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Session #30

Mon September 18, 1178 (02:00) - Tue September 19, 1178 (21:00)

- Learned that Dirt and whoever he was with took a steam-powered boat upstream on the Thursday River, assumed they were going to Wenport because of the Kasden footprint <Astrid and Fang's Adventures in Teaktree> - Astrid and Fang went down to Teaktree (~6 hours of travel) to acquire a boat while Carnage waited with Markinat. - They took a level of Exhaustion to do this because they'd already been awake 24 hours, making their entire mission way more difficult. - Carnage tried to really sell Fang to Markinat, it wasn't very successful. - Astrid and Fang did a full Pirates of the Caribbean style boat heist from the Guild of Guides in Teaktree. They saw a boat being prepared for someone, then made a huge show of trying to steal a different nearby boat. When the guards and the guides saw them stealing it, they crossed over to stop them, at which point they swung across to the boat the guides were already preparing and escaped on that one! - Astrid and Fang brought the boat over to where Carnage was waiting. <Meanwhile Carnage at the end of Dirt's trail> - Carnage and Markinat had a nice sleep with no watch - In the morning, they got woken up by a search party of 2 gnomes and 2 wood elf guides! - The gnomes were part of a search party for Dirt, and immediately realized that Carnage was there looking for him too. - The gnomes offered a very good deal to buy information about Dirt, and set up a weird crystal-ball kind of device. - Carnage made them a drawing of how Dirt looks and was paid 7 platinum (70 gold pieces). The drawing was put into the machine, and the clouds inside the crystal ball spun into the shape of a skull, indicating a failed connection due to the target being dead. - The gnomes were extremely shocked by this revelation, but still paid up the money and went back towards Alderwood. - But Carnage tricked them! Carnage actually drew a picture of her friend Maximillian who she hadn't seen for a very long time and wanted to find, and described him instead of Dirt when using the device. This suggested that Maximillian is dead, but did not provide any information about Dirt. <Everyone meets back up!> - The entire party met back up at the riverbank and decided to set off to Wenport - Markinat asked why they intended to go to Wenport specifically, since there was no indication of exactly what town Dirt went to. They decided to instead go across the river to the first town on the other side of it, in the Polish Lowlands, and see if Dirt went there. <They all go to the first town across the river> - They spoke to the gnomes at the town's royal manor, who remembered a person named Dirt passing by a few weeks before and asking for his family to be rescued. However, they didn't offer any help and don't quite remember anything else except that he left town. - Fang was exhausted and sick of the gnomes not caring about anything, and reached out to grab the gnome through the gates to intimidate him (but failed his grapple check) - The gnome reacted by pulling out a metallic object from his pocket, pointing it at Fang, and shooting 3 projectiles out of it in quick succession (it's a gun). The projectiles were rays of frost. - The party was quickly kicked out of town and Fang was quite injured by the attack, but thankfully nobody got arrested. <Fang and Astrid sleep while Carnage changes the boat name> - To avoid their boat being found as stolen later, Carnage renames it from "Stargazer" to "Moon's Rest's Revenge" - She paints the boat white with blue sails - When Fang and Astrid wake up, it's late at night. - The party officially has their own boat!!!! - They travel to the next town upstream, to learn that the manor there was also visited by Dirt a few weeks previously, and gave him the same response. - The entire party sleeps for the night to reset their sleep schedules and prepare for a day of searching <Searching each town along the river> - The party travel upstream, visiting each town along the way to ask if Dirt had visited them - While Carnage handles the asking for Dirt, Fang and Astrid visit the taverns to see people's general sentiments about the gnomes - They learn that most people are unhappy about gnomish rule, though there are still many that are okay with it or don't care particularly - In one town, Fang rallies some people and inspires a few to start unionizing, starting strikes, and making demands - As the sun is close to setting again, the party find a town named Gdansk, where the lord himself comes to speak with them about Dirt. <Finding Dirt!> - The mayor in this town is more friendly than the ones before, and brings the party into the manor to wait while he sees if Dirt knows who they are (to make sure they aren't spies sent by House Rutred) - The mayor finally brings Dirt VII into the room, and introduces himself as Lord Reginald Kasden.