Citadel's Shadow II, Session 27

Citadel's Shadow II, Session 27 was a session of the Citadel's Shadow II campaign, played on 26 May 2019 (UTC) (25 May 2019 for some participants). (There was no full session between Session 25 and this one; see Session 26).
==Personnel==
===Game Master===
*GM: played by Michael Lee Viviano
===Player Characters===
*Fern the Siegemaster: inventive fox-person student played by Rail Runner
*Juan de Fulmando: sword-wielding human alchemist played by Alden Loveshade
*Sly Delgarro: recently released prisoner and reforming thief played by Mocha
===Non-Player Characters===
* Alarra Gormann: princess and resident of St. Bassard's School and Home for Disadvantaged Youth
* Donghai Ping: grandmaster alchemist
* Scorpia Lee: confrontational resident of St. Bassard's
== Events ==
=== 1742 ===
Ulthrane 31 (Hammering): Master Donghai Ping and Juan de Fulmando were at St. Bassard's School and Home for Disadvantaged Youth.  It was announced there would be a science fair for student competitors scheduled for the Festival of Damira up in University Ward Commons, and it was expected that St. Bassard's would enter a project.  The school wanted "their best and brightest minds" to do it.  The grand prize was 50 gold crowns.  It was also said that interesting projects had the potential for attracting patrons and employers.  The students whose names were recommended the most were Snowy Zeddick, Chloris Jennigan, and Fern the Siegemaster; it was strongly recommended they work together.  Juan suggested to Fern they'd want something that looked impressive, perhaps a gadget.
Princess Alarra Gormann moved past the "commoners" Fern and Juan, but was then confronted by the sometimes tormenting Scorpia Lee who did not cooperate with the very demanding student princess.  (Scorpia had been highly annoyed at the princess unmasking Dase Bareface during his humiliating punishment when, after leading the beating of the goblin Turgan Tin-Finger, for a few days Dase's face looked like that of a goblin). This quickly led to a fight between the two of them, which drew an immediate crowd.  They battled while Juan told them to stop and tried to get between them.  Before he could get there, Alarra very solidly punched Scorpia, then Alarra went down.  Juan got between them and told them to stop, and Fern and St. Bassard's staff also moved in, and the fight stopped.  Both Alarra and Scorpia were taken to the Dean's office.
Juan made a comment to Master Ping, then saw the master wasn't there--then Fern saw Master Ping was flat on the ground where Alarra had fallen.  Juan treated Ping, used some ice for his head from Frigid Brigid who showed up selling ices and ice cream, and Fern and Juan took him home.   Fern and Juan then headed for Packer's Cave.
Meanwhile, Sylvester "Sly" Delgarro had just been released from prison.  He had been taken back to Paytern Hill, his home ward.  Unfortunately, he was brought to Greystone Castle, on top of the hill.  Fortunately, a police van driven by the female Thalosian Corporal Corvira Levlor was going back to Delctra's Cauldron Borough, and he got a ride in the back.
Sly's landlord was a lady named Saralee Darmus. She was friendly to his mother, and knew what happened with his father. She promised that Sly would have his place back when he returned.  But then she died.  Her nephew, Stephen Darmus inherited the place, and told Sly to get out.  The Trynser City Municipal Force had taken everything he had had on him when arrested, and didn't give anything back.  Fortunately, he had a secret stash hidden away on the cliffside in the rocks underneath a cave which took some climbing to get to.  Cliff went to get it.  He climbed successfully, gathered his hidden possessions, and proceeded back.  He saw a tall dark figure that could have been Thuddeus Gunch, Delctra's Cauldron Constable who had told him he never wanted to see Sly's face around there again, or it could have been Daft Enos.  Sly decided to make his way to the cave so he could dart in it out of sight.
After successfully climbing once again, he started to enter the cave when he discovered it was sealed with a door.  He knocked on the door, but a voice from behind said, "Hello there.  May we help you?"  It was Juan de Fulmando, who with Fern the Siegemaster had just gotten to the cave.  Sly said he was in an awkward situation and wanted to enter the cave, but Juan said they had legally-assigned salvage rights to the cave, and wondered why Sly would want to go in there.  Sly said he was in need of lodging, and Juan said he was afraid the cave was not the place to find it.  Then the three introduced themselves.  Sly was asked if he was looking for a place to stay, was he new to the area?  He said he was returning.  Fern recognized him as a man who had been put away for murder; Juan knew that the man he murdered was Sly's father, and believed that the father deserved it.  (Citadel's Shadow II adventure 2019 05 25)
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