Muddle in Middlesea

A central location for the information we've collected on what happened at the Convocation, in the first run, and what the current status inside the time halt is.

Things we know so far (with information source listed if possible):

Before It Went Awry

• Pirate Queen Cara, her first mage Federico, William (maybe an organizer), other pirates like Gale, and servants like Nesh, showed up a few days early before the Conclave started. (Nesh and other servants were there before Cara/Federico/Gale arrived)
• Managaratha was at the Blue table, and chatted with a diplomat named Rickard from Melmane, also General Petrov and Mage Marek. (Recalled by Managaratha)
• Dinner was:
  • A ton of people from Red - they sent five delegations instead of one.
  • 30-40 from Orange including servants (and some Saurians)
  • Similar from Purple and Yellow
  • Only about 8 from Blue, including Mage Marek and one Saurian, General Petrov.
  • Green has multiple delegations, once from each of the three Kingdoms, but they are all small. All named Elves.

• Post Dinner, pre-Attack
  • Luigi says Cult of Alan would be happy to see Managaratha again (Recalled by Managaratha)
  • Federico spoke with Managaratha.
    • Managaratha spent two years before the Conclave strongly lobbying for all zones to be represented.
      • Federico expected Managaratha to tell him why.
    • Managaratha is more fragged than Federico has ever seen him.
    • Vidan was fragged, even worse than Managaratha.
      • Well, something closely akin to fragged, anyway.
  • Their Majesty's representatives went to talk to the Pirate Queen's Table (Furoosh) and Orange (Silenalania). Silenalania chatted with all the Guild Masters, and the Saurien, and was surreptitiously passed notes from three of them, indicating a location and time: "South Stairs, 10pm", "Stables, 11:30", "Library, 11pm".

The Purple Dinner

Ministers (4th rank)

• Win Dae (she/her) - Minister of Repercussions
• Han Cho - Minister of Grain
• Kachest - Minister of Naval Trade
• Az Julan - Minister of Lions
• Foran Zakar - Minister of Redactions
• Li Karest - Minister of the Borders
• Jun Chang - Minister of Fortune

Advisors and Liaisons

• Za - Lord of Light, Priest of Tam
• Vesper - the Silent One, Priest of Tem
• Vidan - Priest of Navere
• Edev Guran - Representative of the Head Stallion

Others

• 3rd rank sub-minister of State / Foreign Affairs
• 3rd rank sub-minister of War
• 12-15 other 3rd rank bureaucrats, all mooks.
• An assortment of servants, etc.

The Orange Dinner

The principal delegates

• Guildmaster Lady Isabella Horenth from Vani
• Guildmaster Lady Marianna from Rin'yan
• Guildmaster Stefan - priest of Jord from Eaglofto
• Journeyman Victor - Saurian from Kor

Priests

• Stella - priestess of the Goddess from Rin'yan
• Luigi - Cult of Alan member from Rin'yan
• Astrid - priest of Rush from Vani
• Alfonz - priest of Tem from Vani
• Georgi - Saurian, itinerant priest of Tam

The Yellow Dinner

The principal delegates

• Prince Vishnarani
• Lady Harana (Unreality Mage)
• Lord Basalin (the guard)

Others

• Serafina and her centaurs
• Three priests (Verachi, a sylph; Ghadara; Hasalar )
• A bunch of merchants
• Sarasani, head of the Yellow servants

The Green Dinner

The Forest

• Astros Culleen (High Elf, head of the delegation)
• Vrok StoneSkin (Troll, bodyguard)
• Westly (Fox Pooka)
• Scout (Wild Elf, just this guy)
• Custard (Halfling, Astros' valet) - actually a redcap
• Cream (Halfling, Astros' cook) - actually a redcap

The Plains

• Furoosh (Sluagh, related to Their Majesty somehow)
• Silenalania (High Elf) - bad guy, stole Middlesea
• Sunbeam (Sylph, Silenalania's lady maid)

The status relationship between Furoosh and Silenalania is unclear; they could be jointly leading the delegation.

The Mountain

• Flint (Dwarf. Very Dwarfy.)

