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.