Narius' House, Farm Bureau Offices
By Rebecca
Much discussion about/ character motivation / story theory
- we should stay in town for now
- tell Detective Becker that we hope Versingaturik ’s body is preserved (in case of resurrection)
- learn Shala Macur (assassins) are based in Ostia (east of us).
- very expensive
- ½ the people who know about them don’t believe in them
- ½ the people don’t want to mess with them
- Plan to go to Narius house and figure out Shady connections
In the morning: Narius’ house is quiet?
- Ash + Sylvie jump the fence and find grounds neglected
- Ash tires to go in backdoor (fail) and goes into the window
- Sylvie overhears Narius waking up in his bedroom.
- Narius says “Yes, it is done. I need more money. I need it right away”
- Ash disguises herself as butler to let Arry, Ulfgar, and Fender in
- Arry is concerned about breaking the law & Narius
- House is barren & mostly empty of any valuable items
- Bedroom has bed, nightstand, broken glass and amber liquid on floor,
- Narius is in his robe and slippers, no pants
Party enters room: INITIATIVE
- Fender hypnotizes, Narius
- Sylvie threatens Narius with sword
- Ulfgar casts zone of truth
- Arry freaks out
- Fender tries to tie Naid to chair: (success)
- Sylvie goes through accusation tyraid again
- Narius freaks out
Zone of Truth Interview with Narius
- Ernst (deputy at farm bureau) arranged Red armor
- Narius plans to fire him immediately
- knows about Vercingetorix death
- Faberio would not be pleased to kill Vercingetorix
- Narius doesn’t know names of killers
- “Who made you do it?”
- “Nothing you can do is worse than what he would do”
- Tom pissed Narius off
- Thinks Faberio is a fool
- Narius lists elf imperial names as in on the conspiracy
- (desk in corner of bedroom has accounting docs: is Narius in debt?)
- Fender and Arry leave bedroom to go look for tea
- Ulfgar leaves the room and closes the door, standing outside
Narius makes dash for his armor & sword INITIATIVE
- Sylvie bloodies Narius
- Narius gets his sword
- Narius is killed
Sylvie, Ash, & Ulfgar search room:
- take ledger, bag of holding, sending stone, +2 scale mail armor, sword is gladius +2, Narius’ body
- clean up crime scene
Ash disguises self as Narius, walks Arry out & wave at neighbors
- Sylvie & Ash sneak out
Gitch hired halfling carpenter to repair Ash’s house
- Halfling size adjustments in 1 room
- Check if Gitch knows Mr Ernst
- Ash, Sylvie, Ulfgar, & Fender decide to stash armor & make sure body won’t decompose
Party goes to Myrinath Mirror: no signs at activity
- Ash -> Severin
- Sending to Tom: “Tom, your intrepid heroes here. You got in trouble it sounds like. Do you need help?”
- No response
- Severin inspects ledger and finds 2000gp deduction: assassins
Party (Severin) go too farm bureau
- Farm bureau is on floors 5 - 7 and is quite organized
- Narius’ office has 1 disorganised cabinet full of complaints & concerns about settlement from his supervisors
Break into Ernst’s office while he is under his desk
- chair wedged the door closed, Arry strengths in
- Enst says “Go Away” is very frightened
- Sylie says Ernst has blood on his hands
- Ernst says Narius was in charge, Ernst was a messenger
- Narius told Ernst “No more editions of The Mirror”
- Thugs were dressed up as centurions to burn paper
- Ernst tales us down to basement
- dark broom closet, Tom in magical sleep on a cot
- Ernst runs away, we let him escape, Moog follows
- Moog sees Ernst go home, pack a bag, & try to flee
Tom goes to The Mirror (with party) Breaks in with Ash’s crowbar
- Tom’s report:
- Narius engineered the whole thing
- Settlement was all a get rich quick scheme
- Vercingetorix was going to tell Faberio
- Tom approached Narius about the conspiracy
- Narius didn’t even try to bribe Tom
- Tom wants to write an exposé to get Narius fired
- Myrinath Mirror office itself is ok
Plan:
- Ulfgar goes to temple
- Arry wants to check on horses
- Ash wants to sneak and look into jewelry district