- Virtual 5k from 2020
- When the Keepers and Nym return to the manor, Miss Emmyth tells Soliana that she has a visitor. She dashes off to clean up after the fight in the forest.
- She Prestigdigitates everyone clean and they all head into the parlor.
- There is an elf in a cream, 3-piece suit. He sounds like a southern gentleman. He is Silvarus Duskrin.
- He is her business partner with Château Mystique. The chief Enchanter is Eldrin Thandor (not present). The winery itself is on the outskirts of Arrandale (mountain side).
- The wine is enchanted as it is fermented and aged. It is supposed to make you feel like you are sitting in a park on a warm summer day. The idea was to cheer people up during the winter, but people are somehow getting frostbite and cold damage instead of the park experience.
- He has a couple of sample bottle of the enchantment gone-wrong for testing.
- He describes what he knows of the enchanting process. It mostly involves magical reagents that infuse during the aging process.
- Niniel agrees to drink some For SCIENCE.
- She smells the wine, which is a rosé color, and it smells crisp and floral. It's a bit thin in the mouth feel.
- They proceed to the laboratory and Tanelia and Soliana prepare to watch the process. Soliana ritually casts Detect Magic
- Niniel drinks about 1.5 oz and after a few minutes she feels cold. Then the feeling fades and she's fine.
- Caleb drinks about the same amount. After a few minutes he starts to shiver, then he takes 4 cold dmg. After another few minutes, his stomach starts to cramp and then he vomits ice slush and takes 5 more cold dmg.
- "A dead customer is not a repeat customer."
- After another few minutes, Caleb starts to feel a weighty oppression in his mind. Kraken bullshit?
- Silvarus also has a bottle or two of a "better" vintage, which Niniel and Caleb are excited to try.
- The better vintage causes their skin to tingle and they can see little color motes flitting about like fireflies in their vision.
- It apparently makes all of your parts tingle delightfully, so this vintage is particularly popular with young lovers.
- Tanelia is able to tell that the reagents are some kind of fresh water (maybe fresh rain water or maybe clear mountain spring water) and some sort of seed. Somehow the water seems to have been used salt water instead, giving cold watery depths.
- It turns out that Caleb Farstar is Caleborn Velathuil Haènenar and his parents are the Lord and Lady Haènenar who helped clear Arrandale of the lingering Drow influence so many years ago.
- Silvarus makes Soliana a bit uncomfortable so she goes to the other side of the room and then casts Grim's (Nathair's) Mischief on the other half of the room making minuscule droplets of molasses hover in the room making it obscured and sticky.
- She is found out almost immediately.
- At some point Soliana uses Alter Self to show Silvarus what she used to look like.
- Niniel and Silvarus come to an agreement to send the cold wine to Revelora via Port Carling and have Viceroy Laroth pay for it.
- Soliana does a Sending to the Viceroy to let her know the Emissary has arranged the purchase of enchanted wine with a cold affect to be forwarded to Revelora (cash on delivery).
- Silvarus and Soliana go out to speak to Ellie as there may be another harvest of grapes this year due to magical shenangians.
- Silvarus then gives Soliana her share of the last season's profits (2,000 GP).
- Soliana gets Ellie to harvest as much as possible of a short list of plants with latent magical properties (96 GP worth).
- Soliana stores her newfound riches in her Vault of Amber (spell).
- Soliana takes some (most) of her new components to learn Absorb Elements, Protection from Good and Evil, Snare, and Sudden Awakening.
- Caleb gets a Sending from Sir Foxglove, "Next time your group is in the area, I have some insights that I'd like to share. Also, the navy from Rhoanor has come to blockade the city."
- Niniel finally gets the circle right for Find Familiar, but the cat comes out with six eyes, squid tentacles (plural) for a tail, and a squid beak at the back of its cat mouth.
- A long rest is had.
- 2,000 XP ea for 55,200 XP total ea.
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