Heroes, Inc., Day 1: Mysterious Strangers

[Hypersmurf]

""Also, your encounter with Alath on the Mulhorandi ship is disturbing and revealing. The Watcher granted her a moment of lucidity before the darkness consumed her. She mentioned that her group sought to destroy a demon named Al-Hulath. The quest took them some 15 years to complete. And she seemed to think it was the year 1280 DR. Learning of this group, their quest, and the demon may be critically important. I would hope that combined resources of this city's finest priests, wizards, and sages would be able to dredge up something useful regarding this?"

"Necromancer," Fin corrects absently. Whatever his other sterling qualities, he nevertheless retains a strong pedantic streak. "Al-Hulath was a necromancer. Hmm... Alath... Al-Hulath. I wonder if Alath was her real name?"

"It's an excellent thought, Timmy, and you know my preferences - I'd love to spend a week doing as much dredging as possible. But Arundel also gave us a time limit..."

 

[Hypersmurf]

"Yes, yes, I think that couple be it. We can send a warning to the external towers, but they are part of a fortress and its on highest alert as it is on account of those ships. Those towers are full of soldiers already."

"Works for me," he agrees. "I'll have to leave a note for Arundel."

He takes a mental inventory of who is present.

"... Zephyr, Alethia... are either of you carrying a Dimensional Anchor? We don't want to fight a fully-mobile demon if we can avoid it. Magic Circles? If he summons allies, we'll want them hedged. Cold iron, holy weapons, no electricity. If it's a fey instead... cold iron as well. My lord Peregion - is there a ready supply of cold iron weapons stored anywhere?"

OOC: DM, I've got a proposal, but it's stretching a spell, and I'll understand if you say 'No way'

One of the theories about the Summon spells is that they temporarily summon a creature from an outer plane. The subschool description states that "When the spell ends or is dispelled, a summoned creature is instantly sent back to where it came from."

If I wanted to get a message to Oberon, would it be feasible to use Summon Nature's Ally to summon a satyr or pixie, give them the message, and then send them back to their outer plane? More in the nature of a courtesy FYI than a plea for help - just to let him know where his misplaced villain has turned up and what he's up to, in case he wants to try for extradition, say. (Of course, if he felt like sending some assistance to ensure the guy doesn't get away, we wouldn't say no!)

Possible, or no? /OOC

 

[Falkus]

"No electricity? Lovely," Dyria commented, holding up her whip dagger, and looking at the bolts of electricity that arced between the various barbs. She muttered the command word, and the bolts disappeared. "Fortunately, it is cold iron."

 

[kirinke]

"A Dimensional Ancor? No, I'm afraid not. I have a Mace of Disruption and a Holy Composite longbow with a flaming ability." she shrugged. "As for magical augumentation, I have a wand that will heal wounds, I can turn undead, but I'm afraid I'm not yet powerful enough to turn demons. I do have some spells granted by the goddess, but the offensive ones are mostly summoning spells, as well as something called Nimbus of Light." she tells Fin apologetically. "I'm more prepared to hunt undead, not demons. Though I suspect I can do some damage with what I have." she told him honestly. "Oh yeah. I also have a Wand of Monster Summoning."

 

[Hypersmurf]

"I'm more prepared to hunt undead, not demons."

"With the vampire rumours, I think that's true of most of us tonight," Fin agrees ruefully.

 

[kirinke]

Alethia grins back, just as rueful. "Well, all things considered, I'm sure there will be plenty of undead to fight before the night is done." she said. "That is if tonight's festivities are any indication."

 

[frostrune]

"I wield a Holy, Cold Iron blade and have a wand of Protection from Evil, though the duration of the spell will be very limited (1st level)."

"Helm has granted me 2 more smite attempts this day as well. I can do some damage to this demon or evil fey if I can get close enough."

 

[DM_Matt]

[Hyp: That trick wont work to contact just any being that way, but summoning something from the fey domain to get a message to their master is reasonable. You can do waht you proposed.]

 

[Hypersmurf]

"The creature that took Aleena mentioned Oberon, God of good Faerie. He also had some type of deformed butterfly wings or some such. That sounds very Fey-like to me. His mount bore the device of the Unseelie Court. There certainly appears to be some faerie involvement. Waukeen intimated that followers of Oberon may be of some help. Does anyone know how to contact them?"

"I have a thought," Fin says. "But I'll only have two minutes to explain the situation and pass on a message... and I can't make any guarantees it'll reach Oberon. Assuming it works, though... what do we want to tell him? Kaarlo, Murdoch, any obvious distinguishing features that might identify our butterfly friend to a Faerie God?"

 

[Hypersmurf]

"No electricity? Lovely," Dyria commented, holding up her whip dagger, and looking at the bolts of electricity that arced between the various barbs. She muttered the command word, and the bolts disappeared. "Fortunately, it is cold iron."

Fin taps The Book with a finger. "If the ritual is to be believed, the demon in question is likely to have an affinity for cold or water. Fire might be particularly effective... and we should ward against cold if we can."

"Oh, for a day to prepare," he sighs.