Session 19 15-17/12/4708 To Scarwall

15/12/4708

PCs head north & east across the Cinderlands, sleeping in a shallow cave on the edge of the Mindspin Mountains.

16/12/4708

Wake to snow blowing into the cave. Vemi Diaquani creates a Shadow Road through the Shadowlands to speed the journey... On the way they encounter ghost Shoanti who warn them to detour round a ruin ahead filled with ghostly orcs. They pass it safely, but Kaz has the group investigate a huge thorn tree just off the road - with disastous results. Barely escaping the wraith & spectral hordes of Zon-Kuthon they flee back into the real world, where the thorn tree's real analogue glares at them menacingly. They trek north a few miles in bitter weather and sleep overnight in an enchanted hut created by Vemi.

17/12/4708

The day dawns cold, but bright and clear. The heights of Scarwall can be glimpsed now, only a dozen miles away at the eastern edge of the Kodar mountains. Heading uphill the group are nearing Scarwall when they attacked by a ferocious Gug, which injures Durnhelm before Marie rips it apart. The Brotherhood of Bones arrive and greet them, escorting them to Sial's Tower of Bone (concealed in a welcoming ravine) for a rest. Then the group ascend the ridgeline to catch their first glimpse of Castle Scarwall, vast and sinister, rising from the mists of a caldera lake.
Consulting with the Brotherhood, the group decide to take the Barbican that guards the high walkway over the lake from the orcs lairing there. Seven orc warriors, apparently set there to guard against the forces of Kazavon, prove no match for the heroes. Seeing that the spell upon Scarwall does not affect the Barbican and that the orcs were apparently left alone by the undead, the group decide it should make a good campsite.

XP
Travel to Scarwall, encounter with Shoanti Ghosts - CR 9 XP 6400
Fleeing the Tree of Death - CR 10 XP 9600
Gug battle - CR 9 XP 6400
Battle at the Barbican:
6 Orc Fighters CR 5 XP 1600x6= 9600
Ury Sevenskulls, Orc Barbarian CR 8 XP 4800
Total: 36800/4=9200

9200+108447=117647 XP
Need 155,000 for level 11.

Session 18 15/12/4708 RL10 Leaving Kaer Maga

Leaving Kaer Maga heading north along the riverside the PCs are scryed, and soon attacked by a force of Gray Maidens, Red Mantis, Ashwing Gargoyles, and the mysterious Cinderlander. They kill most of their foes, capture the Cinderlander and strip him of gear, then continue north.

XP: 17,600 XP each, = 108,447 XP and 10th level.

Session 17 26/11-15/12/4708 Hunting the Naga

26/11/4708 AR: Senior Duskwarden Jaran asks PCs for help; three days ago a food caravan on the Halflight Path was wiped out, with the loss of three trained Duskwardens and twelve farmers. The food was left untouched. Assigned Duskwarden Karl.

27/11/4708 AR: PCs descend the Halflight Path with Karl to caverns and the remains of an underground city. Investigating at the spot where the caravan was destroyed, the PCs are attacked by wraiths & cloakers commanded by a Spirit Naga. They defeat the monsters in a gruelling battle. Returning to the surface Jaran pays the promised 4000gp reward.

29/11/4708: Vemi's hammer upgraded to +2.

9/12/4708: Naglatha's bow upgraded to Undead Bane.

15/12/4708: Durnhelm's sword upgraded to +1 Corrosive.

Have 1 week to planned rendezvous with the Brotherhood of Bones at Castle Scarwall in the Hold of Belkzen.

XP: 7733 each + 83114 = 90847
105,000 XP for Level 10
Subsistence: 60gp each Kaz, Vemi, Durnhelm. 20gp Naglatha.

By the time your gear is ready winter has set in, a cold dreary rain with occasional sleet has been spattering the city for the past several days.

Session 16: 19-25/11/4708 Kaer Maga

19/11/4708: Reach Harse, dinner with Jasan Adriel, with Vencarlo last of the Blackbirds.
20/11/4708: Rest in Harse.
21/11/4708: To Janderhoff, greeted at the gate by a blue-sashed dwarf 'Sky Magistrate'. Farewell to Vencarlo Orisini, Trinia Sabor & Seneschal Neolandus Kalepopolis.
22/11/4708: Rejoin the Brotherhood of Bones, through frontier territory to Sirathu. On the way, party sense that someone is attempting to Scry them.
23/11/4708: Up the Storrval Rise, dispatching a hungry Bulette. Reach Kaer Maga, meet a Caulborn near the Bank of Abadar and stay at a Duskwarden-frequented Inn. The Sun Clan Shoanti are on the warpath, but with winter now closing in they seem unlikely to march on Korvosa until ca M3 next year.
24/11/4708: The Brotherhood of Bones including Fane Korvaski depart, arranging to rendezvous with the group at Castle Scarwall in one month (24/12/4708). Magic item shopping. Item creation by a local Bloatmage will take 22 days (to be ready morning of 17/12/4708). Arrange with Senior Duskwarden Jaran for a guide to go hunting a Gray Render.
25/11/4708: 10 year old Duskwarden apprentice leads group down to the Prison Levels, where Kaz summons a celestial ankylosaurus to defeat the Render and its Black Orc allies. Some minor loot marked with Blackbird logo, including brooches.

XP
Roleplay & Investigations: 400  each
Combat XP
Bulette CR 7 XP 3200/6= 533 each
Gray Render CR 9 XP 6400/4=1600 each
5 Black Orcs CR 2 XP 600x5=3000/4=750 each
Total XP: 3283 each + 79831= 83114
105,000 XP for Level 10

Session 15: RL9 Maidens in the Temple, Brotherhood of Bones 14-19/11/4708 AR

The group oars out of the Vivified Labyrinth on the barge and the receding tide, putting in a mile down the coast just after midnight.

14/11/4708

They head back east to Trail's End to stay with the Soldado family.
At dawn when the gates open, Naglatha and Fane Korvaski acquire a handcart from an apple seller to carry Vemi's body into the city, while Vencarlo, Neolandus & co stay at Trail's End. They talk their way past the Gray Maidens at the bridge and head through town to the Temple of Pharasma, where Bisophess Keppira agrees to try to raise Vemi.

The ritual takes an hour and is successful, but just as Vemi is raised, Gray Maidens led by alive-again Oriana burst in and attempt to arrest them! Naglatha swiftly shoots down Oriana; Keppira calms two Maidens and Korvaski kills another as the PCs flee, evading the Maidens and taking refuge in the catacombs where once Rolth laired. At nightfall Naglatha sneaks out to rendezvous with Kaz Anders, passing through the sewers and swimming the Narrows of St Alika to meet him at his garret in Old Korvosa. They use Dimension Door to return to the mainland.

