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<blockquote data-quote="squirmonke" data-source="post: 8166750" data-attributes="member: 7025916"><p>I'm back! We're approaching the end of Adventure Two, and I've got some time, so I thought I'd write about how Adventure 2 has gone for us so far!</p><p></p><p>Party starts with a very thorough investigation of the Danoran Consulate, and comes away with lots of leads and Raven interrogates the body, where the party is troubled to learn that Ms Hume was killed by "A monster black as night with a horribly disfigured face".</p><p></p><p>Gai hears the voice of his patron for the first time in a long time "One lies dead in a place that suits her ill. Take her hence with you when you go. Cast her into Parity Lake and she shall rot. Return her to her leader and she shall be grieved. Either and I shall be satisfied" He takes the body and stows it on the party's boat, then forgets about it and it begins to decay.</p><p></p><p>Party takes an immediate interest in the Doctor's involvement (especially Raven, who has history with him). They track him to the House of Blue Birds and into Kells territory, where the trail goes cold. They put out the word to their contacts that they're looking for him.</p><p></p><p>They visit Thinking Mans Tavern, and get themselves kicked out after Gai handcuffs Hennet and drags him into an alley for a beating, rather than play his game. Raven returns in disguise, only to get kicked out again by continuing to provide Barb with the gory details of Nilasa's death. Martin sneaks back in as a spider to listen in on the conversations, but ultimately doesn't learn much.</p><p></p><p>They get access to Nilasa's file, and don't seem interested in running down her criminal contacts, but do seem interested in visiting Heward Sechim. They speak to him, and make plans to visit Nevard in the Cloudwood the next day.</p><p></p><p>The next morning word has reached Kell that they're after the Doctor. He sends someone to meet them at RHC and extend an invitation. When they realize that the invitation is into the heart of Kell's territory, they try to negotiate for a more neutral meeting place. Kell's guy doesn't go for it, and the party decides not to attend.</p><p></p><p>The party heads for the Cloudwood, breaks up the fight with Renard Woodman, stops the carriage from tumbling over the cliff and then, after a fair bit of debate, Neph convinces the party to arrest everyone involved and bring them back to the police in the city proper.</p><p></p><p>They meet Nevard, and agree to take him up cauldron hill that very night. They visit Mayor MacBannin to get permission to do so, and outside they meet the courier Doru. Gai is impressed with Doru's civic-mindedness and encourages him to apply for a civilian administrator position at the RHC (lol).</p><p></p><p>Most of the party agrees to participate in the Bonds of Forced Faith. They do battle atop cauldron hill, which goes mostly as you'd expect. They're frustrated at the attack by the shadowy monster, but unable to do much about it.</p><p></p><p>They successfully stop the arson, but aren't able to capture the arsonists.</p><p></p><p>Delft tells them that they've received a request from Heward Sechim wondering why he hasn't received Nilasa's body yet. Gai says he's on it (and then forgets again). The party discusses with Delft the possibility of visiting Kell and going after the Doctor. Delft agrees that it's risky, but also notes that Kell doesn't have much incentive to try to randomly draw a few RHC investigators into a lethal trap. They decide to pay him a visit.</p><p></p><p>Gale's canary arrives, and they set the meeting with Gale for the next morning, fully intending to attempt to arrest her during it. </p><p></p><p>The party meets Kell (and falls for his little prank!), and agrees to stop the smuggling, though Gai insists on seeing the Doctor in good health first. This takes up much of the day, as the rest of the party awaits his return. Kell arranges for Gai to be bound and blindfolded and brought to the church, see the doctor, and be brought back.</p><p></p><p>The party starts looking for the smugglers, and starts by running down the Doctor's contacts. Raven connects with Lynn Kindleton when she mentions she was a patient of the Doctor's in her youth (we had a fun moment where Prof. Kindleton takes out a biology textbook, points to a picture and goes "Wait, this is YOUR heart?"). Lynn shares the letters she received from the Doctor with them, which while informative don't lead to the smugglers.</p><p></p><p>The party spends a lot of time running down bad leads and chasing incorrect conclusions that day, but ultimately remembers that they never ran down Nilasa's criminal contacts. They agree to let her accomplices out of the estuarial reformatory in exchange for their information. They learn the name "Hosue Elf" and that the family wharf is in pine island.</p><p></p><p>Gai is reminded again about Nilasa's body, and fearing that Gale wont' want to receive it in its current state, decides to dump it in the lake. But he needs most of the party to help him sail the ship, so he comes clean to them. Some of the party are okay with what he's planning, but Neph and Tim object. Eventually, Gai convinces everyone but Neph to help him discard the body, and they all hear the troubling phrase "rot begets rot" as the body bubbles into the darkness.</p><p></p><p>They meet with Gale, and quickly recognize they have no hope of apprehending her, so don't try. They hear her theory and receive the ritual and the messenger wind.</p><p></p><p>Mistakenly believing that the shadowy figure and the Family are closely related, Martin searches all up and down the coast of pine island with Detect Planar Energies, to no avail. One of Tim's contacts knows where they can find the House elf, and they make it to his studio just half an hour before he's planning to leave for the Wharf.