RangerWickett
Legend
The spacing is making these a tad hard to read, but I'm digging it.
I wonder if they'll guess who the dragons are.
I wonder if they'll guess who the dragons are.
ZEITGEIST The affirmative action racial recruitment team of the RHC
Andrew Moreton
Adventurer
I'll try and improve the formatting. Presentation is always on the list of things I need to improve on my annual reviews at work as well.
So far they have no suspicions about who maybe dragons except maybe 'Future El Kevin'. The Murder investigation may be interesting as Manuel thinks that the Butler did it . Based on his research in popular dime novel fiction, this may drive other characters particulary those he recently pointed guns at crazy
So far they have no suspicions about who maybe dragons except maybe 'Future El Kevin'. The Murder investigation may be interesting as Manuel thinks that the Butler did it . Based on his research in popular dime novel fiction, this may drive other characters particulary those he recently pointed guns at crazy
Andrew Moreton
Adventurer
The session started with the pc's returning to Risur after axis island they had the opportunity to interview Duchess Ethelyn, Nathan Jierre and Sokana. Manual, El Kevin and Ulvaar decided that they did not want to talk to the Duchess as the players feared high level sorcerors being diplomancers (in the previous campaign the pc sorceress had truly ungodly bluff and diplomacy skills she used to arrange the deaths of numerous opponents including a dragon). Nevla did talk to the Duchess trying to understand why she had rebelled, she listened to the Duchess explain about the vision but despite her sympathy for the cause could not accept the Duchess's methods were correct. Talking to Nathan was more productive they learned he had been trying to avoid a war, they also learned that the Danorans were involved in Arcane experiments involving planes and how weird the island was none of this helped them much. Nevla was also puzzled as to what Kasavarina was doing on the island from her knowledge of Eladrin history she had placed her a a powerful matriarch from just after the great malice and an enemy of the clergy and tieflings , what she was doing helping Danor was a mystery.
On getting back to Risur the prisoners were taken off their hands. The Duchess was stripped of her powers and held prisoner in Slate, Nathan is under house arrest in Flint. Sokana and senior officers of the rebels were imprisoned for a few months before being released under some degree of supervision, the King wanted to minimise martyrs, the rest of the troops were split up and dispersed into loyal units (sacking large cadres of trained soldiers and officers is a great way to create insurgent groups).
El Kevin and Manuel spent some time trying to find a way to distinguish El Kevin from future El Kevin, I missed some of this conversation but he has ended up with really bad false ears stuck to his head.
Their sample of Witch oil was taken to be studied by a professor of arcane studies at the university along with the leaf and dissected frog from another plane in a display of incompetence the Professor failed to recognise the oil but was able to determine the frog and leaf came from no known plane .
They then rested until 1st of Summer and the start of book 2.
Discussing events El Kevin was intrigued by the idea of Gale being able to fly and really wants to talk to her, he will be dissapointed when he realizes she does not know how she does it, he has gone as far as to try to put up posters requesting a meeting, although the others try and stop him. They also suspect that Gales deeds may be being inflated they find the fires and violence attributed to her not to match the other actions so they think various factory owners may be acting against each other and blaming gale. They were interested in the Family moving in but as yet have no opinion except criminals bad.
On hearing of the murder at the consulate they rushed down there. Manual was distracted by the Jeeves Excellent Domestic Talent Bureau which had many butlers hanging around outside it. They spoke to the police and crowd first , dismissing the police . They got pretty much everything from the crowd particularly as Ulvaar met a Dwarf butler and former veteran who had seem most of what happened (natural 20 on his diplomacy check), then they checked the ally and found the scene of the fight as well as the taxi driver, they paid the missed fair for the taxi driver and asked him to hang around in case they had more questions and because they thought they may want a taxi.
Going into the Consulate they spoke to Le Brix and decided that he was not being honest, they understood they could not speak to the consul (I could not find anywhere if she was a tiefling or not I decided she was as the players thought it may be important, I also decided there were 2 other tieflings on staff). Again they found pretty much all the clues although without a sprit medium they could not talk to Nilasa, they have put in a request for one and he will turn up next day, I may use the halfling medium Rock uses later.
They currently think there was some sort of undead or maybe a magic using tiefling involved to create the claw wounds on Nilasa, they know that LeBrix lied to them but in the best Agathe Christie tradition don't intend to confront him until they can do a big reveal.
