(G106 11/02/11 OR - AP, ON(GM), GF, SS)

DAY 18 (29th Ches) continued...

Incidentally, Raya told us about how things ended with Eno. Apparently the men tried to attack him but he deftly
defeated them, yet still managed to not kill any of them. Went out of his way to do so in fact.

Anyway, the rest of the day was spent going through all the loot we'd acquired recently at the temple
and selling it.

DAY 19 (30th Ches)

Pay day! Got my pay and paid the rent. 10 gold seems a bit silly after getting over 1000 from my share of
the loot which we divided up last night.

Started the day by hooking up with Fenrir and going up to the Trade Ward guard house and picked
up the Bull Elk talisman. No problem there as Fenrir's girl Giselle was at the desk.

Then on to the Tarn villa and got statements from the family, but didn't get the lady of the house,
as she was away, which was annoying as it was the sole purpose of this whole ruse.
Still, Lord Arum Tarn told us to try again in a couple of days.
The butler, Hanz, did seem to let on the family had some problems, but not even Fenrir's silver
tongue could winkle it out of him.

Raya had been having a poke about too, in the alleys, but turned up no further clues.

Finally we strolled over to the Castle to look at the bodies in the morgue.
Had a look at Araloor, Fin, and the various dead half orc. As well as having a cut throat, Fin
had a hole in the head and no brain within!
We puzzled over what might have done that.

Our next port of call anyway, was the Watchful Order of Magistars and Protectors, as I thought
somebody there might be able to shed some light on any 'Mystery Groups' of shapeshifter types
in the city that would be recruiting from the in-experienced magic users of the city.

We met with Lady Mhair who seemed full of information, but the only bit that seemed pertinent was
that a group of dopplegangers had been kicked out of the Rat Hills by the Plague Rat gang a while ago.
This very much sounded like our lot. Dopplegangers!? I need to find out more about them.

I then proceeded to put my foot in it with Fenrir although I didn't realise it at the time. I asked
her about what sort of people use purple fire balls as weapons, thinking that, since he had avoided
the subject in the past at least here we could get it out in the open, whatever it was.

Well, what she said was pretty shocking. About demon worship and dark magical powers! Not only
fireballs but these 'warlocks' for such he is, can use their magic to influence peoples minds.
Far from denying it, he seemed to just sit there and nod in agreement.

When we got outside though he exploded,

'What the fuck was that about then? If you've got something you want to know about me, you can fucking
well ask me to my face and not ask some random old bint a load of questions about 'what sort of person
fires purple bolts with no limit'. How dare you?! I thought we were supposed to be friends and you
pull a stunt like that?!
That was well out of order matey, well out of order. Do you have any idea how insulting that was to me,
to have my supposed friend asking a bunch of not exactly subtle questions about me IN FRONT OF MY FACE! If
I wanted to know something about you or your past, I would be man enough to ask you straight up and not try
digging around behind your back, or as you did, right in front of me to a stranger!
Well?
Cat got your tongue?'

I didn't really know what to do with that, not withstanding the last bit hadn't made any sense at all,
just incoherent rage. It was as if he'd grown horns and a tail right there in front of me!

I knew he was a slippery character but I always thought he was decent at heart. Well, I saw another side
of him there as he turned whatever devil-powered frighteners he possesses onto me in full force.

Rather than engage him in an argument which I knew would surely lose, due to his demonic powers of
persuasion, I fled. I mean, what would be able to persuade me to do or think? That black was white?
That I should give him all my gold like that damned elf did, or something much worse?

I am sick to death of all these shape-shifters, dopplegangers, charmers and bedazzlers. To find out
that one of their ilk was my ally all along is something I'm going to have to think long and hard on.