12.04.2020 - Thunder

• A bit of confusion of where we left of
• M & Noble lady
• Talking about S and refugees
• She's been helping refugees
• Finds that her beliefs have helped them
• Wants to show him, if he would join her ("sure")
• Lady Mariana
• She would love to hear more about the Ladys preachings
• T
• He has a certain trusted religious duties, has to because he is the envoy
• Missionaries in Tritonia
• Yin mercenaries can sell her a disk
• Shows him the alchemy runes from Eri's ritual
• Tells him about the ritual and location, but not that Erivale was involved
• T swipes a dagger from under the table
• Fistmaul recognizes T, calls her a thief
• She plays the race card, but he still says he will take it to the king
• Coty
• On table with two high court wizards
• Female mix between high and wood elf
• Maxina Sunfall
• With her brother Rust Sunfall
• Both wearing what looks like aprons fancy enough to be worn in court
• C hitches up her dress to show the tattooes on her back
• Treasurer drinks to hide his reaction
• Female wizard unfazed, asks C to stay like that while she draws it down
• C can't understand what the last element is
• Rust exited too, stands up and walks over (bad etiquette)
• Rust calls C "Sir or Lady"
• Tells them how she woke up in the ice, and that S was there
• C has noticed that "Something has happened to this land"
• There's no slaves anymore
• They say they fixed all that, all fixed now…
• Coty has been asleep for a long time
• Bad memories from before she woke up
• They want to do some testing to find out "How insane <she> is"
• C says to bring S as well, since he was there before she got out
• They want her to come tomorrow to the academy ("We promise not to blow you up right away")
• C tells them she's attuned to ice, she innately understands symbols when she sees them
• They ask the Treasurer to stop the envoy of Yin from coming to the table
•  Yin can take away magic, sever it so you can never use it again
•  They want to make him volunteer to be experimented on in the academy
• C don't think anyone will miss him
• They plan to abduct him ?!
• S
• Hans takes out a rose (purple tinted with red), and asks Iriel to walk with him in the gardens after the banquet
• Will tell her how he found it after their walk
• S ruins the mood with weird question
• Bards have started playing mournful song in honor of the unnamed fallen
• The redhead next to King
• Small tiara on her head
• Wearing black, green and blue
• Tells everyone that it's time to dance
• They're moving the tables (the servants are flustered when moving the table with the weapons beneath)
• S's hammer has the symbol of Moradin on it
• Dance
• Egil invites T to dance
• He leads well
• He is flirting
• T tells a Left-Handed Hummingbird story (which he believes fully)
• Advances to Coty's table
• The drunk goliath invites the lady with M to dance
• She looks at M expectantly, he crit fail and notices nothing
• She looks sad/disappointed, but accepts (tries not to stand to close to him)
• Hans invites Iriel
• Countess Rockwater asks/tells S "Let's dance"
• (She did notice him pretending to throw up earlier)
• S is doing reasonably well, but then starts leading her in a dwarven stepping dance
• She doesn't follow
• She warns S that a new religion is spreading
• A diety of motherly warmth, and ___
• "Be careful if you intend to spread your own religion"
• "Hope you'll survive"
• Erivale invites M
• He asks about the redhead that sent her to the middle table
•  Anya Blackmountain, the mistress of the King
• She has a lot of power at court
• The Blackmountains have an alliance with the royal family
• Ezekiel Blackmountain is the man up there
• General of the King's armies
• You should trust them the least of the nobles
• She came into the picture when Eri's mother disappeared
• Seeks marriage, might be a good political move for the king as well
• Eri might be in trouble if they marry and have a child
• Females might inherit the throne, but she'll have to prove herself
• A new religion spreading amongst the refugees
• Might be a plot involved
• Thinks the High Priest might be involved
• Invites him to her table
• King dances with redhead
• Lady dances with bold guy
• High treasurer invites Coty (she accept with energy)
• Asks him how much he knows about magic
• Says magic and religion can be useful for stability
• Help people forgive past transgression
• Helps common folk to focus on what's important
• People here worship
• Valkur
• Selune
• ___
• Moradin (?)
• New religion spreading amongst the refugees, that can be useful
• Takes her back to their table
• Twin wizards dance with each other, makes up their own rules
• Everyone does fine, except Coty, which steps on some toes
• Next round starts
• T & C
• Coty says she knows Left-Handed Hummingbird
• The Maxina asks T to tell her story of Coty
• Wants to use hypnosis on T
• She refuses politely
• T asks them about the alchemy symbols
• Only recognize one of them
• Wants to study it at the academy
• Burns the notes, but gives T another clone of the notes
• Is several Kandars that it could be
• Wants us to go into a trance to ask a knowledge god
• Again refuses, but says "Maybe later"
• They want T's help to get the ambassador to get to the academy
• Tells them that she'd have to ask Eri's permission to tell her story
• They tell T that Eri has sorcerous powers since childhood
• Wants her to learn to control it, so that she can become a sorceror queen
• Wants T to help them find out if Erivale can ascend
• S & M
• Man at Eri's table: High Priest of Valkur, Oden Nedrov (?)
• Valkur is deity of tempest and war
• S talking about the 'cult spreading among the refugees'
• S says it's coming from the east in Connla's Well
• Maybe the refugees coming from connla's well was the ones beginning to spread this religion
• S says it's fine
• Oden worries about people leaving the fold
• They will do what they must
• "The people do what we tell them to"
• Says they sould make sure the Voice stays as short as possible
• "Quick religious spread is usually not a coincidence"
• One of his people has gone rogue
• Maybe the king should be informed that there are figures in the city that are involved
• The drunk goliath is getting rowdy and asking someone to fight him
• Storms towards M and slaps him in the face and challenges him
• M accepts his challenge in giant
• Anya tells them to go to a sidetable, but the king motions to the center of the room
• He is Admiral Redkent (??), Leader of the kings fleet
• Two shortswords appear
• Asks the king "Bloodied or death?", the king responds "Bloodied"
• They fight, M is doing a lot of damage
• The Admiral is wearing armor under his clothes
• M wins ^^ (The Admiral didn't want to give up, but the King told him to stop, and he accepts)
• They say they should do it again sometime
• Next round
• Erivale brings S to the high table
• Lord Blackmountain steps down
• The Lady steps down with him
• The King invites M to the table, right beside him (unconventional move)
• The Treasurer invites T to the last table before the king
• Coty stays behind with the wizards
• Orthun is now on their table
• S and T notices that Anya is not happy that Eri is sitting on the Kings table
• Lord Blackmountain invited the Lady to the lower table, they're talking nicely
• The Lady perks up, and gets keenly interested in Erivale when she walks past, and follows her with her eyes
• The magical animal peeks his head up and looks at the Lady as she walks past

The kings mistress is pregnant