Silverwalkers Quest Notes 2011-03-05

Questing

In Our Last Episode

6 Verdant 1401 FI

• Lizardman leader tells us that ridding the temple of its evil would give him control over the Dragon Turtle protectors
• Mose then gets it into his head that they have to go fight the evil guy in the dome.
• Party buffs him to high heaven and runemaker helps him through the dome.
• Gentle breeze inside the dome, large willow tree, impossibly large tree. 65ft across, 100ft tall
• (Out of character we know the elf is Adrillathellior Teldandilion)
• Epic battle ensues, Silverwalkers are victorious!
• Some loot found and ID'd

In this Episode

• Party decides to leave the temple to go see Lizardman leader.

Displacer Battle

• Displacer beast beatdown!
  •  Quinalin uses sojourner teleport to get out of grapple when Displacer Lord begins to run off into the swamp with him.
  • 4 charges left
  • Displacer Lord tries to run off with   Grrrllwofrowffgrr, but a magic missile prevents such a fate.
  • They (beasts) are killed!
    • 1000 xp for level 8s
    • 750 xp for level 9s
    • Found 2446 gold
    • Found 1258 silver
• Party Rest at lair

New Day Begins

7 Verdant 1401 FI

Lizardman Camp

• Back at Lizardman camp
  • Shaman says he might eventually be able to control the turtles after months, will possibly require some sort of major offering to rouse the turtles.
  • Turtles currenly gone back dormant
  • Have become Turtle Tribe, abandoning their veneration of the Hydra. Will be moving to the temple.
  • Lizardmen are interested in becoming allies of Wydmoor now
  • Will escort city parties through the swamp, helping to keep the city supplied through Sherdam and the Banditlands, though the thieves guild will be basically in control of this.
• We open discussion with   Naprid
  • We tell him of our success
  • Could return to the city, through the back entrances
  • Egg has gotten access to the war room (by forging a letter of introduction from Germain, et al.)
  • Odessans have been causing diseases on the poor refugees!
  • The culprits are basically known, but the Wraiths and City are unable to get relief through the seige lines, and the camps are too weakned and disorgainized - especially with   Bethanalay dead - to do much.
  •   Maggr abandoned the council when his mother   Bethanalay died.
    •   Maggr left when he was angry that the Wraiths refused to release soldiers to try and break the lines to get aid to the camp
    • Left the council with his dog, snuck through lines, and gathered his dog riders to become supply line raiders
  • As they are being supplied out of the camps, this puts the camps at risk of reprisals.
  •   Bethanalay died!
    • She died of disease! (Befoulers, 8 days ago)
    • Caught multiple diseases and died from onset before she could cast the Remove Diseases.
•  LE is cold logical about it, and this angers  Mose
•  Kimika is very sad and sobbing about it

Return to Wydmoor

• Party heads back to Wydmoor
• We avoid all patrols!
•   Grrrllwofrowffgrr stays in abandoned watch tower
• Party goes into   Edrell's home
• Mat the raven tells us about   Edrell setting up defenses
  • Mostly absent from the war room since Silverwalkers left on their mission
  • Iron and Clay Golems came with the Mage's Keep, work for Magius
  • Mat doesn't know much about the political status of the town and is actively disinterested.
• We go to the Non-tunnel into the cathedral into the city
• We only encounter golems (friendly): Iron, Clay

City Research (Azure Geese, etc)

• Party is in the city, researching, etc.
•  Mose,  Kimika stay in the temple and pray.  Mose reviews inventory for tithing.
•  Mose tithes all the party's tapestries to the church
•  Germain and company visit Egg and the Azure Geese and receive news/info:
  • Egg has converted  Germain's apartment into a small office/library.
  • Built up a 2700 gp tab in  Germain's name using forged IOUs.
    • Was only given one weeks worth of operating capital (300gp) when Germain left. Bought up a *ton* of books from desperate refugees.
  • Recommend trading food/weapons for artwork for long-term profit ("I don't know how you feel about war profiteering, but. . . " were his exact words)
  • Azure Geese has 13 people in town guard, 40% our people, 40% thieves guild people, 20% others
  • They stopped sending grain to the refugees because the siege lines surround Wydmoor on 3 sides.
  • Melkior?
    • From Egg's Bag of Books
    • alumni almanac for unrekti university
    • Melkior was a graduate from Ubrekti University ~200 years ago
    • Not named by exact same name, around that time though, there was a tale of a Melkior Necromancer (skilled) in Wydmoor which led to a 6-month servitor incursion of the region. Lots of hobgoblins came in town and attacked until Melkior vanished. Egg surmised this.
  • Tells Egg about prismatic wall
• We leave our stuff with Egg to appraise, head to Castle Wydmoor

