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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 6162171" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 82 - Downtime Week Eight</strong></p><p></p><p>With Leon back in the fold, the unit was able to establish fairly quickly that 'Belkin Mirze' was an alias often used by a disreputable private investigator named Hank Gallagher. Keeping tabs on Gallagher's office/home in south Central, and eventually breaking in, the group established that he had disappeared several days ago. A thorough search revealed a safe containing details of one of his contracts: keeping tabs on the unit! They learned that, in addition to Bryn Tomazi in the Governor's office, Gallagher had several other spies in his pocket: Miggs Maloney, an elderly cop (who listened to chatter about the unit from other cops); Clark Dunstan, a dock official who kept watch on the unit's ship; and Candace Colman, a secretary at RHC HQ. They questioned each one of these people and were gratified to learn that they had each reported back nothing more than details of the 'busy work' the unit had engaged in to cover their tracks. Gallagher passed all of this information to an anonymous proxy deep in Kell Guild territory...</p><p></p><p>Once the connection between Belkin Mirze and Kell was firmly established, and the Governor was fully appraised of Kell's links to the Ob, Stanfield confessed that he had made a mistake. He felt that allowing Kell to grow in power, with the attendant reduction in conflict between criminal elements, could only be good for the city. That opinion had now changed, and he promised to do something about it...</p><p></p><p><strong>Matunaaga</strong>was also pleased to have Leon back, as it meant he could focus his efforts on his attempt to earn martial scholarship status at the Battalion. Leon was able to help Matunaaga with the rarefied academic principals, and teach him a number of key techniques. Matunaaga also put his head together with Uru and came up with a plan to disable several of the largest ships in the Black Star mercenary fleet: If the unit could delay launch for a week, it would give them time to push a vote through the Flint Council; an even greater delay would see the launch occur after the forthcoming Peace Talks (and a breakdown in those talks would mean a moratorium on all mercenary action, with ships conscripted by the crown in case of fresh hostilities in Yerasol). Matunaaga's people were both mountain dwelling <em>and </em>seafaring, due to the unique landscape of the eastern Anthras Mts, with deep fjords carves into the range. Matunaaga knew a thing or two about seagoing vessels and was able to point Uru in the right direction...</p><p></p><p><strong>Uru</strong> as well as working with Matunaaga to disable key mercenary vessels, Uru devoted much of his time to cleaning out and restoring his underground garden. This was not easy, as the influence of a demon was pernicious. It would take a long time to restore things to normal, even with his clockwork gardening devices to help him. Uru also spent some time designing a cuckoo clock prison for Tokoloshe.</p><p></p><p><strong>Malthusius</strong>got no response from Gale when he tried to contact her again, so he turned to Korrigan, and together they persuaded Sana Santorum, a firebrand young skyseer who had attended Korrigan's dinner some weeks ago, to persuade Gale that the mercenary fleet was a viable target for terrorist action. Malthusius also visited the Rolling Potato, where the Flint branch of the Panoply often met to discuss sociopolitical action. He realised too late that he should have brought Rose Woodward with him (El Perro's ex lover) as the group was generally hostile, thanks to Klaus Kanincher, a young intellectual who recognised Malthusius and blamed him and the unit for the death of the Grumbler. Each evening, as well as studing Stanfield's book on deva reincarnation, Malthusius tried to make sense of the skyseer visions he had had prior to Andrei's disappearance. While he had been an accomplished skyseer early on in this incarnation (hence his friendship with a young Nevard Sechim) he had not maintained his abilities in recent decades, and this was a situation he resolved to improve.</p><p></p><p><strong>Korrigan</strong> focused his latest article for the Courier on supporting the drive by Ayres residents to secure a separate mayor. This was a condition of the funding he had received for his publicity campaign from the Wardroughs and he hoped that the incumbent would support the drive to sanction the Black Star Fleet. However, it was to lead to a worrying lesson in the complexity of politics, as his support for the rich played badly with the Dockers and the Panoply. His publicity campaign was going well, by all accounts, but was not really taking of in the way he would have hoped.