Session 2 - Brian

Session 02 (2024-06-30) Brian’s Notes

Session 01 (2024-05-24)

Potential Next Steps:

Port Maraisa

Reminder: we were sent here to buy wine from Ankhapur. This this gives us cover to be in town waiting for the wine.

We wake up in Gold Coin inn and go down and get breakfast.

We decide to go the wine market to keep up our cover. We ask the Inn keeper about Ankhapur wine. Try caravon row - traders that come in from the east enter there. We could also visit the Vintner. Calls this wine terrible.

We go to Caravan row, and find a variety of traders. We find a merchant, Kingsley who sells wine from Ankhapur - will take 4-6 weeks to arrive.

30g down to secure the wine; agreed to pay rest (70g) upon delivery. Done by noon.

We decide to visit Mayor Dominico Falcone, representing Del Veign. We have his letter of introduction. It is a token of respect to visit him and not a threat to him.

[[Merchant Consortium]] and River Guild seems opposed to each other. We’re not sure how the mayor feels about their rivalry.

He’s in the south near the Northern Beacon in an estate house, attached to non-functioning light house. Mayor is wearing rival colors. We show him the letter, he asks why we are in town. Talmadge is a capable inn keeper

Night market has pleasures during the evening - functional during the day. We tell him about the encounter with the Orcs and rescuing halflings. He’s favorable about our treatment of the halflings. Tells us that Orc or Kobold raids are rare.

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Idea: talk to the Mayor later about the labor disputes. The different guilds. The halfling and human racism. rotting disease. Anymore information about raids (after a few days)

Go to find Mother Verduna to ask her to take us across the river. Go to the Big Tree to find Delridge and ask for help finding Mother Verduna.

3 halfling men hanging out near the sausage vendor. Humans are being very polite to the sausage vendor. Kira saw Rowan hanging out by northern Beacon.

We’re at Big Tree and talk to Delridge and ask to find Mother Verduna. Find out we can pay to have someone to take us across at night. Halflings die quickly of the rot - they don’t linger. Meet back here at the inn at midnight - we’ll launch from docks south of inn. For 15g.

Delridge knows we’re up to something - not clueless.

Bikke asks to find Waukeen temple.

We get lunch and beers and talk to Rowan in the Gold Coin and he shares his whiskey. The says the Vintner’s is closed - little people out in front told him. Gavin shows him the wooden coin. Decide to head over there shortly (after dark).

Kira detects magic on Rowan’s belt (evocation) and on a ring (enchantment).

We head over to the Vintner’s. Goblin answers the door. We have some of the Ankhapur wine, poured by Lothario Manhandle after he talks to 2 mafioso halflings. Gavin goes off with one of the women Syrah.

Kira talks to Lothario Manhandle and they are seeing through our disguise. Small Brothers may have taken interest in us - can’t figure us out, or we’re going to places they are interested in. Small brothers are local mafia / gang charging protection and taking a cut of a lot of merchant activity. Refers Bikke to Lorenzo Varisi who runs the harbor and the out buildings. Elena Delphino runs the merchants.

We tell Lothario Manhandle that we’re associated with Del Veign and we’re soldiers who fought with him in the Calishite Campaign. We tell him we’re gathering information for Del Veign while waiting for our wine. Lothario was associated with the the Savelli before, and is interested in being associated with the Del Veign, and offers to sell property in the city, can get them other things they might request.

The White Skull is a raiding goblin band on the other side of the mountains - brutal, slavers. Former members Ergzett Rukk was warrior and his wife Port are indentured servants working off their debt for getting new identities. The town knows this, but Lothario Manhandle is above the law.^whiteskull

Syrah is into Rowan and Gavin pays for her to be with Rowan.

Kira asks about getting back in to the Vintner’s. Kira gets us a Probationary membership - we can come and go as we please without a wooden coin.

Next session: meet at the inn to go the boat.