Session Nine

General Summary

Picking up where the gang left off last session: Resuming Travel to Rainwood Hall, home of the The Trill Society   Ut (19) of Trail Moon (8):

• Blackfin successfully skins the chitin and hide from the bulettes.
• Cheyanne receives a sending from Rhoda; the gnomish Maitland twins had arrived in Copper Ridge and were sticking around to help with rebuilding efforts.

• Viena's name day, so Harmony takes the time to conduct a little ritual to her beginning at dusk.

• Cheyanne receives another sending, this time from Micajah: minor earthquakes hitting town and the theory is aftertremors. Displaced families are moving to tents and caves. Cheyanne instructs Wenches to keep people out of the caves as much as possible.

• arrival at @Rainwood Hall
• Blackfin, having worked with the Trill Society before, takes lead and explains to the group how the Society works.
• The party notices the job board in the great hall, and spend some time picking through the notices.
• Blackfin, Lucor, and Cheyanne meet Cadamdhil Finnagund, the halfling lead director of the Society, and discuss the possiblity of a Trill field crew investigating the skull outside Copper Ridge. Field Crews Bombina and Callithrix are present at the Hall and in between jobs - Cad recommends speaking with the crew chiefs to hire them directly.
• Oh, also, Cheyanne, Lucor, and Blackfin partake in some mail tampering and read the letter not addressed to them. They learn that the tinker was partnering with the Lascari twins out of Nova Excelsium to test out a sort of "black box" crystal recording orb.
• The party visits the Garden House workshop under the premise of delivering that letter routed to Cad addressed for the resident tinker, Lew Thaddeus Marrable. They meet Agnes, Lew's assistant after she emerges, scorched, from an explosion in the workshop.
• Sworn to secrecy, the party is allowed entrance to the workshop and Agnes shares her worry about Lew's 6-year absence. She shares a little about his work, and about how her job has mainly to prevent the degrading prototype inventions from causing major property damage.
• The party agrees to help find Lew, and so Agnes leaves for plausible deniability while the party partakes in even more mail tampering as they go through the stack of mail arrived in Lew's absence. They learn that someone named "C.B." had sent a large packet of designs and reports to Lew for second evaluation. The reports are all regarding the viability of existing lighthouses and clocktowers for conversion into airship docks. Lucor recognizes the handwriting of "C.B." to be eerily similar to his late father's own handwriting - and the initials match for Crampernap Briskbrand! The party determines that the majority of the potential locations are remote, far away from major cities, with only a few exceptions.
• After Agnes returnes, scrubbed of ash and scorch marks, she shares with the party her suspicions that Lew was working with one of the Five Families. She has no proof, of course, and no idea which one, but that's been her running theory, considering Lew's secrecy and the fact that his workshop here is still considered off-books. She also has not gotten paid, other than room and board, so she would really like the party to pretty please go find Lew... like, ASAP.
• Agnes sends a prototype Spellslinger Revolver - WIP with Cheyanne as incentive to find Lew, along with the appropriate schematics, ammunition, and schematics for other potential ammunition types.
• The party then goes back inside in search of the captains of Field Crews Bombina and Callithrix. They meet both crews, and realizing that while Bombina favors explosives, Callithrix might be a bit more methodical and safer for this particular, already unstable site.
• The party visits the Rainwood Hall Kirk Museum, and see some exhibits of past digs, including a behemoth skull, a partial skeleton of a dragon, relics brought from a barrow tomb, and weapons and banners recovered from a battlefield and star fort.
• Blackfin casts sending from the ring of spellstoring to send a message to Ace.

• The party spends the day in downtime, helping out with chores or patrols to earn their room and board for the previous night.
• Cheyanne works on crafting some more bullets for her new revolver.
• Blackfin logs the Vault of Shadows job with Cad - "The Silver Claws + outside contractors"
• Field Crew Callithrix approaches the party and accepts the Copper Ridge Job, in exchange for on-site room and board, help when needed from the Wreck Wenches, and payment in the form of taking any finds back to Rainwood Hall. They'll need to discuss further details of the job and next steps... next session!