The party meet up and head through the streets to the docks of Midland, where they wait overnight.

15/11/4708

At dawn Kaz is able to get a good view of East Dock and D-doors over with Naglatha & Fane Korvaski, while Vemi disguises himself as a fishmonger and crosses the bridge to East Shore unobserved.
The group rendezvous at Themaneuxus Academy where they ask the gnome wizard Tempest Geezelbottle about various magical goods and services.  During discussions Tempest is called away to another client - the Zon-Kuthonite Cleric Laori Vaus has come to collect her newly augmented Spiked Chain! Laori is taken with Fane Korvaski, and offers to hire him for an expedition into the Cinderlands in search of a lost artifact, the sword Serithtial that can defeat Ileosa. Naglatha talks with her and offers to join forces with her group. They arrange to meet at midnight in two days' time at the statue of St Allika on St Allika Street, Old Korvosa.

16-17/11/4708

The group lie low for two days at the Soldado house, unmolested by the local Scazarni despite many wanted posters promising rewards for their capture. With the plague over, the quarantine on Old Korvosa is being lifted at last.

18/11/4708

Just after midnight Laori turns up at the statue of St Allika with her companions in the Brotherhood of Bones - Shadowcount Sial and his chain devil companion Asyra. They disuss plans; according to their divinations the sword Serithtiel still lies inside undead-infested Castle Scarwall, where Mandraivus of Lastwall defeated Kazavon centuries ago. Laori wishes to separate Ileosa's chocolate from Kazavon's peanut butter - or vice versa. Vemi reckons that the Brotherhood of Bones seek the re-assembly of Kazavon from his various relics, but for now their interests seem to coincide.
Laori casts Air Walk on everyone so they can return to Trail's End unseen.  At dawn they buy horses from a local Varisian dealer, then head west away from Korvosa, staying the night at a country inn where Laori really gets her hooks into Fane Korvaski...

19/11/4708

Next morning the group heads on, reaching the small town of Harse that evening, and taking the ferry across the river into town. Vencarlo leads them to the Blackbird Ranch house of his old friend and adventuring companion Jasan Adriel. Kaz Anders is reunited with a delighted Trinia Sabor. Jasan's wife serves an excellent meal (the beer a little rough), Jasan chats about their old party the Blackbirds - Vencarlo & Jasan the only survivors; after a falling out over dwarven relics the others vanished a season later in the dungeons below Kaer Maga.
After dinner Jasan leads everyone downstairs to see his cellar brewery, where they can discuss plans away from the ears of Jasan's family. Vencarlo plans to take Neolandus to seek sanctuary with the dwarves of Janderhoff, while the main group will proceed to Sirathu on the edge of Korvosan territory, then up the Storval Rise to Kaer Maga, hopefullt re-equipping, and possibly seeking the Blackbirds' lost treasures. Then on through the Cinderlands to the Orc-ruled Hold of Belkzen, where lies cursed Castle Scarwall and their goal. But rumour has it that the Shoanti tribes of the Storrval Plateau are gathering for war against Korvosa...

The Brotherhood of Bones

XP:
Get Vemi raised, evade Temple assault: 3000 each
Ally with Laori & Sial, Get everyone to Harse: 3200 each
Total: 6200 + 73631 = 79831
LEVEL 9 REACHED
105,000 XP for Level 10

Session 14: Escape from Old Korvosa 13/11/4708 AR

The group rescue Seneschal Neolandus and escape the Vivified Labyrinth by barge, but on the way Vemi is killed by the poison of a giant cobra.

XP
Defeat Senshir the Beatific One CR 9 XP 6400
2 Emperor Cobras CR 5x2 XP 3200
Enormous Reefclaw CR 8 XP 4800
Avidexu the Rakshasa CR 10 XP 9600
Rescue Neolandus Kalepopolis & Vencarlo Orisini CR 10 XP 9600
Total: 33600/4= 8400 each

8400+ 65231 = 73631 XP
75,000 for Level 9

Session 13 RL8 12-13/11/4708 AR

The party rest until nightfall on the 13th in Kaz's garret, then head to near the wall bordering the Arkona estate. Vemi scries Vencarlo Orisini, chained in a throneroom with a dark sphinx lounging on the throne nearby. Kaz D-doors himself, Vemi, and Naglatha to the location. They defeat the sphinx, free Vencarlo, and set about locating the Seneschal, Neolandus Kalepopolis. They encounter and defeat Vimanda, the fox-headed rakshasa, and eventually escape the vivified labyrinth. Vencarlo points the way through the illusionary wall to the basement torture chamber where Neolandus is being held...

Defeat Sivit the Darksphinx: CR 9 XP 6400
Defeat Vimanda the Rakshasa: CR 13 XP 25600
E5 Symbol of Fear over pool CR 6 XP 2400
E6 Symbol of Pain CR 5 XP 1600
E7 Three Trapped Chests CR 1, 5, 6 XP 400+1600+2400=4400
E8 Symbol of Insanity CR 8 XP 4800
E10 Fangs of Diomazul rotating blades CR 7 XP 3200
E11 The Wailing Maidens CR 6 XP 2400
E12 The Stinging Wasps CR 6 XP 2400
E18 Symbol of Sleep CR 5 XP 1600
E19 Symbol of Stunning CR 7 XP 3200
E20 Rescue Vencarlo Orisini CR 9 XP 6400

Total: 64400/3.5=18400 each
18400+46831 = 65231 XP
51,000 for Level 8.

LEVEL 8 REACHED

75,000 for Level 9

Session 12 11-12/11/4708 AR

11/11/4708
Rescue Salvator
Get back to the mainland
Shopping, Kaz visits his supporters
Rest at Inn

12/11/4708
Errands
Doggie Blanket of Resistance for Megrim stitched by Grau Soldado's sister
At nightfall return to Old Korvosa by dimension door & swimming the Jeggare River
Visit Vencarlo Orisini's house
Attacked by Gray Maidens & Red Mantis

XP
Rescue Salvator Scream - 3200
Investigations, talk with Lord Arkona - 3200
Battle at Vencarlo's House:
6 Gray Maidens CR 3 XP 800x6=4800
Gray Maiden Cmdr CR 7 XP 3200
2 Red Mantis Assassins CR 6 XP 2400x2=4800
Total: 19200/3= 6400 each
6400+40431=46831 XP
51,000 for Level 8.

Session 11 10-11/11/4708 AR Emperor of Old Korvosa

The group rests at Kaz's garret and waits, sleep interrupted by the rantings of Kaz's crazy neighbour downstairs. At 3am they rendezvous with Laori Vaus near Vencarlo Orisini's house, then enter the Old Dock district and assault Emperor Pilts's 'Palace'. Durnhelm the Shoanti falls during the battle, killed by Pilts's one-eyed gnome executioner Jabyr, but the party and Laori defeat a score of Pilts Swastel's elite 'captains' and Jabyr. Vemi captures Pilts, and executes him for his crimes.  Salvator Scream is found in an artist's studio/prison cell.

