35. 10/30/2020 Session Writeup

Session Summary
Paolo, Masina, Lu and Therelin attended their meeting with Xanthi Skerlos, the gifts officer for the Path of Emanence. There, they found out the following: The group was offered a tour, but only with a dispel magic, so Therelin was allowed to come back in six days.
 * The Path of Emanence does a lot of work with Eobard the Smiling's mercenaries
 * Most of the work in Sarantium dealt with automata and golems, there's a place west that deals with teleportation, and a place northeast that deals with transformation
 * there was going to be an art auction and benefit for the Path of Emanence at house Skerlos in a week
 * The Path of Emanence believes the followers of Melikov's rest were there to steal their research
 * the Path of Emanence were big believers in agile methodology.

Meanwhile Taer, dressed as a Dwarven merchant noble, was approached by a member of house Laskaris, who tried to figure out where she was from and who she might have represented, but Taer weirded them out so much that they backed off.

The group reconvened after dinner to discuss possible next steps, including getting a mailing address, roping in their lawyer, and trying to hire themselves as bodyguards. The next day, Masina successfully got themselves a mailing address at a classy inn. Then she and Paolo headed down to Mapheson the Proud's automata shop, where Masina was mistaken by the proprieter for Zoia, who apparently helped him out of a jam a while back. Other than offering Zoia a recording contract, they didn't reveal very much new information.

Paolo then headed to his meeting with Maris, where Paolo tried to continue his research and Merin did his best to dissuade him, saying that studying the divinity of his god was not going to go over well with the higher ups. Eventually he promised to send him some leads, though not where there might be prying eyes. Meanwhile, Masina asked a special someone (ring edition) what they knew about Paolo's order - she mentioned that they were fairly new, but quickly managed to achieve a lot of political power and influence.

Paolo and Masina then found their way into a ministry of 2chainz, where they spent the day handing out food to those who needed it.