Castle

•   Ralth thinks the long-term goal is to find some way to beat the Odessans badly enough to draw concessions
•   Naprid thinks we need an indirect/direct way to make them withdraw and thinks that's enough of a goal
• Law in the city right now:
  • Uneasy truce between the factions
    • Only noble in the War Room is Burghur, and he contributes little.
    • Whatever is going on with the Monied/Gentry Factions is happening off the radar.
  • Nobles and Gentry negotating/martialing troops waiting for the seige to resolve?
    • Bloodletting? New Coalition? Outcome uncertain.
  • Post-Siege Power Vaccuum likely.
    • Theives' Guild likely to be strongest single faction, as they will now doubt be entrenching and growing wealthy as the primary suppliers during the seige
    • Unknown what the new Landed Powers coalition will look like.  Germain has his foot in the door with a somewhat marginalized noble family.
  • The guards are keeping marshal law
    • Specifically guarding the bank, which is closed, and the granary. The Warrens are a dark, empty wasteland. Most public business has ceased.
    • Curfew in effect. Severe regulations in place. Morale in the city is also pitiful.
  • Food is given out in daily rations to all city residents. Access to the refugees is generally considered to be too dangerous to attempt.
• War room basically calls the shots now. How the new government will be constituted is unknown, and not much thought about at the present.
• Councils of important people
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     Oscart - Hadriarch, Head of the Church in Wydmoor Region, and currently his cathedral is the only active church left in Wydmoor.
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     Elkit - Councilwoman, Merchant & Pawnbroker
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     Haggar - exmayor and current councilman, local entrepenuer, owns two brickworks
  •   Fenn - thieves guild rep, former Guardsman colleague of Germain's
  •   Teodora - interim sheriff, long time guard captain heh
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     Burghur - Councilman and Guild Master, was the Mayor's man & is firmly in the camp of the landed gentry.
  •   Ralth - Leader of the Bog Wraiths
  •   Naprid - Retired Leader of the Bog Wraiths, Main Advisor to Ralth
•   Naprid and Magth mercenary make a deal
  • Was probably promised a lot of stuff after the war to help us
  • Also a skilled engineer in his own right
  • His job was to be a runecrafter to make passageways into city for sabetuers
    • He made passageway stones for a small party
    • He does know that there is a mole active in Wydmoor, who has highest access
  • Morale is pretty low in Odessan camps, but high among officers
    • Hobgoblins have abandoned Odessans and have taken to harrassing Odessan supply lines
    • Poisoned food stores and traps at Yalmrinth did not go over well with the troops
    • Troops see this as a war of uncertain purpose and objective
    • As of a few days ago, lots of halfling dog riders began attacking supply lines
  • Command still very confident that they can win the siege
    • Odessans have intimate knowledge of cities defences, preparations, command structures thanks to highly placed mole
    • No reason to believe Mole is still not providing information to the Odessans, possibly even a member of the War Room
    • Since we poisoned food supply, they started plaguebombing refugees
    • There is an infiltration team of clerics and wererats in the sewers slowly poisoning the water supply of Wydmoor
      • No more teleporting, so they went through sewers using runestones.
      • Lots of wydmoor citizens fled after the fire were unable to return, meaning less filth is going into water already.
      • Otyughs keep the water clean in the sewers, unclear where they come from or how they are replaced
      • Odessans sent in a bunch of clerics to purify the towns water
      • Otyughs will die when the water supply is cleaned-up, then the Clerics can leave and the water will become befouled!
        • Since population is reduced by at least 50%, there is also not nearly as much filth going into the sewers, making the job that much easier
        • ( Egg can tell you about Otyughs: http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/otyugh.htm )
        • They will likely have reduced attribute scores due to persistant starvation
        • They may or may not be hostile to the party.
        • Killing Otyughs, even ones that attack you, is NOT part of the plan!

War Room

• The party soon meets in the war room and prepares to talk a bit with the council.
  • In Wave, Council RP might be easier there: https://wave.google.com/wave/#restored:wave:googlewave.com%252Fw%252BuFp_FQ9JA.5

Final GM message

• Selling in Wydmoor during seige
  • Can sell art only at 25% of book value for it at present
  • Can sell items at 120% of list price for magic items and weapons
  • Can buy chain mail at price ~150%
• End game XP
  • Swamp Mission Accomplished: 1000 XP
  • Turncoat Acquired!: 250 XP
  • Roleplaying Award:  Kimika (10%)
  • Introspective Roleplaying Award:  LE (5%)
  •  LE: Don't forget all your shadow XP!