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<blockquote data-quote="Morrow" data-source="post: 2588726" data-attributes="member: 301"><p><strong>Session 6, 7, and 8 - Terror in Freeport</strong></p><p></p><p>A quick search of the temple revealed Enzo’s corpse, and Lucius, exhausted and wounded, but alive. The mild librarian was thankful to be rescued and nearly brought to tears when the party revealed that Brother Egil had send them.</p><p></p><p>They returned to the treasure room and Bronson quickly brought it’s skeletal guardians under his control. Tavarii opened several chests to reveal considerable wealth in coins, jewels, and magical objects. They also found a library filled with disturbing volumes about the Unspeakable One, the otherworldly entity that the Brotherhood of the Yellow Sign venerates. They left the skeletons to guard the haul and returned Lucius to the temple of Tinel. </p><p></p><p>Over the next several days the party rented a storage space in the Warehouse district and a cart to transport treasure, skeletons, and books. They divided the treasure and sold much of it to Falthar’s Curious. The diviner Falthar once more proved invaluable, <em>identify</em>ing the magical treasure they had recovered from the Brotherhood.</p><p></p><p>The party arranged to donate the disturbing volumes they had found in the hidden temple to the temple of Tinel and Bronson was able to use the donation to secure an audience with Thuron, the High Priest of the temple. Bronson surreptitiously used a <em>detect evil </em> divination on the aged cleric, who seemed not at all fooled by Bronson’s efforts to hide what he was doing. Thuron was not offended, and in fact seemed pleased by the party’s efforts to discern if the Brotherhood had infiltrated his temple any further. He freely admitted that it was the donation of the collection gathered on his travels that had convinced him to readmit Lucius to the temple. </p><p></p><p>Lucius’ collection, much like the one donated by the party contained some volumes too dangerous to be added to the general collection, and would be part of the temples restricted archives. Much of Lucius’ collection was currently being examined by a wizard named Marcus Vale, who the temple occasionally hired to catalogue arcane texts outside their areas of expertise. Vale was employed as a teacher at the Freeport Institute and was a regular visitor to the temple library.</p><p></p><p>Bronson reported what he had learned to the party. Nate was particularly intrigued by the news, revealing that his father’s first mate had been a wizard named Marcus Vale. However, he believed that the entire crew of his father’s ship, the <em>Coup de Grace</em>, had been hanged for piracy. Nate chose not to seek out Vale for the time being, wanting to gather more information before confronting him.</p><p></p><p>At Bronson’s request the party went to the Freeport Opera and gained an audience with the Opera’s artistic director, an aged gnome named Gorsky Glitterlights. Bronson had heard that the Opera was haunted and mysterious occurrences and deaths occurred whenever they performed <em>The Tragedy of Daimhin and Fynballa</em>, an opera that was written for the company’s first season, a hundred years ago. Gorsky admitted that he intended to open the Opera’s centennial season with <em>Daimhin and Fynballa </em> and admitted that he was concerned. He had already hired a pair of clerics from the temple of Mormekar to investigate, but they had found nothing.</p><p></p><p>Gorsky agreed to pay the party 750 pieces of gold if they could locate and neutralize the ghost before the opera season began in a month. </p><p></p><p>The party explored the building thoroughly, using divinations to look for traces of magic or the undead. They found little of interest. Even Tavarii’s late night break into to the opera house revealed nothing out of the ordinary. The party guessed that whatever haunted the opera house would only reveal itself when <em>Daimhin and Fynballa </em> was performed before an audience. They vowed to return in a month.</p><p></p><p>Shortly after the completion of their investigations at the Freeport Opera, Brother Egil approached the party once more. Someone had ransacked Lucius’ home and Egil was worried that the Brotherhood of the Yellow Sign was still active. The party negotiated with Egil and Thuron, agreeing to continue their investigations in return for the temple’s promise to provide magic and information.</p><p></p><p>The party’s first step was to go to the Marquis Moon, an inn in the old city where Milos kept rooms under the name of Devlin. They quickly intimidated the owner’s son into allowing them to search Devlin’s rooms. All incriminating evidence seemed to have been removed from the cluttered rooms before their arrival. The only real clue they found was a book, An Accounte of Metalls Base and Pure which had fallen behind some bookshelves. Sketched onto the back page was a drawing of a lighthouse covered with arcane mathematical formula. They also found a reoccurring doodle in the margins, a V superimposed over a circle.