Then they split up Manuel and Padme went to follow up the alchemist leads firstly by going back to the office and his lab to analyse the potion. In the meantime the rest went to the house of Blue Birds talked to the people and found out everything, they are certain Officer Porter is dodgy but still have not found if he is a real police officer (I assume that he is but that Creed was disguised as him, no doubt my players will go talk to him once they find him). Then they followed up Heward Sechim.
Meanwhile Manuel had deduced the potion most likely was made in Pine Lake and headed off by boat with Padme, sadly Padme could not ride on Roger so Roger had to ride on the boat. Manuel plans to learn reduce person so all these big people can ride Roger, Roger lives in a Dire bat colony at the Beran embassy when Manuel does not need him to fight crime, probably in a bat cave.
El Kevin went to the Parity lake police station to try and find records on officer Porter he also picked up a copy of Nilasa's criminal record. Manuel also had a copy at RHC HQ. Ulvaar and El Kevin when to Hewards factory,Nevla had to be talked out of arresting several of the guards holding workers in the factories, Ulvaar only stopped her because he realised that the rich factory owners had enough pull to get their thugs off and Nevla in trouble so it would do no good, if they get a chance several factory owners are going to jail, this may be unfortunate for the factory owners later as one of Nevla or Ulvaar is likely to become their monarch.
They were much more impressed by Hewards factory and what they had heard of him from Nilassa's girlfreind, they had been let into the factory and were having tea while they broke the news to Heward when the session ended.
Overall they are doing well, they know that something is up at the consulate and just want to find out what it is, they also realise Nilassa must be working with someone else to be able to afford the potions and they think it may be Gale because of the flight. The team talking to Heward think he may be involved with the alchemical supplies as he is an alchemist , Manuel knows better but has not had a chance to tell them.
On getting back to Risur the prisoners were taken off their hands. The Duchess was stripped of her powers and held prisoner in Slate, Nathan is under house arrest in Flint. Sokana and senior officers of the rebels were imprisoned for a few months before being released under some degree of supervision, the King wanted to minimise martyrs, the rest of the troops were split up and dispersed into loyal units (sacking large cadres of trained soldiers and officers is a great way to create insurgent groups).
El Kevin and Manuel spent some time trying to find a way to distinguish El Kevin from future El Kevin, I missed some of this conversation but he has ended up with really bad false ears stuck to his head.
Their sample of Witch oil was taken to be studied by a professor of arcane studies at the university along with the leaf and dissected frog from another plane in a display of incompetence the Professor failed to recognise the oil but was able to determine the frog and leaf came from no known plane .
They then rested until 1st of Summer and the start of book 2.
Discussing events El Kevin was intrigued by the idea of Gale being able to fly and really wants to talk to her, he will be dissapointed when he realizes she does not know how she does it, he has gone as far as to try to put up posters requesting a meeting, although the others try and stop him. They also suspect that Gales deeds may be being inflated they find the fires and violence attributed to her not to match the other actions so they think various factory owners may be acting against each other and blaming gale. They were interested in the Family moving in but as yet have no opinion except criminals bad.
On hearing of the murder at the consulate they rushed down there. Manual was distracted by the Jeeves Excellent Domestic Talent Bureau which had many butlers hanging around outside it. They spoke to the police and crowd first , dismissing the police . They got pretty much everything from the crowd particularly as Ulvaar met a Dwarf butler and former veteran who had seem most of what happened (natural 20 on his diplomacy check), then they checked the ally and found the scene of the fight as well as the taxi driver, they paid the missed fair for the taxi driver and asked him to hang around in case they had more questions and because they thought they may want a taxi.
Going into the Consulate they spoke to Le Brix and decided that he was not being honest, they understood they could not speak to the consul (I could not find anywhere if she was a tiefling or not I decided she was as the players thought it may be important, I also decided there were 2 other tieflings on staff). Again they found pretty much all the clues although without a sprit medium they could not talk to Nilasa, they have put in a request for one and he will turn up next day, I may use the halfling medium Rock uses later.
They currently think there was some sort of undead or maybe a magic using tiefling involved to create the claw wounds on Nilasa, they know that LeBrix lied to them but in the best Agathe Christie tradition don't intend to confront him until they can do a big reveal.
