Session 001 - Festival's Eve Report

General Summary

The story of the campaign session, in the players’ own words:   Silk: Finally Javor showed up with the payment… The kid has some interesting ideas, but some of his material choices will bite him in the ass if he’s not careful. At least his coin is good and this will be a little bump for the fight tonight. I’ll enjoy myself til I catch up with Rajko… He swears he’s got a good fighter, but we’ll see how well he does in the ring.   Ahhh so that’s where the tooth ended up in this mechanical dragon. But what a farce of a show! The Firemind collapsing trying to take flight?! Nonsense! Not sure who or what they’re actually trying to pull, but I highly doubt the work of the Izzets would be that failable. Hopefully the thing doesn’t explode if it tries to walk, hah!   Rajko found me at the event, and I think this brutish looking half-orc is his fighter. First impressions? We can point him in the right direction to make a killing on the fight tonight. Hopefully Dane’s isn’t too rusty on his return… hmm… I think I’ll need to place a side bet just in case Sludge forgets how to count while in the ring…   Sludge: Nothing wrong with a little day drinking on Foundry Street. I gotta get my mind right for my big fight tonight. My opponent has no chance, and I will give him no mercy. I love it that my manager is hyped up for the match. I know he believes in me and all my fans will be cheering . . . no one has ever heard . . . ok, but they will tonight. Rajko describes my opponent Dane before we meet one of his friends. Dane doesn’t sound intimidating; I can crush his little deer legs so he can’t flank me. Rajko keeps mentioning that we need to impress Juri. Leave that to me boss as me winning the fight will impress Juri.   We met Rajko’s friend Silk who I confused him with Dane until I realized he doesn’t have four legs. We go over the game plan on defeating Dane . . . I’m supposed to take a backbreaker in round 4 . . . make it look like I can’t get up . . . ok good I get back up to end the round. Nice this is where I make my comeback . . . I go down in round 5. Silk tells us he will place the bet, and we will make lots of money. They assure me that losing will still impress Juri, but I don’t know how, but I don’t mind some extra money though.   As we walk away, I notice a large four legged metal beast behind us. IS THAT DANE??? IS HE SPYING ON US??? . . . No . . . that’s a dragon . . . no deer. I hope the small guys know what they are doing with this fight. I hope there isn’t anything else important I should know about . . . wait is this a fight to the death?   Helio: I had high hopes that today would be a nice chill day… I was enjoying my time, laying in the Glade of Vitu-Ghazi. A rare sight there, I saw another loxodon coming in for the festival. He was a chill dude, reminded me that Saint Bayul will be around soon. I would love to seek their counsel on how I should approach my… situation. I decided I would seek out the Loxodon saint when he gets here.   Just as I was getting relaxed again, who would show up but Javor? With tickets to Pivlichino’s for the evening!   Needing to find something to do, Javor took me to see the Izzet League’s creation for the festival, a giant metal dragon! Of course it’s impressive, I would love to ride it through the skies. At one point it spoke and shot a metal ball at me, straight at my head! The ball started shooting off fire, but luckily a wizard was nearby to come to my aid.   Sadly the metal dragon was unable to fly, ended up face-diving into the ground hehe. While Javor was off trying to help repair the dragon, I overheard some soldiers discussing the Mirthmakers for the festival. Apparently they got lost somewhere on their way to the district, maybe it was one of the Gruul Clans that are responsible for their disappearance.   Anika: Urgh. I went to see Megara today and she was just destroying a set of hand painted playing cards. Baldacci, a gift from Uncle Fabio. A very expensive gift. Just because she was bored! And then she wanted me to draw her bath. As if I were a servant! I most certainly am not. That is what the indentured spirits are for. It's not my problem she has trouble getting them to obey. She's so obnoxious. Well, I suppose all the rest of Uncle's pets are even worse.... \=   Uncle makes me so angry. He doesn't mean it, I suppose. He just doesn't think. I wonder if he was always like this, or if turning vampire did something to his brain? Hard to say, since he died about two hundred years before I was born.   Anyway, he screwed up the finances again. Simon says he has only 50 gold left until the end of the month. That's barely enough for a single day. I'm sure he's going to blow it all at Pivlicino's tonight. Well, most of it. 48 Gold of it anyway. He never thinks about the rest of us. What am I supposed to eat? He has his pets, of course, so he doesn't go hungry.   Oh, vapor saints, I supposed I don't either. I have my pay. But it's the principle of the thing, I'm supposed to get room and board and clothing expenses.   Anyway, I've been sent on a stupid, wild goose chase for him to find Tomik Vrona. Uncle wants to sweeten him for some reason. Lawmage.... maybe it's one of his debt court cases come up or something. I should find out. Simon should know....   I hate Simon. No, really. I really, really hate Simon. I hope he gets spattered with entrail juices tonight at Pivlicino's. I'll have to make sure he's closest to the pit. He had the GALL to claim I can't keep Uncle's spending in line. Well, he's no better! He thinks he can succeed by keeping the money locked up and tracking things in his little ledger books... well, I'm aware of two new lines of credit from last week alone. All the merchants know the Enezesku family will eventually make good.   Here's the gate to the Azorius guildhall. Gotta go!