Pandora Set, T1
Dögrenn, R1
In Nox Aeterna, city of Eternal
Night, it was dark and smoky in the cans only bar at the Secret Shack of
Mercenaries, Sellspears and Blades for Hire. Three ne’er do wells perused the
board marked “Jobs.” It had three handwritten notes pinned to it:
Escort Sion
Malafice to the Temple of the Toad Oracle, beneath the Stilt District: 450sp
Recover foreign family heirloom from notorious con man Edmund Eldermeans: 400sp
Evict squatters from the formerly abandoned Von Keinlen mansion: 425sp
Deciding
that con men were notoriously difficult to pin down and that they were
dangerously close to being squatters themselves, they decided to peruse the
escort job. Outside, in the Spirals, it was snowing moderately as the PCs passed
the abandoned church of Garuul and observed the disused fairground where the
lights of the Wheel of Wyrd still turned, unattended for over a hundred years.
They crossed the river via the Pauper’s Bridge and entered the gentrified
district of Rivershore. Beset by ironic beards and espadrilles they forged
onward until they were accosted by a smartly dressed urchin seeking charitable
donations for the blind, deaf, mute, plague ridden orphans of the parish.
Dögrenn’s charitable nature got the better of him and he donated a silver piece.
They crossed into the Stilt District. The ancient residents of this area feared
their terrible, cthonic gods so much they built their houses on stilts to be as
far away from them as possible. In the Broken Hare tavern, they sampled the three
stouts on offer (Grimniss, Night Porter, Ticket Stout) and met with Sion
Malafice. Accompanied by two thugs the golden robed, black masked Malafice
explained that they wished to consult the Toad Oracle but it’s temple was
located in a part of the undercity that was rife with cannibal mole men and
voracious white alligators.
Just then thugs from the Lightfinger ACs burst into
the tavern demanding the money that Malafice owed them. He responded by
directing the PCs to deal with this for him, after assuring them that he was
good for their fee (it’s not that he couldn’t afford to pay the thieves back, it
as the rate of interest he was disputing) Dora erupted from the shadows and
fatally backstabbed the lead thug, unfortunately she then caught a plank of wood
with several nails in it to the face and was slain. Battle ensued. Dögrenn was
temporarily blinded by his own blood but the thugs were defeated, the last one
being tripped to the ground by the newly appeared Calypso.
As they crossed the
Stilt District, Rufus discovered a sack cloth doll that represents a little girl; however the eyes had been torn out and ragged stuffing protruded from the holes.
Heading down into the drainage tunnels they found the spoor of white alligators
but there was no sign of the actual beasts. Supposedly they were the de rigeur
pet of the Patrician class some years ago but we’re then discarded into the Undercity once they were no longer sufficiently fashionable.
They arrived at the entrance the the Temple of the Toad Oracle without any major
incident. Steps lead down to a platform facing a huge pool, a hundred feet
across, sludgy with ice and swarming with tadpoles the size of a human thumb. A
significant amount of planning then ensued taking us to the end of the evening’s
session.
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