(G159 01/03/2013 Fri via Roll20 - JF(GM) , AP)

DAY 176 (4th Eleint) cont ...

And so they rowed back to the Sea Wyvern and started unloading the wreck of
the Salty Siren.

There was a hundred and twenty tons of salted fish and beef on board in barrels
that each weighed 360lbs.

Fenrir and Crispy calculated that it would take the two ships rowboats 12 and a half
hours to move the 600 barrels.

In the end it took 15, so they were not too far out.

DAY 177 (5th Eleint)

By six bells of the Middle Watch (three o'clock in the morning to you land lubbers!)
they had finished the loading of the supplies and set sail

Today the Sea Wyvern made seventy miles towards Waterdeep with a light breeze and
fair weather although she was heavy in the water with every square inch of space
packed with barrels.

DAY 178 (6th Eleint)

Fenrir woke up at six bells of the Forenoon Watch (11 o'clock) and began the day
by telling the girls that Oz was probably dead in order to make them cry so he
could refill his healing amulet with tears.

Urol and Crispy later informed him that they were within thirty miles of Waterdeep.
Fenrir asked where exactly Luskan was, and Urol told him it was to the north but
rightly pointed out that the pirate fleet could be anywhere around the city.

Fenrir didn't know what to do until Urol pointed out that he could fly and
was invisible, so off he went at a good clip, north to scout out the sea.

By four o'clock he was within visual distance of the pirates and flew in
to take a closer look. Unluckily though there was a powerful wizard in one
of the vessels who was able to see him. A very brief exchange of magic bolts
and missiles ensued with Fenrir flying off as quickly as he could.

The wizard even hit him with an ice storm spell as he fled so he was fairly
well mauled by the time he landed back on the Sea Wyvern.

Crispy had a good idea of where the pirates were though so they were able
to avoid them and slip into Waterdeep in the middle of the night.

DAY 179 (7th Eleint)

Fenrir slept in a Dock Ward inn called 'The Rearing Hippocampus'. He then woke,
breakfasted, put on a disguise and headed into the city.

He went to the OJB and sought out Raya. They then went together to the
Necropolis and found the grave of 'Kebreb Hastesword'. It was not far from
the north gate.

(Just to explain, a coded note had been found amongst some scrolls carried
by the trolls that had attacked the Sea Wyvern on the way down to Candlekeep.
It read that treasure was buried in this grave.)

The grave found the arranged to meet that night and Fenrir went to New Olamn
and talked to the gnomish bard Liddy Sparktop.

He paid Sparktop the princely sum of 1000 gold to organise the singing of
songs to paint Fenrir in a heroic light and attempt to mend his rather
tattered reputation.

For this among of money, the bard promised that his exploits (and those of his
'gang' in the OJB) would be sung of in every tavern in Waterdeep for a month.

The song of 'Fenrir and the Brewery Gang' would include:
- how they rescued little girl from burning shop
- how they broke up a kidnapping ring
- how they rescued Giselle (another name used in the song)
- how they smashed the Dopplegangers
- how they cleared necromancer's tower in Waterdeep
- how they killed lots of bandits to the north
- how they dealt with the Durlag's tower assassins
- how they got the supplies back from Shatterhull Isle for the refugees

The song was to include a smattering of romance and comedy but mainly to focus
on what a good egg Fenrir really was and explain that his deeds were for the
greater good against the devil worshippers.

This would some song when it was complete! But Liddy was being paid handsomely
for it. Fenrir signed the paperwork 'Mr Smith'.

At noon Fenrir went to the Temple of Ogma, while in disguise, and sold the loot from
Shatterhull Isle.

He then went to the Splintered Stair for lunch and set up a messaging system their
for his coven under the name of 'Andy the Randy Dandy'

Next he went to the Dripping Dagger and hired four mercenaries for twenty days and
sent them north to protect Giselle, bearing the message 'Fen has sent them'.
Again he signed the paperwork 'Mr Smith'. This cost him 144 gold.

At three o'clock he asked around his usual haunts to try and find where he
could hire some 'observers' and was directed to the 'Bloody Fist' a place that
he knew well from when Corum used to go there to get head butted.

He went upstairs and talked to a dwarven wench who did not give her name and
hired three watchers for five days. This cost 75 gold, it was a lot of money
because their target would be Hallistar Blatt and they may be given 'additional
duties' later.

At six o'clock he arrived back at the Hippo, had his dinner and went to bed.