</p><p></p><p><strong>Leon</strong> made sure that word reached Lorcan Kell linking the gathering fleet in the harbour with the ambitions of his enemy Khaled Valchek, who had once tried to have him rubbed out. Kell duly leaned on Rosa Gohins and ensured that she would be opposed to the fleet if and when a motion came before the council. Towards the end of the week Rock Rackus returned to Flint, having spent the early winater touring in Ber (where it was warmer and 'the chicks have tusks'). Leon had struck up a friendship with Rock back when they served time in jail together, and Rock had already woven some of the works of the Grumbler into his lyrics. Leon hoped to persuade him to write a song opposed to the Black Star Fleet (in fact, he arrived with a lyric already composed) to give the grass-roots element an anthem.</p><p></p><p><strong>Rumdoom </strong>was running out of time to accrue enough funds to heal Khoomrung Morkanstall. (The hope was that hearing the popular dwarven poltician tell his account of mistreatment by Khaled Valchek would galvanize the dwarven community in opposition to the industrialist.) Harn, who was in charge of Rumschatology finances, said they were well short of the 10000gp they would need. However, he made a generous offer to match whatever funds the group accrued. Rumdoom then decided to throw 4000gp of his own money into the pot, and so preparation was made for Azon to perform the healing ritual the following week. </p><p></p><p>With Leon's cunning, and Uru's technical help, Rumdoom was able to expose the false Avatars of Black Star Mining at their very next demonstration. Using the information he had forced out of Blander Waryeye, they concocted a plan to reveal the wizards who were providing the fake effects from backstage. Korrigan arranged for his press contacts to be at the meeting and witness the fraud first-hand. Valchek was in attendance and came on stage to remonstrate with the angry crowd, at which point, Rumdoom and his security detail barged into the meeting hall in order that Rumdoom could humiliate Valchek face-to-face. Things got out of hand and a fight broke out. Unfortunately, despite being unarmed, Rumdoom killed one of the Black Star adherents with his bare hands. He was taken to the jail in Central Flint, and the unit was summoned by a furious Stover Delft...</p><p></p><p><strong>DM's Notes: </strong>A very unexpected turn of events. When the fight broke out Rumdoom joined in. I asked him to roll a d20, with a 20 indicating an accidental crit. He rolled a 20!! Funnily enough, Rumdoom's player is off on his holidays next week, so this worked out just fine, although it wasn't planned.</p><p></p><p>It was also nice to find an opportunity to tell the unit about the spies they missed back in adventure #4. Of course, this ties into Stanfield's misdirection attempts, which will come to fruition next week...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 6162171, member: 79141"] [b]Session 82 - Downtime Week Eight[/b] With Leon back in the fold, the unit was able to establish fairly quickly that 'Belkin Mirze' was an alias often used by a disreputable private investigator named Hank Gallagher. Keeping tabs on Gallagher's office/home in south Central, and eventually breaking in, the group established that he had disappeared several days ago. A thorough search revealed a safe containing details of one of his contracts: keeping tabs on the unit! They learned that, in addition to Bryn Tomazi in the Governor's office, Gallagher had several other spies in his pocket: Miggs Maloney, an elderly cop (who listened to chatter about the unit from other cops); Clark Dunstan, a dock official who kept watch on the unit's ship; and Candace Colman, a secretary at RHC HQ. They questioned each one of these people and were gratified to learn that they had each reported back nothing more than details of the 'busy work' the unit had engaged in to cover their tracks. Gallagher passed all of this information to an anonymous proxy deep in Kell Guild territory... Once the connection between Belkin Mirze and Kell was firmly established, and the Governor was fully appraised of Kell's links to the Ob, Stanfield confessed that he had made a mistake. He felt that allowing Kell to grow in power, with the attendant reduction in conflict between criminal elements, could only be good for the city. That opinion had now changed, and he promised to do something about it... [B]Matunaaga[/B]was also pleased to have Leon back, as it meant he could focus his efforts on his attempt to earn martial scholarship status at the Battalion. Leon was able to help Matunaaga with the rarefied academic principals, and teach him a number of key techniques. Matunaaga also put his head together with Uru and came up with a plan to disable several of the largest ships in the Black Star mercenary fleet: If the unit could delay launch for a week, it would give them time to push a vote through the Flint Council; an even greater delay would see the launch occur after the forthcoming Peace Talks (and a breakdown in those talks would mean a moratorium on all mercenary action, with ships conscripted by the crown in case of fresh hostilities in Yerasol). Matunaaga's people were both mountain dwelling [I]and [/I]seafaring, due to the unique landscape of the