Then they split up Manuel and Padme went to follow up the alchemist leads firstly by going back to the office and his lab to analyse the potion. In the meantime the rest went to the house of Blue Birds talked to the people and found out everything, they are certain Officer Porter is dodgy but still have not found if he is a real police officer (I assume that he is but that Creed was disguised as him, no doubt my players will go talk to him once they find him). Then they followed up Heward Sechim.
Meanwhile Manuel had deduced the potion most likely was made in Pine Lake and headed off by boat with Padme, sadly Padme could not ride on Roger so Roger had to ride on the boat. Manuel plans to learn reduce person so all these big people can ride Roger, Roger lives in a Dire bat colony at the Beran embassy when Manuel does not need him to fight crime, probably in a bat cave.
El Kevin went to the Parity lake police station to try and find records on officer Porter he also picked up a copy of Nilasa's criminal record. Manuel also had a copy at RHC HQ. Ulvaar and El Kevin when to Hewards factory,Nevla had to be talked out of arresting several of the guards holding workers in the factories, Ulvaar only stopped her because he realised that the rich factory owners had enough pull to get their thugs off and Nevla in trouble so it would do no good, if they get a chance several factory owners are going to jail, this may be unfortunate for the factory owners later as one of Nevla or Ulvaar is likely to become their monarch.
They were much more impressed by Hewards factory and what they had heard of him from Nilassa's girlfreind, they had been let into the factory and were having tea while they broke the news to Heward when the session ended.
Overall they are doing well, they know that something is up at the consulate and just want to find out what it is, they also realise Nilassa must be working with someone else to be able to afford the potions and they think it may be Gale because of the flight. The team talking to Heward think he may be involved with the alchemical supplies as he is an alchemist , Manuel knows better but has not had a chance to tell them.
RangerWickett
Legend
I love the zaniness of some of this group, and their appreciation for murder mystery tropes. Thanks for sharing.
Andrew Moreton
Adventurer
It will be particularly amusing when they discover Creed is Macbennins butler as well as assassin so really the butler did kill Nilassa , Manual will be loudly enthusiastic about being right. Other players may strangle him
Andrew Moreton
Adventurer
The session started late due to the GM and one of the players arriving late.
The group started with Neval and Ulvaar interviewing Heward and looking around his factory , he told them about Nilasa , and mentioned his father may be able to arrange a meeting with Gale. They looked around the factory but as the two pc's with alchemical training were elsewhere could only tell that the workers seemed happy. They were very interested in the passing comment about people threatening him smelling of burned engine grease and said they would look into it, they asked him to send a runner if they turned up again and the constables would respond immediatly.
Meanwhile El Kevin was at the local police station getting a copy of Nilasa's file as their team had not seen one yet, he also tried to track down officer Porter and discovered he had been off work today, he got the home address and asked that Officer Porter come over to the RHC HQ in the morning when he came on shift.
Also at the same time Manual and Padme were going through the district trying to track down the alchemists shop from the receipt , they located it but decided that a visit should have the full team in case the shop owner overreacted and also because Manual thought that a Gnome may react badly to a Goblin,(also the player feared the alchemist shop would explode because it had a gnome in it and I have a violent aversion to gnomes).
Eventually all returned to the HQ after a brief visit to Officer Porters home and discovering he had taken the kids to the beach, they were near certain officer Porter at the house of blue birds had been a fake. They finally had manual analyse the stuff from the blue bird and discovered a mix of Death Oil (their term for the as yet unidentified witch oil) and blood. They are speculating what kind of undead he could be but have not found one which fits.
Finally for the 1st of Summer they went to the thinking man tavern. Manual got into an arguement about Earthquakes with the scholars and was well recieved , he did ask about Nilasa and found about her writing to the Family and got the name of the Don, they looked him up at HQ later and confirmed he was a big fish but one with no trace of evidence against him. The others spoke to Thames Grimsley and got on well with him, particulalry as they agreed the factory owners were acting illegally and regretted being unnable to arrest them, they asked if he had heard anything about the extortion and arson threats and asked if any of his union members would report odd situations like that particularly if anyone making the threats smelled of burnt engine grease. By this point Thames thinks they are either trying to infiltrate the union which makes little sense as they are in uniform or are actually sympathetic people who could be useful in the future.