</p><p></p><p>The party sends Raven in alone, pretending to be his biggest fan. She convinces him to let her audition to be his assistant. This scene was HILARIOUS. A favorite exchange of mine was:</p><p>"You need an assistant and who better than me?"</p><p>"Hm... I don't think my wife would like that very much"</p><p>"Oh, your wife has nothing to worry about, I'm actually a man dressed like a woman! ... I got a 23 on my deception roll"</p><p>Raven uses an ability of hers to sneak a charm into her audition performance, and the House Elf fails his save, making him HER biggest fan for the next several hours. He offers her the assistant position, but says he really has to go now, he has some business to do. Raven asks to come with. He says sure, but we have to go convince my wife. Dansica is obviously extremely suspicious about this, and eventually tricks Raven into the Dreaming Dust trap in her lab. Raven loses her memory, and uses the messenger wind to call for help. Dansica manipulates Blander into leaving Raven behind, but the party arrives in time to follow the two to the meeting. Rather than try to recover the wands, they just take out and arrest everyone at the wharf.</p><p></p><p>The next morning they receive invites from and visit Morgan Cippiano, who says he'll help them out with something in exchange for his guys being released. He suggests that perhaps the arsonists would be a fair offer in exchange. This sparks a long debate among the party, Gai thinks they should take the deal, Martin is very opposed, saying we don't know how dangerous it is for Morgan to get his thugs back, and Rick arguing that if they can get Morgan to offer something that contributes sufficiently to the greater good, it doesn't matter how dangerous the thugs are. Ultimately, the party agreed with Rick, and declined Morgan's offer, but asked to leave it on the table in case they thought of something they wanted more than the arsonists. Morgan agreed, but warned that the deal expired if any of his men went to trial.</p><p></p><p>The party heads to Dawn Square to hear Nevard's vision, and receives word of strange goings on in the area. Martin tracks it down with Detect Planar Energies, and they follow it to the warehouse. The Golem gives them a lot of trouble, but they're mostly able to bypass it, and get to keep much of the evidence.</p><p></p><p>They rush back to Dawn Square and save the skyseer, and receive his visions. Then they meet up with Kell, and go to the Church to find the Doctor.</p><p></p><p>When they arrive, the shadowy figure attacks again! Raven dies in this fight, but she's able to be brought back by Tim's eschatologist power which lets him bring back someone who's been dead less than one round.</p><p></p><p>And that's where we are now, discussing Leone Quital's ultimatim!</p><p></p><p></p><p>Here's the music we used for the fight atop cauldron hill. It's the same music we used for the Red Contessa fight in the prologue, so that was a fun callback [MEDIA=youtube]uGIu6-WtwEs[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="squirmonke, post: 8166750, member: 7025916"] I'm back! We're approaching the end of Adventure Two, and I've got some time, so I thought I'd write about how Adventure 2 has gone for us so far! Party starts with a very thorough investigation of the Danoran Consulate, and comes away with lots of leads and Raven interrogates the body, where the party is troubled to learn that Ms Hume was killed by "A monster black as night with a horribly disfigured face". Gai hears the voice of his patron for the first time in a long time "One lies dead in a place that suits her ill. Take her hence with you when you go. Cast her into Parity Lake and she shall rot. Return her to her leader and she shall be grieved. Either and I shall be satisfied" He takes the body and stows it on the party's boat, then forgets about it and it begins to decay. Party takes an immediate interest in the Doctor's involvement (especially Raven, who has history with him). They track him to the House of Blue Birds and into Kells territory, where the trail goes cold. They put out the word to their contacts that they're looking for him. They visit Thinking Mans Tavern, and get themselves kicked out after Gai handcuffs Hennet and drags him into an alley for a beating, rather than play his game. Raven returns in disguise, only to get kicked out again by continuing to provide Barb with the gory details of Nilasa's death. Martin sneaks back in as a spider to listen in on the conversations, but ultimately doesn't learn much. They get access to Nilasa's file, and don't seem interested in running down her criminal contacts, but do seem interested in visiting Heward Sechim. They speak to him, and make plans to visit Nevard in the Cloudwood the next day. The next morning word has reached Kell that they're after the Doctor. He sends someone to meet them at RHC and extend an invitation. When they realize that the invitation is into the heart of Kell's territory, they try to negotiate for a more neutral meeting place. Kell's guy doesn't go for it, and the party decides not to attend. The party heads for the Cloudwood, breaks up the fight with Renard Woodman, stops the carriage from tumbling over the cliff and then, after a fair bit of debate, Neph convinces the party to arrest everyone involved and bring them back to the police in the city proper. They meet Nevard, and agree to take him up cauldron hill that very night. They visit Mayor MacBannin to get permission to do so, and outside they meet the courier Doru. Gai is impressed with Doru's civic-mindedness and encourages him to apply for a civilian administrator position at the RHC (lol). Most of the party agrees to participate in the Bonds of Forced Faith. They do battle atop cauldron hill, which