AT IV

Being the fourth game session of the Arumelian Throne campaign.
DM: Michael Lee Viviano
Lord Newall Dragonard: Pete Morena
Gamon du Maudit: Tim Gillihan
Eli Stormwind's player Scott Anderson called off sick.
NPC's: Aagha Nel Foula Gracalie, Sallis Garignas, Marsilla D'uvoinne, Baroness Contessa Dragonard
After an evening at the Theater of Puppets, the group drops off Princess Antannja Horlafense and her two maids of honor (one still dazzled by Newall after his Charm, what a player) at her estate. As they leave, Antannja calls out, "Bye Marsie!" to Marsilla D'uvoinne, to Newall's vast amusement. Marsilla grimaces.
The next day, they set to planning their expedition to the Blood Guard headquarters. They decide to go from stealthy infiltration with a cover story to a brazen approach preceded by a letter of introduction by Contessa Dragonard. They need a way back quickly though, so they have to buy a Boat Feather Token.
While Newall, Gamon, Aagha and Sallis are shopping for the Token, they notice an infamous enchanter, Suthezard the Blue, charming a fourteen year old girl and bringing her into a dark alley. Aagha whispers, "There's a bounty on him!" and Newall, Gamon, Aagha and Sallis spring into action through the crowded marketplace. Gamon went invisible so he knocked some people aside who didn't know what hit them. Newall and Sallis both stumbled through the crowd. Within the alley, Suthezard had six members of a gang in his group. None noticed Gamon's invisible arrival until Suthezard was ventilated fatally by Gamon's rapier and main gauche. Newall advanced as well, roasting the two gangsters in front of him with Burning Hands. Aagha fired a Web behind Gamon to entangle the gangsters back that way and cut off escape. Sallis charged into the alley and slew one of the gangsters that Newall had fried, and Gamon shanked the other after he had gotten just one swing off on Newall and missed. One of the gangsters in the web managed to not get stuck, and tried to escape the other way, but Newall shot a sizzling Fire Bolt and he dropped, surrendering. The ones in the now burning web surrendered as well.
One of the gangsters, a half-orc named Fleadog, made a run for it, but another Fire Bolt did him in. The others and the bodies were rounded up and spirited away to a nearby warehouse. Gamon broke in, and they interrogated their prisoners. They found that Suthezard had engaged in this sort of activity every couple of weeks, that he would enchant and rape the girls, and then either kill them or sell them to merchant Gravin Unsellis of the cog Come What May as slaves. Gamon remembers Captain Unsellis as the ship's master who sold him to his masters in Zazimar. He would rather like to meet with him again.
Also, they learn Suthezard's headquarters and that there's one person left there, as well as three captive girls. They get keys from the prisoners. They have to release the girl that Suthezard had kidnapped, they tell her that she cannot reveal their identities so that they can go after Unsellis so no one else has to go through what they have to. She readily agrees. They also have to deal with a security guard in the warehouse, who noticing armed people with prisoners and corpses breaking in, and noticing they weren't molesting the merchandise, decided that being noticed wasn't going to help him any and remained plastered in a dark corner. He was noticed and threats and eighty gold guaranteed a shut mouth.
Sallis is sent back to the estate to retrieve the carriage and Marsilla. They bring the prisoners back to the townhouse and lock them in the stable. Newall has to provide a quick explanation to his mother. Then the group set out to Suthezard's hideout. They consider a stealthy approach, but then hear the remaining gangster raping one of the girls. Gamon ninja-sappears, gets in, grabs the dude, and starts beating him on walls and furniture until he expires. Marsilla kicks his corpse in the balls. Gamon tells her to do it again, and she does. They release the girls and bring them and anything of note that they can ransack from Suthezard's hideout back to the townhouse. It is decided to send the girls to the Prince with an explanation of why secrecy is still imperative.
It will require some time for the letter and response to travel by snail mail (Arumelian Postal Snails move as fast as they can), so the party has several days to kill at the Dragonard country estate where the prisoners are thrown into the dungeon. They are spent with the girls and Gamon taking rudimentary riding lessons, and training Marsilla to fight with pointy things. Newall takes the time to show his haremette (Aagha and Sallis) the sights around his home, visiting neighbors, watching the sunrise over the sea, and so forth.
One of the nights, Gamon notices Sallis keeping her distance from him. He asks her about it, and she says she thought he hated her. They work that out and they trade background stories. Sallis explains that while they are not lesbians, her and Aagha are life-partners of a sort.
Other notes:
#Sallis was a camp-girl for soldiers after her family were killed in a war. She learned fighter-stuff from them.
#The Dragonard country estate has a trebuchet in the courtyard.
#Sallis calls it a "tree-bucket".
#Eli had been called away by his mother for these few days.
#The girl Suthezard was kidnapping is Tabatha Balantri. Her parents are gelatin makers.
Category:Arumelian Throne Campaign