CoS Session 22: A Festival for Paoli, Pt. 1
General Summary
13/4/874
- After a few days travel the party sails to Poroshenko
- It’s a port city on the edge of Liat owned by kingdom of Glace
- Sebastian gets a lead on his old theater troupe, they’re going to Garavecchio for some kind of political festival
- That evening they get a hologram from Fallworth
- He looks injured, covered in bandages
- He’s not happy
- Party was supposed to help Paoli consolidate power, but they weren’t there to help out
- Blue Monday happened, and Paoli lost half his men and fleet
- Paoli's running on fumes at this point, about to make last desperate push
- Fallworth tells them to go to Garavecchio, and do whatever Paoli wants them to do
- Oh, and someone tried to assassinate Fallworth
- An explosion went off near his carriage, left him badly hurt
- Explosions tried to hit Queen Astrid and council, but they were duds
- They’re expecting some Avicennan agents were involved
- Party has fun on their last last night in Poroshenko
- Roland spends time with Theron poring over maps, planning course
- Sebastian gambles, wins 50 gold
- Nikolaj tries to steal some permafrost from an alchemist
- Alchemist runs into him as he tries leaving the house though
- Nikolaj has to throw impromptu party for the alchemist to not get caught
- Picks up a sweet roll and gets alchemist drunk, puts permafrost back
- Elan spends some time Tilda
- The voyage to Garavecchio
- Roland gets seasick during a storm, but he also goes on some dates with Theron afterwards
- Elan spends more time with Tilda, she's a little disappointed that Elan doesn’t want to make it serious
- Nikolaj is a third wheel at times
- Sebastian spends more time with his cow Bessie
- They don’t see a kraken, but they do find the wreckage of Paoli’s ships
- Blue Monday was supposed to be perfect, an opportunity for Paoli to overwhelm his political opponents with a superior naval force
- But the Vivaldi’s were prepared, almost like they knew in advance
- They Arrive in Garavecchio, an ancient city full of churches and markets
- They have to look around for a bit to find one of Paoli's agents
- He takes them to derelict building off the beaten path near the docks
- Paoli’s up on the 3rd floor, looking a little disheveled and on edge
- He’s not thrilled that the party kept him waiting so long, but at least they’re here
- The Vivaldi’s are planning something big for the festival later that week
- There’s a power vacuum now that the Grappas family's political coalition collapsed
- Grego Vivaldi is a zealot in the pocket of Avicenna, ready to purge all gods from Sardivelia
- He also has a sister named Cella who's experimenting with some strange magic
- Paoli has his allies in The Handgun and some members of the Grappas family in his pocket, but he needs to move fast
- To the party: find out Grego’s plot, discover Cella’s secret
- Also, find out who leaked out his plans to the Vivaldis
- How else did the Vivaldis know about Blue Monday?
- First, party heads over to the Handgun’s tavern in Garavecchio for intel
- Azrael isn’t there, but Assaj is in town for the festival
- Nikolaj introduces her to the rest of the party, gives her Fairouz ring to fence/study
- Assaj doesn’t have too much to offer on Vivaldis, but she knows who leaked
- Frederico, an old servant of Paoli who helped party sneak into the Court of the Undying meeting in Trecce
- Roland and Elan go search for Frederico
- They find him staying at a tavern by the docks
- Takes some persuading, but he eventually confesses he did it for the money
- Frederico stabs Elan while trying to escape, but Roland knocks him out
- They carry his body out of the window, take him back to Paoli
- This is good news for Paoli, he has a lot of ‘questioning’ to do
- Sebastian and Nikolaj track down Cella
- But first, Sebastian goes to look for his old theater troupe in town
- Lodovico’s in charge of troupe, performing Ballad of Prince Snowbean
- Sebastian watches show, spots his old apprentice Adam Divisav in the show
- This elf is still loyal to Sebastian, tells him how the troupe's changed since Sebastian was expelled
- Sebastian tells Adam how Lodovico may have killed the troupe's old director
- Adam agrees to keep tabs on Lodovico to see if he can find any proof
- Later that night Nikolaj and Sebastian track Cella down to a ruined, old Temple of Lolth
- Nikolaj dexterously sneaks onto temple roof, climbs onto rafters
- Finds Cella talking to two robed figures, might be Fairouz and Morrigan
- Cella doesn’t like Grego and his anti-god zealotry
- Cella says that a shipment’s arrived, should be ready for Festival of Drachma
- She says an assassination might be necessary (killing who?)
- They’re also irked about Rexfur trying to start a new pantheon
- Interferes with their own theological plans
- All three leave temple together, Nikolaj escapes unnoticed
- Sebastian and Nikolaj head back to Paoli to tell him about meeting
- They find a bloodied Frederico, Paoli in a better mood
- Paoli’s glad to find Cella/Fairouz connection
- Will be good piece of blackmail against Grego
- Party heads back to The Castellan, Nikolaj opens up to the party about his family
- Turns out Cpt. Tarkov is his half-brother, and his last name’s Baratov!
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