The Blood Pitt
- Pitt with 2 T's
- fighting ring in Cabernet
- 3 story tavern
- rowdy and excited atmosphere
- no armor, no magic, no weapons
- 10 gold entry fee
- pick up fight is 25-50 gold
- holds tournaments
- the bouncer recognized Ophelia Von Carstein and waved the entry fee
- Vonarth Strongarm Thunakame is the referee and champion
- was a major holdout during Cabernet Under Siege
- Elamshin is down the street with pillars of flame erupting around her, accompanied by a tiefling seamstress (Tolarus)
- Vonarth Strongarm Thunakame and Elthoon are also fighting
- Killian Von Carstein is present and complaining about getting dirty, even as he's doing a poor job at staying clean
- Mavros Dominis is half-dressed in armor at the barricade
- Ophelia flies over to her brother to get past the hoard
- Gregor Sonbeinn and Astell instruct Skitter to make a distraction - Skitter makes himself very large, swallows one of the corrupted myconids, and swipes at multiple more - our allies are sort of freaked out by Skitter
- Mavros attempts to slap Ophelia and slices his hand open on her scythe before fainting in her arms
- he briefly comes to upon hearing Skitter's screaming before passing back out upon seeing Skitter
- Killian blames Ophelia for Mavros passing out and opening his hand on her scythe after he did his best to keep him safe
- bro central - everyday workers and nobles are all hunkered down together during the siege
- Elamshin is putting on a show of air for Tolarus and doesn't want to leave her
- the plan is to get everyone to the Red Keep
- people are passing out from exhaustion, making improv weapons, gathering resilience, but are desperate
- civilians are weary of the Crimson Knights of Akasha that have been summoned
- they WILL DIE if they stay here
- Ophelia asks Tolarus to stitch up Mavros's hand, then pours some ale over him to try and wake him up (it does not work)
- Killian sizes up Gregor
- Ophelia tells her husband not to murder Gregor
- the blood people help The Party gather Threshian Carriages and carts to start loading up civilians to transport them to the Red Keep
- 8 carts, 7 Threshian Carriages. Able-Bodied = 10 people. Not able to walk = 47. Injured but able to move around = 52. Able to walk but not trained combatant = 30. Injured Trained Combatants = 61. Crimson Specters = 60 + commander
- we distribute improvised weapons to the civilians and strengthen the carriages
- Ophelia gets a Crimson Clerics to heal Mavros
- he wakes up hyperventilating and squabbles with Ophelia
- he recounts what went down at the Dominis Estate
- describes a woman in half servant's clothes and half leather armor came up the stairs, and she looked like the Dominis siblings - maybe Elven with dark skin and yellow, slit-like pupils; maybe from the South
- “When you go to kneel before the gods, tell them Reynash sent you.”
- there was lots of blood in Lucilla Dominis's room before he ran
- Astell has a growing migraine
- Killian tells Ophelia that if it comes down to it that she is to abandon the group and save herself and Mavros
- the skull that Teachtaire gave the party stops screaming when around the black ichor and staring at the dead bodies around the tavern; it clearly hates the Rot
- Astell has a sort of vision
- her eyes are milky white and darting back and forth
- she sees a dark room with a desk candle and a letter in front of her
- Ewen is in Astell's mind
- he and Durazzan are in The Repository beneath the city
- Shiskar is likely watching everything through her eyes
