Citadel's Shadow II, Session 19

Citadel's Shadow II, Session 19 was a few "fill-in" sessions or discussions of the Citadel's Shadow II campaign, played on Mar. 31, 2019 (UTC) and after. It served as a link between sessions run by two different GMs.
== Personnel ==
===Game Master===
*GM: played by Alden Loveshade and Michael Lee Viviano
===Player Characters===
*Fern the Siegemaster: inventive fox-person student played by Rail Runner
* Jinxi: androgynous jester with poppet Jack played by Michael Lee Viviano
*Juan de Fulmando: sword-wielding human alchemist played by Alden Loveshade
=== Non-Player Characters ===
* Audrea Daleos: expelled human female student mage
* Donghai Ping: grandmaster gnome alchemist and demon dust maker
* Chwe Zhing: female human student at Shining Luck Mages' Guild
* Gella Ilrin: paralegal for Sir Lyus Sleyden
* Sir Lyus Sleyden: male half-elf attorney in Trynser City
* Slammy Killmaster: male dwarf stand up bass player
* Ursula Nidonge: female human mercenary
=== Special ===
* Minigallith Atakares: female half-elf apprentice at Shining Luck Mages' Guild
== Events ==
=== 1742 ===
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Ulthrane 14 (Middleday) (continued): After dwarf Slammy Killmaster performed well on stand up bass at Amateur Night at Madame Maude Lynn's Theater of Thrills but was not well received, he left the theatre.  Human audience members Audrea Daleos, Chwe Zhing, and Minigallith Atakares, the latter of whom often performed on Amateur Night, loved his music and the trio left the theater to follow him.  (The trio had not paid to see that evening's performance of the play The Black Cabriolet Rides Through Temples, but were allowed to see the amateurs as Mini had recently been a winner).
Audrea, Chwe, Mini, and Slammy went to Razda's Lharasian Eats.  Mini and Slammy spoke to each other a great deal; Mini said she sang at Maude Lynn's sometimes, and was thinking about learning the violin and maybe sometime they could play together.  Audrea said, "Yeah, I bet you could play together."  After a while, Audrea and Chwe left, and Mini and Sammy spent more time together.
Chwe returned to Shining Luck Mages Guild, but Audrea got caught sneaking in late, well after curfew.  She hit on the professor who saw her, which ended up being the last straw for her.  (Citadel's Shadow II adventure 2019 03 31+)
Ulthrane 15 - 23 (Sweatingday - Middleday): For their work in defeating the "rat king," Fern the Siegemaster, Jinxi, and Juan de Fulmando were each given 5 gold crowns (worth a total of $100).
Juan de Fulmando and Jinxi had decided to link the acts they performed the evening of Ulthrane 14 at Madame Maude Lynn's Theater of Thrills.  They practiced when they had the chance.  Juan also got the two unused alchemist fire items from Jinxi to give back to Master Donghai Ping.
Fern the Siegemaster attended classes, trying not to miss them like she had during the battle with rats including the rat king. She experimented with some of the "goo" she had collected from a creature during that time, and also worked on her experimental concept for a rat trap. She planned to later make 10 more paper cartridges for her breech-loading carbine, keep working on trying to create something (plastic?) from milk and vinegar, and to do some simple craft jobs for money in her "spare time." (Citadel's Shadow II adventure 2019 03 31+)
Ulthrane 15 (Sweatingday): Juan de Fulmando was at work at Master Donghai Ping's workshop when he answered a knock on the door; it was Gella Ilrin. a paralegal in Sir Lyus Sleyden's team.  The details on the salvage of "Packer's Cave" needed to be worked out; he said he could meet that day after work at the office in Commerce Commons.
Juan arrived after work and heard violin playing (there was music lessons), and arguing from what he later learned was an office of the Shining Luck Mage's Guild.  He saw two burly men who appeared to be Asian and wearing traditional wizard's robes and hats leading a bitterly complaining young woman downstairs towards the exit.  She seemed to be wearing a student's uniform.  She screamed that she would become an archmage, and left the building.
Juan met with Gella, Sleyden, and Hanna Gruskin, who now owned her recently deceased brother Vilburd Gruskin aka Packer's cave.  When Juan, Hanna, and Sleyden went outside to go to the cave, Juan heard a girl cussing.  She was lying in a wagon covered by a tarp, and Juan learned it was the girl he had earlier seen being removed from the building.  She said she was kicked out of school.  Juan learned she was an orphan, and was named Audrea Daleos.  She had no place to go.
Juan said he lived at the boarding house Maisson Boulavier. They had a cubbyhole in the basement that included free room and board for someone who helped without chores there. He said the person who was doing it just got a regular room, so they needed somebody now.  He wanted to take her there before going to the cave, but she wanted to go with him and others, so did.
They found Yagritte Ratreaper was there tending to a pile of burning rats.  She had put a board over a pit trap in the ground, which the new visitors to the cave wanted to see.  They took inventory of the rooms which had whiskey barrels and other items, some destroyed, stored by the Lead Monkey in Shadowfall owned by Hank Grask; and next one used by Smokey Dokey's, whose owner Mr. Lar Dokum had gotten put in Greystone Castle for selling "some unusual 'smokes;'" some of the inventory there they thought should be reported to the police.  Next was a room for Cult of the Cat which unfortunately had several broken statues (Juan has suspected the rat king who took over the cave didn't like cats); and room rented by Mr. Larien Grund that had  various mechanical parts, including spikes, blades, springs, and levers; it was the room where the "goo monster" had engulfed, but not killed, Krendall Moulerbos.
