Log7th Sea: The Search for Salvation-2013/01/03-Jacko-1

Game log for the 2013/01/03 session of 7th Sea: The Search for Salvation, as taken by Jacko

Leon and the rest of the party began to wonder what had happened to Benito and Leons mother. Leon sent her a note via magic snuffbox and a courier arrived with an envelope for Reginald. Inside were two tickets and a note:

Your Presence is Requested at the Illustrious Theatre Aceline!

Gilbert LaCroix, famed auteur of memorable Plays and Masques, is proud to announce his latest work with the incomperable L'Intrepide troupe, The Noble Don of Barcino on this Voltadi 7th, Nonus.

Please find within two Tickets for Admission to the fabulous Theatre Aceline!

There is no signature or mark indicating the sender and Leon thinks it sounds like a grand time, or a trap. Still, he wants to go either way! Reginald considers his options as he'd normally want Benito with him on a social call but the Castillian isn't around. There's still 2 days before the play though.

In Dionna, benito is wrestling with his emotions and trying to temper his reaction to learning his lady love is with a villain like Panebianchi! He decides to skulk around the villa to try and find Daria. He's quite stealthy when he sets his mind to it and he sees Salvadore leave a room. He makes his way in and finds Daria within the master bedroom, though she's well dressed and doesn't appear the worse for wear. Benito wastes no time in locking the door and explaining that they must escape this place before Salvadore comes back. Daria is confused, as the man she's been staying with identified himself as Giancarlo, but Benito is convincing and they exit via a window and a garden gate.

The two lovers make their way back to Leon's mother and request she magic them to Charouse tout suite. She's concerned that Benito has gotten himself in trouble but she agrees to do so and gives Daria a crash course in Porte etiquette before tearing holes in the universe. They exit within the safehouse, much to the surprise of the assembled party and Daria finds herself in Montaigne for the first time, though the place smells like a slaughterhouse.

They discuss what to do with Panebianchi on their tail and Leon reminds everyone that they're in Charouse to clear his family name. Much discussion is made concerning that topic and how to proceed before Pascal walks back to Dionna and Benito leaves to set Daria up at a proper hotel. They do some sight seeing and he promises to get her properly attired for cosmopolitan life. He scores two more tickets to the play as well, not wanting to miss something that is sure to offend his patriotic nature.

Sure enough, the group lies low to attend the play. It's not as inflammatory as they thought but they have an intermission before the final act. Reginald sees Henri, the scientist from the sewers, and discretely meets with him in a box seat while Nikolai guards their back. Henri seems nervous but he passes a collection of notes to Reginald and arranges a dead drop so they can communicate more safely. They soon separate as the play enters it's final act, an incredibly offensive portrayal of Good King Sandoval that has the audience giving a standing ovation to the author and acting troupe.

The party takes their leave and Benito fumes as they head to the hotel to talk over the play. They find some interesting subtext within the characters and themes and the group decides that the author, Gilbert LaCroix, is probably not the satirist that L'Empereur thinks he is, as the play was really a scathing indictment of Montaigne's own government. Benito has a new found respect for Montaigne playwrights!