(G361 21/07/2018 via Roll20 - AP, JF(GM)) WA38
DAY 362 (3rd Ches)(March) continued ...
An so, Fenrir left Veddic and Serten at the entrance of the abandoned mine and scouted ahead
alone.
Invisible and floating just above the ground he was unobserved by the ankhegs that lurked
just inside the entrance. Further in he found various doors and side passages, which he
left unexamined, going as deep as he could into the caves.
The final largest cave had several ice salamanders in it. These are dangerous creatures
that generate auras of cold. Feeling his skin freeze over he turned back and made his way
back to the nearest of the doors he had walked past.
He rattled the handle and found it locked. He then went to the entrance again, wondering
if he should not bring in Veddic, but noticed that two dark elf fighters had come from
the door behind him and were cautiously walking down the tunnel.
The couldn't see him, so when they got to a T-junction in the tunnel they stood and listened.
Fenrir tried to lure then towards where the ankhegs were, but they would come no further.
After a while the dark elves turned and walked back to the door they had come out of.
Fenrir sighed and decided to kill the ankhegs first, calling in Veddic to help him. These
are dangerous creatures, I still carry the scars from where one had me in its crushing jaws
from my earlier days of adventuring, but Fenrir and Veddic are very powerful and while the
ankhegs spat their acid at them and they took some damage, Fenrir did not waste any time
in blowing them to bits with his eldritch blasts.
Once these creatures were defeated the moved onto a nearby door. Using his ring of Knock,
Fenrir opened the first one and found a bed chamber that had a female prisoner in it. She
cowered behind a bed. He told her the door was open and she could leave if she wanted, but
she was too scared to.
They shut the door and moved on, trying one of the side tunnels. Here they found another
door and again, using his ring of Knock, Fenrir opened it. It appeared to be full of
treasure.
'Excuse me!' said a voice behind them. 'That's my stuff.'
They turned to see a ravishing young lady dressed in a fine gown. Fenrir could detect
magic from her and wisely realised that he might be seeing someone (or something) that
was using magic to change its form.
After some discussion he agreed to leave the treasure alone and to not try and gain
access to two other doors she pointed out to him.
Once that was settled she clicked her fingers and vanished.
Not sure what to make of all that, it at least left them with one other door to try.
On opening it they surprised four armed hobgoblins. Fenrir killed them all with a single
eldritch cone.
Leaving the bodies and whatever may have been in the room they then moved on to the cavern
that contained the ice salamanders.
There were three of them, and they were fierce beasts, but Veddic's 'Endure Elements' spell
held off the aura and once more Fenrir blew them all to bits with cone, chains and aimed
eldritch blasts before they could claw the men up too badly.
They advanced into the cavern and out from the shadows of an alcove appeared Fayder. Fenrir
just wanted this guy dead so their was no parleying. Veddic was first to react to seeing
Fayder and landed a 'Flamestrike' spell on him. Staggered, the assassin drew back.
The lady appeared from nowhere again and said, 'I will join the fight on the side of
whoever pays me the most.'
Fenrir said, 'If we kill him you can have all his treasure.'
She seemed happy enough with that and stood back to watch.
Fayder was a powerful assassin, but his strength was in stealth and ambush. After a
blast from Fenrir he knew the fight was unwinnable and swigged back a potion of 'Gaseous
Form'. He then trickled down into a crack in the cave floor.
'Oh no you don't!' said Fenrir as he started blasting down into the cracks, hoping to get
the wily assassin by a process of heavy bombardment.
'He could be long gone by now,' pointed out the mysterious lady. 'That crack could go down
for hundreds of feet... Or I suppose, no more than five or ten. In which case he is stuck
there, then by all means, keep shooting.'
Fenrir shrugged and kept firing his eldritch blasts at the crack, alternating between rays and
cones. After a while Veddic joined in, pouring a flask of oil down the crack and then setting
it alight.
'Also consider this,' said the lady. 'If you've already killed him, he's already dead but
still in gaseous form. You are just incinerating him further. If he is lodged in a crack five
feet down after all then when the spell wears off...which should be around now...'
She was indeed correct, as a moment later a fountain of blood spewed out of the crack, showering
the nearby area. Shaking the blood from their clothes and satisfied that the assassin was dead
Fenrir and Veddic left the mine, leaving the lady to retrieve the treasure however she could.
