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Message: <blockquote data-quote="skotothalamos" data-source="post: 7980992" data-attributes="member: 83398">Two new constables joined the squad:Rian Rhiannon finally showed up for work. Or maybe she was working other cases. This human bard was found with no memory in the Cloudwood some time ago by Glim Glim and recruited into the RHC. She drinks a lot of whisky and has fond feelings for elves but doesn't remember much else. This is my apparently one-per-game standard-issue amnesiac. She's not Kasvarina; I already did that. But there's a chance she's a relative who was shapechanged and memory-wiped. or maybe just an Ob member who Grappa memory-wiped. I'm going to do some digging on this one. Nothing I love more than a "wait, I did what?" moment.Thorruki "Thor" Axebringer. The Glim Glim player is back with a Dwarf Barbarian who works out of a foreign office (we are negotiating between Drakr and Crissilyir) and was undercover on Li Grifoni. His months-long undercover operation to infiltrate the Family was ruined by the Flint RHC. Now stuck in Flint with no assignment, he was re-assigned to the Flint RHC to fill a sudden vacancy. We don't know much about him yet, but he didn't do anything particularly stupid this session, so maybe that's a good sign. Still hasn't picked a theme, though I'm pushing for Eschatologist because I'm here for a short Viking who's a Ragnarok prepper.Thursday, 5th of Summer: Assistant Chief Inspector Delft brought in Constable Sergeant Joe Actual and Constable Zamfir, along with consultant Dr. Aubrey de Gascoigne to advise them of some changes to the squad. Two new Constables were being added to their unit: Rian and Thor. There was some icebreaking and getting to know each other over morning coffee and donuts, and then Delft got to business: a civil disturbance was underway in a market in Bosum Strand and the Flint PD was requesting RHC assistance. Before the briefing ended, Chief Inspectress Margaret Saxby interrupted to lay into the squad for various performance issues, including the death of their former Sergeant, an exploding munitions warehouse, and a dragonborn arrested on zero evidence. She also once again informed everyone of the impending visit of King Aodhan to christen and launch the RNS Coaltongue, Risur's first steam-powered warship. The King would be in town on Monday, and Saxby needed to send some constables to make nice with the VIPs. She made it clear that this was a volunteer opportunity, but also that it was an opportunity to make good on previous failings. She also made it clear that somehow messing up this schmoozing mission would not be good for anyone's continuing career in the RHC. "High risk. High reward. Volunteer in my office. Don't naughty word it up." She then left.Also during the briefing, Joe Actual apprised the squad of the goings-on in the Nettles the previous night, and expressed an interest in reading the book they had recovered.After the meeting, the constables took a moment to strategize on how to calm the anti-government in the Strand. Word from the Flint PD was that the crowd was mostly upset at the RHC for slaughtering a horse and the ensuing fire that cost many lives. Rian suggested that perhaps a few horses to donate to the poor would be a good gesture, so they requisitioned the money to buy a couple of carriage horses and brought along a handler for the horses.Upon arriving at the scene, they met with two Flint PD officers who were very casually keeping an eye on things from as far away as was practical. The scene in the open-air market was stable at the moment, but could blow up at any time. Pro-workers-union agitator Thames Grimsley was on a stage built to look like a gallows in the center of the square, leading a horse to the noose. There were another half-dozen horses lined up to go up on the stage. Grimsley was wearing a costume police hat and badge and was telling a tale of how the horses were guilty for the crime of being driven down the street by common citizens, and so, as is standard RHC policy, they had been summarily sentenced to death. He was hamming it up for the crowd, mostly for laughs, but was hitting on his main points that the common people needed more influence to prevent such abuses of power. Nearby on the stage, a docker shantyman was improvising some songs that were very insulting to the RHC, Governor Stanfield, King Aodhan, and anyone else he could make rhyme.The Flint PD noted that the local sellers had not been able to set up their stalls in the chaos, so Grimsley was at least guilty of putting on a public performance without a license. The nature of his show could also be considered incitement to riot. However, they knew they could not intercede in that atmosphere.The RHC drew up a plan. First off, they would not play into Grimsley's narrative by entering the square leading horses, so they left those behind. Rian, Zamfir, and Joe Actual would infiltrate the crowd to get a feeling for what could be done, while Dr. Aubrey would use Illusory Script to draft up a license for Grimsley that they could make a show of handing over. The idea was that they needed to repair their PR, so if the RHC were seen to be okay with this farce, maybe it would smooth things over a bit.In the crowd, the constables spotted several notables. Rian encountered Rock Rackus, who she already knew from infiltrating his inner circle on behalf of the RHC. Joe Actual encountered his friend Nilasa, whose home/workplace had been saved the night of the fire. And Zamfir spotted Lorcan Kell, together with a bodyguard, watching the spectacle with a self-satisfied expression. Zamfir kept tabs on Kell while Thor climbed the nearby rooftops in case a surprise dwarf attack would be useful soon. Joe Actual caught up with Nilasa and met her new boyfriend, a security guard at the Danoran Consulate by the name of Braden Sarkin. Rian had the most impact as she cajoled with Rock to take the stage and put on a show in an effort to quiet Grimsley and his message.Rock resisted at first, since there was no money in it, but Rian convinced him that putting on a free show now would make more fans who would buy tickets to his next show. Rock took the stage with his entourage, telling Grimsley to "let the professionals do it." Grimsley had by this point put a rope around the horse's neck, but it was also obvious that the horse was a costume with two more dockers inside. Grimsley hanged the horse costume, and Rock got the crowd going with his hot new hit, "naughty word Tha Police."Rian advised Dr. Aubrey of this development, and he changed his spell to instead be a license for a Rock Rackus concert. The illusory license (which would persist for 10 days) was delivered on-stage to Rock. He read that he had the legal right to occupy the square for the duration of his concert and declared to the crowd "We're going all weekend!"To pacify the local merchants, the RHC commandeered a nearby park and convinced them to set up concessions and other services, noting that attendance to their part of Bosum Strand would probably be very high until Rock ran out of energy.Dr. Aubrey used Detect Thoughts to get a surface-level read on Lorcan Kell. The crime boss seemed to be happy with the event. Luckily, Thor did not dive onto him axe-first from two stories up, and the RHC headed back to HQ having turned a potential riot into Flint's first music festival. As of Friday morning, the Rock concert continues...</blockquote>

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