Shadow in the East Timeline

Time Line

Descending Wood, RY 768

Descending Wood 28

• Character receive mission and set-up base camp in the abandoned mines about 1 hour outside of Tushipal.
• The meet with their spies for the first time.
  • Discover that the Embassy is on the outside of the Publica. Nearest Seventh Legion Garrison is on outskirts of hawkrider range towards Lookshy, members of the embassy rely on Mount Meta for travel.
  • Discover that the Barret-Su oppose the Seventh Legion and other outsiders.

Ascending Fire, RY 768

Ascending Fire 1

• Explore the City of Tushipal
  • Embassy is walled and gated by 10 yard high walls. Guarded lightly by Lookshy guards.
  • Family Estates are between the Publica and Shelter Ward, each estate marked by a Family Crest.
  • Working Ward is outside of the city and less strict on outsider laws.
• Begin looking for free Hawkmen nest

Ascending Fire 9

• Discover Hawkmen nest. 3 day travel time on foot to capital.

Ascending Fire 12

• Return to base camp.

Ascending Fire 13

• Send first report to The Final Sundering Lotus.

Ascending Fire 14

• Second meeting with spies.
  • About 20 people are there with the Embassy, maximum of 40 outsiders allowed within the City.
  • The Vallux Family is very intertwined with the priest(ess)hood of Onibala. Main Temple is on the highest peak of the Island.
• Vale begins attending religious service daily in Tushipal.
  • Approximately 6 Priests/Priestess there.
  • Temple holds at most 1,000 people. Rarely more than half full.
• Archon explores surrounding villages for presence of remote Temples.
  • Explores the nearest 2 villages, believing a temple to be present in each.

Ascending Fire 15

• Vale gets a job as a waitress at an average Working District tavern.

Ascending Fire 17

• Attend Barret-Su speech decrying the influence of outsiders and the Seventh Legion.
• Followed Far Easterner to an inn in the Working District.
• One of the Seventh Legion guards gets in a fight in a friendly tavern near the Embassy.

Ascending Fire 18

• Vale visits bar where Seventh Legion fight was. Discovers it is a regular hangout for Seventh Legion, currently heavily guarded by the city military.

Ascending Fire 19

• End First Session.
  • 5 XP award. Total XP: 5
• Lethe begins to follow The Easterner, who is using the bar the Seventh Legion frequents to communicate via proxy with members of the Seventh Legion.

Ascending Fire 20

• Lethe discovers that the Easterner speaks to his contact who works at the bar every morning, that contact passes information to the Seventh Legion in the evening.
• Lethe steals documents from the Easterners room and shows them to the other abyssals, drug shipping records on 3 month interval.

Ascending Fire 21

• Vale is being followed as she enters the city in the morning, once pursuer is isolated Lethe knocks him out and they take him into an abandoned blacksmith shop.
  • Works for the thieves guild.
  • Matuso is his boss in thieves guild, Vale and Lethe both spotted following the Easterner.
  • Easterner showed up months ago with illegal drugs, works with the thieves guild to distribute them. Lookshy guard helps the Eastern ship the drugs in.
  • Ali-Beth family runs the Bath House where Matuso works and operates the thieves guild out of.
  • Government at large is not aware of the rise of the thieves guild through profit from illegal drugs.
  • Dead are not buried, they are burned. Village to the north-east of Tushipal is responsible for all cremations.

Ascending Fire 22

• Vale and Lethe go to Matsuo's Bathhouse, meet Matsuo but not much else occurs.
• Lethe & Horrors return to the Bathhouse that night, encounter and kill 3 guards and steal a small stockpile of drugs.

Ascending Fire 23

• One of the guards from the Bathhouse escaped during the night, Vale finds him before he leaves the tunnel and drags him back to their hideout.
• Vale meets Baret-Su Momiji, and older man, at the church and befriends him. Son is on Baret-Su Council.
• Vale sets up 5 war ghosts in abandoned blacksmith shop and changes locks to use as base in the city.

Ascending Fire 24

• Abyssals put on disguises and go to Seventh Legion frequented bar to kidnap guards for their uniforms. Vale seduces 'Frank' and kills him in an ally outside the bar. Horrors walks 'Bertha' home and is lured into the ally and killed by Vale. Bodies are chopped up and disposed of and their uniforms collected and clean.

Ascending Fire 25

• Vale & Horrors go to village to the north-east in disguise as Lookshy guards, met by older and younger villager. Demand resources 2 tribute, which the village collects, but Vale stabs and kills the young man anyway.

Ascending Fire 26

• In Lookshy disguises they go further from Tushipal, and are met by 5 young villagers who collect resoures 2 tribute but are unable to give resources 3. Abyssals demand one of the villagers (Appearance 5) comes with them, ey refuse and combat breaks out. 4 villagers are killed, one with appearance 5 is captured.

Ascending Fire 26

• Lethe learns Linguistics 2 (Woodtongue).

Ascending Fire 28

• High Priestess will be doing temple service at the capital's temple. The temple is packed with a line out the door for the service.
  • Priestess announces that she will be in Tushipal for month of Resplendent Fire.
  • Vale meets up with Momiji in line to meet Priestess, and meets his son Kobayashi Baret-Su.
  • Vale briefly meets priestess and spots her brother and body guard in Jade Armor.

Resplendent Fire, RY 768

Resplendent Fire 1

• Meet with spies.
  • Bodyguard is Priestess Amira's brother, and earth caste DB and best fighter on the island.
  • Priestess trip to Tushipal was quickly planned compared to normal, perhaps here to weigh in on foreign presence.
  • Vallux family (religious) is considered most likely to side with Baret-Su against outsiders due to fear of outside religious influence. High Priestess has not mad her stance public yet.