They took the other young lady with them, the prisoner from the first room, back with them to
Westgate, on Veddic's magic carpet. They dropped off Serten then took her to her families house.
Her name was Agnu Terimin, she was the rather plain daughter of a shipowner and merchant called
Terro Terimin. He was happy to see her again and rewarded the heroes with 800 gold.
They stayed for dinner, but the merchant did not go into any detail on how his daughter had
ended up in a mine twenty miles from the city.
DAY 363 (4th Ches)(March)
Fenrir returned to work this morning and told his boss Trepplemar that his 'assassin problem'
was all taken care of.
'Why was the assassin after you?' she asked.
'Oh, you know, I never asked...' he lied, knowing full well Fayder had come from the Grand Manor after
Fenrir had killed Rathol Erlend.
Still, he managed to easily convince Trepplemar that he really was that stupid.
Zeni and Relleme were waiting for him on the roof once he was done. It was a day of scattered
showers. The only flier they met was someone leaving the city in the late afternoon.
They intercepted and stopped her. Fenrir recognised her and eventually remembered it was a
rogue called Gelly. She was the one that had provided him with the location of the Night Parade.
He asked the usual questions and she told him it was too dangerous for her to leave by the
gates. He drew her aside and in whispers she told him that the Night Masks, of which she was a
member, was being overrun with vampires and she was getting out while she still could.
Fenrir decided to escort her out the city and gave her his address on Wizard's Cut incase she
needed help or wanted to join forces.
At the end of the shift Fenrir could see that Relleme was a bit miffed and when pushed she
said, 'Well, by the rules you taught us, everyone we find flying about should be told to
land and go through the gates, but there seem to be more exceptions than compliances.'
Fenrir gave her some waffle about sometimes it was better to bend the rules and that he
was privy to information that she didn't have. As ever his smooth charm worked and she
was content enough for now.
After work Fenrir and Veddic flew out to see Random on the magic carpet. Random gave them
a mild telling off. 'Be careful that you are not followed. That carpet is hardly inconspicuous!'
Fenrir was more concerned about all the money that Cavu had put in the bank and that had now
mysteriously disappeared.
'Yes, I took it out,' admitted Random. 'But don't worry about it, my old friend, it is in good
hands! What do you think is paying for your big house in the city? Certainly not me. It's
coming out of Cavu's fund.'
Fenrir wasn't delighted with that explanation, but accepted it. He went on to tell Random about
killing off Fayder.
'Good that you destroyed the body,' said Random. 'They probably won't bother bringing him back
if he's just jam. Cheaper to hire another assassin.'
They then went on to discuss how to get rid of Trepplemar and to get Fenrir in as the head of
the magical part of the watch. Random suggested Fenrir work out a way of getting his boss to
retire, but as to getting her job he said this:
''
As you know the leader of the watch is a paladin called Just Captain Hammersong.
When Trepplemar retires he will most likely choose from three candidates:
1. Fenrir (or rather - our pal Raziel Lightningrod!)
2. Golad Darkbane - a cleric of Tyr. Decent guy but not too bright
3. Lorak Shaymer - a powerful sorcerer, but rumoured to have Nightmask connections
OK, I'll noble Darkbane, shouldn't be too hard. You go after Shaymer. I happen to know something useful
about him. His connection to the Night Masks came to light when it was revealed he was part of a child
slavery operation.
He and his business partner ran an orphanage which was basically a front to sell children to whoever wanted
them for whatever purpose. Now, when the whole thing was blown open, Shaymer's business partner (a man called
Brundesh) vanished, this was seen as a sign of guilt and Shaymer was able to blame the whole thing on him,
saying that he had no idea the venture was anything more than an orphanage, and that he, Shaymer had only been
trying to do some good for the city and he had been fooled by Brundesh.
This, as you might expect, is rubbish. Shaymer keeps Brundesh in a dungeon under his house, I have this on good
authority. Break in, rescue Brundesh and present him to Hammersong. Easy, no?
Finally Fenrir mentioned his encounter with Gelly. Random said this:
'Maybe we can use her, she'd make a decent replacement for Rizole I suppose. She's of the Night Masks though
and vampires or not, they are not our friends.'