The night before leaving for Thrull, Gram has
a dream - that next morning, he leaves from
the temple of Astendar...now a Questor...
After the trip to Thrull (riverboat - the skyship
had already left) the group inquire about
getting in to be interviewed and dropping off
their journals. A murder has occured in Bartertown a
couple weeks before, and the group trys to help
find the killer. After dropping off Journals, and
getting interviewed, the group continue to shop and
do various things in Bartertown. Odahn goes to the library
and through some very crafty speech, gets the use
of a special library pass that will allow him (and anyone with him) to do (more or less) anything they wish. So,
the group draws up a list of things that they want researched
and gives it to Odahn and some dwarves to do. Gram
trains a young Wizard, and in return gets the deed to
a tavern in the low quarter of Bartertown. It is quickly
re-named to 'The Dragon's Share', and Gram quickly
becomes known as it's new owner - after throwing out
a few patrons.
The things that the group finds out about the murder:
An elementallist was murdered in his home during the
summoning process of a great fire elemental. The elemental
was loose upon the elementalists home and part of
the quarter in which he lived before it's summoning
expired. It is also learned that one of the lord's of Thrull
was the elementals intended target. One of the witness'
is a Dwarf by the name of Paris (who also happens to be the
elementalists assistant)..but Paris is nowhere to be found.
It is also learned that a friend of Paris' is also
murdered - possibly to get information about Paris' wherabouts.
Apon further investigation the Knights find that the killers
are two thugs of the lord who was supposed to be murdered by the elemental.
The group's suspision is that this 'lord' is actually one of
the shadow's, and that the elementalist was attempting
to summon the fire elemental to destroy him. Paris might
have actually done the murder under the pretence of the
horror that has infested the lord. The Knights go to
another lord whom they know well 'Rudley Parima' of the
house of 'Parima' - a young lord whom they met on their
last visit to Thrull. They deside to hold a town meeting
with all the lords so that the high wizards of the court can
take a good look at the lord who is thought to be infested.
The Knights will then (with the lord away from home) go into the lord's abode, and capture the two thugs who had done the killing of the friend of Paris'.(confusing anyone? You're not alone).
This is a short exerpt from the house of the lord>
The house was normally guarded by someone of such high stature,
but we made sure they slept threw any of the altercations that
we had. Of course, upon entering the establishment, we were assaulted by a creature literaly hanging (as in noose) from the
rafters of the entry room. The guard that had so willingly let us in was stuck in the stomach by a dagger thrown by the creature. The creature summarily stoped moving and was motionless after this. The front room smelt of death, and the pungent odor of dried and putrid blood wafted from the back of the house. That back room was a gastly sight..At least 15 bodies in various stages of dismemberment were strewn all over the room. We headed through that room to the stairs.
The journal continues with the group going up stairs and finding
the two thugs who had killed the girl. They were incapable of
speech and had been taken over by something. Utter vegitables.
The journal mentions some things that were found in the house of
the lord, but these items were not listed. The group then headed
for the councel chambers to confront the lord, with the backup of
the city watch.
In the councel chambers, the lord (now one of the shadows) had
taken over the proceedings and had incapacitated the councel
members..Including that of the house of Parima...Two of the
councels highest wizards had been turned to help the shadow,
and had erected a force around them and one of the councel
members whom he was proceeding to inpregnate with the
pattern of some sort of creature...(drake like)...
The group finally gets through the force and takes down the
wizards who are helping the horror..Then they use the same
ritual that was done with Har Garal and they bind the
horror to the body...then they kill it. Passage is found
back to Travar, so the party can be there for Seven's party.
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