CoS Session 11: Fighting Spirits, Pt. 1
General Summary
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- Catriona has to go to Hakon to take care of ailing father
- Roland, Aldo, and Nikolaj are in Gameria by themselves
- Nikolaj helps set up new restaurant
- Aldo puts up poorly-drawn propaganda about Gen. Boua Ussaki
- Roland tries to go to fighting pits, but it turns out Shank's having problems
- Somebody’s trying to step in on his fighting pit turf: his brother Shoat, recently fled from Avicenna
- Shank wants Roland to rough up Shoat and send a warning
- So Roland goes to Shoat’s new place, the Six Fists
- Roland to roughhouse with the bouncers, but they let him in
- Roland tries to play both sides, but Shoat says there can only be one fight pits organizer in Gameria
- When Shoat orders Roland to burn down Shank's fighting ring, he pretends to agree
- But instead he goes back to Shank and tells him Shoat’s plan
- Shank says he’ll burn down the pit if he can get Fallworth to cover the insurance and make his operation a legitimate business
- At the tavern Roland fills Aldo and Nikolaj in on the plan
- Nikolaj already has a way to get inside, and Aldo only has to pay a 5GP entry fee
- Next morning they all go to Fallworth’s office to explain the situation
- Fallworth sings on to the plan, he's been wanting to crack down on crime now that Astrid's in charge
- Arresting an underground kingpin would look great
- He’s reluctant to give Shank license to run a legal fighitng pit, though
- But he relents when Shank agrees to work as an informer for the Gamerian government
- Fallworth will shut down the Six Fists with a group of guards
- Party needs to stall and catch Shoat before then
- Before they leave, Fallworth has a private chat with Aldo
- He can sense that Aldo’s loyalties are leaning towards Gen. Boua, so he gives him a warning
- That night at the Six Fists
- Roland makes it through three rounds of fighting before getting wiped out
- 1st round is a one-hit KO for him
- 2nd round a new Gamerian fighter beats him up
- 3rd round a Sardivelion cleans the floor with Roland
- Meanwhile Aldo and Nikolaj sneak up to the 2nd floor to catch Shoat
- Nikolaj has Roland’s immobilization oil on his daggers
- Aldo casts a spell that gives them both +10 stealth
- In the office they hear Shoat talking to somebody
- Nikolaj can see it’s a Sardivelian, hard to tell who though
- Aldo makes diversion, places Boua pamphlets on Shoat’s desk
- They sneak out, but not before hearing Sardivelian mention the Court of the Undying
- The Court’s trying to get into Gamerian criminal underworld!
- Sounds like Court’s planning shipment in a couple weeks
- By the time of the third round’s end, Fallworth raids place with a dozen of Fallworth's guards
- Nikolaj and Aldo wait for Shoat in all the chaos
- Turns out Shoat’s trying to escape through office window!
- Nikolaj stabs him a couple times
- Shoat falls paralyzed onto Nikolaj, Aldo has to lift him off and hogtie the overweight kingpin
- They also capture the mysterious Sardivelian, but he transforms into a Court of the Undying lich
- The Sardivelian disappears in a haze of smoke/bluish-yellow fire
- Nikolaj and Aldo move Shoat downstairs to Roland and Fallworth
- Nikolaj describes Court member to Roland, and Roland knows it’s Firenze
- Fallworth takes Shoat back to his office for questioning
- After some grilling, he says Firenze is planning a smuggling operation in a couple of weeks
- Shoat won't specify what it’s for, but he did see representatives from Gameria's Craftsman’s Guild at the meetings
- Firenze plays his cards close to chest, he wants Court to do more covert ops
- The next day Shoat is put on trial and charged with treason
- Aldo gets a new book from Elgort to read to improve reading/penmanship, the 1,500-pg Romance of the Five Kingdoms
- Nikolaj meets with his poison supplier, Assaj Ferrith
- He asks about any shady contracts to do, she gives him a list of targets
- Lots of illegal, hard-to-obtain ingredients that he can steal
- Roland meets up with Shank to see how he’s doing
- He tops by Temple of Helm to ask about a terrible deity named Vos
- Priest there tells him about how Vos killed Willem, one of the founding deities in Liat's pantheon
- Vos represents all the evil and dark urges of humanity, he sided with the monstrous deities of the Far Realms during the Ostry Apocalypse
- He defied Willem’s hospitality
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