20 July 1074
The group makes it to Costa Schiuma and It Rainy as Hell. Guards will begin to settle out, merchants go to their high end shops to trade and such. The party is encouraged to go to the clothes shop and order some new clothes. They’re free to walk around and explore for a bit, but then a guard will tip them off about midday to come see Lady Falia. She looks a bit less anxious, but not entirely, and says that she’s pulled some strings of friends and got a bit of information. There’s a non-Costa Schiuman who appears at the docks every night, and he just seems to stare into the moon for a bit and then leave. Again, the party are probed to explore this, but at their leisure. Falia explains that if anything is too irritating, she has a friend with the permits to use magic for interrogation so just bring them here.
Six and Sirvyr go to Aleks’ home and almost get conked by Nikodem, who then gets happy that they’re friends meanwhile Jean and Amon get new clothes and scam Lara. We end with them looking for Six and Sirvyr.
They can spend the rest of the day doing one or two small quests for the NPCs or just having an actual rest, and then night will fall and they’ll get to see Adonis’ bulking figure go crazy for real for real. He’s communicating with Huê via monster wifi or whatever (it’s The Ley Lines) and when he’s found out he is going to say that he did send a message to Erban, and the party must have left before it got there. He’s lying. He’s in a mood because his monster wifi isn’t working (Huê is battling and failgirling at not getting Erban blown up) so he’s not in the mood with the party and might challenge them to a one on one duel (NOT to harm. Just to be left alone and protect Bianca) and whether he wins or loses basically he’s like whatever and leaves. The party then have a choice of bringing Adonis back to be questioned. He will refuse, and therefore the House will put out a warrant for his arrest for evading questioning. If the party make a good idea, allow him to be caught there, otherwise he shows up that night again talking to the moon and being even more mad and make it VERY clear that they could not beat this man if he was bloodthirsty and they’re going to have to be tricky about it. If they’re not tricky about it TPK them and then they have to actually brain think it for a bit you know. Either way, they somehow get him to the interrogation room or get him in a state where he’s not actively trying to kill them. Give them some info depending on how cool and epic they are. Adonis puts sus on the rains, being the epic old man that he is he can feel something is wrong and wants to go out to sea. Become a pirate. If they manage it out of him, he’ll say that he’ll return with Bianca if they go check out the sea with him, otherwise he just asks them to go check out the sea and if they ask for help from the House they’ll likely get it, because he thinks that it’s been worrying them as well. If it hasn’t been brought up/ visited by then, he also mentions the strange temple being built. When he’s free to leave, he does so.