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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aartvb" data-source="post: 9494439" data-attributes="member: 7035557">Unfortunately Frostbeards player had to leave our group. A new player joined however, with Oskár, a male dwarf fighter martial scientist.Session 8 (13-4-2022): The Investigation Begins500 A.O.V., Summer, Day 1The group is tasked with investigating Gale, a notorious figure in the city.11:00:They receive news that a woman, Nilasa, jumped from the Danoran consulate's window, apparently thinking she could fly. This might have something to do with Gale, who can fly.12:00:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Her body ended up impaled on a fence, splitting her between Danoran and Risuri jurisdictions.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Braden Sarkin, a security guard at the consulate, had been dating Nilasa.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Julian LeBrix, the consulate's guard captain, claims he caught her stealing some things (including a ceramic egg). She tried to jump out of the window to escape. He shot her in her leg and back (which is very suspicious) in an attempt to stop her. He reacted to her as to an escaped thief.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The group visits the 4th floor from where Nilasa jumped. LeBrix walks with them. He says there are a lot of important documents there. He insists he has little time, and wanted the group to leave, but now he is following them around.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Nilasa, a frequent visitor, didn’t have a key. She had brought brigadeiros (chocolate snacks). She had cuts on her arm from broken glass. She was spiked by the fence at two locations. She has gunshot wounds in her left thigh and shoulder and a strange injury on her head. The bullets have been removed.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Nilasa carried a bail certificate from the Parity Lake police department. She was bailed out after being arrested for smuggling, with Heward Sechim paying the bail.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">She also had a receipt, showing a total cost of 2450 gp, from someone named D.W.. The receipt was showing items measured in drams, an unfamiliar unit. On the other side of the receipt, there was a note mentioning "Silvo, Deorn Feldman, Family Wharf."</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">She didn’t have innate magic, but there was some source of magic from an extern source. This could have something to do with her wounds, but that is not certain. Investigations revealed that necromantic energy was involved in the head wound.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">A hidden pocket in Nilasa's coat held an empty vial, but the group failed to identify its contents (1 on their arcana roll).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Nilasa probably lived at Sechim's Alkahest and Alchemicals, close by.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">She was often in the Thinking Man’s Tavern.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">13:00:</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Near the consulate, the group found signs of a struggle in an alley, including dried blood and a canal ship's ownership document bearing the Danoran consulate logo.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">A witness, Jack Byron (a coachman), reported seeing a man with bloodied hands leaving the consulate, claiming to have performed surgery. Jack took the man with him in his coach. The man was not that old, had a moustache, and was a human male. He spoke with a hard to place accent, from someone north of the Avery Sea. He traveled to The House of Blue Birds hostel without paying. He was carrying a case.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">13:30:</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The group went with the carriage to The House of Blue Birds.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">14:00:</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">At the hostel, the group learned that Roger Porter, a police officer, had already searched the room of the surgeon. He took all important items.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The surgeon’s name is Wolfgang von Recklinghausen.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Dr. Barnaby Camp left a letter of recommendation for the surgeon, so the hostel could trust him.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Trip and Galarin are questioning someone from the cleaning staff at the door of The House of the Blue Birds. She says that she saw this officer – he was in pain and had bandages around his chest. There was a black stain visible as well. He smelled like motor oil. She also found a towel in the surgeon’s room, she gives it to the group. It had traces of oil used for maintaining a sword and an unidentified black substance.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">It is very certain that there is nothing important to find in surgeon Von Recklinghausen’s room. Nothing of note of suspicious.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Zuna, pretending that von Recklinghausen was actually called Heward Sechim (because at this point she doesn’t know his name yet), arranged to be contacted if either individual was found.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">15:00:</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The group went to Sechim’s Alkahest & Alchemicals, located in the Parity Lake district (Nilasa lived there). The district is dirty, and has a lot of slums. There are protests. Someone is angry that her husband is locked in until he fulfilled his work quotum.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">15:30:</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">They arrive at the factory. There are no protests in front of this factory. The group goes inside. Oskár first sees someone – some kind of foreman – giving instructions. This is Heward Sechim. He had a close relationship with Nilasa, calling her “like a daughter.” He didn’t know of her death, but his uncle, Nevard Sechim, a skyseer, already told him that she would die by falling down, blinded by the wind. He blames himself for her death, believing her association with Gale — related to the anti-industrialization movement — might have led to her downfall.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The group makes a song. “Niiii-Lasa Niiii-Lasa, doesn’t fall here, doesn’t fall there, but falls down on the fence!” (yes in Dutch and with a melody it sounds better)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Zuna returned to the consulate and used Speak with Dead on Nilasa’s body. LeBrix is there, but he doesn’t know she is talking with Nilasa’s ghost. Talking about her death, Nilasa says: “A monster! A human! He saw me, what I had withme, and then, then, then, the pain! En then I saw nothing! I ran away, I tried to fly!” You tried to fly? “No, I was able to fly, but… No! A Monster!”. “Gale is in the Cloudwood, she is only found when she wants to be found. She recognizes me, and sometimes picks me up.” Did you drink something? “Yes, an invisibility potion.” She wanted to steal documents for Gale. Nilasa disappears. Furthermore, from the conversation they find out that the she only used her boyfriend to get into the consulate. She was still alive when she was on the fence, and gave someone a necklace, a canary in a coalmine. She also gave him the papers, and the assignment to get the stuff to Nevard.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The empty vial was analyzed by an alchemist in the factory.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Heward Sechim is the owner of the factory, he suggest that the group should question the uncle (Nevard Sechim), to get into contact with Gale to prevent further terror. In that case they should go to the Cloudwood.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">16:45:</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The potion was apparently a powerful invisibility potion, unique to Pine Island due to the use of brackish water.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">18:00:</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The day ends with the group meeting Stover Delft for a debriefing. Inspector Margaret Saxby joins them for a mid-investigation report.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The plan for tomorrow is to go to the Cloudwood to contact Nevard Sechim.</li> </ol>Relevant Locations:North Shore:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Danoran consulate (close to the beach) (point 1)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">House of Blue Birds (western side) (point 13)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dr. Barnaby Camp’s residence and working location (point 17)</li> </ul>Parity Lake:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Police Department (point 6)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sechim’s Alkahest & Alchemicals (point 10)</li> </ul>Bosum Strand:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Thinking Man’s Tavern (in the harbor) (point 11)</li> </ul>Cloudwood:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Gale’s hideout (specific location unknown) (point 24)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Nevard’s residence (specific location known) (point 26)</li> </ul>Pine Island:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Source of the invisibility potion (point 27)</li> </ul>Central District:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">RHC headquarters (point 28)</li> </ul></blockquote>

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