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[ZEITGEIST] The Continuing Adventures of Korrigan & Co.
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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 5964070" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 39</strong></p><p></p><p>One of those roleplay heavy sessions where so much happens it's hard to fit it all into a report. I've included the text from a couple of emails sent between me and Korrigan's player. He was away this week, so I took the opportunity to have him arrested (thanks to the incriminating evidence planted by Kell). I arrested Leon's player too, but that was designed to get him close to Rackus.</p><p></p><p><strong>Session 39</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Using the <em>Detect Planar Energy</em> ritual, the unit began to track two primary trails of Apet energy: a single strong source of energy, and a weaker group. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">On their return journey through the bayou Korrigan received a sending which caused him to darken in mood. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In Agate, Leon and Malthusius sensed energy in a boat that had been rented by a group of two humans, two dwarves and a female tiefling. They head something wrapped and heavy with them. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Matunaaga encountered two caji (whom the others had seen in Bole, and who had followed the group south on likewise hearing of another maustin caji). Their names were Tosin and Roshna and they requested that Matunaaga accompany them home. He respectfully declined. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In Bole, Korrigan headed straight for RHC HQ, asking Leon to take over and continue hunting for Apet energy. They found some associated with a train car, again linked to the group with the heavy object. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">On their arrival at King's Station in Flint, the unit was met by RHC officers led by Carlao, Dima and Serena. Korrigan was arrested and taken to RHC headquarters. He instructed the others to proceed with the investigation and seemed to have expected his arrest </li> </ul><p></p><p></p><p>Extract from earlier emails re. Korrigan:</p><p></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue">You are taken to RHC HQ by carriage. On the way, Carlao is much more vocal than usual (where he seems merely dutiful at best; morose at worst). He mentions that Lady Saxby predicted your downfall in this fashion: your ache for publicity was revealing of impatience and ambition. He also mentions Malthusius' attempt to have himself installed as Mayor of the Nettles; Rumdoom's campaign to place himself at the centre of the Eschatologist philosophy (at which Dima nods ruefully); and Leon's attempts to curry favour at the Battalion. He also remarks that you even have a </span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><em>maustin caji</em></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"> serving you now, just like a true king of Risur!</span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"> (These are clearly Saxby's words. It his hard to make out Carlao's motivations. He seems almost angry with you.)</span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"> At the HQ, you learn that Leon has also been arrested (after you had departed, by a different unit) and taken to the Central Court prison. </span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"> The charges are that documents pertaining to your attempt to take over Kaja Stewart's smuggling operation were found at your home following a tip-off, along with a substantial payment (200gp...) and instructions from Lorcan Kell to seal the deal by bumping off Isaac Randall (the guy who led you to Kaja).</span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"> The same information led to a search of Lilly's brothel in the bayou (Leon's home), where Randall's badly burned body was found chained below the waterline to the jetty.</span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span> <span style="color: DeepSkyBlue">The accusation is that you had Leon murder Randall at Lorcan's behest, with the intention of adding his criminal network to your growing list of influential allies.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #000000">Leon's arrest was much less dignified. He was placed in mage cuffs and blindfolded.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #000000">At Central Court prison a large crowd was demanding the release of Rock Rackus.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #000000">Leon was roughed up until a more friendly guard (whose family had been spared the full horrors of the witchoil disaster by the actions of the unit) took a shine to him, and offered to mention him to Rock.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #000000">Krauss and Rumdoom learned that shadowy figures had been watching their homes.<br /> </span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #000000">Krauss discovered that some of his political pamphlets (published under the pseudonym of 'the Grumbler') had become popular with a group of political thinkers loosely aligned with the Beran Panoply. Earnest member Karl Kanincher issued an inbite for Krauss to speak at one of their meetings (held, as coincidence would have it, in <em>The Rolling Potato</em>).