eastern Anthras Mts, with deep fjords carves into the range. Matunaaga knew a thing or two about seagoing vessels and was able to point Uru in the right direction... [B]Uru[/B] as well as working with Matunaaga to disable key mercenary vessels, Uru devoted much of his time to cleaning out and restoring his underground garden. This was not easy, as the influence of a demon was pernicious. It would take a long time to restore things to normal, even with his clockwork gardening devices to help him. Uru also spent some time designing a cuckoo clock prison for Tokoloshe. [B]Malthusius[/B]got no response from Gale when he tried to contact her again, so he turned to Korrigan, and together they persuaded Sana Santorum, a firebrand young skyseer who had attended Korrigan's dinner some weeks ago, to persuade Gale that the mercenary fleet was a viable target for terrorist action. Malthusius also visited the Rolling Potato, where the Flint branch of the Panoply often met to discuss sociopolitical action. He realised too late that he should have brought Rose Woodward with him (El Perro's ex lover) as the group was generally hostile, thanks to Klaus Kanincher, a young intellectual who recognised Malthusius and blamed him and the unit for the death of the Grumbler. Each evening, as well as studing Stanfield's book on deva reincarnation, Malthusius tried to make sense of the skyseer visions he had had prior to Andrei's disappearance. While he had been an accomplished skyseer early on in this incarnation (hence his friendship with a young Nevard Sechim) he had not maintained his abilities in recent decades, and this was a situation he resolved to improve. [B]Korrigan[/B] focused his latest article for the Courier on supporting the drive by Ayres residents to secure a separate mayor. This was a condition of the funding he had received for his publicity campaign from the Wardroughs and he hoped that the incumbent would support the drive to sanction the Black Star Fleet. However, it was to lead to a worrying lesson in the complexity of politics, as his support for the rich played badly with the Dockers and the Panoply. His publicity campaign was going well, by all accounts, but was not really taking of in the way he would have hoped. [B]Leon[/B] made sure that word reached Lorcan Kell linking the gathering fleet in the harbour with the ambitions of his enemy Khaled Valchek, who had once tried to have him rubbed out. Kell duly leaned on Rosa Gohins and ensured that she would be opposed to the fleet if and when a motion came before the council. Towards the end of the week Rock Rackus returned to Flint, having spent the early winater touring in Ber (where it was warmer and 'the chicks have tusks'). Leon had struck up a friendship with Rock back when they served time in jail together, and Rock had already woven some of the works of the Grumbler into his lyrics. Leon hoped to persuade him to write a song opposed to the Black Star Fleet (in fact, he arrived with a lyric already composed) to give the grass-roots element an anthem. [B]Rumdoom [/B]was running out of time to accrue enough funds to heal Khoomrung Morkanstall. (The hope was that hearing the popular dwarven poltician tell his account of mistreatment by Khaled Valchek would galvanize the dwarven community in opposition to the industrialist.) Harn, who was in charge of Rumschatology finances, said they were well short of the 10000gp they would need. However, he made a generous offer to match whatever funds the group accrued. Rumdoom then decided to throw 4000gp of his own money into the pot, and so preparation was made for Azon to perform the healing ritual the following week. With Leon's cunning, and Uru's technical help, Rumdoom was able to expose the false Avatars of Black Star Mining at their very next demonstration. Using the information he had forced out of Blander Waryeye, they concocted a plan to reveal the wizards who were providing the fake effects from backstage. Korrigan arranged for his press contacts to be at the meeting and witness the fraud first-hand. Valchek was in attendance and came on stage to remonstrate with the angry crowd, at which point, Rumdoom and his security detail barged into the meeting hall in order that Rumdoom could humiliate Valchek face-to-face. Things got out of hand and a fight broke out. Unfortunately, despite being unarmed, Rumdoom killed one of the Black Star adherents with his bare hands. He was taken to the jail in Central Flint, and the unit was summoned by a furious Stover Delft... [B]DM's Notes: [/B]A very unexpected turn of events. When the fight broke out Rumdoom joined in. I asked him to roll a d20, with a 20 indicating an accidental crit. He rolled a 20!! Funnily enough, Rumdoom's player is off on his holidays next week, so this worked out just fine, although it wasn't planned. It was also nice to find an opportunity to tell the unit about the spies they missed back in adventure #4. Of course, this ties into Stanfield's misdirection attempts, which will come to fruition next week... [/QUOTE]
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