XP
20 Old Dock Captains War 2/Rog 3 XP 800x20=16000
Jabbyr Gnome Barbarian 8 XP 3200
Pilts Swastel Bard 10 XP 6400
Total: 25600/5=5120 XP each

5120+35311=40431 XP
51,000 for Level 8.

Session 10 RL7 9-10/11/4708 AR - Lord Glorio Arkona

9/11/4708 AR

Mid morning - Naglatha Kaz & Vemi encounter Durnhelm coming ashore, chased by four Gray Maidens in a boat.

To afternoon - Watch the border of Old Dock, the Emperor of Old Korvosa's domain, from hiding, then and join Tesh Zobberdein, a drunk and foolish man out to get revenge on the Emperor, Pilts Wastrel, for the murder of his family.

Entering Old Dock the group battle squads of the Emperor's guards, their new ally Tesh is killed, but they kill or drive off over twenty men and rescue a battered Devargo Barvassi. Devargo tells them that Eel's End has been burned down and his people massacred. He goes off 'to see if Chittersnap is ok' and to report to Lord Glorio Arkona, apparently his superior in the Korvosan underworld. They meet the ever-cheerful Laori Vaus again, Laori agrees to hang around near Vencarlo's house in case they want to meet up again.

Dusk - Naglatha swims back to the mainland with the body of Megrim on a raft, she just misses being spotted by a Gray Maiden on the wall above. She makes her way through the sewers, greeted warmly by many Vault-dwellers, and back to Midland.

Kaz, Vemi & Durnhelm enjoy an audience with Lord Glorio Arkona, talking of weighty matters. Glorio tells them they may be Korvosa's 'last best hope', hints of opposition to Queen Ileosa, and asks them to eliminate the Emperor. Vemi swears to return a missing Vudran dagger given by Glorio's niece to the scoundrel Verik Vankaskerkin, leader of the deceased Cow Hammer Boys gang of renegade guards and murderers. Glorio gives Vemi a Ring of Evasion.

10/11/4708

Naglatha takes Megrim's body to the Temple of Pharasma, and rests there till dawn. She meets Bishopess Keppira d'Bear, who takes one of six diamonds from a velvet drawer and successfully raises Megrim on the altar of Pharasma as the morning sun brightens the eastern sky. Keppira says that it is a good omen.

The group wait until dusk to attempt to infiltrate the Emperor's domain. Durnhelm kills time by rescuing an old man from four street thugs, three are killed. The old man thanks them, happy to see the Law returning to Old Korvosa. They discuss his setting up a neighbourhood watch to protect his street, he seems keen.

Naglatha and Megrim return to Old Korvosa, and rendezvous with the others at Kaz's garret.

XP
Defeat 4 Gray Maidens - 3200
Defeat 18 Old Dock Thugs - 10800
Defeat 3 Old Dock Captains - 3600
Total: 17600/4 = 4400
Rescue Devargo Barvassi: +200
Naglatha swims Narrows of St Alika both ways, has Megrim successfully raised: +300
Audience with Glorio Arkona, Things of Import discussed - +2400
Defeat 4 street thugs & rescue old man - +400

Total: 7700+27611=35311
35,000 for Level 7.
LEVEL 7 REACHED
51,000 for Level 8.

Session 9 7-9/11/4708 - Death of Sable Company

7/11/4708 AR

Ceremony at Castle Korvosa - Commandant Endrin tries to assassinate Queen Ileosa after she orders the Sable Company disbanded; she kills him. The Gray Maidens quell subsequent unrest.

8/11/4708

Dusk - Marshall Croft summons Kaz, Vemi and Naglatha, asks them to find Vencarlo Orisini. Naglatha visits Girrigrz the wererat and arranges to be shown a way to Old Korvosa via the sewers.

9/11/4708

Kaz,Vemi & Naglatha swim the Narrows before dawn and enter Old Korvosa. They find the Orisini Academy burnt to the ground. In Orisini's house they are ambushed by two Red Mantis assassins,who kill Naglatha's animal companion Megrim before being dispatched.

They meet Amin Jalento, who was Vencarlo's student at the Academy. He points them to the painter Salvator Scream. They leave the dog's Megrim body safely at Kaz's old garret. At Salvator's decaying house they find him missing, but a weird elf girl is present, Laori Vaius - apparently a powerful Cleric of Zun-Kuthon, the Midnight Lord! She says she too is seeking Salvator Scream,but he is being held by Pilts Wastel, the 'Emperor of Old Korvosa'.

XP
Negotiate with Girrigz, get to Old Korvosa - XP 800
Defeat 2 Red Mantis Assassins at Vencarlo's house - CR 6 XP 2400x2=4800
Find Blackjack gear: XP 800
Talking with Amin Jalento: 800
Talking with Laori Vaus XP 1600
Total: 8800/3=2933
2933+24678=27611
35,000 for Level 7.

Gorum's Workbench

Formerly Lavender perfumier.
M10-11 4708 AR
"Gorum's Workbench" - it will have a shrine to Gorum incorporated. I will need someone to manage it since I don't have much time between workouts and the guard... and saving Korvosa from itself... and occasional bouts of personal training for the ladies. Someone Ex-Guard would be good...
GM: Durnhelm's first staff recruit is Cohl, a hulking Shoanti mercenary and priest of Gorum. He certainly has the physique and physical prowess, but looks rather initimidating for Durnhelm's targetted clientele of wealthy High District ladies with too much time on their hands, and despite Durnhelm's posing initial business is very slow, until he's approached by Deanne, a Chelish ex-Guards Corporal he knows slightly - rumour has it she quit the Guard when it looked like she was likely to be conscripted into the new order of Gray Maidens, and is consequently at a loose end.  
"You know Durnhelm, you need someone less scary looking to get the ladies coming round... how about it?"

Cohl, priest of Gorum (Bbn 1/Clr 3)

Deanne, ex-Korvosan Guard (Ftr 2)

Session 8 RL6 14-31/10/4708 Chosen of Urgathoa (29/10 Sandpoint Sacked by Nualia)

XP
Undead Attack
6 skeletons 133x6=800
4 zombies 200x4=800
G8 The Vats
6 Priests 400x6=2400
5 Physicians 200x5=1000
G13 Hall of Pestilence
6 priests 400x6=2400
Leukodaemon 4800
G14 Inner Sanctum
Lady Andaisin - 3200
Andaisin Reborn - 3200
G11 Arkminos Laboratory
Freeing Ruan Mirakova from Ramoska Arkminos - 3200
Total: 21800/4 = 5450 each
Bonus: Rescuing victims from the Hospice - 1200/4= +300 each=5750 each

5750+18928=24678
23,000 XP for Level 6.

