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Rogues of Port Talp => The Gneon Job => Topic started by: Asinjin on June 23, 2017, 12:23:49 AM
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Start with xp:
Remy - 1350
Profit - 1000
Schurke - 1250
Ayva - 400
Vincent - 1000
The Twins - 1400 each
Natsu - 200
Gnickle - 1000
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By the end of the latest five days of recon, it will be the 18th day of the 5th month of 788. 45 days will have passed since we began this season.
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A description of the events and the findings for Zunder is worth xp.
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The Clicktock Gnomes has been around for less than twelve months. Your information is that they operate mostly in the Amber and Giniz cantons. Best information is that they are mostly on the young side and use low quality clickers to complete their jobs, often leaving behind the used up ones. They do not appear to be a high priority of the constables.
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The five cantons where you are looking at all of these buildings, the ones that compromise what used to be Port Palt, are: Amber, Belsun, Damedum, Vabun, and Giniz. When we get the list up here, I will attach a canton to each site.
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The only things of value you took from the gnome and human you fought were their coin pouches, which had a total of 15 gc. They had firearms and the shock bow, clothing, and other things that you left.
I failed to mention that based on what he had, the human was some form of arcane spellcaster. He did have one magic item, a wand.
Also, the gnome had two vials of liquid, neither of which showed up as magical; both appeared to be potions.
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The clicker shop of posh clickers is simply called Lefell's.
The school is called Better Course School.
The bar is called Port Classic.
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The group continued their investigation into Gneverever's shop. We followed him for a week, watched his customers come in and out, and took note of his patterns. We also scouted his reputation, which seems to be reasonably good, and rich people buy his crappy clickers for 5 gp each. It's like collecting baseball cards for these people, only more expensive. Still, we suspect he's our best bet for the scroll case.
Ganshuk continued his survey of all the remaining hot spots with Vincent following his progress in the shadows. After scanning one of the shops we had on our radar, Ganshuk's cart was followed by two epbul wielding thugs. We set up an abmbush in a low traffic alley and laid low in a couple of the twins' psionic hideouts. After disarming and binding a gnome and human, we questioned them and found them to be hired muscle of the proprietor of the shop. Didn't seem unusual, so we name dropped the Drow guild as the group responsible for the scanning. We didn't take any of their stuff for fear of magical/psionic tracking and left them to limp back to their employer when the psionic shackles wore off...about 12 hours later.
We met back at Esme's to discuss all the hot spots that Ganshuk found during his scanning route. We got a couple hits at a school for the poor, a dive bar, and a couple other places. 5 total I believe, including Gneverever's place. We continued our reconnaissance by going to the bar. Remy distracted the patrons with a sword dance while one of the twins psionically confused the bartender and snuck down the basement. He found lead mugs and nothing else of import, so we left.
Esme went incognito to the school and found that the lead was simply in place because it used to be a wizard prison back during the Tinkocracy, so the walls are lined in lead to prevent casting.
There's only one place we couldn't scan because it's a private residence and would require us to infiltrate the grounds to get close enough to use the wand. We ran out of time before we could come up with a plan for that, but it's on the list of things to do.
We also did some digging on some of the up and coming guilds so we could pick one to frame once we break into Gneverever's shop. We found a guild of Tinker Gnomes that use low quality, single use clickers for their crimes and like to leave evidence as a calling card. We picked up a bunch of cheap clickers over the week that fit their M.O. and will plant them in order to frame their guild once we break in. We all agree that Gneverever seems to be our best bet so far since he's living in an old shrine to the Tinker gods and since the property has been around for at least as long as the time the scroll was created 150 years ago. If that doesn't pan out, we'll hit the private residence.
Also of note, Natsu was released from prison and all charges were dropped. Since he's laying low and hasn't been coming to guild meetings, we're not sure if he charmed his way out or if he paid it, but what we do know is that the Magicowners set him up. No big surprise there, but that fight is way above our pay grade right now, so it remains Natsu's problem and not the guilds for now.
In other news, word spread that the wizards of Iott launched their assault on the Horarians and their blockade. They were given an ultimatum to move the fleet out by a certain time. When that demand was not met, the wizards answered with a furious arcane assault that devastated the fleet and destroyed every last ship that was blocking the trade routes. They managed all this destruction in a few short hours over the course of one day. The fleet didn't stand a chance. The Iottians have now issued a warning to the Horarians to end their hostilities or risk total annihilation of their way of life. We haven't heard whether or not they plan to comply, but if not, I wouldn't plan on playing a Horarian character any time soon, because they may be extinct after this season.
