# January 26, 2026 | Pants Optional > [!Summary]+ meta >**Role Call**: [[Tendy]] • [[Boldran Evans|Boldran]] • [[Styx]] • [[Cheeto]] • [[Brian d'Orien|Brian]] • [[Kouneli]] >**Where We Are**: [[Sharn]] > **Tagline**: A ballista-dodging, guard-mugging, pants-dropping adventure in the [[Skyway]] [[E6 - High-Speed Low-Lives|↶ Last Session]] |[[The Bleeding Veil| Campaign Home ↝]] ## This Session The party picked up right where they left off—[[Cyran Forge-Acolyte Unit 10-D|Tendy]] saving [[Kouneli|Kouneli's]] ass after a sky jet mishap, while the rest pursued [[Order of the Emerald Claw]] agents to a warehouse in [[Skyway]]'s [[Azure]] ward. What followed was _peak_ adventuring: an elaborate distraction involving fake fight clubs and theatrical lovers' quarrels, the stripping and interrogation of an unfortunate guard captain (RIP Blinton's dignity), and a desperate escape that left [[Cheeto]] at 3HP. [[Garthen Daela|The professor]] dropped some major lore about [[Arthemis d'Cannith]], the [[Order of the Emerald Claw]] wants the schema _real bad_, and the party now has 75gp reasons each to go get it back. Session ended with a talking rat delivering a cryptic message from and the crew rolling up to the [[The Drunken Dragon]] for what will surely be a normal, uneventful conversation with [[Lhara]]. ^session-summary ## Session Log ### Reunited and it feels so (ballista-filled) [[Cyran Forge-Acolyte Unit 10-D|Tendy]] and [[Kouneli]] are somewhere in the sky looking for the rest of the party, hovering around clueless while [[Cheeto]] spots them from the ground and conjures a big-ass yellow flag with minor illusion. - [[Kouneli]] stares at the flag for an _extremely long time_ (as one does when concussed) while [[Cyran Forge-Acolyte Unit 10-D|Tendy]] tries to figure out if this counts as a predetermined signal - They start descending toward the mystery flag and a ballista bolt _immediately_ screams through where they were hovering moments before - Everyone reunites behind a tower in the [[Azure]] ward, where the [[Order of the Emerald Claw]] warehouse sits with approximately 25 dudes inside and four ballistas on the roof ### The world's worst fight club The party hatches an elaborate plan involving [[Boldran Evans|Boldran]] and [[Brian d'Orien|Brian]] pretending to have a lover's quarrel to lure out a guard. It goes about as well as you'd expect. - [[Brian d'Orien|Brian]] theatrically yells "I LOVED HER, MAN, I LOVED HER" and [[Boldran Evans|Boldran]] gives him the old Pratt fall treatment - A guard (Captain Blinton, RIP) comes around mid-piss and _sort of_ sees through the ruse when he notices six armed people plus sky rafts skulking behind a tower - As they shadow box he tosses a blade between them saying "we don't do that kind of fighting around here" which is honestly pretty reasonable - [[Boldran Evans|Boldran]] judo-throws [[Brian d'Orien|Brian]] into the guard (17 acrobatics, _chef's kiss_), [[Cyran Forge-Acolyte Unit 10-D|Tendy]] chokes him out, and [[Cheeto]] just starts _pummeling_ this poor bastard ### Captain Blinton loses his dignity _and_ his pants The party immediately strips the unconscious guard without really discussing a plan at all (and that's not weird). - [[Styx]] starts looting his body for "treasures in his cod piece" - [[Brian d'Orien|Brian]] is "going for the pants, probably" - [[Styx]] puts on Blinton's clothes to impersonate him (but can only mimic faces, not clothing, so it's half-assed at best) - [[Cheeto]] parkours off a wall, uses [[Cyran Forge-Acolyte Unit 10-D|Tendy]]'s shoulder as a springboard, and slams his dick into the back of [[Cyran Forge-Acolyte Unit 10-D|Tendy]]'s metal head in what might be the most embarrassing failed acrobatics check ever ### The great [[Skyway]] escape After the scrap with multiple [[Order of the Emerald Claw|Emerald Claw]] agents, the party grabs naked-unconscious-Blinton and books it through the sky back to the professor's house. - The party covers Blinton in a wizard robe and flies back to [[Crystal Bridges]] where [[Professor Garthen Daela]] is convalescing with a hole in him - [[House Deneith|Sharn Watch]] is _right there_ at the professor's house but the butler vouches for the group (probably regretting this decision) ### Blinton spills _everything_ After waking Blinton up with the ol' bucket-of-water-and-slap combo, the interrogation begins. [[Boldran Evans|Boldran]] and [[Cyran Forge-Acolyte Unit 10-D|Tendy]] play good-cop-metal-cop while [[Brian d'Orien|Brian]] threatens to stab "fun parts." - Blinton rattles off every secret treasure location he can think of (none of it interesting) - Reveals the warehouse usually has 25 guards but it's "pretty dead right now" (great intel for once they murdered their way in) - Drops the name **[[Arthemis d'Cannith]]** as the person running the whole operation - [[Professor Garthen Daela|The professor]] goes _dark_ at the mention of [[Arthemis d'Cannith|Arthemis]]—apparently this dude was a "rising star of [[House Cannith]]," now pariah, excoriated and generally Bad News™ ### "There is no failure in this task" [[Garthen Daela|The professor]] gets serious and contracts the party for 75gp to retrieve the schema, with the understanding that failure is not an option. - The professor explains [[Arthemis d'Cannith|Arthemis]] is excoriated for a _reason_ and cannot be allowed to have the schema - [[Boldran Evans|Boldran]] declares "there is no force on the land as mighty as we" (citation needed) - Party hands Blinton over to [[Sharn Watch]] and prepares to head back to the [[The Drunken Dragon]] ### A rat with a message As the party makes their way to the [[The Drunken Dragon]], [[Styx]] notices a rat standing up on two legs and delivering a message regarding [[Chandra Thane]] (the bookie from the bridge). - The rat does the whole "your aid of [[Chandra Thane]] was much appreciated" speech - Offers that if they need a favor from "her new family," just whisper into the wind - Everyone has a brief existential crisis about the talking rat - [[Boldran Evans|Boldran]]: "I have not drank today, I swear"