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[ZEITGEIST] The Continuing Adventures of Korrigan & Co.
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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 5796737" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 19</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: SlateGray"><strong>Session 19</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: SlateGray"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: SlateGray"><strong></strong></span></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SlateGray">The group made its way back to Flint from the meeting with Gale and separated on the way down.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SlateGray">Saaladoor Saan was strangely subdued. (Thinking of Nilasa perhaps?) He bid the group farewell, saying he had business at the Thinking Man.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SlateGray">Rumdoom had been 'thinking' and - not wanting to disturb Korrigan and Malthusius with his suspicions - suggested to Uru that they poke around the manor of Mayor Macbannin. Uru was keen to try and meet the mayor again, and so they headed off into the Nettles.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SlateGray">Malthusius went to North Shore to speak with Le Brix. The streets of Parity Lake were full of unrest and word came of armed police firing on protestors. Malthusius came to Le Brix' apartment too late. The flat was ablaze. He did what he could to help the victims of smoke inhalation from adjoining residences. The fire had been very well contained...</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SlateGray">Korrigan arrived at RHC headquarters and found the dwarven accountant, Groinly, supplied by Rumdoom's wealthy mining contact, had found some evidence that the factories LeBrix was investigating had all been bought up by the same company. Groinly would need more information, and more time, to ascertain who bought them.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SlateGray">Stover Delft arrived and chewed out Korrigan for failing to deal properly with Morgan Cippiano. Stover said that 'a investigator is only as good as his CI' and that Korrigan risked squandering the opportunity of having the head of the Family in Flint as his informant. To that end, Delft had released the family bravura in the hopes that Cippiano might return the favour.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SlateGray">Delft's anxiety was explained by the fact that he knew all about the unit's meeting with Gale, and their failure to arrest her. A fellow officer had reported them!</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SlateGray">At that point, Malthusius returned to copy out more of the documents he had memorized. Leon returned, too, and Korrigan took him to one side and demanded an explanation: Why had he followed them to the rendezvous, and why had he reported them to Delft?</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SlateGray">Leon confessed that he had gone to meet Gale independently with a message from the Vekeshi Mystics. He told Korrigan and Malthusius all about the mirror and its import, and that he had tried to dissuade Gale from violence against its target. Leon was desperate to be accepted by the mystics, and as a Danoran tiefling had to work hard to earn their trust.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SlateGray">But he denied reporting on the unit, and this fact was borne out by Delft, who told them that Saaladoor Saan was in fact a pseudonym for an agent who had been working to get close to Gale for the best part of two years. Saan had now departed in disgust!</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SlateGray">Meanwhile, Uru and Rumdoom had succeeded in gaining an audience with Macbannin. He told them he had been performing an autopsy on one of the flayed jaguars and that it was clearly the work of an amateur trying to fake mastery of the dark arts. Otherwise, why would they have been so flawed? He suggested that the only person who could gain access to Cauldron Hill without his knowledge was Gale herself, and warned the unit not to communicate with her.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SlateGray">Nevertheless, Uru and Rumdoom (somewhat reluctantly in Uru's case) arranged for their new friend Swami Melanchol to keep an eye on the manor, with a small number of friendly spirits - playmates of Uru's ghostly contact Little Jack. Swami also gave Uru El Perro's pistol, which he had picked up in the warehouse in case he had to defend himself.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SlateGray">That night, Malthusius dreamed of Nilasa's attacker again - this time changing shape from shadow man, to officer porter, to another unknown individual... He also had a vision that something terrible was about to happen if he didn't stop it!</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SlateGray">On day 9 of the investigation, Korrigan went to speak with Dozy Mendicci who told him that a certain pair of dragonborn brothers might be found trying to set fire to a certain theatre in east Parity Lake. (The owner of the theatre was said to be superstitious and had left the city after the content of Nevard's intended speech was distributed in leaflets by his followers.)