CoS Session 2: Festival Entertainment
General Summary
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- Roland Fireheart and Catriona Quinn finally arrived in Gameria , capital of the the kingdom of Gameth
- The town guards gave Catriona a hard time due to her Hakonian heritage, but she convinced them to let her through
- A festival's underway, marking 25 years since the kidnapping of King Nestor VI's only daughter
- Roland and Catriona head to The Thousand Faces tavern and decide to have a few drinks.
- Aldo Snaggletooth is at the same tavern, getting drunk on Joseph Daniels
- After a while they all go outside to watch Gameth’s foreign minister give a big speech
- Gameria was carved into a mountainside with the city divided into three separate levels, so there are plenty of spots to view the speech from
- Aldo and Roland were both pretty drunk at this point
- Halfway through the speech the foreign minister was shot by a crossbow, the town is consumed by chaos
- Catriona gets apprehended by local guards, Aldo notices a thug with crossbow running away
- Roland and Catriona have to haggle with Gamerian sheriff Fallworth, explaining how they just got into a town a few hours earlier
- He lets them go, so long as they find the killer by the day’s end
- Meanwhile, Aldo follows the presumed thug to a safe house
- Aldo tries to sneak inside, but he crashes face-first into some crates
- The thug dressed in yellow (Vesk) and his friend in green come out to beat Aldo up
- Roland and Catriona hear a clattering sound as they leave Fallworth's jail
- They run a few blocks over to where Aldo is getting trounced
- By their forces combined, they knock out Vesk and kill his friend
- Aldo saves green guy’s body for later to skin (don't ask)
- The team brings Vesk back to Fallworth's jail for questioning
- Roland gets violent and intimidating, and with Aldo’s help Vesk relents and confesses to the assassination
- He mentions the name Marcelo, points out his hideout on a map of the city
- Fallworth orders them to investigate, promises he'll pay them for work
- Aldo and Roland bond over some Joseph Daniels before heading out
- Fallworth apologizes for suspecting Catriona, gives her some gold as compensation
- The party then heads down to Gameria's lower levels near the docks to confront Marcelo
- He’s holed up in a creepy house with a blue roof (3 stories, part tavern)
- A feeling of dark magic fills emanates from the house, the party hesitates for a moment
- But the tavern door opens on its own, a thick wave of mist flowing out the door
- A spectral voice beckons them upstairs
- Inside they find a haggard man standing under single lantern
- He cracks manic grin and starts slashing at them
- The madman gets in a few good hits, but the team wears him down
- Madman slits his own throat as final move, summoning an undead specter named Marcelo
- Marcelo taunts Roland, mentioning the rise of the Court of the Undying
- Now the real fight begins
- Catriona nearly dies, Roland gets axe stuck in column, and some rogue produce flame attacks set fire to the tavern
- But Catriona lands a perfect shot and Marcelo vanishes
- Roland and Aldo haul the madman's body out of burning tavern
- It looks as though the man had been possessed by Marcelo to the point of insanity
- The party returns to Fallworth to give him news about the plot and the Court of the Undying
- Turns out Vesk killed himself in his cell at around around the same time as the fight
- Fallworth rewards them for the job, tells them to stay in Gameria for a week
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