The Eye of Eons (Inactive)

Game Master Chyrone

Yes you are ^^

Doc. Tromp is frozen in fear and doubt.
He's not moving an inch......

This combat is essentially over. Cornered and sufficiently bluffed & intimidated....especially the latter.

What will you do with the good doctor Tromp.

Grint. Be so kind as to relieve the "Doctor" of his weapons. Elsa approaches the Doctor, frost forming on her lips as she speaks You should tell us what this is about. Or things will get chilly very fast. The cold never bothers me, anyway.

Booyah, been waiting this whole time to say that.

Grint takes the weapons of the Doctor and seats him on a chair, letting Elsa and Malena do the talking and questioning for the while, while he sheaths his sword, retrieves his bow and nocks an arrow. The arrow is pointed on the Doctor if he would later get it in his mind to try and escape.

Oh the opportunity of BOOYAH should be treasured. My gnome bard in a PFS rolled 19 on a 15 DC acro and a nat 20 on a 14DC str check. So the ship that had nobody on the helm was saved by a gnome of just above 2 feet tall.

Cold sweat seems to befall dr. Tromp.
Lyssa eyes him with her arms crossed, still picking out some splinters from the construct.

On the doctor are:

"I....*ugh*...fiiineee, i have no deathwish.
I am from out of Kharum. I used to work as an apothecary and alchemist in Magnimar, before being discredited falsely.

Overthinking affairs in the tavern, this person approached me. An odd bald fellow with an emblem on a pouch. It looked weird....it was erm...erm.... a circle of total darkness with what seemed a gate of sorts and a path heading to it in the shape of an [b]S on its side. He offered me a position and well compensation if i would work on a drug that induces memory loss, sadly it worked adversely.

I've heard rumors of people ending up crazy instead of temporal memory loss. The formulae wasn't perfected yet. Despite that, they wanted a chestload of the unfinished products for one goal or another. They have only very little left of it."[/b]

Grint will have taken everything, including the reagants and vials. Better to be safe than sorry.
Especially the key chain will be useful he thinks.

The booyah was for getting the cold never bothered me anyways If you have small children you understand why.

Also, Elsa isn't really the brains behind this operation. She doesn't fully understand what is going on. She was leaving that up to Grint, Lyssa, Sable and Malena although Malena isn't coming along anymore I guess.

Drugs that make men go mad? Theives, Corsairs, and ruffians. What plots have we uncovered Grint?

If you have small children you understand why.

No i don't. :)

Sabel and Malena have come closer too.

Malena:
"So, a total stranger wants you to make a drug that causes amnesia, but the result has worse effects. They actually are FINE with it too.", she pinches between her eyes shaking her head. She looks up at the rest.
"Well, we've got our end of the deal with "you-know-who" over with. I think we should turn the "doctor" over to the city guard."

Lyssa:
"Yeah, about that, i want to first know what this THING i just beat up actually IS.", she pulls away a part of the wood that made up the torso and some gears and cogs fling out and roll over the floor. The construct was made of low quality gears, planks and haye.

Tromp answers before Elsa might do something to him.
"That...is a construct servant they provided me with after the initial supply i gave them. Some sort of construct, it's not my field of expertise."

There is a small plaque on the "neck" of it, that says
A product of Leeway engineering.

So, let us bring the guards this "doctor" and we finish this... Elsa says to the others.

"Of course, but we'd best check these chests of his as well. They might hold evidence or information. Or perhaps something useful for us to use against whomever we're facing now."

Says grint as he walks to the chests in this room and tries the keys on the ring on them one by one.

Sure enough one of the keys fits on both chests.
One contains clothes and provisions, the other contains equipment.
Between the two they contain:

Lyssa frowns.
"Right...so the doc's going to spend time in the cells.", (big sadistic smile)"But can somebody look if he has, you know, magic stuff on him? Maybe he'll go up in flames too."

The doc looks concerned.
"What? Who went up in flames, when, how?"

Malena nods, and turns back to the doctor. "I don't suppose you can tell us anything about this 'Y', or you were supposed to contact him again? Anything more than an odd, bald fellow? Also, do you have anybody in here, any prisoners, by the name of Fergus?"

