Session 10 - Secure a clandestine manifest - Part X

June 20th 2024 §

• Previous Session: Session 09 - Secure a clandestine manifest pt IX
• Next Session: Session 11 - Rescue Mel

Attendees §

• Raphael - Dungeon Master

• Abductor Maximus - Natasha

• Baba Gaga - Emily T

• Bookmark - Pete

• Lirael - Emily B

• Puck - Pip

• Ruthejio Windrustler - Mahesh

Key Notes §

Session Notes §

• 9PM - Bell rings from the great hall
• Party rammed, whole of diadell and aristocrats
• Jace on staircase, thango behind him
• People in dramatic black dress
• Lirael sneaking off to the retiring room
• Jace doing a big speach, cephilla not present
  • Jace delaying
• Lirael
  • No body in the parlour
  • Retiring room locked
  • Looked into the keyhole
    • Thin sliver-> extensivce fire damage
    • DO NOT DANGER sign
    • No carpet
    • cold dead fireplace
    • burnt walls
    • can see the trapdoor
    • picks door
  • Elderly gentleman sneaks up behind Lirael
    • Sees Lirael -> “Hello”
    • Completely pissed
    • Drinks brandy from the gentleman and sees him off
  • Sneaks inside room -> Badly scorched
    • Slowly sneak closer to the suit of armour
• Door in the dining room
  • Stairs leading downwards
  • Down a short way, arch, chimney with ladder going up and down
  • Boomark knows this
  • Ruth casts invisibility goes up the stairs to follow Jace
  • Baba, Puck, Bookmark go chimney upstairs
  • Abductor stays at the party
    • While milling about
    • Announcer -> The Lady of Fort Breakstone?
      • Giant Woman Comes In wearing black lace
      • Cool scar
  • Liarel
    • Cant hear anything except a faint ticking noise
    • Looks at the trapdoor, looks the same as last time
  • Chimney Climbers
    • Top floow
    • Knocks gently
      • A voice that sounds like shes been crying
      • “Hello?”
      • “Sphehilla?”
      • “omg my gnome friend” crying
    • Jace angry voice
    • Sphephilla screams, whole party can hear it
    • Ruth keeps eye on Jace
    • Puck asks whats wrong?
    • “Well I want to be not 16. Want to be where there are no crowds.”
    • Confort her.
    • “Swisk uh uh uh uhshoski”? Name of boyfriend.
    • Successfully calm down the teen
      • Shes gonna debut
      • Opens the door, recriminations/arguments all chill
  • Lirarel prizes out a wooden slat next to trap door
    • Arund the trapdoor is a wall
    • After some work in a whole next to another whole
      • Dead mouse (mumiffied)
  • Abductor
    • Whats going on with Chephilla?
    • Walks into the parlour
    • Lady looks up at Abductor
      • Can I help you?
  • Lirael has excavated the passageway under the trapdoor
    • Passageway that runs down and off into the west direct
    • No ticking walking from earlier
    • Another ladder and trapdoor, passageway continues
    • Trapdoor turns into teeth
    • Rapier sinks into the trapdoor mouth, disengages and continues down the passage
  • Jace tells thango to keep an eye on Cephy
  • Jace sees Abductor, Freezes, “Good Evening”
  • Jace + Lady Breakstone into the room, down the
    • Ruth runs into the room behind them, and down the tunnel
  • Lirael continues down the paassage, meets back up with Ruth through the trapdoor
  • Can hear Jace and Ask NIcely
    • Talking about manifest
    • Ask Nicely wants money and ships
    • Agree a price
    • Scrape of a chair, screams from house.
    • Smash of furntiture, breaking glass and stuff
    • “What the blazes is that ” -> Ask Nicely
    • “You stay here, I’ll go up.”
    • After Jace leaves we burst into the room with Ask Nicely
      • Lirael, Ruth, Baba
    • Boomark stays behind in the dining room
      • Realises it’s the hallucinogenic months
      • Uses reflection from the tray to figure out whats going on
      • Lots of screaming from orangery and ballroom doors
      • Goes to ballroom giant hallucogenic ballroom
      • Ceph in the middle, thango with curtain
      • Bookmark “Go full squid”
      • “You have ruined my party”
        • Goes full squid
      • Whips around knocks thango aside
      • Squirts full ink. Pushes the moth back into the next room
    • Back in the other room we hold up Sharpskull
      • Make a deal with Sharpskull to forge the manifest, so we get the real one, but she can present the fake forgery to jace who’d believe it
      • But we owe Sharpskull a favour.
    • 7m Squid
      • Jace: Where is she?!
      • Thango: She is fighting moths.
      • She’s doing well.
      • Nanny casts an incantation
      • Comes back out covered in ink, she had the best time.
      • Jace trying to usher people away.
    • Forgery has finished.
      • Give her Pinions call run
      • Get the Manifest!
      • Back to meetup with the othes
      • Party is over, people leaving
      • We sneak out with the crowds.