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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kriskrafts" data-source="post: 760773" data-attributes="member: 10674">Game #6 - 3/09/03Chapter 20, “Meetings at the Lordholder’s Castle”, July 5th, 1019, 8:15 P.M.The two prisoners are tied and bound, then put into the bag of holding.  Serita transforms into a small while dragon as the others pile into the bag.   She then flies south for an hour until she reaches where Sir Phillip’s ship is docked.   The others exit the bag for some fresh air, and inform Sir Phillip that the men have been caught, and did not have the statue with them.   He says he will sail back to Jawltorn at dawn.   The others get back into the Bag of Holding, as Serita then uses her ring to teleport back to Kindor’s castle.She arrives inside of one of the main dining room, causing the guards to be immediately concerned.   A group of six soldiers charge her, weapons drawn.  As she is used to teleporting into this castle in the form of an animal, the color white being the signal that she is really Serita, so she is not overly concerned.  It does not occur to her that these are not the regular castle guards who are aware of this, but are instead members of the Jawlt Army brought in for added protection.   Thankfully, the lieutenant in charge is smart enough to converse with her instead of just attacking.   She orders him to go get either Tenbar or Kindor.  Tenbar finally arrives, telling the troops to stand down.  The others are let out of the Bag of Holding, with both Narg and Lannon chiding Serita for almost getting herself killed.  Tenbar adds “Yeah, do you know how much trouble these men would have been in for killing the Lordholder’s girlfriend?”   They tell Tenbar that the two prisoners are caught, and currently in the bag of holding.   He has them go down to the second sub-basement of the castle, where the castle’s dungeons are located.   The men are locked into a cell.   Melito arrives, and is updated by the party   Serita comments “I don’t know if you can get more information out these guys than we did?”   The former head of the Jawltorn Thief and Assassins Guild smiles at that comment, and adds “I might be able to.”   He chooses not to say anything further due to the presence of Timothy, the lawful good cleric of Ukko.    Tenbar mentions to Serita that Kindor would probably be available again for dinner with him.  She is excited about this, and departs.   Furynick mumbles “Not fair, Mojo wouldn’t allow me to get any.”  The others return to the auction house.   An absurd amount of game time is then taken up when the DM wants to know which rooms of the auction house the different party members are staying in.   “After all this preparation, you’d better attack us!” on player comments.   The group then gets upset when the DM rolls some dice and announces that “The night passes uneventfully.”  A players revolt is quelled when the DM informs them that this level of detail will be needed at some point.July 6th, 1019, 7:00 A.M.The morning begins as the prior two, with the construction detail continuing work on the catwalk and upper window bars.   The only difference this morning is that Narg and Furynick have paid the clerics to throw continuous Silence spells into the room that they are staying in, to allow them to sleep late.    About an hour later Serita wanders in, with a smile on her face from ear to ear.  Mojo comments “Who would have ever thought that she’d be even more annoying and insufferable when she’s happy and relaxed.”The group discusses what to do about the missing statue.  Mojo suggests that they sculpt a replica of it out of Spam, since “It’s not like its going to ever go bad.”   They reject the ‘Spam’ idea, but contemplate making a replica.  Lannon comments that having any fakes could call into question the legitimacy of the entire auction.  They decide that they need to talk to Kindor about.The group of Kharole, Lannon, Mojo, Serita and Timothy arrive in their carriage at the Lordholder’s Castle.   They join Kindor in the dining room, where he is having breakfast with his military leaders Tenbar and Waller.   Melito soon joins them.   They ask if he found anything more from the prisoners.   He replies “Yes.  This gnome Wobblewick met Norbert and Porter at an inn called the Merchant’s Secret, which is just down the street from where you are staying.  The gnome also had working with him a female human spellcaster and a male mostly-human, but part-elvan, fighter.  They didn’t know the names of the other two.”  “We’ll check that place out later,” is Lannon’s comment.  Waller says that King Matthan has left his ship twice, both times to visit with his friends the Khorrams.  He says that the Khorrams are staying, much to his surprise, at the Fox Square Tavern.  That particular tavern and inn is located on the main road in the west outer city, rather than them having chosen one of the fancier lodgings in the inner city.  Serita says that it sounds suspicious, and that they should check it out.  Lannon suggests “Why go to that effort, let’s just kill them all and blame it on the ILA.”  “I like how you think,” Melito comments.  “That’s why I’m the Minister of Inherent Priorities,” Lannon replies. Kindor mentions that two more guests groups will need to be greeted.  One is from the Zalpar Lordholding, from the city of Modvicton.  That group is comprised of representatives from the Mages Guild and Scholars Guild.   Timothy points out that “They don’t like us very much.”  Kindor adds “Or me either, even though I was originally from Modvicton.  I’ll have Ki-Geloryn take care of that welcome.   They also despise him for giving sanctuary to the wizard Derieki, but Ki is enough of a skilled politician to still handle the greeting diplomatically.”  “Unlike any of us,” Lannon comments.  “Exactly,” is the Lordholder’s reply.   “What about Cassie?  I would think that with her love of books she would be liked by the Scholars Guild,” Timothy suggests.  “Not anymore,” Serita comments, “With the influx of new books from the Orient Cassie now has a bigger library than they do, and they’re jealous.”  “Ah yes, library envy,” Mojo comments. “Who is the other group?” asks Serita.   Kindor replies “The rivals of that elvan group you met with yesterday, from the land of Silvanost.”   “Oh great, I have to put up with more elvan racists!” Mojo exclaims.   “No you don’t, this is the group that likes non-elves, which is why the other group hates them,” Serita comments.   Mojo replies “Fine, we’ll go see them after breakfast.  Where are they staying?”  Melito replies “They didn’t want to be anywhere near the Mengale group, so they avoided the elvan district.   They’ve rented the entire Risen Pheonix Inn, a little over a mile to the north of here.  It’s near the group of inner-city churches for non-human deities, including a shrine to their elvan god Corellon Larethian,” is Melito’s response.</blockquote>

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