Contacts:
Baoyun, Jehan, and Shandon acquire Dame Jessica as a contact. Jessica's ECL 7th (5th + 2 for the vampire template), so counts as a CR 7 creature for XP purposes. You each receive 3,200 XP.
Assuming you survive, she is potentially valuable. Jessica's young and not influential, but she is a practicing surgeon's apprentice in the Varne, and can be pulled for nonjudgmental emergency healing or potion access. She also has a distant if working relationship with Clarissa the Poisoner through her work at the Red Carpet Emporium.
Alcide receives Christine Wittstruck as a contact. Christine is CR 2, and you receive 600 XP. That sounds sad. But, actually, Christine comes from an elven family on her mother's side, her father owns a mill on the Bysmic Vaire, and her extended family is quite important is the Beryl Republic, Carnelian's sister commonweatlh. And Alcide has precisely the sort of family contacts (and literacy) to make maintaining further contacts across international distances practical. So, depending on whether or not you both survive the Abyss and on how things go, we may actually be revisiting the socially adjusted effective challenge rating for Christine.... One fortune point to Alcide for insisting on acquiring her!
Monsters:
Baoyun, Jehan, Shandon, and Jessica share XP for these creatures:
tendril willow: CR 3 for 800 XP
chatterer demon swarm (at half hit points): CR 7 for 3,200 XP
1,000 XP each
Alcide, Baoyun, Jehan, Shandon, and Jessica share XP for these creatures:
chasme demon: CR 7 for 3,200 XP
chasme demon: CR 7 for 3,200 XP
1,280 XP each
Total XP:
Alcide: 1,880 and 1 fortune point
Baoyun: 5,480
Jehan: 5,480
Shandon: 5,480
Please tell me if you've leveled up.
One great thing about the Abyss: the tiny percentage of things which survive in a demonic environment quickly become very, very powerful.
Alice.
Freude, schöner Götterfunken
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
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Was die Mode streng geteilt.
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