[Pirate Attacks 723] Results, Fall Out & Next Steps!

[Balthazar Black]

Link to thread: Stone and Blood
PCs involved: Balthazar Black
NPCs involved? Fuego and Crow, but this time also Robin
Location / Location Relevant To: Scalvoris Mountains
Relief / Investigation / Other: Investigation
Brief summary of what you plan to do in this thread: Balthazar and Robin are taking a trip to the mountains to try and locate the spot where the heart symbol was on the map as well as to try and find any evidence of the pirate movement through the Scalvoris mountain. As usual, they are trying to see what they can find. This like the last entry, is just the set up post since I'm not sure what might be findable there.

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Message from: Peg

Noted. Ok so. 1. The mountains are dangerous terrain. Trecherous etc. Please make sure to take that into account. 2. There are signs of life - and you'll see suggestions of the tribes there - small details etc (make them up, that's fine). But at first you see none. 3. Then, you come across the scene of a battle. Two groups of maybe 10 fought here and the timeline / timeframe is about right. 4. The scene of the battle is somewhere where there are a lot of "trinkets" and small offerings left hanging on trees in front of a large, flat rock. It's like the rock is a sort of altar. The rock itself has a heart-shaped outline apparently melted into it. The place has been - much like Watch - ransacked but here it's more obvious. They were pulling the offerings / trinkets down, looking at them, chucking them away when they were not the "right" thing. Definitely looking for something. 5. But you see no people. The tribes, if they're there, do no make themselves known to you.

[Darius Baer]

Link to thread: The Regifting
PCs involved: Darius Baer.
NPCs involved? Saoire.
Location / Location Relevant To: Hopetoun.
Relief / Investigation / Other: Other...?
Brief summary of what you plan to do in this thread: Darius requests Saoire for permission to step away from the barony. Who knows what twist(s) Pegasus has in store for this one!

!	Message from: Peg
	I'll be running this so yep. Noted!

[Darius Baer]

Link to thread: Good Pirate, Bad Pirate
PCs involved: Darius Baer.
NPCs involved? Liathen the Guardian.
Location / Location Relevant To: Hopetoun.
Relief / Investigation / Other: Fallout.
Brief summary of what you plan to do in this thread: Darius and Liathen interrogate four pirates who the latter had captured from the Haunted's ship. Questions will revolve around the nature of the attack, who was involved, what they wrtr trying to achieve, etc. What information would they discover from four non-officer pirates? Hopefully a byproduct of this will be Liathen earning more trust with the settlers.

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Message from: Peg

Ok so!!!!!! 1. They're looking for something. The Heart. They believe it's an item of great power which can restore the Pirate Lords to their former glory. 2. But the don't know what "The Heart" is or what it looks like. 3. They know it's something religious / to do with an Immortal -so any and every holy or vaguely holy site is targeted. If you want to assume that this is sent to Kura - please do let the player know and make sure that there's a letter . However, since we're so close to the 1st August, it doesn't need to be before then.

[Oram Mednix]

Link to thread: Yurt too close
PCs involved: Oram Mednix
Location: Havardr
Brief summary of what you did. Oram and a Ranger NPC (Elise Shmickel) found a group of refugees that survived the pirate attack on Havardr. There were about 25. This seems to be the bulk of Havardeens who survived.
These are in need mainly of tools, materials for rebuilding shelters, and skills, since the decimation has destroyed a significant cross section of necessary skills.
Oram is helping them hunt and forage. He is personally staying from the 20th to the 24th of Ymiden, as is Elise to help them rebuild a viable base camp. Oram is going to request NPCs to come to the camp to supply and re-teach skills the Havardeens lost as a result of the carnage, with a view to making them more self-sustaining.

He has also ordered tools, canvas, and linen for the survivors (mainly for tentage, clothes, and miscellaneous linen stuff) from Scalvtown, costing around 20 WP. He has given them an old flatbow he owns as well as the crystal turtles Saoire gifted him during the Forged Heroes feast, since these act as shelters.

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Message from: Peg

Noted. This will significantly help Oram and the Ranger's reputation and it will save those souls, in all probability. In building the base camp and in seeing what they do, Oram will certainly come to realise that, if Havardr "falls" / ceases to be - it will have a major impact on Scalv. The fishing and whaling industry is a big part of that, of course. Also, the spirit of the people concerned is immense. During the time, Oram will come across some very unusual-looking seaweeds. He discovers that there are strange Scalv-weeds in the way there are Scalv-sands. Feel free to note, ignore or dev this!

