Heist

Prepare for the heist ∾

Xovus and Adan scouts the curch, we talk with a Commander and Father Morel. We did not get the much confirmation about if she really was here, and where (they where not high enough rank to know). But we understood that there was a lot of activity in the tower and that they had started to enforce the walls.

Vazzix talked with one of the debt:ers that did the construction and we found out that there was a hole in the foundation to the catacombs that they where tasked to fix. The hole was probably a result of the chasm opening up. We scouted this entrance.

We also scouted the tower and found her chambers, she was locked in to a room protected my magic and there was and angel guarding her in an adjacent room. Losty was detected but was able to escape. In the meantime Xovus got a little romantic with another priest (Sands) who showed him a secret passage that we later had use for.

The Heist ∾

Xovus, Izkri and Dash went in via the catacombs with the idea of going in from below. Vazzix created and distraction by creating a lot of smoke in the main hall during the night mess ceremony. Adam and Losty went directly and sneaked in to Teysas room.

Things did not go as expected, in the catacombs Xovus found a crypt with a really nice freshly installed sign "Uncle Karlov". We decided to open it and there was the Ghost of Uncle Karlow rolling in money and gemstones. He is part of the Obzedat and we tried to talk our way out of it (badly) and failed so he started to attack us.

This triggered a chain reaction of him summering more members of the Obzedat to help with the fight until all of them where there fighting us. In the meantime Adam and Losty tried to figure out how to unlock Teysas door. We provided a key that we wound in Uncle Karlovs crypt via a shared pocket dimension that helped them. But we where unable to help them because of the fight so they started to go down from the tower against the crypts to figure out what was going on.

Xovus did take a lot of damage during the fight, they where hard hitters and it's tricky to heal an undead with most magic. But finally we where all fighting them and we started to pick them off one by one, they exploded in coins and gemstones when they died. Xovus got the kill for Uncle Karlov and Fautomni.

Izkri activate Project Boulder during the attack with was an Izzet automaton that he had designed that helped a lot. We also found and sentient Boros shield and enormous amount of coins and gems down there.

Dash killed the last of them, who then was the leader of the Obzedat (all the other where then dead). Because the Obzedat are technically dead already, this triggered a special clause in the legal documents that transferred money and assets over to the killer. Xovus "only" got money and assets from Uncle Karlov and Fautomni but Dash also got the guild leader token transferred. By law and magic she is now the Orzhov guild leader. At this point we had not fully realized it yet.

We cleared out the level and started to realize that Orzhov felt a strong desire to follow dash commands. We used this to talk our way up again but was stopped by an angel that attacked us and convinced others to follow. We where victorious and when the angel was dead was Dash able to ask the rest to stand down and leave us.

We returned up again to the tower, figured out how to unlock the lock with another key we found in the dungeon and released Theysa. She looked almost dead, she had tried to kill her self by stop eating and drinking since a month but they kept her alive with magic. Probably because they where more afraid of ghost Theysa than living Theysa.

Post Heist ∾

Teysa with the help of Tomik are creating the legal framework for Dash to become the guild master. She commands a lot of changes, some a little to extreme for some do the guild loses some members. But we also gain a few guildless in to the guild.

Xovus will be the cleric representation in Dash new council and promoted to a Pontiff. Adam will join the council as well as the representative of the army. Teysa will not join the council but stay as a mentor for Dash. Adam and Xovus have been given nice living apartments in Orzhovia.

Dash got a more respectable and Orzhov looking cloths. Will be given a more respectable title and a new name for "the new Obzedat" need to be created.

There where a lot of money locked up in the Obzedat, most of it got distributed to heirs. Because the age of the ghosts the actual living relatives where a substantial part of the Orzhov population, resulting in most people getting rich over night. This triggered a hyper inflation.

As a result of the hyper inflation, Orzhov Zinos has lost most if it's value. The other guilds have disconnected their money from Orzhovs to protect their value.

Because dash is not technically living this will trigger the same type of corner case of the law that resulting dash becoming the guild leader. If you kill Dash you will be the next leader. To prevent this Tomik created a will for dash that regulated what happens meaning that the killer will not become leader anymore. Without the will there was a great chance that someone would kill dash to gain power and riches like dash did. Tomik that Xovus should do the same, considering that he is technically dead, so Xovus did write a will as well. Part of Dash will says that there will be a voting for the new guild leader if Dash dies.

35% of the members left the guild due to a mix of changes Dash did, the hyper inflation and just the fact that "the killer of Obsidat" did run the guild. But we gained some new people from the guildless due dash changes as well.

Dash will start to work in a maximum about of time for a debt, they may also be a shortened amount of time left for current debters. Debt will not be transferred as inherence anymore.

A embassy for the guildless will be opened, and dash will also try to clear up the criminal accusations at Teysa and Jace.

Six week downtime ∾

Over the last weeks I will spend a lot of time to discuss different policies with dash and part of the council. I will be sent as a representative to different guilds, starting with the Azorius Senate, I will also listen for influences and trying to figure out what's going on with the guilds, I will listen specifically for Mr. Taz strange heartbeats to make sure he is not pretending to be one of them.

I arranged a meeting with Mr. Taz to make sure he is happy with how things are going, he is and feel that at the moment things are moving in a direction that both are happy with. I asked him to keep in touch if things changed. My thinking is that even if I do not fully trust him, I rather have him close and work with him when our plans aligns.

I'm asked to preform the midnight mess once a week at the main church at Orzhova with I do. I also focus on secureing my position and formalize my power as a pontiff and part of the leaders of the guild. I will also find young fanatic recruits to create my personal cabal.

Finally I focus on securing assets and grabbing power and influence. Both personal and indirectly via the curch. I for example buy companies, stock and influence various projects and people.

The rest of the group ∾

Dash will mainly focus on it's new role as Guild Master. Adam will start to train the new recruits and formalize his power as leader of the Orzhov army. He will, just like Xovus, spend quite some time doing guild businesses. Izkri will focus on his tea businesses and trade.

Vazzix is the only one traveling to other planes with the intention to figure out more about the external threats to Ravnica. He will get a name and they will setup a future meeting at Ravnica. Losty will mainly focus on hunting down and killing Azorius police in an Raktos driven drive to make chaos and mess with their police state type of businesses.