The doctor nods.

"The man you call Fergus might well be the one in the cell. But i'd be careful, he was one of my test subjects and hasn't got all his marbles together. He's unarmed, we took his gear, but he can still swing punches in some of his clear moments. Quite an individual, he knocked down 2 guards and broke a 3rd guard's nose in close combat before he was sedated.

Regarding the Y, i don't know for sure. I recall hearing whispers between those contacts about one Yagmy. Other than that i don't know."

Malena's eyes narrow. "Test subjects? Just how far did your tests go? We've already met your memory erasing substance... what did you do to Fergus?"

To the others, she says, "We should look into the cells-- but carefully."

Elsa nods at Malena indicating she agrees.

With Lyssa keeping the doctor in check, despite any bindings, you head over to the cells. One of the other keys fit the lock and with a *click* it opens.

An athletic man with bright short red hair, green eyes and a modest beard looks up at you.
A spark of anger lights as he sees the doctor.
"Well i'll be,ah'm commin for ye, ya fil'y quack-doc!"
Hadn't it been for the bars with in the row of cells he certainly would have.

Grint looks up from the loot gathering from the chests as the man genuinely looks scared and surprised of someone going up in flames.

"I believe it was a guy that ambushed at night in the city, he had a pair of annoying monkeys with him and used a crossbow. Haven't seen his face though, i was out for most of the battle."

Grint takes the weapons, the potions, the chain shirt and the flask of alchemist's fire. He leaves the man his clothes and food.

"We've got more keys on this chain, we should try them out on the chests below and on the prison door."

Does anyone of us keep a loot sheet? I could keep one on my pc if needed.

Way ahead of you. There's a spoiler of the loot thusfar on Campaign Info of what you found. But it never hurts to keep an offline sheet as well.

After all the commentary of flames and magic, Sabel casts Detect Magic on doc Tromp.
"There is no magic on the doctor. Perhaps he isn't aware of greater plans?"

Lyssa:
"Good, so there's no problem to make him go napping until we get him to the jail right? The other guy went up in flames as soon as he went down."

I think Grint said something about checking all the chests and whatnot with the keyring he has. And then after that we deliver the good doctor to the guard.

Exactly, Grint will go through the house and see what he can open with the keys on the keyring.

Yes i though he meant the chests within the room right now.

Lyssa:
"Well, let's get this man out.
You hold still and we'll let you out, no jokes understand?"
Do you keep the gear that is likely Fergus'?

With the keys you let Fergus out. Between you he doesn't get to the doctor.
Even with a prisoner, the '6' of you take the last little room on the 1st floor with ease. Within is just a cook. The middle room on the left contains 2 chests, 1 of which contains about 8lbs worth of the "candy".
The other one contains a small alchemist kit and 15gp.

Fergus thanks you for the rescue before going his own way.
"Ya have mah thanks. It seems you did wha' ah attempted to duu. Naow ah must take mah leave. Good day to ya."

At the guard station:

Intermission aka downtime for the day's afternoon. Will you guys do anything in particular or collectively head for the meeting you've been invited to?"

I'll give Fergus back his gear if it's his.
"Fergus, no thanks is needed we came at the right time luckily enough. By the way, was this gear yours?" Grint asks as he shows him the chain shirt and the weapons and other stuff he found in the chest with dr. Tromp.

"So what do we do with this candy here? It's a lot, do we want to turn this over to the guards or just dispose of it right here and right now?"

@Grint's questions
"Aye, tha' be mine. Kilt, knuckles, shortbow, shortsword, mah "special" arrows, if ya wan' ya can keep them. But i was carryin some cash tuu. Mind giving tha' back eh? A guy needs his money in this city."

Assuming we haven't left the building yet.

Grint gives back the 15 gp as well that he found inside the chest.
"I've got the weapons and the armour, you're clothes still lie in the room with that dr. Tromp. We'll give him to the proper authorities here and they'll try to figure out what they can from him. I'm sorry you've been treated as bad by him as you were."

