Andrew Moreton
Adventurer
After a fairly combat heavy session last time this session was entirely talking speculation and some pointless attempts by NPC's to spot Manuel creeping around.
They started meeting with the Bruse where Nevla regaled him with slightly exagerated tales of their exploits while trying to leave out some of the more sensitive bits, and was mildly suprised to discover he seemed to know all the sensitive bits alreadt. They are more impressed with El Extrano , although El Kevin remains convinced that El Extrano is actually running Ber and just lets the Bruse take all the blame, EL Extrano thinks this would not be a bad idea and will consider it when the Bruse is replaced. The Bruse is particularly entertained by the previous encounter with Lya and driving a train off a cliff.
The team promised Ber one of the next Coaltongue class vessels to be built and to set up a branch of Flint university in Ber specialisign in Arcanotechnical integration, as they did not think Risur had any warships as impressive as the one Danor had given them immediatly available.
The Bruse announces the terms of his offer to access Tinker, when he explains the Cantalabrian railway challange Nevla petitions to work with the Griento's she explains that they are already freinds with Griento and that they fear that during a challange any legitimate problems Griento suffers could be used to attack his honour , as they are blamed on him throwing the contest to the team. Instead by working with him they will preserve the honour and integrity of this proud son of Ber. Lya argues against this but fails to come up with a convincing arguement and the Bruse shrugs and amends the challange.
Next he announces the challange along the Gold coast and the team are annoyed to learn that the Ob will have to try to arrange an attack on Risur but go along with it as they can't think of a way to change the Bruse's mind.
As the Bruse heads of stargazing they see if Padme can tag along using her expert knowledge as a Stargazer but she fails to interest the Bruse so they let him go. Merton and Rush come over to try and taunt the pc's and are suprised at El Kevin and Manuels enthusiasm for the T-Rexes and their enquiries if Merton has any more.
Lyr calls her minions away and they depart the court. Nevla seeks out the Vizier and the minister of Dragon affairs and talks to them. The Vizier is moderatly impressed by the clear preference of Nevla to settle this silly game as constructivly as possible and her commitment to avoid sabotage , but does not commit herself. Nevla rapidly realises that the Minister of Dragon affairs is bribable with a nice bribe for Ber and goes away to think what they can offer which is equivalant to 5 warships. Pemberton talks to Manuel and Ulvaar about Steam suits and improvements to his B.E.A.R
They then retire to their cottage to scheme, as soon as night falls Bat Manuel sets out to own the night and with a mediocre stealth roll of 46 undetectable spies on Lya and her minions. He notes her preference for none destructive railway obstacles and Rush's enthusiasm for destruction, and notes they should encourage Rush as his plans seem to have been bad before and catching him will help their cause, when discussion moves on to attacking Risur he thinks the plan to mindcontrol a sea captain is brilliant and hard to stop. However later when this is revealed to Nevla she realises this is the perfect opportunity remembering how badly Ber reacts to Mind control she decides that they must catch the Ob in mid plan at all costs and arranges for Glaucia and Brakken to accompany them to the area to provide independent confirmation of the plan when they are caught.
They are visited by Sokana who as the former aid to the Duchess has been providing some assistance to the Risur Charge De Affairs while a new ambassador is appointed. They don't hold her actions on the Coaltongue against her and get a breifing on the situation with Caballaro and the Gold Coast including the disease outbreak and the desire by the locals to make a treaty with the fey , they set in motion plans to make that possible. The Minister of Dragons visits and is bribed by cuts on import tariff's on Beran Wine and Meat she also tells them about the situation in the Gold coast which is confirmation but reveals one new fact that a Goblin tribe seems to have thrown off the Disease, everyone looks at where they think Manuel may be.
The final visitor is Lya who unsuccesfully bids to have them cooperate. However the discussion is interesting they are not convinced about the Collossus as a weapon to protect against Risur , particularly as it was built in Risur however they accept her arguements that Flint has a unique set of resources and building it elsehere would have been very hard, also that is nothing had gone wrong it would have walked off in the Bleak gate to Danor without anyone noticing it. She says that fully operational is should be able to move between the Dreaming, real world and Bleak gate but obfuscates about fitting with with a lantern.
