The Empire Club/Session 8

The Gang Works on the Gallery Window
The party confronts aesthetics: what to do about the gaps between window panes?
*J. P. Farandole, EI has the brilliant idea to hire an aetherecist from the Aeldrum Academies to help out with making the gold glue work and look nice
**Prof. Ilmir Valeth, the guy he finds, is a Viscount and old (at least 220 years old)
**We agree to go with an exploratory study and go from there once reasonable performance has been demonstrated
*Heidegger asks Frank the Basalt Man if he could control the growth of the basalt.  Frank invites him over to his place to see what he's got going on.  Frank's walls are unadorned and the basalt is exposed (unlike what is conventional for Aeldrum)
**Frank is attempting to grow mini-spires by aetherically stimulating them
**If you grow them too quickly – they sprout and Frank gets headaches
*Amani leads us down a tangent about the Dar'Amsadi Elixir of Life that keeps people looking young until they die of natural causes
**Cassie is impressed by the work of the Elixir of Life and Dasmadi plastic surgeons
**Amani helps to connect Cassie to said plastic surgeons; Cassie should talk to some plastic surgeons to help with those burns
*Heidegger works to track down adamantium for the arch in case it is possible.  Otherwise, steel-quicksilver alloy cladding on steel
*Mind singer comes with an agent - Zara - and we learn that they go by Quintus
**Quintus appears to be an addict, will require a "handler" at all times
**Due to multiple Nat 1s -- Amani and Gauthier both really trust and like Zara (who appears to be a Dalthadi Initiate, but originally from the Thalranese Marches)
**50,000 ducats/mo + 10,000 ducat/mo expense account + 150,000 renewal bonus after 1 year
*Buda tails Zara -- she is definitely importing "performers" from Fialta space, setting them up in lovely accommodations and taking them to "stimulating dinners" with very wealthy companions (Buda can add +2 to a blackmail or recruitment check involving wealthy Aeldmen)
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