Mapday, Tailormoon, 1313

General Summary

Minotaur birthdays and year

Halfpint is 10 but appears 2.
Daisy 170
Boulder 160-ish
Belle (Daisy’s daughter) 32 years old, appears to be in her 20s.

Strong Conjuration summoning – most powerful: Moderate arcane aura, with a divine glimmer locked behind the aura of arcane. The Lock has a recognisable Tailorite flair.
Printing Press:

Low level abjuration
Converted into the “pin” chair.
Streaks of blood in grotesque imitation of a barber’s chair

Tiny box of faint Transmutation

Safe, previously opened by Efreeti (melted handprint in metal)

Magic ritual

Witch runes
Allow patron to restore a spell slot.
Sweeney is using this theory of a witch/patron bond to restore a spell to the damaged ifrit.
Wish spell.

Efreeti (Frankenstein hole with one ruby red eye) in centre of pool of hair
Guarded by 2 small shaved Ratfolk, and medium-sized Xolotyl Bullford and medium-sized Lizard folk assistant (Palmer)
Trolling Blade

Divine Bramble artefact.
2/day: Compel Hostility, Knight's Calling.
Challenge Evil when hit by Compel Hostility.

The Starving Fang

Worgoth tooth dagger
Evil weapon
Necromancy/Transmutation (overwhelming) auras
+2 dagger
Successful hit saps STR and energy, “Feast of Ashes”
Crit “Cup of Dust”
Stabbing self summons “Ghost Wolf” instantaneously (lasts 10 rounds after it has attacked)
- Ghost touch
- AC 18, 17hp, Bite +10 (1d8 +6), evil weapon, movement 100 ft., can bear rider’s weight and up to 100 lbs extra
- Unaffected by difficult terrain
- Walk on Water

Efreeti Abilities

AC 21 (touch 13), (flat-footed 17), 95 hp, +7 fort, +10 reflex, +9 will.
At will: Detect Magic, Plane Shift, Produce Flame, Pyrotechnics, Scorching Ray
3/day: Quickened Scorching Ray, Invisibility, Wall of Fire.
2/day: Change Size.
1/day: Up to 3 wishes, Gaseous form, Permanent image.
Deal 1d6 fire damage (retaliation) when hit with a melee weapon.
Immune to Fire
Vulnerable to Cold

Used the Aghash potion.
+94 gp
+ greenish copper key
+12 black bird-feather quills
+ potion in a flask (Potion of Invisibility)
+ 4 brass plated rings with Undergazette emblem
+1600 gp
+ cracked stone on a chain bearing the sigil of House Ironside
Note in unfamiliar language: M.B. from J.N.
The Editor's Will "Can’t do shit about my portion of the family inheritance… etc."
Salman + Matilda <3

Undergazette Headquarters

Kitty's Notes

Investigating Beastfolk kidnappings
Ventril Clink's Exotic Pets
Private, invite only.
Evidence of Ventril Clink renting an apartment from Mercanus Dargent at unreasonably high rates (address of both the apartment and the Dargent bank included in case notes)
Owl folk – Syrinx
Unknown clients
Charges fees even to speak to him (too expensive for common people to pay).
Kitty’s notes have some confirmed cases who were kidnapped/killed by Barker or Todfrey Laurence.
Unconfirmed cases suspected to be the work of Ventril Clink.
Weirdly high number of Bunbun, Vishkanya, Kitsune and Catfolk missing people attributed to V.C. (compared to city’s demographics).
Mite: Male Catfolk courtesan.
Sasha Ventress: Vishkanya music hall dancer.
Tab Kalar: informer for the Undergazette and painting model for those who want a realistic model of the Catfolk.
Jacqueline Namibian Sandhill-Mudskip – photo
Picture of Ventril Clink in his house
Employs mercenaries – trades on reputation.
Promising safety to individuals with Token
+1 token (taken from Jorma Asklepa, who informed on Clink several years before her death)

Dargent Casefile

Sketches of each of the Dargents in human form
A kitsune male who seemed to be getting secret payments from above.
Investigated it and he was getting money, they found a guy was picking up packages from a decoy shell company to the home of Gorlois Vixois (address of both included in notes)

Vixois Casefile

See other: Gorlois Vixois (registered as deceased for a few years)
Address of Gorlois, his wife (Hermaline) – very old, and his daughter (Guinefak)
A kitsune (Reynard Althaelab) - (urchin but now about 20 years old, speaking to Kitty Storm) gave evidence: Guinefak was a carpenter (or possibly joiner) that his parents knew when he was a kid. Was always paranoid about being kidnapped. In the interim time, Reynard witnessed that Guinefak had a V.C. token in her possession.
Guinefak had a daughter (possibly kidnapped?)

