Citadel's Shadow II, Session 50

Citadel's Shadow II, Session 50 was a session of the Citadel's Shadow II campaign, played on 20 October 2019 (UTC) (19 October 2019 for some participants).
== Personnel ==
===Game Master===
*GM: played by Michael Lee Viviano
===Player Characters===
*Fern the Siegemaster: inventive fox-person student played by Rail Runner
*Minigallith Atakares: half-elf mage played by Alden Loveshade
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=== Prominent Non-Player Characters ===
*Brice "Red" Westhowl: a priest of Kriegdor
*Eri Snow: entertainer for Madame Maude Lynn's Theater of Thrills
*Kyrie Kelevan: priestess of Damira
== Events ==
=== 1742 ===
Heris 3 (Landsday): At lunch, Fern the Siegemaster and Chloris Jennigan discussed a project for a competition to be held at Festival of Damira.  They were doing the project to represent St. Bassard's School and Home for Disadvantaged Youth.  Chloris showed Fern two drawings she had made, one of a swan-like boat, and the other of kind of horse body with a large wheel between the legs. Both had a small smoke stack in back.
They found their project partner Snowy Zeddick who hadn't been seen much in recent days. He expressed how he was bothered that Fern "didn't find that Brunt guy" (Professor Terri "Smart" Brunt whom Fern had planned to but had not met in Fulmando, Millisymph).  Chloris said it wasn't Fern's fault.  Fern showed a blueprint for a steam-powered engine she had conceived; Snowy liked it, but said they only had about 500 dragons allowed for the project.
Chloris realized lunch time was over, and the students hurried to their classes.  Fern was told by Prof. Clarence Smartcat to go to the administrative office immediately; Fern did so.
Dean Dreward Mostwick welcomed Fern.  Fern met Otto Mordh'Dhagai whom Juan de Fulmando had warned Fern and others about. Otto said, "I am interested to see what you come up with. Therefore, I've released 100 gold crowns ($2000) to the school to help get your project done."  Otto said he was more interested in ingenuity than victory, and if he was impressed, would offer Fern a position with the Mordh'Dhagai clan.  Otto furthermore talked about the Empire of Trynser needed to develop "better things than our Empire's enemies."  If Fern was accepted, she would begin work at the end of the semester, starting in summer.  Fern, however, said she'd like to complete her final year, and Otto said they might be able to make arrangements.  He left his card, and told Fern she could come over whenever she wished.  He lived in Golden Quarter Ward, and said he would reimburse her travel expenses.
When Fern told Chloris, said she her mother's manager, Sir Lyus Sleyden, didn't like Otto.  (Citadel's Shadow II adventure 2019 10 19)
Heris 5 (Middleday): Minigallith Atakares was working at the Commerce Crossing building when Chad Zhing, who was related to her employer Ona Zhing, said she had a visitor.  She told it was Kyrie Kelevan and a "fox'girl" whom Mini figured was Fern the Siegemaster aka El zorra encapuchada.  She said they had saved her life.  Ona Zhing said they were done for the day, and she could go.
Minigallith hugged and kissed Kyrie and the cheek and asked, "That's how you do it, right?"  Kyrie said, "Well, yeah, if we were in Millisymph," and introduced fox-girl Eri Snow whom Mini recognized as a talented performer at Madame Maude Lynn's Theater of Thrills.  Mini said she performed there sometimes on amateur night.  Kyrie said Juan de Fulmando, who with Fern had assisted Kyrie Kelevan in gaining items to help Mini recover from a coma, was on a voyage.  Eri suggested they go meet Fern, but then they saw her nearby, coming out of the office of Sir Lyus Sleyden which was in the same building.
Minigallith said, "I know you! You're Donghai Fern, 'El zorra encapuchada!' You helped save my life!"  She then hugged Fern, kissed her on the cheek, looked at her, and said, "You are so cute, you know that?"  Fern said, "Well. I didn't think about it much before, but I suppose."
When asked, Fern told the others that she met with Sir Lyus, but he told her he was very busy with things and would come to the workshop to explain things further.  Mini said he had known Sir Lyus since she was a little girl, and Fern could trust his advice.
Kyrie suggested they go to dinner; with a split vote (Eri and Fern favoring the nearby Razda's Lharasian Eats with its famous land lobster legs (which Kyrie believed were giant spider legs) and Kyrie and Mini favoring the Paper Grotto bookstore cafe downstairs, Mini flipped a coin.  She said, "Heads is the bookstore for head knowledge, and tails is Razda's for land lobster tails."  It was heads.