Resplendent Fire 2

• Lethe & Archon get separated while following the Easterner, Archon meets up with Vale and they search for Lethe. Come across a commotion and follow by roof top, eventually leading to Lethe who is running/hiding from members of the thieves guild.
• Return to thieves guild hideout that night and storm the 3 story building. Kill inhabitants, set fire to beds. Encounter thieves guild members and quickly dispatch. Find the Easterner sleeping in bed, fight breaks out and Easterner is killed.
• Archon goes into the Easterner's tavern and causes trouble, leave documents to alert authorities of shipment arrival on RF 9.

Resplendent Fire 3

• Vale meets Baret-Su Kobayashi, Momiji's Son, at Temple in morning. Kobaayashi is married and runs Baret-Su Household.
• Map acquired at thieves guild hide out shows all villages and hawkrider outposts on island.

Resplendent Fire 4

• Arrive to village north of Tushipal, 2 days travel outside capital, and demand tribute as Lookshy Guards. Take tribute and burn down Temple, preach to people the Immaculate Faith. (7 Successes for Vale)

Resplendent Fire 5

• Scout village used to cremate islanders on the way back to Tushipal. Similar to other villages, large stone building on outside of village with metal locking doors, 1.5 stories tall. Nearby barn with tools for fire inside.

Resplendent Fire 7

• Talk around town is of burned temple in village and of outsider involvement in burning of apartment complex.
• Archon meets with cook of Lookshy bar disguised as the Easterner at midnight outside the city walls. Tells the cook to set up a meeting with Matsuo for the next night.

Resplendent Fire 8

• Meet with Matsuo at midnight, Archon disguised as Easterner. Vale & Lethe hiding to ambush Matsuo, notice an ambush set up on the wall. Matsuo says that Easterner is guild representative and to send a new one. Stand off turns into ambush.
  • Archon grapples Matsuo and uses him as cover from archers on the wall, Vale jumps up onto the wall and Lethe returns fire with sling. As the archers unleash a volley and almost kill Archon, Vale attacks and kills all 5 archers. Lethe and Vale dispatch Matsuo with a bit of a battle from the Dragon-Blood.
  • Lethe carries bodies of Matsuo & Archon while Vale follows behind and kills anyone who sees Archon's flaring anima banner.

Resplendent Fire 9

• Drug shipment arrives on Lookshy caravan to the aerie.
• Discover that Lookshy representatives have been quarantined to the embassy.

Resplendent Fire 11

• Vale & Lethe go to village 2 days outside Tushipal to the north-west. Villagers hide, clearly in fear of the Lookshy guards. They burn the village by throwing torches on the rooftops.

Resplendent Fire 13

• Lethe & Vale return to shadowland where Archon is healed and Matsuo is unconscious. Archon wakes Matsuo for questioning.
  • Drug trade operates by Guild Using 7th Legion to ship drugs in, 7th Legion (scribe) gets drugs to cook at bar, cook gets drugs to Easterner, Easterner distributes drugs to thieves guild.
  • Man named Black Dog is second in command of thieves guild, commoner who lives on the streets.
  • Vallux House and Ali-Beth House do not get along due to disagreements about foreigner influence.
  • Lookshy 20 total members in embassy. Ambassador (DB), Bodyguard (DB), Assistant Ambassador (DB), 2 scribes, and 15 guards. One of the scribes is guild drug contact.
  • Thieves guild membership fluctuates between 30 - 40 members. About a dozen major buildings used by thieves guild.
  • Matsuo tries to send a wind carried words message, but Archon stops him before he can.

Resplendent Fire 14

• Vale discovers that city discovered 7th Legion Drug shipment and Baret-Su quarantined 7th Legion. Baret-Su wants 7th Legion kicked out, Ali-Beth convinced city to investigate occurrences first. Baret-Su Momiji says that his son, Baret-Su Kobayashi is in charge of investigations of 7th Legion.
• Archon & Lethe visit cook in bar, Lethe creates distraction while Archon sneaks into back and questions the cook. Cook says he knows nothing, Archon knocks him out and leaves him in kitchen.
• Vale goes to Bathhouse that Matsuo ran to see if getting any thieves guild activity. Finds very little there, old men from Ali-Beth, doesn't seem to be used by thieves guild.
• Lethe follows Black Dog and discovers he moves around the safehouses in the slums at night.

Resplendent Fire 15

• Meet with Spies:
  • Kobayashi is head of investigation in Tushipal, investigating village attacks, drug overdoses, and drug trade of 7th Legion. Probably a DB.
  • Investigation has not been allowed to search 7th Legion embassy, still have diplomatic immunity.
  • There is an investigative HQ off Baret-Su estate.
• Send report to Deathlord: 6 successes
• Vale meets Baret-Su Momiji and Grandson - Baret-Su Akimoto at Temple.
  • Akimoto is younger and just joined investigation staff. Grandson of Momiji, nephew of Kobayashi.
  • Set up date for evening of RF 16.
• Track down Black Dog in the slums, try to sneak up on him but Archon blows cover and combat breaks out. Vale jumps from rooftop and kills Black Dog and thieves guild member before others can act.

Resplendent Fire 16

• Hawkriders are patrolling closest ring of villages due to village attacks.
• Vale goes to date night with Baret-Su Akimoto.
  • Has worked on police force and recently promoted to investigative team.
  • Date goes well, Vale doesn't let him walk her home due to not wanting him to see Blacksmith.
  • Set up second date for evening of RF19.
  • Hungry ghosts clean and rearrange blacksmith shop to look like suitable house. Buy some basic furniture for front room, ghosts make base of back furnace area.