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<blockquote data-quote="Haraash Saan" data-source="post: 5122124" data-attributes="member: 46615"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Korb had recruited her in Halfast some ten months before and from there they had gone to Thessingcourt and met with Saeff, who had been an old acquaintance of Korb’s, and Felt. Together they recruited the brigands. </span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Their objective had been simple. Infiltrate the Foeldians and use them as a resource to further their quest for loot and plunder. And it worked. Polema had seduced Hermeaon and then Korb and Saeff had captured him and given him to the forest troll.</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">From that point it was simple enough for Korb to gain absolute power of the Foeldians. However he did not count on their resistance. Thrand, who had been Hermeon’s second and snuck away with more that two thirds of the Foeldian’s. That action prompted the scenario that we had just resolved, the remaining women and children being held captive whilst the remaining Foeldian men were forced to do the bandits bidding.</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">However during the last few months at the Foeldian camp Polema had overheard Saeff and Korb discussing such things as “destabilisation” and a man called Decistratus. From what she had caught in snippets of conversations, Decistratus was the leader of a group called Orsa Terminus. </span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Obviously that was astounding news to us! Whilst Moxadder had found the many horned demonic head symbol of Orsa Terminus on a brigand that he had found dead in the forest we had found no such markings on any of the captive or slain bandits. Not even what was left of Korb’s body or Saeff’s for that matter bore any mark of the group.</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Korb visited Guerney City perhaps once a month and Polema suspected that those regular visits were tied to Decistratus. </span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Searching through the brigands possessions uncovered several interesting things, including a room full of merchants goods that had been taken. The most interesting two objects had belonged to Korb. There was a map to the Rolling Lady Inn in Guerney City, an obvious tie in to Decistratus, and a marble statue to Geduld. </span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">The statue was the only evidence that we found that Korb had been in league with Geduld and therefore the Dominion. There was a lot more to these bandits and their activities than we first thought.</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Piecing together the information we had it seemed quite simply that the banditry had been a means to an end. The end was to cause chaos in this region of the Barony of Mendus. They deliberately had disrupted previously safe trade routes and begun to sow the seeds of discontent amongst the local populace. </span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">We found many other trinkets and valuables, but the one I think I will value the most was a necklace. It, along with its five companions, was a simple stone with a hole in the middle of it. It does not sound particularly important, but that is because I have not shared Raedemass’s information yet.</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">The barbarians and giants had only recently moved into the forest, and with them there seemed to be many, many more of the Faery folk. Usually the forest housed a very small population of the mischievous sprites (and I had thought them a tall tale!), but of late they had appeared in epidemic proportions. And as Moxadder could attest, their tricks were both cruel and lethal.</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">The river stones on the necklaces had been naturally worn through by the water passing over the rocks. It was said that stones formed like this served as a protection against the Faeries. That is why I treasured my necklace.</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">We stayed within the caves for another day to rest and recuperate. In this time we discussed topics such as loot and its equal division between the Hydra and the Foeldians, transport of booty back to Montfort and more importantly to me, the prisoners and the relationship between the Foeldians and Montfort.</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">It was agreed that the Foeldians would establish a private trade route with Montfort so that the town and the people of Foeld could provide each other with goods and information. There was nothing I wanted more from them than friendly relations and information sharing. I saw no benefit in trying to control them, as it was they fell well outside the nominal bounds of Montfort. Their cave dwellings were subject to Mendus if anyone. </span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">To begin this relationship on the right track I negotiated with them to accept three of the thirteen bandits we had captured, including Polema, and they were to deal with the others as their own laws so fit. </span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Hermeaon and Raedemass also raised concerns for their safety, especially from the barbarian hordes that had so recently moved into the forest from the north, so it was agreed that the entire Foeldian peoples, including those that Thrand had taken to a place called the Riven camp, would come to Montfort in hope that the barbarians would move on, driven out by the pestering Faeries.</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">It did not quite turn out how we planned. </span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">From the moment we left the caves and journeyed to the Riven Camp we were in strife. Even though Raedemass managed to hold the fey people away from causing us much trouble, barbarian scout parties held skirmishes with us almost all the way to Montfort.</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">We managed to capture one of these hideous and deformed looking creatures and interrogate him in his own guttural tongue before Moxadder slit his throat.</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">They, and the Giants, had been driven south, far from their mountains homes, by strange well armed and armoured creatures. They had either been small, wiry goblins who were plague like in numbers or their stronger and more intelligent cousins, hobgoblins. </span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Even the common folk knew what those two types of creature symbolised, the Dominion. They were the primary foot soldiers of the Northern Horde, the very evil that the Gerechians had unwittingly created and that the Druids, Lorcan the master of the menhir being one, had accidentally unleashed on the world. The very group that had been “destabilising” this region via Korb and his cronies.</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">However its most interesting information was easily the most pressing. It had belonged to a tribe, one of many in the forest, and they were now being driven west by the constant and lethal threat of the Fey folk and their wicked games.</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Close to three thousand barbarians, including more than fifteen hundred warriors, were headed for Monfort! Their scouts had already seen the end to the forest and the river that acted as a natural barrier between town and tree. </span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">The first of the tribes would reach the river in two days and soon after the entire barbarian horde would be on Montfort’s doorstep! There was only one shallow ford that made the river crossable, and that led straight into Montfort. It was not even half a mile from the first homes of the town.