Lawson Harting |
Riger Mann |
When we stopped at the iron door in front of Riger Mann’s cell
we immediately recognized the ravings of yet another lover fallen under the
spell of woman whose name we finally learn much to our chagrin, Annabeth. At the mere mention of her name magical
energies erupt, the effect unknown but the unspoken fear is to fall under dear Annabeth's Love charm. Riger in his madness tells
us of his insatiable need to acquire his inheritance so that he would have a
proper dowry to give her. Peering
through the cell door it is clear to all of us that Riger is malnourished and
sickly his madness the only energy keeping him standing. We pass through food and drink which he
hungrily consumes, during this process Zadrian slips Riger a potion of
Protection from Evil which frees him temporarily from the charm he is under
and allows us a minute to question him.
The woman Annabeth would come to him, arriving magically from the
sounds of it. Even free of madness Riger had trouble remembering
specifics. In desperation for hope and ideas
on how to track this threat Zadrian finds out the name of Riger’s ex-lover
Milsa Meet in hopes that she might have jealously discovered something about Riger’s
new girlfriend.
After our minute of questions the madness returns and we leave
the tragic Riger to pass by the next two cells, each holding a drow elf, one
male one female, hidden in the dark recess of the cell only their hair
revealing their presence. Clearly they
were communicating with each other. At this point, Arne and Alan Kordova along
with Zadrian continued onto the the next cell while Wendell and Cadthronn Rasierik
went to find the warden of Swift Prison, the dwarf Warak Freestone.
The Kordova brothers and Zadrian saw that the cell with the
largest number of visitors held the Zhent Dulvan Kinroth, a small vermin looking man
with a hawkish nose, jutting teeth, and jittery countenance. Peitra Damaken is just finishing speaking
with the Zhent through the prison door when we approach. Alan Kordova engages Dulvan, drawing his ire
and threats. The vicious little Zhent
predicts his escape and Alan’s eventual destruction before letting us know that
Peitra was investigating the Mayor.
Nhar-Del |
MEANWHILE IN THE OFFICE OF WARAK FREESTONE..
Warak Freestone |
Town Map |
Flag bearers begin to gather near the stage revealing political
maneuvering among the nobles of Tragidore.
Celadae Vistani had been replaced in the Quest for the Everflame by Mura
Gundwynd. Carson Rasierik also had been
replaced by Helmo Gundwynd. While
Zadrian discussed the issue with Celadae she informs him that she has a secret
for him the next time they are alone. While the two dejected teens explained the
politics of the situation to Zadrian the rest of The T’Five began people
watching in earnest noticing a traveler, Madame Xemne Pardette, Peitra Damican,
and the Three Knights of Myth Drannor. Also in attendance is Holgast Rasierik
standing next to Aurora Tenloss and someone else none of us recognize. Davina
Silvers interrupts Zadrian’s conversation, collecting Celadae and wandering off in the crowd together. Zadrian then sees two members
of Mom's old adventuring group, the Golden Watch, Branda Tulles who was essentially Zadrian’s
second mother and her husband Igneous Tulles. As Zadrians questioned his mother’s
friends about the city and current goings on several groups take the
stage.
On stage are the clerics of the Gauntleted Fist, opposite these priests are the three clerics from Trinity Church; Center stage is the Mayor, Carin Taber, a couple executive officers Bozbeyli Meet, the Governor of the Guard; and Gilda Marsh, cleric of Torm as well as Minister of Justice, along with the Captain of the Rider of Mistledale, Vacek Kordova. The Mayor begins a speech introducing the honored teen nobles chosen for the Quest,
The speech is ill received by those in the courtyard with Arne Kordova beginning catcalls that eventually culminated in a shoe being thrown at the mayor before the crowd began to rush the stage. The Everflame Quest almost began with a rebellious attack against the mayor who was quickly pulled away to safety while the teenagers began their quest by fleeing the courtyard. Calm was almost restored when Cris Rolst is spotted in the crowd clearly planning to attack his sister. Zadrian moved to Regine to warn her cover her from the immediate attack. The siblings were quickly knocked unconscious and given over to guard who drag them to the drunk tank of Swift Prison.
On stage are the clerics of the Gauntleted Fist, opposite these priests are the three clerics from Trinity Church; Center stage is the Mayor, Carin Taber, a couple executive officers Bozbeyli Meet, the Governor of the Guard; and Gilda Marsh, cleric of Torm as well as Minister of Justice, along with the Captain of the Rider of Mistledale, Vacek Kordova. The Mayor begins a speech introducing the honored teen nobles chosen for the Quest,
Carson Rasierik |
Garret Kordova
Gracia Kordova
Helmo Gundwynd
Jinter Elmaran
Kaarle Van Richten
Mura Gundwynd
Rainey Solerer
The speech is ill received by those in the courtyard with Arne Kordova beginning catcalls that eventually culminated in a shoe being thrown at the mayor before the crowd began to rush the stage. The Everflame Quest almost began with a rebellious attack against the mayor who was quickly pulled away to safety while the teenagers began their quest by fleeing the courtyard. Calm was almost restored when Cris Rolst is spotted in the crowd clearly planning to attack his sister. Zadrian moved to Regine to warn her cover her from the immediate attack. The siblings were quickly knocked unconscious and given over to guard who drag them to the drunk tank of Swift Prison.
A little girl’s scream echoed from Trinity Church down the
street which was immediately followed by a bolt of lightning that erupted from
the church doors out into the street.
Racing to the church we find Arial standing over the body of Anna
Braxton who looks like she was fried to a crisp. Zadrian’s detect magic spell revealing beams
of magic exuding from Arial’s every pore.
The young girl would only say that Anna Braxton had attempted to subdue
her inciting one of Ariel's panic attacks. A somber discussion is held as we
begin to understand that Arial carries Spellfire and learn that the Bloodrenched
Knight that had tortured her calling her Midnight. The purpose of her torture was to generate
the blasts of spellfire energy for his own evil uses.
The alarms of Swift Prison had begun as we raced to the church, the Zhent's prediction of escape had come true. Word was the only thing the guards found when they opened Dulvan's cell was a swarm of rats.
Later, Igneous and Branda, two OLD out-of-towners and Zadrian’s
mother’s old adventuring group came to pay respects to her memorial at church. In the
meantime Igneous explained to Zadrian why he and Jonark Uptal are not fans of each other
and admitted to be rival adventurers in times past.
After the offerings of prayers to the deceased, Igneous and
Branda asked for help form the Tragidore group. Dern
Fosimuth and Taergan Flinn have failed to show up for their group’s annual
Moonfeast reunion, they ask for you to check on both of them. Taergan, a half-elf, is local
and has a townhome in Tragidore while Dern, a human and the oldest of them all, is not
healthy and is believed to be at Mother’s Care Home for the Invalids and the
Insane.