Session 109 - April 14th, 2022 Report
General Summary
1305 - 1st Moon of Winter - Lafali to Dular (2nd day-6th Day)
- Housekeeping - Party pays both Sybil 25 gold (5 gold per month) and Judith 30 gold (15 per month) for the rest of the year. Party gets 20 gold from mirror rentals for Fall. Korfel gives Merry her box, and Gregory completes the cloak for Ari. Olly is in dragon form. Roth gets 450 gold worth of grains, which he gives to the brewers. He gets 250 gold from the brothel and 150 gold and beer for the party from The Rockery Brewery.
- Merry goes out to find rumors. She hears one of the Countess DeMeyers having a torrid love affair with one of her ladies maids. Merry goes meh and moves on. She then hears about a fancy guild party where they were serving some fancy elvish wine, but one of the people attending swears it was fake. Merry tracks down the wine merchant Thomas Melody, who supposedly called out the fake elvish wine. Merry spends the next 3-4 days mostly trying to find out everything about him. Works at the Fruit of the Vines, married, 2 children, happy family man, like to play chess. She while on a break takes a moment to go to the general store and buy the most ridiculous and loud floral print, in orange with green fronds, and giant pink flowers, and parrots (and pirates). She buys the whole bolt of 36 yards (108 gold), and she gets a free banana!
- Roth spends the whole weeks working, 8 hours on the plates (he has 2 more weeks on the 2nd plate), and 8 hours working with Magmabrew on the mini mansion. He will occasionally spend time in the evening resting and sent a few message to Beartrum checking in on him.
- Alethra spends 25 gold and the week working on Giant. She also casts sending to check in on Beartrum and ask about sparing.
- Ari goes about time working on talking up the party and invites a lot of people. Someone at the crooked quill wanted an invite and Ari delivered one. She borrows 700 gold from Roth and wins at a gambling tournament, taking home an extra 1000 gold, Roth gets back 700 gold +300 extra, and Ari gets 300+700 winnings. Ari sends messages to Beartrum about the party planning and how to the party doing.
- Ari throw herself into party planning, setting up illusion magic, working with Judith to take the 14 mushrooms that Tristain grew and make the appetizers, menu planning, and getting her spider silk dress ready for the big day.
- The party is in full swing! The footman are stationed at the stairs to direct guests, and the garden has been designed to show off in full over the top Ari style, with the fountain being a lovely centerpiece.
- Of the upper nobility, the countess DeBois attended and the Duke and Duchess sent their oldest child, Beatrice, with Arannis to attend the party. All of the other head of guilds and most of the lower nobility all attended the party. Lady Marisha attended for a short time with Tristian, and Gregory and Korfel were in attendance, with the head librarian, Julia.
- Roth speaks with Gregory about ideas for the Roc eyes, a visit to the sphinx at the end of winter and some thoughts on the platter. Alethra is delighted to go visit a sphinx, and Ari is very happy to have her cloak.
- Arannis introduces around Beatrice, and Ari picks up her interest in magical spells. She mentions that she wants to study Divination magic and keep the kingdom safe and the people prosperous. Beatrice is particularly interested in the programed illusion spell. Arannis offers Ari a teleport to the elven city to visit her grandparents.
- Alethra greets Tristian and Lady Marisha, who are happy to look around the garden and see the plants with Ari. Tristian and Alethra meet the owners of The Gold Room and arrange an evening reservation for the following week.
- Julia greets Merry, and invites her to tea at the library so that she can hear about the time spent in the giant territories, as it would be a good addition to the library archives. Julia will send a note next week, and they will meet. Julia will pull some notes on learning giant and have a teacher there to meet Merry.
- Merry has a conversation with Thomas Melody, the wine merchant, and with a 34 he was her new best friend. He told her all about the party he was invited to at the house of Lord Garin (shipping guild) and how the head of the guild (Tegan Walters) was bragging about the wonderfully rare and expensive Elvish wine he brought as a host gift. Totally not Elvish or even any good. Thomas then compliments the wine at the party.
- Lady Marisha then seeks out Roth to ask about the Fey gate in his territory, and then hears about the active gate they found in the mountains on the way to Blazenthrone. She would like to come to the barony for a weekend to meet the "minor miracle" owl bear and study the gate.
- The head of the weavers/cloth guild Oldian Wharf then speaks to Ari about her spider silk dress, which he is very envious of, and wants to hear about a way to get more the silk to market. Ari is working on a trip in spring, and will reach out to him if she is able to get more of the spider silk.
- The head of the grocery/produce guild then finds Alethra and goes her pitch about how she, Piper Strathberry, would make a wonderful Head of Commerce. Alethra seems very nervous and unsure of how to respond. After the pitch Piper tells Alethra about her hybid fruit breeding projects, which seem very far fetched. Alethra realizes that she may be related to Roberta (second cousins) and Alethra gets to hear about how her friend is doing.
- Roth is then greeted by the head of the brewers guild, Morgan Uren, who is delighted to meet him and hear about the new brewery that Roth helped found. She then gives her notes on the beers that are presented, and talks grain registry so his farms can go in as preferred suppliers. She does not offer her pitch about the council, as Roth is not interested in politics.
- Lady Marisha and Tristian head out, thanking the group for a lovely party.
- Merry runs into (literally knocks down) one of the lords she gave an arm band to at the court opening last week. Lord Avery is still wearing the arm band that she gave him, and Merry is introduced to Lady Avery, and the couple head upstairs to dance. The couple is not sure about teiflings, they seem a little odd.
- Anette talks to Ari about party planning a fancy casino evening at the end of winter to help drum up some final support for her push to be voted in as the Head of Commerce. They talk decorations and plans, and Ari would be delighted to attend, possibly bring her grandparents.
- Ari chats with the dwarven ambassador to talk about her coming back as an artist in residence and possibly holding a workshop in Blazenthrone, where she can see more the of the city outside the visitors quarter.
- Arannis then leaves around 11 with Beatrice, to get her home by a decent hour. On the way out Ari sees that she may a little tipsy/clumsy, and Ari slips her a potion of cure hangover while on the way out the door. Roth mentions it to Arannis.
- Ari goes upstairs to check on the dancing and sees a normally quiet couple having a rather loud argument in the corner of the ballroom, not violent, but oddly out of character.
- Downstairs, Roth spots Morgan, the head of the brewers guild, seeming to be drunk, slurring words and a little off balance. Alethra makes her CON check (as advantage) 21 vs DC 17. Once Roth sees Morgan, he sends a message to Arannis. Roth talks to Arannis about the possibly drunken Morgan, to which Arannis is quite shocked and Roth only remembers Morgan having small tastes of a alcoholic drinks, never finishing one. Arannis is now alarmed, tells him to stay put and he will be back as soon as he drops off Beatrice.
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