General Summary
So!.mp3 > The gang (get this) splits up > (after agreeing to meet back up by noon) > Also nobody gets lost anymore... > #Shame > Anyways the uni crew keeps spotting these posters put up around the campus for this big festival in the capital > also something about a battle of the bands? > #Huh #WonderIfThat'llBeRelevant? > also Nova does not know what a festival is or how it's spelled > When we finally get around to the office hours there is the momentary spook of the professor being another old kenku woman but the crew quickly pushes past that and start info dumping > to which the prof simply signs back the equivalent of #That'sRoughBuddy > also “here, poke this piece of paper” > Nova: /pokes/ > …. > Nope. Nothing. > #NotCursed > well that didn't work let me try another thing > /puts a thing under a cloth on the table/ > Prof. Vellum: “sorry in advance for whatever's about to happen” | /pulls cloth off a tiny statue/ > #ShitHappens > “Everyone else you see a miniature sculpture of a god you don't recognize. He is depicted as a youthful man, clean shaven and wearing monastic robes... Nova you see Everything and Nothing.” > Nova make a Intelligence saving throw (fails) Nova make a Wisdom saving throw (fails) Nova make a Performance check (fails) Nova make a Constitution saving throw (fails but not badly so everything is fine) > #NovaMakeARoll #TheHeadacheReturns #OuchieStatue > Kirin gets defensive (#NovaProtectionSquad) and demands answers > Prof. Vellum: “it's just a statue of 'THE SHATTERED GOD'. But it does sound like your friend's got some problems tho. Knowing Forbidden Knowledge and all that.” > PressF.jpg > Corayas pops a dream bubble to understand exactly what that means > #I'veConnectedTheDots #YouDidButHowTheFuck > also the journal belongs / was written by a member of the remnants... > #ShiverWithAntici- > Kirin: “...” > Kirin: “I missed that last bit, can you repeat it?” > Vellum: “Remnants?” > Kirin: “Of?” > Vellum/DM: “Nothing?? I think they're just the 'remnants' full stop.” > Kirin: “ Oh, oka-” “DE'SAAL! They're the Remnants of De'Saal” > #Pation! > Ok well, the uni crew are gonna take a breather for a hot minute so let's pop in on the loverboys and see how they're faring! > Serenas hands in his paperwork and reads his letters while Romad snags the low hanging fruit and nyoinks a few coins off some map-spreading asshole in a very crowded guild hall. > Many people notice but no one says shit. > #AintNoSnitchesInZonaRosa > While this is happening tho Serenas finishes reading his letters and becomes visibly upset prompting boyfriend mode to activate. > What we then bear witness to is a series of letters that are progressively guilt ( / second-hand embarrassment) inducing until a brief respite is granted in the form of love life gossip. A slight tone plataeu with Sir Ni's last missive set's up the tee for the grand slam that is the final letter > “Have your father and I done something that would have you distance yourself from us so?” “-mom” > ThatShitHURTED.png > Romad and Serenas immediately start writing letters home > “If you send a letter to Serenas' mom and introduce yourself with “you may call me' I... I don't know what I'll do but there are so many implications and ways that that will be read like..!” > #NameTraumaStrikesAgain > With that taking up their time, we pop back to the now mostly recovered tiefling and co. > Manifesting out of thin air, a halfling woman offers a flyer and begins a rapid fire pitch on the battle of the bands as well as the many other wonders of the Atlas Festival in a classic valley girl accent > #PoisonDartFrog #ScarilyAccurateCollegeRecruiter > The party once again prophetizes some shit seconds before I say it > “Oh I am like so sorry, I totally forgot to introduce myself! I'm Apple! What are your names?” > Corayas: “I'm!... Oh wait, am I allowed to introduce myself?” > Apple (suffering from the trademark confusion of interfacing with the group's name trauma): “Yes? I like, asked, you're totally allowed?” > Corayas: “You don't seem like a fey so I'm gonna introduce myself! Hi! I'm Corayas!” > The party then vaguely explains their fey dealings > Apple: “Wow really? That's like, so wild! So anyways it sounds like you're interested so just like, come see us when you're in Valley! We're like, super accepting of late sign ups too! As long as you get in before brackets are finalized you'll be good!” > Selah/Kirin: “Honestly I was expecting that to end in “super accepting of rianan” > #BreakingExpectations #WokeValleyGirls > Also at some point during this conversation she compliments and talks to Scribius and at two other points gushes over hot skateboarder women > #AndWhoCanBlameHer > This is also the conversation where we get the official name drop for knife karaoke #LovaasGrah > And I believe that's where we'll pick up next week
Bonus Missives for Seranas:
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From Lady Aona Zaotl Proudthorn to Serenas Admetus Keita Proudthorn, Mesembria 1st 2018 (25gp attached)
Dearest light of my eyes, I've heard Marquis Pimenta will be hosting a banquet in the coming days so I've decided to send over your monthly allowance early. I do hope you enjoy yourself and you have my full trust to act as is fitting of one of your station.
-Love, Your Adoring Mother
P.S. I know you are enjoying your time away from home but I worry what dire circumstances might keep you from writing your father and I more often.