</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #000000">Uru discovered that milk spider eggs he purchased for Searkil Shortankard were fakes.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #000000">Rumdoom was invited by Khoomrung to another meeting with Valchek. The latter was keen to make moves against the Kell Guild, as his messengers had been violently rebuffed.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #000000">Coincidentally, Malthusius was also approached by Morgan Cippiano with a view to helping the unit deal with Lorcan Kell, who was cealry trying to incriminate the group. They came up with the idea of putting the Family and Black Star Mining in touch with one another...</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #000000">Following the planar trails, and using educated guesswork, the unit found Apet energy in Gun Alley (at the Arms Fair), in the Museum of Antiquities (associated with the Staff of the Ancients, needles to say), and at the homes of both Xandria Meredith and Caius Bergeron:</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #000000">The energy in Gun Alley was associated with both the stage area (props and set belonging to Rock Rackus) and a couple of badgers belonging to Fildi and Dilfi that had mutated and grown tentacles thanks to the release of Apet energies.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #000000">The unit went to see Rackus and found him sharing a drink and a chat with Leon!</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #000000">Rock Rackus turned out to be a self-centred, amoral but well-meaning buffoon who had no idea what to do with his newfound influence over the Docker movement. He told the team all about his wild adventures and seemed to be genuine enough. The Apet energy emanated from a sacrificial dagger he found 'in one o' them Ziggy-yat thangs'. (It helped with teleportation rituals which Rock was a dab hand at.) He also told them that he had done business with Caius Bergeron, and had visited the 'ziggy-yat of Jiese'. In return for help getting him released (which the unit knew was soon going to happen anyway) he offered to take them treasure hunting using a scroll he had found (but had currently misplaced).</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #000000">Leon and Malthusius spent some time trying to convince Rackus to use his popularity and influence to good ends. Rackus asked them what he should say to the people.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #000000">At this point, Krauss used <em>arcane mutterings</em> to imbed some key phrases from his survivalist philosophy into Rackus' head...</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #000000">From the jail, the unit checked out Xambria Meredith's apartment, which emanated waves of Apet energy. It was empty, but showed signs of a violent struggle. Xambria's travelling gear was gone. The unit discovered she had bought passage on a ship called <em>the Dagger</em> bound for eastern Ber. Likewise, a group matching the description of 'a female tiefling, two unarmed humans and two female dwarves' had hired a huge mercenary ship called <em>Il Dracon de Mer</em> and gone in the same direction.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #000000">Caius Bergeron's apartment was undisturbed, but Bergeron was dead! He lay in bed with a dislocated jaw, his brain having been removed through a hole in his soft palate. A map on his table indicated the location of the submerged ziggurat. <br /> </span> </li> </ul><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue">Extracted from previous emails re. Korrigan:</span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue">You spend a couple of nights in RHC cells, alongside a number of villains and ne'erdowells. As Randall connects to Macbannin (as does Lorcan Kell), your case was being dealt with by Carlao, Serena and Dima.</span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue">It is clear that Carlao is very loyal to Lady Margaret Saxby, and that she has convinced him that you are a power-hungry rival whose ambitions have led you to this predicament. Carlao's apparent anger is a mystery to you until, when he steps out of the interrogation room, Dima explains how much Carlao had looked up to you. He feels you have betrayed the RHC, and all of the junior officers who shared his admiration of the veteran Marshal.</span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue">Serena keeps her distance. She often stand with arms folded in the corner of the room, with her tinted glasses hiding her eyes. Once only she speaks to enquire after Matunaaga. "That </span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><em>maustin caji</em></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"> you run with," she says, "is he really that good?"</span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue">"Matunaaga is an exceptionally capable warrior," Korrigan replies. "Which is why I chose him."</span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue">***</span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue">Your case does not get past the first 48 hours of investigation when it is revealed as a clumsy set-up. Randall's body is examined, and his burns are found to be inconsistent with anything Leon could inflict. But even more importantly, as part of their 'audit', some of the officers who came to Flint with Viscount Nigel Price Hill have been watching you and your team: One such officer was watching your house when a pair of shady types broke in. He subsequently followed them and their laden cart to Lilly's brothel in the bayou, and from there to Kell Guild territory. You are released from the cells and brought before both Stover Delft and the Viscount, who apologises for not having stepped in sooner.