Olarune 26th, Zor, 998 Y.K.
The group decide that they need to stick together in order to survive the harsh city.
The group decide that they need to stick together in order to survive the harsh city.
As the sun rises they decide that the most opportune way for such a diverse group of individuals to earn gold is to join an adventurers guild. With the fact that they have been staying in Anvil's home in the Cogs they decided that they would head to the closest guildhouse and ask if they could join. They ended up on the doorstep of the Deathsgate Guild.
They were invite inside and were introduced to Vaenya, a roguish looking elf with a slight condescension in her smile, she informed the group that they would have to pay 13 gold up front (an annual fee) and gain the backing of at least five current members of the guild in order to join. She then introduced them to Erunn, a mage of some sort by his appearance, who was seeking to sponsor. He asked them to return in one week and he would have work for them.
As they were leaving Vaenya took them to one side and told them that if they were seeking immediate work then House Thuranni were currently hiring to find one of their entertainers, a young elf maiden named Pearl Kuinhon, who has gone missing.
So from here they took a skycoach to the affluent district of Dragon Towers and located the House Thuranni Enclave.
After a short discussion with Nithrandel the enclave's host they were hired to find the unfortunate dancer and with a sum of 100 gold and a further 100 if she was found and 100 if she was found alive, the group could not turn their noses up.
When asked about her movements on the night of her disappearance they were offered the following information....
Missing DancerApproximately two weeks ago (Mol 16th Olarune) Pearl Kuinhon of House Thuranni’s Entertainers guild was commissioned to perform for a private showing. She said goodbye to her young son paid the babysitter and headed out. This was the last time she was ever seen. Her babysitter reported her disappearance to the city watch but they have found nothing, people go missing on a daily basis in Sharn, unfortunately Pearl became just another statistic. Although the file remains open, the guard has stopped looking.
House Thuranni can offers the name and address of Pearl’s friend and babysitter. Dhremsha Juhra was paid 5 copper an hour to look after Melara Kuinhon, Pearl’s daughter. She was expecting to be there for at least 3 hours; however she fell asleep with her boyfriend, Grent Vrell, on the sofa at some point in the early hours. It was the following morning when she realized that things were not as they should be. Pearl had not returned. That was when she called the watch. They basically informed her that the disappearance of a whore was not unusual and that they didn’t hold much hope for finding her, at least not alive.
Pearl had told Dhremsha that she was seeing a regular client, someone quite important by all accounts.
She has a key to Pearls apartment.
The Kuinhon Residence
12 Sunset Walk, Lendys Tower, Oldkeep, Lower Dura.
12 Sunset Walk, Lendys Tower, Oldkeep, Lower Dura.
The place where Pearl lived with her daughter.
This dwelling blends into the surrounding buildings and shops so well it could easily get passed by unnoticed. Even the door is totally nondescript.
Upon entering it is deceptively out of place. All preconceived ideas of what the interior of a slum dwelling should be like go out of the window as the living room is walked into.
The styles of décor are graceful and elven, the person who lived here obviously strived for a better life but didn’t have the funds to achieve her dream.
The curtains are drawn and a dim everbright lantern emits a faint warm orange glow. The room has a light musty smell as though it hasn’t been lived in for a while (over a week).
The dwelling hasn’t been touched since the babysitter left. No one has entered or left it is exactly as Dhreshma left it when she returned to her home with Melara.
Clues:
Diary – Pearl kept a diary under her bed. It is not a conventional journal, more a diary of events, an appointment book. The night of her disappearance she was to head to the “Hippogriff’s Wing”, room 15 to meet R. Tucked into the page is also a written note (not her writing) with directions to the “Hippogriff’s Wing”.
There is an earlier note from several days before that appointment, (Far 13th Olarune). It simply says:
“Meeting with Taj, House P re. R.”
This is obviously pertaining to the entertainer’s guild regarding Reordyn.
This dwelling blends into the surrounding buildings and shops so well it could easily get passed by unnoticed. Even the door is totally nondescript.
Upon entering it is deceptively out of place. All preconceived ideas of what the interior of a slum dwelling should be like go out of the window as the living room is walked into.
The styles of décor are graceful and elven, the person who lived here obviously strived for a better life but didn’t have the funds to achieve her dream.
The curtains are drawn and a dim everbright lantern emits a faint warm orange glow. The room has a light musty smell as though it hasn’t been lived in for a while (over a week).
The dwelling hasn’t been touched since the babysitter left. No one has entered or left it is exactly as Dhreshma left it when she returned to her home with Melara.
Clues:
Diary – Pearl kept a diary under her bed. It is not a conventional journal, more a diary of events, an appointment book. The night of her disappearance she was to head to the “Hippogriff’s Wing”, room 15 to meet R. Tucked into the page is also a written note (not her writing) with directions to the “Hippogriff’s Wing”.
