(G92 20/08/10 KT - AP, ON(GM), GF, SS)
DAY 4
The Temple to Oghma seems to have really taken a shine to us and we spent all of today there
being showered with praise and gifts.
I suspect that Tero may have other motives for his generosity, but at the moment it is nice to
be treated so well.
DAY 5
Got a knock on the door this morning from one of the watchmen, Erlon, and was asked to go see Senior
Civliar Abrix. I don't know if it's coincidence or not, be he hinted that doing some off duty
'pro bono' work might be a good thing if I ever fancied making armar.
It was trouble with the Ratcatcher's Guild in our ward and due to limited man power he thought I
might go down and take a look. I said I would right away. I was to seek out Mung, the pie shop
owner on Watchrun Alley.
Meanwhile, Raya and Fenrir had been back at the crime scene on Snail Street asking around and they
checked out the flat above where the wererats had been. They found strange plugs in the floor that
had seeminly been placed recently. Also, the flat had been cleaned very thoroughly, removing all traces
of whoever had been in it
I also went to see Hilda at the east gate to pick her brains a bit more. She got teased by her
mob when I was there and I think she was coming on to me too!
The night of the murders she had been with her regular mob, Pip, Rurik and Pizana and they had arrived at the
house just after Aiden Hale, Fat Pat and two other watchmen.
Hilda saw it as most odd that the other mob just cleared out as soon as she got there. I may need
to talk to Rurik and the others and see what went on in the house.
Could it be that Aiden Hale knew who the murderer or murderers were. Could it be that these wererats
were simply killed by him and his men?
In any event, I met Raya and Fenrir at the Throat for lunch and had some food and a couple of what
pass for beers in that place. We swapped information and decided to go over to Mung's pie shop.
Mung seemed to be a half orc or something similar, but nice enough. He was concerned that one of
his suppliers, a rat catcher called Algae had gone missing. Not only that but two more catchers
had turned up dead as well as a forth that was still missing.
He offered us some gold to find out what was going on and gave us some pies of dubious contents
to eat.
We then headed down Watchrun Alley to the guild. Two toughs stepped out with crossbows to stop
us. Fenrir stepped up and did all of the talking, but I suspect he was still drunk from the pub
as his speech had more bravado than was healthy in it.
Two more thugs appeared behind us and diplomacy out the window a fight ensued.
Fenrir was shot in the leg right off, and one leapt at Raya who stepped back and shot. Crossbow
bolts flew everywhere up and down the alley but not many hit. I attacked with my sword and after
a couple of swings managed to cut one to the ground.
Fenrir was shooting that strange purple magic from his hands again at the one that had shot him
and then felling him went down the side alley out of sight. Raya was quiet badly injured but
two of the thugs seeing they were being bested decided to run for it. Fenrir turned up to finish
off the one I had downed.
The fight over I tried to save the only one left alive but he died. Raya skulked off to the temple
of Oghma and Fenrir went around the corner to melt the face off his victim (I learned later).
His behaviour got even more bizarre after that. He said we should throw the bodies onto the roof
of one of the houses and when I refused propped one of them up in a vaguely alive looking pose.
He then stripped off all their weapons, but then decided to give them to me for safe keeping.
I also searched the bodies looking for identification and found that one of them had a strange
tattoo on his shoulder of a sort of triangle and three tear drops.
As people began to arrive to see what all the commotion was he said we should flee. When I told
one of the by-standers to fetch the watch, he then said 'You're on your own!' and ran away.
Shortly though, some of my pals turned up, including Janna my flat mate. I explained to them
what had happened and they seemed happy enough. I had it all under control when Fenrir came
sauntering back to stir things up again. He kept his magic secret and gave a false name but
they seemed happy enough to let us go on our way although they did take all the weapons.
So, me and my rather hyperactive companion made our way to the guild. In the entrance we met
Jako and Minky Bek who were sat at a table playing cards. They informed us that the guildmaster,
a man called Weston was in his office at the back.
We didn't find him there though, just a blood stain on the carpet. We then went to question Jako
and Bek. Again Fenrir, high on a mixture of alcohol and adrenaline I suppose, made the task more
difficult, by getting all shouty and threatening them with the watch, something he shouldn't really
be doing.
Still, they told us all they knew, the most interesting thing being about a woman called Bala,
who had a scar on her chin and whom had appeared at the guild at about the same time the
disappearances started.
We gave the office a thorough search and found a trail of blood spots leading to what appeared
to be an entrance to the sewers.
At that point we decided to go back to the temple and get Raya and Nestoone.