She reveals the Ob want to make a better world and have been experimenting with the lanterns to look at other planes. She expresses remorse about Sijhen's rampage and says truthfully that he was completely unexpected and that they have increased precautions since then, and that if the Ob's specialist team had been in place he probably would not be free. Xambria is not happy at being blamed. They discuss the Ob philosophy with her but the limits of Geases and common sense stops them getting much more. They decline the deal because their king would not approve and because they don't trust the Ob even is Lya is sincere about a better world and not hurting other nations they do not trust the Ob to implement their plan without bloodshed.
After Lya departs they speculate that the Ob may indeed want to change the planar balance of the world, and perhaps are responsible for breaking Avilona. Manuel and El Kevin think that the cigerrette smoking ghost may be an ancient or something left behind from that time with plans to improve on or change whatever the ancients did. Nevla with memories of Dala which seem to include the cigerette smoking man thinks he is younger than an Ancient, but after much specualtion they decide that they know too little to really speculate.
Finally Nevla , Manuel , Brakken and Glaucia teleport to the Gold coast via Slate as their briefing for Harkover is too complicated for sending spells. While they talk to Harkover Glaucia gets to inspect the RHC and see what she wants to learn from them.
Padme. El Kevin and Ulvaar teleport to the Rail head were they meet Pemberton trying to sell his steam crew , they are impressed by them and provide the budget for the Griento's to hire them as they seem useful and if they have them the Ob cannot , they also perusade Pemberton to hire his second steam crew available in afew days to the Griento's other railroad projects. Ulvaar while listening to Pemberton explain his steam crew to the Lightning Weasel and El Kevin as the local engineering experts realises that Pemberton is even smarter than he is pretending to be and that much of his personality is a mask. When he shares this information with others Manuel has his dragon breakthrough . Manuel has the B-Team start some surreptitous background checks into Pemberton being reluctant to confront Harkover. They discover that the Pemberton wealth and businesses have always been passed down through a single male heir, and they rose to prominence around the time the last Dragon tyrants vanished. While not conclusive Manuel, Nevla and Ulvaar are fairly convinced Pemberton is an ancient Dragon Tyrant
They started meeting with the Bruse where Nevla regaled him with slightly exagerated tales of their exploits while trying to leave out some of the more sensitive bits, and was mildly suprised to discover he seemed to know all the sensitive bits alreadt. They are more impressed with El Extrano , although El Kevin remains convinced that El Extrano is actually running Ber and just lets the Bruse take all the blame, EL Extrano thinks this would not be a bad idea and will consider it when the Bruse is replaced. The Bruse is particularly entertained by the previous encounter with Lya and driving a train off a cliff.
The team promised Ber one of the next Coaltongue class vessels to be built and to set up a branch of Flint university in Ber specialisign in Arcanotechnical integration, as they did not think Risur had any warships as impressive as the one Danor had given them immediatly available.
The Bruse announces the terms of his offer to access Tinker, when he explains the Cantalabrian railway challange Nevla petitions to work with the Griento's she explains that they are already freinds with Griento and that they fear that during a challange any legitimate problems Griento suffers could be used to attack his honour , as they are blamed on him throwing the contest to the team. Instead by working with him they will preserve the honour and integrity of this proud son of Ber. Lya argues against this but fails to come up with a convincing arguement and the Bruse shrugs and amends the challange.
Next he announces the challange along the Gold coast and the team are annoyed to learn that the Ob will have to try to arrange an attack on Risur but go along with it as they can't think of a way to change the Bruse's mind.
As the Bruse heads of stargazing they see if Padme can tag along using her expert knowledge as a Stargazer but she fails to interest the Bruse so they let him go. Merton and Rush come over to try and taunt the pc's and are suprised at El Kevin and Manuels enthusiasm for the T-Rexes and their enquiries if Merton has any more.
