(G133 24/02/12 - BG - AL, GF(GM), ON)

DAY 116 (6th Flamerule) (July) continued...

On leaving the Palace, Fenrir was approached by Egbert the rather batty old
dwarf who had a thing about chickens. He even handed over an egg as evidence
and much to his surprise Fenrir detected a faint magical aura in the thing. He
cracked it open and it was full of blood and ichor!

He promised to come over to Egbert's house later and investigate where the
devil-chickens were coming from, the dwarf's neighbour's house.

After that though he spent some time on setting up his alter egos and clothes
for his flat.

As the clocks of Waterdeep chimed four in the afternoon Oz and Fenrir met up
at his 'Matches' flat and discussed the Egbert situation. They then went out
and brought a master work silver dagger to take on what could possibly be
devil-chickens.

They then went to look around the area of Egbert's house in Dock Ward (Fenrir
in his 'Sticks' persona) and gather information about the person who owned the
house were the chickens were alleged to come from. They found that it was owned
by an odd man called Paul Treeman who would threaten to 'set the chickens'
on anyone that came to his door.

DAY 117 (7th Flamerule) (July)

After midnight Oz climbed the roof of Egbert's house and after three hours of
watching climbed back down again. They then found a nest and out of the eggs
in it identified one of them as emanating a magical aura. Oz kept it.

In the small hours of the morning Oz went to the Church of Ogma to see who
was around but only talked to Meven Track, the acolyte night watchman.

They then went to the Sapphire Inn to sleep.

On waking they once more went to the Church of Ogma and talked to Shellen
the Academic. Oz gave her the egg and the address of where it was found.

On crossing the Market Square they saw that three people were to be burnt
at the stake by the new court of Inquisition. They asked around and found
that the three were a female half-elf called Jalayne the Evil, an elf called
Yentis and a sullen youth called Marko Paby.

They then went to the OJB and watched the spectacle from there as the pyres
were readied and the condemned were brought in. Meleghost Starseer and
Ulfred Steygor were seen too.

Gharlie (in her persona of 'Eva' a tall beautiful elven maid) was at the
OJB and reported to Oz :

'Jesker works for a Yaun-ti called Wathuss. Wathuss currently has a
house somewhere in Castle Ward.
Jesker is determined to get to the monk. In order to do this, he
plans to kidnap someone. Jesker has now gone to the house in Castle
Ward. The house is apparently heavily guarded and he considers it
safe.'

Later he sent her to look for mistresses of Vamir Vallex, but as will be
proved later, this was a waste of time!

When Fenrir, Oz, Corum and Gharlie were at the OJB, Cavu turned up out of
the blue and asked for a chat with Oz. Oz suspected something was up though and
motioned to Gharlie to attempt to read his mind. Later this is what she reported
she overheard :

You tell me. And no, I like to drink and anyway, I'm not drunk!
I've only had three ales. Good Idea. But he's not my lap dog, he doesn't
come when I call.
I know all of that. The money will come via the normal method?
I love you too, mommy! Take care down there. Watch me tomorrow
evening, I'll talk to you then.

Oz also cast charm on Cavu, but somehow he knew he had been charmed even though
Oz had hidden it well and making his excuses the half-elf left saying that Oz
could come to the Singing Sword and talk to him later.

At noon, the three condemned were executed. A grizzly sight and a warning to
the crowds that watched in the Market Square.

As the clocks struck two in the afternoon Oz went to talk to Cavu and they had
a long conversation about trust. Oz then went to drop off two notes at the Grey
Serpent and when he returned to the Singing Sword he found Fenrir and Cavu
talking.

After a couple more hours and some discussion between Fenrir and Cavu regarding
an agreement between their two factions Fenrir went to talk to Nerga Nemcali
and found her at Essimuth's Equipment.

Nerga told Fenrir to hurry up with the assassination of Vamir and that he didn't
care what lies he told other groups as long as the work was done.