</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Haraash Saan, post: 5122124, member: 46615"] [FONT=Arial]Korb had recruited her in Halfast some ten months before and from there they had gone to Thessingcourt and met with Saeff, who had been an old acquaintance of Korb’s, and Felt. Together they recruited the brigands. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Their objective had been simple. Infiltrate the Foeldians and use them as a resource to further their quest for loot and plunder. And it worked. Polema had seduced Hermeaon and then Korb and Saeff had captured him and given him to the forest troll.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]From that point it was simple enough for Korb to gain absolute power of the Foeldians. However he did not count on their resistance. Thrand, who had been Hermeon’s second and snuck away with more that two thirds of the Foeldian’s. That action prompted the scenario that we had just resolved, the remaining women and children being held captive whilst the remaining Foeldian men were forced to do the bandits bidding.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]However during the last few months at the Foeldian camp Polema had overheard Saeff and Korb discussing such things as “destabilisation” and a man called Decistratus. From what she had caught in snippets of conversations, Decistratus was the leader of a group called Orsa Terminus. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Obviously that was astounding news to us! Whilst Moxadder had found the many horned demonic head symbol of Orsa Terminus on a brigand that he had found dead in the forest we had found no such markings on any of the captive or slain bandits. Not even what was left of Korb’s body or Saeff’s for that matter bore any mark of the group.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Korb visited Guerney City perhaps once a month and Polema suspected that those regular visits were tied to Decistratus. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Searching through the brigands possessions uncovered several interesting things, including a room full of merchants goods that had been taken. The most interesting two objects had belonged to Korb. There was a map to the Rolling Lady Inn in Guerney City, an obvious tie in to Decistratus, and a marble statue to Geduld. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]The statue was the only evidence that we found that Korb had been in league with Geduld and therefore the Dominion. There was a lot more to these bandits and their activities than we first thought.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Piecing together the information we had it seemed quite simply that the banditry had been a means to an end. The end was to cause chaos in this region of the Barony of Mendus. They deliberately had disrupted previously safe trade routes and begun to sow the seeds of discontent amongst the local populace. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]We found many other trinkets and valuables, but the one I think I will value the most was a necklace. It, along with its five companions, was a simple stone with a hole in the middle of it. It does not sound particularly important, but that is because I have not shared Raedemass’s information yet.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]The barbarians and giants had only recently moved into the forest, and with them there seemed to be many, many more of the Faery folk. Usually the forest housed a very small population of the mischievous sprites (and I had thought them a tall tale!), but of late they had appeared in epidemic proportions. And as Moxadder could attest, their tricks were both cruel and lethal.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]The river stones on the necklaces had been naturally worn through by the water passing over the rocks. It was said that stones formed like this served as a protection against the Faeries. That is why I treasured my necklace.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]We stayed within the caves for another day to rest and recuperate. In this time we discussed topics such as loot and its equal division between the Hydra and the Foeldians, transport of booty back to Montfort and more importantly to me, the prisoners and the relationship between the Foeldians and Montfort.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]It was agreed that the Foeldians would establish a private trade route with Montfort so that the town and the people of Foeld could provide each other with goods and information. There was nothing I wanted more from them than friendly relations and information sharing. I saw no benefit in trying to control them, as it was they fell well outside the nominal bounds of Montfort. Their cave dwellings were subject to Mendus if anyone. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]To begin this relationship on the right track I negotiated with them to accept three of the thirteen bandits we had captured, including Polema, and they were to deal with the others as their own laws so fit. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Hermeaon and Raedemass also raised concerns for their safety, especially from the barbarian hordes that had so recently moved into the forest from the north, so it was agreed that the entire Foeldian peoples, including those that Thrand had taken to a place called the Riven camp, would come to Montfort in hope that the barbarians would move on, driven out by the pestering Faeries.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]It did not quite turn out how we planned. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]From the moment we left the caves and journeyed to the Riven Camp we were in strife. Even though Raedemass managed to hold the fey people away from causing us much trouble, barbarian scout parties held skirmishes with us almost all the way to Montfort.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]We managed to capture one of these hideous and deformed looking creatures and interrogate him in his own guttural tongue before Moxadder slit his throat.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]They, and the Giants, had been driven south, far from their mountains homes, by strange well armed and armoured creatures. They had either been small, wiry goblins who were plague like in numbers or their stronger and more intelligent cousins, hobgoblins. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Even the common folk knew what those two types of creature symbolised, the Dominion. They were the primary foot soldiers of the Northern Horde, the very evil that the Gerechians had unwittingly created and that the Druids, Lorcan the master of the menhir being one, had accidentally unleashed on the world. The very group that had been “destabilising” this region via Korb and his cronies.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]However its most interesting information was easily the most pressing. It had belonged to a tribe, one of many in the forest, and they were now being driven west by the constant and lethal threat of the Fey folk and their wicked games.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Close to three thousand barbarians, including more than fifteen hundred warriors, were headed for Monfort! Their scouts had already seen the end to the forest and the river that acted as a natural barrier between town and tree. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]The first of the tribes would reach the river in two days and soon after the entire barbarian horde would be on Montfort’s doorstep! There was only one shallow ford that made the river crossable, and that led straight into Montfort. It was not even half a mile from the first homes of the town.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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