The Gossip Board

[Dracos]

Very nice theme drop :)

mmm.

Given I was looking for something of the 9k+ range, the general info vibe says "no, you can't buy anything here without a huge markup' it seems shopping even for a potion is something I'm not gonna do.  Eh, but we'll see how it goes after a couple of chatter.   Maybe I'll trade a scroll for a potion or something.  Overall though, our general money inflow makes for not wanting to spend much time at all in a city that likes to gouge.  Similarly in one where brutal but effective peacekeepers are around, I'm not leaning much toward hanging out to adventure.  It seems like asking for a clash staying around more than needed.

Anyhow, start of next session, what's happening still:

A)Kam is gonna drop by Ogremoch and offer a favor as thanks.
B)Afterwards kam might see if they have something interesting.  a 2k+ markup is unlikely though to make that go far.
C)We check out Cysalis in the Gilgem eye about the Gruesome Ruby.
D)Anything else?

[Sierra]

"Gemstone lost in Limbo," huh?" Interesting.

Seeing Cysalis sounds like a no-brainer. Maybe talk more with those two knight dudes and see what we can do about making the road ahead easier?

Also seconding that flavor post is very cool.

[Carthrat]

As soon as Knight wakes up from her hangover, she would likely make like a true lunatic and investigate this Githzerai chap.

According to Chuckles and Giggles(Real names: Sir Anthony and Belblid the Bold from the realm of Telerath), they run patrols in the area, especially down and ahea

Are the knightly dudes the ones who run patrols, or are the earth elementals? It might be wise to tap into these guys if we want to get in good with Ogremoch. Which would be nice. Because then devils may not fuck with us by proxy again.

[Anastasia]

From what your sore head can recall, they're not the ones who do it. The Elementals and servants of Ogremoch are.

Guys, you have a day until game time. Get your ducks in a row on what you want to do at the start of the session.

[Anastasia]

Oh and obviously if you guys want to go into four different solo sessions doing stuff that's one thing, but it'll slow things down. Some consolidation of goals is a good thing! Really!

[Carthrat]

Ok, there are two things I think we should do as a group.

1) Visit Cysalis and inquire about our dreadful red gem.
2) Conduct appeals into getting into Ogremoch's good graces, or rather, in the good graces of his standing army. I think we can do this through the knights, as I said; they seem to know their way around and look like they might have done some work about the place.

Privately I would like to chase up that Githyanki sometime. Also, the Twisted Metal smithery sounds like it could be interesting, so I'd check that out when I get a chance too.

[Sierra]

Sounds reasonable to me. What do you guys think, send two PCs to inquire about each? If someone's going to try and impress Ogremoch's goons, probably at least one of the warrior types should go that route. Especially since Kam wants to meet Ogremoch anyway. Mari + someone else can go meet Cysalis?

Are the knightly dudes the ones who run patrols, or are the earth elementals? It might be wise to tap into these guys if we want to get in good with Ogremoch. Which would be nice. Because then devils may not fuck with us by proxy again.

Oh good, we can look forward to them fucking with us directly.

[Carthrat]

We've killed everyone who's tried to rape us so far. Let 'em come!

[Dracos]

Somehow, I don't think Chuckles and Giggles will get us anywhere in good graces :)

Just possibly. 

Anyhow, who wants to come and talk with evil earth god-prince?  Somehow, I'm more than half expecting any favor worth doing there will probably take a fair bit of session time, so the more that come along probably the better.

[VySaika]

Adail will be fairly against the whole idea of offering him a favor. Payment for services is one thing, but offering a favor on top of that to an evil elemental lord? Yeah, that doesn't sound like something he'd approve of, even being fairly relaxed by celestial standards.

[Sierra]

Adail can just not go to that particular meeting if that makes it easier for him? See no evil hear no evil!

[Carthrat]

Hey for all we know he could be a really nice guy

(I don't wanna go see him unless I have to though. There's something about the name that just tips me off.)

[Sierra]

Well, if Kam really needs to have someone with him, Mari could go? Drow and all, might be fitting. She's probably more suited to talking to shopkeepers than important people, but.

[Dracos]

Oh :(  That's a lot of 'don't even want to have it happen, don't want to be in blast radius'.

Anyhow, it's conflicting that it's an evil lord, but more Kamvakua values his life more than a pittance than anything that Ogremoch has done.  Kam is someone who generally, strongly, leans good, but isn't part of the whole 'be a celestial, be a devil' race there.  It's possible Ogremoch will simply ask something unreasonable, in which case Kamvakua would simply refuse.  But he may just ask 'go fetch gemstone x that I want from lair of nasty wicked monsters' or 'do random chore or trial' in which case sure.  Provided it's not something that involves attacking innocent folks or something blatantly evil, Kam will probably do it.

Most likely result really?  Ogremoch laughs him off and wonders where his latest gemstone bribe is, Kamvakua sighs and simply rejoins the main quest.

[Carthrat]

Probably because he has 'EVIL' with a capital E in his title. Even jaded neutral cynics can't look at that and think 'oh well that's okay then', it's like screaming "I AM AN ASSHOLE" from the rooftops.

Now if he was 'Benevolent Dictator Ogremoch of the Socialist Earth Union' then there'd be room for doubt.

Anyway I don't actually mind doing some task for him or otherwise getting into the good graces of his clergy/goons. Better they like us than be willing to take bribes from devils to kill us. More likely to focus on the little people than the big cheese myself, but hey whatever works.