Brief Synopsis
The Deathsgate Guild are happy to accept the group as guild members. There were two who stepped forward anonymously to praise the party's work at Bluescar, and a "Lost" member has returned to Sharn. Saeloth the sorceress offers her thanks for slaying her captives (the guild will not reveal anything about her.)
Corven Sahlmer has been looking for the group for the past few days, her inquisitives tracked the group down to Oakbridge but have been "deterred" from further investigations.. There have been several parties interested in hiring their services.
- Paxor's family want to know his whereabouts.
- The Aundarian Embassy has heard of your exploits and wishes to speak with you.
- Malaren Dexel is still looking for help.
He then speaks with House Orien about the tribe accompanying them to the great forests, they are always on the look-out for mercenaries on this particular route.
"After a vigil of several days you see Yulunga slowly ascending the exterior stair to the tree at the top of the tower, some 75 feet over the ruins of Fallen. After a few moments of studying the tree and most likely retrieving the note from the leg of the tiny bird, she looks to the towers far above scouring the city above for a sign of your presence."
Kapek directs Hurricane, his new Glidewing, down from the lofty heights of Kenton into the shadowy world that is Fallen, coming to perch on the edge of the broken tower. You quickly leap off as the glidewing takes to the air once more with a few powerful beats of its huge leathery wings.
With a sorrowful smile Yulunga looks into your eyes, "It appears that you are doing well for yourself Ajax. The world above suits you. Why do you wish to speak with me? This place holds only danger for you."
"When last we meet you kindly said you would try to work for my re-admittance to the tribe. I am to guess you have had little success? ", asks Ajax.
Sorrow spreads across Yulunga's face.
"Things are not good in the shadows. The other tribes know we are weakened and we spend each day hiding and each night running. Carvos curses you in his prayers each morning along with the wish that his beloved Frenya rests peacefully. Each day he further plots his vengeance. There has been recent talk of our leaving Fallen to find better lives above, but this is all we know and many are reluctant to leave this place we call 'home'."
"I hoped your arrival here was to fill us with the confidence that there are answers to our predicament...."
"Perhaps it is. I feared that this would happen. That weakened as we were the other tribes would come for our territory. So I say let them have it !"
"The Fallen is a desolate patch of rubble. The world outside is greater and more wonderful than we could dream of. The city is rich and full of life and I have heard tales of the Eldeen Reaches where our kind live, where a man can walk from tree to tree and not touch ground for weeks. Think of such abundance of beauty not this one stunted remnant." He points towards the scraggly tree that struggles to survive atop the broken tower.
"Let us leave the Fallen and not look back." pleads Ajax.
"That is a most interesting proposition. But how would we survive the journey, nevermind the trials of a life so unfamiliar? Forgive my negativity, it.... well..... it's just more than i could hope to imagine." You watch as her face flushes with mixed emotions of sadness and hope. "Please Ajax don't toy with me, this could never be more than a dream..."
"That is a most interesting proposition. But how would we survive the journey, nevermind the trials of a life so unfamiliar? Forgive my negativity, it.... well..... it's just more than i could hope to imagine." You watch as her face flushes with mixed emotions of sadness and hope. "Please Ajax don't toy with me, this could never be more than a dream..."
"If you can help us Ajax, I will speak with the others. I know that Carvos will never leave but the rest are lacking hope. They haven't really had time to mourn the fallen since that fateful night."
"I'm not saying it will be easy, there will be hard work and sacrifice but I have friends and contacts who perhaps can help." Ajax says reassuringly.
"I will speak with the others when i get chance. Meet me here as the sun sets on the 3rd [Dravago], I will have an answer." comes Yulunga's reply.
You see a rat rapidly scurry up Yulunga's leg, her clothing ripples momentarily as it finds its way to her shoulder. Once there it sniffs at her ear, "You have to go, NOW", she whispers loudly, "I have been followed, it is one of my...our tribe."
Without a backward glance she heads down the exterior stair of the broken tower. The sun moves across the sky leaving you and the struggling tree to the shadows once more.
In a moment Kapek circles down to the tower, Hurricane clumsily landing on the small platform.
He informs you that there are many figures moving below, coming from the south, Blood-drinker territory.
As you mount the glidewing you see a lone figure heading from the north, Yulunga quickly heads for this figure and the pair head back north with speed, leaping from shadow to shadow.
You gradually ascend through the strata of the city until you once more feel the warm sun on your skin.
An Inquisitive has located Trom Casurs for Ajax.