goes mostly as you'd expect. They're frustrated at the attack by the shadowy monster, but unable to do much about it. They successfully stop the arson, but aren't able to capture the arsonists. Delft tells them that they've received a request from Heward Sechim wondering why he hasn't received Nilasa's body yet. Gai says he's on it (and then forgets again). The party discusses with Delft the possibility of visiting Kell and going after the Doctor. Delft agrees that it's risky, but also notes that Kell doesn't have much incentive to try to randomly draw a few RHC investigators into a lethal trap. They decide to pay him a visit. Gale's canary arrives, and they set the meeting with Gale for the next morning, fully intending to attempt to arrest her during it. The party meets Kell (and falls for his little prank!), and agrees to stop the smuggling, though Gai insists on seeing the Doctor in good health first. This takes up much of the day, as the rest of the party awaits his return. Kell arranges for Gai to be bound and blindfolded and brought to the church, see the doctor, and be brought back. The party starts looking for the smugglers, and starts by running down the Doctor's contacts. Raven connects with Lynn Kindleton when she mentions she was a patient of the Doctor's in her youth (we had a fun moment where Prof. Kindleton takes out a biology textbook, points to a picture and goes "Wait, this is YOUR heart?"). Lynn shares the letters she received from the Doctor with them, which while informative don't lead to the smugglers. The party spends a lot of time running down bad leads and chasing incorrect conclusions that day, but ultimately remembers that they never ran down Nilasa's criminal contacts. They agree to let her accomplices out of the estuarial reformatory in exchange for their information. They learn the name "Hosue Elf" and that the family wharf is in pine island. Gai is reminded again about Nilasa's body, and fearing that Gale wont' want to receive it in its current state, decides to dump it in the lake. But he needs most of the party to help him sail the ship, so he comes clean to them. Some of the party are okay with what he's planning, but Neph and Tim object. Eventually, Gai convinces everyone but Neph to help him discard the body, and they all hear the troubling phrase "rot begets rot" as the body bubbles into the darkness. They meet with Gale, and quickly recognize they have no hope of apprehending her, so don't try. They hear her theory and receive the ritual and the messenger wind. Mistakenly believing that the shadowy figure and the Family are closely related, Martin searches all up and down the coast of pine island with Detect Planar Energies, to no avail. One of Tim's contacts knows where they can find the House elf, and they make it to his studio just half an hour before he's planning to leave for the Wharf. The party sends Raven in alone, pretending to be his biggest fan. She convinces him to let her audition to be his assistant. This scene was HILARIOUS. A favorite exchange of mine was: "You need an assistant and who better than me?" "Hm... I don't think my wife would like that very much" "Oh, your wife has nothing to worry about, I'm actually a man dressed like a woman! ... I got a 23 on my deception roll" Raven uses an ability of hers to sneak a charm into her audition performance, and the House Elf fails his save, making him HER biggest fan for the next several hours. He offers her the assistant position, but says he really has to go now, he has some business to do. Raven asks to come with. He says sure, but we have to go convince my wife. Dansica is obviously extremely suspicious about this, and eventually tricks Raven into the Dreaming Dust trap in her lab. Raven loses her memory, and uses the messenger wind to call for help. Dansica manipulates Blander into leaving Raven behind, but the party arrives in time to follow the two to the meeting. Rather than try to recover the wands, they just take out and arrest everyone at the wharf. The next morning they receive invites from and visit Morgan Cippiano, who says he'll help them out with something in exchange for his guys being released. He suggests that perhaps the arsonists would be a fair offer in exchange. This sparks a long debate among the party, Gai thinks they should take the deal, Martin is very opposed, saying we don't know how dangerous it is for Morgan to get his thugs back, and Rick arguing that if they can get Morgan to offer something that contributes sufficiently to the greater good, it doesn't matter how dangerous the thugs are. Ultimately, the party agreed with Rick, and declined Morgan's offer, but asked to leave it on the table in case they thought of something they wanted more than the arsonists. Morgan agreed, but warned that the deal expired if any of his men went to trial. The party heads to Dawn Square to hear Nevard's vision, and receives word of strange goings on in the area. Martin tracks it down with Detect Planar Energies, and they follow it to the warehouse. The Golem gives them a lot of trouble, but they're mostly able to bypass it, and get to keep much of the evidence. They rush back to Dawn Square and save the skyseer, and receive his visions. Then they meet up with Kell, and go to the Church to find the Doctor. When they arrive, the shadowy figure attacks again! Raven dies in this fight, but she's able to be brought back by Tim's eschatologist power which lets him bring back someone who's been dead less than one round. And that's where we are now, discussing Leone Quital's ultimatim! Here's the music we used for the fight atop cauldron hill. It's the same music we used for the Red Contessa fight in the prologue, so that was a fun callback [MEDIA=youtube]uGIu6-WtwEs[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
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