CoS Session 13: Fighting Spirits, pt. 3

General Summary

2/3/874

• So the party gathers intel on the Lord Mayor and his associations with the Court of the Undying
• Roland goes to Gilded Mug, fancy tavern that Lord Mayor frequents
• Roland talks with Neville, the Lord Mayor's secretary, about his boss' schedule
• At the Gilded Mug he also runs into a Red Hand member on the 2nd floor
• The Red Hand agent explains how the group split apart after the Court of the Undying meeting in Trecce
• Azrael’s side is called The Handgun
• The side still loyal to Court is called The Three Fingers
• Firenze’s from the Grappas noble family, is taking over the criminal empire
• Roland thanks guy for intel, heads back to tavern
• Aldo follows Lord Mayor’s carriage around town
• At one point the Mayor goes into the National Archives, Aldo follows inside
• He sees Mayor arguing with Elgort, and the Mayor leaves with an ominous warning
• Aldo chat’s with Elgort a bit before following Mayor around some more
• Nikolaj stakes out Lord Mayor’s mansion
• Notices a guard change at noon and evening, only a couple of guards
• Back at the tavern that night
• Roland, Aldo and Nikolaj share their findings for the day
• They have an idea of Mayor’s schedule, but no way to pin him to Firenze
• Guess they’ll have to wait until meeting with Firenze and Mayor to get more intel
• The next day: Roland, the paladin, acts like a rogue and snoops around the Three Fingers hideout
• He walks into the bar and sees Firenze in the back
• Bartender won’t serve him (Sardivelians only, he says)
• Roland sneaks into back alley, hears some gossip from Three Fingers thugs about Firenze
• Nothing insightful, they’re just ready to leave Gameria
• Roland sees Firenze in the upstairs office, he climbs up side of building to eavesdrop
• It takes a while to climb up there, he only gets the last end of the conversation
• Firenze’s giving orders to put plan in motion, etc.
• Roland sneaks inside office and steals Firenze’s plans
• Turns out Firenze wants to steal rare books from the National Archives about the Court of the Undying and dark summoning rituals
• He had specialty boxes made by the Craftsman's Guild to smuggle them
• The Lord Mayor is giving him cover in the city to get on the Court's good side
• Once the books are stolen, they’ll burn the Archives then flee to the ship
• Roland gives this intel to Fallworth, it’s the smoking gun they need!
• Fallworth’s elated, sending guards to Archives to warn Elgort
• Aldo’s had a more chill day
• He read more of Romance of the Five Kingdoms, gets third of the way through it
• Nikolaj gets some ingredients for Assaj
• She wants raven’s talons/feathers, and there’s a rich old lady with an old raven on Gameria's 1st level
• The bird’s like 100 years old, he breaks into her fancy house’s aviary
• Nikolaj gets what he needs, but raven causes ruckus and wakes up all other birds
• Nikolaj crashes through a window, but he escapes and gets 150GP for talons
• Roland fills party in on his lucky break, they decide to break into Mayor’s mansion that night
• May as well get more proof of collusion while they’re having productive day
• Aldo and Nikolaj sneak into mansion, Roland watches them from street
• Aldo finds some letters from Firenze in Mayor’s study, takes them
• He hears thud from Lord Mayor’s bedroom, goes to investigate
• Aldo finds the Mayor dead with a Three Fingers assassin about to burn the place down
• When the assassin sees Adlo/Nikolaj, he decides to attack them first with a 'Fireball' spell
• The assassin misses, but now the place is on fire
• Aldo tries to fight, but there are guards coming (not good odds)
• The party escapes, Roland helps talk their way out of run-in with the town watch
• Back at the party's regular tavern, Fallworth is there
• Turns out Firenze feels cornered after today's events, so he's burning all his bridges in town
• Fallworth says Shank was murdered, and he’s seen Three Fingers agents all over the city
• They have to go to Archives ASAP to make sure the place is intact
• One quick beeline to the Archives later the building is still there, but the guards out front have their throats torn out
• Inside there’s a dying guard, and Elgort’s being interrogated by Firenze
• Elgort gets thrown against a bookcase, is unconscious for a bit before fleeing
• Boss Fight: Firenze the Undying
• Firenze lets off a lot of fire attacks, starts burning down Archives
• Queen Astrid's newly minted fire squad is on its way, but they’ve gotta be quick
• Aldo takes some bruises, but he fires off a lot of arrows
• Roland really puts that radiant damage to good use
• Nikolaj stabs Firenze a couple times, but he’s not that stealthy
• Roland delivers killing blow, Firenze is slayed before he can vanish
• They run out of Archives before the fire engulfs them
• Astrid's fire guard arrives, extinguishes flame with an elemental spell
• Fallworth is there, shaken but relieved that the Archives are still standing
• He tells them to return back to home tavern and call it a night
• A long, long rest later
• There’s an officer in the tavern there telling them to go to Fallworth’s place
• Fallworth says the city’s still recovering from last night’s chaos, but it could be worse
• The remaining members of Three Fingers were purged from city
• Some of Lord Mayor’s assistants were arrested for collusion
• He tells party to take it easy for now while Fallworth cleans up mess
• Roland checks on Shank’s fighting pits operation
• He finds Shank’s second-in-command, Magnus, sifting through the burn wreckage of Shank's old fighting ring
• Magnus agrees to continue construction of legitimate fighting pit
• Roland agrees to vouch for him with Fallworth and get documents signed

2/4/874

• The ship that was supposed to smuggle out the rare books from the National Archives arrives at dock
• Fallworth’s officers are there at the pier to arrest and interrogate crew
• Aldo does some shopping for some new weapons, Finds some flaming arrows to use in Gen. Boua's longbow
• After some searching he finds a frozen ice blade from Pescat for 300GP
• He also reads a lot more of Romance of the Five Kingdoms
• Roland checks on Magnus to see how the fighting pits' repairs are going (they’re working on it)

Report Date

01 Dec 2018

Primary Location

Gameria

Secondary Location

National Archives