</p><p></p><p>The party guessed that the Cult was up to no good at the new Freeport Lighthouse which was scheduled for completion soon. Tavarii, with his extensive knowledge of Freeport society identified the doodle as the symbol of Counselor Verlaine, head of the Captain’s Council, governing body of the city. Verlaine was Sea Lord Drac’s right hand man, having to risen to power at about the same time as Drac and having become quite rich investing in the Sea Lord’s projects, including the lighthouse. </p><p></p><p>Next the group returned to the abandoned house, only to discover members of Verlaine’s guard. The guardsman reported that the house was sealed by order of the Captain’s Council and the hidden temple was being investigated.</p><p></p><p>The party left, but soon approached the house from the back. They sent one of Bronson’s skeletal minions to attack the guards out front. The sound of the battle was sufficient to cover the noise as they forced their way through a boarded up window at the back of the house.</p><p></p><p>The group headed down into the temple and discovered a female Yellow Sign cultist and four serpent people hard at work. They made short work of the serpent people and quickly disabled the cultist. Bronson revealed that he had prepared an <em>elixir of truth </em> for just such an occasion. He forced the potent elixir down the cultists throat. Once the magic took hold and she was forced to tell the truth, the party wrung out all she knew of the Brotherhood’s plot.</p><p></p><p>The cultists, named Batora, revealed that the light house was being built to attract the attention of the slumbering or imprisoned Unspeakable One and direct it’s attention to Freeport, an event which would cause great destruction and madness. Batora revealed that a new hidden temple had been built beneath the house of Councilor Verlaine. Although the councilor was clearly corrupt, Batora doubted that he knew of the Brotherhood’s plans.</p><p></p><p>Further exploration of the temple revealed that the altar and statue had been removed, and that Batora had been removing cases of bricks with the Yellow Sign stamped into the centers. The party left the temple, turned their prisoner over to the Temple of Tinel, and returned to the Scholar’s Quill.</p><p></p><p>The following day the party went to the Office of Public Records. There they met Reed, a gruff former ships cook responsible for the Office and learned more about Verlaine’s shady business dealings. Reed revealed that men he believed to be Verlaine’s agents had come to the Office recently and examined maps of the sewers beneath the city.</p><p></p><p>When the group left the Office of Public Records they were confronted by several of the Sea Lord’s Guard, sent to arrest them for attacking Verlaine’s guard and entering the hidden temple. The party was prepared to fight, but at that moment Brother Egil appeared. He had a document from a member of the Captain’s Council making the party the responsibility of the Temple of Tinel. The guardsman quickly withdrew. However, Bronson recognized that something was wrong. This Egil didn’t look quite right, he was a little too short and the line of his jaw was wrong. And there was something about his eyes. He attacked, and with his companion’s assistance subdued the false Egil.</p><p></p><p>The false Egil, quickly revealed as a cultist named Nikko revealed that he had been sent to lead the party into a trap in the sewers. While the party did not have another <em>elixir of truth</em>, Nikko had little defense against Nate’s <em>detect thoughts</em> spell. The part soon decided that there was little to learn from the cultist and killed him.</p><p></p><p>With the information gained form Nikko and Batora, the party entered the sewers to search out the hidden temple beneath Verlaine’s house. They soon ran afoul of an Otyugh, a great tentacled beast that subsists on refuse. The creature grappled Sully, and seemed largely unharmed by Tavarii’s handcrossbow bolts. The battle was particularly difficult as each member of the group in turn slipped and fell into the foul muck flowing through the sewer. However the combination of Bronson’s Spiritual Weapon and Sully’s blade eventually finished off the beast.</p><p></p><p>Still following Nikko and Batora’s directions, the group bypassed a formidable crushing trap left for them by the cultists and entered the hidden temple. They found the temple abandoned, except for the real Egil, bound to the relocated altar beneath the gaze of the grim statue removed from the other temple.</p><p></p><p>Egil was soon convinced that the party were really his friends and not cultists in disguise. He explained that the cultists intended to brand him with the Yellow Sign, and before they left him said that after tonight, neither the Temple of Tinel nor the party would interfere in their work again.