Cultural Guide

Some species have gods that they worship illicitly, Bramble god of Bunbun. Provides berries? Mentions of Berryfest and Earspeak.
Undergazette have many language - Undercommon dictionaries, but there is no Earspeak dictionary.

Shajara Casefile

Have a huge, phonebook-sized file, there have been scandals and stories at every level of the city.
Crazy parties with illicit drugs
Batshit conspiracy theories, accused of every criminal act ever.
Extremely disturbing horror stories: missing people, ritualistic mutilations.
Connected in whispers, but never evidence.

Razor gets aura of Scroll of Dispel Magic

Hugo’s investigations into Noble’s finances

Hugo found secret embezzlements – 2 of them.

Each month an amount of money goes missing (same amount, although 2 months ago this went up).

Hush payment value (concealed in private Dargent accounts),
Normally only takes a token cover up (Nobles know that embezzlement is happening).
This is different – it is part of the scheming that is kept silent even from those who know we are scheming.

Honourable Company - Somewhere else (petty cash with multiple withdrawals)

All other nobles bank with Dargent banks
Shajaras

pay more than they withdraw.
If they don’t have another income source, they’ll be bankrupt before they die (elves!)

Nightkeepers

Some could be covering up noble scheming.
Noticeably provide grants to the Jonas Fogg medical college (Fogg is a name that suggests elven origin)
Fairly significant expenditures (so why so small amount of banking)?

Baharats

All nobles support the universities financially, but the Baharats do provide more to the Elderton Historical Society than elsewhere (which is where Qumin works)

Jackalslicers

Provide money to hospitals.

Stargazers

Give significant grants to both universities, although they give larger amount to Elderton (their Alma Mater)
Payments of delivery of non-monetary goods

Dargents

Give more money to North Town (which has the more prestigious business school)

Greenskins

Throw around less gold than most of the other nobles.

Underhands

Do less banking in general, keeping their affairs more private.

Richard conversation on gem with Flogistan
+2 Basil gems (Minus 100 gp.)
Guinevera's conversation on gem with Silvester
Houri: 5 elven generations ago, there was a Houri Shajara. She was the Viziera after the Shajara vizier (Ambrose Shajara) remarried. 2nd wife of Shajara vizier. Previous wife not mentioned (could just be bad records). Not clear who current Shajaras descended from (i.e. which Viziera). No earlier records of House Shajara in Noble Peerage.

Back in the Undergazette HQ

Rifi Darktusk Personfile

Not much noted about his death – known to have died in an apparent murder or assassination.
Noted that the nobility opened an investigation but didn’t follow it up.

Tyl'rr Do'urden Personfile

An associate of Barker’s Menagerie.
Listed as a Drow who operates a creature trade business between the underground levels of the city.
It is noted that he was believed to have some kind of genie in his skull that granted him magic.

Lindie Asklepa Personfile

Has a considerable file.
Recorded that she was taken as a concubine by Hugo.
Not much noted by Krona about more recent activities, although Krona would have had time to file this (he has chosen not to).

Religious groups that include Vanaran monks:

There are no listed Vanaran deities. There is an index of religious organisations, which mention the name, files and what happened to them and when. Some collapsed. Some disbanded. Some wiped out.

