Silverwalkers Quest Notes 2011-05-22

QUESTING

• RP Dinner With Egg!
• We interrogate the guys further

Odessan Invasion Interrogation

• Key person: Lord Marzall, Duke of Cavindale
• Why are the Odessans attacking? Partly Money and partly over the Bandit Kingdom contract with Bog Wraiths
• Bog Wraiths had been working with the Odessans in the Bandit Kingdom, they've been paid to help
• Huge dustbowl cutting off Bandit Kingdom
• Odessan_Invasion
• Substantial debts with Wydmoor
• Some complicated arrangement where some kind of forest was put into hock to the Wydmoor bank
• He ran out of money (King), mortgaged forest to Wydmoor bank
• Odessans had been paying Bog Wraiths and that was probably expensive

We hear a noise at the door during interrogation. Invisible creature turns out to be Mat eavesdropping and also wanting to have   Edrell interview the clerics. We phone   Naprid and arrange to take the clerics to visit him and dual-interrogate with   Edrell   Egg and  Germain stay behind We take the clerics to be interrogated across the city

Mid-city Suprise Invisible Ambush Battle!

Party is pounded by sudden magical Ice Storm being cast from a roof above In confusion, the helpless clerics have their heads bashed-in by invisible stalkers  Al turns into an eagle and flies toward the sound of spellcasting  Al summons two wolves to smell out the location of the spellcaster

 Mose quaffs potion of See Invisibile Recognizes two vampire wererats! They weren't vampires before One was (Augustus?) from the Wydmoor Temple with the orcs One was from the sewers They each killed one of our prisoner clerics

Lightning bolt (40 pts!) on  Al, another lightning bolt does 21 to  Kimika after save.  Al (still an eagle) retreats to reassess the situation. Another lightning bolt like the last one would do him in, so he decides to fight from a safer spot.

Vampire pounds on  Kimika and gives her a negative level! She is beaten down to 1 hit point She brandishes her holy symbol to push him away

 Mose smite-evils that vampire until it lies dead! It later turns to gaseous form and the body disappears.

Fireball from  LE sets fire to buildings, as she blasts   Mantatlus's likely roof location The fireball also kills the two wolves that  Al summoned, but that's good, since vampires can control wolves, and they were about to make the wolves attack  LE.

 Quinalin pushes  Kimika out of harms way and  Mose rushes to lay-on-hands her.

 Mose spies Vampire   Mantatlus on the roof as the enemy spellcaster, flying around somehow.  LE reads scroll of See Invis  LE hits   Mantatlus with magic missiles as he flies from roof to roof   Mantatlus flies away!

 Al summons 4 small water elementals to put out the fire that  LE's fireball started

Sad to have lost their prisoners, everyone heads to Wydmoor Castle to meet with Bog Wraiths

Conversation with Naprid

  Naprid is unhappy, unsure who those were Didn't really recall much about   Mantatlus so wasn't wildly affected to learn he still lived They accuse the Bog Wraiths of causing problems.

  Naprid explains they are badly undermanned here. Boondoggle in Bandit Kingdom has lots of Bog Wraith men which is part of the reason this battle is hard to win.

We showed him the wererat daggers (human/animal bane).   Naprid:"I'd know those daggers anywhere! Those killed Sox Argyle!" Wants dagger set, for practical and personal reasons

Trades them for Lantern of Revealing Invisibiles! ([1])  LE floats it around with mage hand as move action

Conversation with Edrell

We tell him of the crummy ambush

General discussion: Is very busy and out of his element Even though Hemsley (old magius) was a coward, he was probably a better wizard   Edrell busy trying to learn on the job He says that any reasonably well-informed Wydmoor scholar would understand how water supply was handled, not especially privileged info, but not common knowledge either.

Runners dispatched to bring   Egg and  Germain into Wydmoor castle for safety. Arrive around noon.

We corner   Fenn and ask questions

Conversation with Fenn

 Germain detects lies: none detected   Fenn: "Nobody lies to the boss."  LE Detects Magic:

• his armor - illusion
• his magic dagger - necromancy
• his rings - abjuration

Thieves Guild is willing to give up   Mantatlus, wererats to show support for alliance Wererats have "gone rogue" and are working with everyone Needed to keep them in check in the past Silver weapons helped a lot to keep them in check in the past (ie: force)   Fenn will tell us the lair for   Mantatlus, wererats

If we will give him time (24 hours) to warn his people so they do not overreact, then he will tell us where to find   Mantatlus and the 2 wererat vampires.

Said he was going to give up   Mantatlus in the past, but you all "overreacted" to the head in a box and did not want the offer of friendship he gave afterward, which would have been   Mantatlus.

Off to the Lair!

WERERAT-Vampire HOME: In a cemetary on the outside of town.

 Quinalin scales walls easily to help us get out past the defenses Party prebuffs with lots of energy protection (both normal prot and a few death wards) The attack goes off on early morning. When the party enters the graveyard, a dozen ghasts and 4 shadows attack!

 Mose blows the Haste Horn (tastes like Germain's saliva, yuck)

 LE directs the revealing lantern around to help reveal shadows!

 LE magic missiles baddies

 Kimika consecrates gravestones for improved Turn Undead abilities!

 Kimika turns undead and ghasts are almost all killed, turns again and shadows all retreat.

 Quinalin (Trip+Smack+Cleave), Al (Claw+Claw+Bite), and Mose (Sword+Sword+Burn) all rip a bunch of ghouls to shreds.

 Kimika's turn drives the last few away and they are cut down as they cower.

                                               GAME ADJOURNED