Session 19: Small loan of a 100gp pearl Report

Rossi and the group bring Perrin Slate back to Tony. Now on better terms than previously, they get to borrow a pearl. Tony also gives some information about the Blacklung Holdings and veinlords.   Teel and Florian return to Lizz’s shack to get Rakish. During their goodbyes, Lizz shares her frustration with Teel's attitude and how coy he’s being whilst she’s left to wait around and wonder when she’d much rather prefer to be of use. This prompts Florian to tell Teel that he’ll be a terrible union leader if this sort of talk is how he’s planning on gathering people. They bring Rakish back to Lumriks’.   With Tony’s pearl, Alkaline readies a nifty identify-gadget, and use it to finally get the magical shackles off of Rakish. Rakish wakes up, immediately focusing in on their dear Florian whom has a lot of questions for them. The two talk for a while, Florian quite upset. Teel impatiently tries to butt in at some point, in which the group essentially gets shoo’d out of the room. Florian considers leaving the room as well, but Triandra ‘reads’ Florian and encourages him to give the conversation another go and to try talking things out with Rakish.   There’s talk of dreams, visions, childhood, intentions, identity, etherborns, pneumatic seas --- this is something the rest of the party should hear about too, and the two join the party downstairs where Triandra meets them with lightly burnt toast. Rakish tells about pneuma and the pneuma-clasts whilst the party tries to inform the gnome of what’s been going down the past week. The old gnome reveals that they’ve seen all of the party members - besides from Navëd - in dreams, and that they are connected to each other through the pneumatic subplane within a subplane. Rakish theorises of a wonderful future where peoples lives are greatly improved by pneuma… but more research needs done! -and oh my gosh! Rakish’s research! The gnome hid their book of research away in an alley before getting kidnapped! Hopefully it’s still there? After a few minutes of discussing the ethics of pneumatic weaponry, questioning Teel’s motives and plans, and the reveal of Rakish’s makeshift research facility in some old abandoned catacombs, the group starts getting ready to leave to retrieve Rakish’s book.