The Pirate Captain Dinner

Principal Captains

• Cara, Queen of the Pirates (Awesome!)
• Federico (the First Mage)
• Captain Jane (most adventurous of the greater Captains)
• Captain Brightwall, captain of the Silver Gull (worried about military matters)
• Captain Drake (generally an ass and who made him Captain anyway?)
• Gale, captain of the Kittiwake (most adventurous of the smaller Captains)

The Red Dinner

Rush Delegation

• Captain Daniel (rarely uses his rank; more of a diplomat though I'm he can chop it up if necessary)
  • Captain Daniel's instructions: Our work is to put together a force to take the fight to the Breaker. You may think of yourselves as soldiers more than diplomats, but look for opportunities among all the delegations.
• Sergeant Susie
• Sergeant Susie's squad of Paladins (including Diomarch)
• Managaratha's voice, weirdly coming from nowhere (as Daniel was briefing on Lord Franklin): Hello Diomarche, this is Managaratha. Tell me I like carrots when you get this.

Darstan Delegation

• Baron Volstak
  • Daniel's briefing: Him being here means he and Zerbina sees this as an expansion opportunity. Expects he can be talked into being a solid part of the force, but he'll need a reward.

King Richard's Lands Delegation

• Lord Franklin
  • Daniel's briefing: Advisor to the last 3 kings in King Richard's Land, over 50 years of service. Expect him to see the big picture, and recognize that an army is needed, but he will need reassurance that King Richard's Land won't be weakened. (Most likely to fall in line.)
  • Appears to be a mostly-human-presenting half-elf

Victoria Delegation

• Lord Karsten
  • Daniel's briefing: Sending him is a bit of a provocation by Queen Iona vs Purple, as he has led many successful offensives into the Empire over the last 15 years. He has also run many campaigns against the orcs, probably nobody has more experience against them. Would be a valuable member of a campaign all by himself regardless of what else Queen Iona might send, but the Empire might just refuse to cooperate with him at all.

Berana Delegation

• Lady Frigga
  • Daniel's briefing: Don't know much about her, she's not one of the more important children. Her being here might mean King Olanson doesn't much care about the conference, or that she asked for the assignment as a way to raise her profile.
  • (From another run: Her mother and brother think she's sensible enough to hide during a Muddle.)

Things Remembered

• Vidan was involved in a combat-time ritual of several people-- probably Fivist priests and mages, not priests of other religions-- to counteract the amnesia spell.
• Vidan recalls: Flint looks from the dead redcap to the unconscious Scout. "Federico, with me. The rest of you, see what you can do for him. If anything unfortunate happens, tell Her Majesty that Futeau is the traitor."
• Gyvail, a priest of Orellian, is with Caitlyn and Westrack, and was holding. (Recalled by Vidan.)
• Nesh remembers that dinner went... fine. He served the Yellow delegation.
• Managaratha remembers having a conversation with the Blue delegation.
• Stella remembers being sent to talk to the Purple delegation and feel them out "since you can't actually commit the Guild to anything."
• Stella remembers that "Luigi volunteers to speak with the Priests from the Yellow delegation" after dinner.
• Managaratha remembers warning Lady Harana about the assassin, and the assassination was prevented.
• Vesalen inspired Truth Telling.

People By Faction

• Pirate Queen (Cara)
  • First Mage Federico
  • William (Recalled by Managaratha)
  • Gale

• Blue
  • Mage Marek (Recalled by Managaratha)
  • General Petrov, a Saurien (Recalled by Managaratha)
  • Rickard (Recalled by Managaratha)
    • can cast spells
    • diplomat-without-portfolio for Melmaine
    • has spent time in Jabar and some of the Merfolk courts

• Cult of Alan
  • Luigi (Recalled by Managaratha)