Grint takes a moment to realize the special arrows are actually the ones with oily cloth bound around them.
"So you were the one that made those? Good effort against that golem of his I must say. If I could keep those I'd be much obliged."

That means skipping to the invitation.

You've spent your afternoon relaxing from the fight down at Tromp's house.
Early in the evening you arrive at the Landorra household.
"Ah, our last guests have arrived, com in.". Markus leads you to the library which serves as an office as well. A large long table providing enough space for all of you stands in the center.
The heads of the families, the Kromm brothers and the guard captain are all present.

Guard captain
"From what we've gotten out of doctor Tromp, he had been recruited in Magnimar, which he's revealed to you 5 already. We have now a link between the crazy thieves and doc Tromp. But it seems likely Tromp was recruited and informed for just his single purpose of the drug, for now at least."

The Kromms
"So it's all and well that we've an explaination for that particular situation, but we don't know yet who and for what purpose this all was ochestrated."

Markus
"A sealed letter arrived for our 5 here."
He gives the sealed letter to whoever takes it 1st.

The letter

What do you think of this Grint. The city wants us to look into this maybe?

"Probably yeah. A next question we could ask is who is behind this or what they want exactly. But for that we'd need to offer them either the recipe for the 'candy' or that other job they wanted us to do. Can't remember what that was."

Lyssa was sitting with a blank look at her face.
"That was sabotage, like i said earlier, i am not interested in illegal activities, that is unlawful."

Sabel
"Lyssa, we don't know who that boat is for. It could be citizens, but it could as well be criminals."

Lyssa
"Yes but unless i know whose boat it is it's wrong to go sabotage a boat."

So then we give them the recipe right?

The others at the table look at you.

Markus
"Whispering so much isn't the most polite thing.
Is there something you wish to share? This meeting is called for discussing this problem."

Long conversation between the people at the table, including some of you.

So, you want to deputize us so we can protect your position in this city?

Malena chimes in. "[b]Have there been any rumors about Valux, suggesting where he might have been recently? Or, any rumors about who he may have been contacting, working with, or what he might be up to?"

The guardcaptain looks at the graceful lady sitting opposite him.
"I'll take those words in the good way. Deputize is a big word but...", Alphonse Lamare interrupts him.

Alphonse
"Officially that's no option. However, should you wish to "aid" this city, you'd be well compensated for your efforts."

At Malena's question Alphonse also responds.
"It's been a good year since he vanished, remarkable really. A ship as large as his wouldn be hard to miss. Prior to his violation that caused his dismissal, he had taken aboard this wizard, a shaven guy bald man. A slick guy, from hear-tell."

"So that parrot we keep seeing is that his or perhaps it's that wizard's?" Grint chimes in, apparently pretty interested in why people are so scared of that bloody bird.

Alphonse
"Valux never had a parrot of his own, so it might well be a wizard's pet. But you've seen the bird, in what context, did you see it following someone or did it follow you perhaps?"

"Wasn't following us, there is a cat though that follows us or that follows that parrot. Can't really say which of the two it is. Though many people seem scared of that parrot for some reason."

Alphonse
"There's many a cat in the city, perhaps one has a taste for parrots then. Still, if this parrot instills fear and anxiety in people, all the more reason to find the potential master it serves."

Guard captain
"Patrols will be more frequent. As for the crazies..", he looks at the others, "..we'd best send them to Fatush, there's been no signs of recovery in any of them and taking up space is a waste."

The others nod.

Lyssa
"What or who is Fatush? Some kind of doctor or prison?"

Markus
"You're not far off, it's an Asylum a few days travel from the city. Secure, spacious, solid.
I suggest the next course of action would be the extra patrols the guard captain suggested and you wished to obtain more information yes?"

So what's next? Elsa asks her assembled companions...

Malena sighs. "Unless we have another direct lead, I guess we have to go back to the Broker at this point."

Markus nods.
"Then the matter is settled for now. Should any at this table come up with information regarding any plans against the city they'll inform the others."

Lyssa
"I hope they resist.....i've got a piece of soap not yet finished."

