Rebel Girl

The Acquaintances With Weapons discover a new group of Merchant Princes have risen up to take back Port Nyanzaru.

## Major Plot Points

* Voloth, Neuriel, Vulveeta, Peggy, Sudsy, and Calypso went to Black Siren’s exile/going away brunch at the Thundering Lizard. Black Siren introduced them to her friend, Handsy Amazontana, saying that they should all hang out after she leaves.
* Handsy Amazontana is a changeling rogue who met Black Siren while they both trained with the Amazons. Her given identity is Stzu San.
* Black Siren, Barbara Gordon, and Helena Bertinelli are moving to Faerun to start their own adventuring company called Dragons of Prey.
* The party talked to Zindar, the dragonborn owner of the Thundering Lizard, who said the city’s pirate troubles have ceased since Queen Maxima took over. He also shared that he likes that she’s brought the Aarakocra and Grungs into the city.
* Rotty Scotty is Zindar’s bartender intern.
* Grub-Grub, a Grung Sudsy saved from being sacrificed in Omu, came over to the party to thank them for their help. While he hugged Stzu San, an arrow was shot through the back of his head and exited his eye.
* Humanoids in black leather and crystal masks that had a blue eye painted on the forehead attacked Thundering Lizard patrons. After the party killed several terrorists, Black Siren saved one to be interrogated. They simply said, “The Merchant Princes rise again.”
* The party discovered that the masks resemble symbology around the god Savras, who is a god of Wisdom and Divination worshiped by wizards. Black Siren told the party that Port Nyanzaru is home to a large Savras temple.
* AWW then went to Queen Maxima who was holding a Small Council meeting with Ashaara, the Hand to the Queen, Syndra Silvane, the Woman of Whispers, Diana, the Master of War, Roark, the Voice of the Wilds, and Wakanga, the Archmage.
* Queen Maxima heard AWW’s tale and ordered the three still living former Merchant Princes be brought to her. AWW and most of her counsel cautioned restraint so she didn’t execute them for this attack, however, she ordered they be investigated.
* AWW spoke to the Queen and her counsel and discovered
	+ Queen Maxima has decreed all workers be paid 15 gold coins an hour
	+ She’s enacted animal welfare rights to beasts of burden
	+ Infrastructure that separates poor and wealthy neighborhoods is being taken down.
	+ She’s building a citizen police force and banned the use of mercenaries as police or military within the city.
	+ She wishes to expand her queendom by rebuilding Mezro and Mbala
	+ Highfather Zitembe, the leader of the Savras Temple, has been leading the protests against Maxima
* Queen Maxima urged AWW to investigate Wakanga as he was a Merchant Prince and she hasn’t learned to fully trust him.
* The party went through the magical tower Wakanga lives in. They fought fire elementals and invisible stalkers and avoided traps on their way up to the top floor.
* In his library, AWW discovered a letter to Wakanga that invited him to join the “true sons and daughters of Port Nyanzaru.”
* Wakanga arrived and caught AWW in his library. He expressed dismay that the queen still didn’t trust him. He used his magic to decipher the hidden script in the letter to show that he was invited to a meeting planned for midnight that night.
* AWW left and went to the Savras Temple to find out more information. They heard Highfather Zitembe preach against Queen Maxima. Sudsy and Neuriel spoke to a racist woman who detested Queen Maxima and her reforms. They and Stzu San inadvertently convinced her to triple her prices so the new middle class couldn’t afford her store.
* AWW also spoke to Zanthi, the former merchant prince of finery, but didn’t find anything suspicious about her except that she was at the temple. She was annoyed because she thought the queen had AWW follow her.
* Posing as the crystal masked terrorists, Stzu San and Voloth spoke to Zitembe. He talked about how they failed their mission in that they didn’t kill AWW, the Dragons of Prey, or Zindar. They also let it slip they knew about the meeting tonight, however, they blamed one of the new recruits for telling them about it, since the meeting was a freshman orientation. In the temple’s basement, the undercover party members found a large vault where crates of gold decorated with a bloody full moon symbol were being processed. They also learned that the new Merchant Princes own a mine.
* Voloth recruited Black Siren to help in their sneak attack against the freshman orientation.
* At midnight, the party found Slade Wilson addressing the 20 new recruits. However, since he thought one of them leaked the meeting info, he had his soldiers slaughter all of them as punishment.
* Sudsy used illusion magic to make it look like some freshman recruits ran into the jungle so Slade sent four soldiers after them.
* The party then launched a sneak attack against Slade and his remaining forces. They were able to kill his soldiers and take Slade in for questioning.