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From Sir Ni of Avalon to Serenas Admetus Keita Proudthorn, Mesembria 6th 2018
Proudthorn if you're smart you and your friends will be keeping your heads down in the days to come. If you've opened this before leaving the hall I would see you in my office but if you have left already do not turn back. The last thing I need right now is to have to deal with the scandal of you being arrested for insurrection. Also do not underestimate the Tepito woman under any circumstance. She is a ruthless and brilliant woman who has surrounded herself with loyal and equally dangerous allies. On her own she could give me a run for my drachma, you and your companions would not stand a chance should even one of her captains fight by her side.
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From Sir Ni of Avalon to Serenas Admetus Keita Proudthorn, Mesembria 7th 2018
This morning I received a herald from the Marquis issuing a warrant for the arrest of both yourself and your companions on the grounds of an alleged theft of a gilded lyre as well as for “conspiring with fey and assisting in their infiltration of the city wards.” To which I would like to first applaud you for honoring Hermes in both swiftness and craft for truly have I never heard of a thief so skilled they could break through masterclass wards and locks without the use of transposition magic or wizardry of any sort. Secondly of such, I ask only this of you; do you seek to trouble me or am I but collateral? If not for your near three decades of life I would almost acclaim this as youthful rebellion. Or perhaps it is, after all time of youth flows strange with ichor in your veins. I also regret to inform you that I was bound by duty to inform your house of what has occurred.
P.S. Get out of town for a while. For my sanity.
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From Lady Aona Zaotl Proudthorn to Serenas Admetus Keita Proudthorn, Mesembria 14th 2018 (letter was lost temporarily and refiled on the 24th)
Dearest Serenas, shining beacon of brilliance that illuminates my sight and memory, I worry. I worry for that I do not know you to be in good health or in good company. For after all what have we heard from you in the last month? I have heard only accounts from Sir Nii that you've found yourself in one dangerous situation after the other! And surely I have misconstrued the tales of the banquet for I know you never to be anything less than a shining example of an heir to Proudthorn House and representative of Clann Driseacha! If I could, I would have it that my darling son was returned home in but an instant but yet I hold not that power nor would you will me to do so even if! O for if I do not hear more from you soon my shining moonlight, I can not begin to fathom what state might become of me. Oh how I worry so...
-With Love & Concern, Your Adoring Mother.
P.S. Should I not hear from you in a month's time I have arranged for one of your uncles to check in on you. Though I hope that there will be no need of such dire actions.
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From Lady Aona Zaotl Proudthorn to Serenas Admetus Keita Proudthorn, Mesembria 17th 2018 (letter was lost temporarily and refiled on the 24th)
Serenas my dearest, I had but only just sent out my last letter when I learned of exactly what has transpired in Gévaudan that night! I for one am aghast that you would not tell me such vital information dear! For you to have come arm in arm with someone to such an event and not shared all of the details with your father and I is simply unacceptable! Sir Ni had informed me that you'd been working in a larger group but to think you might be seeing one of them, oh my heart. Are they someone I know? Perhaps that little rascal who you'd always sneak out to see when we visited my parents? Perhaps I'll write to them as well... It has been some time since last I spoke with Dixig after all. To think if I had not come across someone who had been in attendance that night, I might never have learned of this young suitor!
-Love, Your Adoring Mother, Lady Aona Zaotl Proudthorn.
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From Sir Ni of Avalon to Serenas Proudthorn, Mesembria 25th 2018
Proudthorn, I have come to the conclusion that the claims of your conspiring with the good neighbours must have held more weight than I had previously thought. For why else would you take the phrase “stay out of town for a while” so literally. Must I now be wary of wording should you ever come back under my watch? Nevertheless I have officially been relieved of overseeing your safety in the wake of your departure and as such you will not receive word from me again. For old times sake however, I will remind you that you still have a number of reports to complete Proudthorn.
-Yours Truly, Sir Ni of Avalon, Guildmaster of the Gévaudan branch of the Allied Union Guild of Mercenaries, Exploration, & Notable Talent.
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From Lady Aona Zaotl Proudthorn to Serenas Admetus Keita Proudthorn, Mesembria 26th 2018
Serenas Admetus Keita Proudthorn, my dearest, brilliance of my immortal soul that illuminates my life with love and joy, did you partake of the good neighbour's banquet? Were you dancing with maenads? For I have but just received your letter and instead of reading that you'll be returning home I am instead to learn that you'll be absent for months to come?! You wrote you would be home in time for your father's birthday but according to what I've been told that simply isn't possible unless you have somehow chartered an airship? Which is -for the record my dearest child- also impossible. Please write back post haste with a more accurate time table for your return.
-Love, Your Adoring Mother, Lady Aona Zaotl Proudthorn.
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From Lady Aona Zaotl Proudthorn to Serenas Admetus Keita Proudthorn, Sponde 15th 2018
Today I received a letter from Dixig & Fiembaes. They wrote that they'd quite recently received a letter from their own son. According to said letter you are not only safe and sound but were apparently somewhere letters could be sent from. Have your father and I done something that would have you distance yourself from us so? I know that the burden we of noble birth must carry is a heavy one but you always seemed so eager to fill that role... Please write soon.
-Mom.
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