At breakfast, we already saw a cultist wearing the crescent moon symbol. Sunysyl came through on his promise! However, we were still lacking a good plan on how to proceed.
We decided to take one more day to stake out the cultists: How many are there of the cultists faction? And are the ones who are not, really irredeemable?
The group split up to pursue various duties. Thoredim talked to one cultists during a break, asking if he felt bad sometimes about all the robbing, murdering and pillaging. Nope, the cultists showed no remorse. Thoredim has made up his mind: The cultists need to die.
Same for Fynn: He had the chance to talk to two cultists, one with a crescent moon symbol and one without. The one with the symbol seemed quiet and thoughtful. The other one though, seemed really into it. He told the story about the library of waterdeep, how he discovered a book on dragons there, how he met a cultist recruiter, how they talked all night. “I will be there when Severin puts the masks together and raises Tiamat!”.
Shan had the duty to feed the dragon and decided to just… talk to it. Bored, evil, ancient and old, the dragon was not much interested in exchanging much information though.
Kaiya was looking for Abras Jos and the other wizard in the meantime.
The result of our scouting: There are 21 cultists on the castle, 7 of whom are on our side. The other ones were starting to wonder what happened to the 4 or 5 that we had killed — were we their replacement? Furthermore there are two hill giants on our side. Plus Blagothkus staff. This is a fight we should be able to win!
We did one more check with Sunysyl, whether he would backstab us. She still kinda likes having a flying castle, but she would stay out of our affair if we waited for sunrise, thus giving her an alibi.
We rest one more time.
A new day! Fynn gave a special “holiday” performance, thus getting all 21 cultists in a room. We managed somehow to sort out the seven that have the symbol, after which Blagothkus sealed the room. With that settled for now, Posmet proposed to Blagothkus to take care of the dragon below the castle together…