Monastic Order of the Garden Casefile

Existed long before Honourable Company ever showed up.
Collapsed between the establishment of the Honourable Company and now.
Collapsed around the time of the human takeover at court, but before the human’s gained full dominance.
Old enough that at one point the monastery was a tower (and now it’s underground).
See Other: Dream Tea Case, Qird Banderlog

Qird Banderlog Personfile

Mostly listed as an informant.
Street urchin at a time there were multiple cases of drugs flooding the city.
Address where he can be found.
Sketch
Same guy who showed Whitecape the Cactus Cat
Elder Gardener of the Order of the Garden

Dream Tea Casefile

Investigation concluded that the Honourable Company was importing drugs from other planes to control the populace.
Monastic Order of the Garden was tricked into replacing their usual vision tea with Dream Tea.
They were told Dream Tea was safe and would enhance their oracular and monk abilities (ki).
Turned out it was actually incredibly addictive and overdoseable.
Actually suppressed and prevented the use of Ki, and the monastery collapsed as a result.
Only remnants of the monastery now are a few homeless drug addicts dotted throughout the city.

K’nthaa? Phonetic spelling. Worshippers of deity. Worshipped and going away.
Gazers of the God-Shaped Void

Gazers is a different word from watcher or see-er in Undercommon.
Watchers of the Star-shaped void?

Susurrus Personfile

Drow
Veil Cult
Worshippers of “Scar Tissue of a Wound in Fate”
Wierdo on fringes of society, most people didn’t know he was in a cult.
Killed in a mugging gone wrong.
No churches, no official status - one of the cultists owned a house that was big enough to hold meetings with all four worshippers.

Tom Blacksand Personfile

One of the other worshippers.
Informant - has supplied tip offs on unrelated cases.
Still alive (or at least, no Date of Death listed).
Listed as in his late 40s, so would be his late 60s now.
Contact address: Lindie recognises it as in a shanty town in the ground-level slums. It is an area that isn’t actually under the iron grip of the Candleman (Candleman doesn’t want this part of town!)

Connie has made a note of all the obsolete churches (in her journal 2-3 pages worth) to show to Cassiopeia.

“You kids want to make a difference?”Beozar

Ramstein

Ram/sheep Mongrelman with wool cape is boss.
Rectangular pupils.

Venom Houri

Owners and attenders of the Garden of Venom.
A shelter safe-haven for Vishkanya. Function as attendants and overseers and the only guards.
They lend out their skills for a price as mercenaries and assassins.
Nunnery.
No worldly possessions.
Supplied Asklepa's Apothecary with venomous plants.

Guardsman Davies – cute! Let bunnies off hook.

“Please Davies, if you tell my father all that will happen is he’ll get angry and I’ll get hurt.”Hugo Dargent petitions Davies's silence. It works... temporarily.

Ears of the City (Two Castings)

Round 1 - Court Gossip

Cody’s been missing from court for the last couple of days.
Leopold Stargazer now has the shakes and Ursula Stargazer also sick.
Kronk Greenskin also has the shakes.
Castor and Cassie are running the Greenskin estate while Pollux (and, secretly Britomart) are running the Stargazer estate.
Weaver, Andromeda and Felinet are worse.

Round 2

Guinevera: He knows now. The boy, Hugo. He knows.
Richard: Well, that’s all we need.
Multiple groups involved in the mercenary hit (so as to make it as untraceable as possible).
Chess game with 6 pieces or more.

Round 3: Underhands on Richard

-6 (Recent decrease). Richard was maybe in the positives beforehand.

Round 4: Underhands on Scarlett Dargent

-20

Round 5: Stargazers on Guinevera Dargent

-19

Round 6: Stargazers on Kronk Greenskin

Round 1: Masons on Richard Dargent

+25

Round 2: Underhands on Cardamom Baharat

-10

Round 3: Bakerstreets on Cody Bakerstreet

Rounds 4 & 5: Shajaras on Guinevera Dargent

+70

Round 6: Dargents on Castor Stargazer

-50

Lindie Attack

Guinevera's Bedchamber:

4 poster bed
Silver velvet cushion in dog basket for Voltaire

Minus 2 Ifrit Blood
Minus 1 Summoning Potion (Doru)
Minus 1 Vishkanya Venom (Handmaidens' Venom)
AAAAAHHH – Scarlett is fox and saw Connie (and quite possibly Lindie!!!!)
Magic lamps with swirling purple incense
+1 Magic Lamp (summons air genie, djinni once per day).