LEVEL 6 REACHED

35,000 for Level 7.

Sir Jereth Rogare just killed Dr Davaulus upstairs; Davaulus' blood-splattered notes have more evidence of his complicity in spreading the plague. Sir Rogare would like the truth made public, but he's already late for his rendezvous to exit the city (so probably some self-flagellation for him tonight...), and will defer to you if you want it kept quiet. Several enemies escaped during the fighting upstairs, including the Gray Maiden corporal, the nurse at the front desk, and possibly more Maidens and Physicians - "it got a bit confused up there...". At any rate Sir Rogare thanks you for your assistance and asks you to deliver Dr Davaulus' notes and any other info you found to the Temple of Abadar to help them fight the Plague.

While Kaz and Naglatha are away alerting Field Marshal Kroft and the Temple of Pharasma, Vemior would like to take the time to do a more thorough search of the building. 

"Durnhelm, care to wander with me and see if we can't augment our wages?"

Vemior's aware that there's a couple of rooms in the temple he didn't so much as look inside (one immediately to the left of the lift- one, I think, on the right-hand side of the catwalk room) and another that was only glanced briefly- opposite Rolth's chamber. So he believes it probably wouldn't hurt to backtrack through the complex looking closely for further evidence of conspiracy (or valuables) before heading up to search the second floor.

GM: Vemi & Durnhelm search the temple of Urgathoa. The storage chambers south of the catwalk/blood vats chamber hold only barrels of water, kindling, and long stirring poles, and rubble in the eastern one. The room to the north of the temple antechamber (turn left from the lift as you enter) has cabinets and low benches, four beaked plague masks and leather doctors' coats hang from hooks; in the cabinets are more robes, boots, wide-brimmed hats, and the solid canes/clubs the physicians carried. Behind the western cabinet's glass door are four healer's kits and 23 large black onyx gems worth 50gp each, so 23x50=1150gp total. At the back of the cabinet are four identical potion flasks which radiate magic.

Naglatha Kaz & Sir Rogare inform Marshall Croft what has transpired, she seems shocked but perhaps not altogether surprised, given what Rogare already told here, and sends a squad to secure the building, while runners inform the temples of Abadar and Pharasma of the uncovered corruption. 

Sir Rogare thanks Naglatha and Kaz one final time before mounting up with last surviving armiger and galloping out of the city to catch the tail end of the departing Hellknight column returning to Citadel Vraid. Priests of Abadar including Ishani Dhatri come to attend the Hospice; some of the more robust plague sufferers are evacuated. Ironically, with no remove disease spells available, it's deemed best to leave those worst afflicted in the hospice, with water and prayers to ease their passing. Ishani thanks Durnhelm & Vemi gravely; they notice him sneaking a free 'remove disease' onto a dying young boy when none of the other priests are looking. The spell fails - Ishani sighs sadly as the boy expires, and closes the youth's eyes.
Marshall Croft files a report to the Castle, in which the PCs' role is diplomatically downplayed - essentially Kaz, Vemi, Naglatha & Durnhelm acting as assistants to the over-zealous Hell Knight Sir Jereth Rogare, helping him to defeat the plague cult, but also saving several of the Gray Maidens from summary execution at his bloody hands (ie almost the opposite of what actually happened.)

With Davaulus and Lady Andaisin defeated, the unnaturally swift propagation of the Blood Veil ends; over the next two weeks it begins to stutter out as the plague comes under control in most areas, though remaining well entrenched for a while in the overcrowded tenements of quarantined Old Korvosa. The word from the castle is that the Queen was duped by the nefarious Dr Davaulus, in league with the cult of Urgathoa; the Gray Maidens either had no knowledge of what was going on, or were under magical compulsion. Surviving Physicians are summarily tried and executed en masse, while the Gray Maidens are found innocent of wrongdoing (and will be offered counselling for the trauma they suffered).
Not everyone believes that the Queen was innocent, for Davaulus was known to be an old associate of her Arvaxi family in Cheliax, but the city is too wounded to contemplate another uprising. And the Gray Maidens swiftly become more prominent on the streets, replacing the departed Hellknights and enforcing brutal justice against lawbreakers.

Justice Zenobia Zenderholm tries Jolistina Susperio for mass murder at Carowyn Manor, and treason through plague-spreading. Jolistina is found guilty and sentenced to be hung, drawn and quartered, much to her delight: "I'm coming, Rolfie! I'm coming!"

The con artist Vendra Loaggri is tried by a lesser arbiter on charges of fraud, plague spreading, and manslaughter through depraved indifference. She is convicted on the fraud charge; Vendra's lawyer successfully argues that there is no proof that anyone contracted Blood Veil through her actions, and that those left uncured would either have died anyway, or else had the money to cure themselves magically. Vendra is sentenced to ten years' Indentured labour. The prosecution appeals the verdict; Senior Arbiter Zenderholm doubles the sentence to twenty years. Vendra is sent off to spin yarn instead of yarns.

As the plague dies down, the four heroes - Kaz, Vemi, Naglatha and Durnhelm - receive thanks for their many efforts. Tayce Soldado, whose daughter Brienna was saved early on, organises a large dinner in their honour at Trail's End, attended by many of the local Varisian families who bring small gifts. Among those attending are the Mirakova siblings, Deyanira and Ruan - Deyanira starry-eyed for Vemi; Ruan mostly recovered from his tortures, but still pale and withdrawn. Deyanira tells everyone what happened; Kaz, Vemi, Naglatha and Durnhelm all receive gifts worth 250gp each.

Eries Yelloweyes and other Vault dwellers  thank Naglatha for apparently averting Girrigz's war with the surface world, even Girrigz himself seems somewhat mellowed, for there have been no more raids from above (mostly thanks to Kaz having had a few words with Muttonchops, the dockhand agitator). Naglatha receives gifts from the Vault folk worth another 250gp.

(29/10/4708 AR Rise of the Rune Lords "Burnt Offerings" - the town of Sandpoint on the Lost Coast is sacked and burned by a Goblin horde under Nualia.)

31/10/4708: On the last day of the month, with the Blood Veil Plague now officially eradicated everywhere outside quarantined Old Korvosa (and some signs it's beginning to subside there too); a ceremony is held at the Citadel to thank Kaz, Vemi, Naglatha and Durnhelm for their extensive efforts for the city - from Kaz's early alert about the tainted silver coins, through dealing with the fake potion-seller, apprehending Jolistina Susperio, and most importantly aiding the Hell Knights to cleanse the source of the corruption at the Temple of Urgathoa. All four are given full commissions in the Korvosan Guard, Durnhelm as a First Lieutenant and the others as junior Lieutenants. Croft pins rank epaulettes on their shoulders, and opens the Citadel Armoury to them. 


