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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 5868930" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 26</strong></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Without Leon - who along with the injured Will Stoutly remained behind as hostage - the unit performed a service as weregild to the lizardfolk chief:</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They engaged and defeated a great fey crocodile that had somehow passed over from the Dreaming.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The crocodile's death enraged its mistress, a Briar Hag, who attacked the unit, but fled when injured.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Returning to the lizardfolk lair, they were thanked by the chieftain and his minister. Leon, Will and Silas Fennac were released and the group returned to Saltmarsh.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">On the way, Leon told them that the lizardman minister had taken the jade idol before he could investigate it.*</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Before they reached Saltmarsh, Lord Blackthorn suddenly announced his departure. He was unhappy, he said, at having been forced to capitulate to the lizardmen, and wanted nothing more to do with the unit.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In Saltmarsh their story about the Sea Devils was greeted sceptically, except by Wade Kenavon, a merchant who claimed friendship with Khaled Valcheck (Rumdoom's patron and boss of Black Star Mining).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Silas Fennac was frightened to remain in Saltmarsh and keen to return to Flint. However, they spent the night there - a night broken by an alarm in the streets, talk of 'fish men' prowling about outside, and the disappearance of a pet cat...</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Back in Flint, Stover Delft criticised the unit's approach to dealing with the lizardmen, and warned them to be more cautious in future. He did not think the RHC would countenance any kind of action in respect of the 'Deep Ones'.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Better news was the arrival in Flint of Matunaaga (otherwise known as Caji Dobra), who had previously turned down the unit's offer of membership - he was waiting for them at the Battalion, having changed his mind. He came to dine with Korrigan, Elizabeth and Bernard of Glenwade and told them that his wife had been visited by ancestral spirits, who had blessed his decision to join.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Rumdoom soon discovered a connection between Silas Fennac and Khaled Valcheck. Fennac had been prospecting for Valcheck's company when he had found himself in the Deep One's clutches. Fennac soon took up residence in Valchek's manse, and the industrialist began using his influence to encourage a strike on the 'Sea Devil Lair'. This, he said, would be preparatory to an assault on the Deep Ones in the Cold Claw Sea: Having learned of their intentions and read Silas Fennac's carefully guarded notebook, he was greatly troubled by their warlike intentions.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Others in the city were more sceptical. They likened the unit's report to the talk of 'Crazy Krauss' - a man who, by all accounts, talked about the creatures incessantly. But when the RHC gave orders for the unit to lead the strike force Valcheck had demanded, it was this very man whose expertise was recommended. (According to Isaac dan der Grimnebulin he was the only man in Flint who had encountered the Deep Ones - or their Sea Devil minions - and lived to tell the tale.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Korrigan & co. tracked Krauss down to his compound in Parity Lake. Krauss was hostile at first, but invited them in when they explained their purpose...</li> </ul><p></p><p></p><p>*Unbeknownst to the rest of the unit, the lizardman minister held secret talks with Leon while they dealt with the feymire crocodile:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The minister beckoned Leon's pseudodragon pet to him and it slinked and purred around him. He told Leon he had raised it from a hatchling and that its name was Rahu Ketu.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">He had given Rahu Ketu to the only lizardfolk shaman he trusted: a female (the one killed by the unit aboard the <em>Sky Ghost</em>: )</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Her death set back his cause within the tribe, but he did not hold it against Leon. Lizardmen are not sentimental.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The reason he summoned Leon before him - and the reason he insisted he remain behind - was to tell him that they served the same master: the minister was also pact-bound to Avagdu (the entity from whence Leon derives his fey pact).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The creature the unit went off to face was also a servant of this entity (the briar hag, that is), so the Minister thought it best that Leon did not get involved, in case he inadvertantly crossed the 'swamp lord'.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">As fellow servants of this exarch of <em>The Voice of Rot</em>, the Minister was prepared to trust Leon and share power and information:</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Jade Idol, he said, was an artifact-level item which he was too old and weak to deal with. He left it with the chieftain for he is 'strong-willed' and 'too slow-witted to do much harm with it'. But it frustrated him to have such an important item in easy reach and be unable to deal with it.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Sea Devils must value the idol very highly to have pursued it from the Cold Claw sea (to the South East of Ber where their stronghold lies), so it could not remain in the lizardman lair, or they would continue their attacks.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">But the minister wanted to know more about it, and knew that Silas Fennac would demand its return when he is released.