</span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue">To make amends for this, he invites you and Elizabeth to a grand ball at the Governor' mansion. Stover Delft looks jealous.</span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue">You spend the next few days with Elizabeth, leaving your team to handle the Planar Trail. If things go according to plan word will probably reach you that the unit needs to set sail for the seas east of Ber, to investigate a second Ziggurat.</span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue">Elizabeth is doting, far less distant than she has been, and says she is feeling much better. She goes on to say how much she respects your sense of duty and hopes you will not take any of her actions or words to mean that she wishes you would give up your role. Bernard has done much to convince her of Risur's need for men such as you (he in turn was convinced of this by Nevard Sechim, it seems).</span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue">At the Governor's ball, the formal affair begins in stately fashion, but takes the hard-partying turn that such events always do in tropical countries. Elizabeth looks radiant, and seems to be having a very good time. Malthusius is invited too but you witness a strange event early in the evening, when Governor Stanfield loudly berates him for his 'clumsy attempt' to enter the political arena and sneers at his choice of running mate for the post of Mayor of the Nettles: "a known sexual deviant with questionable ethics". He asks an underling to escort Malthusius from the premises!</span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue">Later, while Elizabeth is dancing with Cezar, Viscount Price-Hill approaches and draws you out onto the balcony. He gives you a cigar, and asks if you really do have higher ambitions - whether in politics, the RHC, the army or the navy. </span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue">Korrigan's response: "As for the question about political ambitions, the answer is that the main and only ambition is to serve and protect Risur and its people. Any position - political or otherwise - is simply the means to be able to do more in that regard and if the circumstances arise where he is called to do more, he will be prepared."</span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"> The Viscount is suitably impressed. If you wish, he can arrange for the </span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><em>Impossible</em></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue">, and Captain Rutger Smith, to be placed at your disposal. Although the </span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><em>Impossible</em></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"> is some days out of Flint, being as it is the fastest ship in the navy, it can reach Flint and get you to eastern Ber in the same amount of time as it would take a regular ship to get there even if you set out that very night.</span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue">The </span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"><em>Impossible</em></span><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue"> is not armed, but it has a large crew and a detachment of marines, and Captain Smith is itching to shake off his reputation as the longest serving naval captain (albeit also the youngest) who has not yet led his ship into a direct engagement.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #000000">And so the unit began to plan for its latest excursion off the coast of Ber.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #000000">Leon was released in to deliver a speech to the Battalion on the topic of ethics and total war - a scathing critique of the methods employed by General Dax Corbeau.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #000000">Malthusius' dismay at his treatment by Governor Stanfield was shortlived: a lackey whispered discreetly as he was escorted to the boat - "The Governor apologises, Malthusius. Your talent for dancing will be wasted if your feet are nailed to the floor."</span> </li> </ul><p></p><p></p><p>Korrigan's player dealt with Viscount Nigel Price Hill so well that I decided to have the Viscount call in the level 6 favour for the <em>Impossible</em> on his behalf. </p><p></p><p>The party was totally bowled over by the death of Bergeron (who they assumed would be the BBEG for the adventure). </p><p></p><p>Despite his ridiculous nature, the unit is also besotted with Rock Rackus. They absolutely love him, and want to ask him to join the party. (Of course, all of this nonsense happens when Korrigan is out of the picture.)</p><p></p><p>I'm very grateful to other posters for several of the elements of this session: Malthusius' ill-fated attempt to install himself as Mayor of the Nettles; Korrigan's ongoing issues with his pregnant wife; the idea od taking out Lorcan Kell ahead of adventure <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=5" target="_blank">#5</a> . All have been inspired by other posters on these boards.