CoS Session 5: Gameria's Second Fall Festival
General Summary
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- The next day after the underground battle with Darwish, Aldo goes on a date with Gen. Boua Ussaki
- Even with Catriona’s charisma modifier, Boua’s not charmed by his advances
- Boua asks Aldo to help keep her updated on Fallworth’s plans
- Aldo agrees, gets a new longbow from Boua
- Catriona works on a new painting
- It’s a Hakonian landscape painting, and it sells well in Ravi's marketplace
- That night Roland goes to a brothel on the outskirts of town
- He finds a woman that looks like his dead wife, but he can’t make himself spend the night with her
- As they leave Ravi, Roland thanks Gen. Boua for her help
- Boua’s explains how she's preparing to leave for Kanara to challenge the nation's aging leadership
- They head out on Asmi’s upgraded wagon (they got 50GP for the giant elk they killed)
- Aldo starts writing love letters to Boua, describing bushes he wants to lay in with her
- The party finally makes it back to Gameria
- They try to meet with Defense Minister Fallworth but they have to come back tomorrow afternoon
- In the meantime party enjoys (another) fall festival being celebrated on the city streets
- At least the pumpkin spice cider's tasty
- Aldo visits the National Archives to write more articulate letters to Gen. Boua
- Elgort gives him a copy of Ballad of Prince Snowbean to read
- Catriona makes a decorative vase, and when a nobleman offers to buy it for nostalgic reasons she gives him a discount
- Meanwhile, Roland finds a hobby that will define his character for decades to come: fighting pits
- He goes down to Gameria’s lower levels, and finds a man named Shank who lets him duke it out for a couple of rounds
- The first match is a natural 20 knockout!
- Roland makes a killing in the fighting pits for the rest of the week
- The next day they meet with Fallworth
- They fill him in on Court of the Undying, and Aldo mentions his date with Gen. Boua
- Fallworth’s not a fan of Boua or her methods
- He gripes to the party about the wasteful spending by King Nestor VI and the court politics delaying any kind of meaningful reform
- He tells party to go to the town of Trecce in Sardivelia to infiltrate a Court of Undying Meeting
- He says a nobleman and contact named Paoli will help them in Trecce
- He compensates them for last mission, promises 300GP for next mission
- They will have to find their own way to Sardivelia
- Aldo remembers Azara Altan, Azmi’s sister in Gameria
- They head down to Gameria’s dockyards, ask her for ship to Trecce
- They find one for 150GP per seat
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