Last Time …
S met Melody’s family … and M’s mother told her to get out of town ASAP.
Father Jonathan will get us an interview with the Count … so leave M alone.
Shopping Spree
Large market
Alchemist – have much better tonics than the old stuff you have. Improved Tonic!
Also, some cool stuff that is out of our price range.
Recovering the bell lost into the channel – reward has climbed from 500z to 600z since yesterday. For further info, meet a rep at the harbor storefront – Westwing Foundry.
So … what about dinner?
Or those geologists? Maybe dinner, rest, and then the geologists tomorrow.
Trimaldis invited to the Whitneys estate by Sirus Harmon – need to find a few bits of machinery for rebuilding the device. Sirus sold some nice suits. Question had been raised about other animal families in the area, and Sirus brought up the Whitneys.
Dinner
Sara wants to bring flowers with us. Exotic flowers. Goes to a friendly-looking shot. People are asking, “Melody, what did you do with your hair?”
West side of town. Much nicer buildings.
A tree … with a miniature manor house built into it.
Okay for the TBs, maybe not so much for Mizzle and Sara. Sirus sitting there, greets us.
TBs stop the clank, get out in their (now-wrinkled) suits (Sara helps smooth the fabric.) Intro Sara.
Cafe table – where Mr Whitney meets with some bigs. Take the flowers from Sara.
Spiral stairwell up into the building.
Intro the TBs. Shiny, Tiny, and Whiney.
Greeted with a small event in progress … animals standing around a drawing room, in various glasses and cups. We are announced.
Rezler Whitney
He … doesn’t remember Harmony?
We get introed with a bunch of names. But they keep missing our names, too.
TBs roll poorly on how they are handling intros – but FP to do a fair amount better.
A lot of people, but not a lot of families involved, so that helps with names.
Folk defer to Whitney (even when he is wrong about something).
“Grand Plan” – decades ago, folks in Delmar abandoned the old city site, Delmar-on-the-Hill. But when they left, a lot of things changed, which shook things up enough to get the animal-kin a more prominent position. So … maybe build and inhabit DotH for just their folk, scaled appropriately.
TBs not sure. Self-segregation.
They’ve been working to gather up deeds and land grants, and start building very soon. Though some worries about the the terrible earthquakes that forced people to flee in the first place; hope smaller buildings will be safer. (Harmon grimaces a bit.) <------ TBs will ask about this later.
About a day’s travel away. People don’t go there …
Later … Harmon says it’s a great plan, lots of conveniences .. but overlooking earthquakes. Too many ifs.
Building method to withstand quakes … or could stop them.
But everyone defers to Whitney, even when he makes mistakes. SH: He’s an old bird. But he’s still twice sharper than some folks.
More chitchat. Toasts.
Good nights. Head back to the cupcake shop, to sleep for the evening.
Valentine: The old city – its destruction was traumatic and tragic, so people avoid it for that reaason. Unusual how many/strong the earthquakes were.
And the Next Morning …
- Talk to geologists (about blue stone, and about earthquakes).
- Melody’s father looking to get us an audience with the Count.
Go searching – sign down narrow, down stairs … "Brightseam Geological Surveys and Prospectings; Availabe for Consultations [something covered up]. Small office – fat beastkin – Cal.
Talk with dude – Mizzle has endless details about the blue stone. Also, about earthquakes.
Royce Brightseem brother has opinions about earthquakes – but he’s out for 4-5 days.
Can gather info on blue stone, too. … Goldspire Mining had some experience, but the mine may be played out.
Some weird push-back in discussion about the Archmagus’ old control.
Small uptick in the earthquakes, but that’s why everyone moved down the hill. But can’t betray confidentiality.
Mizzle: It’s okay, we’re adventurers.
Sara and TBs help Mizzle persuade him to give us the info. 14!
Some clients doing some mining that – earthquakes have become much more frequent, and it has caused some collapses. Roy has some theories – always been more gopher than bat, a spelunker, up near Dolvain’s Pass.
Earthquake map.
Mizzle – summons … asks, “What is the root cause of the recent uptick to quakes in this region?”
VISION: Deep under the DP mountains … a corridor or tunnel … a large set of cable from west to east … something has disrupted some of the cable, ether currents, spilling energy, flowing into the surrounding energy.
Put it all together and … a lot of loose elemental magic buildup! Mizzle writes it all down, offer it to Cal. TBs think it looks like the same sort of etheric energy stuff as the tailor’s equipment needs, but MASSIVE.
Failure in the system. Looks kind of accidental.
Wouild need to build/acquire the tools.
So … rescue the Bell, get the reward, buy/craft the tools, be done by the time Royce gets back in 4-5 days.
So … off the the Westwind Foundry rep, find out what has been tried.
Follow where the flyer points us at.
Next Time …
… Hopefully there won’t be car trouble …