DAY 180 (8th Eleint)

At midnight Fenrir arose and flew to the Necropolis. He landed and looked around
the grave, finding Raya lurking in the shadows of some trees.

The grave was between two torches though so reasonably well lit. Fenrir decided
to move them while invisible, but these 'travelling lights' were spotted by
the gate guards who came to investigate.
Fenrir went 'wooohhhoooohoohoooooo!' in attempt to pretend to be a ghost.
The guards rushed back to the gate crying 'Summon the clerics!'

An hour later the graveyard was crawling with guards and cleric so they
decided to abort. Raya skulked off into the shadows and Fenrir took to
the air.

Someone from the ground could see him though and cried, 'A black winged
figure raises over their!'. No one attacked him though and he disappeared
into the night.

Back at the hippo he slept until nine in the morning and after breakfast
went to the House of Tesper and asked to talk to Lady Charrin Tesper saying
'I am an associate of Maaril'.

Fenrir had reason to believe that the Tespers were linked to 'The Confluence'
who were a small group of hidden dragons living in the city.

She met him in a summer house in the garden's of the villa. Fenrir was
surprised when she freely admitted that she associated with the dragons
of the Confluence and asked him 'What do you want from us?'

Fenrir was rather lost for words as he hadn't even expect to get this far.
He told her about Hallistar Blatt, but Lady Tesper said that they would
need much more proof than 'What a bird told a friend of yours' referring
to Oz's familiar, so far the only evidence they had that Blatt was
responsible for the mummy attack on the Thunderstaff Villa.

Just then a big ball of -something- flew far over head. It was a missile
fired by the orc horde giants that had the city under siege. They had
giant ballista firing huge missiles into the city. This one carried
on to the west and may even have landed in the sea.

Fenrir carried on, saying that he was looking for a 'weak spot in the
routine of Blatt.' Lady Tesper replied that she could offer help but
would need more definite plans of action.

Fenrir agreed and left, then went to the Blackstaff Tower in search
of Maliantor. She met him in a quiet room about an hour later.

She told him what some quietly asked questions had found out about
Hallistar Blatt. Firstly he used to be a member of an adventuring
band called 'The Red Stranglers' and secondly he would often leave
the Watchful Order buildings (WOMP) and give no account of his
whereabouts. Suspicious but did not necessarily mean he was in
league with devils.

After lunch, in his guise of 'Mr Smith' Fenrir went to New Olamn
and talked to Liddy Sparktop again.

He was told that the 'Red Stranglers' had consisted of the following
people :

Strenk - Fighter / Cleric
Vallentior - Cleric
Grimnick - Ranger
Breather - Rogue
Hallistar - Wizard

Fenrir asked Liddy to find out where they all were.

Going to the next item on his to do list Fenrir went to see his father at
the TSV. They talked for a while and Elsdon told him of the following bad
decisions Arsten II had made :

DAY 160 - Names Kanet as his heir. (Kanet is Fenrir's cousin). It should have been Elsdon.
Kanet is good, but unremarkable. Arsten did this purely for his own gain as part
of a deal to get Kanet's racing stables.

DAY 162 - Arsten raids the family coffers of 5,000 gold to buy studs for the stables.

DAY 166 - Arsten argues with the best magecrafter the family has (Ingrim Halfman) and sacks him.
Halfman takes the family to court. Cases like this drag on for life times and can
ruin a family.

DAY 170 - Arsten makes a disastrous trade on spoiled goods. Thinking he was making a great
deal on potions he actually got useless water. It costs 3,000 gold

DAY 175 - Marle brokers a deal for more mercs and dismisses half of the ones the family have
But the deal falls through and the dismissed mercs are really angry and wont come
back until she doubles their wages, kicking off a dispute with the others.
The whole debacle costs 1000gp

DAY 180 - Arsten sells off all the caravans for 15,000 gold but puts the whole lot into
the racing stable

They chatted for a further few hours and then Fenrir went down to the OJB.

Here he talked to Corum who told him about the small raiding force that had
been sent to the Kryptgarden Lavius Estate. They had employed a ruse to
defeat them. Everyone in the village was moved up to the villa house. They
locked up all their houses except the tavern which was left with its doors
open and all the beer kegs open in the middle of the room.

The raiders could not resist and by night time were all dead drunk. Then
Corum and his family struck, killing every last one of them.

Corum also mentioned to his friend that a man called 'Bwain Bloodfist' had
been looking for him on Day 165, that Bertran had returned to waterdeep
and that none of his letters had reached Giselle.