Each PC can select equipment from the stores worth up to 2500gp - including early firearms & nearly everything from Ultimate Equipment, and +1 weapons & armour. 
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Naglatha will have made a point of escorting the kidnapped stable lad from Sable Company back to their headquarters once the authorities had been alerted to the existence of the Temple of Urgathoa. While there she'll mention that she aspires to join Sable Company some day.

At the Great Tower a Sable Company quartermaster thanks Naglatha, takes back the stableboy, and asks Naglatha to wait. Shortly thereafter she is escorted into the presence of the noble Commandant, Marcus Thalissinus Endrin, who looks gravely worried. He quizzes Naglatha at length about exactly what happened at the Hospice, and eventually asks if there is evidence that the Queen was responsible for the plot against Korvosa. 

Commandant Endrin: "If the Queen did this, she will pay for her crimes. No one is above the Law - and no one is above Justice." He sets his jaw grimly.

Did Commandant Endrin make any comment when Naglatha mentioned she hopes it might be possible for her to join Sable Company one day?

The Sable Company has plenty of vacancies currently since the Gray Maidens conscripted most of their female cadets. Commandant Endrin tells Naglatha she is very welcome to join the next cadet intake on 1/11. Training to full Sable Company Marine is an intensive six month program at the Endrin Military Academy, which includes bonding with a young hippogriff. Of course many recruits wash out in training.
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She'll also visit the Vaults and give Girrigz two potions of CMW "just in case of trouble" and she also gives a potion of CLW to Eries Yelloweyes.

Old Eries thanks Naglatha, looking at the yellowish fluid quizzically: 
"Should be useful for a rainy day..."
Girrigz Ripperclaws accepts the greenish cmw potions cheerfully, grinning: 
"Cheers Naglatha! You're a good sort; little makes me glad I din't rip yer throat out!"
He winks.

Summer/Autumn 2014 Provisional Schedule

All games are on Sundays, normally 12.30pm, at The Ship or at Home.

May
11th - S8, 12.30pm at Ship
25th - S9, 12.30pm at Home

June
8th - S10, 12.30pm at Ship
22nd - S11, 12.30pm at Ship

July
6th - S12, 12.30pm at Ship
20th - S13, 12.30pm at Ship

August
3rd - S14, 12.30pm at Ship
10th - S15, 12.30pm at Ship

September (weekly from 7th)
7th - S16, 12.30pm at Home
14th - S17, 12.30pm at Home
21st - S18, 12.30pm at Home
28th - S19, 12.30pm at Home

October (weekly)
5th - S20, 12.30pm at Home
12th - S21, 12.30pm at Home
19th - S22, 12.30pm at Home
26th - S23, 12.30pm at Home

Final session(s) if necessary November/December 2014.

Session 7 13-14/10/4708 Hospice of the Blessed Maiden

Roth the Necromancer (deceased)

Corporal Oriana of the Gray Maidens

Events & XP
13/10/4708
(Dawn - Hellknight force under Sir Jereth Rogare investigated the sunken plague wreck Direption, losing three Armigers to the Sea Hag and her monsters. They find a single corpse in Plague Doctor kit with a letter naming 'R. Davaulus'.)
Return Jolistina Susperio to the Citadel gaol a little before dusk.
Evening - Naglatha eavesdrops on Marshall Croft refusing Sir Jereth's demand to arrest Dr Davaulus, Croft claims the letter & corpse could have been planted on the wreck.
Talking with Sir Jereth Rogare in the Citadel Mess Hall, he tells them Lictor Severs deVri has ordered the Hellknights withdrawn from Korvosa at dawn tomorrow. Plan to meet Jereth & his two remaining Armigers at the Hospice of the Blessed Maiden and investigate it with extreme prejudice...
XP: 100 each.

14/10/4708
ca 6am: Meet with Jereth & his Armigers. Unable to get in the back way, they enter the Hospice with Vemi Kaz & Durnhelm disguised as Plague Doctors. It doesn't last long...
THE HOSPICE
F1 - get  past the nurse-receptionist via disguise. XP 150 each.
F2 - battle in the sick ward. XP Gray Maiden Corporal Oriana 800, 3 Gray Maidens 400x3=1200, 4 Queen's Physicians 200x4=800 = 2800/6=466 each.
F4 - The Lift - activated by Naglatha. XP 150 each.
One Physician went upstairs, Sir Jereth and the Armigers go upstairs to deal with Dr Davaulus and co while Kaz Vemi Naglatha & Durnhelm descend into the depths...
THE TEMPLE OF URGATHOA
G1 Entry Hall - lurid murals depict skeletons cavorting among the dead of a Korvosa completely succumbed to Blood Veil.
Defeat 4 Gray Maiden guards from G2 guardroom - XP 1600/4= 400 each.
Defeat the Death's Breath Doors - Vemi detects the trap & Naglatha disables it. XP 600 each. 
G4 the Princess' Bacchanal - zombie floor & walls laid to rest by Durnhelm. XP 100 each.
G5 Operating Room - Rolth the Necromancer & 2 priests of Urgathoa surprised and killed. XP Rolth 2400, priests 400 each, total 3200/4=800 each.
Rescue & cure Sable Company stablehand Dalvun Krand. XP 100 each.
G6 patient cells - rescue three Varisian men and two women, all untouched by Blood Veil. All have been here less than a week. Can hear sounds of alarm.
Total XP:  2866 each.

Current Party XP 16062+2866=18928
23,000 XP for Level 6.

Session 6 RL5 11-13/10/4708 AR The Potion Huckster, & Jolastina Susperino.

11/10/4708: The day after the battle with Gigriz, Zellara the dead Fortune Teller appears to Vermi Diaquani in a dream as he lies sick and feverish. He performs a dream Harrow reading with Zellara's bloodstained deck, and awakes cured of incipient lycanthropy. Kaz Anders, Naglatha, and a Cleric of Gorum in the Korvosan Guard have a strangely similar dream...

12/10/4708: Ishani Dhatri asks Vermi, Kaz and their new ally Dunhelm, a half-Shoanti Cleric of Gorum, to investigate reports of a cure for the Blood Veil plague being sold by the perfumier Lavender, owned by Vendra Loaggi. The group capture Vendra and expose her as a fraud. Vendra's strongmen seem more interested in celebrity-worship of Vermi Diaquani than in defending their mistress, who will be charged with capital fraud.

