Vallaki is a Powderkeg, the Festival is the Fuse
General Summary
Excerpt from Seir’s Little Black Book (Session 6/3/21): Penned in Borokin’s hand, via dictation
Khaylen tried to reach inside the effigy with her mage hand, telling everyone in the group that the effigy was moving. There were a lot of guards around. She finds a piece of oil-soaked tattered cloth in there, attached to something. She couldn’t pull whatever it was free. She thought something alive was inside the effigy, so she tried to knock the torch aside. Unfortunately, he efforts led to little. The baron said that some local drunk released the tiger, with the implication that the man was burning alive inside the effigy. I quickly cast a spell to make the sound of the tiger on the edge of the crowd. Letho picked up on what I was doing and went to go and herd off the baron while the guards ran for the fake tiger. Unfortunately, he could not convince him, and the baron started screaming and pointing at the sun and complaining about the guy who was in there. Letho then tried to tackle him, but that didn’t work. Zin generally tried to make the crowd more chaotic, bumping into a chain of people who managed to upset the orphan pie cart. The people in the crowd looked horrified. O shot a blast of ice at the pile of sticks while I disguised myself (though apparently my disguised form didn’t have eyes, I was told?) in preparation of jumping in (fire doesn’t bother me much). However, rain started to pour from the sky, putting out the rest of the fire. The baron seemed to have some sort of mental breakdown. Letho threw his rug on the baron while Khaylen had a whispered conversation with Wockter about what move to do next. I approached the effigy in an effort to release the prisoner, and O tried to follow me, but Khaylen held her back. Wockter asked Khaylen if we were going to help her, and Khaylen responded by casting a sleeping spell on the baron. The baron and two commoners fell to the spell. I approached the effigy and started cutting through the bonds. Wockter started giving a speech about how we should escape from the tyranny of the baron. Letho tried to hoist the rug over his shoulder but it didn’t really work out. So he instead yelled “guards, with me!” in an effort to confuse them. They seemed to fall for it. Khaylen cast a charm person spell on Izek. She cast it successfully, but unfortunately Izek was a little too agitated to really listen to her. I was able to release the man inside the effigy, and this seemed to change the order of things. The townspeople and the townspeople amongst the guards started pushing back on Izek’s group. Wockter began commanding Izek to kneel. Then Izek started attacking civilians.
Report Date
08 Nov 2022
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