Eberron:Adventure/2019-08-23
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Backgrounds
- Vinster works for Ghallanda
- Private Jon Perkins was a spy in the war
- Robert Normalman is a small-town average guy, accountant, boring life, routine
- Deuxlette is a sex toilet, owners died, possessed by a ghost
- Peacock Cry is a pirate kenku, thief, mission to restore creativity to the kenku
Doing It
- At a party in the Skyway, Sharn’s highest and richest district
- Robert got some haggis
- Vinster is health-inspecting
- Everyone else is hanging out at the party
- Robert is stressed cuz can’t find his way out
- Vinster tries to calm him down, points to door
- Robert starts to leave
- Guards are ushering everyone out of the party!
- The party ends up getting grouped up in the mass of exiting party-goers…
- Night, light rain
- Duex sits in the corner & toilets (lol?)
- Guards point us towards a bridge
- Vinster asks the rolling toilet if it’s a warforged
- Solitics for sex
- No.
- We noticed a hunched figure on the bridge!
- Turns towards us
- Is a brawny humanoid, average height, short blade in one hand, bag in another
- Blade is matte
- Peacock recognizes coating is Blade-Black, underworld mixture to help conceal weapon
- Wide & toothy grin as he LEAPS OVER THE SIDE OF THE FUCKING BRIDGE INTO NOTHING
- Guards are gone, not responding to Vinster shouting for them
- Can’t see anyone in the dark abyss
- Corpse was left behind
- Wooden chit good for 1 free drink at the Rat’s Paw, blade
- Jon tells he was killed by a single off-center stab to the heart
- Seems professional
- Human, wound is in the shape of a plus sign (odd)
- Robert notes the plus
- Bunch of guards led by a dwarf appear
- “ANYTHING TO SAY BEFORE WE HAUL YOU OFF”
- Young guard asks sgt, says he thought he saw a man fall off the Skyway
- Sgt sighs, doesn’t want to deal w/ paperwork
- 24 hours to solve the murder or GTFO Sharn
- Tells young guard to haul body to House Orien
- Other guards (aside from the young guard, Kavill) leave
- Robert vomits from stress, doesn’t have solving a murder in his schedule
- Kavill tries to convince him not to leave
- Vinster tries to console Robert (nat 1), makes it worse
- Robert crying and vomitting
- Deux … does some weird hypnosis shit and calms Robert down
- Kavill grabs body, we notice he’s an Oriens courier (not an heir)
- Sgt is Aimos, dwarf and corrupt
- Kavill says everyone is corrupt :(
- Robert is shocked by this
- Jon helps Kavill w/ carrying the body
- Hauling body to Houe Oriens Azure courrier station
- Kavill saw weird-shaped short sword
- Attendant ushers us to a conference room
- Will fetch Shala d’Orien
- Refreshments available
- Peacock steals some of the silverware, unbenownst to us
- Well-dressed woman enters the room & sits at the head of the table
- Courrier was Tares Grakken, 7y veteran
- Vinster asks about what Grakken was carrying, she can’t tell us much
- Destination was unknown, Tares was given destination on pickup (so only he knew)
- May have associates at Rat’s Ankles / Bear’s Claws (or something) in lower Dura
- Was a drunk
- Vinster asks about client, since he’s also dragonmarked she gives us client info
- Asks for information we find in return
- Client was Lobana Petrevina, pick up message from her estate in Azure district
- Shala leaves, group does introductions
- Peacock isn’t very articulate, writes Normalman a note explaining what kenku are
- Bird folk, legend that they were robbed of their wings (+ creativity thus their ability to think on their own) by some ancient curse
- Steals things, admits this
- “Cannot speak normal, mimic.”
- Warforged is terse
- Gives us its name,
- Jon Perkins
- Was a soldier in the Cyrian army
- Henry Kavill
- Wants to help people make Sharn safe
- 1 hour has passed, 23 remain!
- Deuxlette stops being a toilet
- Peacock isn’t very articulate, writes Normalman a note explaining what kenku are
- We talk about our leads
- Peacock has the token for the Rat’s Paw, could be it!