</p><p></p><p>With regards to the latter I'm setting things up for an interested 'buffer episode' where the Family and Black Star Mining try to take out Lorcan Kell (with the players taking the role of assassins, including the long-awaited return of Azure Lord Blackthorn). Who knows how that will turn out, but I plan to have Kell be a lot tougher than he looks!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 5964070, member: 79141"] [b]Session 39[/b] One of those roleplay heavy sessions where so much happens it's hard to fit it all into a report. I've included the text from a couple of emails sent between me and Korrigan's player. He was away this week, so I took the opportunity to have him arrested (thanks to the incriminating evidence planted by Kell). I arrested Leon's player too, but that was designed to get him close to Rackus. [B]Session 39 [/B] [LIST] [*]Using the [I]Detect Planar Energy[/I] ritual, the unit began to track two primary trails of Apet energy: a single strong source of energy, and a weaker group. [*]On their return journey through the bayou Korrigan received a sending which caused him to darken in mood. [*]In Agate, Leon and Malthusius sensed energy in a boat that had been rented by a group of two humans, two dwarves and a female tiefling. They head something wrapped and heavy with them. [*]Matunaaga encountered two caji (whom the others had seen in Bole, and who had followed the group south on likewise hearing of another maustin caji). Their names were Tosin and Roshna and they requested that Matunaaga accompany them home. He respectfully declined. [*]In Bole, Korrigan headed straight for RHC HQ, asking Leon to take over and continue hunting for Apet energy. They found some associated with a train car, again linked to the group with the heavy object. [*]On their arrival at King's Station in Flint, the unit was met by RHC officers led by Carlao, Dima and Serena. Korrigan was arrested and taken to RHC headquarters. He instructed the others to proceed with the investigation and seemed to have expected his arrest [/LIST] Extract from earlier emails re. Korrigan: [COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]You are taken to RHC HQ by carriage. On the way, Carlao is much more vocal than usual (where he seems merely dutiful at best; morose at worst). He mentions that Lady Saxby predicted your downfall in this fashion: your ache for publicity was revealing of impatience and ambition. He also mentions Malthusius' attempt to have himself installed as Mayor of the Nettles; Rumdoom's campaign to place himself at the centre of the Eschatologist philosophy (at which Dima nods ruefully); and Leon's attempts to curry favour at the Battalion. He also remarks that you even have a [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue][I]maustin caji[/I][/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] serving you now, just like a true king of Risur![/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] (These are clearly Saxby's words. It his hard to make out Carlao's motivations. He seems almost angry with you.)[/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] At the HQ, you learn that Leon has also been arrested (after you had departed, by a different unit) and taken to the Central Court prison. [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] The charges are that documents pertaining to your attempt to take over Kaja Stewart's smuggling operation were found at your home following a tip-off, along with a substantial payment (200gp...) and instructions from Lorcan Kell to seal the deal by bumping off Isaac Randall (the guy who led you to Kaja).[/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] The same information led to a search of Lilly's brothel in the bayou (Leon's home), where Randall's badly burned body was found chained below the waterline to the jetty.[/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR] [COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]The accusation is that you had Leon murder Randall at Lorcan's behest, with the intention of adding his criminal network to your growing list of influential allies.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR] [LIST] [*][COLOR=#000000]Leon's arrest was much less dignified. He was placed in mage cuffs and blindfolded.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#000000]At Central Court prison a large crowd was demanding the release of Rock Rackus.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#000000]Leon was roughed up until a more friendly guard (whose family had been spared the full horrors of the witchoil disaster by the actions of the unit) took a shine to him, and offered to mention him to Rock.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#000000]Krauss and Rumdoom learned that shadowy figures had been watching their homes. [/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#000000]Krauss discovered that some of his political pamphlets (published under the pseudonym of 'the Grumbler') had become popular with a group of political thinkers loosely aligned with the Beran Panoply. Earnest member Karl Kanincher issued an inbite for Krauss to speak at one of their meetings (held, as coincidence would have it, in [I]The Rolling Potato[/I]).[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#000000]Uru discovered that milk spider eggs he purchased for Searkil Shortankard were fakes.