Session 3: The Beard Belly Massacre

General Summary

The party runs from The Braided Beard Belly and into an alleyway where they confront Teel. However, Teel asks to wait until they get to Lumerics to disclose what just happened. The party agrees, Naved reluctantly so and they split up to get back without drawing attention to themselves. Back at Lumerics they ask to have the living room for themselves where they talk. Teel reveals that due to his background in working for scraps, he is used to taking jobs that require him to use force. Sometimes it's hard to control the force used and the line between a hostile and neutral are blurred. He reveals his relationship with Lizz as her guardian of sorts making sure she is fed and cared for. The party gives Teel some comfort and leeway as he is still very must just a teenager, but make sure he understands he can't be going around smashing peoples heads in at will. then they discuss their current predicament and how to go about it. Alkaline mentions she has work tomorrow and will try to gleam some info about what happened then. Alkaline gives Naved and Florian a sending stone. Lumeric is given the document casing and they head out with the insignia. Teel goes to sleep in Triandras room where her chamber pot of menstrual blood still lies. Triandra freaks out when she realizes Teel has seen it and Alkaline sleeps on the couch. Florian and Naved take a hike to the Ruby Ramshack where Florian is posessed by Naved patron who assures her that she is on the right track with the right people. Florian gets a head injury.
  the next morning Alkaline is up earlier than the rest and heads to her jobsite. However on the way there she encounters a wanted poster with Teels face on it listing several serious charges. Fraking out she heads to her worksite, calls Florian on the sending stone and informs them of the poster. Florian awakes Naved. Alkaline gets denied access to the explosion site and gets told to kick dirt. She overhears some knuckledraggers talking about the poster and Teels involvement. The party coaleces at Lumerics where they confront Teel who is flabbergasted to say the least. Not only is he illiterate and can't read, but the charges are way above a simple first degree murder charge. They realize that someone pinned the explosions on Teel. Lumeric arrives and tell the party that the insignia gave no information, which in itself is a lot of information. He will also send it to an augur to see if they can gleam some info from it. In the meanwhile Teel needs to get a new identity. Alkaline uses her experience with make up and disguises to help Teel. Alkaline confronts Florian about his Etherborn nature. How Rakish used Florians blood in experiments, and the pneumatic essence thing. They connect it to Rakish's dissapearance. Alklaine reveals she has some research regarding the same things. They realize they need more info and head to the Archivist Lounge.