Kromm brothers
"Yes, well, should anybody be interested, there is a small event tomorrow morning, to close the festival. Naturally that particular thing will be more guarded. But if you find any time to relax, it's worth to have a look."

To the event or to the broker? I don't think we have enough information to do anything else right now.

Well you could go for the event and nail down a meeting afterwards.

Malena nods. "I would love to get out of my armor and go to an event and relax... although hanging out with you crowd, I'll probably regret getting out of my armor and letting my hair down. It wouldn't hurt me to spend another afternoon down near the docks plying my trade, either."

I'll have the party go for the event. Nothing combat orientated, but a more fun potential money-gain. You'll have your own downtime afterwards, nothing planned for the afternoon, lest you incite something.

As you arrive it is noticable a good number of stands has wrapped up shop and have left. However a few new are now standing in place.
Participating in a contest like the obstacle course and the archery will take the remainder of the morning. The quiz and ball & cups only partially, so one can cheer the others on.

Lyssa needs little time and heads for the obstacle course. {*}
"I'm going to pass his measly test."
When it's her turn she heads up.
She easily races across the platforms, not losing her footing in the least. Getting across small beams also poses no issue. When it's time for the barrels however she dodges several, but one knocks her off into the water. Swimming quickly she reaches the final stage, poles with a spinning cushion as obstacle. Ducking, flipping and jumping gets her far but just near the last few poles she gets a firm push into the water. *splash* She quickly swims to the finish.
Lyssa has scored 6 points out 8 on the course. Which lands her a shared 1st place, winning 12gp and 5sp.

Sabel goes for the Cupps & Ball game. But the man's hands go too fast for her to know which cup hides the ball. {*}

(Before going to the festival, Malena will change out of her leather armor and back into her entertainer's outfit. She'll put back on her necklace and bangles, and will leave her shortbow and shortsword at home. She still keeps her daggers and sap with her, however, as is her usual custom.)

Malena finds herself drawn to the quiz. She's been collecting bits of lore about everything here and yonder for some time now, partly for purposes of improving her performance at her fortune-telling gig, but also just because she finds herself enjoying doing it. As such, the quiz seems to be tailor-made for her....

"Do you have a series of questions about the local area? Who's who in Kharum, where to find the out-of-the-way restaurants and shops, information about the local humanoid tribes, that kind of thing? If so, I'll ante up...."

Malena starts to field the questions, answering those she can.... She easily answers the first three questions, but much to her chagrin she finds herself tripped up on the fourth question. Evidently she doesn't get to be a millionaire today.

Seems i forgot to put the 8th question, but it'll combine with the 7th at the DC22, which you made, gj.

Malena had scored 6 out of 8 questions correctly. Being a local she knew quite the things on various topics related to Kharum's shops, people and customs. One person knew everything though. Quite a knowledgable person it seems. Unfortunately Malena didn't win the 1st prize money with being 2nd.
However.....knowing the hardest last question, did score her a smaller reward of 5gp.

Elsa stays inconspicuous during the event, sitting with Grint at a table near the exit. She has already shown her powers enough, no need parading around the city to be spotted and reported to the Winter Witches.

Grint enjoys a little bit of peace and quiet, sitting together with a friend and doing nothing is exactly how he pictured his time off would be.

Though when he hears about an archery competition his eyes light up and he feels a little edgy as if he can't resist such a thing. He looks to Elsa as he finishes the drink he bought for himself and watches the drink he bought for her. Still half-full... Best thing to do is ask if she minds...

"Elsa? I've heard there's an archery contest among the different events. Would you be troubled if I leave for a short while and participate?"
Assuming Elsa says she isn't troubled at all.

Grint approaches the shooting range with his own bow strung and looks at the different targets.
"Well my aim is pretty good, I'd like to join in. I'll aim for the second target, no need to show off and fail I'd reckon."

Targeting the DC 15 mark
Shots on target vs DC 15: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 191d20 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 91d20 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 161d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18
Where to hit?: 3d15 ⇒ (14, 3, 14) = 31 Two bulls and one 1-pointer