Talk:Silverwalkers Quest Notes 2011-05-22

Silverwalkers Quest Notes 2011-07-31

RP Dinner With Egg!

We interrogate the guys further

Lord Marzall, Duke of Cavindale, leads the Odessan forces.

Why are they doing it? (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 (BW) been paid to help
  • Odessans claim BW not acting in good faith, plotting against the Odessans while taking their money in payment.
• Huge dustbowl cutting Alexia in half, BW are paid to keep order on far eastern half where Odessa would have trouble projecting power.
  • See Also/Update - http://wiki.memphisgamers.com/index.php?title=Odessan_Invasion
• Odessa owes substantial debts with Wydmoor
  • Some complicated arrangement where some kind of Odessan (Heartwood) forest was put into hock to the Wydmoor bank
  • The Crown ran out of money (King), mortgaged forest to Wydmoor bank b/c nobles would not allow further tax increases
  • Occupation and large armies turn out to be expensive.
  • Also 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 to catch up. <-- Egg and Germain have a couple/few hours to catch up and work together to get on the same page

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 (Errol)
  • They each killed one of our prisoner clerics
• Lightning bolt (40 pts!) on Al, another LB does 21 to Kimika after save.
• Al (still an eagle) retreats to reassess the situation. Another LB 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

XP: ????? 800 for level 10s? 1000 for level 9s? (Not sure, bad memory)

SOme of this stuff below will require original notetaker clarification: Sad to have lost their prisoners, everyone heads to Wydmoor Castle to meet with Bog Wraiths

Naprid:Naprid is unhappy, unsure who those were (not sure what this means -gm )

Didn't really recall much about Mantatlus so wasn't wildly affected to learn he still lived

They (Who?) accuse the Bog Wraiths of causing problems

Bog Wraiths badly undermanned here. Boondoggle in Bandit Kingdom has lots of Bog Wraith men which is part of the reason the Wraiths are in a particularly bad position, even without other problems (fires, assassinations, etc)

We showed him the wererat daggers (human/animal bane).

"I'd know those daggers anywhere! Those killed Sox Argyle!" -Naprid

Wants dagger set, for practical and personal reasons

Trades them for Lantern of Revealing Invisibiles! (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicItems/wondrousItems.htm#lanternofRevealing)

LE floats it around with mage hand as move action (move 20')

Edrell actually leaves the tower to come and interrogate, not terribly thrilled at by the perceived slight.

We tell him of the crummy ambush

General discussion:

• He is very busy and out of his element
• Even though Hemsley (old magius) was a coward, he was probably a better wizard overall
• Edrell busy trying to learn on the job, does not have time for politics and the War Room anymore
• 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. Germain stands by Sensing Motive while party leads questions. Germain detects lies: none detected

"Nobody lies to the boss." -Fenn

LE does not take part, instead Detects Magic and concentrates on Fenn

• 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

Guild has Needed to keep them in check in the past

• Fenn "Silver weapons helped a lot to keep them in check in the past" (ie: cooercive 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. (Time Given!)

Fenn said he was going to give up Mantatlas in the past, when he was hinting at having a "gift" for 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.

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

Quin 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!

Turns and Ghasts are almost all killed

Turns and Shadows all retreat

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

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

XP awards??? Not sure what these were