Luna Redmore
A fresh-faced young Artificer of The Amahi on her first adventure.
Description
If you were to look up tinkerer in a dictionary, and you had the sort of dictionary with pictures, you'd see someone like Luna. A pencil tucked behind her right ear, an inquisitive look on her dirt-smudged face.
There's no place for complexities or frivolities in her appearance, with medium-length red hair tied back into a loose pony-tail to keep it out of the way. Dressed in an equally basic and practical way, she tends to wear trousers with simple coloured shirts, but she's rarely seen without her brown apron with various tools poking out of the numerous pockets.
A silver necklace around her neck has a charm that looks like a gear wheel and a similar symbol adorns a ring on the ring finger of her right hand.
History
An apprenticed tinkerer and artificer, Luna has been working and living in Blademarket for around 3 months. She was sent here by The Amahi after finishing her training and is currently under the tutelage of Tomanas Elborin.
Journal
Session 0
Can't believe old Tomanas sent me out to look at the well in the other workshop. Anyway, I get there and the winch is all good but there's no bucket, which is weird. I heard a sound in the street - it looks like some bird-man fell from a skyline. Clearly most have got one of the shoddy skyhooks they sell to tourists. He needed a stiff drink to help steady himself, so we wandered over to the Bellows. He had a fire whiskey and I had half an ale. I hope Tomanas isn't looking for me, I should have been back by now.
Session 1
That was an exciting night. I was just talking to my new friend, Zeed, when this young person came in looking for me. He'd been sent by Tomanas to find me, and was also looking for an apothecary, something to do with dodgy potions - not that any of our places would do that - the Guild would shut them down, or worse!
As we were talking, this elephant-man and a wounded human came in - apparently he'd been stabbed with a poison blade. We went off to find an apothecary to help heal him and as we went up the street, it looked like Potts's was on fire. There were also another 2 people around - one of them looked like a Tabaxi, a cat-person. Inside were some fire-sprites setting the place ablaze. I had a small flask of the Tasha's Acid on me for personal defense so I threw it at them, I think it hit one of them; and rushed back outside the burning building.
We heard a child and the wounded man seemed to teleport up to the window and managed to rescue him. The person with the Tabaxi then came out of the building holding a cute puppy. My new friend Zeed and I ran over to the workshop to see if we could get water from the well - I know there's no bucket, but it must be down there, they tend to float. I lowered Zeed down on the rope - he seemed to really want to go down there. He then attached the bucket to the rope and we started a bucket chain with the tenders and other people.
Sergeant Moreton turned up and seemed to think I had something to do with the fire but I'm not sure if he was joking! Apparently we're all to see the Mereton in the morning, hope we aren't in trouble. Moreton said to stay in the Bellows overnight; so I ran back and just let Tomanas know what happened, and then settled in for the evening to write this journal entry. What a crazy day!
Session 2
We were taken to the Keep today and ended up actually seeing the Duc. He asked us to investigate these fires. The rest of the people I'm with keep joking about me starting the fire, just because they heard about the workshop fire a couple of months ago.
Outside the keep there was the body of the person who tried to kill the Duc, the others investigated it, I stood back a bit, not sure about dead bodies. We then went to Rinn's as the others still wanted a healing potion, after that we headed back to the Bellows but Bugo had gone. We tried to look for him. Oh, also, it looks like the Cogglesbroom are looking after that child we rescued last night. I'm sure they'll be fine.
Ended up wandering back over to the Keep to ask if they'd seen Bugo but they hadn't. Shadow, Hrolf and Zeed then went to Blademarket; and I went to investigate a second fire at a forge with Benji and Berwick. Looks like this one was also caused by fire sprites and not me.
Also - for some reason because I know my way round this part of the city, they think I'm the leader of the group.
Session 3
We all met back up in the Bellows and Bugo was there! I helped Shadow with attempting to cure this poison with the tincture than Rinn gave us. I think it mostly worked, but I'm not sure. As we were talking about what was happening, we heard a noise outside and the guildhouse, it's.... I just can't believe it. Something happened and the clocktower is half-ruined, the skylines are down and have damaged the building. We went inside and we were asked to check the labs and ensure everyone is out - as we went past lab 3, of course it was lab 3, we heard a fire sprite! It was attacking the model of the city. We threw water on it and ended up beating it, Benji picked it up. Why would anyone attack the guild? Especially lab 3! Don't they know how dangerous it is?
Oh forgot to mention, I think the fire sprites and the attempt on the Duke's life are all related - the sign on the floor of the forge and the tattoo on the dead man were the same thing and Bugo recognised it as a sign from Frent which I think is in Sudvanne, of a group called the Citadel.
Session 4
What a weird night, but at least I'm back in my own bed.
We heard more noise above us, like fighting, so we climbed a rope onto the roof of the labs and over at the clocktower, we saw fighting. A giant 14ft high fire golem was there, and fighting him was this halfling called Tavin with a shield. He was pushed off the roof but was hanging on underneath it, so didn't die - although I had some fall-arresting powder on me if there was problem. Alongside him was also this sorcerer woman called Fleur. She had amazing dark blue hair. Finally - Tomanas was fighting! He didn't seem his usual elderly self and wasn't even using his zimmer frame, instead it became some kind of weapon. He can really fight! Apparently these people are adventurers he used to hang around with - imagine that, Tomanas, an adventurer.
Eventually we defeated the golem and on the way back through the guild building, found this large chest containing the same bronze circles we've found at the other fires and on the sprites - whoever is controlling them must have got them from the box. We took it over to the keep and gave it to Sgt at Arms Filligrand for safe-keeping and Hrolf stayed with it.
The others went back to The Bellows and I returned back to the workshop to meet Tomanas there and we had hot chocolate. I sneakily used the magic sensor on him and there's definitely some kind of glamour or something happening - I don't think he's the old man I've come to know - there's something going on.
Session 5
I met up with the others at the Rusty Bellows and we decided to head to the Meriton's Keep to see if everything was OK, when we got near, we heard shouts about a fire at the Kingsgate. It was terrible - another fire, this time a farrier's, but by the time we were there, it was all done with and the building a smoking ruin. We headed back to the Keep and spoke briefly to the Sgt-at-Arms and we were given gold coins to prove we were investigating on their behalf. After this, we returned to the burnt down Forge from the other night and investigating the symbols there, we uncovered a hidden secret drop with an encoded message and a lot of gold; along with some more poison similar to that we've found in the daggers.
We left it as we found it, and went back to the workshop to see Tomanas to check in with him and see if he might know anything useful. He was very tired and claims to not know anything useful but did warn us away from anything involving The Citadel. He was able to help us identifying the initials AF and MF that were on the box. Nickel was there, but he seemed terrified at one of the people and almost ran-away.