Dr. Quem Hora Defects to Gurrat
Gathering / Conference
Three Senu II pilgrims, Fal, Nama, and Derax successfully escort planetary meterologist Dr. Quem Hora to an international conference in Sorn Ge, Torgath where he defects directly to Akis Blad, Consul of Gurrat.
Adventure Report things of note (not in prose):
Negotiating a price with Dr. Hora, paid half up front, half once Hora on conference floor.
Buying forged border passes from a corrupt Delian official.
Buying supplies and then telling junior priestess Tsumugu Narion to EFF off after she invited PCs to pray at the sacred dola tree where she was going to hang the new priestess' hair.
Overhearing news that Professor Jeddon Vey was killed in an accident at a dig site in Gurrat a day after Fal had flown him there clandestinely...
Also news: BUMPER crop of kaldis nuts this spring, so EXTRA low prices. Mmm...
Border passes work to get through the checkpoint.
Some minor drink spills, wipeouts, taser-cooked rabbit, and geris along the drive, but nothing major.
PCs ward off an attack from Sebo Lommar, a Gurratan sugran, who was following them in an attempt to acquire Dr. Hora and somehow knew they were in Gurrat. Lommar also reveals that he has a personal vendetta against the PCs for their brutal murder of his friends.
PCs rent a room at a hotel across the river from the conference hall. They scout out the venue. The next day, while others distract, Fal accesses a laptop and printer to forge press passes for the group.
PCs gain access to the conference. Dr. Hora runs off to a table of sugrans inside a restaurant, one of whom is Akis Blad. Shortly thereafter PCs get a notification on their smarfos indicating Dr. Hora has transferred the second half of the payment, $17,500.
Nama (or Fal?) sees a sugran removing something from the bottom of their SUV. Meanwhile the others bump into Baraz Du'al at the conference, who answers some of their questions and encourages them to consider working for Gurrat in earnest, since they have recently helped out Blad's cause in several ways (handing over the dilectric prism, delivering Professor Vey and now Dr. Hora).
Sherrif Vin Borsen from New Lanvia called Derax to ask about the dead body (T'lios) in his apartment and Derax hung up on him.