At the bookstore cafe, Fern got a cat from off of their table and put it on her knees; the cat happily stayed to be petted.  Mini ordered the sixth thing on the menu, which happened to be chicken fajitas.  When asked, Fern starting telling the story of her and Kyrie's and others' adventures in Millisymph.  However, they saw a cat person or sidi working there, and Mini walked away to talk to her.  She learned the woman was new at the book store and her name was Keri Pinknose.  Mini went back to the group's table once the food arrived.  Fern and Kyrie finished telling the story of their adventures in Millisymph.
Mini said, "I so would have gone to Millisymph, except i was dead...Well, not really dead."  Mini said she was going to be a Hermana de Surrea, Sister of Surrea, and was good with a staff.  Kyrie said she believed they only used swords, but Mini said not in the Lamadien region.  Fern said, "Why would they even have to use a specific weapon? Sometimes spears are better, sometimes bows or whatever else."  Fern said she has recently gotten a sword which was from a captured follower of Sardaster.
Mini said her staff was the Sixth Staff of Inova VI, but the others didn't know who Inova was.  She wanted to demonstrate it on Fern.  Fern said that was OK, "if it was safe," and Kyrie said, "As long as it doesn't hurt her."  Mini said, "It won't. Not unless I critically fail of course. Then it could summon a demon to attack us."
Fern felt somebody touching her on the left shoulder, but when she turned to look, saw no one there.  Eri asked Mini to do her next; Eri felt a personless touch on her bottom, which she and Mini both found funny.
Eri wanted them to go clothes shopping, but the others decided to shop in the bookstore first.  Kyrie got The Ancient Arumelian Empire by Maelgwyn Hefin, Mini got A Traveler's Guide to the Lamadien Region by Delorean Rekkin, Eri got The Sonnets of T'igwe Damihovy by, of course, T'igwe Damihovy.  Fern looked for a book on electricity, but learned they only had such books in Gnomish which reportedly could take 50 years to learn.  Fern instead got The Practical Optician, a book on optics by Ogral Antal.
Eri started leading the others to a clothing store through the fairly crowded street.  Suddenly the group saw a medium-sized brown spotted dog of no particular breed running with a long black stick-like object in its mouth.  Min and Fern thought it looked like a blakened human humerus bone.  The dog stopped for a moment to sniff the behind of the fox-person Fern, and then that of the fox-person Eri.
Mini cast a spell on the dog, and it stopped.  Mini told it to "sit," and it did.  She told the dog it was a "good doggy."  The dog seemed to want to play "tug of war" with the bone, which Mini took from it, even though she found the bone to be gross.  Not wanting to throw the bone or the book she just bought, she instead threw her staff for the dog to fetch.  Fern voluntarily took the bone, and examined it.  Fern said it seemed to be a really old bone.
Eri thought they could just give the bone back to the dog, but others disagreed.  Mini started to cast another spell, when Fern said there was a commotion.  There were a couple of bald men rushing around, and then the sound of thunder.  A man screamed for attention from the Cauldron residents.  The man, who was a Priest of Kriegdor named Elder Brice "Red" Westhowl, yelled, "A mongrel dog has taken the ancient and holy humerus of St. Lorick the Tumoltous from our Temple of the Enormous Thunderhead!  We are looking for this dog and its bone and we will pay 500 dragons to whoever brings it to us!"
There was instantly chaos in the street.  People started trying to grab dogs and one rought looking man tried grabbing at the dog with the group, but the dog bit him.  Fern hid the bone on her person, while Mini used her staff to try to keep people away from the dog.  Fern tried sneaking the bone to Brice Westhowl, who was telling people the dogs and bones they were bringing him were not the right ones.  Unfortunately, Fern went down in the chaotic scramble.  Eri got to the downed Fern, and Fern tried secretly passing the bone to Eri.  However, someone said, "the fox-person has the bone!"  Somebody grabbed Fern roughly by the tail, someone said it was the other fox-person, but Eri was able to get through the crowd and get the bone to Priest Brice Westhowl who announced the bone had been returned.
Brice said he owed the 400 dragon reward, but members of the group said he had promised 500.  When Mini heard someone calling "Bentley," she released the dog.  However, Brice grabbed it by the collar.  The woman who called the dog was later identified as Sister of Surrea Kira Starme.  Mini said she had rescued Kira's dog, but it was now out of her hands.  Kira and Brice got in a heated argument over what should happen to the canine.  Finally, Brice said, "Oh take your damned dog and go to hell!  But if he comes back, I'll blow him to smithereens!"  (Citadel's Shadow II adventure 2019 10 19)
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