</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SlateGray">The unit commisioned the services of water wizard Elwin Shears, before heading off into the city to use the <em>Detect Planar Energy </em>ritual used by Gale to try to follow whoever had planted the witchoil barrels in the factories.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SlateGray">The trail was cold, but as they returned to the RHC, an urchin brought them a message, and led them into a barn, where they found LeBrix, who told them he had escaped the fire by jumping out of the third floor window! He was lying low for fear of more attempts on his life, and gave Uru two vendetta bullets for the dragonborn. He told the unit that he suspected some sort of large-scale smuggling operation.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SlateGray">That night, at the <em>Theatre of Scoundrels</em>, Korrigan and his men, ably assisted by Elwin Shears, arrested Eberardo and slew his brother Valando. Unable to get the dragonborn warrior to crack, they discovered letters on his brother that matched the handwriting in the 'you are a patriot' note handed to Korrigan.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SlateGray">Back at RHC HQ, Groinly had been joined by Dima, a fellow dwarf and RHC officer with a talent for the paper-chase. Together they had requisitioned banking records which indicated Mayor Reed Macbannin had in fact bought all of the factories in question, using a front company.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: SlateGray">The unit decided it was time to pay Macbannin another visit. This time, in full force...</span> </li> </ul><p></p><p>In contrast to last session, I was on fire this week, even if I do say so myself. But the group played well too, in particular, the interactions between Korrigan, Malthusius and Leon when they thought Leon had snitched on them to Stover Delft!</p><p></p><p>I thought the attempted murder of Le Brix was pretty cool, as was his surprise appearance later on. Must work out if there are any political ramifications from this during the trial.</p><p></p><p>Uru persisted in trying to see Macbannin, and this offered me a chance to make up for last week and present Macbannin's attempts to obfuscate the investigation. The fact that Uru's player likes Macbannin and wants to gain training from him helped a lot, as he told the mayor everything about their meeting with Gale.</p><p></p><p>Macbannin gave Uru a magic ring to protect him from scrying by Gale. As I copy and paste the session notes from my recap to the players, I did not include this, as it is my hope that Uru will forget to take it off! It is in fact an item that allows Macbannin to scry on him (obviously) and also to cast hexes on him more easily! Heheheh...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 5796737, member: 79141"] [b]Session 19[/b] [COLOR=SlateGray][B]Session 19 [/B][/COLOR] [LIST] [*][COLOR=SlateGray]The group made its way back to Flint from the meeting with Gale and separated on the way down.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SlateGray]Saaladoor Saan was strangely subdued. (Thinking of Nilasa perhaps?) He bid the group farewell, saying he had business at the Thinking Man.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SlateGray]Rumdoom had been 'thinking' and - not wanting to disturb Korrigan and Malthusius with his suspicions - suggested to Uru that they poke around the manor of Mayor Macbannin. Uru was keen to try and meet the mayor again, and so they headed off into the Nettles.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SlateGray]Malthusius went to North Shore to speak with Le Brix. The streets of Parity Lake were full of unrest and word came of armed police firing on protestors. Malthusius came to Le Brix' apartment too late. The flat was ablaze. He did what he could to help the victims of smoke inhalation from adjoining residences. The fire had been very well contained...[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SlateGray]Korrigan arrived at RHC headquarters and found the dwarven accountant, Groinly, supplied by Rumdoom's wealthy mining contact, had found some evidence that the factories LeBrix was investigating had all been bought up by the same company. Groinly would need more information, and more time, to ascertain who bought them.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SlateGray]Stover Delft arrived and chewed out Korrigan for failing to deal properly with Morgan Cippiano. Stover said that 'a investigator is only as good as his CI' and that Korrigan risked squandering the opportunity of having the head of the Family in Flint as his informant. To that end, Delft had released the family bravura in the hopes that Cippiano might return the favour.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SlateGray]Delft's anxiety was explained by the fact that he knew all about the unit's meeting with Gale, and their failure to arrest her. A fellow officer had reported them![/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SlateGray]At that point, Malthusius returned to copy out more of the documents he had memorized. Leon returned, too, and Korrigan took him to one side and demanded an explanation: Why had he followed them to the rendezvous, and why had he reported them to Delft?