The Session in Which Dan Visits the Fetchling House

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 ## Other Notes
 
+- MY BOYYYYY!
+
 ## Upcoming Events
 

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+title: The Beasts in the East, Session 3
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+
+## Current Objectives
+- Proceed to the Far Territories, and reclaim Fort Rather
+
+## Events
+- The party, re-gathered in their room in Castle Ganth, are gathered and ready
+  to pursue their next objectives: asking the Count the questions from Syrup,
+  and then move north is search of the scouts!
+    - Syrup asks us to ask the Count for permission to move and camp closer and
+      to resupply, to find the missing scouts, and to gather any intel on Fort
+      Rather.
+        - Some nuance about the camp: Syrup is happy to camp nearby, outside the
+          city, or even in the city. Camping nearby has the least risk, but also
+          the least opportunity for aiding the city. Closer, and even within the
+          city, gives much greater opportunity to help out the city, but also
+          greater risk of trouble. Camping in town could even let us control the
+          city, through martial low, if necessary (though this is likely
+          unwanted).
+
+- We speak with Kaldur's fetchling in the city, trying to gather information
+  from Fort Rather. He seems surprised to see us, and welcomes us in. The party
+  generally doesn't catch this, except for Stackor. We ask some questions:
+    - Who's in charge? To his knowledge, it's still Van der Mere
+    - How many soliders are in the fort? A skeleton crew, as most men were taken
+      away with Van der Mere to fight a second invasion from the Horde
+    - How many total soldiers does Van der Mere have? 2000
+    - He notes there are some loyalists still, among the troops.
+    - We ask again about any details of the firebombomb and assassination
+      attempts. He shares that rumors are it was the populists.
+
+- We leave, and head to speak with Captain Ilio. We ask him about any ongoing
+  troubles, and whom to speak with about camping and resupplying.
+    - We move into the guard house to speak in private. We inform Ilio about our
+      true(r) intentions with Fort Rather, and gain a bit more of his trust with
+      regards to camping and resupplying. He offers to speak with the Count on
+      our behalf, and will notify us of his response.
+    - We ask if there's anything we can do in the mean time. He mentions looking
+      into the Count's assassination attempts would be the greatest help.
+
+- We head to the market.
+    - We first ask if there's an alchemist in town - there is not. We learn that
+      there are several alchemical items sold by several merchants in town,
+      supplied by Fort Rather.
+
+- We head back to the fetchling's house, asking him about an underground/black
+  market. We inquire specifically about the alchemists' fire and gunpowder,
+  which the fetchling is quick to answer it didn't come through the black
+  market. His suspicion is that either an alchemist is in charge, or an
+  alchemist is on the team behind the assassination. We conclude it does _not_
+  sound like a populist plot.
+
+- We head to and investigate the Chapel of Abadar. We get the key from Randy. We
+  detect no indications of wrong-doing.
+
+- We decide to head back to the Fort, for the paladins to heal more of the
+  wounded. On the way, the fetchling makes himself known to some of us, and
+  leaves a note behind. It is a bill of sale for a large shipment of alchemical
+  glassware to the Hawkman estate, from a source in Fort Rather.
+    - We continue to the keep. The captain meets us at the moat, and presents to
+      us papers permitting us to camp and quarter at the Hawkman estate. The
+      documents give explicit permissions to quarter in basically all the
+      buildings.
+    - The paladins get to their healing; Stackor _teleports_ back to Syrup and
+      updates him. Smokey tells people to stand aside.
+        - Stackor provides full updates on all goings on, including details
+          about the fetchling (and his potential memory problems), the
+          potentially forged bill-of-sale, and the information we gathered about
+          Fort Rather.
+        - Syrup takes the bill of sale, and will follow-up on it
+        - Syrup doesn't trust the fetchling
+
+- Stackor _teleports_ back to the party, and updates us on his meeting. Our next
+  objective is moving north, after the missing scouts. We finish up and head
+  north.
+
+- Leaving out the eastern wall, we come across the fetchling again. We talk
+  about things.
+    - The fetchling mentions to Stackor that runic magic can be twisted. This is
+      apparently directly related to the resurrection of Cayden Calien,
+      happening tomorrow.
+
+- Next week, we witness the return of a god! Hopefully...
+
+## Player Characters
+- Sir Beet, a human paladin of Iomedae (Thans)
+- Sir Tern Ipswitch, a human paladin of Ragathiel (Bill)
+- Jen Erica von Illamage, a human wizard (Mike)
+- Burren "Smokey" Blunt, aka Bat-Man, but in the bat language, so like a bunch of "eee eee" and stuff (Dan)
+- Stackor, a dwarven wizard (James)
+
+## Locations
+- Ganth
+
+## NPCs and Notable Characters
+- Colonel Syrup, commander of the Altasian forces
+- Ignatious "Geo" Joe, an oread shaman
+- Brother Gabro, an oread monk
+- Randy Magogum, a fine man, worshipper of Abadar
+- Captain Ilio, captain of the guard of Ganth
+- A (or many) fetchling(s) in service to Kaldur Black, named "Thalactos" by Sir
+  Beet
+
+## Other Notes
+
+- The fetchling offered to help Stackor be in two places at once. It would make
+  sense if the fetchling was _also_ doing this, and would explain why they
+  didn't remember things.
+
+## Upcoming Events
+