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
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

Player recaps here

🎲 DM Challenge Details

This was set up as a Challenge.

🐺 Ildefons started off by calming everyone down with the aspect Calm and Chummy.
🏹 Ehsan searched for traps using her survival training from the military. Overcome +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
🐘 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