Episode I: A Reception of Deceit

A Reception of Deceit is the first episode of the Trials of the Forgotten Relics campaign.

Walkthrough

Ed and Elinor arrive in Sagemont by caravan, accompanied by brother Sol, Mother (Ed’s golem), Draella and Gwaindir. Gwaindir and Draella have an argument as to who should hold the Light of Caeth that Draella has stolen from the Wooden Realm. Elinor takes the responsibility for herself to hold it. Draella goes to her home in Sagemont to prepare the ingredients for treating her 2-year-old daughter, while Gwaindir leaves to search for a more rustic area as he is not comfortable within stone walls.

Ed, Elinor, Mother and Sol make their way to the Stonehelm Estate where there is a reception for the wedding of Chloe and Philip where they have been invited. Ed convinces the guards to let Mother in, and Philip welcomes them in. They mingle with the guests.

Dago makes his way to Ebonheart Guildhall to get the paycheck for his most recent job. There, the guild master, Roland, informs him that the guild has had trouble with delivering its contracts due to a new faction emerging in the city that is hampering their agents. Two of the agents seem to have disappeared, probably dead, and the guild master tells Dago be careful and to come back within a day if he wants to investigate the problems. Dago makes its way to the reception as well.

Wintson is in his apartment, studying the tome he found in the library. He receives a courier that gives him a letter from the library and a small gadget. The gadget looks like a spheric Rubik cube and contains symbols and operators that are present in the tome, but it’s missing one tile. After being reminded of the reception by a young boy, he goes to the Stonehelm Estate too.

At the estate the party notices some shady dealing among the mansion servants and tries to investigate. Wintson follows a suspect servant and ends up shooting him twice in the back, but then loses him in the crowd.

Ed and Elinor find some poison vials in a locked cabinet while Dago goes back to the party to see a woman that has been poisoned and is given assistance.

The guards come and escort the party back to the main hall where they notice Chloe is missing. Together with Philip they follow Chloe’s trail upstairs where they are ambushed by several servants.