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I just wanted to pop-in and thank Tinkergoth for coming to the funeral. It was great to have you there to share your memories of Brad, and is a good example of the influence and personality of the man that you'd be willing to come all that way to pay your respects.

Our gaming group put together a gaming pack to place as a parting gift to Brad - hand-written character sheets from his last couple of campaigns, a dice set made from dice donated from the group, dice bag, folder etc. The best tribute we could think of for a man who spent at least 30 years gaming.

Tinkergoth I can imagine it was hard to come to a gather of so many strangers, that took guts. My hats off to you good sir.

Unbeknownst (at this stage) to any of the others, who should Marcus see walking out of an adjacent warehouse but Vencarlo Orisini. The pair briefly exchange pleasantries before Vencarlo climbs into a waiting coach bearing the coat of arms of House Bannyer and rides off.

Just to clarify: Vencarlo came walking out of a House Bannyer warehouse, and behind him a coach left the premises.

Vencarlo simply walked off down the street after a quick talk with Marcus.

Hi GM-G/Ollie. It's nice to see some posts from you. I just want to tell you that I really love what you've done with this campaign. It must have taken a lot of effort to customize the adventures so much, and I think you've done a great job with it!

Hi Moonbeam,

In our version of Korvosa, the Grey Council were the heads of the previous magical college in the city. The Acadamae was born from this institution and the former heads were forced into hiding.

The Acadamae in our Korvosa is the same as The Acadamae in official, stock-standard Korvosa up until approximately 20 to 30 years ago. 20 years ago, through an act of royal decree, The Acadamae became the only official source of magic in Korvosa. The Anomanexus College was folded into The Acadamae, becoming what the mages refer to as "The Day of Consolidation". A brief, but terrible, mage battle occurred before the leaders of the college surrendered. The head of the college, Lord Grestuv, was thought to have died in the battle.

How we survived our encounter with him probably came down to Grestuv wanting to remain hidden, our brazen stupidity and Arkona reinforcements.

A mix of these things plus Peryarv/Grestuv was not looking to kill any of you... Ari might feel otherwise, having been nicely toasted.

What is the Gray Council, exactly? Rebel mages who oppose the Acadamae? And one of their members is Mari's mentor?

And Peryarv is an archmage? Is that the guy who had bought Yasmin as a slave? How were you guys able to avoid being obliterated by someone so powerful? Or am I confusing him with someone else?

Hi, Long time Paizo user first time poster... :D I'm the guy Chubbs has taken to calling "GM-G".

Peryarv "held back" against the PCs, choosing not to kill them. Well Ari did take a fair whack there... but Peryarv was under a fair bit of stress at the time, fighting 4 or 5 people at once.

BTW Yasmin was not purchased as a slave, she was never in the slave house - she was brought to a nearby house and held there as Peryarv went and confronted House Arkona. The PCs reasoned this was for a quick exchange should the negotiations with House Arkona go according to plan.

Peryarv did, however, "purchase" all the available debts available that night. I'd personally stress that no slaves were bought or sold that night - everyone up for auction was there of their own accord, selling off their debts in return for a period of servitude ie indentured servants. Technically no illegal activities took place that night... well apart from the whole "Yasmin is held as a prisoner and ransom chip" thing :)