The next room was rented by A Breed Apart, a tavern in the uphill portion of the Paytern Hill Ward that Sleyden favored; that room had dining tables, furniture, and crates of drinkable alcohol, including, to Lyus' delight, 14 bottles of Chateau Cerenet.  The room for Witch on a Stick had several tuns of beer and assorted furniture; the one for Armstead Estate had hotel furniture in good condition and linens that were ruined.  The last room, the one where the rat king was killed, was rented by Madame Maude Lynn's Theater of Thrills.  Juan asked, with Hanna's permission, if Sleyden would deal with the people as neither he nor the other "rat exterminators" who were not working for the city, Fern the Siegemaster and Jinxi, had experience in dealing with such a thing.  Sleyden agreed to write a report for Juan in High Kastebani, and Sleyden agreed.
Yagritte told Juan she and Krendall had had a big fight, and she might not be working with him anymore.  They decided to tell each other where they lived, and that they might get together sometime.
Juan took Audrea Daleos to his boarding house, Maisson Boulavier.  On the way, she blunted asked about Yagritte if Juan was "banging her," which Juan said was an inappropriate question; she apologized.  Juan said, "You might as well learn now, there are rules everywhere. You can never get away from them no matter where you go." Then he said, "That's all right, don't worry about it.  But no, I wasn't."  He did think about how Yagritte almost did bang him, literally, when she was using her weapon against him while under control of the rat king.
Juan introduced Audrea to Ethel and Eliza Boulavier.  Eliza wasn't too sure about Audrea, but Ethel liked her, and decided to give Audrea a chance to work in the boarding house in exchange for room and board, the board being the cubbyhole in the basement.  (Citadel's Shadow II adventure 2019 03 31+)
Ulthrane 16 (Reckoning): Fern the Siegemaster returned to her workshop at St. Bassard's School and Home for Disadvantaged Youth.  She smelled an odd but familiar scent in the air, then saw a spot of greenish-black liquid on the floor with a couple more spots leading to the workshop door.  She saw there more of the liquid on the inside door handle as she heard several troublesome students laughing as they went up a flight of stairs.  Fern avoided touching the liquid, found more drops, then got to the closet which was ordinarily locked; this time it wasn't.
Fern nearly tumbled to her feet when the door was knocked pen; inside was a goblin.  He said, ""Doooooon't kiiiilll meeeeeee!!!"  Fern, who had used a knife to open the door, asked how and why he got into a locked closet, and he pleaded with her not to hurt him.  He was afraid of the bullies.  Realizing the liquid was the blood of the goblin whose name was Turgan Tin-Finger and who wore the school uniform trousers.  Fern improvised bandages and treated him with first aid.  When one of Fern's roommates, Sister Henna Brenafar, learned what had happened, she saw that Turgan's knee cap had been broken.   She cast a healing spell she had been practicing, and it was successful.  Henna said she and her boyfriend, Asric Nehonin, would protect the 12-year-old Turgan.  When Fern saw how fascinated Turgan was with Fern's workshop, they agreed that Turgan would become Fern's assistant.  (Citadel's Shadow II adventure 2019 03 31+)
Ulthrane 17 (Lordsday): On Liberation Day, Juan de Fulmando met Ursula Nidonge at Alexander's Forum in the Old Palace Ward of Trynser City.  They saw the traditional military parade, and a public address by Princess Imperial Alexandria Souixen Galderon. She framed the Zazimar War as a war against evil which was most obvious in Zazimar's treatment of slaves.  She also expressed the deep gratitude of the Empire for the veterans of the late war, and especially for those who didn't come back. The Globus Cruciger autem Dryas (Cross Globe of Yellow Mountain) was on display during the event.
Juan and Ursula saw the play The Slave of Jartapur by Alman Dragonkin.  At the end of the date they kissed, and planned to meet again on Ulthrane 21.  (Citadel's Shadow II adventure 2019 03 31+)
Ulthrane 19 (Godsday): Audrea Daleos was having problems keeping up with her assigned duties at Maisson Boulavier. She received comforting from Juan de Fulmando, perhaps more than he intended to give her. (Citadel's Shadow II adventure 2019 03 31+)
Ulthrane 21 (Landsday): Juan de Fulmando and Ursula Nidonge went to dinner at Master Donghai Ping's.  Ursula met Ping's wife Donghai Xiang and their 12-year-old son Donghai Chang, and also Juan's wards, the 14-year-old female Fuylu de Fulmando who did household chores and helped with cooking, and 10-year-old male Heva de Fulmando who, in spite of his young age, was in charge of cooking and helped with household chores.  Juan said because he worked with demon dust and guarding shipments, he often relaxed by doing something safe and mundane, like playing draughts.  He and Ursula played a couple of games; Juan won the first and she won the second.  They kissed at the end of the evening.  Ursula planned to see Juan and Jinxi perform at Madame Maude Lynn's Theater of Thrills on Ulthrane 24.  Master Ping privately told Juan, "There may be more fish in the sea, but she looks like a very good catch."  (Citadel's Shadow II adventure 2019 03 31+)
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