date: 2026-05-26
- BB learns his throne castle, Fort Tiny, is located in
- Session starts on the 8th
- Two days before the Feast of Bathinalia, and the Conclave
- Waking from a nice long rest in Jorg’s Yurt
- While preparing to leave, outside the Yurt is Bongus, Bingus’ Knight card summon
- Sent by the temple of Khorne as they heard another membre of their flock has arrived
- Sent as a messenger to inform about the meeting on the 10th, and to protect BB as he is a high level paladin of Khorne
- Party splits, Luc and Bong go looking for Firearms
- 30 mins later finds the store Thanis’ Firearms
- Relatively small, but extremely specialised store for Firearms
- Luc inquires about the price for a musket
- Muskets are about 150gp
- Bulk orders receive discounts
- Buys 5 muskets for 600gp - 20% discount
- Also buys 3 pistols for 225gp
- BB and J go looking for Kostas in the guild quarter
- Find Kostas’ workshop in the Guild quarter
- Empty store manned by clerk Nikolaus at the front desk
- Kostas only operates on request, and materials must be supplied by the client
- His main client is the Altisian college of witchcraft and Wizardry
- Kostas is a dwarf
- BB provides 1000gp for Kostas to work on his armour
- J provides 500gp for Kostas to combine the Wyvern stinger with his crossbow
- J asks around for knowledge of the two black shapes in the inland sea
- Find a staff member of the Constanbul uni
- Dressed very nicely and dapper
- Informs J that there is nothing in the Mycean Sea if they were actually creatures
- If what we saw was correct, we saw something strange, but likely not an issue as the sea is regularly patrolled
- J finds a store of useful equipment
- Eyes of the Eagle/perception glasses +2
- spends 500gp for one
- J says he has a problem to fix to a shopkeep
- Brings out a few items while closing the shop
- Cloak (hat) of Disguise
- Luc uses truesight to look for strange sights
- Sees a dwarf disguised as a human
- Also sees a familiar face when walking through the Market
- 200ft away he sees Gunther Schnell
- Odd as he was scried in Chamrousse 2 days ago
- Under true sight, his appearance shifts into someone wearing the outfit of the Fixers
- After pulling him into an alley, Luc sees his eyes return from black to normal
- Very alarmed of what is happening, likely some sort of remote viewing or control spell
- Doesn’t know any magic
- J only sees a Chamrousian man with illusion magic
- Last thing Fixer remembers is him and his group of 7 people
- Fixer operate in 7-man groups
- Just finished completing a heist in Abragar, and returned to Constanbul
- While returning to a safehouse, his vision went blank and he passed out
- He thinks that it has been almost a month ago
- Perhaps a geas?
- He tells us where the secret entrance into the safehouse is
- Assumes that he entered the safehouse before being controlled
- There should be an agent in the safehouse who won’t open the door unless speaking the passphrase
- “The fix has been fixed”, specific to only that safehouse
- He thanks Luc for helping free him
- L&J travel to the Fixer safehouse, and investigate the surroundings
- No watchers were seen, and no magic was felt in the building
- Luc fails a lockpick check and breaks the lock
- J makes a distraction while L mage hands a shrunken Bong through the window
- Bong mends the broken lock and unlocks the door
- Inside the safehouse opened the secret door to a slim staircase down
- The hidden basement has something magical around the corner
- Divination magic is sensed inside the room
- Luc enters while invisible to avoid potential scrying
- There is a gold coin with scry actively being cast
- Luc puts the coin into his handy haversack
- L&J go to the temple of bathirus to find info about Aradon
- J finds a priestly man who is in charge of the postal service
- Asks about the aradon situation, as we are merchants heading there
- There is currently some sort of pretty dire situation
- Multiple reports of refugees fleeing cities in aradonian successor states
- New reports suggest maybe an attack of some kind
- Relations betweent ehs uccessor states has taken a sharp fall
- Simply too much confusion in the incoming messages to understand whats happening
- Some kind of conflict is causing this
- Maybe either
- a war has started internally or between successor states
- Children of penance are involved in something going on
- A group claiming to be devot followers of Bathirus
- Actually an anti magic non-state supported military group
- Generally viewed as nothing more than mercenaries doing whatever they what
- Only somewhat aligned with the church
- Bsed in the east of Aradon and Lie
- Potentially the Blight is expanding rapidly
- Maybe civil order has broken down in Guilanyth due to a civil war
- Until the church gets better info they cant provide clearer picture about what is happening
- He mentions there is a meeting in a few days (the Conclave)
- Travelling further to the HMMLMG, L&J ask about aradon again
- They have some more info about the trade relationships
- Draymora and Guilanyth have become much closer than previously
- When the two states split from aradon, the states stayed separarte due to slight cultural differences but stayed aligned due to dislike of the aridonian empire
- Was a detante between Draymora and Guilanyth, and Aradon
- Lealin is cosying up to aradon, and may cause a split between North-South Aradonian sucessors
- Southern Guilanyth and eastern Draymora says conflict is happening
- Increases of ratmen from the blight
- Conflict between groups within the countries
- Merchants are saying that they think its more likely something to do with the Blight rather than internal conflict
- Spurious rumours saying the Blight has expanded, and likely something big is happening
- Go further South to a seedier bar, Ye Old Worm
- The vibe is similar to the Howling Cleric
- The barkeep suggests he can connect us to the Fixers
- Barkeep says he doesn’t know the Fixers and is just a middleman
- He can pass on a request, but doesn’t have anything himself, and he hasn’t heard recently
- Everyone related to the Fixers in Constanbul thinks something out of order is happening
- All Fixers have gone into hiding a month ago
- Barkeep provides a letter directly from Fixers HQ for us to scry on
- J, through the crystal orb, we see a man in Fixer garb except the cloak
- He is sitting in a small office of some sort writing onto scrolls
- The man is sitting very straight and writing very mechanically
- Detect surface thoughts gives very little, not thinking about much
- From thoughts the letter is written to a Fixer group relaying them to return to HQ
- When they think of HQ, with deeper thoughts can detect the name of the HQ
- HQ is based out of Gazianbul, scribe’s emotion is placid
- They have absolutely no reaction to the deeper scrying
- Luc gives J true sight, and J sees that there is no blackness to their eyes
- Either dealing with a group causing the mind control, or an extremely strong individual
- While having a rest at the Coat of Arms, Eleftheria returns
- She says she just got word today about what might be occurring
- Her connections in Callinell sent word by pidgeon, so info from last night
- Reports of Civil strife are extrapolating from the refugees, but the Crown has been tight-lipped
- There has been a large incursion from the Blight
- She also helps start contact with a cannon crafter
- Scrying on Iskander
- Captain Markos Fotilis is the head of the Schmead Mead mercenary band
- He will die for the cause
- Hear news that a heist occurred in the Museum of Constanbul today
- Apparently no one can figure out how the item was stolen
- Potentially a famous painting like Pax Mycea, or the main exhibit, The Holy Sword of Khorne Triumph
- We both overhear say that the one on display is a replica and the real one is hidden
- After entering the Yurt, the air shimmers in from of BB, and a red sword appears
Lore
- Iskander’s Siege cannon is not something we could obtain easily
- We could procure normal cannons from the manufactories