Session Date: 09/23/2022
We arrive at Traeg Breda and meet with the Marquis’ representatives in The Stone Arms. Calthel recognizes an old schoolmate of his, Kerran, and Calthel introduces the rest of the party to him. The group also meets the new Court Magician Giacomo, then we all head on to Caer Colbrech.
On the way there, we learn that Aelrede was the only survivor of Duffholm (then: Coldholm) incident about 180 years ago. He was in the forest at the time, lost and eating hazelnuts. The disappearance happened and he isn’t sure why he wasn’t taken.
We finally arrive at Caer Colbrech after an eight hour ride. In the audience chamber we meet the Marquis Petra, her husband Lord Dunstan, and her daughter Lady Gemma. Marquis Petra greets us, and then interrogates us about Skerry Yayek for three hours. During this, Calthel gives the Marquis his sample of the green-gold slime, and Sarras gives the Marquis a copy of the symbols that were there. She asks us if there were crocodiles, octopi, or crabs, and on confirmation of none she stares at Kerran uncomfortably. Kerran is similarly disregarded during dinner.
After dinner, Calthel pulls Kerran aside and asks if everything is okay. He explains that he was out at sea and saw a creature that was an amalgamation of an albino crocodile with crab legs and tentacles. It was strange and nobody here believes him, but Calthel recalls seeing a creature like this in a book at the Grammary of Divination. Calthel specifically doesn’t recall which book, though he does recall that it was a bestiary of some kind. They will check on this in the morning.
That night, Kerran rouses Calthel from sleep because he hard a scream. The two try to investigate, but Calthel trip over something and that wakes the others. The entire party goes out to the courtyard and finds an aberration scaling the wall. We non-lethally kill it, but it disappears due to being psychically projected.
We know that some creatures can psychically project themselves to attack others. The only requirement to this is that they are on the same plane of existence (as far as we are aware) so it is not feasible to go out and try to find what projected it.