CoS Session 20: Aldo's an Enemy
General Summary
12/1/874
- Back in Gameria, news of the war with Avicenna has already spread
- Fallworth Lockmere wants a meeting ASAP
- He’s disappointed by the party’s results, but he understands that war was an inevitability
- He pays them for mission, mentions how Cosmere's Mayor insisted the bomb was defused
- Now it’s time to prepare for war
- Fallworth says the party will be traveling more, spending less time in Gameria
- He hands each of them gold rings with green wrapped around the sides, Fallworth says they can use them to communicate with each other over long distances
- They’ll be on a ship with a Gamerian crew
- Final preparations in Gameria
- Nikolaj checks on Rexfur temple near the palace, it’s getting bigger with more people showing up
- An old priest named Carnahan is taking care of things
- They just had to hire bouncers to deal with unruly templegoers
- Oh, and Nikolaj gets 300GP from Assaj for the fang he stole
- Party checks out vessel, The Castellan
- The party meets with Cpt. Theron, a veteran captain who got her ear cut off in a diplomatic conflict with Avicenna
- And she’s single, Roland
- Nikolaj and Elan do some bonding, mock Roland’s failed attempts to flirt
- Meanwhile in Kanara ….
- Aldo has a meeting with Gen. Boua
- He suggests they try to assassinate Fallworth
- Boua whole-heartedly agrees
- The party departs for Myltev
- Falloworth says there’s a captain there who’s been consolidating control over several of the islands
- Get on his good side, and that may help keep shipping routes open in the Gulf of Gameth
- The captain? Tarkov (nice trip down memory lane for Roland)
- Sebastian also buys a cow named Bessie for the trip for all the milk he drinks
- The voyage to Vostok is surprisingly safe and uneventful
- Sebastian takes care of Bessie, but she gets sick
- Elan hangs out with Tilda, the Castellan’s surgeon
- Roland flirts and goes on a date with Cpt. Theron, they start to bond and talk
- They arrive at Vostok, some dangerous-looking guys are there to take them to Tarkov
- Cpt. Theron takes care of the ship while they’re gone
- They meet with Cpt. Tarkov, and he’s not happy to see them
- He puts a knife to Roland’s throat, but Roland talks him down
- Tarkov also doesn’t like Elan since she’s Catriona’s sister
- Negotiations go on for a bit, they offer Tarkov thousands of GP per year to stop attacking Gamerian ships
- He’ll take it, but he also wants them to do something
- There was an explosion in the countryside, and livestock’s disappearing
- The party should check it out, let him know what it is
- Better hurry though: some Avicennans are hunting it down too
- Nikolaj is still pissed at Tarkov, sees him as nothing but a thief and fraud
- Roland has to hold him back before he ruins the negotiations
- So party gets ready to go check out explosion
- Sebastian gets some medicine for Bessie
- They haggle with old stablemaster to get some old horses
- After a couple of days they get to the crater
- Lots of trees uprooted/pushed back by force of explosion
- They slowly make their way to center of crater, and it’s a statue of a pig
- It’s on the heavy side, and it’s radiating celestial power
- Roland starts packing it up, but then they hear a familiar voice
- Aldo’s there with his right-hand-man, Willard Grimsbane
- The two of them are there to destroy the mystical statue for Boua
- Roland doesn’t want that, so I guess they’ll fight
- Boss Fight: Aldo and Willard
- Roland commands the two of them to leave, and they leave :/
- The 'Command' spell lasts for an hour, so they at least get a head start
- When they get back to the horses, Rexfur is there waiting for them
- He’s got a little request for them while they gallop and talk on the way to Vostok
- Rexfur explains how the portal Valdemar opened really messed up the world
- The portal disturbed the fabric of the planes, gods are moving around more frequently now
- E.g. That statue is Shep, the god of livestock
- This is going to upset the balance of the pantheon, somebody needs to take over
- Rexfur believes he should be the one to take over
- Fairouz is working to create a dark pantheon of chaotic gods
- Gen. Boua wants to destroy all things magical/celestial
- So while the party’s adventuring, he wants them to keep an eye out for the gods
- Shep will be his first addition to the New Pantheon
- Make sure they join Rexfur’s pantheon, don’t piss them off
- Sebastian’s skeptical as hell, but rest of party says why not
- The party makes it back to Vostok to meet with Tarkov
- They tell him about Shep and the celestial power, he believes it
- Shep vanishes to join Rexfur in his new pantheon
- Tarkov says he won’t bother Gameth if Gameth won’t bother him
- Before Roland leaves Tarkov tells him that Arthur was spotted in Myltev
- One of his agents spotted a couple of guys near Oblast
- That evening they have meeting via the rings with Fallworth
- He’s pleased the deal went well, they’ll get paid at next city
- Fallworth assigns them their next mission, go to Sardivelia to help Paoli Piedmonte
- There’s a turf war going on with the other noble families, and Paoli needs backup
- As one of Gameth’s largest financiers, Paoli's needs are important
- However, Roland wants to head to Oblast to confront Arthur
- The party debates it that night
- Nikolaj wants to go help Paoli, but the rest of party sides with Roland
- They tell Fallworth about their decision the next morning
- He’s disappointed and worried about the consequences, but he understands
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