The Fall of Plaguestone

[KahlessNestor]

Etran’s Folly (Plaguestone)/Hallod’s home
Summer/Day 3/1225
Weather: Normal for the season (hot), light wind, heavy rain
Round 0

Grimsby hauled Hallod to his feet. He was conscious now, if still a bit groggy for some reason. The big dwarf also still carried the locked chest they had found in Hallod’s hideout.

The heavy rain is still pouring down when they emerge from Hallod’s ramshackle house. A muddy trek through the rain back to the Feedmill finds Rolth, the sheriff, lounging in a chair under the porch awning with a sandwich and an ale. The Feedmill appears to have reopened for business. Rolth belches, wipes some mustard off the front of his tunic, and shifts his prodigious gut as he scratches at it.

Tamil, the half orc that was the deceased Bort’s Number Two, looks up from where she and the other members of the caravan are hunkered down across from the feedmill in their tents. She gets up and crosses the square in the rain to meet you as well.


@Leatherhead
@VLAD the Destroyer
@FitzTheRuke
@Kaodi
@JustinCase

Spoiler: Initiative

Silvi
Pakuten
Hiromi
Grimsby
Mortimer

Spoiler: Combat Notes

Silvi (+7) AC 13 DC 17 HP 8/19(13) (drained 6)
Hiromi (+6) AC 17 HP 17/17
Pakuten (+3) AC 18(16) HP 11/16
Grimsby (+7) AC 17/16(clumsy) HP 10/25
Mortimer (+8) AC 17 HP 16/16

Spoiler: Unclaimed Loot

Hallod’s unopened chest.
A key to Hallod’s chest.

Spoiler: Quests

Help Sir Lawrence quiet Talmore’s ghost.

Spoiler: GM Notes

Party XP: 430

 

[Kaodi]

At this point, soaked to the bone and muddy to boot, hair bedraggled and pale from the cold and blood loss, Silvi can only bob her head a few times as Tamil approaches. "So Bort was somebody's loose end," she says and nodding a couple more times. "He was supplying some icky stuff and his buyer did not want anyone to find out. But we did! Yeah, we did..."

 

[KahlessNestor]

Etran’s Folly (Plaguestone)/Hallod’s home
Summer/Day 3/1225
Weather: Normal for the season (hot), light wind, heavy rain
Round 0

Tamli caught the last of what Silvi said and frowned. She shook rain from her hair as she stepped onto the porch. “Did you find out who was behind it then?” the big half-orc woman asked. “Who wanted Bort dead?”

Rolf was already calling into the Feedmill for some farmers to take Hallod and chain him up in a nearby barn until the circuit judge came around at the end of the month.


@Leatherhead
@VLAD the Destroyer
@FitzTheRuke
@Kaodi
@JustinCase

Spoiler: Initiative

Silvi
Pakuten
Hiromi
Grimsby
Mortimer

Spoiler: Combat Notes

Silvi (+7) AC 13 DC 17 HP 8/19(13) (drained 6)
Hiromi (+6) AC 17 HP 17/17
Pakuten (+3) AC 18(16) HP 11/16
Grimsby (+7) AC 17/16(clumsy) HP 10/25
Mortimer (+8) AC 17 HP 16/16

Spoiler: Unclaimed Loot

Hallod’s unopened chest.
A key to Hallod’s chest.

Spoiler: Quests

Help Sir Lawrence quiet Talmore’s ghost.

Spoiler: GM Notes

Party XP: 430

 

[Kaodi]

"The mysterious V," replies Silvi with emphasis in a spooky voice. "Bort was supplying V with shipments of blood from fresh corpses," the gnome says with a shiver. "Now I may have fallen asleep during my lessons about the dark arts but I do not think anything good comes from hoarding a supply of icky red goo from dead people."

 

[FitzTheRuke]

"Exactly!" said Hiromi, backing up her friend.

 

[JustinCase]

Mortimer nods in agreement.

"Perhaps Hallod will reveal the identity of this 'V' person," he says, both to Tamli and to Rolth. "Maybe he will cooperate better if his testimony against his former co-conspiritor leads to a reduced sentence for himself?"

With that, he looks at the sheriff pointedly.

 

[Leatherhead]

Grimsby keeps a firm grip on Hallod while nodding along with the conversation. His eyes keeping focused on the man's hands.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

"Awright, Hallod." said Hiromi with a cold stare, "Tell us who this 'V' is, or I'll gut you like a fish."

She twirled a blade in one hand with an easy grace.

OOC: Hiromi's Intimidate Check: 1D20+3 = [19]+3 = 22

 

[KahlessNestor]

Etran’s Folly (Plaguestone)/Hallod’s home
Summer/Day 3/1230
Weather: Normal for the season (hot), light wind, heavy rain
Round 0

Tamli frowned at the mention of the corpse blood. “I didn’t know about that,” she said. “But then Bort handled the contracts and such. I just wrangled the useless people.” She looked over at the other caravan workers huddled around the fire beneath tarps by the wagons, though she had a fond smile on her face as she said it. “Any idea who this V is?”

Hallod just glowered at Hiromi when she started to question him, and spat at her.

“All right. Enough of that!” Rolf said, cuffing the man hard behind the head. “Chain him up, boys!”

As Hallod is dragged off toward the barn, a figure emerges from the heavy downpour. She wears a dark brown cloak trimmed with leaves against the rain and pulls a simple wooden sledge behind her, loaded with something covered by a tarp.


@Leatherhead
@VLAD the Destroyer
@FitzTheRuke
@Kaodi
@JustinCase

Spoiler: Initiative

Silvi
Pakuten
Hiromi
Grimsby
Mortimer

Spoiler: Combat Notes

Silvi (+7) AC 13 DC 17 HP 8/19(13) (drained 6)
Hiromi (+6) AC 17 HP 17/17
Pakuten (+3) AC 18(16) HP 11/16
Grimsby (+7) AC 17/16(clumsy) HP 10/25
Mortimer (+8) AC 17 HP 16/16

Spoiler: Unclaimed Loot

Hallod’s unopened chest.
A key to Hallod’s chest.

Spoiler: Quests

Help Sir Lawrence quiet Talmore’s ghost.
Who is V?

Spoiler: GM Notes

Party XP: 430

 

[Kaodi]

Silvi fails to notice the stranger at first because she has retreated to cover from the rain with the lockbox and key recovered from Hallod. Kneeling down she places the box on the ground for a moment as she fumbles with key. It drops into the mud but she picks it up again and rubs it clean before holding it up in front of her with a small, wicked smile before inserting it into the lock and turning.