Here we go grave-robbing once more
Nov. 2nd, 2010 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lederhosenAfter several weeks' break, we managed to get a quorum for our D&D group again. (Octavia and Brother Mosley are never seen at the same time. Hmmmmm.)
We are on the track of a young lady kidnapped by slavers, and for once we actually managed to remember this and not get distracted by a potential side-quest that would have taken us a couple of days.
We got to Large Town and found a reputable tavern (nobody tried to kill us during the night and the stew doesn't, as far as we know, contain bits of travellers). Kauri tried to seduce the lady who owned the place, and was rather confused when he succeeded. She was very helpful: apparently there are four main factions:
- Forces of Law and Order
- New religion (the one whose 'pilgrims' tried to kill us as we slept last time)
- Thieves (associated with people going missing)
- Assassins (associated with people showing up dead)
Also, the mother-in-law of the thieves' boss, Granny Something, is mixed up in their shady business and might have useful information.
We went off to talk to the mayor, whose daughter's fiance went missing a year ago (lot of that going round, probably linked to the slave trade). Apparently she gave him a ring and can only be married with the ring (one of those 'seemed like a good idea when they created the tradition' things) so even if he's dead, she wants the ring back.
We didn't want to tip the slavers off as to our real object, so this seemed like a good excuse. We went off to see the Evil Granny, and Hyadis spun her a Spanish Prisoner story: my distant uncle died, and my cousin is the heir to his fortune, but he went missing a year ago, and so we need to find him so Kauri and Hyadis can get married (Kauri looked a bit startled at this point) and everybody, Evil Granny included, can be rich. She told us we might find something of interest if we looked in one of the graves outside town (probably a setup for an ambush or something, but since when have we passed up an excuse to dig up a grave?)
So while Drustos was interrogating a local loonie, Hyadis, Kauri, and Octavia went out to the graveyard. Unfortunately one of the guards got a bit suspicious, and Hyadis told them we were looking for her cousin. Should probably have checked details more carefully, since it turns out the deceased in question was actually a gnome, but Hyadis is pretty short, and she claimed it ran in the family (at this point Kauri was invoked as a cousin, which seemed like a way to add verisimilitude but in hindsight I should probably have remembered that he's black so it just confused the guard more). I think he bought it, sort of, but looks like we'll need to come back at night and loot the grave then. The good news is, the guards don't go there at night. The bad news is the reason why they don't go there... which undoubtedly we will discover next session.
(I think Hyadis also managed to get engaged to Kauri's sister. Oh well. But nobody will let me perform ceremonies. *sniffle*)
We are on the track of a young lady kidnapped by slavers, and for once we actually managed to remember this and not get distracted by a potential side-quest that would have taken us a couple of days.
We got to Large Town and found a reputable tavern (nobody tried to kill us during the night and the stew doesn't, as far as we know, contain bits of travellers). Kauri tried to seduce the lady who owned the place, and was rather confused when he succeeded. She was very helpful: apparently there are four main factions:
- Forces of Law and Order
- New religion (the one whose 'pilgrims' tried to kill us as we slept last time)
- Thieves (associated with people going missing)
- Assassins (associated with people showing up dead)
Also, the mother-in-law of the thieves' boss, Granny Something, is mixed up in their shady business and might have useful information.
We went off to talk to the mayor, whose daughter's fiance went missing a year ago (lot of that going round, probably linked to the slave trade). Apparently she gave him a ring and can only be married with the ring (one of those 'seemed like a good idea when they created the tradition' things) so even if he's dead, she wants the ring back.
We didn't want to tip the slavers off as to our real object, so this seemed like a good excuse. We went off to see the Evil Granny, and Hyadis spun her a Spanish Prisoner story: my distant uncle died, and my cousin is the heir to his fortune, but he went missing a year ago, and so we need to find him so Kauri and Hyadis can get married (Kauri looked a bit startled at this point) and everybody, Evil Granny included, can be rich. She told us we might find something of interest if we looked in one of the graves outside town (probably a setup for an ambush or something, but since when have we passed up an excuse to dig up a grave?)
So while Drustos was interrogating a local loonie, Hyadis, Kauri, and Octavia went out to the graveyard. Unfortunately one of the guards got a bit suspicious, and Hyadis told them we were looking for her cousin. Should probably have checked details more carefully, since it turns out the deceased in question was actually a gnome, but Hyadis is pretty short, and she claimed it ran in the family (at this point Kauri was invoked as a cousin, which seemed like a way to add verisimilitude but in hindsight I should probably have remembered that he's black so it just confused the guard more). I think he bought it, sort of, but looks like we'll need to come back at night and loot the grave then. The good news is, the guards don't go there at night. The bad news is the reason why they don't go there... which undoubtedly we will discover next session.
(I think Hyadis also managed to get engaged to Kauri's sister. Oh well. But nobody will let me perform ceremonies. *sniffle*)
