Journal Entry - 02/18/20

The day begins with the party trying to sneak into the Fair-Isles mansion. Hal turns into a rat to go on a reconnaissance mission. Akmenos, Mishal and Avarra also sneak in without the assistance of being a diminutive size...I guess I could have saved wild shape for longer...oops...Meanwhile Hal fails to sneak past guards as a rat.

He needs an alternate point of entry and goes to find Rhak to indicate he wants to be thrown on top of the building. Trying to be gentle, Rhak undershoots it and misses the throw to the third floor. Hal continues with plan C and walks to a door the rest of the party is standing at. Akmenos has located the kitchen and feigns being a health inspector to demand entry and uses Hal as an excuse to fail the health inspection. Everyone proceeds into the dining room at the intense disapproval of the kitchen staff. Trying to de-escalate the situation, the baker gladly provides the rogue-ish devil, Akmenos, with a delicious bomb-ass lemon poppy seed cookie. Still eager to impress, the chef points to the main mansion of the Fair-Isles compound.

Mishal keeps up the charade of an inspection crew by harassing the kitchen crew. She takes a huge chefs knife and slams the knife through a carrot and then tries to strong arm Downton Abbey Headmistress into sharing information about Fair-Isles rumors. They are both asked to leave...

Sabine was rapidly promoted from a basic maid for the Fair-Isles estate to Downton Abbey Headmistress.

Avarra tries to sneak into the Fair-Isles main mansion by using DISGUISE SELF into Poppy. :O:O:O The maid foolishly fails for the clever ploy and leads Avarra out a side door and through the courtyard to the building on the corner...Jackpot...She goes to Sebastian's room which is pretty...suite....hohohoho. Sebastian and Avarra (under the guise of Poppy) start to sneak over to spy on Jonah and Otto.

Akmenos and Rhak'thall try to convince a house guard into letting them in the house with no proper papers. This somehow went even worse than you would have guessed and they're soundly turned away. Hal uses this opportunity to leap out of the vest and look for Jonah.

Next "Poppy" and Sebastian stumble on to Otto who is in a sword fight with Jonah with terrified house workers cowering in the corner. Avarra arrives as Jonah strikes a felling blow on Otto and Sebastian grabs a sword off the wall and engages in combat!

In an equally dramatic scene, the rest of the party convinces the guard that they need to help put away sheets and repair a broken window.

The party the squanders their chance to get experience by letting Jonah get a double kill on the Fair-Isle bloodline. Avarra did manage to create a blood-curdling distraction summoning up the surrounding birds to barrage the window. Unfortunately Hal was also too distracted to take advantage of this distraction. Looks like the rest of the party will have a lot more windows to repair in the very near future. Speaking of which...

The others advance up the adjacent building and find a suite to barricade themselves in...a suspicious looking suite. There's a locked door with many secrets surely hidden within. Knowing this full well, Akmenos picks the lock and takes a deep breath, walks over to sit at the desk, crosses his legs and begins sipping on tepid tea.

Rhak and Mishal both begin searching the Fair-Isles bed rooms for anything interesting pertaining to poisons...BUT they do get loaded up on cash, Mishal even finds from "firestones" (actually they are just rubies...). There are also a couple letters that Rhak lifts as well as FIIIIVE GOLDEN RINGS.

There was some pretty interesting family tree stuff that totally went over my head but it sounds like Otto is a domineering dickbag. Maybe he deserved what Jonah gave him???

Immediately proving that all high lords are dickbags, Jonah loots Otto's valuable possessions with no substantial evidence of wrongdoing or remorse. He then flees the scene with valuables in hand leaving Hal and Avarra looking pretty guilty...maybe Otto didn't deserve what Jonah gave him...