Lost Legacies Gameplay Thread (Week 4 Now Available)

(Week 3, part 2, right after the chess game)

Meanwhile Daniel was watching the news in the Reed apartment. There was a feature about the Thor family displaying paintings from their collection in the local museum. 

Encouraged by another call of the envoy's, Daniel went to the exhibition.

The paintings showed historic scenes, only for Daniel the fairy's eyes they were all modern. Those buildings hadn't existed yet in the time he had spent adventuring with Captain Cordelia.

Daniel took a seat next to a busk of Princess Cordelia.

Daniel: "I hadn't expected this job to spark memories of Tartosa. Good times, ey, Cordy? Not exactly easier, but a lot simpler."

Wistfully (and not caring in the least about getting caught per the staff) Daniel ran his fingers over the statue. Suddenly he winced when he touched little cracks. They were too regular to be anything other than deliberately chiseled into the stone! A string of numbers...

When Daniel went to tell the curator, she brushed him aside with "That's what we in the museum business call inventory numbers".

He called the envoy again, who directed him to "a bench".

Daniel immediately ruled out the wooden benches in the little park. The one his mysterious contact referred to must be part of the exhibition.

And indeed there it was, under a window upstairs. Daniel's heart almost stopped when he saw it.

400 years ago he had sat on a bench just like this, maybe this exact same one! Back in Tartosa... with Captain Cordy... and with Bob the butler...

(I downloaded the official Princess Cordelia household from the gallery for a couple of backstory screenshots.)

She had taken Daniel "giving Bob the doe eyes" a little personally.

Daniel: "If we both duel for Bob's honor, then he can only win, regardless of which of us hurls the saber out of the other's hand, haha!"

Right. Simpler times. You got a gripe with a crewmate, you broke out the sabers. And afterwards everything was forgotten and forgiven. The pirates' life sure was appealing to a fairy! But it couldn't last. Time moved on and what was a couple of nights in Everdew, in the human world meant decades passing...

Daniel wasn't really ancient, in fact, he had lived only for twenty-two years so far. But he had seen a lot of human history, knotted together like pearls on a necklace.

Gavin found Daniel sitting on the bench, blissfully unaware of his boyfriend being lost in memories of a long deceased lover.

He found a box standing in plain view. Whereever the envoy had found it originally, she had positioned it for the Reed couple to find. Using the code Daniel had discovered, Gavin opened it, only to find its contents missing.

Gavin: "Bad news, baby. I'm afraid we were set up as scapegoats for this theft. When the lordships realize that their treasure is gone, our investigating of this very same treasure will make us suspicious beyond help. We better lie low for a while."

Daniel (through clenched teeth): "That would be the wise thing to do, huh? Tell you what! The different buildings, the fireplace, the keys, the code on the statue and the ancient box with a modern numbers-lock, all of that tells me that GENERATIONS were involved in keeping the treasure secure. I don't care who has a legal or moral claim to it, I want it! Like we... like they did back in Cordy's time!"

With the very real chance that the thief had set them up as scapegoats and would call the police on them any moment, Gavin decided to just walk up to the Veronviller nobility with his information. Conveniently Archduke Thiago was on site, so the detectives laid out everything that had happened to his Highness.

Thiago: "Very well. I won't go into detail about the treasures or the envoy - yet. Just bring the goods - and ideally also that woman - back to us. Then we'll talk."

Gavin: "About a reward?"

Thiago: "You may keep the fireplace cache."

That had been five thousand credits and a valuable ring. For up-front pay that was really good!

Thiago: "But do well and non-monetary rewards might be in store, too. Good evening, gentlemen. And good luck!"