Part 9: The Queen's Game

Session 39: Light Doppels

Afternoon, 12th Low Summer, 498 CE
  • The party were separated between the worlds with doppels impersonating their friends.
    • Sang and Revana were in the physical world, while Ekhart and Remy were still in the Faerealm.
  • The party and the group of doppels began fighting each other.
    • The doppels appeared to have the ability to move them and the person they were impersonating between the two worlds.
  • After a long and frustrating fight, the party managed to subdue the doppels.
    • The party asked about the Light Elemental, who the doppels referred to as Solace, Queen of the Fairies.
    • The queen was located in the Court House of Hallowfel.
    • They warned he party that they would stand out if they were missing their doppelgangers, and they offered to help them out.
    • The doppels introduced themselves;
      • Sang's doppel was named Quarrel.
      • Remy's doppel was named Vote.
      • Revana's doppel was named Hold.
      • Ekhart's doppel was named Salad.
  • The doppels offered to cast illusion magic on them to keep them from being found by Fairwyn.
    • They also told the party that the village of Wickon wasn't too far from here, and they could get new clothes there.
Evening, 12th Low Summer, 498 CE
  • The party arrived at the small village of Wickon, located on the outside of Hallowfel.
    • The village appeared to be built around a large tavern, the Lazing Inn.
    • They entered the Tavern, and met the innkeeper, Clara.
  • After a short exchange, the with Clara, the party learned of the location of the the tailor, Beatrice Lambert.
    • The party decided to get some sleep at the Inn and head out to find clothing in the morning.

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Session 40: Hallowfel, City of Light

Morning, 13th Low Summer, 498 CE
  • After the party has awoken, the party discussed their new identifies.
    • Revana, Lily Taffe
    • Sanglant, Michael Crichton
    • Ekhart, Arthur Mulligan
    • Remy, Sasha Crichton
  • they decided to head to Beatrice Lambert's house to get new clothes tailored for them.
    • Remy decided to head to the church in town to get new priest robes.
  • Traveling a bit out of town, the party met with the tailor and had custom clothing designed for them.
    • After a few hours, with their new clothing in hand, they headed back to the town of Wickon.
Afternoon, 13th Low Summer, 498 CE
  • When the party arrived back in Wickon, they noticed a large group of villagers gathered outside of the church.
  • After asking around, they discovered that Remy had been arrested by guards and taken to Hallowfel.
    • Ekhart asked his doppel, Salad, what was happening.
    • He said that Remy would likely be put on trial, and that if they wanted to meet the Elemental of Light, they would need to play her game.
    • Apparently, Solace the Queen of the Fairies and Elemental of Light, has been running the courts in Hallowfel for a long time.
  • The party also found their wanted posters, with a picture of Remy on it, except the Remy on the poster was her new disguised self.
Evening, 13th Low Summer, 498 CE
  • After a few hours of travel, the party arrived outside the tiered city of Hallowfel.
  • They discussed how they would go about it, but after some blending in, they entered the city without much fuss.
  • After looking around the city for a while, they took one of the mechanical lifts to the Uppercity.
  • Once in the Uppercity, they split up.
    • Sanglant headed to a tavern, the King's Lift Tavern, to find them rooms and get some information on the state of the city.
    • Revana and Ekhart left for the Courthouse, to see if they could find Remy and see what they can find out about the trial.
  • In the Courthouse, Revana and Ekhart met a new lawyer named Paige Fouler who had been assigned to defend Remy.
    • Their immediate assessment of Paige was that she was a grossly inept lawyer, with this being her first case.
    • She is obviously being set up to fail in defending Paige.
    • Paige explained that the trial is going to be an Open Trial, which means that the decision of guilt will come down to a jury.
    • She explained that the jury is made up of members of noble families and is generally considered to be less fair than when the judges run the trials themselves.
  • Back in the Tavern, Sanglant discovered that everyone in the city finds the upcoming trial very strange.
    • Citizens seem to think this is a stunt being pushed onto the courts by the church.
    • And that Paige is doomed to fail.
  • Revana, Ekhart, and Paige returned to the King's Lift tavern and reunited with Sanglant.
    • There, Paige explained in more detail who the jurors were.
    • If they wanted an innocent verdict, convincing the jurors to find Remy not guity would be more effective than gathering evidence.

