House Hadid Garden Party

Chaostag, 1st prime post-Planting 1055

Log Entry Type

Archivist Entry

Recordkeeper

Estarai Grayaere

Days in Game

1 day

Archive Entry

Damakaios, leader of the Ripa Daneo Freelancers, selected Dryali Tezbeth, Fine Branch, Terrance, Tahu Tuala, and Tuala to accompany himself to the House Hadid Garden Party, post-Planting. Freelancer security had been requested by the House and naturally Damakaios would not pass up the opportunity to attend.
They spent the next day ensuring they would be properly dressed for the occasion, with varying levels of success. Fine Branch opted for scandalous, using disguise self to appear as a naked black nekomata.
They also realized they had been expected to have learned something about the various houses of Ripa Daneo, and belatedly tried to learn a bit about House Hadid. They did not ask me, but learned enough to make do.
That evening, Damakaios rented a carriage for transport to the villa. Upon arrival, the Freelancers circulated, looking for trouble without being ostentatious.
Fine Branch found unexpectedly poisonous plants in the atrium using detect poison and disease, and Dryali informed the others they were assassin vines from the Nadezhda jungle: ambulatory and very dangerous.
Tahu announced to the party that the Freelancers had prepared an entertainment, causing the crush to back away; then they engaged the assassin vines.
Somehow Terrance provoked one of the central trees into becoming ambulatory and attacking her, then Damakaios!
The Freelancers dispatched the assassin vines and the tree, adding enough flourishes to convince much of the crowd it was just a show. That effort was belied by the tree, which bit Damakaios during the altercation.
House Hadid calmed the crowd and played it off as a planned spectacle, of course. Afterward, the House elders, unpleased, let Damakaios know they were likely to contract with Freelancers to investigate the origin of these circumstances.
Returned to Freelancers Tavern well after midnight the same evening.

Loot

Mission pay: 300 eagles (10% cut to Freelancers)