Vengeance in Mornonas

"She is her usual radiant self Goriro, but there is a personal favor she asked of me, and in turn one that I must ask of you."

Pulling a wine bottle from his backpack, as he knew Goriro's love of the vine, Jath handed the bottle to the stable master as he lowered his voice to a conspiratol whisper.

"Mother has asked me to run an errand for her. One that might take me a tenday or longer to return from and I was hoping that I could borrow one of your finest for the trip. I know that it is short notice, but I promise that neither Mother nor I will forget your assistance when I return."

[sblock]Diplomacy/Bluff check please.[/sblock]
 

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Jasper Conrad

DarkMaster said:
The two soldiers stay outsides, waiting for the wizards and the two warriors to finish their search of the library and laboratory.

The group climbs back the stairs in the sober but impressive in size library. A large confortable Chair near a small coffee table are located in the center on a nice wooden floor. The wall are covered with books covering a large spectrum of topics.

(search T20, I assume an hour of search Jasper 20 +4 +6 for being helped by 3 others DC30)

Most of the books are mundane covering various topics but nothing seems exceptional. As Oculus is searching through the books, Jasper notices an extremely faint ray of light coming behind a book Oculus just moved, as if there was light coming from behind the books. He approaches and by inspecting the area carefully he discerns a very subtile mark in the wooden library. That part of the library seems to be some kind of door to whatever can be find behind.

Looking around Jasper notice that the other didn't notice it yet.

"Hey, look over here. There's some sort of opening." Jasper first tries simply pushing on the area, then feels around for some sort of mechanism that would open the door.
 

Oculus grins at Jasper. "Uncle Joe was pretty clever!" He moves to help his friend search the area. "Do you think Uncle Joe would've set a magical trap? I don't have another Detect Magic available."

[aid another]
 

Solomon will let the wizards have the first crack. "I can search for traps as well, but I'm no good against magic, and it seems likely that is what your uncle would use."
 

Jasper Conrad

"Why don't you check as well as you can Solomon, and if we still can't open it I will use Detect Magic to aid us." Jasper steps back so he will have room to work.

OOC: If Jasper does use Detect Magic, he'll also scan the lab and anything he sees immediately past the secret door.
 

Jasper detects abjuration magic emanating from the door, Evocation magic on the various magical rock providing the light. The Jar and the coffee table emanates conjuration magic. He also detects abjuration magic coming from the entrance above them. The coozy chair near the coffee table emanates Transmutation as well as a small bench near the southern wall library.

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bluff 2+6 ;diplomacy 16 + 2
Goriro looks at Jath not sure if he should beleive him or not. Jath seeing that his little story doesn't pass as well as he would have expecte pulls out the bottle of wine. Goriro looks at it for a few seconds. Jath notices the internal struggle in the man's face. He then adds shaking his head "Ok, I will close my eyes but only this time and because you asked so politely. But please bring it back in one piece this time." He then quickly grabs the bottle of wine and lowers his head slightly ashamed of having being bought so easily again.

How many times did he hear him say "Ok, but only for this time".

Jath heads directly for Yulissa the caramel female barbarian breeded horse. She might not be the most powerfull horse but she is by far the smartest and most reliable of the group. Barbarian horses are wild horses running free in the Barbarians plains. They are powerfull, lean and smart horses extremely appreciates by warrior and adventurer from all over the world.


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The old men seems slightly dissapointed by Xavier's answer but his mood quickly comes back up.

"Don't rejoice too quickly, I am probably the last faithfull of Heireionous in this town, the faith has quickly eroded since the scandal of Bredenbak went public. Lord Gatriel was human after all, we all have weaknesses. You can't blame a faith for the mistake of one man.

He lowers his head and reflects for a few second. He then raises his head and continues

"You know brother, I was there when the great Father died, I went to his funeral in Talos. He was my best friend, we went through so much togheter fighting the forces of evil wherever we could find them.

I was also there when they sealed his tomb with all the honors reserved to a men of his rank. His time here among us was passed there was nothing we could do to bring him back. What was my surprised when I saw him again, well what I taught was him in the church. As I approached him it became clear to me that he was an imposter, I could feel evil exuding from the men's body. When I addressed him he didn't recognise me at first, I insisted and started to make a case to attract people attention on the lie. He then started to tell story with an evil tongue that could rivalise with the best magical object broker. The crowd got enthralled by him and I was too weak to fight back. Even I usually very talented to convince people couldn't do a thing to bring back them back on the right track. Did he use magic, or is he very talented? Frankly I don't know."


The men looks at Xavier with hopes.

