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<blockquote data-quote="Andrew Moreton" data-source="post: 8031184" data-attributes="member: 6920268"><p>William teleported them to Seobrigga and they went to their arranged rendezvous with Glaucia, being reminded again what having your courtroom in a dead dragon says about your legal system. They met and talked and decided this was indeed an odd happening in Ursalina and investigating it should let them persuade the Bruse not to attack them. While having this discussion some Ob hitmen turned up and were killed in the space of a few seconds. (Even without the PC's being vastly more powerful than the attackers Glaucia is terrifying, anyone who has less then 150hp who attacks her is incapacitated for 1d4 rounds or more). They spoke breifly to the fading Ob ghost deciding they wanted a way to stop them regenerating and told him he should defect , particuarly as Nicodemus was gettign angry with them. El Extrano of course knew they were in Ber and spoke with them , they were surprised he did not know what was going on in Ursalina and that confirmed to them it was serious</p><p>They considered other things to do to get the Bruse onside and realised they could deliver a huge amount of the Father of Thunders manure (or naughty word) to a Minotaur and due to the magical properties of said naughty word he would thank them. They decided to wait until after saving Ursalina so it looked more like a generous offer, William in particular considers it a sacred mission to deliver naughty word to the Bruse. They also found a way to trap incorporeal souls and so prevent them going back to the Ghost council a mere 7th level spell unfortunatly costing 1000gp per level so they put aside funds so that Lya and Amielle Latimer could be trapped as they had been helpful and seperating them from Nic may mean they could be ressurected as allies. After all they needed someone to rule Danor after all this was over</p><p></p><p>They rested for the rest of the day , then teleported to their ship outside Ursalina and observed the city. They confirmed no one was leaving the city and it seemed quite. They also noted the presence of the Beran navy squadron and its marines. Their ship was left outside the port so its crew were not enfangered and Ulvaar rowed a ships boat in. Glaucia and Ahsima-Shimtu accompanied them, as they came ashore they noticed a Risuri based engineering company logo at the site of a construction for a new train station and railroad. They suspected that no matter what the legal records said Pemberton owned most of that company, William considered taking on the aspect of a Forensic accountant but they decided they did not have time to try and unpick the Dragons dealing and at the moment he was mostly on their side anyway.</p><p></p><p>They tried to track down the merchant Flida and did so after Manuel talked the police out of arresting a Pickle selling Goblin having a bad day. It appears that Manuel has bought Charisma and social skills, for a mere 144000gp he is now moderatly diplomatic. They spoke with her and it confirmed their impression that the town was under mindcontrol of some kind. They decided to speak with Dieter the governors son and headed for the bar he hung around at, there Manuel silently staked kobold waiters and tried to get them to reveal they were El Extrano's agents. Nevla spoke with Dieter and got him to meet with them after closure. Ulvaar and William spoke to some dwarven Risuri engineers and discovered that one of them was the sibling of the Cleric in Sid Minos and the wizard in Drakr and was here to build a railway, they suspect some kind of dwarven plot as everywhere they go one clan of dwarves is there. Ulvaar warned them to try and get out of town but the identity of the team was not revealed. They also listend to the bickering bards and spoke with them, much of what they said was ignored but they picked up on the ancient ruins under the college and the college locking everyone out.</p><p></p><p>After the bar closed they spoke with Dieter and became certain mind control was the issue, they arranged to meet the missing Execuetora and got a meeting with her later that night. On the way to meet with her they stumbled across some cerebral mesh and initially were worried it was some kind of webbing linked to Copper Hat or the voice of rot and so decided to use the planar energy cantrip and discovered it was not one they recognised ruling out all the current and previous planets as well as the Ob rejects. They consulted with the Lightning Weasel a known scholar of the obscure and asked Ashima-Shimtu if she recognised it, both of them realised it was linked to the planes of the Ghidim. This surprised the players they had expected a Ghidim invasion but they were expecting waves of psychic monsters not a subtle invasion. Meeting with the Execuetora further confirmed in their mind that they needed to act fast, they had been lucky not to get spotted so far and so if they wanted surpise they had to strike before morning. The revelation that the invisible flying things were deterred by foul odours and chemicals persuaded Manuel to load his Mortar shells with an irritant gas as they could ignore such things with Ulvaars help.</p><p></p><p>Glaucia and her colleague were sent to the harbour to keep the troops away from the bardic college. We have a long history involving bards, people with guns and mind effecting magics every time a bard has been near a confused person with a gun they have accidentally been critted for maximum damage and died. So several hundred low level gunmen in a bardic college while attacking Ghidim was considered a recipe for a massacre. The team headed immediatly for the college, Manuel was going to blow a hole in the walls when they realised the entance to the underground was near a big wooden main door and Ulvaar has aquired the ability to warp wood at will so he would open the way for them.