Chapter 2, Part II: Lore in Lorecliff

The Bullseye: Issue #3

(Editor: Oxford Kahma)

    Written by Steve

Theodore

    Written by Justin

Lady Farron transports us to Lorecliff through a tree

It's a very vertical city, multiple large towers

All of the greenery has been brought in, all natural greenery torn away

City is bustling with commerce

Heavy cloud of tension (war) pervasive throughout the city

We harmonize with the tree here (fast travel yay)

Two paths up and down from Lorecliff, the safe path takes an hour, the Dagger Pass is quicker but can be very dangerous

Tallest building is a bronze tower with Grayforge Industries on it

AGI logo is at the bottom of that same tower

We go to the AGI to get a city map

This AGI is different, seems more posh

Holly is the blonde lady who works here??!?!?!

Songbird Sundries is higher end stuff

Precipice Tavern is more rowdy of a tavern

Hearth Tower is a calmer and cozier tavern

The Lofty Gamble is a battle tower of some sort, closed currently to set up for an event

This weird little guy named Benoit finds TB a disguise, it has an anchor on it like the Leather Daddy's cloak

The disguise cloak belonged to the "Joe-sonn"

Holly hands Louie a letter from his mom saying she is staying at the Brass Bell Apartments

Rix asks who Holly's boss is, Adriana Grayforge, owner of Grayforge Industries

Letter for Louie is signed "AG"...Adriana Grayforge?

TBoats asked about the Queen Dowager, it is docked here in town

We talk about the implications of this cloak, it means not everyone who is in the AGI is necessarily a good person

We make it to the Brass Bell Apts

Rix and Louie are asking to see AG

We get the room number and password (I'm a bologna sandwich) with a nat 20 from Rix

We take the elevator up

Room 3A, we get in, Louie's mother is there as is Lenny the Leper

A touching reunion is had

Louie's mom is a LOT

(Lenny is a Snow Leper)

Miku, Louie's rock star friend is also here, she seems rather hurt by Louie leaving without telling her anything

Rix goes to attune the Transport Orb to Wiltspar so we can bring Louie's people there

Door frame is magical, the windows (both abjuration), Miku has divination magic in her pocket, in the kitchen the stove has evocation magic,

I ask her about the divination magic, it's a necklace that she's wearing like a rosary. It's an amulet that Drez gave her, supposed to protect against detection

Rix takes Louie's people back to Wiltspar, we're going to wait in their room to meet Adriana when she comes to check on them

TB sees the QD from the window of the room. The flag she is flying is a black and gold flag with an anchor on it

Human woman comes to the door, tan skin, dark curly hair, blazer and leather apron with tools in the pockets. Beside her is a younger sea elf, who has a book with him, taking notes and such. Sea elf is named Kelton Abernathy

The object Kelton is holding is a detect magic/identify prototype

A local hero owns the Queen Dowager according to Adriana, the Captain saved the city from a siege by Crystalia

I ask Adriana about the AGI concierges and Holly. Most of the concierges are constructs, Holly is more...

I ask Adriana about a tracking device and she says she'll work on it. She also said she can get us a ticket on another boat if we want

Bucky the Quartermaster is someone on The Dowager that might be amenable to backing the Boatswain

We discuss how much we think the hot tiefling knows about us

We head to the Precipice Tavern to see if we can get any Intel on the Dowager's crew

TB feels a hand on his shoulder, it's a human with a black cloak and yellow trim with an anchor on it. Whispers to him that his cloak is on inside out

"Us Bottomliners gotta look out for each other" the human says. "You can call me Trenter, Trenter Benter"

TB knocks him the fuck out

We Feather Fall down to the docks to go to the tavern down there maybe

The rest of the party sees a cloaked figure watch us go over the cliff

Boaty sees the Coxswain among a lot of faces he does NOT recognize on the boat

We head in to the Slashing Swordfish

We get a table off in the corner

TB says to look out for a fancy, jackass dragonborn (Hot Stepper), Captain Preston is a Tortle

The hooded figure that was following us is Kelton Abernathy

Kelton offers to distract the Captain and some of his crew for us

Possibly a Key to the City ceremony, or through the gladiator tournament that Adriana is setting up with Faraday Lawson

Faraday Lawson's assistant is Zuri Duskfang (Zara's sister)

Throughout all this, Louie breaks up some idiots who are breaking shit in the bar, they leave and come back with backup, we fight them and take one of them prisoner