The Session where Dan Stabs a Tree

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+title: Gadafthree's Company, Episode 2
+---
+
+## Current Objectives
+- Disrupt Calcifer's Orc Forces
+    1. Obtain identifying objects from two chiefs of rival orcish tribes.
+        - Sub-Chief Ury
+        - Sub-Chief Dury
+    2. Murder the leader of several orc tribes, Kunite the Strange
+    3. Plant the objects.
+    - Ensure no witnesses
+    - Use Kaldur's Murder-Shroud to incinerate the leader's body, so it cannot
+      be regenerated.
+
+## Events
+- We traveled to a tower and found some mean dudes. COMBAT!! After a grueling
+  combat, we succeed! We rest for the evening.
+
+- The next day, we discuss our next steps.
+    - Kaldur can move the group(s) from the Shadow Plane to the Material Plane
+      with perfect precision, but it will be a one-way trip.
+    - Kaldur has an inside man in one of the sub-chief's camp, who will be
+      planting beacons (magical lights which can only be seen from the Shadow
+      Plane) to provide targets
+    - Kaldur has a way to view the Material Plane from the Shadow Plane, in
+      order to gather intel.
+
+- Our plan:
+    - 2 teams, all invisible, some disguised as orcs if desired, steal the
+      items, and converge on the chief's tent for murder
+
+- We travel to the camp location, in a valley between some hills. We see two
+  glowing balls (the beacons).
+    - At the first beacon is Ury, sleeping alone. There are two orcs standing
+      guard outside, clearly corrupted by an abyssal bloodline of a sort. There
+      are many other orcs sleeping nearby.
+    - At the second beacon is our assassination target, Kunite the Strange,
+      sleeping in a ring of trees outside. The treant is there, too.
+    - The last sub-chief camp is unknown.
+
+- We adjust our plan:
+    - Steal 1 item, plant it at the murder scene. Act fast, stay unseen.
+
+- We enact our plan!
+    - Gadafthree and Duke transport into Ury's tent from the Shadow Plane.
+        - Boss Dukes sees some solid targets: a pair of decorative bracers, and
+          a javelin. As he nabs the bracers, a small orcish voice calls out for
+          him to put them down. Gadafthree clumsily finds his _dimension door_
+          target through the tent wall.
+        - As Boss Dukes moves back towards Gadafthree, a quasit dressed in robes
+          with a small crown throws a tiny knife at him. Boss gets to
+          Gadafthree, and the two _dimension door_ away.
+    - Wondermitch, OJ, Twistfuck, and Kaldur transport into the tree ring around
+      Kunite.
+        - OJ performs a coup de grace on Kunite, slicing off his scalp in a
+          single strike.
+        - Kaldur and Twistfuck assault the treant, and Wondermitch hits it with
+          a _magic missile_
+        - Gadafthree and Dukes pop up
+        - OJ joins in the fray againt the trees, and Kaldur finishes it off
+        - Kaldur moves to Kunite
+        - Twistfuck _shadow walks_ back to Castle Black.
+        - Duke plants the evidence.
+        - Kaldur incinerates Kunite's body using the shroud.
+        - Wondermitch _shadow walks_ himself, Duke, OJ, and Gadafthree back to
+          Castle Black.
+
+- The party, plus Kaldur, reunite at Castle Black.
+
+## Player Characters
+- Gadafthree, a mythic tengu summoner, bearer of the mantle of the caller of the
+  deep (Bill)
+- Wondermitch, a mythic human sorcerer, bearer of the mantle of the star-born
+  (Thans)
+- Sir Oliver Withatwist, a mythic fetchling warpriest, bearer of the mantle of
+  the velvet blade (Dan)
+- Duke "Boss" Dukes, a water fae rake (Mike)
+- O'Shea Jackson, a Winter Court fae swashbuckler-thug (James)
+
+## Locations
+- Baron Black's Castle
+
+## NPCs and Notable Characters
+- Baron Kaldur Black, a mythic fae arcane trickster, bearer of a mantle of
+  heroes
+
+## Other Notes
+
+## Upcoming Events