The Enemy Within

"Von Tasseninck?" Now Josef looks really confused. "I thought I mentioned him when we met? Did I not? Well, what with one thing and another this evening perhaps it slipped my mind. He's gone. Left the city a couple of days ago, when I arrived. There was this big parade of horsemen, off on some mission to kill orks or somesuch, so I heard. Crazy, most of these nobles. 'Cept the Reichenbergs, of course," he adds with a hasty glance at Garold.
 

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"You did mention it. And as it seems dwarven quarter is quiet at present, I'm free to go with you. I'll come back at some point to check again. And who knows, we find that noble at the party."

OOC: maybe think of some minor sidequest for Kildrack from dwarven quarter?
 


Aaryn shows a slight change of countenance. You believe you see his upper lip curl just a bit. "I am satisfied," he says, then departs to the edge of the upper deck where he pulls out a pipe and begins to smoke.
 

Gorim Grimmson

"Oh, I remember know you said that Jodef...

Fine Garold, I have nothing better to do anyway."


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Did I miss an adventure hook?

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Gorim Grimmson
Perception: 12 Insight: 12 Low-light Vision
AC 17 Fortitude 16 Reflex 11 Will 12
Initiative: +1
Hit Points: 31 / 31 Bloodied: 15
Temporary Hit Points: 0
Resist:
Saving Throw: -
Action Points: 1 Second Wind: 1
Healing Surge:7 Surges per day: 12 / 12
At-Will Powers: Brash Strike, Cleave
Encounter Powers: Dwarven Resilience, Hack and Hew
Daily Powers: Driving Attack

Condition:

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OOC: It seems to me the original adventure hook or seed as it were was just a ruse to get us to town so we could meet up with Josef and join his barge. Perhaps we meet the nobleman somewhere down the road. Cue ominous music.
 

Hans moves to the edge of the barge's deck facing the river. "I'm all for moving on," he says. "Seems that someone may be following us and I'm not all that interested in them catching up."
 

OOC: There is a fair amount of bait-and-switch that goes on in this adventure, less as the campaign as a whole. Also, don't forget that Bögenhafen is where the dead man who looked like Hans was heading to collect his inheritance.

Josef and Wolmar cast off the Berebeli, and set sail out of Altdorf. As the barge moves out into the middle of the river, Hans thinks he catches sight of a man with red hair and a beard, watching. He has a crossbow slung across his back. When he spots that he has been spotted, the red-bearded man vanishes into a side alley.

Josef takes the Weißbruck canal, a fairly new canal connecting the Rivek Reik at Altdorf with the River Bögen at Weißbruck. The Weiß family have made a lot of money from their mines at Delfgrüber, and this is a private waterway primarily created to transport their ore more easily to the capital. Josef pays a toll at the first lock, and the canal takes three days to travel.

Whilst travelling, the group is given lodgings under a tarpaulin rigged up on deck, although Josef offers floorspace in the cramped cabins for those who prefer. His crew are a young couple, Gilda and Wolmar, who have a young baby, Elsa. They know Garold, having worked with Josef since he set up as a bargee.

There is only one village en route on the canal, Schläfebild, where you hear rumours that a young nobleman got himself killed in a bar fight a few nights back in Altdorf, and that the watch are looking for a group of dwarves and an elf, who were apparently implicated in another suspicious death the same night. No-one seems to put two and two together, though, with the non-human crewmembers of the Berebeli.

On the third night out of Altdorf, the Berebeli leaves the canal and arrives at Weißbruck, on the banks of the River Bögen. As Josef is making her fast, Hans sees the red-bearded man again, watching from the door of the Trumpet Inn nearby. Once again, the man ducks inside once he notices that he has been seen, revealing the crossbow slung across his back as he does so.

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Moving things along. We could assume that Garogram is waiting in Altdorf, perhaps dealing with some things for Kildrack. If his player returns, well, Altdorf is right in the middle of the area for this campaign and, suffice to say, that isn't the last you've seen of it.

As for a dwarf sub-plot, there are plenty of options, I'll see if I can work it in as a mission for Kildrak.
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When Hans notices the bearded man for a second time, Aaryn turns to him with a cold glare and asks "Friend or enemy?"

Hans turns to the shore. "That's the man who shot our friend back in Altdorf. Not sure whether he's friend or foe. I guess we'll find out when he catches up to us."
 

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