Ajax wrings some memories out of his capacity impaired brain as to the location of the elven sisters who were looking for their father. The pair now live in a side-alley by Hythan's Smithy in Downstairs.
*Ajax comments
And it say's something about Ajax's brain that it takes him so long to remember where two hot elven sisters lived.
*Ajax comments
And it say's something about Ajax's brain that it takes him so long to remember where two hot elven sisters lived.
He also blows some hard-earned cash at the Gaze.
He manages to find Trom Casurs and compels him to guide the savages from Fallen on their path to a new way of life far from civilisation in the Eldeen Reaches.
*Ajax comments
Ajax had only met Trom once but had been impressed by his strength and dedication. He feels strange approaching a practical stranger with so important a responsibility but Trom despite never meeting the Black Claws is prepared to put himself out to help fellow Shifters.
Ajax promises to help Trom if he ever requires it.
Ajax manages to persuade the Black-Claws to leave for the Eldeen Reaches, but Carvos, the tribal leader refuses to travel anywhere with the cursed Ajax, and so the two have to go their separate ways.
*Ajax comments
Ajax leaves the Black Claws with decidedly mixed feelings. On one hand he has faith in Trom and Carvos and is glad his tribe will be moving on to a safer and better place.
On the other he realises he is losing his tribe. The people who he spent the vast majority of his life with. He will miss them all, particualrly Yulunga who has blossomed into a wise and beatiful woman.
Still he has a new tribe with the Crimson Fists now and so leaves his old tribe to start their new journey.
Lorric spends time looking for and getting s**t-faced with the drunken masters for, perhaps, longer than he anticipated. He informs the Long Arm of his chosen path and although Sorewyn finds it all a bit distasteful and undisciplined he lets Lorric know that he always has a place in the Hostel and he hopes that he will continue his work alongside and within the Long Arm.
*Ajax comments
Ajax had only met Trom once but had been impressed by his strength and dedication. He feels strange approaching a practical stranger with so important a responsibility but Trom despite never meeting the Black Claws is prepared to put himself out to help fellow Shifters.
Ajax promises to help Trom if he ever requires it.
Ajax manages to persuade the Black-Claws to leave for the Eldeen Reaches, but Carvos, the tribal leader refuses to travel anywhere with the cursed Ajax, and so the two have to go their separate ways.
*Ajax comments
Ajax leaves the Black Claws with decidedly mixed feelings. On one hand he has faith in Trom and Carvos and is glad his tribe will be moving on to a safer and better place.
On the other he realises he is losing his tribe. The people who he spent the vast majority of his life with. He will miss them all, particualrly Yulunga who has blossomed into a wise and beatiful woman.
Still he has a new tribe with the Crimson Fists now and so leaves his old tribe to start their new journey.
Lorric spends time looking for and getting s**t-faced with the drunken masters for, perhaps, longer than he anticipated. He informs the Long Arm of his chosen path and although Sorewyn finds it all a bit distasteful and undisciplined he lets Lorric know that he always has a place in the Hostel and he hopes that he will continue his work alongside and within the Long Arm.
At first Sorewyn seems disappointed at the fact that you have stepped upon a new path, but he sees no reason why this should force you to leave the Long Arm, after all the order is particularly diverse. He seems to think that their fighting style is a little undisciplined and even thuggish, but after a few bouts with him in the studio he seems quite impressed at your new talents.
He will always consider Lorric to be one of his best students and wishes him all the best in his future exploits.
Lorric also heads to Morgrave University to find more information on Aundair to see if it is worth listening to what the embassy has to offer.
Anvil crafts like crazy and heads to Cannith Tower to make some contacts, and to try and locate any Spellcarved Soldiers, in specific his old friend Graven. He also checks up on some of the people that group have helped in the past. He also gets his new mount, a clockwork stallion.
On the night of the 3rd/morning of the 4th, Anvil is disturbed by the child creeping into his workshop whilst he is busy. He can get no response from the child, but as he bends to cover it with a blanket, the child looks at his Ghulra and says, "Dream......".
The Jorasco carer is found in the childs room unconscious by the bed and so Anvil raises the alarm. It seems that the halfling is asleep and there are a set of footprints in the milk that she (Herenvar d'Jorasco) spilled. Although there is no further sgn of intrusion the group remain alert.
*Ajax comments
Ajax carefully examines the tracks left by the intruder. He can tell that the creature was an Aberration but not what type. Also the creature's tracks show it appeared in the middle of the room, walked over to the child and then disapeared.
