RB 6-5: Samant Wants to Be a Clown, & Stealing Rocket Launchers

Mission Report

Sat, Feb 3, 2018 ((Jul 26, 2020))
Party: Jane Irwin (Cael), Proud Flame (Aunne), Shiro (DragoN), Kromrak (Sielic), Isabelica (Basil), Sylvena (Daewendriel)
Negotiating with allies: Lyndi Fletcher (Aslene)

The team restrains the storm giant. They save his life and question him. He's Samant Stormgird and he wants to be a clown. He made a deal to join the Circus Divergia, but they evidently sent him to harass Raptor Blue and probably die in the process. Belle Leafwalker, Mayor of Brightwool, arrives. She negotiates with Jane and gives the team shears that should help track the Circus. The team returns to Sigil. Sylvena introduces Samant (disguised as a penguin) to the Sensates for clown training. The team spends time carefully studying Skardromri Wormbeard. The team targets one of his secret warehouses. They smoothly go in and out. To do so, Jane negotiates with an air elemental (The Cloud of Sound and Grit That Follows on Hooves), with help from another air elemental (The Traces of Nightmares of Children). Proud leaves forged evidence that Wormbeard transferred 12 primitive rocket launchers to another merchant in the city.

Questioning Samant

• Proud arrives through the portal and joins the team, having finished his op

• Plan
  • Kromrak joins with Bron
  • Transforms to robot form, sits on Samant
  • Belica revives Samant
• Plan followed
• Kromrak: Please have Kronislav sit on the giant. "Uh excuse me, I must restrain you as you attempted to harm us. This harm was prevented. If you try to harm us again, I will be force to use the HEAVY WEAPONS AND WRATH OF BRIGHTMANTLE." Kromrak voice goes into Bron voice haha.

• Samant cooperates with questioning
• Wants to join the Circus Divergia as a clown
• Made a deal: had to complete three tasks
• #1: Piece of his soul taken, used to create a graven hulk
• #2: Ambush and kill Raptor Blue

• Dris Snowtrapper (human, she/her cis), cleric of Karametra, watches
• White falcon, Gleam
  • Grapevine twined around her left wrist

• Shiro continues to observe another humanoid approaching
• Proud and Chikara head down the path to meet them
• Belle Leafwalker, short person (human, she/her, mayor Brightwool, also Chief Magistrate and Chief of Trade) ("Ya, I wear a lotta hats")

• Belica directs Samant to clear the portal and path of the stone pillars
• He does so, carefully

Making a Deal with Belle

• Jane and Belle negotiate: help tracking the Circus Divergia for arrangements with owners of the Sigil side of the portal
• You lot are kinda scary
• Tryin to promote Brightwool as a safe, profitable trading post
• Don't want this Unbroken Tide, League of the Rusted Crown war here
• Promise to cooperate if you leave
• Circus has taken steps to ensure they can't be tracked by finding the tools used to create their tents
• Jane tells Belle the Circus is evil. Belle will investigate this on her own, quietly
• Jane has to swear the team will do their best to protect Brightwool from any blowback from the Circus, in the sun, by Heliod
• Jane does so, feels a magical response in the Therosan Weave

• Belle gives Jane a pair of bronze sheers connected ot the Circus' tents
• Sylvena polymorphs Sammond into a penguin, and Belica cloaks his aura
• Jane gets some wool from a sheep (Cael: Cin, be sure you note that the sheep wool is to keep suspicion off the village in case the circus starts being nosey.)
• Samant is a happy, comical penguin

Back in Sigil

• Sylvena arranges Samant to stay with the Sensates and get clown training

• Proud finalizes the hologram message
• Recorded using Tardigrade gear, but down-stepping it to look poorer quality
• Proud calls out Caterina for being a terrible person, discourages the Fated from harboring her, here's your come-back, etc.

• Young rogues steal a wagon (LRC) for the op

• Final prep
• Obtain LRC weapons and explosives (from raiding Skardromri Wormbeard's warehouse)
• Skardromri Wormbeard, an immoral weapons dealer
  • His shop in the Guildhall District: Flint & Powder
  • He has secret warehouses around the city
  • For payment, he only takes metals he can melt down

• Team spends about 2 days spying on Wormbeard and shadowing his movements in Sigil
• They find a warehouse

Infiltrating the Warehouse

• Wormbeard's warehouse in Lady's Ward
  • Front is beverage distribution
  • Guard in plate with axe on door, with Fated clerk (contractor?)
  • About 4 guards inside, in rotation through 24 hours
  • About 4 teamster/laborers inside
  • Deliveries and sales handled through exterior loading docks
• Warehouse is Lady's Ward, H1

• Team approaches in Kron via stealth
• Shiro monitors SigilNet activity
• Temple District Net activity is heating up
• Belica and Sylvena check for magical countermeasures
  • Alarm-like spell, which they will use Counterspell to stop
  • Big elemental in a pot
• Jane summons a dust mephit as an intermediary to talk with the big elemental
• He proves to be a djinni, bound against his will: The Cloud of Sound and Grit That Follows on Hooves
• Jane negotiates that they will free him later, if he lets them come and go without alarm

• Proud finds primitive rocket launchers
  • 12: 6 frag, 4 incendiary, 2 sonic?
• Proud alters the log makes log entries look like a pass through, from merchant to merchant
• Proud puts the false entries 1 week back
• Proud alters an entry about the receipt of wands to look like the shipment of the launchers
• Proud takes a box of 3 wands, so there's no evidence they were there

• Dust mephit is named The Traces of Nightmares of Children, for his taste in their morning eye dust
• He likes the relief they feel when they realize it was just a nightmare
• He's wordy and courtly