Session 20220101 Report
General Summary
Venusday 27 Ascending Wood Calendar
Head to the Glorified House of the Golden Lord, where Old Man Fig is not ready to provide information, but will have a full report the next day. When asked is nervous about Hunger-Tree Graced Robin (from Scar) and Immaculate attention (hasn't heard of him previously).
The spymaster has heard of him, believes he performs oversight of the Satrap and the Immaculate order in An-Teng on behalf of the latter. The PCs are given the official deed to the Crested Wave Estate, in the same name as the tea house.
Travel out to the estate, where the staff are waiting for the new inhabitants. Leave the ghosts to stay in and around the Manse, which has produced its new Hearthstone, which Mathias Stormcrow tested on Marag-ang, it drained some of his life energy and made him tired but had no long term effects (see Important Equipment).
Saturnday 28 Ascending Wood
Travel back to to Dragon's Jaws, visit their business manager (of the South Breakers family) and learn that his sister has been kidnapped, he was forced to borrow some of the PCs funds to pay the (Resources 4) ransom, but now the kidnappers are demanding a new ransom. Otherwise their investments are doing okay (they now have Resources 4 rather than a temporary rating), though shares of cargos are underperforming due to increased Lintha pirate activity, the slaughterhouse used by Matalabar Thrice-Wrecked is being rebuilt by the owners.
Old Man Fig was watching the business manager since the PCs had told Fig that he worked for the PCs, his report identified the professional kidnappers and the area they would be holding her in, but not whomever had hired them.
Visiting Tagaji the Sorcerer does not give any way to track the sister, but Gertrude the mouse is fed well (so she won't be tempted by traps) and set to search the area for the sister's scent.
Mathias checks the lock of hair and determines it smells of pottery glaze, there is a commercial pottery in the relevant area, the owners also have a bunk house and an apartment building where most of their staff live. The bunk house is probably too open to hide a prisoner. Having been alerted by Snow Melt (met by chance), Little Heron meets them at the tea house, and offers to fetch a few of her students to search the area.
They visit Frozen Dolphin and point out to him that kidnappers who don't return their "clients" is bad for business, he promises to look into it.
Gertrude reports that the sister is in an apartment on the second floor of the pottery's apartment block, they can't see any exterior security.
Little Heron returns in time to wait outside when Dolphin and his goons go into the building (along with the PCs), who investigate the oposite apartment that has an open door (empty apart from the lookout). Dolphin returns the sister and about 2/3rds of the ransom.
Missions/Quests Completed
- Provided the Spymaster with his list of answers from the Raiton Academy
- Retrieved the kindnapped sister of their business manager (who is also the major domo's wife)
Character(s) interacted with
- Little Heron
- Old Man Fig
- Business Manager
- Spymaster
- Frozen Dolphin
- Snow Melt
- Tagaji the Sorcerer