Bohdan NPC's page

<Bhodan looks each of you over in turn.>

"How will you proceed?"

"Yes, welcome to the temple. Anything you need can be provided."

Sure, after the new guy talks.

"You're going to travel south. A boat will take you across the river, before, perhaps, you can have your reckoning with Book. I'd certainly feel safer returning to Varisia with him dead."

"I am Cordoba, recently of Riddleport, a place well-known for its scum and villainy."

"I give you Rohit Faris, paladin of the Inheritor."

"Vass is out there." The Deceiver points at the teeming masses of humanity. "He's following us. And I aim to make him regret it."

"You still have the Eye? I hope so, you're going to need it."

"And I'm sorry but I won't be able to join you. I leave for Varisia tomorrow with the children, I can't leave them."

"But this fellow is here to help you. You must find a follower of Aroden and he will take you there, south across the Qadr. And Book is found, Cordoba. Down on the water with new crew and looking for a boat. He's at the Toiling Midget. Waiting for you, I have no doubt."

"By the light!"

"Cordoba, you viper. Pulsifer and Jon. Aref. Where are Ryor and Syd?"

"And the abomination...."

Whoever answers is fine by me...

Bhodan goes on to introduce the warrior, a paladin called Rohit, a asks the names of the gnome and monastic.

"Yes. He's a good man. The paladin wouldn't mind."

Whispers: "Remember there are two reasons this creature was imprisoned, either he can't be killed, or they couldn't find his body. For our own sakes I think we must choose to believe the latter. Find out anything you can about him, once he is imprisoned again we can't question him."

To Syd: "Sydley, you need to carry some magic. I think you need to take the dead paladin's claymore. He's waited, he can wait longer."

To Pulsifer: "You understand we must allow this."

Jon: "There is still the one longsword to be claimed. When the time comes to fight the fiend you will need an enchanted blade."

<Bohdan pulls on his pack.>

To everyone: "Take him upstairs and I'll escape."

<Bohdan surreptitiously gets his things together. He whispers to the mages.>

"Let me take the gems and the gold, I'll split it between the kids and the Bhuka. You have the remaining magic items and the mithril. And you might consider that the Eye of Aroden will be of aid to you."

The old man turns to face Bodhan, murmuring in a low voice.

"No mercy."

"Yes. But we shall only kill Ryor, not the abomination. And it will follow us to the women and children."

<He pauses.>

"We must somehow bring it to the temple of Iomedae in Katheer."

<Bohdan removes a thin piece of charcoal and some paper and writes a note while the demon parlays with Cordoba. He shows it to Pulsifer and Aref.>

Puslifer & Aref:

Bohdan watches from the shadows.

Time for kruelaid to hit the sack.