Session 20220303 Report
General Summary
continuing Saturnday 7 Resplendent Wood, Calendar
The PCs investigate the locals with anti-Dragon-Blooded leanings, hoping to control and underground that will be built into an insurgency. They discover that there are already many unconnected small groups, many of them frequent semi-illegal fights.
At a pawn shop Mathias Stormcrow buys books on the Art of Husbandry and healing potions.
That evening both PCs head to a fight, held in a small theatre between two rival martial arts schools, in what is apparently a semi-grudge match between the two. The masters of the schools and those about to fight give speeches about the superiority of their school, but the sub-text of all the speeches are anti-Realm and close analysis reveals common imagery and probably the same writer, making it look the "rivalry" is for the lower ranked fighters only and the main purpose for the event is the speeches. In a discussion with one of the masters Marag-ang learns there are around a half-dozen respected mortal martial arts masters in Sapphire who teach the same An-Teng style under different names and with variations. He believes all the masters answer to someone else, and arranges to be taken to met them from here at midnight.
Mathias steals money from the gamblers to keep in practice.
A woman of nondescript appearance in an old fashioned dress-like long tunic and not yet quite into middle age is watching the fights but something seems odd about the way she is doing so, the PCs eventually determine that she pays attention to each long enough to determine who will win and then her attention wanders, and she is deciding earlier in each fight than should be possible. She is paying more attention to the speeches than the fights. She wears earrings marked with a constellation they later determine is the Pillar. Marag chats her up, and determines from what she says and what she doesn't that she is in town on essentially a make-work errand after a disagreement with colleagues. Taking him on a walk around the city she points out landmarks and important locations, with a lot of emphasis on what they used to be several decades ago. Marag determines through subtle questioning that she is in town as a "make work" assignment after a diasgreement with her colleagues. Going back to her place, a suite of rooms with really excellent but very old furnishings. By the next morning he doesn't learn anything else useful except that she is operating at at least Scale 1 to avoid giving away anything.
Sunday 8 Resplendent Wood
Marag meets the martial arts master again, apologises about not making the meeting and tries to arrange a new meeting, but it will take several days to arrange and they will be leaving the city today.
Moonday 9 Resplendent Wood
Around midday they return to Dragon's Jaws, hire a captain and two crew and prepare to sail.
Character(s) interacted with
- Martial Arts Master
- Strange woman watching fights