Nerdaissance

Hey anybody out there,

It just seems to be one of those facts of my blogging life that I am not the best with posting. Well, more appropriately, I don’t post unless something is going on. Fortunately for now, and hopefully consistently in the near future, I will be DMing not one, but two different DnD sessions.

I will be differentiating the two parties by large party (the one that has appeared up until this point) and the small party (the one that is starting with this post tonight.) I will also think of names for the campaigns as a whole.

But enough of that stuff, let’s get on to the first session of this small party.

Human samurai Naga no Minowara arrives at New Lazenfurth on a ceremonious day. The city’s emperor Glanan Milvnuk announces to a large crown that the work on the new city walls will be finished that day. As the crowds dispersed, Naga hears music coming from a cello in the distance. Sounding nice, he walks towards it, but as he gets closer it stops. He sees a street performer being harassed by 4 street thugs. As he doesn’t want to give them their money back, they decide to take it by force. A fight ensues, with the samurai coming in to help. The bard is knocked unconscious, but the thugs are defeated.  The police come and bring everyone back to full health and bring the thugs to prison, where they will work on the next government construction project.

The bard, Archet, thanks the samurai and, as they are both fairly new to the city, decide to tag along with each other. They are also introduced to Emat Erk, a bright emerald-eyed human who just wants to know more about them after witnessing that spectacular fight.  He offers to buy them a drink, so they all head to the Red Dragon Pub & Inn. As they get closer, they see a man thrown out the window of the Inn. A black-haired man yells to the unconscious man about not coming to his pub before he walked off into the shadows. Archet and Naga ask around about what happened (meeting drunkard Eldon), but the man remains a mystery.

After their investigation, the team decided to investigate the slums for any sign of the mysterious man. While walking around the poor houses, they come across Felix Lah, a man with very long hair wearing only pants. They ask him questions about the abandoned warehouses, but he seemed hesitant to answer anything. After continued interrogation, they realize he is homeless and doesn’t want to be turned in to the cops (and subsequently put to work for the government.) He eventually tells them that he has heard people having meetings in the warehouse he sleeps in.

After a long stakeout, the team tries to listen in on a large secret meeting. A group of fifty or so well-dressed citizens secretly enter the warehouse. They can gather is that one of the men is very clearly the leader, and that they have a plan to take back the streets. They decide to try to talk to the leader about their recent struggles with street violence (with Naga posing as Archet’s bodyguard), and how they would like to help out the cause. The leader is a man named Taish Narvo, the wealthiest man in the city (outside of possibly the emperor.) He tells them that he is sorry for their plight, gives them his business card and tells them to come by his mansion if they ever want to play at a gala at his mansion.

With this information, they take leave back to the Red Dragon Inn to meet up with Emat to see if he has garnered any additional information. He tells them that the mysterious man was set off by the one man talking about politics and that Taish Narvo is the head contractor for all of the emperor’s construction projects. They sleep at the Inn.

The next day, they go to the old townhall to look up Taish Narvo. His family was one of the founding families of New Lazenfurth, and everything about him being a contractor jived with what they had heard. They were eventually asked out, as there was going to be a ceremony for the next commencement project, a fort in New Lazenfurth’s harbor.

Archet and Naga decided to see what they can find out by sneaking on one of the ships. They actually find Eldon, who can only find a job willingly working with the prisoners. Not finding much, they get off the boat.

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At that point, we had to end the session. Hopefully, we will be able to play in the next two weeks again.

Until then,

bye