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Session 41: The Giovanni Trading Company

Evening, 13th Low Summer, 498 CE
  • The party, at the King's Lift Inn in Hallowfel, talked with Paige about the up coming trial.
  • Page explained that, of the 5 jurors, 2 were from the majors houses and 3 were chosen randomly from the minor houses.
  • The major houses were;
    • the Baerd family,
    • and the Almamadi family.
  • The minor houses chosen were;
    • the Giovanni family,
    • the von Trappe family,
    • and the Blackwater family.
  • Paige only knew, for sure, two of the jurors and would find the others by the next day.
  • The party decided to visit the Riverdock and ask around to get more information on Eugenia.
  • At the riverdock, the party met a few employees of the Giovanni Trading Company.
    • They learned that the company was becoming quite wealthy from the war.
    • The GTC has been smuggling contraband goods and selling them to people.
    • They also learned of Balor, the foreman of the Riverdock and one of Eugenia's high ranking employees.
  • The party found Balor and began questioning him about Eugenia.
    • He implied that he would be able to get the party an audience with Eugenia, but he wanted something in return.
    • It turned out, he wanted his brother busted out of the dungeon. The party refused.
  • Heading to the GTC headquarters, they party decided to visit Eugenia without an appointment.
    • They arrived at the headquarters and were stopped by the guard.
    • Looking around, they decided to break in through one of the balconies in the back.
    • They snuck around the office until they found Eugenia's office, they knocked and entered.
  • Eugenia did not appear to be intimidated or concerned about the party breaking in.
    • They asked about the upcoming trial, and she implied that she hadn't decided how she was voting yet.
    • They asked if there was anything they could do to convince her to vote 'Not Guilty' and she agreed.
    • She asked them to go to one of her warehouses and prevent a burglary.
      • Apparently, thieves have been stealing her wares and killing her guards.
    • The party agreed and left for her warehouse.
Night, 13th Low Summer, 498 CE
  • The party arrived at the warehouse Eugenia told them was likely to get raided tonight.
    • They entered and setup for an ambush.
    • They began to hear noises of a group of people approaching.

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Session 42: Dockerly Keep

Night, 13th Low Summer, 498 CE
  • The party began combat with the thieves attempting to rob the Giovanni Trading Company warehouse.
  • After a quick and decisive battle, the group managed to kill all the robbers.
    • They looted their bodies, finding a belt of potions and a pistol.
    • They also found a strange broach on one of them, which they also took.
    • While looting the bodies, Sanglant also heard a strange laughter in the distance.
  • The party returned to the GTC headquarters to meet back up with Eugenia.
    • In her office, however, there was a man asking if they had completed their mission.
    • They said they had, and the man, who revealed himself to be a captain of the guard, told the party they were under arrest.
    • Fleeing out the window, the party ran from the building.
  • Before heading back to the King's Lift Inn, the party decided that they were going to see if they could find a way into the prison where Remy was being held.
    • They headed to outside Dockerly Keep, the castle of Hallowfel.
    • Using his Wraps of the Master, Sanglant turned the party into wind.
    • They took to the sky to see if they could break into the castle.
  • Looking around, the party found an air vent in the side of the mountain that appeared to lead into the castle.
    • Sneaking through the castle while still under the effects of the Wind Walk spell, the party eventually found the dungeon where Remy was being held.
  • They reunited, and asked if she was okay.
    • She said she was, and that she thought it would be best to stay for the trial, so that they can get close to the Light Elemental.
    • Going into his Tiny Traveling Laboratory, Ekhart found Remy a metal holy symbol she could use to cast magic if she needed it.
    • The party bid their farewell, and left through the window.
Afternoon, 14th Low Summer, 498 CE
  • Having stayed up so late the night before, the party did not wake up until the afternoon of the next day.
  • They met Paige Fouler at the Inn, where she told them about who the other juror's were.
    • Dallon Baerd, the Duke Renys' loyal cousin. He is usually the juror for the Baerd family.
    • Fara Almamadi, Niece of the head of the family. Known to be very intelligent.
    • Eugenia Giovanni, Head of the family, known a ruthless enrepreneur. Likely bribed her way onto the jury.
    • Lukas von Trappe, head of the family that owns the majority of the mines in the Lowercity.
    • Leynard Blackwater, that shitty knight the party met back in the Loridael.

