Heroes, Inc., Day 2: Goldenight

frostrune said:
"That was not Zura you killed, though I can't seem to remember his name. Zura is a stunningly beautiful elven-like fey shrouded in crackling negetive energy. He was once good and meant to slay her... but faltered and fell under her sway."

"His sword... it was forged by Sobek, the crocodile-headed Mulhorandi god. It is meant to slay Zura. Oberon himself had blessed the weapon before she tainted him and turned it dark."


Such is evil's way. It's purpose is to twist, corrupt and marr what was once good and true. And no one is immune to its glittery promises and charms. But you must remember that under the glitter, there is nothing but paste and worthless glass. Learn the lesson well little aasimar. Or you will suffer a similar fate. The whispery voice chuckled hollowly, as if it knew only too well what that fey had been tempted with.
 

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Lots of information is slowly coming in about the night's excitement.

The good news is, none of your clients were killed, but one of your employees was. Two groups you other than the Thanns were targeted, but in one case there was an urban druid in the protection team who discovered the threat and got them to safety, and in the other there was a fight in your favor. In that situation, however, a young Seer in your employ named Kalin was killed. They ran into a large contingent of Grumsh's Regulars, an Orcish street gang. The seer disovered them in time to prevent an ambush, but not to prevent a fight. The two other members of the team, enormous Illuskan (i.e. Norse) Half-Giant Barbarians, defeated a group of at least a dozen attackers, but a few got through to attack your charges. Kalin struck one down with a mind thrust, and delayed the others, but was killed in the process.

A large number of famous individuals are missing, and a few are confirmed dead. Among the missing and dead are a number of people rumored to be among the lords of the city.

People are angry at the government, the military, and the churches that they all failed to protect the people against the plague, and very greateful to Aiden and his guards for stoppping them, as well as you guys for defeating the apparent source of the problem.

Guardsmen found the boat that the assassin referred to, on fire. Inside were a wide variety of apparent assassins, all dead by a variety of means. It looks like many may have killed each other. However, the rest were clearly burned by powerful magic, and all seem to have been subjected to some sort of negative energy attack, though mostly postmortem. The fact that speak with dead has failed on all of them implies that sometihng devoured or captured their souls.

In the morning, Lt. Kiran starts to wake up...what do you do?
 


Crimson (Psion) AC:31 HPs: 92 PPs: 47

Fin said:
Fin shakes his head. "Better him than us," he replies.
"Didn't seem like we were going to be able to contain him for very long. I think we did a good job of not letting him get a chance to think," Crimson replied.

Crimson looked over the gear left behind, and offered, "I can run through the equipment if you want - get some impressions or readings from it before its handled by anyone else . . . might find something interesting in there."

As for anything there, the other thing that interested her was the fancy elven chain, but she would defer if it was going to another purpose . . . or if a frontliner wanted it at all.

Crimson was saddened to hear about Kalin - she had been training him off and on with his abilities . . . answering questions and helping with interpretations when he needed help.
 

Alethia leaned back in her chair, deep in thought, going through the events of the night, trying to figure out the bad-guy's next plan of attack with the information they have. Using a scrap piece of paper, she begins to outline what they know.

Bad-guys:
Unseelie court
Some sort of cult worshipping Anubis
Al-Hulath-> undead sorcerer. Lich?
Aurilites

Questions.
What do they want with a paladin's soul?
What do they want with Lt. Kiran?
Hell. What do they want with Aleena?
What does Aiden have to do with this mess? It goes deeper than simply revenge with him.
Are they gearing up with a major attack against the city?
Is there a deeper plan than just creating havok?
I suspect so. With so many different cults involved, especially ones who have a habit of not working well with anyone... It's bad.
We need a list of the missing and dead famous people and lords.
We need to question the council of lords themselves.
Who is behind this, who is coordinating the opposition?


She tapped the table she was using with her pen, thinking.

ooc:
Fin and the others might want to think about making Alethia a member of the Hidden shield... She's not going to go away now....
 
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More news comes in: One of the largest single-location losses was at a festhall near naval headquarters where many of the officers were hosting a celebration. The festhall was found burning, with many inside seemingly burned alive. Some had claw and bite marks. A few people were killed and a large number badly hurt as they tried to extinguish the blaze, as whatever was primarily fueling it was clearly a magical or very powerful alchemic substance which produced highly toxic fumes in the smoke.
 

Kaarlo asks if he should lead a group to investigate?


OOC: I will be offline untill Tuesday, Feel free to use Kaarlo to advance your actions.
 

With no one espacially paying attention ot her, Lt. Kiran groans and says "Hey, anyone there? The city wasn't ravaged by a plague of undead bugs coming from Goran's crew and a pus dragon, right? If so, that would be very embarassing..."
 

Keia said:
Crimson looked over the gear left behind, and offered, "I can run through the equipment if you want - get some impressions or readings from it before its handled by anyone else . . . might find something interesting in there."

Fin strips off his gloves and passes them across. "Conserve your own energy," he suggests. "The way things are going, you never know when another surprise might crop up..."

"Start with that sword," he adds.

OOC: Among other things, the gloves provide Object Reading at will. /OOC

DM_Matt said:
With no one espacially paying attention ot her, Lt. Kiran groans and says "Hey, anyone there? The city wasn't ravaged by a plague of undead bugs coming from Goran's crew and a pus dragon, right? If so, that would be very embarassing..."

"You were feyed, I fear," Fin informs her. "It's been a bad night all 'round, but the bugs and dragon were part of it. What do you remember?"

OOC: Did the plan to contact Lord Oberon again to inform him of the fey's demise yield any interesting result? /OOC
 

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