Shock and Awe Events

*3rd Flamerule 1567
**8pm - Henri Angier is murdered backstage on the opening night of his show, Shock and Awe.
**8pm - Several notable people join forces backstage to investigate the scene. - they are Hyram Westford, Asha de Varley, Tracy DeMasque and Vaurok Shortass. They flee when they hear what sounds like corrupt guards arriving.
**10pm - The group flees to the ex-Oracle hideout of 34 Leinster Close, clears out the two oozes within, and spends the night together telling stories.
*4th Flamerule 1567
**8am - Asha, Vaurok, Hyram and Tracy agree to split up and meet again in the evening at the Golden Rifle Inn.
**10am - Asha doubles back to search the house in the rain, and after having assessed the place, Hyram also arrives. Unbeknownst to him, Asha hides in a cabinet and watches his every move, and overhears his telecommunications to an unknown sender.
**Noon - Hyram breaks into the home of Angier, staging the scene like a break-in and searching the place. One of Grimes' thieves arrives, looking for a diary. He is only identified as 'Cleaner'. Hyram holds the man at gunpoint before shooting him in the back, and staging the scene as if the thief was caught in a gunfight, using Angier's (empty) service revolver from the safe and planting evidence. He then leaves.
**4pm - Tracy and Hyram meet one another at the station whilst giving the Davisons any info that may be useful to their investigations.
**5pm - At the Golden Rifle Inn, a talent show is hosted by Virion Galadell, and judged by Virion, Cynthia Jardín and Percival Buttersby. An unmarked threatening package arrives addressed to Virion, containing the ciphered diary of Angier.
**6pm - Tracy wows the crowd with her elaborate showmanship, and Hyram impresses all with his trick shooting. However, Yalaméda, a close friend of Tracy's, is then found dead behind the tavern, murdered by someone masquerading as one of the guards called in as extra security. Next to her body is the (later found to be forged) symbol of an eye, and the new key she wore as a necklace is taken. The show is cancelled.
**10pm - Asha, Hyram, and Tracy search Angier's home, and find the dead thief, the notes, and the evidence of multiple break-ins as well as evidence Angier found something in Vörgåsen. They then part ways again.
**11:30pm - Tracy receives an anonymous letter asking her to come to 34 Leinster Close. She does so, and meets Asha there. Asha explains her suspicions to Tracy surrounding Hyram, when he too suddenly arrives. There is a tense confrontation in the hallway, Hyram with his pistol drawn as Asha shields the grieving and scared Tracy. Hyram reveals himself to be Doctor Edward Darrion, also known as the Oracle member Doctor Iraeus.
*5th Flamerule 1567
**12am - Darrion's monologue is cut short by the arrival of Vaurok and three Harpers (Gingerbeard, Redbeard and Auburnbeard). They secure the property, and after being tipped off by Tracy quietly, arrest the Doctor and put him in chains.
**12:30am - Whilst leaving the property, the group follows the suspicious Anneliese Tailor and is led into a set-up meeting orchestrated by Valeria Grimes and the Lamplighters' Guild. They speak with Valeria for some time as she reveals that her Thieves were to blame for the death of Yalaméda. Valeria then kills Derrick, the thief who killed Yal, in cold blood. As the group begins to leave, Val notes 'one more thing', and then murders Darrion with her knife. Vaurok and the Harpers take his body, and they and Asha and Tracy leave Valeria and her thieves.
**3am - Darrion awakens in the Harper morgue. He gets his stuff back, and finds the also-not-dead Yalaméda. She flees alone as he then ambushes and kills Luth Salmastrien, before burning many files and leaving. Yala makes it to the home of Virion Galadell and tells him, Tracy DeMasque and Asha de Varley about what she saw.
**9am - Acting Chief Harper Svinne Fors allows the party in to search the crime scene. Then, they head off back to see Percival Buttersby and Arabella at the now empty Valentine Hall. They also meet Victor Campbell, son of Mortimer, there. After searching the place, and chatting, the group is 'ambushed' by an armoured Doctor Iraeus backed up by Valeria Grimes and several Lamplighters. However, Érmione Disforza appears, and mocks Darrion as she reveals her true identity to be Marija Grimes, Valeria's rough twin sister, and reveals that 'Érmione' was little more than an elaborate ruse. Valeria allows the group to then paralyse and kill the Doctor - Victor deals the final blow and Asha cremates his corpse. Val roughs Victor around a little before the Thieves leave.
**9pm - The party boards The North Sea Swan and heads to Kalyr.
*21st Flamerule 1567 - The party arrives in Kalyr, has a few drinks, and travels with their excitable coach driver Göran Andersson and his car-horses up to Vörgåsen. In town at the House and Horn Hotel, they are the only guests. They meet the owners, al-Kantar and Sheila 5, and then travel up to the Peak of Føtfjall to meet Malloy, who takes them to meet Prof. J. Arnu Waldenstromm. Waldenstromm tells them Henri Angier paid her to make a device that could emit near-infinite amounts of energy in the form of lightning, which he used to plane-hop short distances by connecting into the Elemental Plane of Lightning. However, she stresses the dangers of the machine falling into unsavoury hands. She apologises, but refuses to help them lest it become a another problem she would bestow on the world. Back at the hotel, MacKenzie's thugs arrive from Kalyr, and book several rooms out.
*22nd Flamerule 1567 - Early in the morning, MacKenzie's thugs torch Waldenstromm's lab. Waldenstromm, Malloy and the cat Kopernicus flee by carriage, leaving a note at the hotel for the party before disappearing to Kalyr. The party searches the wreckage, then reads the note and finds out that Arnu is the cipher key.
*Late Flamerule 1567 - Asha catches up with Waldenstromm and Malloy and proposes the idea that they work for the the Vortic Mercatorium. They consider this. During the voyage without Asha, the party realises the journal is a fake and read Asha's goodbye note.
*Early Eleasis 1567 - Asha, Isalda, Átir and Valeria meet in Sant-Mart, capital of the South Vortic Islands, joined by Waldenstromm and Malloy. They begin their new enterprising future together, as Átir pays Valeria handsomely, and Waldenstromm and Malloy agree to work under the protection of Átir on a cleaner, safer version of the lightning machine.
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