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Friday 31st October

First thing we go to see Terseon Skellerang.

We are greated at the desk by Zyn Kraghammer

Greats us well
Ask to see Terseon Skellerang but apparently he is unavailable
We tell him about the events at the Lucky Monkey

Shock and horror

Tell him about evil-Cass

His eyes narrow at the description
We ask about our arrival at Cauldron when Skylar Krewis was brought in to look at Cass
Eventually he sighs and tells us about Triel Eldurast:

Former town guard
Three years ago she killed 3 fellow guards while she was on duty
She was arrested quickly and the incident was hushed up
She managed to escape
Assumed she had died in the Jungle from her numerous wounds

When we asked to speak to Skylar about Triel, Zyn shook his head

Asked if he could tell the "lad" she was still alive
Skylar was romantically involved with Triel before she went rogue
We has in the initial arresting party

We agreed to let Zyn handle this rather sensitive matter

We ask about the Last Laugh and if he has any idea where they might hang out

Laughs and said if he knew that then they would be hanging out in the cells
He does know they are minting gold pound coins at the moment

No one knows why

We ask about the Alley Bashers

Zyn considers them violent thugs without the finese or refinement of the Last Laugh

We leave on good terms and return to the Drunken Morkoth

Back at the Drunken Morkoth

We talk to Mum, Ana Lannister, about the Demonskar Ball
She smiles with the memories of a happier time
She is highly impressed that we have been invited and suddenly becomes very organised, the teacher skills come flooding back and she seems years younger
Mum explains the meaning behind the invitations:

Mountain - costume of a founder
Crater - costume of a demon

So we all have to go as demons then
Cass sarcatically comments she bets the Stormblades are going in costumes of the founders

She gasps when Kellen slightly confused shows his card has a crater with horns rising up out of it

Crater with horns - costume of Nabthatoran the demon that was repelled by Surabar Spellmason
There is only ever one of these invitations
Kellen groans slightly at the news

The Demonskar Ball itself is made up of:

5 Course banquet of exotic dishes
Music and a music competiotn called the "Song of Heaven"
Complex dances unique to the ball
There is also a high degree of formality to be observed
During the night there are awards and games

Ana recommends that we contact the following people as soon as possible:

Sarlene's Silk & Finary

Costumes

Balkween Stables

Hiring a coach

Professor Palindor

Music teacher at the Blue Crater Academy
Also judges the Song Of Heaven

Madame Pomperous

Dance and etiquette lessons at the Blue Crater Academy

We thank our Mum and the party sets out we first visit

Balkween Stables

We are greated by Geoffery Blakween

We is dubious about our need of a coach for the Demonskar Ball
When we show our invitations he suddenly becomes a lot more helpful

As we are the first to arrive to book a coach for the evening we have his entire range to choose from which include:

1x Royal Coach

Seats 4
General description

?x Ruby Coach

Seats ?
General description

?x Standard Coach

Seats ?
General description

We negotaite a coach to be built and made ready for us

We will pay 1,500 in total for the build
It is guaranteed that the coach will be ready in time
Geoffery will need to get extra timber and help
Geoffery is excited by the chance to build such a custom coach

Capable of seating ten people in comfort
Six wheels
Stretched coach

We will always have access to the coach
Pay 1,000 pounds in advance

We leave to excited assurances that the coach will be ready in advance of the ball
We head over to Sarlene's Silk & Finary

Sarlene's Silk & Finary

A very prim woman sneers as we enter
We explain we need costumes for the Demonskar Ball - look of distaste
Invitations create a smile, that usually accompanies the collection of gold
There are various grades of costumes the best ones cost 1,000 to buy or 100 to rent
We decide to rent the costumes
Kellen needs to rent the Nabthatoran costume at 200 pounds
We also rent costumes for the guests we have yet to gain
Except Anari who says she doesn't need to rent one for her guest
Sarlene seems very pleased by our visit despite her inital misgivings
With the costumes rented and reserved we leave to go to the Blue Crater Academy

Blue Crater Academy

Church Of Pelor

Anari gets a date with a cleric

Temple Of Lordly Might

Too busy playing sports
Not worried about a spot of rain

Cathedral Of Wee Jas

Ike not helpful, quite rude and disdainful sometimes merely aloof

Church Of St Cuthbert

Jenya tells us:

Fario and Fellian belong to the Striders Of Fharlanghn
Tyro Amberhelm is a merchant from Sasserine
Asking about the Last Laugh in the Tipped Tankard ould get you into a lot of trouble

Tipped Tankard

Bran leaves a poem and intertwined dark red and white roses for the Last Laugh agent

Drunken Morkoth

Owyn looses money in a game
Fario takes Owyn's money and send him upstairs to Shensen
Shensen in the room with Fellian and Tyro

Fingercuffs/Shensen leaves the room and accepts the date from Owyn

Note is waiting for Owyn at the bar:

 I know you are looking for the wands, I can help you for a price.
 If you are interested bring £500 to the Lakside Pavillion tonight.
 Bring back up and you will leave with nothing.

Tipped Tankard

Bran receives a note from Jil

 Bran,
 Thank you for the beautiful poetry.
 I will happily attend the Demonskar Ball with you at the lavish Coy Nixie.
 You can pick me up from the Lakeside Pavillion on the evening of the Ball.
 Jil

Pleased and slightly concerned about it
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Costumes
Dance lessons

Drinking competition

Cora goes through to semi-final beating Artis Shenwick

Lakeside Pavillion

Owyn goes and meets a man at the lakeside pavillion at midnight

Group very concerned about him going alone

Owyn returns with tall tales about his hiding in the shadows and meeting the person leaving mysterious notes

Informant called Artis Shenwick

Seemed to have recovered completely from the drinking competition with Cora
Information provided:

Triel
Ebon Triad
Their location in Cauldron marked on a map

North-east sector of Cauldron there is a Lava tube which we should investigate

Costs 500gp but it has opened up a potential source for "unusual" goods and information
Comments from the group we should have got a discounted prices as we knew two-thirds of the information

Cass and Kellen currently considering their options with regard their escorts to the Ball.

Party accounts.

Bran Journal Session16