After we finished up with Esclarotta, we left the oval cave and headed straight to Blagothkus halls. Time to talk to the boss himself. The guard ogre at the door let us in as we told him we had information on Blagothkus daughter.
It took some convincing to make Blagothkus believe that we are not of the Dragon Cult and wanted to help him. First, he wanted us to swear that we would save his daughter. After we told him, in all honesty, that we could not possible swear that, he took an oath from Thoredim instead to do everything we can to try and save her, sworn in the name of Torm - and Thoredim’s dead father.
Our alliance secured, we went to the door that led to the navigation room. Kaiya, in a rare display of her abilities, turned into Rezmir, thus activating the door. As we entered the room, we were greeted by the strangest sight. Runes everywhere, floating lights, and a view of the entire surrounding. Blagothkus set a new course, but refused to tell us where to. All we knew at this point is, we were around 10 days from Waterdeep, and about 5 days from the Well of Dragons. This meant we had a maximum of five days until the cultists on the castle would know that something was off.
Sunystyl the Vampire showed up again, confronting Kaiya with her shapeshifting abilities. She said that our Rogue reminded her of someone she knew a couple years back. A female who met her demise back then. And a man who was at her side. Kajya responded “so you knew my father!” Sunystyl replied: “So do you!”, but refused to give any more information until our little adventure here was over.
What to do in our days ahead? A lengthy discussion arose on the morality of using the time to dispose of cultists. Are they all truly evil? What about facing them in combat versus setting traps for them? It is the greater evil to let them live, to continue their evil ways? Fynn especially had second thoughts at the prospect of going on a killing spree in the castle. Eventually, we decided to get the vampires to help us recognize which cultists are on Severins side and whom to spare. The vampire would tell his followers to wear a symbol, a small black crescent moon.
As we eventually took our rest, we prepared for an upcoming day of bloodshed. Thoredim asked Posmet whether he intends to fulfil his sword’s demand for a dragon kill, to which Posmet seemed to ponder a while “Maybe tomorrow…”