Session 57 - April 9, 2020 Report
General Summary
World Date, Fall, Third Moon, Korlar (30th Day)
- Party organizes to go to the opening of court in a rented carriage.
- Merry is in shirt, waistcoat, trousers, and necklace of goddess Oghma, no magical items, dagger in the boot and 2 oz of the slightly poisonous mushroom. She leaves her glasses at home.
- Roth in shirt, waistcoat, pants, and cloak, Branwen is in the cloak.
- Ari and Scarlett in custom dresses, Ari’s is spider silk, both have a dagger on them, Scarlett has a vial of holy water and cactus juice (her aquarium necklace stays at home). Both wear a lot of jewels/sparkles.
- Baeshra has an elk antler crown, slightly dressy robes lined in fox fur, and his staff.
- Party arrives at the front gate and Roth drops his human disguise, watching Ari to see what she does. Ari rolls and does not recognizes him as a Shadar’kai, and thinks he is an odd elf sun/moon/forest combo.
- They are escort in by a page, and asked to walk single file through an archway, those with passives above 20 see 2 guards/watchers past the archway in the shadows. They pass through Roth, Baeshra, Scarlett, Ari and Merry. Ari tries a cast thaumaturgy to distract when Baeshra passes through, making a loud sound.
- After passing through the arch, Merry, Ari and Scarlett are escorted to a waiting room while Roth and Baeshra are taken aside to a small room.
- Baeshra and Roth have their “magical item” identified, and determined what it does, making sure it is not dangerous, and then they are allowed to enter. The person who is doing this is reading a script like a terms and conditions agreement. He is unsure about Baeshra, but lets the staff go into the court opening party.
- The ladies are offered champagne and get to see the room, noticing the well dressed people waiting to be presented to the nobility. While waiting, they listen to rumors, with Ari reading lips. She reads the lips of someone gossiping about the possible betrothal of the Duke’s daughter, with a possible very extravagant gift to seal the deal.
- Baeshra and Roth rejoin the party, with Roth seeing a woman dripping in jewels and introduces himself. She is Lady Hollingsworth, with her cat Princess. She mentions her husband used to own mines, and she loves jewels, the cat even has a matching ruby/diamond collar to match her owner. Roth makes a subtle inquiry on if she is going to be in the market to buy gems. She is intrigued and will speak with him later, as she is called to be presented.
- Baeshra goes around the room introducing himself in a very awkward manner, and Merry follows behind, making sure no one is rude. He makes the entire room generally uncomfortable, so the party gets bumped up the list to be presented faster. Baeshra does NOT like champagne.
- They are introduced to the 12 ruling Earls/Countesses on the council, as well as the Duke and Duchess. They are the DelMorte’s, DeWolf’s, De Morte’s, Demeyere, Dubois’s (siblings/twins?), De Mulder’s, and the Bosmans. Then they meet the Duke and Duchess, who say nice things about them helping out in the city.
- Continue into the ballroom, the enter a door and see stairs from the gallery which go down into the main room where they are. Dancing is at the back, tables and chairs on the right, and servants passing trays of food and drinks. They see a blue tiefling in the gallery on the way in, Roth mostly recognizes her and Merry knows it is her grand mother.
- They look around for interesting people and see a dwarf in a very fancy breastplate with two guards standing alone looking annoyed with a glass of wine. They see Korfel, Sir Gregory, Lady Marisha, The owner of the Dizzy Monkey, Kenna, plays with the band, and many others.
- Ari sees Mage Magmabrew enter, go speak to the dwarf along the wall for a short time, then leaves, (she seems unhappy) being intersected by Ari after the short talk. They discuss the wine and the party’s special mushroom appetizer, only made once a year. Magmabrew then thinks Ari would like to meet Annette Lind, the head of the adventures guild, and they have a wonderful chat.
- Roth sees Katrina descend the staircase, and goes to meet her, with Baeshra on his coat tails. He speaks with her, and has his raven appear, go to her shoulder, and get scritches, then return. She says that is a good way to show his allegiance to their deity. She then gets one of the mushroom canapes, and tells Roth and Baeshra how much she loves them. She is delighted to see Baeshra likes them as well, and they talk about how he is growing mushrooms, and her failed attempts. Baeshra is starting to warm up to this “court” thing.
