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<blockquote data-quote="skotothalamos" data-source="post: 6167542" data-attributes="member: 83398"><p>The constables were trapped in a ruined old church. Trapped, that is, except for a singe sewage outflow pipe. James had been kidnapped. Ironpeak was unconscious. Things did not look good.</p><p> </p><p>Mort moved to the barred entrance to the church in an effort to see what was happening outside. He spied Detective Porter talking with an unknown subject. He could hear them talking about how the church had no other exits. The unknown man told Porter that he could take care of it from here and that Porter should return to his boss. Porter threw James into a black horseless carriage and departed.</p><p> </p><p>Ironpeak came to and the others began to sneak down into the latrine while Mort made a distraction of himself by talking to the people outside. The man in charge seemed to have control over metal: he floated a metal table and chair to himself, set up a little cheese plate and a cup of wine, and engaged Mort in pleasant conversation about the whereabouts of Doctor von Recklinghausen. They shared wine and cheese (though Mort was still trapped by the steel bars over the church entrance) and the man told Mort he had one hour to turn over the documents and the doctor, or things would get more difficult.</p><p> </p><p>After the better part of an hour, Mort said he was going to get the doctor, but instead he left a clockwork bomb concealed near the entrance. Within a minute, Mort was on his way down the latrine and the wine connoisseur had his answer: an explosion. Unfortunately, as Mort was exiting the drainpipe, he was spotted by one of the criminals, and he had to run. Mort dodged the pursuit and found a shed to lay low in for several hours until the searchers gave up. He finally skulked back to the Danoran Consulate to collapse.</p><p> </p><p>Malkie took one for the team and headed back to RHC headquarters by herself to report on the current situation. It was about four in the morning when she arrived, so the night shift supervisor sent couriers to wake Delft and Saxby. Saxby arrived first and Malkie went in to apprise her of the situation. Saxby listened intently, quizzing Malkie for more detail as she explained what was going on. Malkie explained the entire situation: the original case, the possibly conspiracy to smuggle goods out of witchoil-enhanced factories, the mysterious Detective Porter, and the capture of James. When Saxby was satisfied she had wrung all of the information she could out of the Halfling, she asked the final question: “Where can we find him?” When Malkie did not have an answer to that, Saxby told her to go home for the day; another constable could take the case from here.</p><p> </p><p>While Malkie and Mort found their way into their beds around sunrise, Cazara and Ironpeak headed into the Cloudwood to find Cazara’s friend Corbin Ash. They hoped von Recklinghausen had made it there ahead of them. Indeed he had, but he was passed out from his own exhausting overnight trek. Not wanting to wake him, and in need of sleep themselves, the two constables took turns sleeping and keeping watch over the doctor. They also sent messengers to Mort and Malkie, telling them to meet up in the Cloudwood when they awoke. Mort and Malkie requisitioned an RHC carriage for the trip.</p><p> </p><p>That afternoon, the group questioned Wolfgang about the events of the morning Nilasa died. He told them a familiar story: he was there to get a travel visa to Ber, he chatted with her briefly in the reception area, then when he left, she impaled herself upon the fence, giving him the documents and the canary necklace. As he took the items, a shadowy figure shot at them both from an upper-floor window, striking Nilasa twice. He ran down an alley, engaged in a duel with the shadowy man calling himself Detective Porter, and escaped via hired coach. He then tried to make his way out of the city, but ran afoul of Kell’s people, who holed him up in the ruined church, until they abandoned him about half an hour before the constables arrived.</p><p> </p><p>He told them how Nilasa urged him to get the documents and necklace to Nevard, but he was happy to turn the documents over to Mort, as a representative of Danor. Since no one laid claim to the necklace, though, he wanted to travel to Nevard and return the necklace himself. Corbin told Cazara that Nevard was currently at a retreat at a sacred henge atop a nearby mountain. The group decided to head up into the Cloudwood to meet with the old skyseer.</p><p> </p><p>The group piled into the carriage and headed up the mountain. Along the way, they happened upon an altercation between the Cloudwood brigands and some of Lorcan Kell’s men over a carriage. Despite a misunderstanding that resulted in Cazara taking an arrow from the brigand leader Renard Woodsman, the constables managed to help the brigands fight off the Kell thugs (who were trying to kidnap Woodsman’s girlfriend Morena). Woodsman thanked the constables for their help and promised them safe passage through the Cloudwood in the future.