Vengeance in Mornonas

[Manzanita]

Solomon Kreel

Solomon sees his opponent across the clearing. His companions and the other orcs seem misty - their features obscured. There is only one here who he must fight, and he must do it alone. Drawing his greatsword he charges forward, speed increasing, eyes narrowed. His blade crashes against his opponent's great axe. The yellow-feathered head of the powerful orc dodges and weaves. Their weapons clash again, and Solomon's blade is wrenched from his hands. Fingers numb, he stumbles. The great axe rises high in the air. But before it can come down on his neck, Solomon's eys glaze over, the yellow feathers turn orange as his eyes see red. He lunges upwards, slamming his shoulder into the orc's hard stomach, fighting with tooth and claw...

Solomon awakes with a shout as he lunges out of bed, his hands clenching the sheets. He sighs. A dream. But one rich in meaning. The feathered orc in the temple. Some day he will meet him. Alone. And he must be ready.

In the morning Solomon gets up early, restless for action.

 

[silentspace]

Oculus heads towards the Kobold sailor, It's now around 10:30. The University street being magically lit make the trip relatively safe. As he gets outside the university district he takes the King's road which is usually busy at any hours of the day. This street is usually safe and most student looking for a bit of a entertaining in the port section of town usually takes it. Oculus walk down the steep road to the port section. As usual he crosses various kind of people. Brigand, thief, beggar, female of all races selling their body for a few coins, people selling various alchemical substances that makes you forget or gives you energy. He finally makes it to the Kobold sailor. The place is full as usual with various adventurers, sailors and locals looking for a bit of entertainement. Oculus also see a table of student drinking and having fun with female of doubtfull activity. At the bar the old Trey, the only kobold who served in the mergovian navy, is entertaining the people at the bar with various tricks and joke as he served his wonderfull homebreweed beer. Some say even the Empress of Axyr herself enjoy his beer. Nobody here knows for real, but it is true that his beer his imported through out Mergovie and around the city of Axyr.

Around the bar Oculus can notice two large dwarf who probably act as buncer for the place. They are talking to customer and seems fairly relax, but always seems to keep their eyes on the crowd.

The bar is located at the left end corner of the rather square hall. Right besides it their is a large stages with three musician on it. They are all adjusting their instruments. Their is one elf women, dressed in a very colorfull outfits. One human and one half elf similarly dressed are with her. The place is fairly crowded as usual.

(OOC Due to Christmas holiday I will wait a bit for Oculus before I NPC him).

[Oculus would prefer if if someone went with him to the kobold sailor, though not together. He will also borrow a different cloak and maybe a hat from Uncle Joe first. He's feeling pretty paranoid lately.]

Oculus breathes deeply of the night air as he walks through the city towards the Kobold Sailor. So much had changed for him in just a few days. He still didn't really understand all of it, but he felt they must act. Entering the Kobold Sailor, Oculus enjoys the colorful atmosphere. He is slightly concerned that he sees some students here. but gets more relaxed as he sees the company they're with. Being with prostitutes, they were probably fairly discreet. Even so, Oculus tries to avoid them as best he can, hoping not to be recognized. He'll take a table with his back to a wall, and watch the performances, waiting for Hl'lar to appear.

 

[Kangaxx]

Jasper Conrad

Jasper goes to bed early, wanting to have plenty of time in the morning to prepare spells and prep himself for the meeting with the baron.

OOC: If Oculus wants to take someone else with him, Jraq or Trolm would probably be the best choice.

 

[DarkMaster]

OOC Sorry Manzanita I forgot to answer your question, so that happened a bit before you went to bed.

Uncle Joe's looks at Solomon with a bit of sadness as he talks about the faith of the veteran. "I don't know exactly who is distributing this drug. All I know is that it makes you feel "good" and "happy". 20 years ago I would have investigate further, but nowadays I prefer to stay away from the port part of the city, where it seems to come from."