- The client is nearby
- We think we’ll head there first
- Walled mansion, manacured grounds, lots of decorative trees
- Guard at the front gate
- We explain the situation, guard lets us in!
- Manor is decorated in a tasteful white & silver decor
- More guards
- We’re waiting around
- Returns, lets us know the Madam will see us & brings to sitting room
- Robert examines the fancy chairs
- Brand new!
- Everything is brand-new!
- Peacock looks for stuff worth stealing
- Sees paintings, plates, etc on the walls – art is most valuable stuff
- Short human woman enters, greets us coldly
- Explains to her what’s going on, seems disinterested
- Not sure why a nyone would intercept her messagre
- Moved from Sigilstar in Thrane
- Yuri is her deceased husband
- Believe her
- Came to enjoy the art scene
- Hired courrier to deliver letter to sister in Flamekeep
- Think she may be lying (nat 20 insight)
- Sister is Alexia, follower of the Silver Flame (voice gets weird)
- Has lived here for a long time
- Peacock asks if she has enemies – of course not!
- She is an artist !
- Vinster asks her to let House Ghallanda know if she thinks of anything that may be useful
- We depart the manor, another hour is down
- Outside, Vinster suggests she may have been lying about the letter to her sister
- Kavill suggests that A GAME IS AFOOT
- Robert doesn’t like games.
- Kavill shows us to the Rat’s Paw
- Raw’s Paw
- Rough folks, halfling eyes us
- Someone playing a lute & smoking
- Old bartender
- Furniture is battered and worn
- Floor is sticky
- Vinster gets ale
- Deux gets Mystery Rotgut
- Oh god it’s VERY strong
- Pure grain alcohol
- Peacock talks to the lute-player
- Puts fingers up to throat, says his name is Smokey Joe in a very garbled voice
- Offer a tune for 1c, Peacock pays him
- Halflings still watching us intently
- Kavill is uncomfortable w/ that
- We should talk to bartender about the courrier though
- Robert Normalman talks to bartender
- Asks him about Tarres
- Gets shifty, looks at the halflings
- Can tell us where Tarres’ house was: middle Dura, bazar, had an apt there, gives us address
- Vinster jumps in and order Robert a beer
- Vinster & Peacock convince him to drink
- It’s gross and he doesn’t like it
- Halfling approaches Robert and tells him to stop asking questions about Tarres
- Hostile.
- Bald, tattoo, billy club
- Recognizes it as a Boromar clan mark
- Vinster asks him what the problem is
- His boss has a problem w/ us asking questions
- Halflings start moving towards us as shit starts escalating
- Vinster goads the Boromar guy, seems to have a problem w/ them
- Deux pulls a knife
- Peacock steps outside
- Halfling threatens Robert
- Kavill pulls his sword & identifies himself as a guard
- They laugh at him
- Tries to smack Robert, Kavill intercepts
- BAR FIGHT!
- Robert runs in the corner & hides
- Peacock busts in through a window and sneak attacks a surprised Boromar thug!
- Deux crits a Boromar with their rapier, lops off a finger and enter his heart
- Deftly catches severed finger w/ toilet hole so ghost can eat it ….. ?
- Robert touches himself, heals 8 HP :o
- Kavill knocks another thug out
- Jon crits with his longbow, killing another thug!
- Kavill goes down, was getting dogpiled by the thugs
- Vinster slays a thug
- Robert shoots fire !
- Vinster shouts at the last thug to throw down his club and surrender
- Loot: 25g
- Peacock steals it all
- Robert notices, but is busy tending to Kavill
- Kavill goes to fetch the watch
- Thug is named Dan
- Hired by the Boromar, they heard some folks were investigating
- Were sent here, figuring we’d show up
- Was frequented by The Target
- “Mondo” is the boss, has a resturant in Middle Dura
- Gives us the address
- Paying 5g a head for the thugs
- Smokey Joe the Bard is packing up to go
- Vinster gives him 2s to stay and play more
- Other patrons relax now, seem happier w/out all the skullduggery
- Kavill returns with the Sharn guard
- They haul the corpses out
- Guards take the last thug out in chains
