AGsPFS Rise of the Runelords/Jade Regent

Game Master Molotof

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I have to get online now? Back in my day we played pen and paper role-playing games with pen and paper! Not these fancy schmancy computers. Harumph.

As long as I can still bang bang pop, I don't care where we play!

And I will go whereever my queen wishes me to go!

Rhat's rup?

Good morning my fair players, for some reason, the system does not appear to recognize you as players unless you post under Gameplay, so please hop over there and say hi. As Jaspur is the only one who followed instructions he is the only one the system sees as a player. Good Jasper. good.

BAM... boot to the head! I was actually here first. That's what you get for failing your perception checks

Local and/or Nobility to know more about Mayor Kendra Deverin.

Local: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (15) + 10 = 25
Nobility: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (13) + 10 = 23

I know all about Kendra. Remember her from when she was just a snotty little kid. Not that she was foul tempered or anything. Kids are just gross. Never had kids, don't really want to, guess at this point no one's going to bother me about it. Anyways, I knew her parents too. They were alright as far as local nobles go. Although I don't think such a small little town even needs nobles, but I don't hold that against them. I mean Sandpoint isn't even a city. Only the major city-states in Varisia are considered full-fledged cities. I mean it's a town so it needs a mayor, that's understood for any settlement large enough to have a marketplace, hence the term "market town", but it doesn't need a whole caste of nobles. That's just preposterous. It isn't even an officially recognized diocese of Abadar. How can you have a caste of nobles if the church doesn't even recognize you as a diocese?

Anyways, about Kendra...

Mortimer probably knows plenty, he'll share it with anyone that sticks around long enough

Mortimer waxes on for some time on the growth of towns and political representations of states when counterbalanced with economic and geolocational strategic value, but unfortunately most of it was under his breath and was equally mixed in with "in my day" and "today's youth" which has a interesting similarity to the Silence spell for any human under 40 years of age (or racially equivalent).

Upon noticing either his party members are either not paying attention or just looking at him with a pitiful "did that old man just have an accident" look. Mortimer becomes frustrated, but does remember the following about the Mayor:

Kendra Deverin has served as Sandpoint’s mayor since 4702 AR. Lawmaker, judge, and general peacemaker, she has proven to be both an adept diplomat and stern hand when need be, both skills honed during her youth in Magnimar. With a personal—some say sisterly—style of governing, most of Sandpoint’s citizens hold deep respect for their fiery-haired mayor.

She is respectful of rank, but known to be impatient, especially when people do not listen to her. She dresses in fine clothings, eschewing armour and preferring long tunics and trousers to dresses; although she has been known to wear longskirts when the situation required it. She is fond of reading poetry in Auran, Elven and Sylvan.

Deverin's nobility is quite a recently one as opposed to say the Kaijitsu's or Scarnettis, for example. Although a well known and loved household name in Sandpoint, she is only the second in her line to Magnimar to hold a significant position of power or own lands.

Would you like to know more?

Who wouldn't? This is riveting. Yes, yes, more please. How did her family come to power?

Give me a Knowledge History and I'll pare it with your rolls above.

I assume Mortimer will rock the roll, but wanted to offer the rest of the party at any knowledge rolls they would like. Rumors are also available in various places in town, including the Rusty Dragon. I'll populate vendor items later tonight

MOAR_HISTORY: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (10) + 10 = 20

The Sandpoint Mercantile League, a consortium of four noble families from Magnimar, was granted a charter in 4667 AR by the Magnimar Charterhouse to settle the area. The League arrived at the promontory and small bay that would become Sandpoint only to find it occupied by a large group of the nomadic native Varisians who periodically wintered in the region. The League began negotiations, hoping to come to an agreement that would allow them to found a town upon the natural harbor where the Turandarok River met the Varisian Gulf.

Alamon Scarnetti, impatient with what he saw as the natives' unreasonable recalcitrance, organized an armed band of family members and raided the Varisian camp under cover of night, intending to slaughter the Varisians totally and make the massacre appear like a goblin attack. Fortunately the raid was a disaster - the Scarnettis were drunk and overconfident, and while they killed five Varisians, three Scarnettis lay dead before the rest fled in defeat.

The League returned in disgrace to Magnimar, where the city's Varisian Council demanded justice from all four families. Finally, the city's High Court mediated a peace agreement between the aggrieved Varisians and the League, due largely to the measured diplomacy, sensitivity, and humanity of the young bard, Almah Deverin and mother to Kendra. Almah helped to ease the tensions between the Sandpoint Mercantile League and the Varisian Council in the matter of the Varisian-Scarnetti Murders over the land ownership of Sandpoint during its founding.

Almah was the key speaker in not only the creation of Sandpoint as a new frontier town, but also settled the blood vengeance the Varisian Council were calling for on all four families that formed the League. The Varisian Council claimed that while it was Alamon Scarnetti and members of his family that committed the murders, that the whole League was involved in the planning of the raid. The other three families claimed no involvement. Two main points were agreed upon through her talks; one was the inclusion of the worship of Desna within the church community, and two the Varisian Council were to receive a generous share of the business' profits for a span of forty years. Almah has retied in Magnimar from her career as a politician and ex-bard days.

The period called for by the compact has passed, but Kendra Deverin pushed for the extension of the agreement by another two decades, a decision unpopular with a minority of the town's wealthy residents and merchants. Varisians and former Chelaxians/Magnimarians live in relative harmony, though the town's older Varisian residents have not forgotten the Scarnetti family's brutality.

Although Kendra flourished in her mother's footprints she actually didn't want to take the role of Mayor except for the persistence of her friend, the former sheriff of Sandpoint, Caspius "Casp" Avertin.

The question, "Would you like to know more?" will always be open and should be assumed at the end of any knowledge result. Just give me the rolls and what you are newly or would like to research deeper. The more you go down the rabbit hole the higher the DC.

Also, Mortimer, since Sandpoint hasn't existed as long as you have been around, would you like to be a from Magnimar? I don't see you Varisian native, but who knows it would also be a great place to hide. Perhaps civilization found you. I'll leave it up to you.

I don't really remember where I'm from. I've been in and around Sandpoint for a while, what more do you need to know, son?

Seems like we should go intercept these goblins before they launch their attack. I don't like the idea. Particularly not all the walking. But it's the right thing to do. We always have to do what's right. So lets eat, then sleep, then give me a little time to catch up on my scribing and we can set off. Maybe once we kill those goblins I can have a little while to catch my breath.

Sorry guys, I was in training the past couple weeks and didn't have time for the RPs. I'm the worst ever I know. I'll get back to entertaining you. Looks like you two are the only ones checking in? Would you mind helping getting/keeping the other players involved?

Happy to help keep players involved, but was waiting on the GM to show up before doing any kind of rallying. Thinking an email thread would be a great way of keeping people involved, then posting for the actual actions and so on.