[Living Pathfinder]The Green Faerie

[InVinoVeritas]

Maschera nods. "Dunn Wright Inn, tomorrow morning, then. Please find him."

Tilsit sniggers at Alnar's commentary. "It certainly will. Now, if you please," he states as he heads on into Maschera's dressing room. Inside he turns to the assembled. "Off with you, we have a show to prepare for."

Maschera desperately downs a glass of wine as the group exits.

OOC: At this point, feel free to discuss whatever you need, either at the Dunn Wright Inn or elsewhere. When you are ready to advance to tomorrow, post that you're going back to sleep, and I'll start the next scene.

 

[jkason]

Nathan Tchanlach, human sorcerer

OOC: Sorry about the delay, and thanks, IVV for pushing forward. Was a very full weekend and I didn't manage to catch up on all my games.

Maschera nods. "Dunn Wright Inn, tomorrow morning, then. Please find him."

Nathan gives Maschera a deep bow. "We will do everything in our power, I assure you, good lady," he says.

Inside he turns to the assembled. "Off with you, we have a show to prepare for."

Nathan falls back into his more effusive persona when Tilsit returns.

"But of course!" he says. "It's been an honor to have even the briefest audience. Our great thanks both to you, Master Tilsit, and the lovely talent your wonderful opera house houses." He gives Maschera one last, supportive wink, then leads the others back out into the streets of Venza. Once the group has rounded enough corners to be out of view, he looks down at his brightly-colored garments.

"Yes, that's enough faux-finery for one day," he says to no one the party can see. The brighter crimsons and silvers of his clothes evaporate as if they were water on a hot sidewalk, leaving him back in the darker reds and grays he's used to.

"I'll apologize now if anyone felt I was out of turn giving our ace away to Maschera, or keeping it from Tilsit," he says as the group makes its way back to the Dunn Wright. "I do think we should keep most of what we know about Carnemorto's disposition to ourselves. Someone either went to the trouble to move and bury the body, or even more oddly, to put Carnemorto's ring on another, older corpse. In any event, they're trying to hide what's happened to him. And the longe we can keep them in the dark as to what we do or don't know, the safer I hope they'll feel, which also hopefully means they won't be rushing to cover more tracks.

"I hadn't meant to even tell Maschera, but she just seemed so ... distressed that I took a chance. Hopefully I wasn't just bamboozled by her performing talents."

 

[Walking Dad]

Ta-Am-Ath AC 15 (T15, FF12), HP 13/13, F +3,R+4,W+4, CMB +4, CMD 16

"I believe her. I sensed no betrayel in her words and her concerns seemed genuine. Even if I don't speak a lot, I watch very carefully the ones who do." Ta explains on the way.

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Ta-Am-Ath

gained: 2 potions of mage armor.
lost: 10pp


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[HolyMan]

After they have found some space to themselves Markas fills the group in on what he knows of what was mentioned at the opera house.

"The halfling made refrence to an old opera singer that he jokingly believes Maschera resembles. Now I don't want to say she is or isn't involved but, Abzienta was an elven opera singer, one of the most beautiful, the most sought after. She became notorious for starting a string of affairs with Venza noblemen. Over time, she stripped them of their wealth through seduction, and would then kill them. She was eventually caught and convicted." Markas pauses as he watches for any nearby ears then continues.

"But, that was all about a hundred years ago, though. Nowadays, she is a bit of a bogeyman in theatrical circles. We should look at the angle that if Ta is right and she is innocent, then maybe someone is setting her up to take the fall for their deeds."

 

[Walking Dad]

Ta-Am-Ath AC 15 (T15, FF12), HP 13/13, F +3,R+4,W+4, CMB +4, CMD 16

"Or a lier with over a century expirience can fool me. There is magic to hide ones true appearance." Ta states simply.

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Ta-Am-Ath

gained: 2 potions of mage armor.
lost: 10pp


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[InVinoVeritas]

From her eyes to her limbs to her ears, Maschera appeared human.

 

[jkason]

Nathan Tchanlach, human sorcerer

"But, that was all about a hundred years ago, though. Nowadays, she is a bit of a bogeyman in theatrical circles. We should look at the angle that if Ta is right and she is innocent, then maybe someone is setting her up to take the fall for their deeds."

"Or a lier with over a century expirience can fool me. There is magic to hide ones true appearance." Ta states simply.

Nathan shakes his head. "I don't think we're going to get ourselves anywhere looking that direction without more proof," he says. "Yes, there are magics that can hide the truth, but there are magics that can do a lot of things. The world's full of things that break just about every natural law in one way or another, but if we try to investigate this based on all the different kinds of magic that might be possible to have in play without detecting anything, I think we'll just drive ourselves crazy with the paranoia and the double-guessing ourselves.

"I think for now we go with what we know and what our senses and talents can tell us. Follow the evidence. And right now, all evidence seems to indicate that Tilsit's a high-strung gossip whose assessment of things should be taken with a healthy salt dose, and Maschera, for all any of us can tell, is genuinely concerned about Carnemorto."

 

[HolyMan]

"Sorry I wasn't saying Abzienta was involed. I was saying if Maschera is innocent maybe someone is throwing the rumor out there that she is like Abzienta to point the finger at her."

Markas wonders if they may have bitten off more than they he can chew and if his reputation might suffer from it. He laughs inside,

{{Ha That would be a good thing wouldn't it?}} he asks himself.

"So we are headed back to the Dunn Wright?" he asks noone inparticular.

 

[Luinnar]

Without a word to the others Alnar stays behind when the party is about to leave. He did not like Maschera but it might be best to keep an eye on her nevertheless. Who knows if something might happen to her like her boyfriend.

OOC: Alnar is going to stake out the area and try to follow Maschera when she leaves, to make sure she stays safe from harm.

 

[jkason]

Nathan Tchanlach, human sorcerer

"So we are headed back to the Dunn Wright?" he asks noone inparticular.

Nathan nods, then frowns. "If I can figure out which way it is," he says. "This city's a bit like a maze. Maybe someone better with directions? Willow?"

As the sorcerer turns to ask the small druid, he realizes something.

"Um ... when was the last time someone saw Alnar?"

OOC: From the way it's described, I'm assuming Alnar's meant to be ditching the party rather than giving them any kind of heads up as to what he's doing. If Luinnar's okay with the implications of that, I figured it was easier to just play along with it than bother with PC's rolling against one another to see if we noticed him leaving.