- Roth then mentions to Katrina studying with the wizard for the winter, and that he may be out of town for awhile. Roth then tells the same information to Korfel, who is amuse by the story of the petrified adventurer being a high level wizard, and Korfel asks Roth for an introduction. Korfel, Gregory, Baeshra and Roth then get lost in a very interesting discussion on magical items, admiring Roth’s cape and Baeshra’s staff. Baeshra snags an entire tray of the mushroom canapés from a confused server, who does not try to take the full tray back. Baeshra eats most of the tray, sharing a few.
- Merry begins to wander around the room, being polite and a little aloof while picking up rumors. 1. An elephant was delivered to the duke’s palace not too long ago, possibly a betrothal gift from a foreign power. 2. The head of the thieves guild is present, but no one knows who it is. 3. The Duke just ordered a new set of sapphire jewels, is it a present for his wife, or is this a gift for a new mistress? 4. The temple complex is rumored to soon be expanded with space for a new deity, but no one knows which one.
- She then meets with her grandmother, chatting about the Lady with the cat and all the jewels and how they should get together for dinner or tea soon, seeing as she is in this guise, and it is not odd to make friends with other tieflings.
- Scarlett then introduces herself to the dwarf, Ambassador Coinmail, (from Brazenthrone) who likes the clockwork crab the Scarlett helped the gnome tinkerer make, and goes into great detail about how he is the 4th generation to wear the ceremonial breastplate, and all the work each generation added to this masterpiece.
- Scarlett goes to dance, a few songs with Korfel, and then a few with a human restaurant owner, Nicholas Bannister, who owns/is the chef at the Golden Goosery, and invites her to visit and have dinner. It is near the adventures guild. He is human, early 30’s, dark brown hair, green eyes.
- A very well dressed high elf (sun) Arannis Liadon introduces himself to Roth in Elvish, and then mentions he has never meet one of Roth’s “kind” before. Roth switches to Sylvan, and the court wizard, as he introduces himself, mentions few know of Roth’s kind (shadar-kai). Arannis says that Roth is unlike to be know for what he is, even in the Elvish land. They speak more and Roth does not sense any ill will.
- Merry’s Grandmother, called Lucy Lavore, speaks with Roth and agrees to attend the theater after dinner on the arranged night out. She goes to make friends with Lady Hollingsworth.
- Ari attempts to find out if the head of the thieves guild is really at the party and who it is. She thinks the blue teiflings may be an option, but is not 100% sure. (Rolled 25 on 28 DC check).
- Ari speaks with Countess DelMorte, and is very polite, and only notices a slight twitch when Ari mentions Mage Magmabrew. Unsure of why, but then countess then moves to the next group of people.
- Scarlett then goes to meet Lady Lavore and Lady Hollingsworth, who are seating and having some wine/snacks. They also meet the cat princess, whom the gnome from the blacksmith shop, Nim, returned to Lady Hollingsworth. Ari joins the conversation, inviting them both to tea, and possibly a theater excursion. Merry stays away. Lady Hollingsworth mentions the acquisition of two very large rubies, as she is not sure what to do with them, and is pleased when Roth approaches and tells her he has smaller rubies to sell. She will call on the house at some point.
- Based on a natural 20 and 28, Lady Hollingsworth and Lady Lavore really like Ari and Scarlett.
- Scarlett then wanders away, finding Korfel and offering him some of the cactus juice, which he saves from, so it is slightly disappointing for Scarlett and Korfel. Scarlett notices the dwarf has gone, and he mentioned he was only staying a short amount of time, as they did not have good beer, or any beer at all.
- Scarlett is looking for a way to incorporate antlers into her wardrobe, and Korfel suggests the ask the tanner, one of the Hallstrom brothers for suggestion, as Korfel as no idea.
- Ari chats with the high elf wizard, who is from the same town, the elvish capital city of Ofanbelle and mentions that he visits and catches her up on the news. He is impressed with her manners and offer to take any correspondence the next time he visits.
- Scarlett and Ari dance with some attractive men, but nothing more interesting happens.
- The party leaves for the night, each being offered a “hangover cure” potion, which they all politely take one. They then head home to sleep.
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