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 title: Session 84
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-date: 2024-08-12T13:10:27.256Z
+date: 2024-08-12T15:51:29.672Z
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 editor: ckeditor
 dateCreated: 2024-08-11T15:03:17.138Z
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+<h5>Cabal Documents on Table:</h5>
+<p>A large amounts of paper, as well as a few maps, and a couple of books.</p>
+<p>Many of the papers seem to be reports regarding ship movements, specifically ships belonging to the Marcandrian Royal Armada. The Huntsman, the Marcandrian capital ship currently docked in Alatri, is among the ships being tracked. Some of the books here appears to be logs of reported movements, spanning back years.</p>
+<p>One book, however, seems to instead log outgoing shipments, smuggled out from the city with the help of Privateer ships. Among the goods the log describes are tons worth of fused Concalian crystals. The destination of these shipments is not listed.</p>
+<p><strong>Additions with roll:</strong></p>
+<p><strong>Ship tracking:</strong> The Marcandrian Royal flagship, the Concord, had its last entry about a year ago. They seem to have stopped caring about tracking its position since then.</p>
+<p><strong>Privateer Ships listed in log</strong>: At least a dozen different ships, among them Edward's Revenge, whose last smuggled goods out of Alatri a few months ago.</p>
+<p><strong>Shipment timeline:</strong> Seems to have started a little over 2 years ago. Last outgoing shipment was about a month ago. There logs seem to indicate there's been some frustration since the nearby shores off Alatri got infested with sea-monsters. A couple of privateer ships are also indicated as having been sunk due to these sea-monsters.</p>
+<p><strong>What was shipped off:</strong> In addition to the fused concalian crystals, vast amounts of magic materials and magical items seems to have been among the smuggled goods.</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h5>Documents In archives</h5>
+<p>These archives contain rows upon rows of letters, documents, and books. The archives seem very well organized. The contents seem to include:</p>
+<ol>
+  <li><strong>Documents on official agreements,</strong> such as treaties, pacts, and trade agreements. These documents outline the terms laid forth by said alliance, trade agreement, and other agreement,</li>
+  <li><strong>Legal Documents.</strong> These includes official decrees, contracts, and charters. These include land deeds, contracts, and feudal charters between House Ravanelli and their vassals – which detail acerage, taxes, and the duties and responsibilities the vassal agrees to in exchange for being granted land. Laws, regulations, edicts, proclamations. Decrees of pardons/amnesty, and decrees of confiscation/expropriation are also among these.<ol>
+      <li>Documents detailing the terms for each of House Ravanelli's vassals can be found here – the terms laid forth for them in terms of taxes, duties, responsibilities, etc, are not always equal.</li>
+      <li>.</li>
+    </ol>
+  </li>
+  <li><strong>Financial Records.</strong> Records detailing House Ravanelli's finances, including accounts, ledgers, budgets, and financial transactions. Some documents also detail inventories of assets, properties, and resources owned by the family.<ol>
+      <li>Ravanelli family seems to historically having been quite wealthy.</li>
+      <li>There seems to have been a sharp increase in expenditures related to mercenaries, espionage, bribes, etc, starting early 1350. The family seems to currently be running a massive deficit, tapping into the funds they've stockpiled and selling off assets in order to finance this.</li>
+    </ol>
+  </li>
+  <li><strong>Correspondences and Communications</strong>: These are records of letters, messages, and other forms of communication exchanged between the ducal family and various parties, including other noble houses, government officials, diplomats, and influential individuals.</li>
+  <li><strong>Espionage Reports and Intelligence</strong>: Reports compiled by spies, agents, or intelligence operatives employed by the ducal house. These reports may contain information on rival houses, political intrigue, military movements, economic activities, and other matters of strategic interest.</li>
+  <li><strong>Strategic Plans and Policies</strong>: Documents outlining long-term strategies, policies, and objectives of the ducal family, including plans for governance, defense, expansion, and diplomacy.</li>
+  <li><strong>Personal Journals and Diaries</strong>: Private writings of family members, such as personal journals, diaries, and memoirs, providing insights into their thoughts, experiences, and personal lives.</li>
+  <li><strong>Historical Records and Archives</strong>: Documents of historical significance to the ducal family, such as records of past events, achievements, and milestones in the family's history.</li>