13/10/4708: A distraught Varisian dancing girl called Deyanira Mirukova asks the PCs to find her missing musician brother Ruan, who was hired to perform at Carowyn Manor. Investigating the Manor they find hordes of zombies, the remains of the Carowyn's guests reanimated as undead, and after a running battle capture the insane elf Jolastina Susperio, who claims an association with the notorious Necromancer, Rolth. She says Rolth sent her to wipe out the Carowyn party, but he was then taken away by Lady Andaisin, high priestess of the plague goddess Urgathoa, in the company of two women in Gray Maiden armour.
The group also rescue Ausio Carowyn, apparently the only survivor of the massacre/renanimation. Jolastina claims Rolth was taken to Andaisin's lair beneath the Hospice of the Blessed Maiden, where the Royal Physician Dr Davaulus and the Queen's Physicians are leading the battle against the Blood Veil!

XP
The Harrowing: 100 XP each
'The Colour of Death' - exposing Vendra Loaggri: 3200/3=1067 XP each
'The Case of the Vanishing Virtuoso' - defeating Jolastina Susperio: 7600/3=2533 XP each
Total: 3700+12362 XP=16062
15,000 XP for Level 5
LEVEL 5 REACHED
23,000 XP for Level 6.

Postscript:
 after several days spent placing traps around the Wererat lair, Girigz calls her over:

"Y'know Naglatha, you and me ain't so different. Reckon you're alright... And no humans've come down after us in three days - word is they ain't blaming us for the plague anymore. Guess Eries Yelloweyes gets to keep her throat awhile longer. Here, 'ave yer weapons."


Girigz returns Naglatha's weapons. Any request for more stuff back is met with a nasty grin.

Session 5 22/9-10/10 4708 AR: Seven Days to the Grave

 



Time/XP
22/9: A ship with yellow quarantine light is sunk by cannon fire in the Jeggare river.
25/9-26/9: Curing Grau Soldado's niece Brienna Soldado of Blood Veil: 600
27/9-28/9: Getting Trinia Sabor out of Korvosa by fishing boat: 1200
6/10: Escorting Fr. Ishani Dhatri from the Vault of Abadar to Citadel Volshyenek: 600
6/10: Meet the Queen's Physicians and Dr Davaulus at Citadel Volshynek
25/9-6/10: Investigations of the silver coins & skulls-head coffers; passing info to the Bank of  Abadar and Marshall Croft: 1600
10/10: Marshall Croft sends group to Racker's Alley to investigate corpse dump. Naglatha recommnends to Marshall Croft that in future the body carters be paid a bit rate for bodies actually delivered to the Gray District. In Racker's Alley the PCs Spot signs of vampire infestation and recruit the Temple of Pharasma to deal with it before nightfall: 1200
10/10: Wererat fishmonger Eries Yelloweyes asks Naglatha for help vs wererat firebrand Girrigz Ripperclaws, who is trying to unite the wererats for war with the humans above. PCs fight Girrigz's gang in his sewer lair, are defeated and have to give up money and weapons. Girrigz says that if any more humans enter the sewers hunting wererats he'll kill Eries. 2400

Total: 7600/3=2533 XP each
2533 + 9629=12162 XP.
Bonus: Persuaded Muttonchops that the wererats weren't spreading Blood Veil: +200 each = 12362 XP.

15,000 XP for Level 5

+1 Fate Point for investigations & preventive measures.

Session 4 RL4 29/8/-1/9 4708 AR Edge of Anarchy Finale

29-30/8/4708 The Dead Warrens 

Battle in the Ossuary
3 Derro CR 3 XP 800x3=2400
1 Otyugh CR 4 XP 1200
Exsanguination Chamber
2 stirges XP 200
Skull Corridor
3 Lesser Necrophidius CR 2 XP 600x3=1800
 Acid Spraying Skulls Trap CR 1 XP 400
Alchemy Lab
1 Derro CR 3 XP 800
Store Room
Carrion Golem CR 4 XP 1200
Prisoner Pits
Cabbagehead the Ogrekin CR 3 XP 800
Vreeg's Chamber
Vreeg, Derro Wizard-5 CR 5 XP 1600
Rescue Captive Ladies XP 600
Return Gaekhen's body parts to Thousand Bones XP 600
1/9/4708 Execution of Trinia Sabor
Verik Vankaskerkin and the Cow Hammer Boys are found guilty of murder and sentenced to death by Zenobia Zenderholm, and hung at dusk. Then the traitor-murderess Trinia Sabor is brought out...
Kaz Anders aids Blackjack to rescue Trinia XP 400
+Bardic Songs bonus XP 300
+Bardic Letters bonus XP 300 
Total XP 12600/3= 4200 party XP(!!!)
4200+5289=9429
+200 XP Vemi's letters bonus=9629
9000 XP for Level 4

LEVEL 4 REACHED

15,000 XP for Level 5

PC Living expenses M8 & M9 4708 AR
Kaz & Naglatha frugal: -20gp + 18gp (1 month's brevet corporal pay) = -2gp
Vemi Diaquani: middle class -60gp + 18gp (1 month's brevet corporal pay) = -42gp

The Exemplary Execrables theatre in Old Korvosa was damaged by fire during the riots, and is currently out of commission. It doesn't look as if there will be much call for Kaz's or Vemi's acting talents in the near future.

Fate Points: Kaz, Naglatha & Vermi each gain +1 Fate Point.



The letters Vemi wrote after Trinia Sabor was moved to Castle Korvosa.

Session 3 RL3 3-29/8/4708 AR Eel's End, Grau Soldado, Trinia Sabor, & the Dead Warrens

Sir Jereth Rogare, Hellknight

3/8/4708
12.30pm - briefing from Vencarlo & Croft re Amprei
1.45pm - encounter crazed prophet
2.15pm - Reach Eel's end, talk with Devargo Bavarsi, get incriminating letters to the Chelish ambassador, Amprei
3.30pm - back to Citadel Volshyek
14/8/4708
Vemi meets Grau Soldado, helps him get back in shape
28/8/4708
3pm Cressida Kroft says to arrest Trina Sabor
29/8/4708
6.15am Group arrests Trina Sabor, Lt Sayeen meets Sir Jereth Rogare.
Trinia transferred to the Castle.

3pm Cressida briefs group about Gaekhen, the murdered Shoanti
6.30pm Group reach the cemetery quarter near dusk
7pm group enters the Ossuary, battles skeletons

XP (total)
The crazed prophet: 200
Dealing with Devargo Barvassi: 800
Helping Grau Soldado: 200
Arresting Trinia Sabor: 600
Charming Sir Jereth Rogare, Hellknight: 200
Ossuary - Owlbear Skeleton: 600
Ossuary - 6 skeletons: 800
Total: 3400/4=850
850+4439=5289
5000 XP for Level 3.
LEVEL 3 REACHED
9000 XP for Level 4.

