Citadel's Shadow II, Session 14

Citadel's Shadow II, Session 14 was a session of the Citadel's Shadow II campaign, played on Mar. 3, 2019 (UTC) (Mar. 2, 2019 for some participants).
==Personnel==
===Game Master===
*GM: played by Michael Lee Viviano
*Adversary: played by Miley Spears
===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 ===
* Jinxi: androgynous jester with poppet Jack
* Krendall Moulerbos: male human rat exterminator
*Ursula Nidonge: female human mercenary
*Yagritte Ratreaper: female dwarven rat exterminator
== Events ==
=== 1742 ===
Ulthrane 14 (Middleday) (continued): Fern the Siegemaster, Jinxi, Juan de Fulmando, Krendall Moulerbos, Ursula Nidonge, and Yagritte Ratreaper concluded the smashed wine keg they saw in Packer's Cave was very likely smashed by a person using a blunt instrument. It also looked as if the barrel had been rolled vigorously back and forth.  It and the other whiskey-containing barrels were for the tavern Witch on a Stick in Trynsern.
Krendall told the others to get behind him, and made some slights against Fern, Jinxi, and Juan which Juan "nicely" countered.  They saw the body of Vilburd Gruskin aka Packer was still there, and Juan said he thought the police would have removed it already.  Yagritte said told police had said "they weren't coming in until we cleared this out."
The group were attacked by rats, some normal sized and some giant, as large as medium dogs.  Juan figured the Alchemist Fire would be safe to use as long as it didn't hit a wooden support.  Juan threw it, and it eliminated one "swarm" of rats.  The other rats ran around it, advancing.
Fern used all-out attack on the rats; rats did damage to both Krendall and Yagritte.  Krendall hit some as did Yagritte who used a scythe against a "swarm."  Juan got a small bite on his left foot.
Jinxi hit a rat.  Those who were bit by rats were Krendall and Juan.
The group got to another door on the right.  Fern checked the door for traps,  Juan said he wanted to try the Alchemist's Fire himself for safety before offering it to others to use; Jinxi received two of them.  Fern was going to try unlocking the door with locksmith tools, but Juan found he had the key, and unlocked the door.
Krendall insisted he and Yagritte go first; no one expressed any objection.  Rats came out, both normal sized and giant, but they were quickly swept aside.  The room was lined with shelves. On the shelves were bundles and ceramic jars, bigger and smaller.  There were bundles with holes chewed into them; they had "pungent grassy stuff" in them.  Fern said one of the jars smelled like pickles.  Juan said they should probably close the door and move on.  Fern opened one of the jars; it had a black, tarry lump in it that Fern thought smelled like something she had learned about, something medicinal, but couldn't place it.  Juan said they should move on--it wasn't their property.  Fern resealed the jar.  There were about 20 other pots just like it.  Yagritte noticed a smoking hookah, but Juan insisted that is was somebody else's property and that they lock the door and move on, which they did.
They found another door to the left.  Fern checked for traps, although both Juan and Krendall thought a door this far in being trapped was unlikely.  Fern did not detect traps, but heard and smelled "lots of rats" through the door.  Krendall insulted Juan when Juan pronounced his named "Kendall," saying it was "KRRendall!"  So Juan pronounced his name "KRRendall."  Juan unlocked and opened the door for Krendall, and three giant rats attacked Krendall who managed to dodge some, but got bit on the left foot.  Krendall went to all-out defense.
Ursula cast a spell while Jinxi, Krendall, and Yagritte each got attacked by a giant rat.  Fern hit a rat, while Juan cleaved one in two from its butt to the middle of it's chest   Ursula cast a flame jet which did minimal damage.  Fern hit a rat, Ursula cast another flame jet which set a giant rat on fire, and Juan threw Alchemist's Fire on rats, Yagritte attacked one.  They soon took care of the rats.
They checked the room, and found it was torn up and with rat poop all over.   There were several busted up statues of a cat-headed goddess and some torn up bags that had held food (it appeared to be cat food).  Juan didn't recognize the goddess at first, but figured she was from Sapoth.   (Citadel's Shadow II adventure 2019 03 02)
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