CoS Session 14: Going Out in Fog
General Summary
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- The ship that was supposed to smuggle out rare books from Gameria's National Archvies arrives at the city docks
- Fallworth’s officers are there at docks to arrest and interrogate crew
- Aldo does some shopping for some new weapons, finds some flaming arrows for Gen. Boua's longbow
- After some searching Aldo 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 fighting pits (they’re working on it)
- One day Aldo runs into Stickbeard, an old goblin from the colony he was raised
- They head back to tavern, catch up about life since the colony was razed
- Roland stops by, learns about Aldo’s past and trauma
- Stickbeard’s been searching for person who razed village
- He met someone in Westmont who knows where he is, needs backup
- So the party agrees to go check out lead with Stickbeard
- Before that Aldo gets super wasted at a longshoremen tavern
- Stickbeard gets a little tipsy too
- Roland and Aldo make it to Westmont, Nikolaj stayed behind in Gameria to do more heists for Assaj
- Roland remembers it as the place where Catriona and him began journey
- Stickbeard points out tavern, tells them the informer is inside
- Valdemar’s inside
- Doors lock behind them, Roland and Aldo are forced to have a chat with Court leader
- Whiskey’s offered, but Roland smashes bottle
- Valdemar tries one last time to encourage party to join Court
- Their methods are necessary to save world for a new era
- Shows party that even Catriona is being tempted to join in Hakon
- Why fight when you can be part of something greater?
- Perhaps unsurprisingly, Aldo and Roland refuse
- Valdemar, somewhat disappointed, vanishes in blue-yellow flames
- Summons Masden, the man who led the raid on Aldo’s colony
- Roland takes some damage, but he manages to slaughter Masden
- Aldo takes final vengeance, burns Masden (and tavern) down
- Afterwards Aldo and Roland confront Stickbeard
- Aldo punches him, but it looks like Stickbeard was just a pawn in Valdemar's game
- They both give him some GP to go and start new life
- Aldo’s sullen, but relieved that he can close this chapter of his life
- They leave that evening
- The tavern fire’s spread, they don’t want to be implicated
- Party goes to tell Fallworth about their meeting with Valdemar
- They leave part out about starting (deadly) tavern fire
- Nikolaj has been making hella bank stealing items for The Handgun
- Catriona is still in Hakon, and the situation between Gameth and Avicenna is getting tense
- Lots of small border skirmishes, and a Gamerian captain had her ear cut off by Avicennan vessel!
- Roland helps Magnus set up the new fighting pit (named Shank’s)
- He does a lot of fighting on opening night, wins 75GP
- Aldo considers meeting with Gen. Boua, so he meets with an Avicennan spy named Kemal about where to meet her
- Boua's near the Gamerian border, so Aldo could try seeing her if he’s discreet
- Aldo’s not discreet, he tells Roland about plan to go see Gen. Boua
- Roland thinks they should go tell Fallworth about his plan
- Wouldn’t he love to get the extra intel Aldo could provide?
- Fallworth doesn’t like the plan
- They already have a ton of spies tracking Boua’s movements
- He’s alarmed that Aldo is acting like an Avicennan sympathizer
- Fallworth fires Aldo, can’t have treasonous agents on Gamerian payroll
- Aldo doesn’t leave gently
- He casts fog cloud in Fallworth’s office, jumps through window
- Fallworth’s pissed, blacklists Aldo and sends out guards looking for him
- So Aldo has to flee the city
- He’s not paid by Defense Ministry anymore
- Will meet up with the party in a month outside of Gameria
- Aldo escapes, Roland and Nikolaj spend more time together I guess
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