Dr. Si's Curse of the Crimson Throne - Alpha Group

[Walking Dad]

"If Lamm comes back as some undead-shark creature, don't say I didn't warn you. I can take the wand. Magic items have a tendency to work for me. Most of the time." Bael says to Tristan as they leave.

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AC 16 (T13, FF13), HP 25/25, F +2,R+5,W+0
Resistance to cold 5, electricity 5, and fire 5.
Darkness 1/day, Sneak 1d6
Rapier +2 . 1d6+2 . 19-20/X2
Shortbow +3 . 1d6 . 20/X3

Stealth +8 (including ACP)
Perception + 4

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[Shayuri]

Maya takes the wand and walks out with Bael and Tristan without further comment. She saw no reason not to leave Lamm's bodies for the bugs and birds, but she didn't care enough to argue over it.

 

[Dr Simon]

OOC: Sorry for the slow reply, folks. Work is manic at the moment.

You leave the Old Fishery with your spoils, including the head of Zellara (or her look-alike). Gaedran Lamm's remains are despoiled.

You leave the Old Fishery... to chaos. Across the city of Korvosa, alarm bells are ringing. Fires glow in the night, and the sounds of fighting, looting and rioting carry across to you. From time to time, a blast of eldritch power lights up the night, usually in the direction of the Acadamae. Overhead, a flight of Sable Marine griffon riders streak through the night sky, one of them suddenly plummeting from the sky to crash bone-crunchingly into a statue of Montlare Jeggare just down the street. Mount and rider are not moving.

Over all this come shouts, cries of "The King is dead! Long live the Queen!", compete with equal volume with cries of "Hang the Queen! The usurper whore must die!"

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You all now have 700xp. In Pathfinder, level 2 is reached at 1300 xp, using fast experience rules, which I figure you'll need.

Zellara's house is not far down the road from the Old Fishery, if you want to return there. You might get there without meeting a riot...
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[kinem]

"As a foreign student, I'm not very familiar with the local politics" Tristan admits. "Is there any reason the common man should care who's on the throne?

Anyway, let's check out Zellara's house. It might be empty, but you never know." If there are no objections, he heads that way.

 

[Dr Simon]

OOC: As to Tristan's question, Maya is also from out of town, so the best person to answer would be Bael.

[SBLOCK=Bael]
The old King, Eodred II, was considered a bit of a wastrel, with high taxes being spent on lavish parties for himself and his many mistresses. Since he married the young Chelaxian noblewoman Ileosa, and made her his sole concubine, she has become the focus for much of the citizens' ire over high taxes and poor conditions. Many consider her a spoilt brat with more time for fashion and parties than for Korvosa, and she has on occasion been rumoured to consider Korvosa something of a dirty backwater.

How much of this is *really* true, of course, is unknown outside of the royal court. However, since Korvosa tends to play strictly by the rules most of the time, it likes a good riot to let off steam once in a while.
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[Shayuri]

Maya glares around herself at the disorder and the rioting. Her lips are pressed into a thin, angry line, and she keeps clenching her fingers into fists as she walks.

These were the people that had beaten them. They couldn't even control themselves! They were undisciplined dogs, and without a leader they leapt to each other's throats, or rutted in the streets, snarling and yapping.

But they had won. What did that say about the Shoanti?

She needed to think about this.

"Zellara, yes," Maya murmured distractedly, not really listening. She followed the others out of habit more than anything, lost in her own thoughts.

 

[Dr Simon]

You manage to evade any riots or mobs on the way back to Zellara's house, but the place is not as you last saw it. In a state of disrepair, furniture broken, dusat and cobwebs covering what is left. Suddenly, Tristan feels the Harrow deck that he is carrying grow warm. There is a gentle riffling in the air, the dust motes swirl and the ghostly image of Zellara appears before you.

"As you may have guessed," she says, "I am dead. I'm sorry for the deception, but it was the only avenue left to me. I thank you for recovering my remains, and would ask that you take them to my people in Trail's End for burial according to the Varisian way.

"The cards you carry were my life, when I was flesh and blood. Now they hold your fortune. An evil man is dead, but I see a greater evil facing the city in times to come. Tonight was just the first step on a long dark journey for all of you. Keep the cards, you may find them useful. Farewell for now."

The breeze drops, the vision fades and the dust motes settle once more.

[SBLOCK=Tristan]
You instinctively get a feeling for the power of the cards. You can use them to cast identify 3 times per day, but they are further capable of performing Harrow readings of great importance. Sometimes...
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[kinem]

"Whoah. I wonder what she meant about evils and journeys.

I'm willing to take the head to Trail's End. I have a feeling that the cards can be used to help identify magic items, and maybe for prediction. I want to ask the Varisians about how to do a card reading.

And ... uh ... I'm thinking that the sooner we get her ... respected remains to the proper hands, the better." Tristan tries to avoid inhaling a whiff of the odor of decay.

ooc: How far is Trail's End?

 

[Dr Simon]

OOC: Trail's End is just on the other side of the Jeggare River. It's a small settlement outside the city proper, that got its name due to the high proportion of Varisians there. So, not a lengthy quest/mission/thing to the far corners of Golarion.

 

[Walking Dad]

ooc: sorry, I was sick

"The old king was a wastrel, with high taxes being spent on lavish parties for himself and his pussies. Since he married the young Chelaxian noble brat Ileosa, and made her his sole concubine, it only became worse. If she is queen know, I will look somewhere else for a new job." Bael says to Tristan as they went.

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AC 16 (T13, FF13), HP 25/25, F +2,R+5,W+0
Resistance to cold 5, electricity 5, and fire 5.
Darkness 1/day, Sneak 1d6
Rapier +2 . 1d6+2 . 19-20/X2
Shortbow +3 . 1d6 . 20/X3

Stealth +8 (including ACP)
Perception + 4

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