Session 26: Brothers in Arms
General Summary
Notes by Fizzywit Thimbledown
Jendriday, Fourthden, Wolf Moon, 751 AC, Le Carre Palace, Phelandria
- We head to the palace
- Princess is surprised to see us and goes off into the palace
- We are led through the grand villa through grand staircase
- We go up
- People in livery running around doing things
- Go down a hallway that is white marble and gold accents
- Go into a fancy seating kind of room
- Cushions and fancy furniture
- Some blue and gold out of place
- Short weaselly looking guy at the door asks for our names
- Tells us to wait
- There is nice music in the other room
- Jazz piano
- Waiters and waitresses with trays and goblets and whatnot
- Ishta asks Alphonse that who the weasel-faced Human is
- Ishta kind of knows some things
- Members of the lion guard upstanding servants of the duchess
- Wert tries to convert Alphonse
- Ishta is trying to get wine
- Wert prays for Alphones
- Ishta gets yelled at for stepping away from the door
- Told to wait to get announced
- Some people walking around we are 20 feet away from the action
- Nice to look at briefly
- Ishta and Fizzywit chat about the style of the room
- Farkhom thinks the room is pretty nice
- Weasleface announced the Captain Alphonse
- Duchess seems enthralled with who they are talking to
- Far side of the room
- Windows on the far side
- The person walks away
- Weasleface announces us
- Poorly
- Fizzywit acknowledges the doorman aka Weasleface
- Head towards the Duchess
- A person offers wine to everyone
- Everyone but Fizzywit takes it
- All the little conversations stop on our way there
- Sitting on a cushion in front of her is a young man telling an amusing antidote
- No where to sit on this side of the table
- Ishta scans for escape route
- Asks Alphonse if we have failed miserably
- Annoyed her daughter is still in the production
- Ishta flatters the Duchess
- Farkhom mentions that there was an incident
- We took care of it
- Giving Alphone a hard time about it
- Farkhom now points out they are dead
- Wert “Transitioned”
- Tell her about everything
- She is not excited
- In court at Eldarin
- Wert suggests something about money
- Its going poorly
- Oh wait may be saving it…
- Suggests that she has been very successful in life
- She wants to know what we are going to do about this
- Wert suggests that she needs some acting practice
- The duchess is not pleased again
- Wert suggests she will get over her desire to be in a theatre
- She kind of goes for it
- Wert says as a fellow parent
- And is now lecturing her about being a parent
- Then asks to pray with her
- She is not excited about the praying
- She really is being oddly kind
- But also condescending
- Ishta is upset
- Asks Alphonse if she has talent
- Alphonse says she has some talent
- Wait now its tremendous talent and it should be supported
- The carriage leaves the day after opening night
- Ishta makes some joke
- The guy next her asks if she should warn us about the Count d'Andor
- There is a minor noble
- Who is penniless
- Suggests that her daughter is visiting the Count
- We keep her away from the Count
- Andor Family rules the 4th largest city in the Empire
- People make jokes they have timber
- Are frequently made fun of
- Count recently died
- Son is good looking and wealthy
- Ishta asks to for passes to hang out in the castle
- Not happening
- Asks us not harm the count he is a guest at the estate
- Arlin is talking about expanding their group (porters)
- Wert kneels next to Arlin dross and introduces himself
- Wert bonds with Arlin (the porter)
- Wert asks if Arlin has opened his heart to Anderi
- Arlin says he gives all the gods their due
- Arlen says no to praying with Wert
- Gives Wert a drink
- He walks off with the Duchess
- Wert asks Alphonse if he should good check where the Princess is
- Porter asks for Ishta delivers a rolled scroll
- Ishta looks unhappy
- We head to the Periwinkle and go to the Foxtail
Landerday, Fourthden, Wolf Moon, 751 AC, Foxtail Theater, Market Table, Phelandria
- Next day!
- Ishta looks for the guide from before
- Apparently Gaston is coming
- To beat people
- Looks for an Elynthi consulate
- Some kind of ship came in recently
- Guide is applying for citizenship
- Ishta gets shady
- Wert is nailing the stage
- May go fix the stairs he messed up later
- Hang out at the Bent Tankard
- Quiet evening
- We get the impression that they will do well
- Ishta is confirming that we should make this succeed
- We are talking about the plans
- We send Farkhom to chat with Alphonse
- He drags Ishta
- Farkhom stumbles through asking Alphonse to help
- Mentions us sabotaging
- Alphonse says you do you with the other things
- Farkhom crushed it
Chetriday, Fourthden, Wolf Moon, 751 AC, Foxtail Theater, Market Table, Phelandria
- The crew bulks up the security of the theater
- Asks if there is anything Alphonse and the team are doing anything to help out
- Says he will try to get extra men for the performance
- Ishta is trying to steal the directors notes
- No understudies at all
- Fizzywit forges a note that he should get some understudies
Zarduday, Fourthden, Wolf Moon, 751 AC, Foxtail Theater, Market Table, Phelandria
- Several days go by and its Zarduday
- Wild scene at the Bent Tankard
- Balconies with floors and no railings
- Ropes pulleys
- No practice tomorrow
- Ishta does some checking into something (seeeeeecret)
- Door of the bent tankard opens up and in march a dozen young men slightly sauced
- Arlin Ross is at the lead of the group
- Tells us to turn that racket off and get a real bard
- They are glowering over the top of us
- Wert asks to pray with Arlin
- Arlin wants to do a drinking game
- Wert is not super interested
- Ishta hides
- Alphonse is here and drunk as well.