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Session 43: The Rogue Doppel

Afternoon, 14th Low Summer, 498 CE
  • Ekhart, Revana, and Sanglant made their way to the Lowercity of Hallowfel, looking for Lukas von Trappe.
  • They followed allong the mountain wall south, until they reached the Mining District.
    • They entered an office and talked with an employee of the mine.
    • He mentioned that Lukas was inside one of the mines, and directed them towards it.
    • He also mentioned that the mines have been dangerous lately, as some people have been going missing.
    • When prodded further about it, he told them to talk to Lukas about it.
  • Traveling into the mine, they met Lukas von Trappe, head of the von Trappe family.
    • After a brief discussion, he told the party he would vote for whoever they wanted in the trial if they helped him.
    • His nephew Edward had gone crazy and was killing people inside the mine.
    • Lukas asked for the party to put a stop to it, hopefully saving Edward's life.
  • After donning some protective helmets, the party when deeper into the mine.
    • Inside they found Edward muttering to himself in a large mine.
    • He had drawn a giant mural of an angel on the wall.
  • Sanglant traveled to the Faerealm to see if something had happened to his doppel.
    • Inside the faerealm, he descovered that Edward didn't seem to have a doppel.
  • A voice asked them their names, and when the party lied to it, Edward attacked them.
    • During the fight, Revana used Greater Restoration on Edward, snapping him out of his mind control.
    • A giant angel-like being revealed herself.
    • This was Edward's doppel, Tongue.
  • The party fought and destroyed the doppel.

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Session 44: The Debutante's Ball

Afternoon, 14th Low Summer, 498 CE
  • Ekhart, Sanglant, and Revana returned to Lukas von Trappe with his nephew, Edward.
  • He was thankful and told the party that he would vote for how they wanted in the trial.
    • He also gifted the party his invite to Lady Lilania Almamadi's debutante ball.
  • Having some time before the party, everyone spent some time in the city.
    • Ekhart and Revana explored the courthouse records.
    • Sanglant walked around the canal district and talked with Ezu a bit about what her first time in the city was like.
Evening, 14th Low Summer, 498 CE
  • As the evening approached, the party headed out to the Almamadi Estate.
  • While at the party, they talked to several party goer, including Leynard Blackwater and Fara Alamamadi.
    • Through successful arguments, they were able to convince both of them to vote in favour of Remy at the trial tomorrow.

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Session 45: The Trial of Remy Dane

Morning, 15th Low Summer, 498 CE
  • In the morning, Revana, Sanglant, and Ekhart left to attend the Trial of Remy Dane.
    • Revana left early to get a spot in the balconies to get a better view during the trial.
    • Sanglant and Ekhart sat in the front, behind Paige Fouler.
  • As the trial started, the party looked around and saw many familiar or important faces.
  • With all the important people around the room, Ekhart cast Trueseeing to look for the Light Elemental.
    • While looking around, Ekhart noticed that no one in the room was a Doppel, they all appeared human.
    • The only exception being Daedrin Falstani, who Ekhart immediately recognized as the demon that possessed Cardinal Redrose at the The Crimson Temple.
  • Just as the trial started, the party, including Remy, found themselves being transported to the Faerealm.
  • Solace and the party began to talk about the Queen's Game.
    • She has been using Hallowfel as her own person playground for hundreds of years, judging humans for their actions.
    • Solace had been judging them the entire time they had been in Hallowfel.
    • She told the party that they had been found wanting, and if they want to prove themselves, would have to present their truth.
    • They began to fight.

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Session 46: Lenna's Journey

Afternoon, 15th Low Summer, 498 CE
  • Ekhart, Revana, Sanglant, and Remy had a harrowing fight with Solace, the Light Elemental.
    • During the battle, Ekhart managed to capture Solace's Illusory Dragon spell in his Umberwood Staff.
  • After a difficult fight, Solace claimed that their truth was stronger than hers and she yielded.
    • Solace named Ekhart his champion, and gave the party some boons.
  • Now in the faerealm, Ezu and Solace told the party the truth about Lenna's journeys.
  • With the knowledge that Cidmuir's spell to fix the Void in the Faerealm had completed, the party decided to travel to Tol'Enay.
  • Using the Teleportation Circle inside their Tiny Traveling Laboratory, the party teleported to Tol'Enay.
Evening, 15th Low Summer, 498 CE
  • Ekhart, Revana, Sanglant, and Remy arrived in Tol'Enay.
  • They reunited with Cidmuir, where he told the party about the spell to close the void.

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