Planning & Preparation

[Carthrat]

So I'll take up Witchwillow's offer and pay a visit to the embassy someday!

[Corwin]

Some things are contingent on Lavinia, but the one thing I'm sure I want to do is chat with the pirates the next day. Anyone wants to tag along for that?

[Ebiris]

Cor, could you elaborate a bit more? Contingent on Lavinia doing what? What do you want to talk to the pirates about?

[Corwin]

Sure thing. I'll go into what I want to accomplish:

-Communist pirates. They're going to leave in a couple days, I believe, and I'd like to catch them before that happens. They seemed receptive to going after nobles that give the rest a bad name, but it was just us chatting at the time. I'd like to see if they're good with it, and if they have any targets already. We could probably help each other, be it by sharing information together (on Kellani's piracy, in a true fit of irony, say) or outright stopping some dirty dealings (evil government cults abusing kids or some noble selling slaves?). If there's really nothing more to be said here and you'd prefer to sum it up, that's also good. Ideally, if they're in, we'll need some way to stay in touch and, if possible, to exchange some info. Kellani and Meravanchi are suspect, and there's that eidolon cult, and I'm not above seeing if pirates know anything of use there. If Lavinia actually has any enemies and shares that with us, they get happily added to the shitlist.

-Eidolon cult. I want to ask Lavinia for a couple days to go there and bury the victims. And even though I don't believe in the afterlife the ghosts probably do, so I'd like to ask Vriskna if she's a priestess, and if so if she wants to come and help. Barring that, the only other possible cleric I know is Melinda, so I could try hiring her? If I strike out on both, I can just try to randomly hire someone from a religion that has protecting kids as one of its tenants. If Liamae wants to combine our sorcerous might for this or Trucy isn't too scared of the ghosts, we should have enough to not randomly die. And probably enough firepower to not actually need to go into it IC if you don't want to.

-I kinda wanted to talk to the other PCs! Somewhat in the vein of what I missed out on at the end of the last session. We're a team, we're pals, we can talk about goals that go beyond 'we all work for Lavinia'. One of my goals is pretty much to help Lavinia expand her influence and gain happiness, so in that sense it also somewhat depends on whether I know just what she wants or have to stick to the more general terms here. Not really sure if the Ravens should/would like to be included there. My preference is really to see where it can go with PCs alone, then plan further ahead.

[Ebiris]

Okay. For point one, Lavinia doesn't really have any enemies nor is she inclined to make any right now. Likewise the pirates are eager to get back to sea rather than spend any longer than they have to in hostile territory. They don't really care about common and unverified rumours concerning the Kellanis and Meravanchis of the world, although they are interested in government sponsored child abuse and greatly appreciate any hard info you can share about that which they can create some propaganda about. None of them know anything about it otherwise.

Point two, Vriskna is curiously hard to find, although Melinda cheerfully sells herself ("Not like that, ye cheeky lubber!") for 100gp to come along and put some children to rest, double that plus a share of any plunder if she ends up having to fight anything. Liamae is busy with the other Jade Ravens on another mission right now, but Trucy can come along. We will need to RP this so lets try and get it done tonight?

If you want to talk to other PCs hit them up on IRC and post logs or just head into the PbP thread, that's all on you guys.

[Sierra]

Lucie needs to do the following:

-Wander over to Cudgel district and visit the temple of Hermes for a start. Even if they don't have any answers for me, they might be able to point me in the right direction. If I pass by someplace that seems like a nature cult, that's worth a look too (should've grilled Arabani about that subject more, but the conversation got awkward right when I tried to bring that up, alas).
-Stop by Telvanta's and see about meeting with the woman at some point, purely out of neighborly curiosity and certainly not to ask questions like "Is your dance school really for training assassins." (Also how did I not recognize when the name came up last time that she's my landlord. D'oh.)
-See what my mom's been doing with her time and quite possibly find something better to occupy her.

Surely someone briefs Henrietta on what we found at the cult base, yes. Don't know if that needs to happen onscreen, really, but either way we want her to put those knowledge: nobility ranks to use at the very least to try and place those names we found.

[Corwin]

-Oh God so scary. This made a believer out of me (don't worry, it'll pass as the shock does). Lucie, I hate you with the fiery passion of a thousand bright suns.

-For you, Cid. When do you guys want to CHAT?
[00:00] <Henrietta> roll 1d20+7 spellcraft
[00:00] * Hatbot --> "Henrietta rolls 1d20+7 spellcraft and gets 16." [1d20=9]
[00:00] <Henrietta> roll 1d20+3 nobility
[00:00] * Hatbot --> "Henrietta rolls 1d20+3 nobility and gets 7." [1d20=4]

[Ebiris]

The wand mystifies Henrietta and she has never heard of Kivan Gardner or Jellica Hawthorne.

[Corwin]

If we're going to cover some stuff over the week, then I'd like to revisit my intention of chatting Lavinia up some more. Maybe I'll learn something nice in an informal setting and then, one day, she'll be pleasantly surprised by a neat gift! My vote for my time is getting to know my nice employer and trying to make her happy~

EDIT: Rat, Cid said thursday might work to get together for a chat. We are talking about roughly 11pm-midnight for me, which should be around 6am-7am on friday for you, I think. Is that possible? If not, how about just breaking it up? I'm fine with approaching each of you separately, if that's how the dice fall.

[Carthrat]

It's not really good for me. Maybe we can do it this weekend?

[Corwin]

I am so bad at this....

[20:10] <Henrietta> roll 1d20+17 spellcraft!
[20:10] * Hatbot --> "Henrietta rolls 1d20+17 spellcraft! and gets 25." [1d20=8]

[Corwin]

[23:20] <Henrietta> roll 1d20+14 GI on whether the rescue party of Rudy's landlady brought that pirate ship back with them
[23:20] * Hatbot --> "Henrietta rolls 1d20+14 GI on whether the rescue party of Rudy's landlady brought that pirate ship back with them and gets 26." [1d20=12]

[Carthrat]

So do we have a plan for the coming session? I'm down for Arena shenanigans or seeing Lavinia about a meteor.

[Ebiris]

Ideally I'd like to resolve all the individual stuff you guys want to do on your own and then, barring following up on anything as a group, timeskipping towards the meteorite. As you've probably all figured out, I've been horribly uninspired to do PbP stuff lately, so I may just handwave and summarise the individual stuff.

[Carthrat]

It's honestly undesirable for this to be handwaved for me, can we find some time where the visit can be RP'd? If not now, we can just say I went to say hi instead of talk about anything important, as was my intent.