Session 32, Octesh 8th- 30,814 Gold Pieces
We wander around town for 3 days checking various things out. Rayven see there’s a few shows coming up. We talk to Dominique and find out she’s handy with War jacks, but certainly is not a War Caster. Nerion gives Glady all the info on our church, then does a work out session and a 3 day glutton party with Scwee, they both look a little fat. We find a store in the O.C with magical weapons and armor, I make a list of their good pieces.
We spoke to the guard who researched the murder at our manor, he found nothing but allowed us to search the archive, where we discover Nerion has 0 office skills, so he bribes the office lady. She find one report of a loud scream about that time marked as low priority and 2 muggings the same year. There’s also a report on blackmail concerning our soup kitchen a few years later. We meet the neighbor Dreyfus, to the left and Nerion chats him up and we’re invited in. He gets dressed and comes back in full Brigade Rifleman regalia. Rayven sees it’s he’s a Gun Mage, he’s been here 5 years and bought the house from the city, from the drunken gobber we know. He’s in favor of the soup kitchen, we may hire him as a trainer. Our other neighbor Morden makes it clear he’s only been here 10 year an knows nothing and waves us off.
We head back home and ask Alfred of any strangers coming by. He says a Gentleman name Clavis, but we were not home so he sent him on. He also tells us he looked unhoused with holey boots. We decide to talk to Dana and check her body and coffin out.
We bring Dana to our fireplace along with the rest of the household and ask her to explain what happened in the end, she reluctantly does. We find out she was murdered in her bedroom, she heard her Mother and butler Bob scream before the bad man comes into her room, pulls her from under the bed and stabs her in the heart. She then draws us a very detailed picture of the murderer. She never once mentions her Dad and says she has no other memories of that night. When Nerion Ike and Rayven check out the coffin and body they notice the coffin is spelled and has runes inscribed on it, her body is not and she shows evidence of a stabbing straight into her heart. Dominique advises us to tell Dana she’s dead, we tell her we may soon after a few more things are checked out.
We lastly head to the Iron Gut where Rayven and Ike collect the passes for the OC, our S class badges and 200 platinum. Nerion sees Xila and a guy we find out is Paeter sitting at a table alone. Talking to Xila he finds out she is laser focused on finding her crew, she drops the info that Paeter is part of the Mist People. As Nerion and her heads back to Paeter, Xila informs him that she told us where he’s from, Paeter not liking that makes his way out where Ike follows and asks politely if we can meet, he agrees to downstairs. Nerion interrogates the guy like nobody’s business and won’t let up, demanding the guy’s name and rank. Ike calms the situation down saying we’ll gain trust as we do more sensitive missions, Paeter says he may have something in 2 weeks. We return to the house and find a summons for the Soul Wardens to the Kings Estate in 2 days.
Finis,
Below are my notes which go into more detail, but I didn’t want Gannon to go through a 15 minute intro.
It’s been 3 days. we have 28,814G. Nerion buffs & trains up Scwee who gains 30% body mass. Upcoming shows are
There’s three events left coming up in Octesh.
Octesh 10th - a musical performance at 8pm, named the Rising Tide.
Octesh 14th - “Gidget’s Gadget Expo AR 422” and has prices for entry as well as booth pricing.
Octesh 22 - The “Aleholics annual showdown AR 422” - tagline : 30+ brews registered for this year!
We tour the outer cloister and find
We find a store called The Booze Brothers Wears and Wearable in the OC.
We look over their stock and see….
1. Dawngaurd Plate inscribe with Mechanica Halo of Fire 18 AC 60 Lbs., 4K, small arcane condenser
2. Bonded Stomrthrower
3. Balefire carbine, 2d8 radiant, alchemical capacitor, level 3 rune plate 1k
4. Silenced Buckler Cannon
5. Bonded carbine
Guard failed to turn up any info on the Val Effron Manor (our manor), we looked into the archives ourselves and failed. We bribed a clerk to look for us. She found a complaint about the soup kitchen on blackmail, those owners deeded the place to their black mailers. Then died, the state found proof of the blackmails and kept the building for the state. This was 22 years ago. 2 Assaults and a scream happened the same year, the blackmail was a few years after. Parents found with signs of decay.
Roofer uses his wand on coffin and senses adjuration magic on her.
Clavis (looking poor) came by the house once, but Alfred sent him on his way.
We meet the neighbor Dreyfus, to the left and Nerion chats him up and we’re invited in. He gets dressed and comes back in full Brigade Rifleman regalia. Rayven sees it’s he’s a Gun Mage, been here 5 years, bought from the city, from the drunken gobber we know. He’s in favor of the soup kitchen, we may hire him as a trainer
Off to the next neighbor, Dwarf male Morden, wants nothing to do with us, only been their 10 years.
Ike in his dark vision notices the coffin slightly glows. Dana wants to know why Ike is down there, Ike comes up with her and Nerion and I speak to here
She tells the story. She was in her room drawing when she heard shouting, which is not unusual in this household, then she heard her mom’s scream, being scared she hid under her bed. She tell us the butler was Bob at the time. Bob was outside her door when he screamed also. Someone smelling like copper pennies pulled her out of the bed and hurt her, showing us a ghost knife, she agrees to draw a picture of him, a Khadoran male with a weird haircut, a scar next one eye, one ear missing a chunk of flesh. Curiously she never mentions her Dad and says she has no other memories.
I see inscriptions on the rim of the coffin, Nerion confirms she died by a knife right into the heart.
Dominique advises us to tell Dana she’s dead, we will so
We head to Deeter’s after Leo tells us we need to speak soon. We talk Deeter into doing the show, Ike and Nerion will watch his shop. Shotgun will be ready before the show. We head to Iron Gut, Xila is there with Paeter, Nerion heads off to speak to her as Rayven heads to Misty. Jack is tending bar. Nerion shakes his hand and can tell what we see
is smaller than the form he is shaking with. Xila informs us he is a Higher Member of the Shadow Mists, she believes him. She won’t join us until she finds out what happens with her crew. Her crew went to some ruin excavations a week’s east. As we go back to Paeter he leaves when Xyla tells Paeter she told us that he’s with the mist people. Ike convinces him to talk and we meet him downstairs, Nerion does everything in the world including driving his brother’s insane trying to get Paeter’s real name and titles. Paeter is very clear he’s for the city and mercenary guild, and right now he thinks we’re on the same page but he also thinks that will change in our futures, Nerion won’t give up. Ike tries to calm Nerion down by suggesting we can try to gain more trust by completing more sensitive missions, Pater agrees to the possibility and says that he may have a mission for us but needs 2 weeks to gather more information. We return to the house and find a summons for the Soul Wardens to the Kings Estate in 2 days.
We receive 5 permanent badges of S Rank 5 outer cloister permanent passes. and 200 Platinum (2000G).We’re show the upstairs room.