Trinia Sabor

Session 2: 2-3/8/4708 AR - All the World's Meat

XP
Evening 2/8/4708
Save Amin Jalento from six rioters in Midland: 600/3=200
Meet Sabina Merrin & Queen Ileosa at the Castle: 50 each
Night 2/8/4708
Kill Otyugh in Midland: 1200/4=300
Meet Field Marshall Cressida Croft: 25 each
ca 2am 3/8/4708
Defeat 4 'Cow Hammer Boys' renegade guards: 800/3=266
Defeat Verik Vancaskerkin: 600/3=200
Return Captives Alive to Marshall Croft: 600/3=200
Wake after noon 3/3/4708. Cressida meeting with Vencarlo Orisini
Total XP: 1241

Naglatha Winterkill: Level 2, XP 2778+1241+20+400=4439. 
Kaz Anders: Level 2, XP 2778+1241+20+400=4439. 
Vemi Diaquani: Level 2, XP 2778+1241+20+400=4439. 
5000 XP for Level 3.

Account by Judith/Naglatha
In which we meet the Great and the Not So Good…
The quiet of the morning saw the opportunity to spend some of our gold, for me to take Zellara’s remains to the Temple of Pharasma for burial, and for Kaz to make provision for the care of Lamm’s child victims. As the day wore on it became clear that it was nothing more than a lull: away from the eyes of the Watch scores were being settled. On our way to the Palace to return the brooch we were forced to intervene on behalf of an idiot lordling who had got in over his head with a group of thugs keen to redress the imbalance of wealth. With the thugs soon unconscious on the ground, he thanked us with scant courtesy before running for safety.

At the Palace, the brooch was identified as one stolen from the Queen and we were presented to her to return it and receive a reward. I left the talking to Vemi and Kaz – royalty and palaces were a long way beyond my experience. She complimented us and flattered us, then asked us to continue serving Korvosa and report to Field Marshal Cressida Kroft. I was overwhelmed enough to nod agreement and we ended up heading towards Citadel Volshyenek with a pair of guards as escort. 

The chaos in the city was continuing apace and even the otyughs from the vaults seemed not to want to be left out. One burst through the cobbles on the street in front of us and we were hard pressed to defeat it, but in the end a mighty spear blow from Vemi was sufficient to dispatch it. The Hellknight who had been running to join the fight ended up with nothing to do but offer a gruff ‘well done’ before we both continued on our way.

We arrived at the Citadel around dusk and were taken to Field Marshal Kroft. The guard were stretched to the limit trying to keep order in the city, but rather than being asked to support them directly, we were asked to go after a group of deserters who had set up shop in a butchers called ‘All the World’s Meat’ and bring them in, dead or alive. (If they were dead, we’d get only half the money so it was a fair incentive to keep them alive) They were led by Verik Van Kaskerkin and listening to the Marshal talk about him, I couldn’t help but think she had a soft spot for the deserter.

Rather than take the offered bunks for the night, we decided to go in immediately. We had the vaguest of plans but even that didn’t survive contact with the enemy and breaking in to the shop devolved into a brute force attack. We were fortunate that the deserters were ill prepared. The first few were knocked unconscious and we hurried upstairs to get Van Kaskerkin before he could escape. In the end, while our strategy was lacking, our tactics weren’t as, seeing Van Kaskerkin favoured bow and spear, we blocked him into a corner where he could use neither to advantage. After that it was just a matter of time before he had no choice but to surrender.

As we disarmed him and returned him to the Citadel he made no secret of his opposition to the Queen claiming that his work at ‘All the World’s Meat’ was to feed the poor who were starving. We decided to continue supporting it while turning over its running to someone more reliable. Amongst his gear was an unusual silver dagger that radiated magic, inscribed with Vudran carving and marked with the symbol of powerful Arkona family. I couldn’t help but wonder exactly what it was and how Verik had come by it…

Session 1: 1-2/8/4708 AR - Fall of Lamm, Edge of Anarchy

1st of Arodus (M8), 4708 Absalom Reckoning

Three residents of Korvosa, Naglatha Kaz and Vemi, are brought together by Zellara the Fortune-Teller for mutual revenge upon the crime lord Gaedren Lamm. Emerging from his fishery lair after nightfall, having done the deed, they find that King Eodred II Arabasti is dead, his Queen, Ileosa, has taken the throne, and serious rioting and looting has broken out throughout the city. Apparently many people dislike their Chelish queen, and don't want her as their new monarch.
Kaz Anders approaches Castle Korvosa seeking his friend the artist Trinia Sabor, who had been painting Eodred's portrait, but is told to report to Marshall Cressida Kroft at the Citadel.

2nd of Arodus (M8), 4708 Absalom Reckoning
After resting overnight at Vemi's place near the western docks, Naglatha goes to sell the night's loot to her uncle Devargo Barvasi, while Vemi talks with his actor contacts and Kaz seeks Trinia Sabor in her apartment in the Shingles. Kaz finds Trinia nervous and afraid, worried she'll somehow be blamed for the King's death. Trinia identifies a jeweled brooch found in Lamm's lair as belonging to Queen Ileosa. There is a substantial reward offered for its return.

Session XP
Bloo the dog - 135
Yargin Balko, 'the alchemist' - 200
Hookshanks Grueller, the bad gnome - 200
Giggles the Half Orc - 200
Freeing the Little Lamms - 200
Gaedren Lamm - 600
Gobblegut the Alligator - 600
Investigations etc - 200
Total: 2335/3= 778 XP each.

Naglatha Winterkill: Level 2, 5000 XP for Level 3. XP 2000+778= 2778.
Kaz Anders: Level 2, 5000 XP for Level 3. XP 2000+778= 2778.
Vemi Diaquani: Level 2, 5000 XP for Level 3. XP 2000+778= 2778.

Loot Inventory Update
Gear:
3 vials of acid
2 tanglefoot bags
1 thunderstone
Oil of Keen Edge (doubles the crit range of 1 piercing/slashing weapon or 50 arrows for 50mins)
Dose of Silversheen (weapon treated as silver for 1hr)
Light crossbow with 10 bolts (Kaz)
Disguise Kit (Kaz)
Jade inlaid cigar case (Vemi)
Adamantine arrowhead (Naglatha)
Zellara's Harrow Deck

Gold: 
+786gp 3sp per character

Session Account by Judith/Naglatha
Strange Meetings
In which Alliances are made and an Enemy’s downfall is arranged…

It only occurs to me now that it should have worried me more than it did at the time exactly how the Harrow Card inscribed with my name and an address in Midland came to be delivered to my lodging in Old Korvosa. After all, in my line of work only a fool advertises where they live. But there it was: an invitation to a meeting in Lancet Street and an opportunity to indulge in some long overdue vengeance. I’ve heard it said that some people believe revenge is a dish best served cold… As far as I’m concerned, I don’t like to leave my debts outstanding.

