(G94 03/09/10 BG - AP, ON(GM), GF, SS)
DAY 7
After Fenrir went and did a bit more shopping, we met up with Raya and Nest and reported back at the
Rat Catcher's Guild.
It was all shut up, and after asking around the neighbourhood and drawing a blank I instructed Raya
to pick the lock.
Fenrir and Raya seemed intent on searching the guild house from top to bottom and stripping it of
anything valuable. The only thing of interest to me was Weston's diary, which talked about the
deaths and threats and noted that the thugs responsible were all from outside Waterdeep.
Anyway, I dragged them away from their snooping and down the drain we went again. Back towards the
door where the pigeons had been. I was about to kick it down when Fenrir suggested that I simply
knock.
I did and a rather grumpy female voice answered. She wanted us to go away, but silver tongued
Fenrir convinced her to open up.
When I stepped in though, she slammed the door shut behind me and stabbed me in the back. I was
then set upon by two large angry cats.
Luckily for me, Fenrir managed to kick the door in and the others joined the fight, but after a
blow from my sword seemed to do her know damage she got me again and all the lights went out
for me.
From what I learned later, Fenrir set about them with his magic bolts and splattered one of the
cats. Raya got inside and loosed off a few shots, but was badly hurt and had to go outside to
Nest for healing.
Then Nest got involved too and his magic and Fen's was enough to finish off the other cat and almost
do for the rat-woman too.
But sensing defeat she grabbed my body and used it as a bargaining shield. They agreed with her
that I would be dragged away and they would leave while she aimed an arrow at me.
She could have saved her breath though, because as Nest went to drag me away, Fen decide to
blast her anyway.
It wouldn't have been so bad, but he missed! Luckily again for me though, she changed her aim to
him, but was finished off by one of Raya's silver arrows.
Fenrir berated me somewhat for being less prepared than him. I did have a watch potion on me but
he pointed out that my famous money hoarding could cost me my life saying, 'Next time will we
just ram forty gold down your throat?'
Well, anyway, in the next room we found an old halfing in a sorry state. Once Nest had tended
to him enough for him to talk, we discovered it was none other than Weston.
He told us the woman we had just slain was Bala, who was in league with a man called Vernon.
Searching Bala's hide out we found some letters in which Vernon told Bala about his plan.
It seemed he wanted Waterdeep to sink into a pit of refuse and rats so that he could then hold
the city to ransom over it. To this end he had been using every underhand trick he could, namely
bribery, intimidation and murder. He had taken over the Refuse Collector's Guild and had bribed
city officials to turn a blind eye to his escapades.
Having run out of funds though, he had tasked Bala with causing as much havoc in the Rat Catcher's
Guild, something she had been doing very well up until the point where we killed her.
Vernon's headquarters are apparently on a refuse scow anchored in the port.
We discussed the idea of paying him a visit.