They then turned in for the night.
In the morning they headed off to talk to the Gnome alchemist , most of them refused her hospitality but Manual had tea and she had a potion of glibness. He talked to her about the ingredients and the potions but could not get her to admit selling invisibility potions however she did talk about Nilasa as a customer and they left certain that she was dealing in invisibility potions and probably other dubious ones , but either that was all she was up to or she was a master liar.
On the way back to HQ they realised that Nilasa's criminal associates were locked up on prison barges right next to them so went there as it would save time going backwards and forwards. Both prisoners hinted that they knew Nilasa had a big deal going down , and the constables arranged parole after checking they were in for petty larceny and not violent crimes , they also suggested they talk to Heward sechim about jobs and wrote a letter to him. The criminals told them that Nilasa was paying a fortune for imported wands from the family and was dealing with someone called the House Elf immediatly they realised the alchemist had been a good liar. However they decided to wait and trail them to the meeting on the 4th, they considered this may not be their case but eventually decided that importing magical wands for suspected terrorists , even thought they thought that Gale was getting the blame for at least some other crimes , still she should not get access to the wands.
Finally about lunchtime they got back to HQ and found officer Porter lounging around having a lazy morning of tea and donuts in the RHC reception room. They rapidly determined her was neither injured or necromantic and had been at the beach all day yesterday and sent him away , they also sent a request out that all officers should report any sign of people pretending to be other officers as they thought the man may pretend to be a different police officer at other times.
Then they set off to meet the dying skyseer, although they detoured Manual, Ulvaar and El Kevin checked out the Barge mentioned in the paperwork found in the alley. They found nothing, and could find nothing unusual in its activities, they did not manage to find about cargo going missing in transit. At the same time Padme and Nevla spoke to both of Wolfagangs contacts , neither told them anything but both mentioned a visit by 'Officer Proctor', the lady Professor showed a degree of distrust which made them think she knew more than she said and they warned her that her life may be in danger and suggested she report to the RHC HQ at her earliest convenience , they sent a letter to let Drelft know in case they were out so he could handle her .
Finally they headed into the cloudwoods where Roger and Manual scouted until they got to close to the Cloudbase for Roger them to be able to see much, it turned out Roger liked the taste of Hummingbird, while Manual worried this was the sort of place which housed elves who shoot at innocent goblins. We finished as they heard the fight ahead and had a carriage horse charge past.
Earlier they had a discussion on old age as they had been told that Heward Sechims uncle was an ancient man in his 80's. Ulvaar pointed out he was nearly that old, Nevla was only in her late 50's but largely immortal while Manual and El Kevin thought that was very old, although El Kevin pointed out that he intends to become a dragon and live for ever anyway.
The group started with Neval and Ulvaar interviewing Heward and looking around his factory , he told them about Nilasa , and mentioned his father may be able to arrange a meeting with Gale. They looked around the factory but as the two pc's with alchemical training were elsewhere could only tell that the workers seemed happy. They were very interested in the passing comment about people threatening him smelling of burned engine grease and said they would look into it, they asked him to send a runner if they turned up again and the constables would respond immediatly.
Meanwhile El Kevin was at the local police station getting a copy of Nilasa's file as their team had not seen one yet, he also tried to track down officer Porter and discovered he had been off work today, he got the home address and asked that Officer Porter come over to the RHC HQ in the morning when he came on shift.
Also at the same time Manual and Padme were going through the district trying to track down the alchemists shop from the receipt , they located it but decided that a visit should have the full team in case the shop owner overreacted and also because Manual thought that a Gnome may react badly to a Goblin,(also the player feared the alchemist shop would explode because it had a gnome in it and I have a violent aversion to gnomes).
Eventually all returned to the HQ after a brief visit to Officer Porters home and discovering he had taken the kids to the beach, they were near certain officer Porter at the house of blue birds had been a fake. They finally had manual analyse the stuff from the blue bird and discovered a mix of Death Oil (their term for the as yet unidentified witch oil) and blood. They are speculating what kind of undead he could be but have not found one which fits.
