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--- resources:adventure:charm [2017/03/06 21:18]
amy [Snackies & Wibble]
+++ resources:adventure:charm [2017/03/07 10:58]
amy [The Soirée]
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 ===== The Soirée =====
-Various citizens present themselves on the Wednesday. After quite a large amount of scrutiny, particularly regrading their documents and shoes, the following party is cleared to attend the soirée: An aesthetic young Leader Priest, an apparently humourless clerk from the East Empire Company, a young fracturing mage from the College itself, an ordinary sort of healer, a pitiful blind man, and a charismatic young woman who appears to not have a profession and whose address, on further checking, seems to not exist; must be a clerical error, she seemed nice. They are to arrive at 6.23pm promptly at the Porters' Lodge where they will be shown the way to the Auditorium.
+Various citizens present themselves on the Wednesday. After quite a large amount of scrutiny, particularly regrading their documents and shoes, the following party is cleared to attend the soirée: An aesthetic young Leader Priest; another, slightly-less-aesthetic part-time Leader priest; an apparently humourless clerk from the East Empire Company; a young fracturing mage from the College itself; an ordinary sort of man who apparently runs a community group on Tuesdays; a pitiful blind man; and a charismatic young woman who appears to not have a profession and whose address, on further checking, seems to not exist, must be a clerical error, she seemed nice. They are to arrive at 6.23pm promptly at the Porters' Lodge where they will be shown the way to the Auditorium.
-On arrival, a Porter delegated to managing the Cloakroom once again inspects their shoes before their weapons are deposited in the cloakroom, with appropriate tickets dispensed. They are greeted by Professor Oppenheim Black, who explains that they are to mingle with the Strossbourg guests and demonstrate the better side of Acryn. With varying degrees of charisma and aplomb, the guests 'mingle'. They meet the Strossbourg Ambassador, several Strossbourg mages, and a few College of the Stars Professors: Antonia di Carta, Henry Blackheart, and the rather dysphonic Archdean Rath, of the Department of Inadvisable Experimentation.
+On arrival, a Porter delegated to managing the cloakroom once again inspects their shoes before their weapons are deposited in the cloakroom, with appropriate tickets dispensed. They proceed to the Auditorium, where a string quintet plays and canapés are on offer. They are greeted by Professor Oppenheim Black, who explains that they are to mingle with the Strossbourg guests and demonstrate the better side of Acryn. With varying degrees of charisma and aplomb, the guests 'mingle'. They meet the Strossbourg Ambassador, several Strossbourg mages, and a few College of the Stars Professors: Antonia di Carta, Henry Blackheart, and the rather dysphonic Archdean Rath, of the Department of Inadvisable Experimentation.
+They are informed of the schedule for the evening: an exhibition of junior mages' research in the main gallery, followed by a guided tour of the adjoining galleries, dinner, more mingling, and a fireworks finale.
+The exhibition kicks off. The guests meet a proud Binding student who has made Bind Item work upwards, a DPhil student breeding baby clawfiends to be tame, a Scribing junior who has made Symbol of Warding emit pink bubble hearts, and so forth. Shortly into the exhibition, a couple of enchanted paper candle lanterns, designed for children's parties, spin out of control and set fire to the clawfiend enclosure. The guests grab weapons from the exhibit on the production of arms, and defeat the clawfiends, lanterns, and the clawfiends' irate keeper. Seeing their prowess and prompt action, Professor Black hurriedly renegotiates terms and hires the party as security. They collect their arms from the cloakroom, check out the culprit paper lanterns and a couple of surrounding galleries, and debate looking over the fireworks display for any potential shenanigans.
+They are interrupted by an attempted theft on a prized diamond chandelier, on display for one night only , in an adjacent gallery. They deal with the thieves and Bobby deals with the diamonds. Chasing some thieves down passages of the Natural History Museum, they find them dead in a pit recently caused by Fracturing magic. Joshua shakes down Bobby and many missing diamonds are mysteriously retrieved.
+The guided tour starts. The Stroussburg Ambassador listens politely to stories of geodes. The soirée, however, is about to become a political target.
+The newly-formed Acryn Association for the Advancement of Anomalies' Rights, or AAAAR, bursts in through a window. They are lead by a streaker for maximal international attention. Activists, several naked, chant about the evils of the Wayfinders' Guild before being subdued. In the confusion, one bleeds out next to the World's Largest Iron Pyrite Formation. The wound matches Bobby's weapon and Bobby admits to the killing. A debate follows about whether Bobby could have resuscitated the activist. The Watch arrive and cordon off the area. The guests are shepherded to dinner.
+At dinner, the guests 'mingle' with notable mages such as Guitar Darrish, Principal Francesco Fractura (who gives an inspiring speech) and Professor Dammerung, who seems to have a few really rather worrying stories.
 ===narrative===
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  =====Snackies & Wibble=====
-**All (including other associates of the College of the Stars**
+**All (including other associates, members and 'Contacts' of the College of the Stars)**
   * An offer to visit the University of Strossbourg and enroll in their Ethics course. If players chose to do this, it will take two adventures until they have completed the course. After these two adventures have elapsed, they may credit themselves with a University of Strossbourg Diploma in Magical Ethics. This will have prestige effects at GM discretion.
 **Gerard Vidati**

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