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That's a thorough recap, I award you 75 xp.
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The wand had 24 charges to start, how many are left now?
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Here is the list of buildings
Old Shrine / Tinker Shop
- Tchotchke shop
- Owner (Neverever) sells essentially useless clickers.
- Owners clickers considered “good luck†by wealthier citizens in the canton
- Building originally a Shrine to Arsenal, Converted into a tinkershop, Converted into a Residence, Purchased by a Gnomish Real Estate company
- Building currently leased/rented by current occupant
- Got a hit with the wand of a lead object the approximate size of what we are looking for
- Some of us feel that there are a few likely scenarios surrounding Neverever
- That he is just a kindly old tinker that the local residence have a fondness for and his clickers are notable enough to be viewed as a status symbol among the wealthy
- Neverever is a ‘Godfather’ type figure in the canton and shady ad f*ck
- Neverever doesn’t leave his shop for very long or go very far from it. He is either agoraphobic or acting as a sentinel and possible guarding something (this theory is posited by the bard twin, he is sometimes overly dramatic)
5 Shops- Tinker Shop 1
- Got a hit with the wand of a lead object the approximate size of what we are looking for
- Tinker Shop 2 - Giniz
- Pauline Lafell is the owner
- Makes high quality simple clickers
- Sent her guards to ‘question’ Gansuk
- We ambushed and interrogated 2 of the 3 assailants
- Identified ourselves as Laronoir
- Butcher Shop - Belsun
- Large basement
- No hit from the wand
- Mason Shop - Vabun
- Gem shop - Giniz
- Shop named ‘All Gemz Great and Small’
- Got a hit with the wand of a lead object the approximate size of what we are looking for
Owned by the City
- Shelter - Amber
- Run-down building - Giniz
- Run-down building - Damedum
3 Government offices
- Canton Government Office 1 - Amber
- Got a hit with the wand of a lead object the approximate size of what we are looking for
- Canton Government Office 2 - Damedum
- No hit from the wand - Giniz
- Canton Government Office 3
Building where fish are sorted - Amber
Condemned building - Amber
Dwarven Residence - Vabun
- Owned by the same family
- Large residence
- Building is in below average condition
- Owners are Rockshot Dwarves
- Rumored to be more than the building can comfortably hold
- Rumors of underground tunnels
- Smoke from chimney indicates some type of smelting is going on
- Wand gave several hits on sources of lead, but they seem to be too large for what we are looking for
Storage Cellar - Belsun
Tallest Building - Belsun
- Used as a harbor look out by constables
- No hit from the wand, but the wand could not reach the upper 2 floors
2 Market Shops
- Open Air Market Shop 1 - Amber
- Open Air Market Shop 2 - Amber
Building which looks like a residence - Damedum
- No current resident
- Does not look out of place even though it is old
- No hit from the wand
2 Gardens
- Garden 1 - Vabun
- Garden 2 - Vabun
- Shed
- Overgrown
- No hit from the wand
School for the poor - Amber
- Lots of hits from the wand
- Esme went in undercover as a single parent looking for a school for hew child
- Discovered building used to be a prison
- Used by the Tech side to hold spellcasters
- Walls possible lead-lined
2 Buildings – Original use unknown on private property
- Building 1 - Damedum
- Building 2 – Not accessible with cart - Belsun
Rundown bar - Amber
- Rundown bar located in what was once a nice bar
- Got a hit with the wand of a lead object the approximate size of what we are looking for
- Entered bar and, using distractions and Psionics, discovered that the hit was on a case of lead drinking mugs
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Is that really how you spell Tchotchke?
I will post cantons in line.
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Is that really how you spell Tchotchke?
Yes. Google certified spelling
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During the last session, one of the days was the one between the 4th and 5th month, the feast day of Habastly, The Day of Life. None of your characters I imagine find that a big deal, but it is a holiday in the city.
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Posting, messaging, emailing xp for the last two sessions and in between;
The Twins - 25xp each
Schurke - 25xp
Natsu - 120xp