Cas casts command on the goblin girl running with the mask and forces her to stop.
Her name is Rhazala. She’s seven which is late teens in goblin years.
After Taarkhan grapples her, the party interrogates her (mostly asking her name repeatedly) and she explains she is being paid by a “bad smelling man” to look out for people asking about the mask.
Taarkhan offers alternative employment looking out for a few issues worrying him, while Pallas intimidates her with a crossbow and Cas tries to get her to reveal PII which makes Rhazala worry about identity theft.
She agrees to Taarkhan’s terms, and reveals the smelly cultist is at The Silvermist Theater.
The party go to the theater with Cas entering disguised as Rhazala. The party discuss code words Cas can say, with Coravash offending Pallas with some bird calls.
Once inside Cas/Rhazala see a cultist start a ritual over the unconsciousDrevan, she screams the code word and the party barges in slaying the cultists in a brutal battle.
When the leader, a warforged named Echo, falls a silver metal sphere erupts from his chest and streaks toward the door. His voice booms throughout the theater: “THE SHAPER OF NIGHTMARES WILL ENSURE MY RETURN AND I WILL HAVE MY VENGEANCE IN YOUR PAIN!”
Barbara apologizes to all the dead bodies, revealing her unexpected lack of prejudice against warforged.
When Drevan is healed, he explains that he heard the cultists discussing that his wife, Nora, paid to have him murdered. A recovered note confirms a thousand galifar contract.
Coravash apologies to Pallas for her racist, anti-Kenku bird calls.
After some legal advice from Pallas, Drevan’s frantic Sending to his banker unveils further betrayal: Nora has already emptied their vault of a mysterious golden book covered in indecipherable script, all their gold, and their shares in Aminat Materials