Clear the Party’s Names
Status: 🟢 Active — reputation / mystery
Objective
Clear the party for the killing of Throbbin Mistwillow.
Leads
- The arrow shaft bore an algiz rune — “of the Symposium.” Throbbin was shot through a window, through the neck.
- Balm Bitdoom invoked the Symposium before vanishing: “the Symposium is always watching.”
- Wanted posters across Baldur’s Gate name the party as Throbbin’s murderers (Session 11).
- Throbbin’s butler, Mr. Stephens, wore an algiz-rune marking necklace matching the murder arrow — a physical thread to pull.
- The Baldurian Guard arrived within seconds of the murder, as if forewarned.
Progress
- Session 11: Vesper Ralk, Throbbin’s former lover, confronted the party, then accepted they were framed and became the first witness pointing at the Symposium.
- Isilrod’s “Fake Ass Bards” baited the room with the word “Symposium”; Eoin Cooper, Vesper, and Gus Galloway all reacted — suspects worth watching.
- Session 12 ended Vesper’s role as a living witness: an entity possessing her controlled people and creatures throughout Old Tin Top’s. Vesper was killed, but the entity escaped as black fog. Jacques LaFleur indicated that he knows where it went.