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#000000]Rumdoom was invited by Khoomrung to another meeting with Valchek. The latter was keen to make moves against the Kell Guild, as his messengers had been violently rebuffed.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#000000]Coincidentally, Malthusius was also approached by Morgan Cippiano with a view to helping the unit deal with Lorcan Kell, who was cealry trying to incriminate the group. They came up with the idea of putting the Family and Black Star Mining in touch with one another...[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#000000]Following the planar trails, and using educated guesswork, the unit found Apet energy in Gun Alley (at the Arms Fair), in the Museum of Antiquities (associated with the Staff of the Ancients, needles to say), and at the homes of both Xandria Meredith and Caius Bergeron:[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#000000]The energy in Gun Alley was associated with both the stage area (props and set belonging to Rock Rackus) and a couple of badgers belonging to Fildi and Dilfi that had mutated and grown tentacles thanks to the release of Apet energies.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#000000]The unit went to see Rackus and found him sharing a drink and a chat with Leon![/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#000000]Rock Rackus turned out to be a self-centred, amoral but well-meaning buffoon who had no idea what to do with his newfound influence over the Docker movement. He told the team all about his wild adventures and seemed to be genuine enough. The Apet energy emanated from a sacrificial dagger he found 'in one o' them Ziggy-yat thangs'. (It helped with teleportation rituals which Rock was a dab hand at.) He also told them that he had done business with Caius Bergeron, and had visited the 'ziggy-yat of Jiese'. In return for help getting him released (which the unit knew was soon going to happen anyway) he offered to take them treasure hunting using a scroll he had found (but had currently misplaced).[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#000000]Leon and Malthusius spent some time trying to convince Rackus to use his popularity and influence to good ends. Rackus asked them what he should say to the people.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#000000]At this point, Krauss used [I]arcane mutterings[/I] to imbed some key phrases from his survivalist philosophy into Rackus' head...[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#000000]From the jail, the unit checked out Xambria Meredith's apartment, which emanated waves of Apet energy. It was empty, but showed signs of a violent struggle. Xambria's travelling gear was gone. The unit discovered she had bought passage on a ship called [I]the Dagger[/I] bound for eastern Ber. Likewise, a group matching the description of 'a female tiefling, two unarmed humans and two female dwarves' had hired a huge mercenary ship called [I]Il Dracon de Mer[/I] and gone in the same direction.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#000000]Caius Bergeron's apartment was undisturbed, but Bergeron was dead! He lay in bed with a dislocated jaw, his brain having been removed through a hole in his soft palate. A map on his table indicated the location of the submerged ziggurat. [/COLOR] [/LIST] [COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]Extracted from previous emails re. Korrigan: [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]You spend a couple of nights in RHC cells, alongside a number of villains and ne'erdowells. As Randall connects to Macbannin (as does Lorcan Kell), your case was being dealt with by Carlao, Serena and Dima.[/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]It is clear that Carlao is very loyal to Lady Margaret Saxby, and that she has convinced him that you are a power-hungry rival whose ambitions have led you to this predicament. Carlao's apparent anger is a mystery to you until, when he steps out of the interrogation room, Dima explains how much Carlao had looked up to you. He feels you have betrayed the RHC, and all of the junior officers who shared his admiration of the veteran Marshal.[/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]Serena keeps her distance. She often stand with arms folded in the corner of the room, with her tinted glasses hiding her eyes. Once only she speaks to enquire after Matunaaga. "That [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue][I]maustin caji[/I][/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] you run with," she says, "is he really that good?"[/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]"Matunaaga is an exceptionally capable warrior," Korrigan replies. "Which is why I chose him." [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]***[/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]Your case does not get past the first 48 hours of investigation when it is revealed as a clumsy set-up. Randall's body is examined, and his burns are found to be inconsistent with anything Leon could inflict. But even more importantly, as part of their 'audit', some of the officers who came to Flint with Viscount Nigel Price Hill have been watching you and your team: One such officer was watching your house when a pair of shady types broke in. He subsequently followed them and their laden cart to Lilly's brothel in the bayou, and from there to Kell Guild territory. You are released from the cells and brought before both Stover Delft and the Viscount, who apologises for not having stepped in sooner.