Current State

From memories and the first merge experiment

• The Pirate Queen is on the ground in (location), covered in blood. (Noted by Gale.)
• Sergeant Susie is badly injured; she is fighting an orc who is uninjured, and several fallen paladins lay around her. (Noted by Diomarch)
• A dwarf (Flint, with Federico) is chasing a redcap (Custard) who is running away. A green potted plant is spewing amnesia mist; the sigils on the plant include Silenalania. (Noted by Scout, embellished with Alexa.)
• Westly (fox pooka) is in the Yellow zone somewhere but is hard to see. (Noted by Scout)
• Vrok (troll) and Astros (high elf) are together - Vrok is guarding Astros while Astros does some sort of green counterspell.
• There are several dead cataurs in a room with several dead saurians, and a couple more cataurs running through the keep. (noted by Nesh)
• Luigi is barricaded in a room with a wall blocking it; some other non-named Orange delegates are also there. (noted by Stella)
• There's a Yellow zone that's hard to see/changing even though time isn't passing; speculation is there's an Unreality effect going on there.
• A Blue mage performed an extra-effort Blue spell to make all of Middlesea one battlemap. They are probably/possibly in the midst of a Berserker rage, as a consequence. (Discovered in Second Run by Gale when she did her own wild-blue-spell on the battlemap.)
• An area of effect Green spell is spraying amnesia mist everywhere. (Noted by Lutenania, scout for Their Majesty of the Plains.)
• An Oasis miracle of isolation is in place. (Noted by Scout.)
• A Time miracle of some sort is in place. (Noted by Bordan, priest of Rush.)
• There are a whole bunch of orcs (Noted by flyover in First Run.)
• There are lion prints on the outer wall. (Noted by Nesh.)
• There are slith tracks sneaking into the keep. (Noted by Vidan.)
• There are more than ten "sides" involved, but that might include factions within delegations; e.g., there are five separate delegations from Red, one for each kingdom and one for the Paladins of Rush. It's not clear whether those count as five different "sides".(From Bordan.)
• Baron Volstak took a lot of damage right before the timestop, which was shared with Duchess Zerbina over the lifelink (she has healed since). She is concerned that he be gotten to ASAP when the timestop breaks. (Shared by Duchess Zerbina. This is a secret.)

From the visit with Alexa:

"The Orc" is the Avatar of the Breaker. He gets to take actions while we are visiting. He has so far had four actions - one in our early experiment, three with Alexa.

• There is some sort of cheating effect to make the "army combat" be a large orc unit against a Middlesea unit, without other factions like the Yellow centaurs and the Pirate Defenders being units.
• Marek's effect broke the army combat into one battle in which everyone is all in some sense on the same hex.
• Baron Volstak was stabbed as a sacrifice in a four-priest ritual and is currently being healed not very professionally.
• In a different ritual room, now empty except for the dead redcap:
  • Scout was unconscious on the floor over there
  • Two redcaps (Cream and Custard, the halflings from Green, turned out to be redcaps) doing the ritual with Silenalania
  • Flint and Federico and Vidan and Diomarche came in, and there was a fight. Flint and Federico killed one of the redcaps.
  • Silenalania ran off with the Spirit of Middlesea.
  • Flint and Fedrico chased the redcap
  • Vidan and Diomarche dragged Scout in the other direction

Gale's battle diagnostics with Alexa:

• The orcs are winning.
• The <REDACTED> are losing
• The <OTHER REDACTED> are doing fairly well but they aren’t really in the battle.
• The cataurs have mostly lost.
• The goblins have left the field with their win.
• Orange Teams 2 and 3 are losing to <OTHER REDACTED>. (This is a different scoreboard; they are only in this battle because Marek put everyone on the same battlemap)
• Vidan’s allies are about breaking even.

What needs fixing?

• Bringing Middlesea back probably need fixing. The Goddess thinks that Spirits are iffy, but better than Demons.
• Don’t let Volstak die.
• Don’t let Cara die.
• Don’t let the Prince of ‘al Jabar die.
• Marek is not in immediate danger, but if he dies, this will turn back into an Army combat, and the orcs will crush everyone. So don’t let him die, or leave, because his magic effect is keeping us in personal combat.
• The Artifact for Breaking Orange probably shouldn’t be allowed to leave. (That’s fuzzy, something is defending that.)
• Cataurs are unlikely to successfully kidnap Nesh.
• There are slith here.
• There’s a goblin, but it will probably be handled.
• Catching the half-orc assassin would be good. It’s not clear if the assassin is a half-orc or just working for the half-orcs.