# [[044_20220329 A friendly Suggestion]] ## Session Summary > [!abstract] [[044_20220329 A friendly Suggestion]] > There was absolute chaos as guards yelled to each other in the midst of a fog cloud and believed that the Kryn have come to attack. > > Xenia cast _alter self_ to turn himself into Floyd and Reya cast _disguise self_ to turn herself into Lady Crowforth. I went into the other bedroom to hide, and encountered a surly halfling who couldn't be persuaded to leave. > > Oremid Hass began to get suspicious and took Lady Floella into a room. Wally tried to interpose, but didn't make a good first impression on Oremid Hass, even provoking Oremid into casting Thunderwave. > > Team Book found a key attached to a bracelet and solved the maze puzzle to open the safe. In the safe, we saw a quill, a scroll, a book, a bone whistle, a ring with a crescent line and a symbol of the sun, 200 pp, and a marble elephant figurine. As soon as I touched the scroll, it wrote threatening words on the scroll and then the scroll went black. > > Xenia cast _suggestion_ on the halfling, suggesting that he confess everything to Lady Floella. The halfling went to Lady Floella and confessed that he was working for The Myriad. > > Meanwhile, the tiefling was informed by one of the Crownsguard that Floyd had gone off with Lady Crowforth in her carriage immediately after they left the ballroom. The tiefling realized that Floyd was in danger. ^summary ## Recap of last session ![[043_20220322 Her name is FLOella not Cruella#^summary]] --- ## Log The guests have started to panic because of the fog clouds and yelling that the Kryn had started to attack. Lady Floella's bracelet is gone. She calls for [[Marguerite]], a servant, and asks her to go to the bedroom to check to see if it had been left in the bedroom. The tiefling warns me! Xenia casts _Alter Self_ to make himself [[Floyd Hemsworth|Floyd]]]. Reya casts _disguise self_ to look like [[Lady Crowforth]]. I sneak into the [[The Hemsworth Mansion#Bedroom 2]] to hide, ready to turn invisible. - Halfling - 18 Reya - 15 Scura - 15 Wally - 12 Xenia ```encounter name: Encounter players: - Scura - Milla - Reya - Wally - Xenia creatures: - Thing ``` I try to get the [[Bene]] to run, but he doesn't believe me when I show him the symbol and I just yell out for Reya. He attacks me, but we attack him. Xenia casts _hold person_ on him. The front of the safe is a complex maze. There is a pin on a chain connected to the rest of the safe. There is a keyhole. But where's the key? [[Oremid Hass]] might be in on the plan of [[The Gentlemanly Rivals]] ![[exandya-oremid-hass.png]] ![[exandya-lady-floella.png]] ![[exandya-marguerite.png]] Oremid Hass is getting suspicious, and takes Lady Floella away into the [[The Hemsworth Mansion#Private dining area]] with him. They ask Wally to leave, but he follows them. The tiefling hears Oremid Hass say that he doesn't think there is a Kryn invasion. He recognises that the fog cloud was a spell. He wants to remain neutral, but the Assembly is at the service of the Empire. ![[exandya-myriad-halfling.png]] I find a small key attached to a bracelet. I hold it out for Xenia to have a look at. ![[exandya-maze-door-lock.png]] Xenia is sliding the pin around and we hear a thunk and a ticking noise. I help him and together we solve the maze. The pin comes out, the chain falls loose. The maze is the front door of the safe. Wally knocks on the door where Oremid Hass and Lady Floella are. Oremid Hass casts Thunderwave at Wally. Wally is moved ten feet back. Oremid asks him not to put his nose where it doesn't belong. Wally says "That's the thing" and pulls off his nose. "I've been trying to tell you that I'm security for the lady and that I can't let you put a sword in her back." We hear a scream, "Mrs Crowforth has been murdered!" It's from the room next to us. I don't know who yelled it. > [!question]- Wally sees... > Wally, Oremid, and Lady Floella go to where Marguerite was (she was the one who yelled). It's a library, and Lady Crowforth's body is there on the ground, facedown. She's dead, and she's missing a hand. > > Oremid points out that the last time she was seen, she left with Floyd. He asks when the last time was that people saw her. Marguerite, embarrassed, says that she saw Floyd and Lady Crowforth in a state of undress and congress (OMG it was Xenia and Reya). Meanwhile, there is a scroll upon which there are numbers appearing. It's almost like a folio. A quill is floating in the air and is copying the things in the scroll in the book. As soon as I touch it, it stops writing. Sequence like this: `23:1 56:34 120:3` - whistle made of bone - ring with a crescent line with a symbol of the sun - 200 pp - marble elephant figurine As soon as I touch the scroll, words appear: `You will be found and prosecuted`. And then the whole thing goes blank. Xenia casts _suggestion_ on the halfling. He wants him to explain what he was trying to do here. He suddenly feels the urge to confess. He confesses that he was trying to rob Lady Floella and that there are others in his midst. > [!question]- Wally sees > Wally finds a bedroom near to the west of the library. To the south, he finds what looks like a young man's room. It looks like an 18- or 19-year-old's bedroom. It seems like there's been some sort of disturbance in the room - a rug has been scuffed up a bit. There are signs of a struggle. He also finds an earring. He realises it belongs to [[Lady Crowforth]]. This room is Floyd's old bedroom. > > He finds some rolled up parchment, letter-sized. They are love letters to a woman called Charmaine. There's also a porno etching. > > Wally puts the earring back where he found it and leaves the room. ^6c31a0 One of the Crownsguard tells Milla that the stableboy told him that he saw [[Floyd Hemsworth]] and [[Lady Crowforth]] go off in her carriage immediately after they left the ballroom.