Trials and Tribulations

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Session Date	Aug 8 2024
Seam Dates	May 28 5941 - Jun 16 5941

Returning Matthew

Caely talked with Matthew, having forgotten that he was on this ship. After reassuring themselves that their tracks were most likely covered, Caely turned the boat around and headed back to Velour.

On deck, Caely tells Biri and Victory they have to turn around to drop off someone who had been helping her in the hold.

Matthew departs the ship, looking back for any kind of encouragement or advice from Caely. After getting a friendly salute, he turns and heads back towards town.

Eventually they depart from Velour again at around midnight.

Travelling to the Port Zeeroads

Biri trains Stealth, doing katas on deck while trying to make avoid making noise with her armour. She also tries opening and closing some of the doors on the ship as quietly as possible. (148/200).

Victory trains her disguise kit. She tries painting herself to try and match the walls of the ship in the hold and blending in. After three days of training she finally achieves proficiency with disguise kits.

After that Victory starts playing with locks on the doors Biri has been opening and closing, locking them and unlocking them with her thieves tools. (83/100).

Caely tries to move items around her body while around people, steering the ship and even when eating; all while trying to avoid detection by others. She trains her Sleight of Hand up to (54/200).

The Port Zeeroads

The party arrived at the Port Z roads on the 5th June 5941 around lunch-time.

Caely refuels the ship (70G for 35 cubic feet of gas).

Francois realised he was stolen from. He made a note of what Victory’s disguise, Caely’s face, looks like.

Travelling to Hopsack

Caely continues training Sleight of Hand on the journey. (85/200).

Biri continues to train Stealth. (184/200).

Victory finishes training lock picking, getting proficiency after four days of training. (100/100).

Arrival in Hopsack

Arriving on the 13th June 5941 in the morning.

Biri finds these co-ordinates in a copy of Marcus Brandt’s diary in Hopsack:

Victory to Lester:

“Only you can get yourself out of this, because clearly the only person you care about is you”

Victory gives the Abbot the names of the Triumvirate as potential allies. Caely, Biri and Victory also agree to ally with them. To protect the Seam.

The plan is to keep Lester alive in the library.
Forge a letter documenting some fake gem locations - shorthand notes that aren’t very clear, maybe like scraps he left behind.
They’ll make the co-ordinates near a place where Biri wants to go already so that they can get an excuse to leave in that direction. Maybe just make it near the first X/Y/Z roads port they want to go to.
Use disguise self at the Zeeroad port on the way back from the library to make sure there are sightings of him leaving the library.
Then once Lester’s boat has left the Zeeroad station, they’ll take it into the black, repaint it, and add it to Caely’s fleet.

Victory goes into Lesters cell as him. She say she’s the Lester that passed the test. That was able to celebrate the achievements of others without making everything about him. On a Nat 20, he manages to take a mote of what she said as the truth. He sits down on the cot, disassociating and starts to think about what she said (as Lester).

For the rest of the day:

Caely forges fake leads in the library. Bits of Lester’s notes scrawled into margins of other books. Inferences from the books that aren’t actually real. But not strictly the information planning to be brought by the Mishaps to the Hallowdawn. “Is this weird bit of local history evidence of X gem?”. DC 20 Deception from Forgery Kit by Caely.

Next session the party will leave from Hopsack on the morning of the 17th June, the day after all the forging.

End date:

POST CREDITS: Caely starts asking questions about Biri’s religion and morality. Biri makes herself available, talking about her Spirit Trial and offering an ear to the others. Caely hasn’t said anything about hers… yet.