38. 1/15/2021 Session Writeup

Session Summary
After the fight, Taer and Paolo spend eight hours fixing the hallow spell in the Temple of Sune's cellar with a combination of Ukka, Azuth, and Sune's divinity.

Meanwhile:


 * Masina copies a spell
 * Astrid and Therelin swap romance novels
 * Lu checks in with the merchants' guild to ship some things back home, and is asked if she wants to meet with any of the local noble merchant families to help strengthen that relationship. She asks the guild to reach out to House Laskaris

The next morning, Illya Goga checks in with the group and agrees to meet them this evening at their Inn. The party spends their time resting, though Taer checks in and gathers some information on Therelin - he tells her that prior to being a rook, he 'started young' and ran jobs that left everyone feeling like they had the better end of the deal. He spent more time talking up the rooks, saying that he enjoyed using his skills to actually make the world better.

Illya joins the group for dinner and a chat - she agrees to set up a shell company for the fake personas the have already created, and suggests being careful of any job they take through Eobard the Smiling, since they might accidentally hire themselves to take out themselves. She also suggests that you don't actually need to spend money to get meetings with important people - you can just suggest that you'll spend that money, get the information, enjoy the free food, take some swag, and run.

In the evening, the party goes to the fighting pit. When finding out about what you'd like for entry in the fighting pit (10 gold per person to enter, somewhere between 50 gold and 500 gold, 100 platinum for payment if you win, depending on what you’re fighting), they meet Liviana, who tells them all about the current adventuring economy. It used to be that the nobles would go to the fighting pits to hire mercenaries, but now they go through Eobard the Smiling, who is less expensive to use, but also doesn't have the personal touch. They also personally source their monsters for the fights. After buying some commemorative ponchos/cloaks, they settle down in the first row to watch the fights. Astrid gambles some money, and ends up winning it back.