When last we saw our
heroes, the Laughing Moons returned to Waterdeep looking to be successful in
removing the bounty on Rurrick. The Major advised he would take the writ to the
Waterdeep
guards as well as to the imperium.
Meanwhile Namfoodle
staying at the inn after a long exhausting search at the library on
other planes (see previous post for what was found) retires to his room
normally shared room with Rurrick, awakes in the dead of night from a deep
dreamless sleep, to see a figure standing in the room.
It coughs and spits out something
dark onto the floor. “Ahh my old friend, you don’t sleep lightly.. And NO wards
to protect you!” It shakes its head. “I can see why I was always the better mage at college!”
“I think I evaded the..” His
grinning skull-like mask twists into an even more crazed smile as a blade juts
through his chest and he slides limply to the ground. “Namfoo…”
A shadowy figure holding a short
wicked blade dripping blood in one hand and a short fine chain swings in his
other steps forward. From the window to the awakening wizard’s right – now it
seems the LAST of the OCTAD - hears
a hiss.
Combat! The wily and accomplished
wizard defeats a tentacled mass creature – some denizen from another plane of
existence then the cloaked figure winks out (teleport or dimension door..) which
had knifed the doctor. The commotion raised other guests at the Broken Sword
Inn and then the proprietor – Randarr. At first thinking of calling the guard
as it seemed Namfoodle had murdered the poor doctor, but after some thought,
Randarr being a member of the Black Diamond Thieves’ guild – decided to go with
the sketchy word of the wizard.
Opportune time for the rest of the
Laughing Moon’s to arrive and investigate. It seems Doctor Soell’s soul had
been sucked out of his body and looked to be destroyed, determined after Aust valiantly
tried a Raise Dead spell.
Some cover up and looting of the
poor doctor’s magic items then took place.
***
A new day, and new tasks.
The majority of the
party visits the Spire of Aamaex to look at acquiring and or creating
new items of magic. While, Namfoodle with guards of Rurrick and Keena visit a
library to do some research on the once great Wizard’s Octad. While
there, a guard saw the face of Rurrick. The prominent poster magically created
by the power of the magical Green Flaming Red Pickles all along the
SwordCoast is not lost on the young guard OR the 5000gp - Dead or Alive!
He gathers some cohorts and confronts the dwarf. Namfoodle is also brought in
and nearly dealt with force after some sarcasm. Keena.. hides QUITE
successfully and evades the Waterdeep guards.
Taken to Imperium
HQ, the two adventurers are taken to a room with a nice view. On the way, they
are contacted by Aust (message spell)
whom get’s the crew together to find out why Rurrick was taken in! Arriving, they get
up to the room and after some deliberating, it seems the bounty was still open
for Rurrick!
An audience with the
General - an expert swordsman - confirms that House Martanna and ALL its
holdings belong to him. NOT to the former Lady Martanna. It seems the General
head of the engineering battalions in the Imperium army had to pay the 5000gp
to the Waterdeep guards! Now Rurrick is indebted to him. The party finds out it
is for heretical acts against the god
emperor- worshipping false gods! After some
negotiation, to cancel the debt, the Laughing Moons agree to a dangerous quest –
under a Geas spell – to trek north to
the spine of the world, and infiltrate the Knights of Ivory stronghold and kill
the leader of the army besieged by the Imperium.
The party moves
forward encountering some diseased
trolls as well as fungi covered cave-fishers.
Battle is engaged. A fiery chromatic orb cast by Aust at the same time as a
firebolt from Namfoodle lights up the methane and combustible gas in the area! Multiple
spells and battle destroys most of the putrid force..
Will the Laughing
Moons be victorious? Until next time..
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