Ilace and Jerrod
Recently a storm blew in off the Keening Sea and hit the City of Shuttered Windows. The balloons of those fools who were still aloft were blown far and wide, but none farther than that of a minor Elector named Ilace and her brother Jerrod. After their tow cable snapped, they were blown all the way to the Tashtan Plains (02.08) where their golden gondola crashed into a nest of giant centipedes.
Luckily the thrashing of Jerrod’s valet as he was eaten alive so distracted the centipedes that the rest of the party was able to flee to safety. They are currently rooming at Uncle Bertie’s Trading Post (03.08) where Ilace and Jerrod often engage in heated discussions of all manner of subjects: how to recover the gondola? What duties should Ilace’s maid perform for poor Jerrod in his valet-deprived state? Should they ask for help from the Delasars (07.04)? Is it safe to eat that? Should they pawn the rubies in Ilace’s earrings? Whatever are they to do?
The rubies in question were given as a gift to Ilace last year after a young bravo by the name of Giles Chosard pried them from the eye sockets of an idol that lies in the Ziggurat (06.10).
Connection:
- The rubies of the Traitor’s Pit, the Black Ziggurat (18.26) and the Green Ziggurat (06.10) all seem to be identical.
Hook:
- Was it wise for Giles to pry the rubies out of the idol’s eye sockets? Why did he give them to Ilace?