Fun in the City

**Opening Scene**

Mysterious figure enters a shop, dropping something in the doorway. the shopkeeper's rebuff is ignored. The newcomer begins his questions, searching for 2 "friends". The shopkeeper and his cronies prepare for an altercation.

"the Devils send their regards," and it doesn't go well for team shopkeeper.

**Party Time**

Akibeko asks to dry his paintings to the Green Branch corner of the inn. He is given leave and begins hanging his slat paintings to dry.

Bart agrees to another "typical" meal of one of everything. Bart and Akibeko discuss party tactics and roles. Akibeko inspects Bart's sword. There is magic there and Bart had a hand in the creation.

Bart and Akibeko plan to have early morning practice tomorrow.

Brexx and Fable wake up. Sera bards like a bard in bed.

Sera and fable discuss magic lanterns and the nights events.

The team assembles midmorning around the table of food.

We discuss our coming efforts. We will take some down time and then deal with our keep. We are going to get information on the keep from the Dagum Centorum (?) and the Magista.

**Fable and Sera go to the Silverhand**

She has a center of operations in the Market district. The ladies have a little bit of trouble finding the Silver Hands, but not a lot of time. They enter the building and find a comfortable antechamber. There are multiple more private rooms off this chamber. They are approached by a dwarf lady with braids. They ask to meet with Granva (?).

They are lead to a backroom with a large desk piled high with ledger books and flank by library shelves of books. Granva invites them in with ink stained fingers and quill in hand.

The ladies inquire on setting up an orphanage. Not for nefarious deeds, but just to get kids a safe place to live and off the streets. Sera does not want to be on the ledgers, more of an anonymous doner. To protect the building and the children form reprisals against the Green Branch. 500 gold start up costs for rental. Buying a piece of land in the mud district (?) no building / destroying a building already there is about 400 gold.

Trying to avoid attention from the Devils (see opening scene). They are doing both (renting and buying different lots).

Fable has another job opportunity. She can make fine quality jewelry with magic. She asks if Gravna would like to buy such things. Apparently Sera wants to buy them.

Gravna has information about the Keep ruins. The Elves there were killed during the genocide of their civilization. They were one of the first banners of the rising. The Enlightened one's forces swept in and crushed them. Several families have moved in, but the problems started around 70 years ago. The first family was doing renovations and expanding the keep. Probably the basement area and they all disappeared. 20 years later the Zenru family all went crazy and died. Except one. A house keeper for both families still works around the ruins as a caretaker.

Meetings will be set up in the future for these business ventures.

**Bart to the Magista**

Bart stealths away into the city. He gets into the Magista temple through the secret routes. Tyan Beck meets him in his office. Tyan will take him into the records room if he can keep hidden (which is quite likely).

Below ground in the dust filled archives, Bart has to discern the esoteric filing system. There is an archivist. He's possibly older than the dust on the files.

Bart takes tea before beginning his records search. He and Tyan discuss the future and cooperation.

A town called Yaneye (?) has some reports of possession. Possible connection to the Scion.

Tyan Beck knows that the Green Branch opened the Tenet of Truth.

In the future, the Green Branch is to deal with Tenets as they have in the past with Tyan's blessing. Until further research causes a reassessment. They are powerful artifacts that were separated for a reason.

RESEARCH: The elves of the keep may have jumped the gun a little. Fayrel Ngrath was an ambassador and powerful sorceress. Rumor she could read minds. She either died in the battle, or killed her family then herself to keep them from being killed in the combat.

Possible this was a bid at regaining a bit of the old empire of the Elves.

There is a seal in the basement. Probably best left alone.

one remaining family member (Zenru) still alive. Possibly insane.

Bart goes to get / sell some weapons / supplies.

**Brexx and Akibeko go to the Temple of the Chariot**

We head off to the temple district. The 2 biggest temples are Chariot (left) and Sun (right). temples are all over the district. Chariot has a lot of traintng areas out back and slatted roofs tiered. THe Sun has an inward curving top and domed.  Brexx leads us around back. We meet Temnon, a friend.

Brexx and Akibeko participate in an obstacle course with 2 initiates.

Obstacle 1: Akibeko hurls one initiate from the course immediately. Second initiate elbows Brexx and takes lead.

Obstacle 2: Brexx takes lead followed by the initiate. Akibeko rips a pendulum from its moorings and hurls it at the spell casters.

Obstacle 3: Brexx clean jumps the gap. Akibeko fails to intimidate the initiate. He uses the rope better than her though.

Obstacle 4: Brexx casts freedom of movement to avoid the mud trap entirely. Akibeko grapples the initiate to give Brexx time to win.

Brexx and Akibeko train with the clerics for the remainder of the day.

Temnon provides the duo of other martial orders to visit.

Brexx and Bart proceed to kick ass and teach the new disciples a lesson

WE SHARE MOST OF OUR SECRETS WITH AKIBEKO under the protection of a magical circle

**Going to Adnan Zenru's HOUSE in Ascension Heights**

We fail miserably at our first attempt to convince his great niece to let us in the house, finally Fable charms her and "suggests" that she invite us in for tea. We chat a while, Bart & Fable convince her to partake in our mining investment "opportunity"

She lets us upstairs to talk to Adnan. He is clearly suffering the effects of something traumatic that happened in the past. He perks up a little when Bart mentions the Challenge of Swords and he recaps a bit of the excitement for the old man to try to make a connection with him. He speaks to "someone else" (or to himself) that we can't see-- he says he sees and talks to people from when he was young- old family members who are all dead now. Says he feels bad about what happened and why, even though they are nice and have forgiven....  says that his family took over the place and got it for a reasonable price after the previous family all disappeared, says they settled in and things were good for quite a while and then sometimes they would hear things or lose track of time; says they started looking into the basement and thinking about making some changes to the house and started losing track of time more and more and sometimes he would see things, things in his head telling him things- he starts to get upset. After Brexx calms his emotions, he says "Well maybe it was that house...." Says that there is something in the basement, we should look in the basement....

Adnan says he's going to go out and go for a walk and find someone to talk to about the Challenge of Swords after Bart tells him its not his fault...