Tales of a Kingdom Under Siege

K01 | K03

by Elloth Nailo

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Midwinter DR 1479

Later on the day when we returned to the room with the four headless snanke men. Upon reflection we recall that the groups monthly stipend is 9000g per month.

Flick and Straelyn explain the events of attack to Ilsevele, who asks a few questions, and then leaves with her retenue. Under the bed someone sees a crack in the wall and Tharivol shifts into bird form and goes to search the crack. After 25 minutes he still has not come back. After 15 minutes Arust and GD go out into the hall, Arust is engaging them in conversation to check for split tongues. After 5 minutes the Light spell will have worn off. Many already refer to him by his new title. After 25 minutes Shadow goes into the crack too.

Tharivol comes back and tells us the snake went into a duct, that goes downhill a while, meets a sewer and then he lost the trail under a sewer gate about 5 blocks away. Straelyn starts looking for magic with Arcana.

Around midnight Arust, GD, Ryvv and I go back into the hall and then back into the great hall looking for snake people in disguise. Arust takes GD over to the cheese table. Meanwhile Straelyn has come into the great hall too and identifies two people with polymorph effects up, one is a cat, and the other is unknown to us. Strae tells Ryvv about him, and Ryvv approaches and engages him in conversation. Ryvv later tells us the goob was more skilled than him.

Half past midnight the Coronel and main table leave, as do most of the minor nobles. So we join the throng of people leaving, and head to the Drunk Treant. Its a "heroic" bar. The next table over has a friend walk up and ask if they know who Bahgtru is? We all know he's a CE orc Exarch of Brute Strength. The guy asking was in a group, and that groups Cleric of Sune warded off the questioner.

Og comes up, as he is part owner, and talks to us. Two days south he tells us a sinkhole was reported and it belched fire.

I sing a great bawdy beer drinking song, and having gotten the crowd started allow it to run its course. We carouse some more, Brenna leaves to go check the library. We leave at two bells, and Ryvv says breakfast will be served at ten bells the following morning.

1st of Altruiak

It is cold as usual, and light snow has fallen. I had gotten up early and gone to the Bard Hangout, I'd heard that a diplomat and a group had left for a village on a diplomatic mission that was three days (SE) away. Its been twelve days since their departure. The village is an ally, but they rule themselves. The diplomat was on a friendly open communication mission. We decide to check on the diplomat unofficially and leave a message at a drop for Amaril.

We depart after Straelyn does a Shadow Travel ritual. I perform Traveler's Chant ten minutes early. The village is 75 miles away and we cover the distance in three hours. The town used to be Kylfinord, but is now called Kingsford. Name change occured when humans popped in from Aberil some fifty years ago. We appear from out of the treeline, and start walking towards the short outerwall. (Inside of that is the fields, then an inner larger wall, and then the village inside that).

While entertaining the crowd of kids and onlookers, the perceptive see a man depart feigning disintrest leave. Brenna sends her cat Shadow and soon tells us in a whispered Elven that Thar is following too, and that he is delivering a "cat-gram". Ryvv and Flick are inside doing introductions to Malcolm the captain of the guard. He professes that they have seen no diplomat, and he makes himself available and tells them where the town hall, taphouse, and center of town is. Then she whispers he's KO'd the guard inside the house, and is pointing at a trap-door.

Arust, Straelyn, GD, and I distract the horde of onlookers whilst the rest of the group goes to the house. Inside they hear whispering of our descriptions and a leader asking if they know why we're here. The informant says he informed as fast as he could, because hes worried that M-D sent soldiers and their kids. Leader says well lets wait it out. Group preps to ambush. Someone is walking back out as they hide. The guy walks in and they jack him, Thar and Ryvv each one hit and he's down.

They hear a noise from below as if someone heard the action. Thar opens the door a tick, the guy see him, and he pounces. It bloodies the guy, so guy steps back, and he slings a spell. It misses Thar, then Ryvv drops him too. There is no one else in the conspiracy theorists bunker. Ryvven questions him and he turns out to be a servent of some guy, Thar guards them through the day, and we leave at night. Flick takes the map and letters. The letters describe a fall of a nearby elven town, to the NNE. We send Og a sending stone about the X'd out town.

2nd Altruiak

We leave with the guy Joeseph, no one in town is the wiser. The two guys with him were threatened into silence. Og meets us at noon on the road, picks up the prisoner, and turns around back to Myth Drannor.