Best Laid Plans Part 1

## Episode 1 - The FeyWild West

At Chief Constable Cremihn's office in Airpike is abuzz after the escape Venassi leader Leroy Brown when Seline and Talia arrive. Constables are both trying to investigate is escape while trying to recapture him. The Venassi witnesses (taken into custody after the trial) are all dead including Tern. The Argent-Greys decide to split up. Seline makes her way to the dead Venassi. She finds herself in a section of six cells where the bodies are already laid out and covered in a sheet. In some of the cells, bits of cloth or still hanging from things for these Venassi to have hung themselves. Several cut themselves and with their blood wrote on the wall, "to preserve the natural order." Seline casts speak with dead on the body of Silas Tern. Silas knew that Brown escaped but not where he went and he killed himself to keep his secrets. The guard tells Seline that none of these Venassi were interrogated. With a withering look at the guard, Seline demands manacles and for Tern to be shackled to the wall. Then she set up the ritual for Raise dead. Meanwhile Brashum is leading Talia into the bowels of the facility to where the gnome they interrogated was held. Ironically Brown was supposed to be held in the same cell but it doesn't take long for Talia to realize Brown never made it to the cell. Talia tells Captain Wilde to find the constables he left Brown with because he never made it to his cell. Talia finds Seline in the process of ritual casting raise dead. She takes the opportunity to terrorize the guard with Seline before running back into James upstairs. Captain Wilde has found one of the constables, Keldon, who was with Brown is now missing although he still supposed to be on duty. In the locker room Captain Wilde opens Keldon's Locker. Inside with the uniform items is a velvet-lined box with a circular indentation in it. On the back of the box is Ernest's mark. Talia is now certain after having smelled the locker neither the constable or Brown made it to the cell. Talia and Captain Wilde return to Seline and a nervous guard, Grell who is more than happy to allow James to dismiss him. When Seline finishes, Talia can feel the door open before Tern returns to life. Tern is a little resistant to questioning and Seline casts Bane and Zone of Truth. Tern saves against Bane. He doesn't know where Brown is but he thinks it might be Duskdown. He also says that their contingency plan in case they lost at trial, was that their mole in the constables was supposed to get Brown out. Also this is the same person who informed the Venassi about Seline killing the gnome. Seline wants Tern guarded but Captain Wilde is reluctant. He only knows a handful of clerics and of those there are only two in District 1 including Seline. The other is a cleric of the Mother in her 70s who was only able to bring back someone who just died because she happened to be at hand. Of these clerics, Seline is the only cleric of the Undertaker and the only one that had brought some back who's been dead for a few hours. That information might be important to people who would threaten her and people close to her. Hearing that Talia shoots Tern in the head. Three guards arrived to investigate but Captain Wilde was able to convince them that nothing's happened. They all decide together more DMP to make a raid on Duskdown.

## Characters

### Players

* Seline Argent-Grey
* Talia Argent-Grey

### NPCs

* Felicia Firehawk
* Silas Tern
* Captain James Wilde
* Chief Constable Cremihn
* Brashum
* Grell