Session 3: New Allies or Enemies?

We returned, once more, for the third session of our campaign. Here are some of the key points that happened:

* We returned on the road back to Fargrave
* Voldi and Bing, your new, strange companions, filled the silence with light chatter
	+ Voldi specified that she was an artillerist artificer with a penchant for re-making her gun into newer/better models
	+ Morgan tried not to fall in love
	+ They spoke with Voldi briefly about the tattoos they each bear and Voldi promised to introduce them to someone else with similar markings
* Arriving back at Fargrave, the gang picked up their new armour from Grod in the Royal Armoury
* Afterwards, on the search for the Black Market, Voldi took the group to the Central Plaza fountain
	+ Adorned with a strange symbol (3 vertical lines inside of a circle), Marcus accidentally triggered the mechanism for the teleportation spell and the group immediately plunged into the Ratway depths
	+ Having found their destination, the group was able to see a wide, surprisingly clean tunnel filled with stalls, hooded figures and a single white and gold manor at the far end
	+ Upon visiting the manor, they discovered that it was owned by Chartreuse where he was seemingly waited on by a dark tabaxi woman called Leif
* Paid for their troubles, our heroes gained 420gp and the knowledge that Chartreuse was also a previous prisoner of the Facility
* In exchange for a later favour, Chartreuse provided the group with the following information:
	+ His number was 062
	+ The mutations they received would not be the end of their changes
	+ Sometimes when the other prisoners died, they'd come back and the mutations would be worse
	+ Elphira was not the boss, she was a previous prisoner too, one who'd had her spirits broken
		- Midnight was a manifestation of one of her mutations, and
		- She was also a sorceress
* After learning all of this, our players explored the Black Market a touch, with Tato and Morgan gambling, Ramzi checking out the poisons and magic stalls and Marcus running through forbidden texts
	+ Ramzi, Morgan and Tato also all picked up palm-sized Comm Crystals in order to call each other
* Towards the end of their visit, a strange pale-violet man threw a threatening dart at Ramzi and made his entrance
	+ Unable to identify what race he was, he appeared as some strange amalgamation of a half-elf and an earth genasi with his pointed ears torn up
	+ The stranger was called Entari, an associate that Chartreuse seemed smitten with
	+ Marcus had a moment of being unable to control his wild magic, accidentally causing necrotic damage to everyone around him
	+ Chartreuse surrounded him with a silence spell to allow him a moment of calmness
	+ Entari then gave Ramzi a secret note, calling himself a mercenary before he faded back into the shadows
* Before faring goodbye, Morgan paid Voldi 500gp in advance for her to create a copy of her previous gun, "Suzanne", a rifle that acts as a shield as well
* Upon returning to the castle, the Callowbrand family was ready and waiting to have dinner with our heroes (seemingly at the behest of Clara)
	+ Willem was able to detect the scent of gun powder and, when trying to steal some, faced an unloaded gun under the table, hidden from all prying eyes
	+ Cassius' hatred of the Petradorians led him to be brash and inhospitable towards Ramzi throughout the meal
* Just as the night was wrapping to a close, a quick sending to Ramzi telling him to 'duck' sounded seconds before the outside wall of the castle was blown away
	+ Tilda and the twins fully escaped harm by hiding under the table but the others took a bit of damage
	+ Entari walked through the rubble, crushing a teleportation scroll and transporting all of our intrepid heroes to the courtyard of Petrador's Parliament
	+ Upon arriving, they found themselves surrounded by guards, the Councilwoman Flow and PM Ecath Medfras
		- Entari had completely disappeared
	+ While obvious that bringing 3 Chaerans had been an accident, Ecath's attempt to throw Marcus in a cell for the night stopped at the mention of his twin brothers potentially being caught in the blast
		- With a strange look on his face no-one was able to discern, Ecath allowed the Chaerans to stay in a guarded suite while Ramzi spent the night with his friend Flow
		- Morgan had a brief altercation with the guards on account of his gun but there wasn't too much violence so this DM was relieved

Our story continues 27th of October, 2021...