There is an earlier note from several days before that appointment, (Far 13th Olarune). It simply says:
“Meeting with Taj, House P re. R.”
This is obviously pertaining to the entertainer’s guild regarding Reordyn.
Taj is Tarajarl Wenst of House Thuranni.
The Hippogriff’s Wing
Songbird Avenue, Talan Tower, Hareth’s Folly, Middle Dura.
For a small sum of gold the proprietor (Gech) checked his rental log and found that on 16th Olarune room 15 was rented for 1 hour by Cathan ir’Demell at the cost of one gold.
It is common knowledge that Cathan ir’Demell is the Lord Mayor of Sharn – nobody books a room under their own name…..
For a little more gold Gech gives some information about who was here. But he is scared, really scared. Taking Lorric into the kitchens he reveals some more:
"If word gets out that I'm dealing information about these people my life will be destroyed."
"The man who paid for the room bore a ring of amber with a small onyx set in the centre – to look like an eye. These rings are only worn by people of prominence in an organisation known as “The Amber Eye”."
He can also tell them that the man left several minutes before the elf whore; once they’d left he has no clue about what happened to either of them.
Once the group left the inn they were caught up by a regular patron who overheard some of the conversation. The wily chap will not say a word without gold in his palm so begrudgingly the group oblige.
“I was heading home just after that elf whore left. She was quite a looker, out of my price range mind. Any ways it looked like she was heading to get a carriage from the transport station on Gelthen Way, mind you she never got that far. Some shady folk grabbed her from an alley, knocked her out cold. Well I would’a helped but I was a bit worse for wear,” he gestures at his tankard. ”so all I could do was watch helplessly as they took her off in a small skycoach.”
Upon investigating the alley they are beset upon by two muggers dressed in black with their fiendish rat companions. When the guard catch up with them it becomes obvious they are not to blame and they are asked to move along. They found nothing of interest and headed off to Dragon Towers in order to find out who Taj is.
The Entertainers Guild
Long Dance Way, Thuranni Tower, Dragon Towers, Upper Menthis. Thuranni Enclave.
The Entertainers Guild keeps a guild-house in the Lower levels of the Thuranni enclave. Here the players can find out several interesting details about Pearl and her client.
Taj – aka Tarajarl Wenst is available but has very little time. It seems that he is part of some other branch of the House to the people that hired the group, he seems to hold them in some contempt.
He can relay the following information:
Pearl was going to see a man who is a high ranking member of the “Amber Eye”, called Reordyn Emtaiurn.
“She was particularly useful in her position as we entertainers love to gossip”. She could impart some particularly interesting information on the organisation which could then be sold to interested parties.It is assumed that her child, Melara, is Reordyn’s although he doesn’t know it.
Reordyn is chief counsellor to the head of “The Amber Eye”.
“The Amber Eye” is an organisation operating out of Castellan that specialise in prostitution. They dabble in other areas but selling sex is where they excel. They are currently in some kind of covert war with a group known as “The Tyrants”.
Their base of operations is “The Gaze”, a large bordello in the Castellan district.
He can relay the following information:
Pearl was going to see a man who is a high ranking member of the “Amber Eye”, called Reordyn Emtaiurn.
“She was particularly useful in her position as we entertainers love to gossip”. She could impart some particularly interesting information on the organisation which could then be sold to interested parties.It is assumed that her child, Melara, is Reordyn’s although he doesn’t know it.
Reordyn is chief counsellor to the head of “The Amber Eye”.
“The Amber Eye” is an organisation operating out of Castellan that specialise in prostitution. They dabble in other areas but selling sex is where they excel. They are currently in some kind of covert war with a group known as “The Tyrants”.
Their base of operations is “The Gaze”, a large bordello in the Castellan district.
House Thuranni do not want to be seen to be interfering with the "Amber Eye" and as a result they have hired the group, as they bear no affiliations.
They are warned about contacting "The Tyrants" as they are a far worse danger than the current threat.
The Amber Eyes Relations
With regards to other criminal organisations “The Eye” is particularly territorial. Callestan is where it operates and it doesn’t tolerate trespassers.
The Boromar Clan utilise the “The Eye”. They are considered to be allied.
Daask are considered a threat.
The Tyrants are in direct competition with “The Eye”.
The Amber Eyes Relations
With regards to other criminal organisations “The Eye” is particularly territorial. Callestan is where it operates and it doesn’t tolerate trespassers.
The Boromar Clan utilise the “The Eye”. They are considered to be allied.
Daask are considered a threat.
The Tyrants are in direct competition with “The Eye”.
