Lost and Found

Synopsis 1/1/2021 - Lost and Found

An uneventful evening is spent at the White Hart.

Tuesday, November 10th, 1716.

The party continues to Annapolis. Annapolis is a bustling port, ten times the size of Baltimore. The Colonial Affairs Office is visited, and a claim is put down for a two-mile by two-mile square, to become the town of Aldershot. A 400 GP fee is put down as a deposit towards the first years taxes. The crown expects a 10% cut of the value of all products exported out of the town, with a minimum of 400 GP per year.

From there, Jeanne starts searching for stolen-and-sold belongings from the Aldershot house. At an import/export house, they find a significant amount of stuff, "sold by some guy off a ship". Jeanne buys back a few things. They also visit a fine woodworking shop, where they are able to buy two of Solo's instruments, and a pawnshop, where they find a few other things. The Dudeish pawnshop owner is sympathetic, but gives very little away for free.

The evening is spent at an upscale inn, the kind the cognoscenti hang out in. There they have discussions about slavery with local abolitionists and about human rights with a Halfling representative (Cedar Swiftriver) of the "Campaign for Equal Heights". They hear some details about Black Adam, who has a fleet of small ships and flings lightning about. He doesn't attack the very biggest of ships, mostly attacking coastal traders.

Wednesday, November 11th

In the morning, they head back to Revel Grove

Tamara acts like she owns the place, but impresses with her shooting.

Greg encounters a sick person who it turns out has a magic-resistant disease (the Scarlet Flux). Working with the civil authorities (such as they are), the characters use their knowledge of germs and sanitation to shut things down before an epidemic started. Reportedly, patient zero is infected by a friend of Annapolis, making people wonder what will happen there.

Sending - $2000 will stop the war between us. Vadona says she will bring it up with the tribe.

Dealing with the disease runs till Friday. The remaining sick people are quarantined and the weekend faire is expected to go on as planned. Tom spends a bunch of time with the Gnomish brass-worker and the Dwarven smith.

Over the weekend, Solo does some busking and Tamara does some archery trick shooting and both gain a small amount of coin.

Sunday evening, the town is alerted that the Vy'keen (wolf people) have attacked the town of London, some ten miles south. Reports have it that the Vy'keen were seeking food for the winter, so the decision is made to essentially pay Danegeld and sacks of food and a selection of goats are set up outside Revel Grove's wall. When the Vy'keen arrive, loud voice and pyrotechnics tell the Vy'keen that they can have the food and go on their way, but not to trouble the town. The Vy'keen take the food and depart without incident.

Monday, November 16th

Continuing the journey home, the party stops at South Port, where the Wilson/Mitchell families have arranged for negotiations with their mysterious (and threatening) buyers. The party provides assistance with negotiations and receive a 350 GP cut of the profit and a decision that the two families will be moving to Aldershot in the near future.

Tuesday, November 17th

Back home, they discover Vadona's strung up body, with note and magic item. The item consists of six dodecahedrons, each marked with alien runes. The note is from XXX, who is apparently the new leader of the Monax. The note says that the Monax are too scattered now to pay their desired fee, but that item, which is what was used to summon the party, is infinitely for valuable. The note provides details of the summonings that have already been done, and how each crystal was configured when doing so. Tom's "Identify" on the crystals confirms much of what the note says about the crystals.

Upon examination, the burial site of Lovey and Thurston's has been disturbed, as if they rose up out of their holes. Jeanne, who studied Amerind culture, speaks of the Wendigo, a legend of people who rose from the grave because they were too strong/evil/greedy.