RPM:8 Traps and Bombs

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Starring: 🏹 Ehsan, 🐺 Ildefons, 🐘 One-Tusk, 💃 Milady Rosalie
Guest Starring: Evette Lussier, Orion Pandis, Captain Hernaut, Lemuel, Gritaan and Yvette, Irène Darche, Jean Choffard (knocked out Lion), Captain Stanimir Koslov of the Red Wolf Brigadiers
Challenge: Iosif's Traps and Bombs; Party Politics
Location: Le Roux Mansion, La Magie de Prison (Iosif's office)
Date Played: 21 Mar 2017

Prologue

You walk slowly down the long hallway, keeping alert to the comings and going of a small army of people. To your right construction workers are rushing in fresh lumber in an attempt to finish the last of the house repairs before the festival ends tomorrow and Hugo’s grant runs dry.

You pass by the kitchen, where you smell delicious baked goods and pastries being made for tonight, the biggest party of the week, the conclusion of the Festival of Saint Theodoros.

Papers shift in your hand and you’re reminded that you have to get back to the proceedings. The papers you hold are copies of the previous day’s transcripts, dropped off by a fresh-faced boy who runs errands for the official court scribes. And his official Lion escort.

Security is high near the proceedings, just like you wanted. The guards are vigilant and despite being a brother in arms, they pat you down as you comply and drop your weapons into a bag next to the door.

As soon as the door cracks open you hear the yelling back and forth across the table. It’s like this sometimes. Other times the room is quiet for a half an hour as every contemplates the next topic or their next move. Things are going well and today the group is finalizing recommendations. Tomorrow everything they’ve discussed will be officially presented to the Senate and then published for everyone to have access to.

Investigating Iosif's Secret Door

💃 Milady Rosalie: It has been a long time since I've seen Orion. In fact, its has been so long I'm a little suspicious. None the less, he gave some of the group a mission; Iosif had something to hide and we need to find out what it was.

Ildefons came across a hidden door in his office last time he was there, so we figure this is the best place to check. His instincts weren't wrong, either. Iosif was always a bit off his rocker, and he was a bit overprotective of delicate matters. The amount of traps he used here begs to let us know that what is behind here was pretty precious.

I expected money, goods, maybe even a hidden torture chamber for the Sorcier. I was taken aback that it was forbidden lore. He was never much interesting in holding this himself, so I suspect that he was holding it for someone else. I'm not sure who, but I intend to look into it.

There is a letter I should send off personally. For all I know, it may shed some light on what is happening.

🎲 DM Challenge Details

This was set up as a Challenge.

1. 🐺 Ildefons started off by calming everyone down with the aspect Calm and Chummy.
2. 🏹 Ehsan searched for traps using her survival training from the military. Overcome +3
3. 💃 Milady Rosalie used her resources to find out who the stoneworker was who made the secret door to uncover their pattern to find out how to open the secret door. Overcome +3
4. 🐘 One-Tusk used his reserve of will to prevent a series of pressure plates from setting off a trap. Overcome +4

Content of the Room

Iosif’s real office. Inside there are several tables covered with notes and papers, bookshelves line two walls, filled with manuals and war histories, and in the rear corner is a station for creating bullets and repairing pistols.

• Classified architectural drawings for tubing to be piped into La Magie De Prison to deploy acidic oozes at various locations in the prison in the event of a jailbreak.
• A shoebox filled with obviously coded messages from people using obvious aliases.
• Several bookshelves filled with books on the topics of sorcery and dangerous creatures
• Sand hourglass on a scale set to gunpowder charges. This needs to be reset every 7 days.
• A dagger is stuck through an envelope and into a wooden beam with a locket hanging from it. Inside is the picture of a woman and a little girl.
  • The note is addressed to Violaine Kettleblack-Rose, “I have too much pride to bring you these words while I live, and so, with my last words to you, I say that I am sorry. When you ran off to be a homemaker my world ended. I wanted for you a future that you did not want. My world would’ve been better had I accepted that. I leave everything of mine to you. Love, your father Iosif Kettleblack.”

Celebration of the Festival of Saint Theodoros

This party is the raucous conclusion to the weeklong Festival of Saint Theodoros

💃 Milady Rosalie: I'm glad this festival is coming to an end. There is always a scandal, uproar, or the like on the final day. I have to make myself quiet, though, to not be seen. I am here on a mission, and if I'm forced to run my social circles I'll never get anything done.

Hernaut did not seem surprised when I approached him about Iosif's hideaway. He does want the information we gained, and neither of us are aware of who went in there previously and reset the hourglass. It's an investigation best left for later.

I was on my way to find Orion when I saw Alyn caught my scent. Someone must have tipped him off. I went to hide in the pantry closet to avoid him. He saw me though, and had me cornered. I'd hate to say it, but thankfully there was the passed out body of Jean in the closet. Unfortunately, the firearm was missing. This means someone is loose with a loaded weapon, and it can only mean all hell is ready to break loose.

I hate the Festival of Saint Theodoros.

Locations (Aspects)

Ballroom Loud music and dancing, Elbow to elbow people

Kitchen Drinking games, Stash of food

Garden Lovely night, Winding paths

Wing being remodeled Under construction, Poorly lit

Bell Tower Under construction, Rickety Stairs

Attendance (that the PCs interacted with)

Evette Lussier

Gritaan and Yvette

Jean Choffard (knocked out Lion)

Irène Darche

Captain Stanimir Koslov of the Red Wolf Brigadiers