Pallbearers Session 2
The crew was down their Whisper, so they chose to focus on more mundane pursuits this time around. Ashen Crow (Leech) sought out an old war buddy and they spent a few days upgrading the potency of his alchemical formulas and started probing the underground for a good way to siphon off electricity for their base. Finni (Cutter) started his infiltration of the dockside fighting pits by battling in the arena and started working on finding out more about the spirit bottle from last session by agreeing to help his body-hopping ghost friend snatch a new body. Herrik (Slide) started building a spy network in Coalridge and scouted out locations for a body dumping operation in Six Towers, gaining a warning from the Gray Cloaks in the process.
After that, the team decided that their most pressing issue was their lack of funding, and to rectify that they went looking for an accountant to manage their coin. Herrik got them into the swanky Centuralia Club in Brightstone, posing as a Tycherosi merchant with Ashen Crow as his astrologer and Finni as his bodyguard. They talked with an Iruvian merchant princess who directed them towards the Bowmore clan as having issues with their current accountant and then took Ashen Crow aside for a reading. In the private room Crow put on a bit of a show and then hypnotized her before attuning to the ghost field and drawing the attention of a weakened ghost, which he managed to shake off and his performance earned her trust as a contact. Herrik and Finni dealt with a nosy Skovlander bodyguard before seeking out Rufus Bowmore, who was boasting about his talent as a duelist before challenging Finni to a duel.
Ashen Crow distracted the guards with a flashback to a radio device that he planted earlier to cause a fire while Finni fought Rufus, who was doing copious amounts of Duskwall-coke. In the duel, Finni broke Rufus’ nose, and they were all shocked to learn that the noble scion loved it and brought them into his confidence, asking them to seek out the accountant to help her get the Bowmores’ lost money back. Next week they’ll be doing just that, but of course it won’t be easy.