Michael's Report, 2022-06-05
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Tobby arrived to start working on the roof
Message on the door: Savra Drake of the City Watch has requested an audience with us
Xev received a message on the sending stones:
Stone message "You working alone? If need pawns contact Istrid in Raven. has good fighters but DO NOT TRUST HER any important details. Loose lips will backstab."
Savra Drake - Captain of the Griffon Cavalry
Firelight Villa in the Silverwine Ward
8 foot high brick fence forms perimeter between walls
No doors in walls
Entry into the estate is via the building doors
Three buildings: main building, servant quarters, guest house
Six different people come and go through the servant area
Cook, gardener, etc
Doors are locked, all seem to have keys to get in
Greeted at the door by a tiefling
Sophisticated looking, late 40's, early 50's, well dressed
Servants also coming and going to other estates
Anthea changed form to resemble a neighboring estate's servant
Approached the Firelight estate to casually approach and ask to borrow eggs
Tiefling was not there
Bluffed adequately, scoped out the servants,
Spoke with Penny the Owl, asked it to fly over and look for guards
Yard is partially obscured by trees
Six guards, sword and shield, breastplates
Main building is four stories
Balcony on second floor
Guest building is three stories
Servant house is 1 story
Anthea went to a nearby tavern/restaurant
Upscale place called The Singing Sword
Three floors
Pretty busy
Famous turtle soup
Misty Firelight is often there on Friday
Misty gets smoked veal and ____
Bonny the Waitress gave this info, works on Friday nights when Misty is there
Xev goes to the docks looking for Istrid
Istrid is a dark-skinned Dwarf
Operates is a moneylender, tens to use force for those that don't pay debts
Lots of muscle/thugs around
2 outside, 6 inside
Introduces himself as Everton's boy
"Haven't seen Everton in a good 15 years, but we go back a bit."
3gp gold per day per person to hire thugs
Istrid can be used as a fence
Cassius Laughingsteel does the receiving in the shipping docks
26 year old Half-elf, male
Told him to expect a shipment to the Garagely family
5gp is the rate to bypass usual screening
Xev paid him 6gp
Did not give him any information about his own name or where we're staying
Vathash at the Archives
Talked to Victoria at the archives
Oghma the god of knowledge, symbol is a blank scroll
The main ranks
Privates, typical city watch guard, assigned to a specific ward
1 sergeant per group of 4-5 different guards
Lieutenant, 1 per ward
Captain, manages the department of the city watch
Griffon Cavalry has their own ranks
Their privates are more prestigious
They watch over the whole city
City Guard - separate from the watch
Similar rank structure, but they secure the walls
Warden:
Manages all three branches
Reports to Lady Bright
Simon was a private in the Griffon Cavalry (based on his insignia)
Wash got back to the tavern first, rest soon after
Sees a well-dressed tiefling outside the tavern
William DeFino
Late 40's, white hair
"What the hell do you want?" Wash's words
Tiefling, "It wasn't always a shithole."
Remarks that we are trying to restore it to its former glory
Tiefling says that his employer would like to offer 300gp as a charitable endeavor to help restore it
Claims there are no strings attached, high insight rolls say there is no deception
Offered us work for the family
Help with charitable endeavours (allegedly)
They're opening a poor house (???) in Ratsong
Want help persuading people to move into the poor house
Trying to secretly disperse money through the city
Motivation: Their son went missing some time ago (presumed dead)
Elmo was his name
17 (if he were still alive)
Happened a few years ago
500gp reward for information leading to his
They're also giving away paintings throughout the city
Vathash asked for one
Twins are still doing well
Son and daughter: Viola and (Victor?)
Xev gestured to accept the money
Lyra Dune tells the group that there's something off about the tiefling
Says that this family has a history of bad behaviour, killing people to get them off their property, etc
Another woman approaches the group after William leaves
Half-elf, late 20's
Pretty, but quite haggard
Melanie Fallenbranch
There was a disturbance here in this place that has since been calmed
I represent a group called the Emerald Autumn
Many things not right in the world, and we try to fix that
Protect nature and the natural order
She is a druid
She could sense the disturbance in the tavern that has been resolved (Fil the Ghost)
Out in the city outside the farmlands
Scarecrow is coming to life at night and killing the farm animals
City Watch isn't taking it seriously
Reward: 30 gp
Anthea negotiated it up to 40gp
She has a place in the Ivy Ward
Jim the imp's explorations: found the place where the flayer sanctum used to be, but the
Afternoon (after 1:30 PM)
Went to see Savra Drake at the castle
Around the back, up to a tower where the griffon cavalry reside
Stables for the griffons (empty)
Younger woman, late 20s, Human
Standing near the edge
Mentions that the city is in bad financial position
Many of the griffons flying out are just illusions
Savra runs a special department called The Virtuous Gauntlet
Does special work that falls outside the City Watch isn't equipped to handle
History check:
Says she grew up with Rowan
Asks about the mind flayed bodies found
A group called The Gilded Grim
Active in the Ivy Ward???
Most active on Mondays and Fridays
Next day is in three days
Attacking businesses, breaking windows
Wash has heard of them
Just a group of mercenaries
50gp
Xev negotiated up to 60gp
3:30 PM
Cobbles and Corveiser shop
Merigold Duststone, early 60's half-elf
"I told you, I'm not paying! Get out, please!"
Has been getting a hassled to pay for protection by people with a 'weathered' look
They've been attacking her place because she's not paying
Same group, once a week or so
Thugs visit her on Fridays, at random times daily
Mentions two other businesses on her block
Felzoun's Folly, a tavern
Barkeep, younger looking Half-orc, bald
Boiled eggs and dried peas, and ale
Asked about the roughings
"Sucks when they can't pay."
Hates having to pay, but they come in groups of 6-7
Been going on for about 2 spans
Seen them coming in and out of a building in the Ivy Ward
Points out the residential building in the Ivy Ward
Seems to be theirs now
Paying them 2gp every week
Vathash goes to the smithy in Unicorn Alley
Made agreement to use their shop
Made a greataxe for them
Took 6 hours
Late Evening
Party reunited in the Ivy Ward, and approached the home allegedly used by the Gilded Grim. The door was locked, and Wash kicked it in.
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05 Jun 2022
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