CoS Session 23: A Festival for Paoli, Pt. 2
General Summary
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- The night of plotting begins
- Sebastian forges some chef’s credentials and makes a poisonous stew
- Convinces the guards at Grego’s estate to take the stew
- Guess they’re tired of the dry chicken Grego keeps serving them
- Later Sebastian meets up with Roland and Elan at Temple of Drachma
- They find a ton of explosives surrounding temple in back-alley
- Like 36 boxes of the shit!
- Elan gets a wagon from Paoli, they move 2/3rds to docks
- Roland and Sebastian dump more boxes into the sewer
- But then Cella appears
- Cella warns them that they shouldn’t interfere in the affairs of gods
- Rexfur’s a joke, and they must make room for true gods
- Roland and Sebastian prepare for fight, but Cella casts spell first
- The two of them puke their guts out until Elan cures them
- Finally, it’s time for the closing ceremony of the Festival of Drachma
- All the noble families make speeches about Sardivelia and its future
- But everybody’s here for Grego and Paoli’s speeches
- Sebastian and Roland are close to stage
- Elan and Nikolaj are close to edge of town square
- In town square there’s a massive statue of Drachma and his temple
- Paoli argues that Sardivelia must help Gameth
- Gameth represents best of magic and human culture, can stop corruption
- Crowd’s not convinced
- Grego says Sardivelia should join Avicenna
- They’ve been burned by religious zealots before, Sardivelia must abandon all magic
- The crowd starts cheering him on
- Just as festival’s about to end, Cella and Fairouz are spotted in the crowd
- Sebastian tries to warn Paoli, gets ignored
- Cella fires off two shots at Paoli, misses and kills his one of his nearby advisers instead
- Chaos breaks out, and battle begins
- Boss Battle: Fairouz and Cella
- The whole party decides to gang up on Fairouz
- Magic missiles, axe blades, backstabs, the works
- Roland paralyzes Cella multiple times, Elan psyches her out
- When Fairouz gets near-death, she summons Lolth’s power
- Spider exo-skeleton forms around her, healed some
- But it doesn’t matter much since Nikolaj defeats her
- Cella and Fairouz disappear, and Paoli is saved
- In the fallout, public opinion moves against Grego
- People are shocked that his sister’s a cultist
- There are rumors that he poisoned his own guards! (Thanks Sebastian)
- His zealotry is seen as hypocritical, he flees to his estate
- The god Drachma appears that night, gets drinks with the party to thank them for their help
- He was worried about Grego’s anti-god stance
- Nikolaj convinces him to join Rexfur’s pantheon
- They head to Paoli’s place, and he’s ecstatic
- Sure his assistant died, but now he’s got all the nobles in line
- His assets are unfrozen, and he’s a rich man again
- Gameth (and him) will benefit from new arrangement
- Sebastian’s a little suspicious of Paoli’s ambitions
- Back on the ship they fill Falworth in on everything that happened in Garavecchio
- This reassures him, promises payment will arrive soon
- Their next assignment is in Hakon to deal with rumors of unrest...
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