S3E14 - Not Murder Hobos. Murder Heroes

General Summary

Date: 26th of Zuun 1075 ZC


 

Reminders:

This episode: shopping and travel. Shop for steel wire to attach bag of holding to Theo's person. And an arcane focus. We have one week to travel to the Lightgale Estate before their ball. Ask Haku about the Fox. Dream and Theo need to keep training with Detect Thoughts.

Toniiiight:

We follow up with Lassandra about finding us a Boros contact. She is trying, but they're all a bit too...straight and narrow to be associated with us. The Duke tells us that shopping will be cheaper in the 3rd District, so we'll shop there instead. We cast Sending to Zana Vosp to see if she's available for our travel tomorrow. In the meantime, we'll ask Haku and The Fox and Elana and Coop about where we're going and what they're working on.
 

Date: 27th of Zuun 1075 ZC


Pivot to Androz:

He is heading to meet Zana. He needs to travel descreetly, but the Boros are grounding all non-commercial flights to to Gruul raids.

Pivot the the GotG:

Elena and Coop say Garrock left the 10th District and is traveling South, but they have no idea where he is or where he's going.
Haku didn't know anything about The Fox, so that was a dead end.

Meet Cute at the Docks

We meet up with Zana. She fills us in on the Gruul raiding parties. She has a shipment so she needs to fly, but her offensive system isn't working. The Duke tries to convince her to let us be her protection, but fails miserably. So instead we pay 350gp. She tells us that there's another passenger, a loxodon, and the Duke hands him his suitcase to take onto the ship.
When we get onboard, we take defensive positions. Androz sees what we're doing, and notices a blindspot that he takes up without saying anything to us. Dream is suspicious of his positioning, so she casts Detect Thoughts on him. "For such a well-oiled machine, I can't believe they would leave such a blindspot as this."
She flies down to him and says that he can share his thoughts with us. He says what he's doing, and she takes it to mean that he's watching our backs. He says old habits die hard. She introduces herself, and he introduces himself as Androz Irontrunk. Then she returns to his post.
Theo hears another engine approaching before she sees anything. Androz, from his vantage point, sees ships lowering towards us. Goblins throw grappling hooks and zipline down from their ship. *insert some fun combat where we whoop some goblin ass and drop a LOT of goblins to their death* Highlight reel: Androz's exploding hammer. Theo ship-jumping to stop a goblin from firing off a bazooka by doing the Black Widow legged head lock roll thingy to yeet him off the ship. The Duke wind-tunneling goblins off the side of the boat. Dream casting wall of fire to burn the zip lines and catch their ship on fire.
After the battle ends, we hear an applause up at the front of the ship. We're in the presence of Montague Montague. He looks like...Zorro. He's a renowned master thief. He is purposefully trying to look nonthreatening. He was a stow away on the other ship before the Gruul raiders commandeered it. Then he jumped to our ship during the battle. We tattle on him so he can go talk to Zana. We take a statue he was smuggling as collateral. Androz also says that he may have a similar path, so we decide to temporarily let him hang around.
  Next time: travel with Androz and Montague Montague, The Duke sends a Sending to his mom, and then shopping once we arrive.

Update on lore: Lady Lightgale (ex) is now Lady Rothwind. Her father was in weapons manufacturing and a war profiteer. He made some poor investments and married his daughter out to help with his debts. The Manor is now owned by the Rothwind (The Duke's ex and her husband), although it's still called the Lightgale Manor out of respect for her father. They have no kids.
The Duke's dad is now the mayor of the province after he lost the governor race. Although it's not the province that the Duke is from.
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28 Jan 2025

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