Citadel's Shadow II, Session 10

Citadel's Shadow II, Session 10 was a session of the Citadel's Shadow II campaign, played on Feb. 3, 2019 (UTC) (Feb. 2, 2019 for some participants).
==Personnel==
===Game Master===
*GM: played by Michael Lee Viviano
===Player Characters===
*Fern the Siegemaster: inventive fox-person student played by Rail Runner
*Juan de Fulmando: sword-wielding human alchemist played by Alden Loveshade
=== Non-Player Characters ===
* Thuddeus Gunch: Constable in Delctra's Cauldron Borough
* Jinxi: androgynous jester with poppet Jack
==Events==
=== 1742 ===
Ulthrane 12 (Landsday) (continued): Fern the Siegemaster, Jinxi, and Juan de Fulmando were still in Packer's Cave ("Packer" was the name most humans called the late dwarf Vilburd Gruskin). They heard what sounded like the squeaks of another horde of rats as well as things that sounded like "Squonk! Squonk!"  Fern was still suffering from stress atavism, but decided that the sounds were more of a threat than Juan having just swung at it and missing (Juan had tried to slap Fern to bring it out of whatever was happening to it).  Fern failed to recover from the atavism, and ran away without getting cut by the trap on the ground, soon getting outside where it hid in the bushes.
Jinxi and Juan saw two wild-looking things running towards them out of the darkness of the cave.  The creatures were making the "squonk" noise, and were about the size of middle-sized dogs.  Juan held the lantern up and saw the creatures were two dog-sized rats.  Juan handed the lantern to Jinxi, and drew his sword.
Jinxi and Juan fought the rats, Juan with his broadsword and Jinxi with his metal-headed poppet Jack.  Juan took one out, and helped Jinxi get the other, but meanwhile many normal sized rats attacked as well.  Jinxi received a small bite to the leg, but Juan was bitten several times, and by the time they had either killed or scared off the rats, was in bad shape.
Jinxi suggested they leave the cave, and Juan agreed.
Meanwhile, Fern had snapped out of the stress atavism, and returned to give basic medical treatment to Juan.  The trio went outside, and Fern and Juan did what medical treatment they could under the circumstances.  Jinxi was in good shape, but Juan was still suffering from injuries.
Fern got a cloth sheet from Vilburd Gruskin aka Packer's shack, and wrapped one of the large rats in it to carry back for evidence.  Juan learned Fern had received a bite, and treated Fern who was then fine, although the trio still thought they should all receive treatment for possible disease.
The trio walked back.  Juan whispered to Jinxi, "You might want to stay behind Fern, just in case Fern, you know, starts feeling like howling or something."  They decided to make a report first, then get treated for disease.
As Jinxi had no place to stay, Juan offered to let him or her (Jinxi looked androgynous) spend the night "as friends."  Jinxi said that was fine, "until we get to know each other a little more."
The group decided to report to the Delctra's Cauldron Hall instead of the Trynser City Municipal Force as Blackeye Snarkin, deputy constable of Delctra's Cauldron Borough, had seemed open to the possibility of Fern receiving a license to carry a firearm, and had even said it could temporarily.
The trio got to St. Tanta Plaza where they reported to a receptionist, a grey-haired women in her 50s.  Juan stopped the socially-limited Fern from dropping the dead giant rat on a table near the receptionist.  They met with "a mountain of a man," Constable Thuddeus Gunch.  The constable had grey hair cut in a military style, and "a deep voice like freight trains rumbling."  The group game him a full report on what they had done and found, including that rats were behaving oddly, and showed him the extraordinarily large rat.  Gunch thought about getting a team together to fully investigate,which he estimated would take days.  He got a basic description and contact information from Fern, Jinxi, and Juan.  (Citadel's Shadow II adventure 2019 02 02)
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