Finally for the 1st of Summer they went to the thinking man tavern. Manual got into an arguement about Earthquakes with the scholars and was well recieved , he did ask about Nilasa and found about her writing to the Family and got the name of the Don, they looked him up at HQ later and confirmed he was a big fish but one with no trace of evidence against him. The others spoke to Thames Grimsley and got on well with him, particulalry as they agreed the factory owners were acting illegally and regretted being unnable to arrest them, they asked if he had heard anything about the extortion and arson threats and asked if any of his union members would report odd situations like that particularly if anyone making the threats smelled of burnt engine grease. By this point Thames thinks they are either trying to infiltrate the union which makes little sense as they are in uniform or are actually sympathetic people who could be useful in the future.
They then turned in for the night.
In the morning they headed off to talk to the Gnome alchemist , most of them refused her hospitality but Manual had tea and she had a potion of glibness. He talked to her about the ingredients and the potions but could not get her to admit selling invisibility potions however she did talk about Nilasa as a customer and they left certain that she was dealing in invisibility potions and probably other dubious ones , but either that was all she was up to or she was a master liar.
On the way back to HQ they realised that Nilasa's criminal associates were locked up on prison barges right next to them so went there as it would save time going backwards and forwards. Both prisoners hinted that they knew Nilasa had a big deal going down , and the constables arranged parole after checking they were in for petty larceny and not violent crimes , they also suggested they talk to Heward sechim about jobs and wrote a letter to him. The criminals told them that Nilasa was paying a fortune for imported wands from the family and was dealing with someone called the House Elf immediatly they realised the alchemist had been a good liar. However they decided to wait and trail them to the meeting on the 4th, they considered this may not be their case but eventually decided that importing magical wands for suspected terrorists , even thought they thought that Gale was getting the blame for at least some other crimes , still she should not get access to the wands.
Finally about lunchtime they got back to HQ and found officer Porter lounging around having a lazy morning of tea and donuts in the RHC reception room. They rapidly determined her was neither injured or necromantic and had been at the beach all day yesterday and sent him away , they also sent a request out that all officers should report any sign of people pretending to be other officers as they thought the man may pretend to be a different police officer at other times.
Then they set off to meet the dying skyseer, although they detoured Manual, Ulvaar and El Kevin checked out the Barge mentioned in the paperwork found in the alley. They found nothing, and could find nothing unusual in its activities, they did not manage to find about cargo going missing in transit. At the same time Padme and Nevla spoke to both of Wolfagangs contacts , neither told them anything but both mentioned a visit by 'Officer Proctor', the lady Professor showed a degree of distrust which made them think she knew more than she said and they warned her that her life may be in danger and suggested she report to the RHC HQ at her earliest convenience , they sent a letter to let Drelft know in case they were out so he could handle her .
Finally they headed into the cloudwoods where Roger and Manual scouted until they got to close to the Cloudbase for Roger them to be able to see much, it turned out Roger liked the taste of Hummingbird, while Manual worried this was the sort of place which housed elves who shoot at innocent goblins. We finished as they heard the fight ahead and had a carriage horse charge past.
Earlier they had a discussion on old age as they had been told that Heward Sechims uncle was an ancient man in his 80's. Ulvaar pointed out he was nearly that old, Nevla was only in her late 50's but largely immortal while Manual and El Kevin thought that was very old, although El Kevin pointed out that he intends to become a dragon and live for ever anyway.
Andrew Moreton
Adventurer
Tonight one of my players commented after meeting Nicodemus for the first time and thinking him just an odd and observant Courier , that he was the 'Cigarette smoking man" and wondering when Mulder and Scully would turn up. It had never occurred to me , but is Nicodemus with his distinctive habit a pop culture call out to the x-files?
Session write up to follow later.
Session write up to follow later.
RangerWickett
Legend
Actually, my own father - William Nock - was in the Air Force. They apparently had a rule where you'd have to stand 'at ease' (which isn't really that comfortable) for long stretches, but you could smoke if you wanted to. So just to have something to do with his hands, my dad started smoking. He got the nickname "Nicotine Nock." Hence "Nicodemus the Gnostic."
(And my dad's original surname was Miller, but grandpa Miller turned out not to actually be my real grandfather. My dad found out his real father was a guy with the last name Nock whom I never met. My dad switched his name, even though he wasn't raised by the guy.)
Yes, my father is the main villain of ZEITGEIST.
(And my dad's original surname was Miller, but grandpa Miller turned out not to actually be my real grandfather. My dad found out his real father was a guy with the last name Nock whom I never met. My dad switched his name, even though he wasn't raised by the guy.)