Lyr calls her minions away and they depart the court. Nevla seeks out the Vizier and the minister of Dragon affairs and talks to them. The Vizier is moderatly impressed by the clear preference of Nevla to settle this silly game as constructivly as possible and her commitment to avoid sabotage , but does not commit herself. Nevla rapidly realises that the Minister of Dragon affairs is bribable with a nice bribe for Ber and goes away to think what they can offer which is equivalant to 5 warships. Pemberton talks to Manuel and Ulvaar about Steam suits and improvements to his B.E.A.R
They then retire to their cottage to scheme, as soon as night falls Bat Manuel sets out to own the night and with a mediocre stealth roll of 46 undetectable spies on Lya and her minions. He notes her preference for none destructive railway obstacles and Rush's enthusiasm for destruction, and notes they should encourage Rush as his plans seem to have been bad before and catching him will help their cause, when discussion moves on to attacking Risur he thinks the plan to mindcontrol a sea captain is brilliant and hard to stop. However later when this is revealed to Nevla she realises this is the perfect opportunity remembering how badly Ber reacts to Mind control she decides that they must catch the Ob in mid plan at all costs and arranges for Glaucia and Brakken to accompany them to the area to provide independent confirmation of the plan when they are caught.
They are visited by Sokana who as the former aid to the Duchess has been providing some assistance to the Risur Charge De Affairs while a new ambassador is appointed. They don't hold her actions on the Coaltongue against her and get a breifing on the situation with Caballaro and the Gold Coast including the disease outbreak and the desire by the locals to make a treaty with the fey , they set in motion plans to make that possible. The Minister of Dragons visits and is bribed by cuts on import tariff's on Beran Wine and Meat she also tells them about the situation in the Gold coast which is confirmation but reveals one new fact that a Goblin tribe seems to have thrown off the Disease, everyone looks at where they think Manuel may be.
The final visitor is Lya who unsuccesfully bids to have them cooperate. However the discussion is interesting they are not convinced about the Collossus as a weapon to protect against Risur , particularly as it was built in Risur however they accept her arguements that Flint has a unique set of resources and building it elsehere would have been very hard, also that is nothing had gone wrong it would have walked off in the Bleak gate to Danor without anyone noticing it. She says that fully operational is should be able to move between the Dreaming, real world and Bleak gate but obfuscates about fitting with with a lantern.
She reveals the Ob want to make a better world and have been experimenting with the lanterns to look at other planes. She expresses remorse about Sijhen's rampage and says truthfully that he was completely unexpected and that they have increased precautions since then, and that if the Ob's specialist team had been in place he probably would not be free. Xambria is not happy at being blamed. They discuss the Ob philosophy with her but the limits of Geases and common sense stops them getting much more. They decline the deal because their king would not approve and because they don't trust the Ob even is Lya is sincere about a better world and not hurting other nations they do not trust the Ob to implement their plan without bloodshed.
After Lya departs they speculate that the Ob may indeed want to change the planar balance of the world, and perhaps are responsible for breaking Avilona. Manuel and El Kevin think that the cigerrette smoking ghost may be an ancient or something left behind from that time with plans to improve on or change whatever the ancients did. Nevla with memories of Dala which seem to include the cigerette smoking man thinks he is younger than an Ancient, but after much specualtion they decide that they know too little to really speculate.
Finally Nevla , Manuel , Brakken and Glaucia teleport to the Gold coast via Slate as their briefing for Harkover is too complicated for sending spells. While they talk to Harkover Glaucia gets to inspect the RHC and see what she wants to learn from them.
Padme. El Kevin and Ulvaar teleport to the Rail head were they meet Pemberton trying to sell his steam crew , they are impressed by them and provide the budget for the Griento's to hire them as they seem useful and if they have them the Ob cannot , they also perusade Pemberton to hire his second steam crew available in afew days to the Griento's other railroad projects. Ulvaar while listening to Pemberton explain his steam crew to the Lightning Weasel and El Kevin as the local engineering experts realises that Pemberton is even smarter than he is pretending to be and that much of his personality is a mask. When he shares this information with others Manuel has his dragon breakthrough . Manuel has the B-Team start some surreptitous background checks into Pemberton being reluctant to confront Harkover. They discover that the Pemberton wealth and businesses have always been passed down through a single male heir, and they rose to prominence around the time the last Dragon tyrants vanished. While not conclusive Manuel, Nevla and Ulvaar are fairly convinced Pemberton is an ancient Dragon Tyrant