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">So he proposed that Leon claim it was taken from him by the Minister and remained in the lair, but instead keep it and study it.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">His bargain was as follows: "You must tell me what you learn about the idol, and use it to defeat the Sea Devils, or return it to them if they cannot be defeated".</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">"If you agree, and take the idol, but do not do these things, I will call upon my compact with Avagdu."</li> </ul><p>So when Leon returned to Flint he slinked off to study the idol and discovered just how powerful it was...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 5868930, member: 79141"] [b]Session 26[/b] [LIST] [*]Without Leon - who along with the injured Will Stoutly remained behind as hostage - the unit performed a service as weregild to the lizardfolk chief: [*]They engaged and defeated a great fey crocodile that had somehow passed over from the Dreaming. [*]The crocodile's death enraged its mistress, a Briar Hag, who attacked the unit, but fled when injured. [*]Returning to the lizardfolk lair, they were thanked by the chieftain and his minister. Leon, Will and Silas Fennac were released and the group returned to Saltmarsh. [*]On the way, Leon told them that the lizardman minister had taken the jade idol before he could investigate it.* [*]Before they reached Saltmarsh, Lord Blackthorn suddenly announced his departure. He was unhappy, he said, at having been forced to capitulate to the lizardmen, and wanted nothing more to do with the unit. [*]In Saltmarsh their story about the Sea Devils was greeted sceptically, except by Wade Kenavon, a merchant who claimed friendship with Khaled Valcheck (Rumdoom's patron and boss of Black Star Mining). [*]Silas Fennac was frightened to remain in Saltmarsh and keen to return to Flint. However, they spent the night there - a night broken by an alarm in the streets, talk of 'fish men' prowling about outside, and the disappearance of a pet cat... [*]Back in Flint, Stover Delft criticised the unit's approach to dealing with the lizardmen, and warned them to be more cautious in future. He did not think the RHC would countenance any kind of action in respect of the 'Deep Ones'. [*]Better news was the arrival in Flint of Matunaaga (otherwise known as Caji Dobra), who had previously turned down the unit's offer of membership - he was waiting for them at the Battalion, having changed his mind. He came to dine with Korrigan, Elizabeth and Bernard of Glenwade and told them that his wife had been visited by ancestral spirits, who had blessed his decision to join. [*]Rumdoom soon discovered a connection between Silas Fennac and Khaled Valcheck. Fennac had been prospecting for Valcheck's company when he had found himself in the Deep One's clutches. Fennac soon took up residence in Valchek's manse, and the industrialist began using his influence to encourage a strike on the 'Sea Devil Lair'. This, he said, would be preparatory to an assault on the Deep Ones in the Cold Claw Sea: Having learned of their intentions and read Silas Fennac's carefully guarded notebook, he was greatly troubled by their warlike intentions. [*]Others in the city were more sceptical. They likened the unit's report to the talk of 'Crazy Krauss' - a man who, by all accounts, talked about the creatures incessantly. But when the RHC gave orders for the unit to lead the strike force Valcheck had demanded, it was this very man whose expertise was recommended. (According to Isaac dan der Grimnebulin he was the only man in Flint who had encountered the Deep Ones - or their Sea Devil minions - and lived to tell the tale.) [*]Korrigan & co. tracked Krauss down to his compound in Parity Lake. Krauss was hostile at first, but invited them in when they explained their purpose... [/LIST] *Unbeknownst to the rest of the unit, the lizardman minister held secret talks with Leon while they dealt with the feymire crocodile: [LIST] [*]The minister beckoned Leon's pseudodragon pet to him and it slinked and purred around him. He told Leon he had raised it from a hatchling and that its name was Rahu Ketu. [*]He had given Rahu Ketu to the only lizardfolk shaman he trusted: a female (the one killed by the unit aboard the [I]Sky Ghost[/I]: ) [*]Her death set back his cause within the tribe, but he did not hold it against Leon. Lizardmen are not sentimental. [*]The reason he summoned Leon before him - and the reason he insisted he remain behind - was to tell him that they served the same master: the minister was also pact-bound to Avagdu (the entity from whence Leon derives his fey pact). [*]The creature the unit went off to face was also a servant of this entity (the briar hag, that is), so the Minister thought it best that Leon did not get involved, in case he inadvertantly crossed the 'swamp lord'. [*]As fellow servants of this exarch of [I]The Voice of Rot[/I], the Minister was prepared to trust Leon and share power and information: [*]The Jade Idol, he said, was an artifact-level item which he was too old and weak to deal with. He left it with the chieftain for he is 'strong-willed' and 'too slow-witted to do much harm with it'. But it frustrated him to have such an important item in easy reach and be unable to deal with it. [*]The Sea Devils must value the idol very highly to have pursued it from the Cold Claw sea (to the South East of Ber where their stronghold lies), so it could not remain in the lizardman lair, or they would continue their attacks. [*]But the minister wanted to know more about it, and knew that Silas Fennac would demand its return when he is released. [*]So he proposed that Leon claim it was taken from him by the Minister and remained in the lair, but instead keep it and study it. [*]His bargain was as follows: "You must tell me what you learn about the idol, and use it to defeat the Sea Devils, or return it to them if they cannot be defeated". [*]"If you agree, and take the idol, but do not do these things, I will call upon my compact with Avagdu." [/LIST] So when Leon returned to Flint he slinked off to study the idol and discovered just how powerful it was... [/QUOTE]
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