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The Rosenthorne Court Incident - The City 6 Temple Raid

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Summary

The party and its resistance allies raid a City 6 temple, destroy its narcotics operation, and rescue roughly two hundred abducted Rosenthorne subjects. Records point toward the Queen and capital, while the seized temple treasury creates the first serious strain with the resistance.

Detailed Narrative

Working from the City 6 undercity, the party and resistance plan a coordinated uprising/diversion. Resistance cells will attack Nardic military infrastructure while Trevor's group strikes a temple complex used for drug production, detention, and processing of abductees.

The party reconnoiters the temple and learns that victims emerge heavily drugged. The lower levels contain narcotics/manufacturing operations, while the temple proper is defended by priests, workers, and cultivated creatures. The resistance supplies explosives to help destroy the operation.

The party infiltrates, isolates the high priest, and then fights through the complex. Baby's habitual greed becomes strategically important: she discovers an enormous temple treasury and begins moving huge quantities of gold even while the rescue is underway. This is the start of the wealth problem that later strains the relationship with the resistance.

The group finds roughly two hundred abducted people from Rosenthorne's world being held/processed. Some recognize Trevor and Gaby, turning the mission from abstract rescue to direct recovery of the Baron's subjects. Jennifer takes on a practical rescue role, helping shepherd captives out while the core party continues clearing dangerous areas.

Records/interrogation indicate that select captives have been sent to the capital for the Queen's personal use. This strongly supports the belief that Estera and Medina, as early/high-value abductees, were removed from City 6.

The party destroys the temple's narcotics production and supporting facilities, burns or demolishes key infrastructure, and escapes under cover of the broader resistance attacks. The local resistance simultaneously damages multiple military bases.

The raid is a major victory: it rescues a large captive population, damages the Nardic regime, and produces intelligence that points directly toward the capital. It also makes the party extraordinarily wealthy and begins to reveal a moral/political divide over who owns wealth looted from an oppressive regime.

Details

Chapter Number8
TitleThe City 6 Temple Raid
Source Journalrosenthorne_campaign_archive/sessions/2023-10-28_session-08_the-city-6-temple-raid.md
EventsRoughly 200 abducted Rosenthorne/Drankov subjects are rescued.The City 6 Nardic temple/drug operation is destroyed.Evidence indicates the Queen personally received select captives in the capital.The resistance scores simultaneous military successes.The party acquires a vast temple treasury, setting up later conflict with its allies.
Campaign Idrosenthorne-court-incident
Campaignrosenthorne-court-incident
Player Characters290-trevor-tatarmoff290-gerrick-tatarmoff290-borisina-yeatfield290-giles-darrington