+  <li><strong>Genealogical Records.</strong> Records documenting the family lineage, ancestry, and genealogy of House Ravanelli, including pedigrees, family trees, birth certificates, and marriage records.</li>
+</ol>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><strong>Additions with roll:</strong></p>
+<ul>
+  <li>Recent strategic plans:<ul>
+      <li>They appear to be gathering support to try get Mariana Ravanelli to ascend to the currently-empty Marcandrian throne. They seem to be in competition with the ducal houses of de Vesci and Grimani, with the documents seeming to convey that relations between the three houses are quite sour at the moment. Three Casodonian houses are also listed as vying for the Casodonian ducal seat. Their plans for the two remaining ducal houses – house Bologni and house Moretti – seem to involve trying to convince them into backing House Ravanelli by the time they're done dealing with the current turmoil in their respective duchies (in part also to prevent more contenders).</li>
+      <li>Most of House Ravanelli's family members thus seem to have been away from Alatri for most of the past couple of years in order to garner support, with Mariana Ravanelli herself staying in Vessina.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>Legal documents<ul>
+      <li>Includes a decree that forbids burials in Alatri – all burials must happen outside the city's perimeter. An accompanying document, that seem to be addressed to the writer's descendants, is very insistent that this decree must not be reversed so long as the apparent curse beneath the city remains.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>Financial records<ul>
+      <li>House Ravanelli seem to be tapping heavily into their wealth, starting Winter 1349 – when the royal family was assassinated. This money has been used to, amongst others, bribes, military equipment, and the hiring of mercenaries.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>Correspondences and communications<ul>
+      <li>Vast array of recipients, on a vast array of issues. A lot of them recently seem to be in regards to garnering support for House Ravanelli's claim to the Marcandrian throne. Other noble families, and members from factions such as the Fulcrum, Wayfarer's Union, Meranzeum, Joybringers, Greenwardens, and so on.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>Intelligence and espionage<ul>
+      <li>House Ravanelli seems well aware of Elena “the Grin”, and are keeping track of her. The records seem to indicate that House Ravanelli and Elena the Grin has an informal agreement, where Elena keeps a leash on the other criminals in Alatri, and make sure they don't do anything stupid that would upset the citizenry, in return for House Ravanelli <i>mostly</i> looking the other way.<ul>
+          <li>House Ravanelli's view: “There will always be a kingpin, beheading one will only open the path for another, so let's make a not-so-bad option that we can work with holds the position of kingpin.”</li>
+        </ul>
+      </li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>personal journals and correspondences<ul>
+      <li>Old journals and correspondences belonging to duchess Fioretta Ravanelli seem to indicate that her, Euphemia Moretti, and someone called Elrithia Renfallan have been rather close friends for decades.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>intelligence and espionage<ul>
+      <li>Seem to have been quite an effort into figuring out who was behind the royal family's assassination, with little luck. They seem concerned that one – or more – of the other houses vying for the Marcandrian throne could have been involved, and are thus also concerned about their and their subjects' future should someone involved in said assassination ascend to the Marcandrian throne.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+</ul>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>Regarding Ravanelli Documents: It seems people have been looking at quite a few of the records. Some seem to be missing, others seem to have been placed back.</p>
+<p>Documents include: Personal correspondences, confidential reports, + more confidential versions of what's found in state office.</p>
+<p>There are also a lot of documents that either are or that describe the exchanges between the Ravanelli family and other parties, be that other noble families, other factions, &nbsp;both within Marcandria and abroad. Documents that relates to diplomacy in a sense. The topics are many, though one that often comes up for exchanges within Marcandria are negotiations on promises and favors in return for the other party supporting House Ravanelli's claim to the Marcandrian throne.</p>
 <h1>Conciri Compound</h1>
 <h2>Levels:</h2>
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