city to look for drugs.

Akmenos continues his shenanigans with Tom when a real fortune teller stumbles upon them. Totally a real fortune teller ready to call out Akmenos in front of his new friend. The embarrassment would be unrecoverable... He reluctantly continues his performance and asks for Sofi and Tom's hand to "borrow" their souls. Akmenos immolated himself in front of her to keep up the guise and she healed him and gave him a silver with a smirk after thanking Akmenos for the show.

The bathers go to Otter town and find a bar, the Ir'elephant and order a round of drinks while looking for who to ask about sell swords services...He gets snubbed again and gives up; Time to get krunk. Avarra goes full rave mode in the bar.

Akmenos pretends to read Tom's fortune and is met with a very talkative response from Tom where he confides in Akmenos that he accidentally burnt his own shop down and his wife left him...Jeez, Tom...Don't make this fortune telling session weird. They go back to Tom's place to crash and Akmenos quietly lies in wait for Tom to fall asleep. When he falls asleep, Akmenos sneaks back to the soup kitchen and asks the soup mistress to sneak Tom a gold coin.

Back at the bar Mishal starts the pyrotechnics and Avarra immediately answers the call with fancy minor illusions that mimic the fire (poorly). Akmenos skulks into the bar upon seeing the rave and is not at all surprised to see his group is the center of attention of a dwindling party. Akmenos and Avarra get into a heated debate about stealing valuable diamonds versus fortune telling for a handful of coppers.

Everyone but Akmenos heads back to the inn to catch some zzz's but are disappointed to find Avarra playing her lyre all night long to show off to Akmenos later. Once Avarra relents and Mishal is able to fall asleep, she sells her soul or something in her dream.