</p><p></p><p>Tavarii found a secret tunnel, presumably leading to Verlaine’s house, and a secret compartment containing a document written in the serpent’s foul tongue. The party chose not to enter Verlaine’s home, instead leaving via the sewers. Egil was frightened for the temple and stated his intention to go there immediately.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Morrow, post: 2588726, member: 301"] [b]Session 6, 7, and 8 - Terror in Freeport[/b] A quick search of the temple revealed Enzo’s corpse, and Lucius, exhausted and wounded, but alive. The mild librarian was thankful to be rescued and nearly brought to tears when the party revealed that Brother Egil had send them. They returned to the treasure room and Bronson quickly brought it’s skeletal guardians under his control. Tavarii opened several chests to reveal considerable wealth in coins, jewels, and magical objects. They also found a library filled with disturbing volumes about the Unspeakable One, the otherworldly entity that the Brotherhood of the Yellow Sign venerates. They left the skeletons to guard the haul and returned Lucius to the temple of Tinel. Over the next several days the party rented a storage space in the Warehouse district and a cart to transport treasure, skeletons, and books. They divided the treasure and sold much of it to Falthar’s Curious. The diviner Falthar once more proved invaluable, [I]identify[/I]ing the magical treasure they had recovered from the Brotherhood. The party arranged to donate the disturbing volumes they had found in the hidden temple to the temple of Tinel and Bronson was able to use the donation to secure an audience with Thuron, the High Priest of the temple. Bronson surreptitiously used a [I]detect evil [/I] divination on the aged cleric, who seemed not at all fooled by Bronson’s efforts to hide what he was doing. Thuron was not offended, and in fact seemed pleased by the party’s efforts to discern if the Brotherhood had infiltrated his temple any further. He freely admitted that it was the donation of the collection gathered on his travels that had convinced him to readmit Lucius to the temple. Lucius’ collection, much like the one donated by the party contained some volumes too dangerous to be added to the general collection, and would be part of the temples restricted archives. Much of Lucius’ collection was currently being examined by a wizard named Marcus Vale, who the temple occasionally hired to catalogue arcane texts outside their areas of expertise. Vale was employed as a teacher at the Freeport Institute and was a regular visitor to the temple library. Bronson reported what he had learned to the party. Nate was particularly intrigued by the news, revealing that his father’s first mate had been a wizard named Marcus Vale. However, he believed that the entire crew of his father’s ship, the [I]Coup de Grace[/I], had been hanged for piracy. Nate chose not to seek out Vale for the time being, wanting to gather more information before confronting him. At Bronson’s request the party went to the Freeport Opera and gained an audience with the Opera’s artistic director, an aged gnome named Gorsky Glitterlights. Bronson had heard that the Opera was haunted and mysterious occurrences and deaths occurred whenever they performed [I]The Tragedy of Daimhin and Fynballa[/I], an opera that was written for the company’s first season, a hundred years ago. Gorsky admitted that he intended to open the Opera’s centennial season with [I]Daimhin and Fynballa [/I] and admitted that he was concerned. He had already hired a pair of clerics from the temple of Mormekar to investigate, but they had found nothing. Gorsky agreed to pay the party 750 pieces of gold if they could locate and neutralize the ghost before the opera season began in a month. The party explored the building thoroughly, using divinations to look for traces of magic or the undead. They found little of interest. Even Tavarii’s late night break into to the opera house revealed nothing out of the ordinary. The party guessed that whatever haunted the opera house would only reveal itself when [I]Daimhin and Fynballa [/I] was performed before an audience. They vowed to return in a month. Shortly after the completion of their investigations at the Freeport Opera, Brother Egil approached the party once more. Someone had ransacked Lucius’ home and Egil was worried that the Brotherhood of the Yellow Sign was still active. The party negotiated with Egil and Thuron, agreeing to continue their investigations in return for the temple’s promise to provide magic and information. The party’s first step was to go to the Marquis Moon, an inn in the old city where Milos kept rooms under the name of Devlin. They quickly intimidated the owner’s son into allowing them to search Devlin’s rooms. All incriminating evidence seemed to have been removed from the cluttered rooms before their arrival. The only real clue they found was a book, An Accounte of Metalls Base and Pure which had fallen behind some bookshelves. Sketched onto the back page was a drawing of a lighthouse covered with arcane mathematical formula. They also found a reoccurring doodle in the margins, a V superimposed over a circle. The party