[/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]To make amends for this, he invites you and Elizabeth to a grand ball at the Governor' mansion. Stover Delft looks jealous.[/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]You spend the next few days with Elizabeth, leaving your team to handle the Planar Trail. If things go according to plan word will probably reach you that the unit needs to set sail for the seas east of Ber, to investigate a second Ziggurat.[/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]Elizabeth is doting, far less distant than she has been, and says she is feeling much better. She goes on to say how much she respects your sense of duty and hopes you will not take any of her actions or words to mean that she wishes you would give up your role. Bernard has done much to convince her of Risur's need for men such as you (he in turn was convinced of this by Nevard Sechim, it seems).[/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]At the Governor's ball, the formal affair begins in stately fashion, but takes the hard-partying turn that such events always do in tropical countries. Elizabeth looks radiant, and seems to be having a very good time. Malthusius is invited too but you witness a strange event early in the evening, when Governor Stanfield loudly berates him for his 'clumsy attempt' to enter the political arena and sneers at his choice of running mate for the post of Mayor of the Nettles: "a known sexual deviant with questionable ethics". He asks an underling to escort Malthusius from the premises![/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]Later, while Elizabeth is dancing with Cezar, Viscount Price-Hill approaches and draws you out onto the balcony. He gives you a cigar, and asks if you really do have higher ambitions - whether in politics, the RHC, the army or the navy. [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] Korrigan's response: "As for the question about political ambitions, the answer is that the main and only ambition is to serve and protect Risur and its people. Any position - political or otherwise - is simply the means to be able to do more in that regard and if the circumstances arise where he is called to do more, he will be prepared." [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] The Viscount is suitably impressed. If you wish, he can arrange for the [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue][I]Impossible[/I][/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue], and Captain Rutger Smith, to be placed at your disposal. Although the [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue][I]Impossible[/I][/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] is some days out of Flint, being as it is the fastest ship in the navy, it can reach Flint and get you to eastern Ber in the same amount of time as it would take a regular ship to get there even if you set out that very night.[/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]The [/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue][I]Impossible[/I][/COLOR][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue] is not armed, but it has a large crew and a detachment of marines, and Captain Smith is itching to shake off his reputation as the longest serving naval captain (albeit also the youngest) who has not yet led his ship into a direct engagement.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR] [LIST] [*][COLOR=#000000]And so the unit began to plan for its latest excursion off the coast of Ber.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#000000]Leon was released in to deliver a speech to the Battalion on the topic of ethics and total war - a scathing critique of the methods employed by General Dax Corbeau.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#000000]Malthusius' dismay at his treatment by Governor Stanfield was shortlived: a lackey whispered discreetly as he was escorted to the boat - "The Governor apologises, Malthusius. Your talent for dancing will be wasted if your feet are nailed to the floor."[/COLOR] [/LIST] Korrigan's player dealt with Viscount Nigel Price Hill so well that I decided to have the Viscount call in the level 6 favour for the [I]Impossible[/I] on his behalf. The party was totally bowled over by the death of Bergeron (who they assumed would be the BBEG for the adventure). Despite his ridiculous nature, the unit is also besotted with Rock Rackus. They absolutely love him, and want to ask him to join the party. (Of course, all of this nonsense happens when Korrigan is out of the picture.) I'm very grateful to other posters for several of the elements of this session: Malthusius' ill-fated attempt to install himself as Mayor of the Nettles; Korrigan's ongoing issues with his pregnant wife; the idea od taking out Lorcan Kell ahead of adventure [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=5"]#5[/URL] . All have been inspired by other posters on these boards. With regards to the latter I'm setting things up for an interested 'buffer episode' where the Family and Black Star Mining try to take out Lorcan Kell (with the players taking the role of assassins, including the long-awaited return of Azure Lord Blackthorn). Who knows how that will turn out, but I plan to have Kell be a lot tougher than he looks! [/QUOTE]
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