- Ishta makes Arlin look like he is pissing himself
- Arlin doesn't notice
- Ishta nudges Alphonse and Alphonse says its not illegal to piss himself
- Ishta is trying to goad Alphonse
- One of the guys asks who the little guy is
- Farkhom is not pleased
- Farkhom is annoyed
- And is yelling at the porters
- Farkhom is now intimidating the porters
- Farkhom points out that the officer is not on duty
- Ishta does some taunting with thaumaturgy
- Farkhom knocks his ale onto him
- Farkhom is getting up in their faces
- They leave
- Yay Farkhom!
- Ishta gets Farkhom another ale
Jendriday, Firstden, Planting Moon, 751 AC, Café Viridian, Market Table, Phelandria
- Couple more days pass
- We succeeded at turning a combat into a social encounter
- 8 days before the production
- There are no cushions but the balconies are nice
- Rehearsal is nailing it
- Follow them to the palace
- No one gets out of the palanquin
- Alphonse checks it out and can't find anyone in the palanquin
- No princess in the palanquin
- Alphonse “Better than a dead princess”
- Alphonse searches the palanquin
- Finds a note
- Alphonse calls over the Rat Catchers
- We look at the note
- References Mirelle who we think has a restaurant near the theatre
- We head to the restaurant all the way back
- We look for some kind of cafe
- Fizzywit goes and bribes the location of the place
- Its McDoewls
- Called Café Viridian
- There is a woman standing at a podium that looks like she is literally stone
- Ishta sends in the cat
- Its very nice
- Upscale clientele
- Some people don't look like they belong and are armed
- Ishta asks for the familiar to look around
- Alphonse tries to get to the roof
- Success!
- Building is isolated
- Lower than buildings around it
- Wert casts aid on everyone
- Fizzywit casts mage armor on themselves
- Fizzywit heads to the front door
- The rat finds a way in
- C’est impossible I am walking right past them
- Fizzywit get knocked across the square
- Takes 20 damage
- Wert gives him 18 points back
- Alphonse lets Fizzywit
- Fizzywit asks Ishta to find a name on the reservation
- Alphonse prepares to enter the door on top of the building
- The rat familiar and the cat familiar get into a fight
- The rat is hit!
- Chaos happens
- People screaming
- Ishta says they will need a ratcatchers guild in a second
- Alphonse charges the door
- Fails
- Wert sees lots of legs
- The rat battle continues
- Alphonse tries the door again
- Success!
- Alphonse runs down the stairs into a kitchen
- Women making pastries
- And women with a tea kettle
- Alphonse just misses them scalding water going everywhere
- All kinds of fancy people standing on tables
- Fizzywit tries to bluff their way into the restaurant
- Wert tries vanish their rat
- Farkhom
- Notices the rat disappear
- Prepares to smash a statue
- Alphonse
- Hears the princess
- In a private booth
- Bursts into the booth
- Looks like a date
- Ishta’s familiar attacks the spot the rat used to be
- Fizzywit and Farkhom
- Attempts to disengage past the statue
- We head towards the room
- Princess is in a room in a nice gown and well dressed
- Wert
- Looks in the windows of the cafe
- See people on tables and Alphonse
- Blur of movement
- Somethings put a knife on the back of my neck
- Fizzywit keeps moving
- Gets stabbed
- Fizzywit goes down
- And gets tossed out
- Ishta casts fog cloud in the building
- Wert heals Fizzywit again
- He us back up again
- Farkhom grabs the princess and tries to head out the door
- Alphonse
- Gets out of the cafe
- Sees the princess
- We all chase Farkhom
- We go to the theatre
- Ishta breaks into the theatre
- Alphonse is not pleased about us stealing the Princess
- We are all headed inside
- Farkhom refuses to drop the Princess
- Alphonse tries to remove the Princess
- Farkhom releases the Princess
- Princess tries to hit Alphonse
- Princess is upset
- Threatens to get him fired
- Farkhom says some of were hired to the protect the Princess
- Princess is not happy about the whole thing
- Farkhom is nailing it
- Kind of…
- Princess threatens all of us
- Asks about not having fun
- Upset about how the party is doing
- Farkhom
- We don't get paid if you die
- “You just have to live”
- Princess asks if we were sabotaging the production
- Farkhom gets confusing
- Fizzywit makes a joke about lumber
- Wert tries to convince the princess that we are needed for the performance
- Ishta looks like her mother using disguise self
- Looks straight in her ‘mothers’ face who is wagging a finger at her
Player Characters Present
Alphonse Rocher
Farkhom Blackkith
Fizzywit Thimbledown
Ishta Shal'Vistani
Wert Ackerman
Alphonse Rocher
Farkhom Blackkith
Fizzywit Thimbledown
Ishta Shal'Vistani
Wert Ackerman
Report Date
03 Dec 2025
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