Yes, my father is the main villain of ZEITGEIST.
Andrew Moreton
Adventurer
Thanks that was interesting. However the link to X-Files has made my players suspect that the courier was something more than he was pretending to be, they are certain there is an international connspiracy out there. In fact one of them wants to follow up by going back to Nathan Jierre and talking to him about the Crissilyr man who was seen on Axis island with Kasavarina I am trying to decide if he will mention him smoking.
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Andrew Moreton
Adventurer
The session started with a quick retcon as we realised that the last week we forgot to run the spirit medium talking to Nilasa.
They brought in a halfling spirit medium the same one who will later be used by Rock Rackus to communicate, but as he was in a trance one of the pc's (Nevla ) talked to the spirit of Nilasa. They had a long discussion about what their 3 questions would be which sidetracked into the nature of the divine in this world and were the dead go. Eventually they settled on first asking her about the events leading to her death the account they got matched their theories but the description of the shadow man who attacked her worried them , the only thing the players could think of was a shadow demon and that scares them.
The second question was about why she was there they heard an explanation that Gale was looking for evidence of a conspiracy involving the Danoran's and industrialists, that made them really want to talk to Gale , I very much doubt they are going to arrest her.
The third question was about how to contact Gale and it turned out that Nilasa's methods were either slow or involved messages on the wind so of no use to them.
We then cut back to were we left them at the end of the last session about to get into a fight with the cloudwood bandits. Initially Manuel challanged the bandits to surrender but after Renard fired an arrow at him (Renard failed to hit with a single attack for the entire fight due to bad dice rolls).
Padme, and El Kevin chipped away at Renard and another bandit, Ulvaar used the Icon of Avilona to fly up to the druid and another bandit and hacked away at them. Manual shot at swarms, the druid and Renard doing massive damage with his alchemical musket shots. Nevla rushed to the turned carriage to protect the people there and took a pistol shot to the face but then proceded to take out both the pistoleers. In the end after a bit of damage they knocked out the Druid, 4 bandits and the 2 pistoleers , Renard ran off into the woods and they could not catch up with the ranger in the undergrowth.
They secured their prisoners and sent Manual back on Roger to bring up some police to escort their prisoners back to town and he ran into a ranger patrol who took their prisoners off their hands and escorted them back to the RHC. This allowed the constables to press on and meet the dying skyseer.
At this point I showed them the front cover of module 2 and they were impressed with the artwork but slightly dissapointed that he was not holding any planets when they met him. They talked to him about Gale making it clear that they wanted to talk to her rather than arrest her and he agreed to set up a meeting if they did him the favor of climbing the mountain with him to see the sky. They agreed but Manual after realising he was talking to a man old enough to have outlived at least 4 generations of goblins asked to get a letter to introduce them to Gale in case he died in the next day or so. In fact they were so concerned that he could die soon they decided to make a rush job and talk to the mayor the next morning to set up a visit in the evening, because on the 4th they would be busy dealing with smugglers at night.
The next morning Nevla went to talk to mayor macbennin while the others went to HQ and filed paperwork on the huge bunch of bandits they had caught , the B team was brought in to help process them as the pc's case was more urgent and they would have to rush off.
Nevla was somewhat suspicous at the Mayor's but dismissed the Butler as just a Butler, if only they had taken Manual with his natural suspicion of Butlers he may have identified the assassin. She then chatted with the 'courier' she did notice he was a bit suprised to see her (because she looks just like Kasavarina's daughter) , he made his speech about the difficulty of one man changing the tide of chaos and the need for order, she disagreed she said that the chaos was what people wanted and that she believed one person or 'pebble' could make a difference as he would see, he wished her well and agreed they would see who was right and then moved on. Apparently his philosophy , reaction to her and his smoking has made the player think he is far more than a courier, I think they are well primed to start seeing signs of Nicodemus everywhere. The talk to the mayor went smoothly , she thought that he was what she expected in the mayor charged with containing dark magic and he thought this was a great opportunity to get her and the team dead.
At the RHC Office the rest of the team were there when professor campbell arrived to see if the officers who visited her were real. They handed off talking to her to Asst Inspector Dreflt as he was much better than any of the team at the office at handling people, and he persuaded her to reveal she was in contact with wolfgang , they had missed the message transfer for the 3rd of summer but planned to follow the one tommorrow morning after they came down the mountain.
