The last few weeks we startet "always on time" and on Sunday my players were wondering about Isobel and Elanor. The uneven pair was immediately on their radar. And they were arguing about why someone who wants to be not seen would draw attention on herself by going veiled.
Elanor was immediately interested in Auryn (who poses as an Eladrin woman raised in Ber and who is traveling with her husband) and offered her to get her a good deal, if Auryn ever got tired of her husband. She even gave her her bussiness card and told her that she would extend her offer to other Eladrin. As Auryn has a bad experience being sold to slavery and her cousin being killed during her abduction she was really upset but managed to stay calm.
Isobel lifted her lower Veil during the lunch and the constables saw a androgyn or female chin.
(i screwed up the part that she would only eat things prepared by her captor but it would have given her away even more. It did not matter as the deva constable has scent and alchemy knowledge and he was sure Isobel was drugged anyways and that under the drugs smell Isobel smelled more like an female than a male person)
Auryn almost dragged her partner to their private quarters and told him that she felt the urge to strangle that elanor bitch on the spot. Mr. Carlyle told her not to endanger the mission which she promised. Then Auryn told the deva that she suspects Isobel to be an eladrin or at least an elf and that she feels responsible to rescue her. This led to a rather long and interesting argument about "what would Auryn do, if she would have to choose between the RHC and this kind of self interests".
They finally settled that they would look into the matter and rescue the girl after their mission. Later in the hotel at Cherage Mr. Carlyle took a chance of Elanor waiting for her carriage and broke into her room. There he found the papers of Isobel being bought for 100 000 Gold from the Travers family and her description resembling an eladrin woman. When he told Auryn about it, he warned her that Elanors business seems to be legitimate and that they had to keep up their cover.
They had to decide if they follow Elanor or the other guests. When Elanor left into Cherage they bribed the hotel staff and the door man told them that he was told to get a carriage to a well known noble quarter.
Fortunately they decided to follow the other suspects and trailed Bree to the manor of the ruler of danor. (they think that Bree is a high ranking agent of Han Jierre)
They found the dead girl and decided not to pursue Boone because they don´t want their cover story to break apart. (Probably Boone is going to end up as collateral damage sooner or later. Agent 007 Auryn Bond will see to it ....)
In Orithea things changed somehow and they decided risking all to abduct Isobel. I just barely managed to show them Mr. Mapple confessing to Isobel. (My players loved Mr. Mapple. I played him as a mysterious lovable yet innocent guy looking like a young greek god and completely left out his dark side and his life draining touch. In Cherage they were amused by his antics and decided he was not their problem to pursue. Mr Gabriel asked if Mr. Mapple had shaved himself before bathing in Cherage and i rewarded the idea by letting them find a drop of his blood just to see their faces when they found his true name.)
Instantly they decided to contact Mr. Mapple. They found his place in the train but Mr Mapple was playing the bathing beauty in the hotel. They finally found him and asked him if he would help freeing Isobel. They planed well and Mr. Carlyle teleported into Elanors Rooms bypassing the hotel security. He knocked Elanor out, (dealing enough damage to kill her 3-4 times
), robbed all her financial funds and teleported away carring Isobel with him.
While he brought Isobel to a boat they had arranged for their own escape, Auryn and Mr. Mapple made a big show of Isobel being carried away by Mr Mapples. Auryn called for their medical sidekick to attend to the victim and drug Elanor even deeper into unconsciousness.
Mr. Carlyle gave orders to carry Isobel away to a place that can not be scryed and as they have priority status as "the away team" i decided that their "secret orders from the king-relationship" lead to the director of infiltration Lauryn interfering and teleporting Isobel to a antimagic cell under the Flint RHC headquarters. (nobody knows that their secret orders refer to them being allowed to report about the flint vekeshi directly to the king
)
The train left Orithrea with Elanor still unconcious in the train enclave hotel and missing any financial funds. (it left me with an headache how Elanor will catch up ..... She needs to abduct Auryn of course to make up for her loss and has any reason to throw Mr. Mapple into the arena.)
