Updates - B5

_notes/vesper-ridge-wiki/_public/B/Black Market.md

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+title: Black Market
+---
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+A weekly gathering of smugglers with products to move and traders unscrupulous enough to help them, usually in the southern [[Harbor Ward]] or northern [[Sunset Ward]]. Here, buyers can find all manner of items frowned upon by polite society. Despite the rogue's gallery of dangerous individuals who gather here (many of whom would spill each other's blood in broad daylight), all of the market's vendors strictly forbid violence upon the market grounds.
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+[[Rook]] and [[Emi]] both occasionally visit.

_notes/vesper-ridge-wiki/_public/C/Calix Hypatia.md

@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ The head of [[House Hypatia]], the sixth of the [[High Noble Houses]]. Calix Hyp
 
 Calix’s life before his adoption into House Hypatia is not public knowledge, and neither is the identity of his blood family. Some members of the [[aristocracy]] are keen on learning more about his past, seeking ammunition to discredit him and cast him out of [[Ainsley Vespridge|Duke Vespridge]]’s good graces, but their efforts are so far unsuccessful.
 
-It appears Lord Calix may have some connection to Ophile.
+At some point before the start of our story, and for reasons unknown, Lord Hypatia wrote a letter summoning Ophile Evenstar to Vesper Ridge. Aside from their shared elven ancestry, any connection between the two is unknown.

_notes/vesper-ridge-wiki/_public/C/Chambermaid Calliope.md

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+title: Chambermaid Calliope
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+A maid in service of the esteemed [[House Vespridge]]. Her clothing is fine and dignified, but her eyes are frightfully, inhumanly dark. Our party came across her locked in combat with a [[Searchlight|strange mechanical figure]], and helped her defeat it. After the battle, she introduced herself without making eye contact, shared a bit of knowledge about the nobility, and warned Margot to be careful with [[the Gloaming Lantern]].
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+When questioned on the matter, Calliope revealed herself to be a worshiper of the [[Our Lady of the Black Rose|Black Rose]].

_notes/vesper-ridge-wiki/_public/E/Emi.md

@@ -6,4 +6,6 @@ The oldest of the orphans living at [[Cairwick Chapel|Cairwick]], at 13 years of
 
 Emi sometimes squabbles with [[Rook]], but the two have a strong bond due to their shared willingness to do whatever it takes to protect their found family.
 
-Equipped with a pistol and an adventurous spirit, she’s keen on solving the mystery of the [[Bloody Butterfly|Bloody Butterfly's]] identity. So keen, in fact, that she tailed the killer after [[Poor Jimmy Ashcroft|Poor Jimmy’s]] murder, and led the party to [[Cortis|the site]] of another [[Supplicant|bloody ritual]]... and perhaps some clues!
+Equipped with a pistol and an adventurous spirit, she’s keen on solving the mystery of the [[Bloody Butterfly|Bloody Butterfly's]] identity. So keen, in fact, that she tailed the killer after [[Poor Jimmy Ashcroft|Poor Jimmy’s]] murder, and led the party to the site of another [[Supplicant|bloody ritual]] at a [[Corts|local funeral home]], where together they discovered some concerning new clues.
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+On the way back home, Emi told the party about a local [[black market]] that she sometimes visits with Rook. Apparently, all sorts of fascinating things can be purchased there.

_notes/vesper-ridge-wiki/_public/G/The Gloaming Lantern.md

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 title: The Gloaming Lantern
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-A mysterious device Margot recovered from the burning [[Vesper Ridge Customs and Notary Bureau River Gates Branch Municipal Office|customs bureau]] at the start of our story. Its mechanisms and purpose are inscrutable.
+A mysterious device Margot recovered from the burning [[Vesper Ridge Customs and Notary Bureau River Gates Branch Municipal Office|customs bureau]] at the start of our story. Deeply magical, it produces its own light without an apparent fuel source, and seems to react to the thoughts or emotions of its bearer. Through careful study and meditation, Margot has gained a rudimentary attunement to the lantern, but its purpose, and much of its power, is as of yet unknown.
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+[[Chambermaid Calliope]] recognized the lantern, and warned the party that some “dangerous individuals” may be interested in it.

