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SO ...how are we all doing?

Excellent! Me, too. So, to business. I'll start rather cryptically by saying that Kathryn, in one of the posts, came very close to a piece of truth about the setting. Huzzah. But that said, I'm not going into it any further. That being said, offering brandy usually comes with consent, corpse or no.

Update is updated. Standard stuff applies, let me know in our Discord if I missed something, or if you need a ruling/dice roll/quick prayer to RNGeezus.

@rivaan@Shoe Thief@Sigil@Arty Fox

Alright ramblers, let's get rambling.

Or to put it differently, and as just a little bit of meta information, this encounter is drawing to a point wherein new information can only be gleaned by continuing investigation of the facts at hand. Don't get me wrong, there will be other opportunities to learn more, and there are unplanned opportunities that exist within the setting if one looks for them.

Past the next update or two, we are moving toward another time skip before something else unsettling and/or special occurs. Maybe it'll be one of those holidays. I mean, the late harvest is coming and someone has to consume rich, imperialist tidbits while sampling icewine from the harvest five years previous. Wine that has been sitting, aging in casks underground, just waiting for an opportune moment to be consumed. Best of luck.

Oh, and as usual, hit me up on Discord for the regular stuff.

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Apologies for the bare bones nature of this update; it is being written on the go. Anyway, the IC is full of spiffy, flowery text designed to be evocative of one's imagination for every adventurer's favorite thing - LOOT. No, I will not be going into exact details about specific articles, I'm leaving a ton of this for player's proclivities and merely provided descriptors to kick things off.

Also, I have left the majority of stuff open for discussion, as it concerns the current clack and any plans the PCs wish to look into. Consider this a continuation, of sorts. Aside from character interactions following this encounter, let's handle any dice rolls and such in the Discord and attempt to move forward. Or diagonally. I'm good with either.

@rivaan@Shoe Thief@Sigil@Arty Fox

Hello again, Edgelords and M'bladies, and welcome to another amazing opportunity to figure out what the hell's going on in lovely, quiet wine country. This update gives us a time skip and a liiiittle bit of homework. But to kick things off with some clarifications:

The time, ambience, and weather portions of the update describe what is going on as of the evening of the nigh epic wine tasting, with the exception of the lit braziers (more of a coverage of the time in between). Their absence is discussed in the body of the post. Throughout the three weeks of the time skip, conditions will vary. Feel free to put whatever conditions you like as you describe your down time, so long as it is narratively responsible.

Last time skip, I asked you to describe a low point, lull, or failure that led to a learning experience in your studies and/or training. This time, I would like to see a success. Tell me how your characters overcame something, finished something, or otherwise did good and learned something useful from it. Or just an overall, feel-good example of genuine progress. Pretend a 1980s or 90s movie montage song is playing and really dig in.

OKAY - Good News: Urmdrus is done with Kathryn's armor. It looks damn spiffy. Hard as steel plates, flexible, and light. Very light, as compared to normal stuff. Taken alone, it might count as Half Plate, but layered with her mail long coat? PLATE. Congrats. You got plate equivalent at level 5. You're going to need it. Eventually. Again, he will remind that a sufficiently powerful spellcaster can easily turn this into armor of Acid Resistance. Oh, and I hope she likes green, shiny armor that was tempered with the urine of both friends and strangers. No, not kidding.

Further, within the passing of this time, further checks may be made WITHOUT Disadvantage on the things from before. In the instances of Kosara and Victoria (Kosara being from this area and Victoria's background Bardy knowledge), hearing the phrase "Yasmin Steel" and holding the items themselves will provide Advantage, but only if they get rid of the Exhaustion points first. i would also point out that Kosara will have a leg up in identifying mundane qualities of the loot, again owing to her background.

It feels like I might have missed a point in here someplace, but, we'll work that out as we go along. Please be in contact though our Discord for the usual stuff and dice rolls, and above all, have fun with it. Thanks!

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I have made the mistake of giving a LOT of time for things in the background to amass which needs to be resolved. Bit off more than i could chew, so to speak. As of now, there are a few things which deserve more direct attention before we move along to the event. AND SO, this update and subsequent posts in this cycle will be dealing with those things, at the end of which will be the introduction to the event for all parties attending. Please let me know what your characters are getting up to if not in attendance for the tasting of the (totally not cursed) late harvest icewine.

The more astute of you will notice that the headers, ambience, time, and weather are identical. This is on purpose, as we are covering stuff that needed extra attention over the skip. If we could, let's try to finish up the time skip stuff in this post and wind up back in the appropriate time/setting at the end of our individual texts.

The stuff that could be answered in Discord has been, and we should be good moving forward between that and the IC stuff. BUT, i am the mistake-making type on occasion, so if I missed something, we can handle it OOC. For now, do process all of the awful stuff provided, and if your characters were not present for whatever moments were mentioned in the update, do get with the other characters in the IC to give a quick explanation. Thank you, and have a spiffy posting cycle.