Post by moviedave on Jul 14, 2008 12:41:43 GMT -5
7.1.08
We regrouped after the fight with the spider. Velindar and Karazhan went off their own way to get to know each other, but told us the way to go to find the last section of the tower that we didn’t explore. We explored it. We came to a room filled with some caskets. We started opening them, and found a ring, rusty chainmail, a flaming skeleton, a broach, and an animated dagger and a magic longsword. We kept some things, fought and killed one, fought and not killed one, and left one. I’ll let you figure which is which.
At that point the tower seemed void of any other threat to us or the city of Sanction and with a quick couple hours to double check the other levels on our way out, we left.
I sat down to read the Wizard’s ritual book and figure out what the hell he was doing in that tower. After a few days I was able to use my Insight and Arcane abilities to basically learn the following.
The tower connects to the shadowfel. This guy tried to figure out why, or if there’s a pattern or WTF. He could not find a pattern but figured out it goes through stages of Active or Dorment. It is currently Active. He could not figure out why. He went crazy.
While I was doing that my new pal, Kelvonis tracked down a guy that would share the Endure Elements ritual with me for a fair price. Alistair, Kelvonis and Shorty all chipped in on the price too since it could help us all somewhere down the line. That showed a degree of commitment from everyone that they have interest in continuing to work together. Encouraging.
While discussing our next move, we were approached by a Tiefling of the watch named Vester. Kelvonis had heard of him and said he was a straight shooter but perhaps a bit harsh or brutal about his job. He offered us work as part of the flying watch. We conferred with each other and thought this was a good step for us, however Alistair felt uneasy about blindly throwing in his allegiance with someone after he had just escaped captivity. We decided he should make of show of his disagreement and leave the building while the other three of us, myself Bozcov, Kaelvonis and Shorty became actual badge carrying deputies of the watch, with a writ of approval and everything. Our first charge being to figure out why the hell the pirates gave a rat’s ass about the merchant daughter, Lemunda, that we had rescued from them.
We met up with Alistair because he’s still, of course, working with us, just not in an “official” capacity, and decided that I would investigate any problems that the father, Lemual the Trader had with the law or other records of interest to see if the kidnapping was revenge based. I searched the records as well as I could and found information on him, but not anything that would explain a Pirate’s interest in kidnapping his daughter.
The rest of the group would shake things up in the seedier sections and see what they could find out. They had little luck. Actually very little luck. This turned out to be the theme of our first investigation. Very. Little. Luck.
We proceeded to talk to Lemual and find out what he knew about things. He know nothing. We talked to Lemunda herself. She knew nothing of the pirates, but through shrewd diplomacy we did learn that they talked dirty to her. We also learned that she was betrothed to Lord Aldred, the 3rd son of Lord Amilric and Lady Denay. Apparently the Oldest Sibling, his sister Anwin and the youngest sister Anerra were not entirely pleased that Alred had selected a mere commoner to wed. Plus they were probably jealous that Lemunda was hotter than them. Aldred’s older brothers, Sir Aaron (the eldest son) and Arthur were not quite as outspoken but none the less still suspects in our book. We thought perhaps we had the lead we needed or a motive. If a rich family was involved instead of just a merchant family, that could help explain the pirates interest.
We went back to the docks to rough up or join or interrogate pirates. We really weren’t a hundred percent clear, but that never really mattered. Read above at very little luck. We just could not get our act together as a group and failed to find out anything.
We had Lemunda set up a meeting with Lord Aldred. Figured maybe we could get him worried about the pirates and that would shed some light on things. But again, we failed to earn his trust and gain knowledge. Kelvonis was as diplomatic as he could be, but our group could not get him to give us any information to further our investigation.
Our group now returns to our inn, where I now sit. We are all a bit downtrodden as we all brainstorm for “ideas for where to go next…”
We regrouped after the fight with the spider. Velindar and Karazhan went off their own way to get to know each other, but told us the way to go to find the last section of the tower that we didn’t explore. We explored it. We came to a room filled with some caskets. We started opening them, and found a ring, rusty chainmail, a flaming skeleton, a broach, and an animated dagger and a magic longsword. We kept some things, fought and killed one, fought and not killed one, and left one. I’ll let you figure which is which.
At that point the tower seemed void of any other threat to us or the city of Sanction and with a quick couple hours to double check the other levels on our way out, we left.
I sat down to read the Wizard’s ritual book and figure out what the hell he was doing in that tower. After a few days I was able to use my Insight and Arcane abilities to basically learn the following.
The tower connects to the shadowfel. This guy tried to figure out why, or if there’s a pattern or WTF. He could not find a pattern but figured out it goes through stages of Active or Dorment. It is currently Active. He could not figure out why. He went crazy.
While I was doing that my new pal, Kelvonis tracked down a guy that would share the Endure Elements ritual with me for a fair price. Alistair, Kelvonis and Shorty all chipped in on the price too since it could help us all somewhere down the line. That showed a degree of commitment from everyone that they have interest in continuing to work together. Encouraging.
While discussing our next move, we were approached by a Tiefling of the watch named Vester. Kelvonis had heard of him and said he was a straight shooter but perhaps a bit harsh or brutal about his job. He offered us work as part of the flying watch. We conferred with each other and thought this was a good step for us, however Alistair felt uneasy about blindly throwing in his allegiance with someone after he had just escaped captivity. We decided he should make of show of his disagreement and leave the building while the other three of us, myself Bozcov, Kaelvonis and Shorty became actual badge carrying deputies of the watch, with a writ of approval and everything. Our first charge being to figure out why the hell the pirates gave a rat’s ass about the merchant daughter, Lemunda, that we had rescued from them.
We met up with Alistair because he’s still, of course, working with us, just not in an “official” capacity, and decided that I would investigate any problems that the father, Lemual the Trader had with the law or other records of interest to see if the kidnapping was revenge based. I searched the records as well as I could and found information on him, but not anything that would explain a Pirate’s interest in kidnapping his daughter.
The rest of the group would shake things up in the seedier sections and see what they could find out. They had little luck. Actually very little luck. This turned out to be the theme of our first investigation. Very. Little. Luck.
We proceeded to talk to Lemual and find out what he knew about things. He know nothing. We talked to Lemunda herself. She knew nothing of the pirates, but through shrewd diplomacy we did learn that they talked dirty to her. We also learned that she was betrothed to Lord Aldred, the 3rd son of Lord Amilric and Lady Denay. Apparently the Oldest Sibling, his sister Anwin and the youngest sister Anerra were not entirely pleased that Alred had selected a mere commoner to wed. Plus they were probably jealous that Lemunda was hotter than them. Aldred’s older brothers, Sir Aaron (the eldest son) and Arthur were not quite as outspoken but none the less still suspects in our book. We thought perhaps we had the lead we needed or a motive. If a rich family was involved instead of just a merchant family, that could help explain the pirates interest.
We went back to the docks to rough up or join or interrogate pirates. We really weren’t a hundred percent clear, but that never really mattered. Read above at very little luck. We just could not get our act together as a group and failed to find out anything.
We had Lemunda set up a meeting with Lord Aldred. Figured maybe we could get him worried about the pirates and that would shed some light on things. But again, we failed to earn his trust and gain knowledge. Kelvonis was as diplomatic as he could be, but our group could not get him to give us any information to further our investigation.
Our group now returns to our inn, where I now sit. We are all a bit downtrodden as we all brainstorm for “ideas for where to go next…”