Ajax heads outside and reports the details of the intrusion to one of the elves watching the house for Martell.
*Ajax comments
Ajax carefully examines the tracks left by the intruder. He can tell that the creature was an Aberration but not what type. Also the creature's tracks show it appeared in the middle of the room, walked over to the child and then disapeared.
Ajax heads outside and reports the details of the intrusion to one of the elves watching the house for Martell.
The following day Ajax decides to teach the child to defend himself, playing swords with sticks he swings gently at the child, in a flash of green light the stick falls to ash and Ajax reels as the light tries to eat his flesh.
*Ajax comments
The light has a good try at eating his flesh, burning him painfully. He is not amused by the child's response to his attempt to help him. He is even less amused by Katerina's refusal to heal him 'because he deserved it'.
*Ajax comments
The light has a good try at eating his flesh, burning him painfully. He is not amused by the child's response to his attempt to help him. He is even less amused by Katerina's refusal to heal him 'because he deserved it'.
Kapek manages to find and speak with Zametiro ir'Dheren, (via Corven Sahlmer) his daughter is safe and well and the group are offered 500 gold for their help. He spends time crafting his Sharrash and teaching Anvil how to ride.
Kapek also heads to the Aundarian Embassy to enquire about an offer of work, a message that had been left with Corven Sahlmer. He accepts the job but then later cancels it as the group were expecting to be escorting the Black Claws to the Eldeen Reaches (Ajax - "Oops").With their plans foiled Kapek and Anvil have to apologetically return to the Aundairian ambassador and ask if they could reconsider doing the job. They are hired, although at substantially less than they were first offered.
*Kapek comments
Kapek in particular feels acutely humiliated by this turn of events, and was prepared to be easily out-negotiated had Anvil not accompanied him on the third visit.
The mission itself was explained at the first meeting.
Halais ir'Lantar, the Ambassador, is concerned about the fate of the tiara given away in the Seventh Street-Kind Ball. More specifically he is concerned about the diamond that was its centrepiece, a gem he refers to as the "Claw of Yshtamar". This was brought back from Q'barra in 914 YK by an expedition from the ir'Semhel family. The wizards of the Arcanix believe it to be a powerful lizardman relic, infused with demonic energy, that was once held by the black dragon Rhashaak.
Rhashaak is the guardian of Haka'Torvhak, the "Throne of Holy Dragons", appointed by the dragons of Argonessen to guard over it and ensure that the demons imprisoned beneath never escape. It is believed that over the ages, Rhashaak has become corrupted by the foul energies of the place.
Lord ir'Lantar blames the recent rash of lizardman attacks on caravans around Sharn to be prompted by their desire to recover the gem. He refered to them as "Black Talon" lizardmen, born of corrupted black dragon eggs. He further believes that a faction of lizardmen within the city are the ones who currently possess the Claw of Yshtamar, but that they have been prevented from leaving the city by a force, the nature of which he is unaware. He wishes the gem to be destroyed, and suggested immersion in molten rock as one possible method.
*Kapek comments
Kapek in particular feels acutely humiliated by this turn of events, and was prepared to be easily out-negotiated had Anvil not accompanied him on the third visit.
The mission itself was explained at the first meeting.
Halais ir'Lantar, the Ambassador, is concerned about the fate of the tiara given away in the Seventh Street-Kind Ball. More specifically he is concerned about the diamond that was its centrepiece, a gem he refers to as the "Claw of Yshtamar". This was brought back from Q'barra in 914 YK by an expedition from the ir'Semhel family. The wizards of the Arcanix believe it to be a powerful lizardman relic, infused with demonic energy, that was once held by the black dragon Rhashaak.
Rhashaak is the guardian of Haka'Torvhak, the "Throne of Holy Dragons", appointed by the dragons of Argonessen to guard over it and ensure that the demons imprisoned beneath never escape. It is believed that over the ages, Rhashaak has become corrupted by the foul energies of the place.
Lord ir'Lantar blames the recent rash of lizardman attacks on caravans around Sharn to be prompted by their desire to recover the gem. He refered to them as "Black Talon" lizardmen, born of corrupted black dragon eggs. He further believes that a faction of lizardmen within the city are the ones who currently possess the Claw of Yshtamar, but that they have been prevented from leaving the city by a force, the nature of which he is unaware. He wishes the gem to be destroyed, and suggested immersion in molten rock as one possible method.