[Woe]

Link to thread: Broken Crystal
PCs involved: Woe
Location: Egilrun
Brief summary of what you did: Woe questioned the Guild Master of the Glassblower's Union about her mark being present on a threatening letter addressed to Giedre Crystale. He learns about the people who hired her to commission the making of the signets that left the wax seal. Also the glass daggers that were left at Woe's office. He leaves the Guild Hall to find Egil has sought him out. He informs Woe that Giedre left of her own power, and with one of the 'evil daggers'.

Woe encounters a crowd of people gathered around, and finds that Giedre has been murdered, pinned with the dagger to the Speaker's Podium in the market square. Saw Dustin points a fat finger at Woe, and accuses him of murdering Giedre, and claims to have it on authority from one of Woe's Prior asosciates (probably Fleaface) that Woe is a former and current assassin, and probably also guilty of Faith's Murder.

How many believe him about either of those facts, up to you, but enough Watchers Union thugs believed or were bought over by him to try and apprehend Woe. Some Elements tried to assist them, but Woe fended them off with his whip and flew away, not before getting some shards of glassy metal in his heel/ankle from Saw Dustin's mancatcher polearm.

He's flying off to the West probably seeking shelter in the Scaltoth, and going to lick his wounds there, while laying low.

!	Message from: Peg
	Woe is quickly realised as innocent and any lingering doubt is dealt with in the Heart. He's fined 3WP for assaulting the Elements, though (Woe to deduct, please)

[Darius Baer]

Link to thread: Boom Or Bust
PCs involved: Darius Baer.
NPCs involved? Hopetoun's emergency council, and Crispin the watchman. (These are just flavour NPCs at this point.)
Location / Location Relevant To: Hopetoun.
Relief / Investigation / Other: Relief...?
Brief summary of what you plan to do in this thread: Darius convinces the councillors that Hopetoun requires a means to defend themselves from another seaborne attack. This takes the form of building a ballista on top of the Beacon, plus two other ballistae on other (smaller) watchtowers that will line either side of the harbour. Between the two towers, there will also be a boom to slow or stop unwanted ships that are trying to pass through.

!	Message from: Peg
	Noted! This will significantly increase Darius' reputation outside of Hopetoun - inside Hopetoun they think he's just spiffy anyhow!

[Vega]

Link to thread: Puttin' Down Roots.
PCs involved:Vega
Location: Sweetsong
Brief summary of what you did: The Pirate King is settling in Sweetsong. It's just started.

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Message from: Pig Boy

The Pirate King is willing to acknowledge that he isn't an authority within the community of Sweetsong, and that such a position must be earned through works and involvement in the place. 25 of his 45 crew members join up with the Settlement. The other 20 move inland, settling various parts of Scalvoris. They do keep in touch with the Pirate King, allowing Sweetsong points of contact across the island, should they need intelligence or such.

[Vega]

Link to thread: Post Pirate Pickle
PCs involved:Vega and Kura
Location: Almund
Brief summary of what you did: Vega tells Kura what she's found out about the pirates.

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Message from: Pig Boy

Okay, Kura has the information on pirate attacks from Vega, and they discuss reorganization of the Elements into functioning teams rather than divisions. Feel free to ping this up on review requests if you're done, otherwise the intelligence that Kura has will have to be acted upon by someone before it can be useful. Also the element reorganization isn't taken for granted, something will have to be initiated, even if it's a bare mention of having done so in this or another thread.

[Vega]

Link to thread: Ferret Hunting Season
PCs involved: Vega
Location: Sweetsong
Brief summary of what you did: Vega is getting stuff prepared for helping out - and making metal!

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Message from: Pig Boy

Very good. Please repost when you've finished up and if you get to replicating those metals. For now there should be no difficulty in familiarizing yourself with the metal. When you start to familiarize yourself with the metals, strange memories begin to occur to you as you enter that place. Many of the memories are your own, of times when you've had experiences with metals. Stepping on a nail, accidentally knicking yourself as you learn to perform maintenance on your first blade. That sort of thing. But there are also memories that don't belong to Vega there. Things that are obviously of the fiery city on the other continent. Mostly pedestrian slaving away at a forge in SIrothelle. Then bringing metal up to the smithys of Faldrun's Temple-Palace. Of forging a sheath to contain an important dagger. Then the next memory was of a small basalt dagger in her hand, driving through Daia's back was the final memory that broke Vega out of her reverie.

[Vega]

Link to thread: Post Pirate Party
PCs involved: Vega, Jasper, Kisaik, Winston
Location: Sweetsong
Brief summary of what you did: Questioning the Pirate King etc.

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	Modnoted!