CoS Session 13: Fighting Spirits, pt. 3
General Summary
2/3/874
- So the party gathers intel on the Lord Mayor and his associations with the Court of the Undying
- Roland goes to Gilded Mug, fancy tavern that Lord Mayor frequents
- Roland talks with Neville, the Lord Mayor's secretary, about his boss' schedule
- At the Gilded Mug he also runs into a Red Hand member on the 2nd floor
- The Red Hand agent explains how the group split apart after the Court of the Undying meeting in Trecce
- Azrael’s side is called The Handgun
- The side still loyal to Court is called The Three Fingers
- Firenze’s from the Grappas noble family, is taking over the criminal empire
- Roland thanks guy for intel, heads back to tavern
- Aldo follows Lord Mayor’s carriage around town
- At one point the Mayor goes into the National Archives, Aldo follows inside
- He sees Mayor arguing with Elgort, and the Mayor leaves with an ominous warning
- Aldo chat’s with Elgort a bit before following Mayor around some more
- Nikolaj stakes out Lord Mayor’s mansion
- Notices a guard change at noon and evening, only a couple of guards
- Back at the tavern that night
- Roland, Aldo and Nikolaj share their findings for the day
- They have an idea of Mayor’s schedule, but no way to pin him to Firenze
- Guess they’ll have to wait until meeting with Firenze and Mayor to get more intel
- The next day: Roland, the paladin, acts like a rogue and snoops around the Three Fingers hideout
- He walks into the bar and sees Firenze in the back
- Bartender won’t serve him (Sardivelians only, he says)
- Roland sneaks into back alley, hears some gossip from Three Fingers thugs about Firenze
- Nothing insightful, they’re just ready to leave Gameria
- Roland sees Firenze in the upstairs office, he climbs up side of building to eavesdrop
- It takes a while to climb up there, he only gets the last end of the conversation
- Firenze’s giving orders to put plan in motion, etc.
- Roland sneaks inside office and steals Firenze’s plans
- Turns out Firenze wants to steal rare books from the National Archives about the Court of the Undying and dark summoning rituals
- He had specialty boxes made by the Craftsman's Guild to smuggle them
- The Lord Mayor is giving him cover in the city to get on the Court's good side
- Once the books are stolen, they’ll burn the Archives then flee to the ship
- Roland gives this intel to Fallworth, it’s the smoking gun they need!
- Fallworth’s elated, sending guards to Archives to warn Elgort
- Aldo’s had a more chill day
- He read more of Romance of the Five Kingdoms, gets third of the way through it
- Nikolaj gets some ingredients for Assaj
- She wants raven’s talons/feathers, and there’s a rich old lady with an old raven on Gameria's 1st level
- The bird’s like 100 years old, he breaks into her fancy house’s aviary
- Nikolaj gets what he needs, but raven causes ruckus and wakes up all other birds
- Nikolaj crashes through a window, but he escapes and gets 150GP for talons
- Roland fills party in on his lucky break, they decide to break into Mayor’s mansion that night
- May as well get more proof of collusion while they’re having productive day
- Aldo and Nikolaj sneak into mansion, Roland watches them from street
- Aldo finds some letters from Firenze in Mayor’s study, takes them
- He hears thud from Lord Mayor’s bedroom, goes to investigate
- Aldo finds the Mayor dead with a Three Fingers assassin about to burn the place down
- When the assassin sees Adlo/Nikolaj, he decides to attack them first with a 'Fireball' spell
- The assassin misses, but now the place is on fire
- Aldo tries to fight, but there are guards coming (not good odds)
- The party escapes, Roland helps talk their way out of run-in with the town watch
- Back at the party's regular tavern, Fallworth is there
- Turns out Firenze feels cornered after today's events, so he's burning all his bridges in town
- Fallworth says Shank was murdered, and he’s seen Three Fingers agents all over the city
- They have to go to Archives ASAP to make sure the place is intact
- One quick beeline to the Archives later the building is still there, but the guards out front have their throats torn out
- Inside there’s a dying guard, and Elgort’s being interrogated by Firenze
- Elgort gets thrown against a bookcase, is unconscious for a bit before fleeing
- Boss Fight: Firenze the Undying
- Firenze lets off a lot of fire attacks, starts burning down Archives
- Queen Astrid's newly minted fire squad is on its way, but they’ve gotta be quick
- Aldo takes some bruises, but he fires off a lot of arrows
- Roland really puts that radiant damage to good use
- Nikolaj stabs Firenze a couple times, but he’s not that stealthy
- Roland delivers killing blow, Firenze is slayed before he can vanish
- They run out of Archives before the fire engulfs them
- Astrid's fire guard arrives, extinguishes flame with an elemental spell
- Fallworth is there, shaken but relieved that the Archives are still standing
- He tells them to return back to home tavern and call it a night
- A long, long rest later
- There’s an officer in the tavern there telling them to go to Fallworth’s place
- Fallworth says the city’s still recovering from last night’s chaos, but it could be worse
- The remaining members of Three Fingers were purged from city
- Some of Lord Mayor’s assistants were arrested for collusion
- He tells party to take it easy for now while Fallworth cleans up mess
- Roland checks on Shank’s fighting pits operation
- He finds Shank’s second-in-command, Magnus, sifting through the burn wreckage of Shank's old fighting ring
- Magnus agrees to continue construction of legitimate fighting pit
- Roland agrees to vouch for him with Fallworth and get documents signed
- The ship that was supposed to smuggle out the rare books from the National Archives arrives at dock
- Fallworth’s officers are there at the pier to arrest and interrogate crew
- Aldo does some shopping for some new weapons, Finds some flaming arrows to use in Gen. Boua's longbow
- After some searching he finds a frozen ice blade from Pescat for 300GP
- He also reads a lot more of Romance of the Five Kingdoms
- Roland checks on Magnus to see how the fighting pits' repairs are going (they’re working on it)
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