2025-01-24 First Whiff of Deathrose
General Summary
Scene: Dreamflower doing something with Sewer goblins and Starchild
(This scribe arrived late)
Scene: meanwhile, cutting to Fortifier in the late evening.
Fortifier wants to invite Eressanada to co-design on plans for the new Autochthon worship space.
The low level TZ haven’t seen him in the evenings. The high-level TZ are still travelling through Malfeas.
Knowing Eressanada’s Fortifier goes asking around in the art scene.
Turns out Nurlissa is renting a studio to Eressanada to work on his own paintings.
He’s basically her only tenant and he has been making a piece of art every 2 months or so.
Nurlissa shows Fortifier his latest work. It’s cubist art but the figure is made of starmetal looks feminine, with short black hair and green eyes.
Too feminine to likely be a depiction of Hidden-by-radiance, the starmetal caste Alchemical.
It doesn’t really match any of the Tang-Zen Crime Syndicate exalts.
Starmetal + Green eyes suggest a Sidereal Chosen of Secrets. Fortifier guesses this is Agent Prital Tarawi.
There’s another painting that is marked as sold to Nurlissa. It’s a portrait of Nurlissa juggling many masks.
Each mask seems very symbolic of aspects of her. One mask seems like it might have been her original face before she became an Exigent.
The layers of symbolic meaning suggest Eressanada has spent a lot of time with both Nurlissa and Prital.
Fortifier is in Nurlissa’s space and notices her nicer clothes seem to be missing, so wherever she went she wants to look her best.
Fortifier asks for Dreamflower’s help looking for Nurlissa and Eressanada, initially at the casino.
Scene: Kade goes to Liveeasy to find Tiaden, his boyfriend
He checks a brothel and meets Deathrose Pot-pourri, the proprietor of the brothel and an Abyssal.
Deathrose is sworn to The Lover Clad in the Raiment of Tears
Deathrose mentions the person Kade is looking for may have been recruited by an opera company.
Deathrose says The Lover is annoyed with the troublesome exalts of 12 Carnelian Peaches. She alludes to what that circle has done, particularly the capturing of “the lady’s children”, and Deathrose sinisterly muses about how she will punish them.
Kade leaves from Nexus District to Cinnabar District.
Cinnabar District is a more bohemian area and also where 12 Carnelian Peaches is.
Scene: Kade arrives at 12 Carnelian Peaches
Kade is stopped by the house guards who want to know his business.
Kade namedrops Dreamflower, but Dreamflower is away at the moment. (Fortifier is out looking for Eressanada.) Only Stelsor is home right now and the guards mention this.
Stelsor throws a robe on (he’d been with Selene) and greets Kade.
Stelsor had been with his lady friend.
Kade wanted to warn them about Deathrose’s plans.
Stelsor conjures a window to [The Repatriator of Souls] in Stygia.
Repatriator is there with 800 powers of canine zombie with replacement parts and Soulsteel. (Mr. Jangles)
Repatriator talks to Stelsor
They talk about Metagalapa. RoS says the leader of Metagalapa has some sort of armor that Stelsor should be wary of.
Scene: Fortifier & Dreamflower at Plentimon’s Casino
They find Eressanada, Nurlissa and Prital are all at the high roller table.
Nurlissa isn’t betting, but Prital and Eressanada are.
Eressanada seems amenable to the design project, though he is busy enjoying pleasant company at the moment.
Scene: Kade and Stelsor investigating
Stelsor asks around and finds out that Tiaden had an audition with the opera but never showed up.
Continued Scene: at the casino
Fortifier speaks with Prital about her training.
Fortifier makes a point to offer Prital help.
Prital had been indispensable for us in our early days in Nexus, so he wants to return the service.
Prital seems to be trying to flatter Fortifier.
Stelsor sends a messenger to ask us to meet up with him and Kade in Liveeasy.
Scene: Stelsor, Kade, Fortifier and Dreamflower in Liveeasy
We all meet up at the un-opened casino
It hasn’t opened yet because we’re still acquiring the workers and vetting them.
There’s a bizarre red aura around Miribadi’s antique shop.
Dreamflower senses this is a necromantic ritual but can’t tell from the outside.
Kade tells us about who we’re looking for.
Tiaden Starwhisper, a solar who is very persuasive and artful.
Dreamflower discerns that someone used a necromantic version of Travel Without Distance to leave here quickly. The red aura is probably residue of this.
The entrance is warded closes and Dreamflower uses Violent Opening of Closed Portals to turn the door and ward to splinters.
We descend into the basement in search of Tiaden.
There’s a lot of what looks like blood, but Fortifier notes that clearly isn’t human blood.
It is a deep burgundy.
It has a powerful smell, like human blood mixed with wine-vinegar.
Dreamflower recognizes seems like sewer goblin blood.
We reach the deepest room in the place, a ritual space with a dug-in bathtub
Around the tub are 8 sets of footprints where people seemed to have been standing.
Dreamflower casts Shadows of the Forgotten Past to see what had happened here.
There is 1 of each type of ghost.
Deathrose Pot-pourri was casting a spell while Miribadi and Platinum Lady were lending help.
Tiaden, Azrael and The Mordant of Waning Shades were there, tied up and gagged.
They seem to have teleported somewhere else in Creation.
Dreamflower looks back further
Dreamflower’s able to sense the general directions and distance and it seems to point south-southeast, roughly near Point Sunder.
Stelsor sends out Infallible Messengers to the aggrieved parties.
Letting Windblown Snow know since Azrael was in the Tang Zen
Telling Dark Bonbon of Perdition about the sewer goblins who were killed.
We’ll have to get the Little Cloud working or go by cloud skiff.
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