Session Log - 7 April 2008
Session Log - 7 April 2008
Player Characters
Damaso (Jesse L’argent)
Keller (Zac Hargis)
Finch (Mike Greene)
Pugg (Henry Cribbs)
Darkness fell across Merin, capital city of Ord, on the night of 1 Katesh 606 AR.
The party, a team from Glasneigh Exports, knew that something was amiss at Dokra’s General Store. Under the cover of darkness, they planned to sneak into the store and investigate. No lights were on, and no one had come in or gone out for the last three hours.
Pugg climbed up the front to the second floor balcony overlooking the street. He picked the lock of one of the doors while the rest of the group went up the exposed stairway on the back.
Finch opened the lock on the back door after a bit of twiddling. He must’ve made some noise. When he opened the door, what looked like a man reached out, grabbed both his wrists and pulled him in. Then, with a loud squelching noise, the skin of what didn’t seem so man-like anymore peeled off and wrapped itself around Finch.
Damaso charged in with his sword and started hacking and slashing. Pugg opened fire from his vantage point behind the non-skinless-whatever-it-was. Keller looked irritated when his attempt to cast magic at the creature failed due to spell resistance.
Soon, Damaso had chopped the two … pieces … into a quivering mass, which he took out back to put in a bin. Keller provided a flask of alchemists fire to put in the bin with the rest of the trash. Keller, Finch and Pugg tossed the place, finding the dismembered body of who they assumed was Akrim Dokra, the store owner, a lockbox containing a ceremonial silver dagger, some money, and the store’s account book.
City watchmen started banging on the front door of the store, demanding to know what was going on. Pugg and Damaso took off. Keller waited … and waited (and then waited some more, invisibly) … while Finch tried to convince the watchman that accosted him that he was a) drunk and b) supposed to be there. That eventually went … poorly, as Finch shot the stubborn watchman’s head off and disappeared into the night.
Back at their safehouse, the party met with Odran Gilmore, their main contact at Glasneigh Exports. He took possession of the remains of the creature, and expressed an interest in the silver dagger.
The silver dagger had been etched with Telgesh runes and Infernal symbols, and the blade had been blackened by being held in flame. The dagger seemed very likely to have been used in an Infernal summoning ritual. Odran Gilmore said that investigating the dagger was now the team’s primary task.
The account books listed the dagger as “payment in kind” to clear the accumulated tab of Eko Gitsmak, owner of Gitsmak Pawn. So Pugg and Damaso went to visit Gitsmak. Gitsmak said he had bought the dagger from an out-of-town farmer nearly a week ago. Damaso remembered he had overheard in a seedy bar, during his “routine reconnaissance” of such a few days before, an out-of-towner farmer talking about selling something of silver–and drinking through the proceeds. Pugg minorly scammed Gitsmak by convincing him that another pawnshop owner had valued the dagger much higher than expected, and was looking for more such daggers.
Damaso led Pugg to the dive where he had overheard the farmer. The man was gone now, three days ago, but the manager remembered the man was from a village outside of Merin after Damaso bought a few rounds for everyone in the place: Piero Castra, of Eldsfall.
Meanwhile, Keller and Finch went on a library tour of Merin. They discovered a reference to the summoning ritual for umbral reavers, a type of Infernal, which included a silver dagger. The dagger’s blade was black from being held in a flame, which meant that the ritual had already been performed.
Later, the party back at the safehouse again, Damaso was playing with the dagger while the others discussed what they had found. He recognized the stamp of the silversmith who had made the dagger.
Yurgin’s Silversmith was located in one of the nicer commercial districts of Merin. Yurgin remembered making the dagger–but not with the runes. “Those were added after,” Yurgin said. “See the scratches and acid mark around the edges of the glyphs?” He remembered who bought it. “Yeah. Not someone who you would normally think of having that sort of coin. Local scum, Matso Izini.” Izini had showed up almost three months ago, with enough money to commission a custom silver dagger.
The party decided to bypass Matso Izini and head out for Eldsfall as soon as possible. They left the next morning. They arrived in the village just after noon on 6 Katesh.
They asked about Piero Castra, and were told the constable would be back from his fields in a few hours. They could wait in the Soggy Chicken, the village’s main public house. While they waited, they learned that the mayor had been murdered nearly 2 months ago, found dead with a silver dagger through his heart. And that the village’s priest, Maro Graza, had died two weeks later, the night before he was to wed the dead mayor’s surviving daughter. They also heard a rumor (”just boys telling stories, I think”) about a giant serpent that had a mouth big enough to swallow a dog.
When he arrived, Piero Castra asked the party why they were in town. They said they were investigating the murder of the mayor, and he said he had just been into Merin to report the crime. He said he had taken the silver dagger and left it with the authorities there. He told the party they were welcome to investigate the murder, though he wasn’t sure they’d find anything new.
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April 18, 2008 @ 1:56 pm
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