While Oz continued his research into yaun-ti and other things at the Ogma
Temple Fenrir decided to go and kill Vamir Vallex by himself.

He waited outside the house, disguised as 'Matches' then took to the roof tops
to follow him as he left with his two guards in the early evening.

It was daylight though so the people on the street could see him clearly as
he rose up from the ground on his black smokey wings and took to the roof
tops. At the next corner he shot Vamir in the back with his crossbow and
unleashed a blast of magic to finish him off.

The guards had been blinded and deafened by 'flash-bangs' but Fenrir was
followed by a mob and later some watchmen as he tried to escape from the
roof tops.

Flying and dodging he attempted to head south, but spotted a gryphon rider
to the east and realised he had to go down onto the street again. By some
miracle and with a lot of darkness pebbles he managed to evade the watch and
the mob and make his way back to the OJB.

Perhaps not realising how reckless and lucky he had been he waited out the
rest of the night here.

DAY 118 (8th Flamerule)

Fenrir left the OJB in the morning.

While back at his flat owned by 'Matches / Sticks ' he was surprised to
hear a knock at the door. Some how Maliantor of the Grey Hands had tracked him
down. Luckily for him though she only wanted to ask him about Maaril and the
attack at the tower.
Fenrir had no idea how she had found him, she must have been a pretty
accomplished detective, but she said she was not interested in arresting him
for the attack on Emir Junderhyl, she was trying to find out what had happened
at the tower and find out about any more serious threats to the city.

At noon this day Oz went to see what he could find out about the yaun-ti again
and talked to Blackrabbas Khulthund. He then went to New Olamn and talked to
Jessica Lapine who told him of the ways and means of finding out how to trace
bought and sold property in the city.

Next he went to the Grey Serpent and picked up a note from Jade.

In the afternoon he went to the Dragons Head Tavern and asked around about
the Hall of Records and the Estate Office at the palace, all part of his plan
to track down Jesker.

Finally he went back to his flat and read his books and went to bed.

(G133B VIA E-MAIL 29/02/2012 - JF(GM) , AP)

DAY 118 (8th Flamerule) continued ...

Here, dear reader, I will go down two separate paths for a while and deal
firstly with what happened to Fenrir from today to 'day 145'.

To begin with then, these are the events of Fenrir's capture by Maliantor
of the Grey Hands.

At ten in the morning he disguised himself as a new person, then left his
'Matches' flat and went to his shabbier place.

He then gathered everything from there and left. By noon he got to the
OJB and talked to Corum, persuading him to join him on a trip out of the
city and east to Kingsholm.

He then spent some of the afternoon hiring a horse and cart, and some rations.
He then went to the OJB and penned a letter to Amar Main at the palace saying
that Gilliard De Rosan had set him up and was the 'Matches' persona.

Not long after three in the afternoon he drove his horse and cart out of
Market Square and towards his first flat to pick up his chests.

As he was approaching his scabby flat though he was attacked by Harshnag the
Frost Giant of the Grey Hands, rushing out from behind a building. Fenrir
flew into the air, but was pinned down by a 'Hold Person' spell from Maliantor
who had been flying along above him invisibly.

They tied him up and Harshnag tucked him in under his arm.

As they went along Maliantor said, 'After I left you flat I went back to the
Blackstaff Tower, don't you know, and one our guys told me that Fenrir 'The
Darkness' Thunderstaff had struck again!
Didn't I feel like a proper idiot that I'd only just come away from talking
to you?
So at two o'clock I arrived back at your flat. The strands of hair I found
in it helped a lot with the scry spell which I cast at three o'clock. Well,
I summoned my pal Harshnag with a sending spell.
He can teleport right into the Blackstaff Tower, don't you know, and since
you were wandering around in the Market Square it was very easy for me to
nip across, cast Invisibility on myself and follow you from the air.
I sent my old pal Harshnag charging down the street as a sort of beater don't
you know and snagged you as you took to the air! All rather neatly done,
even if I do say so myself, which I do!'