I arrived at Lancet Street and found the house; an ordinary house in an ordinary street. There was nothing obviously unusual about it but something at the edge of my awareness was screaming that things were a long, long way from ordinary. It set my nerves on edge but I could still see nothing obviously untoward. Have I mentioned how much I hate getting screwed over by magic? Despite my misgivings I went in; the chance of finding Gaedrenn Lamm was too good to turn down and it occurred to me perhaps too late that whoever had sent that invitation might well have known that. 

There were two others already there: at first glance a fop and a clerk. A second glance told things more clearly: fine clothes, no longer quite fashionable, concealed a powerful build that belied the initial impression of an idle fop while calluses on the hands told of long practice with weapons – someone to watch out for. The other was no less deceptive: I decided he seemed vaguely familiar, a wizard of some sort but nothing like the mad bastards the Acadamae produced. It was the eyes that really gave him away: for all his unassuming demeanour, he had a killer’s eyes. They introduced themselves as Vemior Diaquani and Kaz Anders. They too had received Harrow Cards and been invited here to gain revenge on Gaedrenn Lamm.

Then our host arrived, a Varisian fortune-teller named Zellara. The sense I had that something was off with the whole set up still hadn’t abated but still there was nothing I could pin it down to. I watched somewhat distracted as the fortune-teller laid out the cards and gave us the usual recital: warnings of plots and danger, the chance for wealth, admonitions to take care… Then she told us that Lamm had wronged her too and that she had found his current base. The vagaries of fortune-telling were forgotten as she told us he was at the Old Fishery on the West Dock. Knowing Lamm would abandon the place at the first hint of trouble, we determined to hit him that evening.

The raid went about as close to plan as we could have hoped. Kaz summoned a spirit to his aid – apparently that of his younger sister who had been killed by Lamm years earlier and all I could think was that I was glad the creepy dead kid was on our side. The child ghost proved an effective diversion as the rest of us broke in through the front taking out Lamm’s bully boys one after the other. The children Lamm had kidnapped to work for him escaped into the city. Lamm himself had vanished, but the dead kid – Maria – took an unholy glee in terrifying one of Lamm’s henchmen into telling us where he had fled. 

Lamm, it transpired, had taken refuge in the basement dock of the old Fishery. His pet alligator was between him and us, but unfortunately for him we were more than capable of killing him at range. Vemi took on the alligator while the rest of us focused on Lamm. Between my arrows and a very pissed off dead kid, he didn’t last long. Dumping his corpse in the same river where he had disposed of so many of his victims seemed a truly poetic resolution to our revenge.

With Lamm gone we went through the loot he’d accumulated. A fine jewelled brooch stood out as it was marked with the royal seal, worth more than the rest of his loot put together, but so identifiable that fencing it in Korvosa would just be asking for trouble – the best we could hope for was a finder’s fee. A hat box swarming with flies proved to be the repository for a poorly preserved, severed head, and it was with a peculiar lack of surprise that I recognised it as Zellara. Tucked into the box and stained with blood were her Harrow cards.

Leaving the Fishery it seemed we had stepped into a riot. King Eodred was dead and the streets were filled with people shouting abuse at the Queen. As expected the Watch were out in force, but then we caught a glimpse of patrols of Hellknights as well, and decided discretion was far and away the best option. Vemi’s apartment was close by and as we were burdened by what we had taken from Lamm’s base we holed up there to wait for the riot to burn itself out.

The grey dawn saw the city subdued and the streets quiet. It was easy to slip through to Old Korvosa where I knew I could fence Lamm’s treasures with fewest questions, returning a few hours later with a purse of Gold Sails to divide between us.

PC - Vemior "Vemi" Diaquani - Alex Bard

Vemior "Vemi" Diaquani (formerly of Diaquani Marine Interests).
Bard-2 AC 14 HP 18 ST 18 DE 13 CO 10 IN 14 WI 10 CH 14
spells: 1 - Grease, Cure Light Wounds, Charm Person, 0- Detect Magic, Read Magic, Prestidigitation, Dancing Lights, Ghost Sound.

Character Sheet
A second generation immigrant to Korvosa, Vemior's grandparents and their children were among loyalist refugees fleeing the short-lived Biston uprising of 4658.

Drawing upon decades of experience, the Diaquani family quickly established themselves in West Dock as fishermen of some skill and reputation.

Following the death of 'The Old-Man' (Cruskis) Diaquani in 4665, Vemi's father, Renior Diaquani, officially took over as head of the family. With the help of some well-placed customers and business partners in Korvosan polite society, Renior swiftly shifted the company's emphasis from actual fishing to the overseeing of fishing-boats and fish processing facilities, elevating the Diaquani name to a respectable status in the city.

After completing the early years of his privately tutored education, a teen-age Vemior turned his back on his father's desires for him to study the family business; instead, pursuing a career as an actor and orator.

With a little money earned, a few connections made, and very much imagining himself as some bohemian nobleman, Vemior enlisted at Orsini's Academy to learn swordplay. This double insult to his father caused several serious arguments about politics and family loyalty for the Diaquanis. With both men being too proud, and too stubborn to apologise, the conflict eventually resulted in Vemior's estrangement from his father; neither of them speaking to each other for several years, the only exchange of words being through an intermediary, Zarda, Vemior's younger sister.

Through Zarda, Vemior learns that his father has become secretly addicted to the street-drug 'shiver', and that in rare lucid moments curses him as the cause of his addiction. Angry, and ready for an argument, Vemi goes to confront his father, only to discover him in the midst of a near-fatal overdose that leaves the once-proud patriarch pathetic and wretched.

Wracked with shame, Vemior is driven to investigate Korvosa's drug ridden underworld, swearing vengeance on the "despicable lowlife scum responsible for the devastation of my family". Eventually, through a combination of subtle politicking, bribery, and outright intimidation, he uncovers the name of local crimelord Gaedren Lamm.

Vemior Diaquani's shopping, 2/8/4708 AR
Sells both his whip and longspear back at half price, which added to what was left from starting gold gives him 799gp, 7sp, 9cp to spend.
(Eodred's Walk)
Masterwork Whip - 301gp - Jope Chantsmo at Trapper's Hole 
Masterwork Longspear - 305gp - Fip at Slicing Dicers
(Stalls at the Gold Market)
2 Potions of CLW - 100gp - Sagitar Tiguan at Magical Curiosities 
5 Fine Cigars- 2gp, 5sp - Yerkin Skelrak's Herb & Spice Trade Route
Bowl of Varisian Borsht - 1sp- Esmerelda at Korvosa Best Borsht 
708gp 6sp spent. 91gp 1sp 9cp remaining, in the form of: 
6 crowns, 28 gold sails, 31 silver shields, & 9 pinch.