"Perhaps you are here to accomplish what I couldn't do"

EDIT:OOC
I should have told you more about this as Xavier is a ardent follower of Heireionous after all.
Lord Galatriel was the High Priest of Heireionous in Mergovia. He directly reports from the Most Holy Godefroy IV, located in the holy free megacity of Sarino located in the southern part of the mega-continent. The city located near the sea, is located inside the Axyrian empire in the old country of Borra, who once was the center of a powerfull empire before being defeated by Axyr. In the center of the city, the tomb of the prophet Gzzalthre. A human who appeared from nowhere at 35 and instaured the faith 3000 years ago. During 40 years he converted an enormous amount of people, who did the same. The early church was very focused on converting people. The last ten years of his life he spent them creating the city of Sarino and acted as a wise men councelling the new priests and the followers. The faith spreaded quickly through the world and people from all over immigrated to the city. In less than a 200 years they conquered a fairly large portion of the continent. Because of various internal struggle they never grew more than that. Also it was difficult to maintain in all their provinces the high standard imposed by Heireionous. At the apogee of the empire the soldier were acting more as moral police than anything else.

Lord Galatriel is the one who convinced the current King a few years ago that getting rid of the Barbarian tribes to south would be beneficial for the country. He said that Heireionous himself asked him personally to lead this war. He told him that they worshipped all the evil pantheon and that they were planning an attack on the country with the help of a unknown wizard group.

No other priest in Mergovia could access 9th level spell and none could confirm his saying but he was the local leader of the church after all.

The thruth is that He was a good friend of a powerfull armorer Industrial located in the south of the country. Who happened to receive an enormous order for thousands of Mithril armor from one of the close advisor of the Axyrian Empress himself. He needed access to the southern deposit in order to have enough metal to complete the order. But to build and operate these mines he needed to get rid of the Barbarian first. The rich industrial paid him 2 000 000 drar upfront and was promising 35% of the profit generated by the mine.

Knowing very well that in doing so Mergovia would become unstable. Being extremely greedy, he used the occasion of a religious convention in Axyr to get an audience with some high Axyrian official. He told them that for 10 000 000 Axyrian gold pieces he could convince the king to get rid of the barbarians. That would remove the buffer between the two country and weaken Mergovia so much that a well organised attack could quickly take over Mergovia without killing too many civilian.

So a few months later a massive Mergovian army was sent against the barbarian. They quickly withdraw to their capital city Bredenbak. A long an painfull siege started. But right before the final assaults a mysterious messenger appeared and troops were called back to Mergovie, preventing the deaths of thousands of soldier and barbarian, plus saving the country from the mess it would become to keep the mines operating in an hostile country renown to fight till the last.

The scheme was unfold by a young free lance journalist who got hired at a large bank in Talos (Mergovia is known internationally for his bank) to prepare an article on the richest Mergovian. The half-elf was a very clever and ressourcefull person. He got access to written record of all transaction above 100 000 Drar. That is where he found the two unusual transaction. Investigating the biggest one he quickly tracked it down to a numbered acount in Axyr. Using some of his contact in Axyr and a telepathic helm he traced back the account to the empress herself. He knew he was on something big. He started to investigate churches of Heireionous pretending to be a young recruit, the King castle as a young servitor. One year later he published an article in the Mergovian Gazette about his finding. The article sparked outrage among the population and the King was forced to do an investigation, and call back the troops as it was becoming more obvious everyday that no evil cult or wizards were present in the land.

Lord Galatriel quickly dissapeared from the country nowhere to be found. The rich industrial was arrested and quickly judged he is still rotting in prison today.

That is what Xavier knows about the situation.
 
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Solomon Kreel

Solomon sweats nervously as he searches the door for traps. "I'm not sure what I'm looking for really. Perhaps we should just leave."


OOC: whoops. I thought Solomon had some ranks in search. I was wrong. He has search +1 only!
 

OOC I just read the description of the detect magic. I guess Jasper was extremely lucky on his spellcraft check ;).

The rocks emanete a faint magic aura, the door a moderate aura, the door above a moderate aura, the jar, the table, the bench and the chair a moderate aura.
 

Xavier Roces, Holy Warrior of Hieroneous.

DarkMaster said:
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"Perhaps you are here to accomplish what I couldn't do"

Xavier's mind is in turmoil by the time the man finishes speaking. Xavier wonders what it was the man was hoping for, who Lord Gatriel is, what was the scandal of Bredenbak, who has taken the church as their base and why, and who is this man who sits before him. Xavier suspects that he was a Paladin like himself. Xavier takes a moment to try and clear his thoughts. He feels like a blind man in a storm, surrounded by forces that he cannot see, but can feel the effect of. He sighs at the mention of Lord Gatrial. It is, still after all theses years, a hear thing to be reminded of. He runs his hand through his hair in a rare unguarded moment. He takes a slow breath.

"I was sent here to do several things. One of them was to look into the stories that had reached Talos of a priest in the church here. But it seems that there is much that I don't know. Let's start of the beginning. Tell what has been happening here since the arrival of the imposter. And tell me of the city of Mornonas itself."
 
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As Goriro took the bottle, Jath smiled broadly and nodded his head in agreement to the stablemaster.

"I shall be as gentle with her as if she was my favorite woman."

Moving quickly to Yulissa, Jath quickly puts a simple blanket on her and within moments is headed at a comfortable gallop towards the temple marked on his copy of the map.

~Now we shall see where the road takes us and what Oldimarra has up his sleeve...~
 

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