People vs. Victoria Greshin Part 1

## Story

The constables load Victoria into a barred stagecoach. The constables arrayed as follows a driver, the constable riding "shotgun" in the passenger seat one constable on top of the carriage and two on horses in front and behind the carriage. Seline and Talia are behind last constable with Talia keeping an eye out behind them while Seline practices with Cortez as her familiar. Malcolm says it'll be a two-day journey as a opposed to a normally one day because of the carriage and being cautious. Malcolm spots something flying between him and the Sun. Through Cortez, Seline sees it's a dark owl flying above them that smells sulfur. Seline notes sometimes fiends smell like sulfur. They stopped at Waypoint. While there Seline takes the opportunity to speak to Victoria. Before she does she casts Zone of Truth. Victoria claims to know nothing about the owl or a fiendish familiar. She also claims not to be acquainted with anyone who might be following as well as choosing her words carefully. Victoria maintains blank expression until Talia asks goadingly what's it like having to put your daughter in the grave twice? Victoria's eye twitches her mouth's sours into a frown when she replies excruciating. Seline asks why she's choosing her answers so carefully before commanding her to answer twice but Victoria doesn't. Victoria watches placidly as Seline stands, quizzically when Seline cuts her own finger with her bone dagger until Seline's hand turn black as she casts Bane. Victoria's breath hitches in her chest as her eyes go wide and then kind of become a little hazy because she's having a hard time focusing. This time when commanded she answers to prevent giving anything away like her secrets of reanimation. Talia moves up to the barred window look at Victoria. A black smoke flits through Victoria's eyes and she turns to Talia and relaxes. Victoria says she has no idea about the bird as for what may be coming she was told not to say by a man. She says the man is a representative of Jim Walker  (commander of the 42nd). In exchange for a favor, the 42nd will help her out of her sticky situation. Seline and Talia leave the carriage to find Malcolm. They tell Malcolm about the surprise Victoria and the 42nd have coming for them. After some discussion, they decide to open the door to our adventurers' estate inside the carriage, toss Victoria in the stable area along with one of the constables and put the door knob to the estate in Malcolm's custody until they reach Airpike and can toss Victoria in a cell.. the Constable on shotgun accompanies Malcolm while the constable on top of the carriage replaces him. They explained the situation to Whitman. Afterward Talia and Whitman climb into the carriage, gag Victoria and toss her into the estate with Whitman guarding her. Talia exit the carriage and stealthily hands Malcolm the doorknob. The three remaining constables plan of watch of four shifts and welcome our adventurers to join them on whichever watch they want. Seline opts for the first shift the night with Malcolm and Talia chooses the fourth watch. Seline take the opportunity to torment Malcolm a little before she consults her cards. Six of Pentacles inverted (be careful who you trust), the hermit inverted (isolation), four of wands (breakdown in communication). Malcolm's been a constable since 13, 13 years ago is married. Malcolm's son is also named Malcolm. Seline continues to torment Malcolm throughout the watch until they're relieved. Talia is awakened by the third watchman to find Seline has a death grip on her. Bradley (the rear horse constable) and Talia relieved the third watchman. Bradley's been a constable for 3 years and is also an Airpike military reservist. If the district goes to war  he'll be activated into their regular military but for now he receives a basic housing allowance as well as some tuition assistance while he was at the academy. Talia tells him they've only been DMP for a few weeks and that Seline and she were the only DMP at Jaldin and Bluepeak. Bradley realizes he's riding with the Reaper and The Wanderer in white impressed by the reputation. He does mention the inaccuracies in the reporting of those events against the DMP and and strongly pro-42nd. Talia spots the owl from earlier in the day circling over there camp then flying south..

## Location

* Bluepeak
* Waypoint

## Characters

### Players

* Seline Argent
* Talia Grey

### NPCs

* Constables
	+ Malcolm Marcus
	+ Whitman
	+ Bradley
* Victoria Greshan