Sybil shakes her head while scratching it in annoyance about her train of thought, "It's fine. Prefer to visiting older sites," She heads outside and hops onto their transport. 

Meep as your copy of Tusk love peeks out, Jaina giggles while eyeing it before looking away. 

As the last person is on the wagon, Peeko starts the journey. You make it out of Waterdeep just fine and begin. Someone roll a Perception check. 

Delmalis perception: 8

First day on the road, no encounters. It will take one more day to get to Berdusk, so someone roll another Perception Check

Meep squints in the bright sunlight. Perception: 16

The second day goes without incident. 

If there's anything you all wanted to do roleplaying wise during the two days we can turn back the clock for a moment. It's a relatively peaceful wagon ride. Peeko asks you all questions like 

• - How do you know Vincent Trench?
• - How many people have you killed?
• - What was your greatest adventure?
• - Have you rescued a damsel in distress?
• What's the biggest monster you killed?
• Do you have any family back home?
• Why did you become an adventurer? 

Anyone can answer the questions and we can roleplay accordingly.

Roland does give some insight on his past. He once again mentions that he lived in Waterdeep in a previous life and even got into a fight with Danilo Thann (the Harper ghost you ran into after the Sunblight fight), and at one point was a Harper. 

Jaina says she was in Neverwinter where she was an artist and had some art in a museum owned by a taxbai woman. She has a twin brother and adventurered with a group called The Mighty Nine, who became bodyguards for Madame Troudeaux, a wealthy noble in Neverwinter. After a few of her companions were killed - including their leader Matthew D'Arby, who was revealed to be an oni - She came to Waterdeep to start a new life. 

Delmalis sits quietly in the back of the wagon, trying to decide how to tell who how much about the strange entity that talks to him from time to time.

"I tend not to talk about shop," replies Rotthran, shutting down the conversation. In his experience, talking about the past will get you killed or worse, in a commitment.

Twitch considered all the questions carefully.....for Twitch at least.

• - How do you know Vincent Trench?
• "Who?"
• - How many people have you killed?
• Twitch lost count after ten fingers but insisted they were all ' bad people'.
• - What was your greatest adventure?
• Twitch shrugged. " This one?"
• - Have you rescued a damsel in distress?
• " Whats a damsel? "
• What's the biggest monster you killed?
• " That thing with the fangs and the teeth, in the place."
• Do you have any family back home?
• Twitch looked down and away into the distance.
• Why did you become an adventurer? 
• " I didn't.........did I? Are we adventurers, Meep?"

Hopinmg answering the question would stop them from asking more 

How do you know Vincent Trench? "No,"

How many people have you killed? "A lot" - Sybil will use Awakened Mind to whisper it telepathtically but keeps her face deadpan while transmitting it. 

What was your greatest adventure? "I don't know what you consider an adventure"

 Have you rescued a damsel in distress? "No"

What's the biggest monster you killed? "A crystal dragon"

Do you have any family back home? "Maybe, haven't check in ages,"

Why did you become an adventurer? "I like going into ruins"

"You don't know Vincent, but he asked you to do the mission?" Peeko asked with a raised eyebrow. He goes through the gates of Berdusk and leads you through town. 

You pass by a series of modest homes with small gardens attached in the yard. Most are boarded up and abandoned, but the last house on the left you see a man digging a grave in his garden. Next to the open grave is his dead six year old girl with stab wounds in her chest. The father cries and mutters to himself, “She never called me papa before. Why would she do that? It wasn’t her, right? I had to do it! Please tell me it wasn’t her…"

You continue along and arrive at Mayor Griffith Hawkins’ mansion, a large two story manor with two massive pillars out front. There are no guards and nobody greets you. There is, however, a note attached to the door. “Please meet me in my study, I will be with you shortly.”

Twitch got an overwhelming urge to bury his claws in the wailing mans ribcage but stayed on the cart, vibrating with aggressive energies.

Twitch cocked their head at the note but waited for others to lead the way in as the twitches were not abating.

OOC: Currently Raging.

Meep looks spooked. It's one thing to be a kobold in a major city, but out here in the sticks they can get rather... provincial. 

Delmalis is much happier to get indoors. Despite his initial love of the freedom of open air, he still isn't quite used to all this empty space around and above him and hurries inside.

"I've seen ruins in better shape than this place," Sybil comments before take a moment to take in the entire place before stepping into the manor. 

"What kind of lowlife attacks a child?" asks Rotthran to himself.

Meep hops out of the wagon and hurriedly moves inside, looking for the study. 

Those who go inside 

The mansion is empty and not lit very well, only a few candles here and there. Paintings of the mayor and his family hang on the wall and reveal the mayor is human and has a great big bushy beard. Light creeps out from under the large double doors at the end of the hall, the mayor’s study.

When you enter the mayor’s study, you see that he’s there waiting, standing by the fireplace across the room, staring into the flames.

“I’m very glad you’re here.”

“You’re going to die here.”

“A darkness has plagued this great city of mine.”

“I’m afraid there’s nothing you can do to stop it.”

Twitch looked at Meep and growled back.

" Are you?"

" Nu-uh."

" We noticed."

" Meep is all powerful."

Still Raging.

Delmalis carefully eyes the man, trying to get an idea if he's possessed, crazy, or something else.

Insight: 19