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Session 35 - Kaja Stewart
Session 35
Knowing, however, that Malthusius was due to meet with Cippiano, meant that I could allow all the other leads to wither frustratingly on the vine, only for Cippiano to come to the rescue (and further indebt the party). The fey pepper bribe was also gratefully received now that Uru is fully addicted. (In game terms he's lost a healng surge but can gain a surge's worth of THP once per day as long as he has access to the drug. If he runs out, he can gain no benefit and takes a -1 to all d20 rolls.)
Session 35
- Following the Incident, the unit reported back to Stover Delft, who told them to investigate the summoned creatures
- They got their first look at Viscount Nigel Price-Hill, in the company of Lady Margaret Saxby
- Battalion eldritch expert Colonel Sebastian Harlock requested that Leon put the corpses of the summoned creatures on ice and ship them to the training school
- Both Rumdoom and Korrigan were able to shrug off an affliction that bore a close resemblance to that spoken of by Krazy Krauss: Distant Madness
- Concerned to get more info about distant madness, the unit recruited Karl Krauss once again. Krauss was concerned when he heard reports of the strange tentacled creatures the staff had unleashed. Such beings had haunted his dreams lately, and he had begun to think the Deep Ones greatly feared them. (Matunaaga, too, had seen similar beings - demons - worked in stone frescoes in the temples of his homeland.)
- Following up the theft of the Macbannin amulet, the unit learned that it had been stolen from a man in distinctive clothing. (Gold bow tie, checked trousers, purple velvet jacket.)
- In tracking down the vendor of the staff, the unit learned that Simon Langfield's friend (who had arranged the sale) dressed in this way.
- They tracked this Isaac Randall fellow down. He had been a lab assistant in Macbannin's Witchoil Laboratory and now made a living selling everything he had purloined as he fled.
- The terrified Randall freely gave up the name of the woman he had dealt with - another ex assistant of Macbannin's named Kaja Stewart. She was now working as a fence, and it was she who had sold the Staff of the Ancients to Langfield. But Randall did not know how to track her down.
- Fortunately, someone else did. Malthusius finally had his meeting with Morgan Cippiano. The Family man traded the release of his nephew Bendick (and an agreement to turn a blind eye to his fey pepper shipments) for a month's supply of fey pepper, and details of how to track down 'a fence who is working with Lorcan Kell and has a construct powered by black oil' through the Trinket Stand at the arms fair.
- Using Cippiano's info, the unit arranged a meeting with Kaja at the Lanternwood Subrail Station
- Kaja was waiting for them in more ways than one. She feared a double-cross, and a fight broke out. Kaja had the ability to summon firearms from a pocket dimension. She cut the unit down with suppresive fire, while her automated minions - and two Kell Guild goons - waded into the fray alongside her bleak golem bodyguard.
- In the end, however, the unit won through and arrested Kaja. They found two more ancient artefacts (along with other contraband) in the chest compartment of the golem.
- Back at RHC HQ, Kaja was eventually brow-beaten into a confession: she was now working with Lorcan Kell to find out who Macbannin was working for.
- She stole the artifacts as she fled the lab. They were brought there by a tiefling. Beyond that, Kaja knew no more about them.
- She did remember that Macbannin was annoyed by the tiefling's presence, and described it as 'a breach of protocol'.
- They left Kaja to sweat in the cells.
- The following morning, a letter arrived from Lorcan Kell's lawyers, accusing the unit of harrassing both him and his 'business partner' Ms Stewart...
Knowing, however, that Malthusius was due to meet with Cippiano, meant that I could allow all the other leads to wither frustratingly on the vine, only for Cippiano to come to the rescue (and further indebt the party). The fey pepper bribe was also gratefully received now that Uru is fully addicted. (In game terms he's lost a healng surge but can gain a surge's worth of THP once per day as long as he has access to the drug. If he runs out, he can gain no benefit and takes a -1 to all d20 rolls.)
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