CoS Session 28: Sebastian's Sendoff
General Summary
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- The party makes it to Ravi, the mining powerhouse of Avicenna
- Azmi’s rail system stretches across downtown, with new lines being built every day
- Sebastian notices an ad for a show performed by his old troupe, they'll be performing for Gen. Boua and Aldo!
- Elan and Nikolaj do some window-shopping and stealing
- Elan fails to steal expensive tiara, but Nikolaj shows off his roguish skills and steals it
- Medraad buys some studded armor, gets a free spear
- Sebastian checks out his old troupe's rehearsal
- Checks up on Adam, his old apprentice from theater
- Sounds like Ludovico and the others are super tense for the performance
- A crow shows up giving them directions to a tea shop to meet with their Handgun contact
- They find Assaj! She was a little wounded crossing border, but she’ll be fine
- Sebastian orders some tea mixed with milk
- Assaj explains how Avicenna’s gotten their hands on Left Hand of Theo Faust
- It’s a powerful relic from a great Gamerian magician
- If it’s destroyed, magic could be weakened in Gameth
- Go and find Left Hand, and stop it from being destroyed
- A man named Grego Vivaldi knows where it’s being held
- He’s staying at hotel called Lux Avicen
- So party figures out how they’ll get to Grego
- They decide to rent room in the same hotel to spy on him
- It’s a little pricey, but they enjoy it
- Sebastian orders a ton of baklavas
- Medraad meets with Man in Black
- He wants to know more about Fairouz and Coven
- Man in Black’s reluctant, says it’ll reopen old wounds
- He does say that before he found Medraad, the tiefling was in an old cult with Fairouz
- Nikolaj sneaks up two floors to eavesdrop on Grego
- He finds him arguing with Cella
- Grego’s been giving Cella/Coven some relics, but he won’t give them Theo's Hand
- Cella tries convincing him to join Coven, but he refuses
- Grego does mention that Left Hand isn’t there
- Sebastian gets turned invisible by Elan, explores hotel
- He finds executive suites where Boua and Aldo will stay
- There’s an icebox full of shrimp in Aldo’s room
- Sebastian decides to poison it later to make him sick
- So the next morning the party disguises themselves and talks with Grego
- They pretend tiara is a cursed item thanks to Medraad’s 'Thaumaturgy'
- Elan acts like a superfan, Medraad reads his mind for Hand’s location
- They find out he hid it in the theater where Sebastian's old troupe is performing
- So they come up with plan to take the Left Hand
- Sebastian wants to blow up his old troupe members on-stage during show
- He sneaks into theater during rehearsal to tell Adam about plan
- Adam warns him against it, but does mention Hand may be in the prop room
- The rest of the party is initially reluctant to blow up troupe performers
- Sebastian has to do a lot of convincing to get them to agree to plan
- He tells them about betrayal at the hands of his old troupe
- Lord Snyder, his old troupe leader, murdered by Ludovico et al
- Ludovico et al blamed Sebastian, kicked him out of troupe
- Party understands, agrees to it since it’ll be good distraction to get Hand
- Sebastian stops by explosives store to pick up TNT
- Assaj has detonators for them
- They’ll sneak into prop room and fill fake spears with explosives
- Also, Sebastian decides to buy a suicide vest??
- Later in the week Gen. Boua arrives from Kanara with Adm. Aldo
- There’s a big parade honoring Avicenna and it’s innovations
- Setbacks at sea offset by land campaign
- Captured Gamerian soldiers paraded down streets
- New artillery and weapons put on display
- Future tech and ideas set up on floats
- The next day, it’s time for the play
- The troupe starts performing a story of Avicennan independence
- Avicenna broke from Gameth after death of Theo Faust
- Left Hand will be destroyed at end of play
- Party doesn’t have much trouble sneaking in
- Sebastian’s invisible, Elan has to climb up to third floor
- Medraad has on disguise of guard
- Sebastian has on suicide vest
- There’s a big executive balcony reserved for Boua
- They sneak into service tunnel to get to prop room
- The guard’s easy to convince
- Inside they put the explosives in the spears
- When they look for Left Hand, it turns out Verona is in there and has it!
- Elan casts sleep, knocking her out instantly
- Medraad uses opportunity to read Verona’s thoughts
- Finds some info about falling out with Azrael
- She could never work for group allied with Paoli
- There’s scene of her visiting Fairouz’s new HQ in Myltev
- Nikolaj thinks about killing her, but reconsiders
- Instead he pins her down while they alert guard
- Elan and Sebastian take Hand, dimension door out of room
- Medraad and Nikolaj go to find rest of party
- So Elan and Sebastian dimension doored into a 2nd-floor restroom
- Play’s begun, standing ovation for Boua
- Both of them are tempted to touch Left Hand
- Sebastian does, and is briefly possessed by Theo Faust
- He’s a pretty chill dude, if a little crazy
- Nikolaj takes it away from them, snaps Sebastian out of it
- Elan and Medraad leave theater with the Left Hand firmly wrapped up
- Aldo rushes past to puke his guts out in bathroom
- Shrimp food poisoning is the worst, man
- But Sebastian has unfinished business
- He squeezes into the front row crowd, detonates fake spears
- All five treacherous troupe members are killed instantly
- He runs onstage to confirm they’re all dead (they are)
- He sees Adam shocked and crying backstage, convinces him to join party
- Because Sebastian has one last piece of business to attend to
- He sees Gen. Boua being rushed out of theater
- With good athletics roll, he rushes outside to catch them
- Boua’s boarding carriage, Sebastian jumps on
- Final words as he jumps onto the side of the carriage: “Got milk?”
- Sebastian blows himself up, killing Boua and guards instantly
- He wakes up in Elysium with Ervio standing over him
- The goddess says she didn’t expect Sebastian to make it, but she hands him some milk
- Nikolaj is outside theater when explosion happens
- A distraught Adam approaches him, still taking in news
- Nikolaj comforts him, brings him back to Assaj’s tea shop
- They drink something hard that night
- Meanwhile…
- Aldo is puking his guts out when he hears the explosions
- When he hears the second blast he knows something is up
- A guard comes in to tell him that Gen. Boua was killed
- According to the reformed succession rules, Aldo is next in line to lead Avicenna
- He runs out to throw up some more
- In the fallout of the explosion, Adam meets the rest of party
- Medraad reveals he’s a tiefling, they fill Adam in on adventure
- Adam’s very overwhelmed and shocked, but he agrees to join the party
- Assaj signs him up as member of the Handgun, gets Sebastian’s pay
- Elan helps calm him down, plays some music
- They end up selling Sebastian’s cow to a local butcher for 180 GP
- They have one last big dinner in Sebastian’s honor before leaving town
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