They liked the complicated maps , for the fight with the bandits but we got a bit confused as we were working off pc screens, one of them has a decent A3 printer and will print some maps out for me in the future.
They brought in a halfling spirit medium the same one who will later be used by Rock Rackus to communicate, but as he was in a trance one of the pc's (Nevla ) talked to the spirit of Nilasa. They had a long discussion about what their 3 questions would be which sidetracked into the nature of the divine in this world and were the dead go. Eventually they settled on first asking her about the events leading to her death the account they got matched their theories but the description of the shadow man who attacked her worried them , the only thing the players could think of was a shadow demon and that scares them.
The second question was about why she was there they heard an explanation that Gale was looking for evidence of a conspiracy involving the Danoran's and industrialists, that made them really want to talk to Gale , I very much doubt they are going to arrest her.
The third question was about how to contact Gale and it turned out that Nilasa's methods were either slow or involved messages on the wind so of no use to them.
We then cut back to were we left them at the end of the last session about to get into a fight with the cloudwood bandits. Initially Manuel challanged the bandits to surrender but after Renard fired an arrow at him (Renard failed to hit with a single attack for the entire fight due to bad dice rolls).
Padme, and El Kevin chipped away at Renard and another bandit, Ulvaar used the Icon of Avilona to fly up to the druid and another bandit and hacked away at them. Manual shot at swarms, the druid and Renard doing massive damage with his alchemical musket shots. Nevla rushed to the turned carriage to protect the people there and took a pistol shot to the face but then proceded to take out both the pistoleers. In the end after a bit of damage they knocked out the Druid, 4 bandits and the 2 pistoleers , Renard ran off into the woods and they could not catch up with the ranger in the undergrowth.
They secured their prisoners and sent Manual back on Roger to bring up some police to escort their prisoners back to town and he ran into a ranger patrol who took their prisoners off their hands and escorted them back to the RHC. This allowed the constables to press on and meet the dying skyseer.
At this point I showed them the front cover of module 2 and they were impressed with the artwork but slightly dissapointed that he was not holding any planets when they met him. They talked to him about Gale making it clear that they wanted to talk to her rather than arrest her and he agreed to set up a meeting if they did him the favor of climbing the mountain with him to see the sky. They agreed but Manual after realising he was talking to a man old enough to have outlived at least 4 generations of goblins asked to get a letter to introduce them to Gale in case he died in the next day or so. In fact they were so concerned that he could die soon they decided to make a rush job and talk to the mayor the next morning to set up a visit in the evening, because on the 4th they would be busy dealing with smugglers at night.
The next morning Nevla went to talk to mayor macbennin while the others went to HQ and filed paperwork on the huge bunch of bandits they had caught , the B team was brought in to help process them as the pc's case was more urgent and they would have to rush off.
Nevla was somewhat suspicous at the Mayor's but dismissed the Butler as just a Butler, if only they had taken Manual with his natural suspicion of Butlers he may have identified the assassin. She then chatted with the 'courier' she did notice he was a bit suprised to see her (because she looks just like Kasavarina's daughter) , he made his speech about the difficulty of one man changing the tide of chaos and the need for order, she disagreed she said that the chaos was what people wanted and that she believed one person or 'pebble' could make a difference as he would see, he wished her well and agreed they would see who was right and then moved on. Apparently his philosophy , reaction to her and his smoking has made the player think he is far more than a courier, I think they are well primed to start seeing signs of Nicodemus everywhere. The talk to the mayor went smoothly , she thought that he was what she expected in the mayor charged with containing dark magic and he thought this was a great opportunity to get her and the team dead.
At the RHC Office the rest of the team were there when professor campbell arrived to see if the officers who visited her were real. They handed off talking to her to Asst Inspector Dreflt as he was much better than any of the team at the office at handling people, and he persuaded her to reveal she was in contact with wolfgang , they had missed the message transfer for the 3rd of summer but planned to follow the one tommorrow morning after they came down the mountain.
They liked the complicated maps , for the fight with the bandits but we got a bit confused as we were working off pc screens, one of them has a decent A3 printer and will print some maps out for me in the future.
