7.3 KiB
26/10/2025
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Docks - Flapjack + Dyson "There are renos going on, can't stay here"
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Group takes residence in the "Golden Cock"
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At breaksfast the next morning and Crux shows up to talk about their plans
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Autismus and crux go boozing after Joffrey gives them 100gp to get rid of them for the day
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Joffrey gets into his fancy clothes and adopts his alter ego "Duke Ary Magini" (talks like a southern gentleman) to go and see Ambassador Katar Von Erg
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Goes to the temple of Waukeen in the temple district on the way there and makes a donation of 50gp and prays for the goddess' favor in his coming diplomatic trials.
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On his way to the upper city he notices 3 star moths flying overhead in formation, possibly heading for the docks
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He bluffs his way past the guards at the gate to the upper city and flicks them a gold coin, tells them to keep up the good work
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Finds a black halfling gardener called "bad boy bubby" tending to some fancy hedges and questions him about his master and if he knows where the ambassador stays.
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Directed to "The Golden Shower" fancy inn and heads in that direction
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Bubba is fishing off the side of the asteroid in a new location and catches 2x small fish, then hooks a big 6ft skaver and has to fight it. Kills and catches it.
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Takes fish to Jahn who isnt that impressed and says he has to find something more special to gain entrance to the fisherman's guild. He gifts the fish to him anyway.
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Bubba wanderes off hoping ot find Autismus
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Autismus is playing dice on a street corner with a black halfling, crux and some other creatures
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He notices a group of 6x elfstartes/elves marching up from the dock, towards the upper city
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Crux notices too and starts to boil over and Autismus attempts to calm him down successfully.
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They decided to follow the elves and see where they are going and successfully manage to follow them up the street in a comical display, leaping over food vendor carts, disguising themselves with garbage and ramen boxes etc.
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Joffrey arrives at the Golden Shower and talks to the front of house lady, and she attempts to discourage him, thinking he'd flirt with her and says he couldnt afford her.
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he assures her that he has a lot of money and could definitely afford her but that's not what he's there for
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Asks to see ambassador and expresses that it's important
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made to wait, orders a drink (mint julip) after 5 mins and moves to the fancy bar from the waiting lounge he was in earlier
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After another 10 mins the Ambassador comes out, has a white veil on that mostly obscures his face, brusquely asks what this is about.
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Joffrey bandies back and forth, eventually getting the ambassador to agree to drop the charges (not that the ambassador could be bothered showing up to a trial anyway) and they bond over their mutual hate of xenos.
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Ambassador refuses to help beyond this and says Joffrey is free to go and talk to the merchants guild if he wants, but he isnt going to help him.
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Joffrey tries to work some angles to see if he can get more out of him and maybe get a letter of marque so that he can have permission to carry banned elven gear on his ship, perhaps in exchange for proof of destroyed griff ships.
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Ambassador says that for now, he can go off and get some information for them, and if he proves useful, maybe they can look at other arrangements at a later date.
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As Joffrey is leaving, he sees some Elfstartes entering and carrying a stack of documents, can't see what they are, too busy bowing and scraping on his way out.
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Autismus uses his invisible imp to get some drone footage of the elfstartes and see that the documents they are carrying seem to be wanted posters and the one on the top looks like Bubba with a reward of 2 thousand gold for "war crimes"
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Joffrey is walking out of the upper city gate, says goodbye to the guards again, notices the rest of the group covered in trash, loitering around the gate and tries not to be seen.
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Bubba and Autismus don't recognise him, but Crux does and as he realises this, he Message's Autismus to keep quiet, not acknowledge him and go another route; he'd meet them in the market district shortly.
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Meet in market district, exchange information; Tells Crux he got his license back and that he punched the ambassador loads. Crux very pleased by this.
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Joffrey very excited by the 2 thousand gold reward on Bubba and jokes they could hand Bubba in and buy a new halfling for far less.
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Autismus goes wandering and is offered a dagwood dog, he orders 2 and says one is for Bubba
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Bubba mis-hears, asks if this is a disabled dog and receives a disabled dog (daschund in a wheelchair) that he names "cinammon"
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Joffrey tells a vendor he's in the market for a cat, is offered a displacer beast, this seems far too over the top and dangerous, clarifies that he just wants a domestic cat and is told to just get a stray. finds one almost immediately and makes an initial attempt to tame it, successful, taking it with him
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Goes to magistrate office/merchants guild HQ, there is a big queue and he looks about and notices a privileged person express queue. Mimics the person ahead of him and makes it to the front of the line, ushered by a black halfling.
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Talks to teller, they review Crux's file, seems fraudulent, claims that he's got 10 grand in taxes on him because he was allegedly carrying 100 grand of smokeleaf, although that seems impossible.
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Joffrey bribes him to talk to a manager and is lead to another fancy waiting area.
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person ahead of him leaving the magistrate's office seems upset and joffrey tips his hat to him and says hello politely, then goes in.
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Magistrate is a little black, grey, brown gnome in fancy chair at a big desk covered with documents and a magic quill called "inksniffer".
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they discuss the file on crux after it magically arrives and Joffrey says he's there on behalf of the elven ambassador
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paperwork battle ensues with joffrey trying to convince the gnome that Crux's galleon that's up for auction is probably worthless and full of griff poop and space termites, then bribes him with a ruby and convinces him it would be a lot less work to just let this case get lost.
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Gets paperwork for ship release that he has to take to the docks and co-sign with crux to get the galleon back
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meets back up with others, tells crux his ship is now freed, still in character, stuck method acting
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Go to the docks and talk to the shipright to see how repairs are progressing of Tiefstein Tower, don't want ot leave that behind.
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its gonna take weeks to finish, try to argue with the foreman about the repairs and try to get the time down as Crux wants to leave immediately. fails and they tell him it takes as long as it takes; it could be done in 4 days at a massive expense.
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Joffrey apologises for his frustrations
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They go and co-sign the release of the ship at the dockmaster's office and Crux runs off to gather his crew to leave by the following day. Thanks Joffrey and after he enquires about becoming Crux's second officer tentatively, as part of the crew merger, Crux clarifiies that he's happy for Joffrey to be in command.
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Joffrey heads to Waukeen's temple, gives thanks for all his successes, donates another 10gp and is acknowledged by one of the priests.