General Summary
Scene: Finishing the combat on the ship
Finished off the Ghosts
Scene: Post-battle, looking blow deck for the crew.
Stelsor calls down below deck and finds Steele Cast
We sent 30 mercenaries with them and lost 5 in the attack.
Stelsor goes looking for the food stores while Dreamflower and Fortifier are looking for repair materials; both are stored in the same areas.
We find several grotesque rats First Circle demons Jaffrae
Stelsor recalls that these demons are terrified of metodies and Vitriol cobras.
Stelsor uses his forked tongue and Flawlessly Impenetrable Disguise to look enough like a snake to scare the rat demons.
They fled the ship.
We ask the crew about where the rats and ghosts came from
They ghost pirates were talking about Styx and Aikeret
Fortifier detects this portion of the river is strangely mixed with the river Styx
Bears-Fangs jumps into the water and shapeshifts into an aquatic beast large enough to tow the ship far enough to be out of this dangerous zone.
Scene: Repair and warding of ship
Since we are expected back in Nexus for the peace talks, we couldn’t escort the ship on its whole journey, but could set them up.
Crafting venture to repair and reinforce the ship
Dreamflower uses charms to improve the quality and durability of the ship.
Fortifier pitches in as well.
Sorcerous Working venture
The ship’s figurehead now looks like it has a Twilight Solar Caste Mark to ward it from Creatures of Darkness.
Dreamflower was at iconic anima from all this and so summons an air elemental to speed them on their journey for at least a while.
With the ship improved to nearly First Age artifice, we head back to Nexus on the Cirrus Skiff.
Scene: Back toward Nexus
2 Companies worth of mercenaries are now camped outside the Guild’s mobile pyramid that they dragged in.
This pyramid is not much smaller than the Guild ziggurat, yet the mercenaries were housed inside the ziggurat.
Dreamflower checks up on Nurlissa and asks if she is still trying to find masks that were in
Infallible Messengers we get while we were gone.
Anacreon Thousand Brushstrokes:
"I don't know how you're going to get the Council of Entities to accept keeping the lover out considering her prior commercial ties to the city, but I agree on principle."
"The ghosts of the infiltrators have been chosen and sanctioned."
Combative Mattresses:
"I hold no grudge against your territory, but I want a mutual recognition to my territories in Bastion, Cinnabar and Nexus Districts."
Factor Byorn:
We are looking forward to speak to you all in our new mobile headquarters in the riverfront outside the city, do you like how the pyramid shows off in the night city scape?
Luxana, goddess of written records:
"As a deity of written words, these contracts and compacts are holy to me, I have written to you a proposed amendment to have it against the civilities to impersonate someone using a Mask holy to Shalrina, goddess of masks, without marking it in some form as a ritual to her."
Fortifier sends word to Vorasaha Grimdal to check in.
Nothing much has happened but they now have some breathing room now that the Guild isn’t under as much pressure from the The timeless order of manacle and coin.
Stelsor suggests speaking to Essence of Spice Trade, Architect of Nexus to set up a neutral ground.
Haunting music comes from the tunnels below the house.
Fortifier reminds us we had met with him in the tunnels before, this might be coming from the Exigent.
We follow the music looking for it and get somewhat lost.
Bears-Fangs-at-the-Sun follows his Lunar ears and nose that lead us toward a scent of paprika.
Speaking with Essence of Spice Trade, the Exigent suggests we hold the peace talks on a ship in the river.
Essence suggests we borrow Mercenary Lord Blaine Pardoe of Ember’s yacht for the talks. Ember has been gone from the city but his yacht is still here. It is large enough, we were on good terms with him and we can credit him as the “sponsor” of the event.
Essence has a concern that Stelsor’s inamorata, Selene, is seldom described the same way twice and difficult to find. The Exigent asks if Stelsor isn’t concerned about this. Stelsor is untroubled since he’s already aware of why this is, but feels it isn’t his secret to share.
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