Reordyn Emtaiurn 
Reordyn Emtaiurn lives well out of the poverty of the Lower Wards. He has a home in Oak Towers, Northedge where he lives with his wife and two children who are oblivious to his working day, let alone his interaction with a prostitute.
He is considered to be an upstanding member of the community. His office hours can sometimes be unseemly but his wife understands that when the Waste Extraction foreman is required on site he has to leave, those sewer pipes won’t fix themselves, and they do burst or clog with startling regularity.
The Gaze
Auspice Street, Juniper Tower, Callestan, Lower Dura.
Reordyn Emtaiurn lives well out of the poverty of the Lower Wards. He has a home in Oak Towers, Northedge where he lives with his wife and two children who are oblivious to his working day, let alone his interaction with a prostitute.
He is considered to be an upstanding member of the community. His office hours can sometimes be unseemly but his wife understands that when the Waste Extraction foreman is required on site he has to leave, those sewer pipes won’t fix themselves, and they do burst or clog with startling regularity.
The Gaze
Auspice Street, Juniper Tower, Callestan, Lower Dura.
The group decide to send someone into the bordello in order to see if they can spot Pearl, and so with a handful of gold the job falls to Lorric. His affinity for ale and women seems particularly apt for this scenario.
This establishment is perhaps one of the sleaziest in Sharn. Red everbright lanterns illuminate the painted slogan hanging from the wall. 2 large men stand either side of the door, each wearing a set of dark eye glasses, and carrying a selection of weapons. They eye everyone who enters with intense scrutiny.
There is a membership basis where patrons can buy a yearly, 6 monthly or monthly pass, however the guest fee for a nights entrance is 5 silver, payable to a half-orc behind a desk just inside the entrance. All weapons are to be left here or there will be no admittance.
The interior of the establishment is dark and has the pungent smells of stale beer, incense, sweat and other bodily scents. A quartet of musicians play in one corner, scantily clad women carry trays of drinks through the tables and there seems to be an abundance of single women here, each desperately trying to catch the attention of the patrons. A small stage has a provocative act singing a bawdy song whilst gradually removing items of clothing; she seems to have drawn quite a crowd.
This establishment is perhaps one of the sleaziest in Sharn. Red everbright lanterns illuminate the painted slogan hanging from the wall. 2 large men stand either side of the door, each wearing a set of dark eye glasses, and carrying a selection of weapons. They eye everyone who enters with intense scrutiny.
There is a membership basis where patrons can buy a yearly, 6 monthly or monthly pass, however the guest fee for a nights entrance is 5 silver, payable to a half-orc behind a desk just inside the entrance. All weapons are to be left here or there will be no admittance.
The interior of the establishment is dark and has the pungent smells of stale beer, incense, sweat and other bodily scents. A quartet of musicians play in one corner, scantily clad women carry trays of drinks through the tables and there seems to be an abundance of single women here, each desperately trying to catch the attention of the patrons. A small stage has a provocative act singing a bawdy song whilst gradually removing items of clothing; she seems to have drawn quite a crowd.
As the evening progresses the club becomes more and more bawdy, in time a silence falls and the lights on the stage promise a show to remember.
The music flares into life as Pearl steps onto the stage and performs a wonderful and exotic, yet strangely clean, song and dance routine for the clientele.
Lorric sees his opportunity and begins to ask around on how to get some time alone with the beautiful elf. Asking at the bar he is introduced to the sleaze-bag that is Reordyn, and is told that time with her is only granted with permission of the Lady of the establishment, he is soon led through a secure door and down several steps to a basement room.
Beyond the door is a dim room thick with the scent of heavy incense, behind a large desk sits a figure wrapped in a hooded cloak, her face shrouded in shadow. As Lorric watches her he notices that her hood seems to move gently as though something beneath is writhing. She explains that the girl is a prize possession of the bordello and she does not come cheap, there is a cost of 50 gold for one hour with the elf and a chaperone will be present at all times. He is told that she will not be available tomorrow so he must make his desicion tonight.
Lorric leaves the club shortly after the meeting with the intent of returning with the gold, somewhere a bell strikes 11 o'clock.
Once he returns to the rest of the group they discuss their options.
- Raid the bordello and extract Pearl by force. This is discounted as they have counted at least 8 armed guards.
- Return to House Thuranni with news of their findings and an explaination that they can do no more.
- Assuming that she is going somewhere tonight, due to her not being available tomorrow, they should wait and watch the establishment.
Ajax decides at this point to try and find other entrance to the building, his thoughts are filled with arson. So he heads down a side alley to investigate a second entrance, he is spotted and soon ushered away from the building by 6 more guards. This compounds the argument against raiding the place, so they head back to the Thuranni enclave.