guessed that the Cult was up to no good at the new Freeport Lighthouse which was scheduled for completion soon. Tavarii, with his extensive knowledge of Freeport society identified the doodle as the symbol of Counselor Verlaine, head of the Captain’s Council, governing body of the city. Verlaine was Sea Lord Drac’s right hand man, having to risen to power at about the same time as Drac and having become quite rich investing in the Sea Lord’s projects, including the lighthouse. Next the group returned to the abandoned house, only to discover members of Verlaine’s guard. The guardsman reported that the house was sealed by order of the Captain’s Council and the hidden temple was being investigated. The party left, but soon approached the house from the back. They sent one of Bronson’s skeletal minions to attack the guards out front. The sound of the battle was sufficient to cover the noise as they forced their way through a boarded up window at the back of the house. The group headed down into the temple and discovered a female Yellow Sign cultist and four serpent people hard at work. They made short work of the serpent people and quickly disabled the cultist. Bronson revealed that he had prepared an [I]elixir of truth [/I] for just such an occasion. He forced the potent elixir down the cultists throat. Once the magic took hold and she was forced to tell the truth, the party wrung out all she knew of the Brotherhood’s plot. The cultists, named Batora, revealed that the light house was being built to attract the attention of the slumbering or imprisoned Unspeakable One and direct it’s attention to Freeport, an event which would cause great destruction and madness. Batora revealed that a new hidden temple had been built beneath the house of Councilor Verlaine. Although the councilor was clearly corrupt, Batora doubted that he knew of the Brotherhood’s plans. Further exploration of the temple revealed that the altar and statue had been removed, and that Batora had been removing cases of bricks with the Yellow Sign stamped into the centers. The party left the temple, turned their prisoner over to the Temple of Tinel, and returned to the Scholar’s Quill. The following day the party went to the Office of Public Records. There they met Reed, a gruff former ships cook responsible for the Office and learned more about Verlaine’s shady business dealings. Reed revealed that men he believed to be Verlaine’s agents had come to the Office recently and examined maps of the sewers beneath the city. When the group left the Office of Public Records they were confronted by several of the Sea Lord’s Guard, sent to arrest them for attacking Verlaine’s guard and entering the hidden temple. The party was prepared to fight, but at that moment Brother Egil appeared. He had a document from a member of the Captain’s Council making the party the responsibility of the Temple of Tinel. The guardsman quickly withdrew. However, Bronson recognized that something was wrong. This Egil didn’t look quite right, he was a little too short and the line of his jaw was wrong. And there was something about his eyes. He attacked, and with his companion’s assistance subdued the false Egil. The false Egil, quickly revealed as a cultist named Nikko revealed that he had been sent to lead the party into a trap in the sewers. While the party did not have another [I]elixir of truth[/I], Nikko had little defense against Nate’s [I]detect thoughts[/I] spell. The part soon decided that there was little to learn from the cultist and killed him. With the information gained form Nikko and Batora, the party entered the sewers to search out the hidden temple beneath Verlaine’s house. They soon ran afoul of an Otyugh, a great tentacled beast that subsists on refuse. The creature grappled Sully, and seemed largely unharmed by Tavarii’s handcrossbow bolts. The battle was particularly difficult as each member of the group in turn slipped and fell into the foul muck flowing through the sewer. However the combination of Bronson’s Spiritual Weapon and Sully’s blade eventually finished off the beast. Still following Nikko and Batora’s directions, the group bypassed a formidable crushing trap left for them by the cultists and entered the hidden temple. They found the temple abandoned, except for the real Egil, bound to the relocated altar beneath the gaze of the grim statue removed from the other temple. Egil was soon convinced that the party were really his friends and not cultists in disguise. He explained that the cultists intended to brand him with the Yellow Sign, and before they left him said that after tonight, neither the Temple of Tinel nor the party would interfere in their work again. Tavarii found a secret tunnel, presumably leading to Verlaine’s house, and a secret compartment containing a document written in the serpent’s foul tongue. The party chose not to enter Verlaine’s home, instead leaving via the sewers. Egil was frightened for the temple and stated his intention to go there immediately. [/QUOTE]
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