</p><p> </p><p>The constables arrived at the skyseer henge without further incident. A pair of guards escorted the group to Nevard’s tent, saying he had been expecting them. The ancient skyseer’s tent was dark and smelled of incense and withering. The man looked frail and well past his hundredth birthday. He welcomed the group and asked them to sit and tell him why they had come. Wolfgang gave him the canary necklace. Nevard looked it over and decided that it must belong to “Hana,” and that he would be happy to return it to her. It took the group a little while to remember that Gale’s actual name is Hana Soliogn, but when they did, Mort asked Nevard if he could try to set up a meeting between the RHC and Gale. Nevard agreed, but also asked a favor of the constables.</p><p> </p><p>The pollution from Parity Lake had been obscuring the night sky in the Cloudwood, and Nevard felt that his own death would be coming soon. He felt urgently that he had one more prophecy to tell before his time, but he would need a clear view of the sky from a place of power. He wanted an escort to the most haunted place in Flint: Cauldron Hill. The constables agreed that they could help with this matter and then Nevard upped the ante: he asked the constables to participate in a ritual that would allow them to share their strength with him while he would share his wisdom with them. An orc shaman poured milk into a cup and mixed in a drop of blood from each of the constables. Nevard drank the mixture and was suddenly strong and spry. He stood up and asked to go to Cauldron Hill at once.</p><p> </p><p>The constables had some time to kill before nightfall, so they headed back to RHC headquarters to go over the security report that von Recklinghausen had returned to Mort. Mort very much wanted to take advantage of his heightened mental faculties to try and find a pattern to the account and ledgers, cross-referenced with his own study of the factories. The rest of the constables pitched in and within a few short hours, they had the answer they were looking for. The paper trail pointed to one man in particular: Reed Macbannin, the Mayor of the Nettles. The very man who controlled access to Cauldron Hill. Macbannin was well-known for being trained in Defense Against the Dark Arts and keeping the city safe from the corruptive influence of the haunted mountain.</p><p> </p><p>The group made the decision to circumvent the legal channels and simply sneak Nevard up to the top of Cauldron Hill. As they were gathering supplies and making ready to leave, a large package arrived for them. Inside, they found constable James Chinast, weak but alive. In the box was also a note addressed to Malkie, but she did not share it contents with the others.</p><p> </p><p>Next time: what happened to James, and who wants to climb a haunted hill?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="skotothalamos, post: 6167542, member: 83398"] The constables were trapped in a ruined old church. Trapped, that is, except for a singe sewage outflow pipe. James had been kidnapped. Ironpeak was unconscious. Things did not look good. Mort moved to the barred entrance to the church in an effort to see what was happening outside. He spied Detective Porter talking with an unknown subject. He could hear them talking about how the church had no other exits. The unknown man told Porter that he could take care of it from here and that Porter should return to his boss. Porter threw James into a black horseless carriage and departed. Ironpeak came to and the others began to sneak down into the latrine while Mort made a distraction of himself by talking to the people outside. The man in charge seemed to have control over metal: he floated a metal table and chair to himself, set up a little cheese plate and a cup of wine, and engaged Mort in pleasant conversation about the whereabouts of Doctor von Recklinghausen. They shared wine and cheese (though Mort was still trapped by the steel bars over the church entrance) and the man told Mort he had one hour to turn over the documents and the doctor, or things would get more difficult. After the better part of an hour, Mort said he was going to get the doctor, but instead he left a clockwork bomb concealed near the entrance. Within a minute, Mort was on his way down the latrine and the wine connoisseur had his answer: an explosion. Unfortunately, as Mort was exiting the drainpipe, he was spotted by one of the criminals, and he had to run. Mort dodged the pursuit and found a shed to lay low in for several hours until the searchers gave up. He finally skulked back to the Danoran Consulate to collapse. Malkie took one for the team and headed back to RHC headquarters by herself to report on the current situation. It was about four in the morning when she arrived, so the night shift supervisor sent couriers to wake Delft and Saxby. Saxby arrived first and Malkie went in to apprise her of the situation. Saxby listened intently, quizzing Malkie for more detail as she explained what was going on. Malkie explained the entire situation: the original case, the possibly conspiracy to smuggle goods out of witchoil-enhanced factories, the mysterious Detective Porter, and the capture of James. When Saxby was satisfied she had wrung all of the information she could out of the Halfling, she asked the final question: “Where can we find him?” When