Session 46

2026-03-31 20:03

Summary

The others had a party while Ivy stayed away with Rosemary. It got a bit out of hand, and Beet was delivered a still warm heart, which turned out to be torn from Fernetta Thatssabush, maybe with Trazz’tchar, the Shadowblade? A suspicious ginger woman was spotted by a stablehand, and turned into a cloud of bats to fly away. Beet also recognised a childhood friend of her sister Ginger Root who was called Nettle.

Session 46 - 31.3.26

((Attended online while in Paris))

Flashback:
Fin remembers setting out on the adventure

Rohan: "I wanted to hear me say I love you back to me, but it didn't work" about the teams call bouncing

Lady Shamrock Petulance is sighing cleaning up the party.

Fin asks if she needs any help, and takes out the recycling

Kitchen meeting - they can't remember where they have left Fernetta Thatssabush's body

found laid on a stone table in Beet's trophy room

Want to build a murder wall of suspects

maybe Beet's sister Ginger Root because Nettle was there?

Ellywick searches the body of Fernetta Thatssabush - 25

Priscilla Porcelaina has nicked the gold
vodka flask
gold ring - leaf + twig design embossed in

Maybe hold a vigil for Fernetta Thatssabush

1.5 day ride from Aldarfort to Cliffkeep - get Beet to teleport there with us, then ride from there

We will go and meet Nettle with Beet disguised as Gilbert on Ivy's shoulder.

We head to the The Burnt Root to try to meet Nettle

Fin will wait outside - in Ben's Bistro
Beet as Gilbert on Ivy's shoulder
Ellywick comes in to escort Ivy & co

See pigments used in press
Stacks of parchment
Can't see anyone working around

Call - Nettle appears

green hair is combed and down
burn is down the side of the face
saying vigil tomorrow at midday - meet at the fountain in town square
cost - 1 g per poster, expedited today 150g (50 posters for 100g)

Beet recognises Nettle - last time saw her was when the incident happened and she left the cult - Beet set fire to the cult and burnt her face (6 years ago).

Nettle wants gossip from Lords and Ladies

Round corner Fin finds a Halfling in black hoodie, thumbing a cigarette, strawberry blonde. By side of print-works (The Burnt Root) - Obragado

asks if Nettle is a nice employer - quite nice, but long hours
Nettle owns this place
Obragado worked here for 6 months, before was at the bakery before it closed (rats)
Lady Kathryn is running out of money apparently - she had funded the Vegas equivalent in this world run by the refugees from Candlegore Teeth (hasn't yet got returns)

It is a bit strange that she is here, though she has been working here before it was known we were alive.

Nettle liked the cult a lot, and so did Ginger Root.

Team Mayors office - Fin and Beet
Team Printworks - Ivy and Ellywick

1.Team mayors office

Guards dressed in red outside the office
Gonathan - a well mannered guard
Gammy - other guard, sweet and young, a newbie

Had to leave weapons outside, Fin tried to bring great axe in but was busted.

Left - glass balcony that overlooks the city, right, is a blank wall.

Lord Highhelm - incredibly handsome, thin, little brown beard, brown hair and eyes, hungover from the party

gave 300L (actually 20L, Beet misremembered) of Paulderburg peppermead

Black pointed hair Elf also present - some sort of Moon elf (born on archipelago (maybe Maenshar?), form of High Elf) - noble delegate

Beet asked if the constabulary knew about the murder case
- asked to use the archives to find out more about Fernetta Thatssabush
- Quintesha Maverick - apparently will be informed and on the case

Green skinned Elf with hood covering face - Randy Roilshine.

2.Team Printworks

Ivy gets a coffee and pours hip flask
Ellywick gets a chicken sandwich

stealth so aren't seen from across the street
wolves appear at 2pm to distribute the posters - have satchels on their back - maybe Nettle is a druid??
We go into the The Burnt Root
we see the headline for next paper Lady Kathryn files for bankrupcy
other stories - Dwandelheim exports dwindle
Ellywick tells her that Beet is dead:
Nettle - appears shocked
performing, calculating a performance
she KNOWS we are lying (32 on insight)
- must be tracking Beet - because there was a 29 on performance

1.Mayors office team

Archivist Roilshine archivist helps them find info

look into The Burnt Root printworks
look into Fernetta Thatssabush

845-850PU business too old for this one
(currently 853PU)
The Burnt Root - founded by Thalia GladenRoot, 851PU, signed by Lord Highhelm as a new business

Said would send some archivists to help expedite the search for info into the GladenRoot family

sending archivists - (Beet gave names susan petersburgh, and widows peak because didn't know). Actually sending:
Lily Lace Studykind Harang
The Archivist

Fernetta Thatssabush as called Dockward residence, married (then divorced), priestess, married to Clamarind Thatssabush, maiden name Gorgiana, ex husband died at sea (husband)

lived in Blackwater, was a citizen there
mother is alive - Bernadette Gorgianna
Archivist Roilshine gives a leaflet for Church of the Great Black Blanket to help council after a death

We all meet again and Ivy telepathically tells Fin and Beet the situation with Nettle.

Ellywick activates the whisper stone, to produce white noise to block our discussions when we speak quietly.

Most powerful spell - astral projection, from tower in the city proper. Not sure about much more.

Leave instructions with Lady Shamrock Petulance - police/guards to take the body, instructions about where the body should go.

We go to bed then make our way to the vigil

Ellywick goes in disguise
20 people turn up
Mourner who knows her crying in the service, from Blackwater (roommate)- auben (brown red) hair, Human with a thick monobrow, at temple

Beet sets up a circle to share experiences with Fernetta Thatssabush:

Human roomate, Fernetta Thatssabush is in AA
Beet straight up lies about a proper friendship
Dwarf thick braids, was in AA together

Suspicious ginger lady - similar height to Beet wearing strappy heels - in vigil

says Fernetta Thatssabush was her apprentice
Beet has never seen her
Tortellini by name
met her in the summer of her life - ~30 years ago
apparently Fernetta Thatssabush struggled with her addiction, wasn't aware of any enemies

A robin stands on a bench nearby and hovers watching(?) for a bit.

Ticking sound from the bag of holding - super super quiet

brass cylinder from Nettle
Runes on the brass cylinder - Fin tries to read "watch... listen...hear"
One way enchantment - listening in on us?
Ellywick investigates - has hinge, may be able to open with thieve's tools - piece of paper inside Elf ear made of (?) - bark/wood growing around ear - pulsing - cult family magic

Beet: "Hello Nettle you sneaky bitch!" then breaks it

Summary

We tried to track down the murderer of Fernetta Thatssabush, and decided to hold a vigil for her, to scope out people in her life. We investigated Nettle who Beet recognised as a friend of her sister Ginger Root, and probably is still part of the cult. She has a burnt face from when Beet set the cult on fire when she left. We ended up faking Beet's death (only to Nettle) and despite and incredibly convincing fakery (rolled 29) from Ellywick, she didn't believe us - she has been spying! At the vigil found the gift from her contained a listening device, which Beet destroyed.