_notes/vesper-ridge-wiki/_public/H/House Hypatia.md

@@ -6,4 +6,6 @@ Sixth in status among the [[High Noble Houses]], and a notable oddity in that it
 
 In [[Vesperite]] society, which shuns and distrusts elves, this choice of heir was highly controversial, and there is still much gossip and speculation among the aristocracy as to the late Lord Hypatia’s motives for such a choice. One popular theory is that Calix was chosen because an elf’s centuries-long lifespan will afford him ample time to build a large family and ensure House Hypatia’s continued prosperity.
 
+It seems that our very own Ophile Evenstar may have a connection to this family...
+
 House Hypatia’s symbol is a flying hawk with wings aflame.

_notes/vesper-ridge-wiki/_public/H/House Vespridge.md

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 The family of the Duke and Duchess [[Ainsley Vespridge|Ainsley]] and [[Axelia Vespridge]], and the highest in peerage among all the [[High Noble Houses]] of the city. House Vespridge traces its lineage directly back to [[Morian Vespridge|Baron Morian Vespridge]], the founder of the city, and claims its legitimacy to rule through this blood connection.
 
-Matters of public policy are largely left to the [[Vesper Ridge Parliamentary Council]], though Duke Vespridge enjoys veto power over all new legislation before it is put into effect. Additionally, House Vespridge (like all eight High Noble Houses) directly appoints some members of the VRPC to their seats at the start of each term.
+Matters of public policy are largely left to the [[Vesper Ridge Parliamentary Council]], though Duke Vespridge enjoys veto power over all new legislation before it is put into effect. Additionally, House Vespridge (like all eight High Noble Houses) directly appoints some members of the VRPC to their seats at the start of each term. All public land in [[Vesper Ridge]] is technically property of House Vespridge.
 
-All public land in [[Vesper Ridge]] is technically property of House Vespridge. House Vespridge’s symbol is a hornet in flight.
+[[Chambermaid Calliope]] serves House Vespridge, and stated that she was on an errand for the Duke and Duchess when the party encountered her in the [[Harbor Ward]]. Though Calliope worships [[Our Lady of the Black Rose]], House Vespridge itself has no association with the goddess, rather maintaining the official position that all religions aside from [[the Church of the Guiding Way]] are to be dissuaded (though not outright banned) within Vesper Ridge.
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+House Vespridge’s symbol is a hornet in flight.

_notes/vesper-ridge-wiki/_public/L/The Labyrinth.md

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 Less frightening than the cave horrors but equally mysterious are the scattered remains of what appear to be ancient ritual sites, religious shrines, and other unidentified structures dotting some deep Labyrinth tunnels. As there was no mention of the Labyrinth in recorded Hallowed Lands history prior to the earthquakes that revealed the caves to the surface, it is unknown how such structures came into existence. Some scholars speculate that the cave horrors must have built them, and indeed some of the horrors do bear vaguely humanoid anatomy, but the current scientific understanding is that cave horrors are sub-sentient creatures, more akin to territorial animals than to any sort of secret underground civilization. Further study on the matter is made difficult by the sheer peril of venturing too deep into the cave horrors’ domain.
 
-[[XXXXXXXXXXXX|No one knows how far down the tunnels go.]]
+No one knows how far down the tunnels go, but according to [[Chambermaid Calliope|Calliope]] they have been "active" lately.

_notes/vesper-ridge-wiki/_public/O/The Old Man Upstairs.md

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+title: The Old Man Upstairs
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+[[Sister Linia]] mentioned someone by this name when the party asked her about holy rites to safeguard a grave against necromancy. According to Linia, the old man upstairs knows more than her about such matters, and may wish to speak with the party.

_notes/vesper-ridge-wiki/_public/S/Searchlight.md

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+title: Searchlight
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+Encountered by the party in the [[Harbor Ward]], this 15-foot-tall abomination resembled a haphazard, vaguely humanoid assortment of machinery, pipes, rebar, earth and clay. In place of a head, it bore a twisting rubbery tube that emitted a blinding light, which seemed to carry various magical properties. Rather than walk, it hovered just above the ground, and a strange ethereal glow poured forth from its entire body like vapor off of dry ice.
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+For reasons unknown, the Searchlight had been following [[Chambermaid Calliope|Calliope]] through the city, seemingly invisible to everyone else, until the party heard the sounds of their fight and helped the maid slay it. [[Emi]], who was also present, said she could not see or hear the slightest trace of its presence.

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-<del style="color:#E00000">Picture that. In your dreams.</del>
+<del style="color:#E00000">You might try then, as i did, to find a sky so full of stars it will blind you again.</del>
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+<del style="color:#E00000">Only no sky can blind you now.</del>