Malkie did not have an answer to that, Saxby told her to go home for the day; another constable could take the case from here. While Malkie and Mort found their way into their beds around sunrise, Cazara and Ironpeak headed into the Cloudwood to find Cazara’s friend Corbin Ash. They hoped von Recklinghausen had made it there ahead of them. Indeed he had, but he was passed out from his own exhausting overnight trek. Not wanting to wake him, and in need of sleep themselves, the two constables took turns sleeping and keeping watch over the doctor. They also sent messengers to Mort and Malkie, telling them to meet up in the Cloudwood when they awoke. Mort and Malkie requisitioned an RHC carriage for the trip. That afternoon, the group questioned Wolfgang about the events of the morning Nilasa died. He told them a familiar story: he was there to get a travel visa to Ber, he chatted with her briefly in the reception area, then when he left, she impaled herself upon the fence, giving him the documents and the canary necklace. As he took the items, a shadowy figure shot at them both from an upper-floor window, striking Nilasa twice. He ran down an alley, engaged in a duel with the shadowy man calling himself Detective Porter, and escaped via hired coach. He then tried to make his way out of the city, but ran afoul of Kell’s people, who holed him up in the ruined church, until they abandoned him about half an hour before the constables arrived. He told them how Nilasa urged him to get the documents and necklace to Nevard, but he was happy to turn the documents over to Mort, as a representative of Danor. Since no one laid claim to the necklace, though, he wanted to travel to Nevard and return the necklace himself. Corbin told Cazara that Nevard was currently at a retreat at a sacred henge atop a nearby mountain. The group decided to head up into the Cloudwood to meet with the old skyseer. The group piled into the carriage and headed up the mountain. Along the way, they happened upon an altercation between the Cloudwood brigands and some of Lorcan Kell’s men over a carriage. Despite a misunderstanding that resulted in Cazara taking an arrow from the brigand leader Renard Woodsman, the constables managed to help the brigands fight off the Kell thugs (who were trying to kidnap Woodsman’s girlfriend Morena). Woodsman thanked the constables for their help and promised them safe passage through the Cloudwood in the future. The constables arrived at the skyseer henge without further incident. A pair of guards escorted the group to Nevard’s tent, saying he had been expecting them. The ancient skyseer’s tent was dark and smelled of incense and withering. The man looked frail and well past his hundredth birthday. He welcomed the group and asked them to sit and tell him why they had come. Wolfgang gave him the canary necklace. Nevard looked it over and decided that it must belong to “Hana,” and that he would be happy to return it to her. It took the group a little while to remember that Gale’s actual name is Hana Soliogn, but when they did, Mort asked Nevard if he could try to set up a meeting between the RHC and Gale. Nevard agreed, but also asked a favor of the constables. The pollution from Parity Lake had been obscuring the night sky in the Cloudwood, and Nevard felt that his own death would be coming soon. He felt urgently that he had one more prophecy to tell before his time, but he would need a clear view of the sky from a place of power. He wanted an escort to the most haunted place in Flint: Cauldron Hill. The constables agreed that they could help with this matter and then Nevard upped the ante: he asked the constables to participate in a ritual that would allow them to share their strength with him while he would share his wisdom with them. An orc shaman poured milk into a cup and mixed in a drop of blood from each of the constables. Nevard drank the mixture and was suddenly strong and spry. He stood up and asked to go to Cauldron Hill at once. The constables had some time to kill before nightfall, so they headed back to RHC headquarters to go over the security report that von Recklinghausen had returned to Mort. Mort very much wanted to take advantage of his heightened mental faculties to try and find a pattern to the account and ledgers, cross-referenced with his own study of the factories. The rest of the constables pitched in and within a few short hours, they had the answer they were looking for. The paper trail pointed to one man in particular: Reed Macbannin, the Mayor of the Nettles. The very man who controlled access to Cauldron Hill. Macbannin was well-known for being trained in Defense Against the Dark Arts and keeping the city safe from the corruptive influence of the haunted mountain. The group made the decision to circumvent the legal channels and simply sneak Nevard up to the top of Cauldron Hill. As they were gathering supplies and making ready to leave, a large package arrived for them. Inside, they found constable James Chinast, weak but alive. In the box was also a note addressed to Malkie, but she did not share it contents with the others. Next time: what happened to James, and who wants to climb a haunted hill? [/QUOTE]
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