</p><p></p><p>En-route to the college they encounted the masked vigilante Wolfgang Von Recklinghausen grabbing a bit of a flying eyeball thing, which they worried meant it may even be able to spot Manuel (correctly it is the only thing encountered which can match his stealth with perception). When it was gone they spoke he told them about the implants which ennabled him to be ignored by the creatures he had taken from the police, they were intrigued but decided it would not help much in an assault on the Ghidim HQ and so wasnot worth the time to find, incapacitate and perform surgery on a police patrol. They parted ways wishing him well and saying he would be welcome in Risur</p><p></p><p>We left it jsut before the attack began, an early finish but there is no point starting a major battle with half an hour to go. Next week Battle inside a giant metal fish</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andrew Moreton, post: 8031184, member: 6920268"] William teleported them to Seobrigga and they went to their arranged rendezvous with Glaucia, being reminded again what having your courtroom in a dead dragon says about your legal system. They met and talked and decided this was indeed an odd happening in Ursalina and investigating it should let them persuade the Bruse not to attack them. While having this discussion some Ob hitmen turned up and were killed in the space of a few seconds. (Even without the PC's being vastly more powerful than the attackers Glaucia is terrifying, anyone who has less then 150hp who attacks her is incapacitated for 1d4 rounds or more). They spoke breifly to the fading Ob ghost deciding they wanted a way to stop them regenerating and told him he should defect , particuarly as Nicodemus was gettign angry with them. El Extrano of course knew they were in Ber and spoke with them , they were surprised he did not know what was going on in Ursalina and that confirmed to them it was serious They considered other things to do to get the Bruse onside and realised they could deliver a huge amount of the Father of Thunders manure (or naughty word) to a Minotaur and due to the magical properties of said naughty word he would thank them. They decided to wait until after saving Ursalina so it looked more like a generous offer, William in particular considers it a sacred mission to deliver naughty word to the Bruse. They also found a way to trap incorporeal souls and so prevent them going back to the Ghost council a mere 7th level spell unfortunatly costing 1000gp per level so they put aside funds so that Lya and Amielle Latimer could be trapped as they had been helpful and seperating them from Nic may mean they could be ressurected as allies. After all they needed someone to rule Danor after all this was over They rested for the rest of the day , then teleported to their ship outside Ursalina and observed the city. They confirmed no one was leaving the city and it seemed quite. They also noted the presence of the Beran navy squadron and its marines. Their ship was left outside the port so its crew were not enfangered and Ulvaar rowed a ships boat in. Glaucia and Ahsima-Shimtu accompanied them, as they came ashore they noticed a Risuri based engineering company logo at the site of a construction for a new train station and railroad. They suspected that no matter what the legal records said Pemberton owned most of that company, William considered taking on the aspect of a Forensic accountant but they decided they did not have time to try and unpick the Dragons dealing and at the moment he was mostly on their side anyway. They tried to track down the merchant Flida and did so after Manuel talked the police out of arresting a Pickle selling Goblin having a bad day. It appears that Manuel has bought Charisma and social skills, for a mere 144000gp he is now moderatly diplomatic. They spoke with her and it confirmed their impression that the town was under mindcontrol of some kind. They decided to speak with Dieter the governors son and headed for the bar he hung around at, there Manuel silently staked kobold waiters and tried to get them to reveal they were El Extrano's agents. Nevla spoke with Dieter and got him to meet with them after closure. Ulvaar and William spoke to some dwarven Risuri engineers and discovered that one of them was the sibling of the Cleric in Sid Minos and the wizard in Drakr and was here to build a railway, they suspect some kind of dwarven plot as everywhere they go one clan of dwarves is there. Ulvaar warned them to try and get out of town but the identity of the team was not revealed. They also listend to the bickering bards and spoke with them, much of what they said was ignored but they picked up on the ancient ruins under the college and the college locking everyone out. After the bar closed they spoke with Dieter and became certain mind control was the issue, they arranged to meet the missing Execuetora and got a meeting with her later that night. On the way to meet with her they stumbled across some cerebral mesh and initially were worried it was some kind of webbing linked to Copper Hat or the voice of rot and so decided to use the planar energy cantrip and discovered it was not one they recognised ruling out all the current and previous planets as well as the Ob rejects. They consulted with the Lightning Weasel a known scholar of the obscure and asked Ashima-Shimtu if she recognised it, both of them realised it was linked to the planes of the Ghidim. This surprised the players they had expected a Ghidim invasion but they were expecting waves of psychic monsters not a subtle invasion. Meeting with the Execuetora further confirmed in their mind that they needed to act fast, they had been lucky not to get spotted so far and so if they wanted surpise they had to strike before morning. The revelation that the invisible flying things were deterred by foul odours and chemicals persuaded Manuel to load his Mortar shells with an irritant gas as they could ignore such things with Ulvaars help. Glaucia and her colleague were sent to the harbour to keep the troops away from the bardic college. We have a long history involving bards, people with guns and mind effecting magics every time a bard has been near a confused person with a gun they have accidentally been critted for maximum damage and died. So several hundred low level gunmen in a bardic college while attacking Ghidim was considered a recipe for a massacre. The team headed immediatly for the college, Manuel was going to blow a hole in the walls when they realised the entance to the underground was near a big wooden main door and Ulvaar has aquired the ability to warp wood at will so he would open the way for them. En-route to the college they encounted the masked vigilante Wolfgang Von Recklinghausen grabbing a bit of a flying eyeball thing, which they worried meant it may even be able to spot Manuel (correctly it is the only thing encountered which can match his stealth with perception). When it was gone they spoke he told them about the implants which ennabled him to be ignored by the creatures he had taken from the police, they were intrigued but decided it would not help much in an assault on the Ghidim HQ and so wasnot worth the time to find, incapacitate and perform surgery on a police patrol. They parted ways wishing him well and saying he would be welcome in Risur We left it jsut before the attack began, an early finish but there is no point starting a major battle with half an hour to go. Next week Battle inside a giant metal fish [/QUOTE]
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