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Oculus seated in a corner of the large Inn doesn't really watch the performance paying more attention on who's coming in and out of the place. A minute or two he sees Jraq and Trolm coming in the place, they sit at a table and watches the performance. A few minute later a large human sits at Oculus table. Before Oculus can say a word, the human whispers quickly"Don't worry it's me Hl'lar, I will be quick the magic effect will not last all night. he stops talking and look casually at the group of musician. Putting his large mug on the table. Has he casually drink it he says "These musicians are excellent, during the day they play at the baron's court He drink a bit more of his beer. "Don't hesitate to talk to her for information on what's happening at the court."
"Anything else you might want to know" the human adds putting his two hands around the mug.

 

[Manzanita]

Solomon

"I see. Thank you Joe. This drug is bad, and if we find out anything more about it, we'll let you know. I will plan on taking it easy today, and perhaps heading out again tonight after dark. Do you have a library or something where I could read?"

 

[doghead]

Xavier Roces, male human Servant of Heironeous

Xavier rolls out of bed. After washing in the cold water on the small table he gets dressed for the day. For a moment he considers putting on his travelling clothes and changing into his more formal gear later. But eventually he decides to put his formal outfit on now. All the better to make a good impression, this being his first visit to the city.

Xavier pulls out his formal clothes and puts them on; a shirt of fine linen, breeches of a fine dark grey (the colour of his wolf hound actually) wool and a coat of even finer wool, dark red in colour with the symbol of Heironeous embroidered on the breast and the symbol of his house enclosed in scrollwork embroidered up both sleeves. All the embroidery is done in black silk. Around his neck he wraps a white silk scarf of the finest material from far off lands. Around his waist he wraps a tooled black leather belt from which hangs his shortsword. Over it all a cloak in plain black and held together with a iron clasp worked in gold with Heironeous's symbol. All in all, it does not shove Xavier's allegances in your face. There is no great love for the Church of Heironeous in Mornonas, and Xavier does not want to put the Barons nose out in their first meeting. But it makes them plain enough to anyone taking notice.

Xavier closes up his bags and makes one last check to see that his armour is securely wrapped and bound in its leather bag. Saddlebags, armour bag, shield, longsword. He sighs quietly. I'm not going to struggle down stairs lugging all that.

He calls up someone from downstairs to have them carry down his stuff to his horse. He's pleased to see the animal has been given a rub down and combing and now gleams magestically. Oa leans himself against Xavier's leg. The wolf hound doesn't look like he has been brushed, but then he doesn't look like he has even when he has. Xavier tips the staff generously complimenting them on this and that before swinging up into the saddle. With Oa trotting alongside, he heads back toward the city gates at an easy walk.

He's half way to the gates before he realises that he completely forgot to get any breakfast.

 

[DarkMaster]

OOC I was waiting for SilentSpace to finish the encounter with Hl'lar to continue but I can see that people are getting a bit impatient, at least I am.

<Joe to Solomon>

"I know a few places Solomon, it only depends what are you interest. If you went I can lend you some of my cloths and prepare you a document testifying that you are my apprentice, that should be enough to give you access to the University library.

For more mundane reading they are a few temple that own their library and give access to the citizen. Don't expect anything fancy there, they usually keeps their best book locked and unaccessible.

I also have my personal library hidden in the basement, but I read most of those books already and I don't think there is anything that would help our causes. "

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OOC Assuming Xavier will not go back to the Inn to eat breakfast.

As Xavier is getting out of the night camp and placing himself in the small line up in front of the city door. He notices about 100 feet in front of him the caravan of the gypsie also heading towards the city. Volandor'th is driving Sylla caravan and his half asleep not really paying attention to what's happening around. The slope to access the door is really steep and his horses seems to work hard to pull the wagon up there, but he doesn't seem to worry about it.

On his right he sees a richely dressed men cutting through the line up. Ahead of him Xavier sees two guards pushing the crowd and visibely wearing the city insigna. The overweight men seems to be in a hurry. His face all red and breathing really hard from the strenous exercise of running up the slope leading to the city.

