(G96 17/09/10 KT - AP, ON(GM), GF, SS)

DAY 8 cont ... (19th Ches)

In the evening me and Fenrir took a stroll down to the docks and spied out the garbage scow and asked
around in the local taverns.

I stood and watched it for a while, while Fenrir asked about, but I didn't see anything.
He found out that there was something nasty living in the rubbish.

DAY 9 (20th Ches)

I asked Abrix for some support on a planned raid on Vernon's scow but he wasn't at all helpful. So as a stop
gap measure I arranged with my squad to pass that way first thing in the morning so that they would be on
hand if needed.

We then spent some time finding out about Jereth, whom we want a signature from, and even went so far as
to follow some servants into the 'Gilded Grocer' but in the end we decided to wait and rethink our plans
based on her location in North Ward.

Meanwhile Raya was finally healed at the temple, at a fair cost, and we went to meet her. I arranged with
Raya to hire one of her contacts, a local scallywag called Fin, to watch the Tarn Villa for us, that being
the dwelling of lady Jereth.

We then went down to the docks again to watch the scow for a bit longer.

DAY 10 (21st Ches)

Well, this was the morning of the raid on Vernon's garbage scow. It was a mixed bag. We put a lot of planning
in, but sometimes luck plays a bigger part than planning.

The first part was to toss rabbits onto the boat to tempt out whatever beastie was lurking in the rubbish.
This worked, as the first rabbit I tossed over was gobbled up by a massive cockroach. The next part was not
so successful as everyone who was waiting with bows and magic missed.
Another rabbit, another bunch of wild shots.

Eventually I put down our gangplank (not trusting the one that was there, although in the end it seemed to
be fine) and walked over to hit it. It gave as good as it got though and crushed me with a very nasty bite
making me run back to get healed by Nes.
More tomfoolery, wounds and running around eventually led to its death, zapped by Fenrir as it burrowed into
the rubbish.

Stage two of the plan was to get inside and for this I had my portable ram. It bashed in the door with no
problem, but Vernon was waiting with a crossbow and shot me in the leg.
I stepped aside to take a potion and the others poured in fire.
He tried to get out but was beaten back in. I threw in an Alchemist's Fire, but it didn't seem to do much
in those damp timbers.
With nothing else to do, myself and Fenrir rushed in to attempt to finish him. He managed to get into a
sort of cupboard but we struck him down in the end and that was that. He was still alive, only just though.

I called in my squad to help with the tidy up operation and we went through his possession's finding clues
and other useful things. Vernon was taken down to the guard post for questioning.

Fenrir seemed hung up on the idea of turning the scow into a hideaway, and seeing that we'd just killed the
effective head of the Dung Sweeper's Guild that we were now the guild masters. I wasn't so sure, about either
proposition to be honest and I think perhaps I have a better understanding than him as to how the city
is run.

In any event we were finished at the scow and made our way back to the guard post once we'd stripped it.

(btw - Olaf re-wrote some of the above so can do a compare/diff sometime)