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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elfshire" data-source="post: 6240215" data-attributes="member: 77291">Chapter 2Apologies for the lack of updates - as of this writing, the players have already completed this chapter.Here and there, I've been sprinkling in cameos of the so-called 'B Team,' or Team 3 as they're known at my table, so that the eventual showdown between them and the PCs during Chapter 3 (and later, their deaths during Chapter 5) is more meaningful. Carlao himself came up and congratulated the PCs after their victory, and I mentioned that the office in general was proud of their fine work. Things began to settle down after that, and so Delft began to look into other problems for his constables to solve...I started the next session off with a bit of background on Gale, at least what the PCs would know of her. Fey sympathizer, tech-hater, terrorist, and believer in a cause that at least some of my party was sympathetic to (a support which would grow as my player roster changed over the course of this chapter). My player who used to play McTaggert was now playing Enna (pronounced EE-na), a female elven skyseer shaman.After giving them a brief notice on what had happened at the consulate, Delft bid the constables go an investigate, specifically to see if there was flight magic involved and/or a possible connection to Gale. My player's process was a little lopsided, which I didn't predict, but anything they actually DID look into, they were quite thorough with. For example, they didn't search Nilasa's body at all, nor did they take a single look at the box of chocolates she'd brought, and they didn't even question any of the staff besides LeBrix. But Qiyet found the hidden bloodstain, Darsys got a number of big clues off Nilasa's spirit (killed by a shadow, used flying magic, gave away some documents she'd stolen to a man on the street. Though she wouldn't tell them who she was working for, or what documents she'd taken), and Enna found the site of the scuffle in the alley. By the time they'd left, they'd pieced together that the consulate was covering up what really happened, and they'd thoroughly pissed off LeBrix with their questioning, and by bluntly pointing out inconsistencies in his account of what happened. They'd also found evidence of post-mortem healing on the victim's face, the wound caused by some kind of necrotic weapon...As the consulate closed their doors and went back to work, a carriage driver rolled up, asking the party if they'd seen a sharp-looking man with a goatee - this led them to the House of Blue Birds, where a little diplomacy and badge-waving got them up to see Wolfgang's room. All that they got out of the trip was a black-stained rag and the man's name, as well as the names of two references of his, living in the city. They also learned that an "Officer Porter" was here investigating earlier, and subsequent inquiries with the police confirmed that no such man worked in Flint law enforcement.Speaking with those references - Doctor Camp and Professor Kindleton - let the party learn more about the man they pursued, though not his specific hiding spot at the moment. He was a doctor from the Malice Lands, having traveled to Flint quite suddenly after some kind of marital trouble. My players instantly suspected he was having an affair with Kindleton, which I was able to neither confirm nor deny <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />As the party ate dinner that night, Enna specifically wanted to split off from the group and follow Kindleton home to her apartment... so I let her run into Officer Porter. Things instantaneously went south - she started attacking the man in the middle of the streets of Flint, though she did so at a distance, using her spirit companion and never revealing herself. People were in panic, and Porter fired several shots using his distinctive chrome pistol before getting the hell out of there. Kindleton fled all the way to a nearby hospital she volunteered at, putting her beyond the reach of the impostor but also completely off-limits to the party, as the security guards knew her and strictly obeyed her requests not to let anyone in to see her.That was the end of the first day.</blockquote>

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