We finally arrive in Sharn with the body of the Lord of Blades. We (rolled a 20) are greeted by exuberant pomp and excitement upon our return to the city. Women cried, children yelled, bards followed us through the city singing of our heroics. Cas and Rick especially revel in the celebration.
We settle affairs with House Caneth. Merrix d'Caneth meets with us personally. He takes the Lord of Blades away to a secret chamber (for safe keeping, of course) and rewards us grandly. Constance stays in with House Caneth, while everyone else explores.
Next we had to find a way to turn Ki back from stone. Our first choice was to find someone we knew: Sampson. We find out that he will be arriving back in the city shortly after us, so we wait a day for him. Everyone else sets out to spend their money. That night, Constance holds a large party to celebrate. Our party is all there, and we find that Sam and Dean have returned to the city. Dean makes an awkward advance on Cas. The next day, Sam breaks the enchantment on Ki. There seems to be something strange between them. Cas notes that there is something weird about Sam that she doesn't like.
Ki continues to draw from the Deck of Transformations that night, having learned nothing from her previous attempt. At our inn, she almost kills us all by drawing horrid wilting, but the sponge (that we found on the bugbear) turns out to be an artifact portal to the water plain, and saves everyone.
But what next? We had just defeated the Lord of Blades. Sam and Dean seemed like they could have some adventuring for us, so we followed them back out of the city. According to them, there are several seals starting to crumble to the North of the city. Toward the Demon Wastes.
The Deck of Transformations is causing havoc in our group. Ki is transformed into a kobald. It's pretty funny, and Cas makes her stay like that for a day, withholding the deck. Serves her right, messing with something so dangerous.
As they make camp one night, Cas leaves the group to talk to the brothers. She tells them she needs to tell them something in private. They exchange a look, and Dean goes off with her, away from camp. She doesn't notice their shared glance, she's not so great at understanding people. She tells Dean that if this fight gets difficult, she doesn't want to have to hold back to save anyone. But she knows their mission is to kill unnatural things, and she doesn't want them to kill her. "I'm not really human," she tells him. Dean is taken aback, "you're not another changeling, are you?" Cas doesn't know what he means, "What? No. I have wings." Dean is still confused, so Cas frees a corner of her wings from her cloak. "Oh."
While Cas is away, Rick sneaks into her pack and steals the Deck of Transformations. He is a tiny crystal and is able to slip off into the woods with it. He draws and is changed into a Hobgoblin. This is terrible. He has very little health, he also thinks he is a hero, and he can telepathically speak to us. Now he's going to be able to charge into battle whenever he wants. He flops around for a few minutes, yelling at us all in our heads. Our group quickly realizes with terror what has happened.
Cas is defeated by this, and allows Ki another draw from the deck. Only if she goes far enough away to not kill them all if something bad is drawn. To everyone's surprise, she draws a changeling. Even though that's what she was before, now everyone knows what she is.
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