Log7th Sea: The Search for Salvation-2011/11/11-Jason-1

Game log for the 2011/11/11 session of 7th Sea: The Search for Salvation, as taken by Jason

Veldi, Septimus 9, 1668

Benito sees Lucia Vecchio for a fate reading. He asks her whether his future holds good fortune for him. She finds that he will be travelling soon, and that he ought not hope for good fortune, but should expect "nothing disastrous". Léon suggests that Nikolai ask whether he's been blessed or cursed. He does so and finds that he's got neither. He tries to pin down what might have been done to him but gets nothing but evasions and generalities, so he makes a cutting remark about how fate witches don't actually answer.

We return to the di Sigillo house to do more research. In particular, Nikolai hopes to find former servants who might be able to tell us more about the family. We return to the innkeeper we'd spoken to before, and he's able to identify a laundress who once worked for the family, but now works for a different house.

We find the laundress and Nikolai asks what she remembers. She hesitates a little, but admits that most of the servants thought the parents had spirited Evelina away themselves. She was apparently "sensivista", meaning that the betrothal of the older daughter would and did include the betrothal of the younger. Outside of the package deal, the younger daughter would be unmarriageable. Both girls were spirited and capable of making trouble. OK, new working hypothesis: girl ran away.

The members of our scene who chose not to go talk to a laundress are in a tavern. Mahmoud drinks coffee by preference, and this brings him a little attention from the locals. He eases the tension by buying his interlocutor and friends a round of drinks. A brief cultural exchange ensues. Nikolai and Felix arrive, and then we begin a serious discussion about what this new information means. We conclude that we need to investigate the househould of Mercede's husband and see whether it's logical to suspect that Evelina fled that life.

After a long digression about Eisen and monsters, we go to the house of Venzini. Having arrived early, we have an opportunity to socialize. Unfortunately the major domo is quite busy and has no time to socialize with us. We wait about half an hour and then Nikolai gets to meet the fate witches.

Felix charms the crap out of the help (a 49!) and finds out that Mercede's husband is not real emotionally involved in all this. His family were connected to Serafina's family, but he never really warmed to things. The marriage is purely about family politics.

Nikolai finds that Serafina is not in the room this time, leaving him all alone with Mercede. Nikolai unsubtlely suggests that it's odd for neither Mercede nor her mother to have a fate strand connecting them to Evelina. It seems tha Mercede may have a bit of a grudge against her father. Hmmm! Could this be a thickening of the plot? She reads him. She then severs Nikolai's connection with her father, and suggests that he should re-evaluate things. He could steal payroll from her father, for example. She assures him that she can prove Evelina is well if he comes back in two days. Well, all's well that ends well, right?