Session 71

• Start Time: Evening on 27th of Ummindur 1353. Probably around 1AM.
• They just knocked out Te'lik, disguised as Xario. He's in the street. Ari is being followed by Shadow Mastiffs still.
• Reinforcement for Te'Lik is 2 turns away. Magister who'll throw some kind of AoE on them? If they find the party.
• If they're slow:
  • Maybe the Overgold shows up? They bothered her after all. If she gets to know about  the Shapeshifter, she'll want it for herself. Would give a boon to the Overgold yet complicate things for the party and for Moretti.
    • She probably has a few other clerics with her, alongside her personal guard/guards employed by the Meranzeum.

Elena the Grin

• What she wants:
  • Is rather pissed about the coup among the Privateers and their new supposed “nation” causing a loss in business and revenue for her. Wants to topple it and bring pain to those who made it, in revenge for causing her business.
• Will be rather pissed off if they delay coming to her to conclude the deal. She'll see it as disrespectful, and conclude that she wishes nothing more to do with them.
  • “I was hoping one of Lazruk's crew would be as dependable as he was. He respected a deal made, and showed it through his expediency in getting it done. I was hoping this little task would prove you shared his qualities, and could be of aid to me and Gileon against those responsible for Lazruk's fate. It seems my hopes were misplaced. Your tardiness and attitude is of great disrespect to me and mine. You were given a contract, informally yes but a contract nonetheless. In our business, such deals are expected to be carried out with expediency. Yours was to be completed at the night of the auction. It was thus expected of you to have returned after said auction with positive results – or at the very least a damn good reason as to why you've not.”
  • If they call her disrespectful: “I welcomed you back, and gave you a chance to prove yourself. Apologies for not spelling it out for you – I find people's behavior to be far more revealing when the expected behavior is not spelled out to them.”
    • “Control requires respect and fear. Allow yourself to be disrespected and people will no longer respect you. Allow to many failures to slide and people will no longer fear you.”
      • “Not everyone can be controlled through respect. Some only do so out of fear.”
• .
• Side note: Grin's mental being manipulated by Cabal? To make her less trusting of others (less than she already was).

Peneli Navara

• What she wants:
  • Get back her family's home
  • Avenge her sister
    • Celinia's description of the masked figure that approached her makes Peneli believe it was one of her peers.
    • If Moretti intends to “purge” the Conciri, then she wants to use that chaos as a chance to find and deal with the ones involved in her sister's murder, and figure out who was behind it. She doesn't trust Moretti however, as she's unsure if there's one bad party within the Conciri, or several competing ones.
    • Party wise, she probably wants the party to use the coming chaos Moretti's return will make to figure out who the masked figure they met were, as she believes this to be the same person Celinia described in her letter. Peneli wants to question them to figure out if someone else is also behind it, and then bring them to justice/have vengeance.
      • So how to include this? She's technically still on the hooks to figure out who this person is to keep her position within the Conciri, since Ari gave the faked evidence to the Overgold – who now uses it to pressure Peneli into compliance.
  • Peneli's next steps:
    • Given proof that party gave her to the other nobles, so her family is at least somewhat off the hooks (not entirely, as it could always be falsified. But they are no longer under direct superstition, after they had a Cleric verify Peneli's claims of it being real while under a Zone of Truth).
    • Now has a small window to figure out who the masked figure was before the Overgold's deadline, who threathened to use the falsified evidence if Peneli did not step in line.
      • Peneli basically has to do as the Overgold says, only being able to do her own things within the framework allowed by the Overgold's “instructions”

Euphemia Moretti

• What she wants:
  • Some of the Conciri has gotten out of line, with their endeavors now being to the detriment to the Conciri's purpose. Moretti wants to purge them from the organization.
  • Wants to take back control of the large countermeasure rituals happening beneath the Conciri compound. the amount of magical energies at work there are dangerous in the wrong hands.
    • Getting back one of the two rings that allows one to bypass many of the sigils and traps there would be of great help in making that less complicated.
  • Wants to get hold of her old friend, the Duchess Ravanelli. Besides their friendship, Moretti sees her as an important figure in maintaining stability in Rosella, particularly since the succession crisis is still ongoing, with Ravanelli's heir busy garnering support in Vessina. She'd ideally want house Ravanelli to eventually take the throne, though getting directly involved in that part of the matter is quite far down her list of priorities at the moment.
  • Wants to get rid of the Black Dagger Cairne has. She knows it's bad, and that it has some sort of will, though she was captured before she figured out what exactly.
• “Hells have no fury like a woman scorned. I'd reckon you could classify me as rather scorned being trapped as a bird for 2 years.”

Overgold

• What she wants:
  • Reign in the Conciri, make them unable to deceive her and the Meranzeum and make sure the Conciri's activities remains within the Meranzeum's boundaries.
• Knows there are members of the Conciri that were involved in the attack during the auction, but does not know who is behind it. Wants to figure out who within the Conciri has gone too off-the-rails (i.e. whose gone too far, having caused harm that cannot be forgiven), and burn them and their influence out of the Conciri.
  • Has incriminating on the Navara family, that she knows is falsified. She's using this to force Peneli Navara's compliance and assistance in figuring out who's behind the action attack, who they work with, and who else within the Conciri have gone too far off the rails.
• But how exactly does she mean to proceed? She does not know Moretti is back yet.

1. She has set up her own staff to discretely monitor every action made by every notable member of the Conciri.
2. Has Peneli Navara prepare scrying items that can be planted to spy on Conciri members.
3. Gathers anti-magic components. Wants to 

• Note: Cairne yelled her name in the barracks, and rolled high enough that the guards went and bothered her, wanting to ask her questions.

Te'Lik

• “Get your filthy paws of me.”
• “There's a plan for everything. A response to every eventuality. Let me go, or all hell is going to break loose – and it'll all be your fault.”
  • About what: “I don't want to spoil the surprise.”
  • If threatened to tell: "
    • “It doesn't matter who you ask. We are shielded by secrecy. For every thread you cut there'll be a thousand more. You'll just entangle yourself and drown because of it.”

NOTES ON TE'LIK QUOTES

• (Read Gospel + beliefs and goals of Cabal to make his viewpoints)
• "To fix this flawed society. To create one where everyone are given what they deserve."
• "We are guided by a higher power, one who has revealed to us the hidden truths of this world. Who has opened our eyes to the hypocrisy that we live in today."
• "This corrrupt reality has blinded you all."
• Goal: "A new order. One where we are all given that which we rightfully deserve." (maybe sounds a bit too egotistical)
• About him being behind everything: “Me? Ha. MHAHAHAHA (Astarion laugh). I am but one thread in a vast tapestry. One tiny peace in the grandest design. You stand no chance against us. You don't even know what you're up against." (if they ask who they're up against: “Everyone. Everywhere.”)
• ”

Surrender yourself to it in darkness, and it'll show you the truth."

"The current system is beyond saving. Only by tearing it down can a new one flourish."

"You are blind. W

What he gets: "The Nightstar."

They'll probably have some snarky comment to that: "You are as much of an imacile as the rest of them. Unable to recognize true artistry even when it's right in front of you."