A few commoner try to stop the three men, visibely pissed off that someone is going in without having to line up like they did, but the two guards are quick to push them back.

 

[silentspace]

Oculus smiles at the disguised Hl'lar. "Do these musicans work for you? Are they independent contractors? Or perhaps more like friends or partners?"

Assuming Hl'lar leaves because of his spell of disguise, he'll talk to the musicians. In a break in the musical performance, Oculus will clap and gesture to the musicians to join him at his table, saying he'll buy them a drink. "Your playing was excellent. I heard you three not only perform, but go on adventures from time to time. But you can't all be bards can you? I would think that would be pretty limiting."

What can Oculus learn about them from their performance?

 

[Manzanita]

Solomon Kreel

Solomon considers Joe's suggestions. "I'm not leaving this house without my armor and weapons." In fact, Solomon keeps himself fully armed even within Joe's house, unless they voice objections. "I don't know how to occupy myself today other than to read a bit. I'd like to learn more about the world. Perhaps I could just peruse your atlas and maps."

OOC: Prep for taking a rank in knowledge (geography) if nothing else.

 

[doghead]

Xavier Roces, male human Servant of Heironeous

As Xavier is getting out of the night camp and placing himself in the small line up in front of the city door. He notices about 100 feet in front of him the caravan of the gypsie also heading towards the city. Volandor'th is driving Sylla caravan and his half asleep not really paying attention to what's happening around. The slope to access the door is really steep and his horses seems to work hard to pull the wagon up there, but he doesn't seem to worry about it.

Xavier sits magestically, impassively on his horse. After a while he begins to feel a bit of a fool, perched up high above the rest of the people around him. He slips off his horse. Oa takes his customary place leaning against his leg.

After a moment, Xavier notices that he is being closely watched. The watches lurk, trying unsuccessfully to to remain out of sight, behind their mother's skirts. Xavier grins at the children, a boy and girl, and makes a small bow. Slowly, the pair inch out from behind their cover and in his direction. Xavier orders Oa down.

"Hello. I'm Xavier. This is Oa," Xavier motions toward the hound, "and this," he pats the horses neck, "is Sanfraneidal." The children stare at the great horse in wonder. True, he is a fine horse. Xavier remembers the first time he rode upon a horse, the sense of strength and power of the animal, the feeling that from up here he could see everything in the world. Of course, Xavier was only 4 at the time, so he was more used to seeing the world around peoples legs than over their heads.

"Would you like to sit on him?" The offer pops out before he has time to think about it. With a shrug, he decides to let it stand. If the mother agrees, he takes a moment to have a quiet word to Sanfarneidal about the importance of calm, then hoists the children up into the saddle. The little boy goes straight for the sword. Xavier puts his hand on it before he can draw it and gently turns his attentions away from the weapon. The little girl starts asaking if they can go for a ride. With a shrug, Xavier leads Sanfranedal around in a small circle. Its then that he notices the fat official and his pushy guards.

On his right he sees a richly dressed men cutting through the line up. Ahead of him Xavier sees two guards pushing the crowd and visibely wearing the city insigna. The overweight men seems to be in a hurry. His face all red and breathing really hard from the strenous exercise of running up the slope leading to the city.

Xavier brings the all back to where they started and lifts the children off.

"It was a pleasure meeting you. Now I think that its time you headed back and assisted you mother. She must be missing your help by now." With the children gone, he turns his attentions back to the fat official.

A few commoner try to stop the three men, visibely pissed off that someone is going in without having to line up like they did, but the two guards are quick to push them back.

Xavier holds his position keeps his eye on things. The official is a fool. If he is not careful, he is going to get people hurt. But from what I here, thats not a great concern in Mornonas. Xavier decides to he is best staying out of it. Unless it starts to get ugly. In that case, he can't just stand by and watch. Stupid official!