(G125 18/11/11 - BG - ON, GF(GM), AP)
DAY 98 (18th Kythorn) continued...
Oz went into the village later to buy some venison to treat the staff for their
dinner. It was well received and made them happy.
However Oz put his foot in it with Vera when he let on he had been given a choice
by Sten as to what maid to take on the next days journey. In the end Jil was
selected.
Fenrir was invited to have a chat regarding his intentions with Kurl's daughter.
His charm was enough to keep the old chap on side.
DAY 99 (19th Kythorn)
It rained heavily today.
The coach set off early in the morning. Fenrir, Giselle and Aunt Bitty in the
carriage, with Sten and Jil on the driver's seat and Oz at the back.
They passed three men gathered around a fire at the fork in the road. These were
local constables and were making sure people went the safer route.
The bridge was now repaired enough to take traffic although the masons were
charging a toll of one silver piece to get across.
They arrived at the Huntsman in the evening and once he, Jil and Oz had taken
care of the horses, Sten headed straight for the bar. Oz had a couple of drinks
too, but in the end left the old sot to it.
Fenrir had a fairly wild night too, I am led to believe, but once again I will
protect young Giselle's modesty and say nothing on the subject!
DAY 100 (20th Kythorn)
They left at the crack of dawn, at something like four in the morning, in order
to make it to the gates of Waterdeep before the closed.
They saw some more refugee's on the road, but other than that it was an uneventful
trip. At the gates though they saw a crazy man dressed roughly like a devil with
a tail and horns, shouting at all that passed through, 'The time is coming!'
Fenrir arranged for the carriage to drop off his stuff, then take them on to
Giselle's flat. From their he walked on to his family pile, the Thunderstaff
Manor to seek out his uncle.
His uncle was out however so he let himself into the study and after about an
hour found the right turn of phrase to summon the demon!
Bnurgstickslakskin is a 15 foot tall, 2 ton Glabrezu demon. The first thing he
did on being summoned was help himself to the sherry.
After that he passed on 'two requests and one piece of advise' to Fenrir.
The first request was to kill a merchant called Vamir Vallex. The second request
was to find a merchant called Brian. The advise was that if Fenrir would rather
deal with agents of The Abyss through a human he was to contact a man named
in the following rhyme that Bnurgstickslakskin recited;
'He lives in a dragon in the city!'
'Human and old and angry is he!'
'If demons and dragons be something ye desire!'
'Then pay a visit to his lofty spire!'
After a little bit more talk, where Bnurg allowed some questions and further
advised Fenrir to find out what the 'Bloodwar' was all about he departed, leaving
the study slightly wrecked and somewhat on fire.
Fenrir called in the servants, made up an excuse and went home.
DAY 101 (21st Kythorn) (June)
This was a busy day for both of the brave young bandit-bashing men. I will deal
with Fenrir's day first.
He firstly talked to Dorothea Goodwyn, someone who he describes as his 'Ogma
temple info lady'. He then talked to Mhair Szeltune at the Watchful Order of
Magists & Protectors. Luckily for him she was available and she told him a little
about the Blood War, the eternal struggle between the devils of Hell and the
demons of the Abyss.
Later he went to the dragon shaped tower of Maaril the Dragon Mage and met
a doorman who informed him that Maaril was indisposed and to come back the next
day. However Fenrir took exception to this and wrote a note in Infernal
then refusing to leave when the doorman asked him too.
Fenrir scuttled up onto the ceiling and refused to come down so the doorman
ordered in two guards who shot at him with arrows, badly injuring him.
Fenrir then fled, leaving a large pool of his blood on the pale blue tiles
of the waiting room.
Meanwhile Oz started his day by talking to an old school friend of Teru
Yardpike who informed Oz that Teru was a nasty piece of work. He then went
to Giselle and warned her of his suspicious about the Gnesher family butler.
On his way to where Sten and Jil were staying he was approached in the street
by a man who introduced himself as Cavu the Cursed. Oz accepted an invitation
to talk and went into a nearby tavern.
Cavu revealed he wished to find a merchant called Brian! None other than the
one Bnurg was after one supposes. He offered Oz fifty gold then and there for
his help locating this man, but Oz refused it.
Next Oz went to the market and bribed the Market Overseer, Tanner Morins,
to look at his tax records and found that a man called Brian had a stall on
lot #231 of the market. He then went to the stall but saw it was shut for the
day. He did all this while in disguise.
In the evening Fenrir and Oz met at the Felzoon's Folly tavern and conferred,
telling each other almost all of what had happened to them with Fenrir
neglecting to mention that his quests had come from a demon and Oz not
mentioning that he had been asked to investigate Brian from another source.
Finally Oz went to check out the house of Vamir Vallex, skulking in the shadows
with expert stealth.