[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SlateGray]Leon confessed that he had gone to meet Gale independently with a message from the Vekeshi Mystics. He told Korrigan and Malthusius all about the mirror and its import, and that he had tried to dissuade Gale from violence against its target. Leon was desperate to be accepted by the mystics, and as a Danoran tiefling had to work hard to earn their trust.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SlateGray]But he denied reporting on the unit, and this fact was borne out by Delft, who told them that Saaladoor Saan was in fact a pseudonym for an agent who had been working to get close to Gale for the best part of two years. Saan had now departed in disgust![/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SlateGray]Meanwhile, Uru and Rumdoom had succeeded in gaining an audience with Macbannin. He told them he had been performing an autopsy on one of the flayed jaguars and that it was clearly the work of an amateur trying to fake mastery of the dark arts. Otherwise, why would they have been so flawed? He suggested that the only person who could gain access to Cauldron Hill without his knowledge was Gale herself, and warned the unit not to communicate with her.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SlateGray]Nevertheless, Uru and Rumdoom (somewhat reluctantly in Uru's case) arranged for their new friend Swami Melanchol to keep an eye on the manor, with a small number of friendly spirits - playmates of Uru's ghostly contact Little Jack. Swami also gave Uru El Perro's pistol, which he had picked up in the warehouse in case he had to defend himself.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SlateGray]That night, Malthusius dreamed of Nilasa's attacker again - this time changing shape from shadow man, to officer porter, to another unknown individual... He also had a vision that something terrible was about to happen if he didn't stop it![/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SlateGray]On day 9 of the investigation, Korrigan went to speak with Dozy Mendicci who told him that a certain pair of dragonborn brothers might be found trying to set fire to a certain theatre in east Parity Lake. (The owner of the theatre was said to be superstitious and had left the city after the content of Nevard's intended speech was distributed in leaflets by his followers.)[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SlateGray]The unit commisioned the services of water wizard Elwin Shears, before heading off into the city to use the [I]Detect Planar Energy [/I]ritual used by Gale to try to follow whoever had planted the witchoil barrels in the factories.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SlateGray]The trail was cold, but as they returned to the RHC, an urchin brought them a message, and led them into a barn, where they found LeBrix, who told them he had escaped the fire by jumping out of the third floor window! He was lying low for fear of more attempts on his life, and gave Uru two vendetta bullets for the dragonborn. He told the unit that he suspected some sort of large-scale smuggling operation.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SlateGray]That night, at the [I]Theatre of Scoundrels[/I], Korrigan and his men, ably assisted by Elwin Shears, arrested Eberardo and slew his brother Valando. Unable to get the dragonborn warrior to crack, they discovered letters on his brother that matched the handwriting in the 'you are a patriot' note handed to Korrigan.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SlateGray]Back at RHC HQ, Groinly had been joined by Dima, a fellow dwarf and RHC officer with a talent for the paper-chase. Together they had requisitioned banking records which indicated Mayor Reed Macbannin had in fact bought all of the factories in question, using a front company.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=SlateGray]The unit decided it was time to pay Macbannin another visit. This time, in full force...[/COLOR] [/LIST] In contrast to last session, I was on fire this week, even if I do say so myself. But the group played well too, in particular, the interactions between Korrigan, Malthusius and Leon when they thought Leon had snitched on them to Stover Delft! I thought the attempted murder of Le Brix was pretty cool, as was his surprise appearance later on. Must work out if there are any political ramifications from this during the trial. Uru persisted in trying to see Macbannin, and this offered me a chance to make up for last week and present Macbannin's attempts to obfuscate the investigation. The fact that Uru's player likes Macbannin and wants to gain training from him helped a lot, as he told the mayor everything about their meeting with Gale. Macbannin gave Uru a magic ring to protect him from scrying by Gale. As I copy and paste the session notes from my recap to the players, I did not include this, as it is my hope that Uru will forget to take it off! It is in fact an item that allows Macbannin to scry on him (obviously) and also to cast hexes on him more easily! Heheheh... [/QUOTE]
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