Session 11: The Assault on Fort Mercer Part 2

The party stand in the middle of the bandit fort surrounded with the corpses of the bandit werewolves they just defeated and a door that Sheriff Bennett just disappeared into.

Maurice sets to work looting new armour off the body of Jesus Demarco, while the rest of them follow the sheriff into the building. Upstairs, they found Bennett behind a large magical wall, which Aggie ran into face-first. However, the Sheriff spoke with a woman's voice and displayed an inhuman silver tongue.

Bennett - or what looked like Bennett - found a ledger and tore a page out of it. This strange woman or creature spoke directly to Elisen and let on that they definitely knew each other. She ended up handing Elisen the page she had torn out of the ledger and then vanished. Elisen told the rest of the group that, yes, she knew this strange silver-tongued woman who was speaking out of the mouth of the sheriff, and that she was a very bad person but that right now they had other responsibilities. And Elisen kept the page of the ledger hidden.

The magical wall disappeared and the group went to work searching the rest of the room. Aggie took the rest of the ledger that the page had been torn from just to see what itwas. It proved to be a shipping ledger with the details of sales and locations of shipped items. The group found a variety of magical items in the office, including Pouncival's Amulet.

The group reconvened with Sheriff Gentry and the remaining bounty hunters. The group told him that Bennett had left, although not all of the details were shared. Maurice informed the bounty hunters about the remaining wolves in the basement, and they went to the basement to try to take care of them.

The entire group returned back to Armadillo.

While there, the group split to undergo a vareity of personal tasks. Aggie introduceed Pouncival to his new magical safety amulet. Elisen and Maurice shared a private conversation, the content of which is still unknown to the others.

Eventually, the party gathered together in a back room in the Armadillo saloon and pressed Elisen to share her story.

Elisen told the group that the silver-tongued lady is also from Elisen's home world; the world beyond the rip in the sky. She is the leader of a group called the Generals, who are currently ruling over the world. She is capable of shape-shifting, hence why she was able to assume the form of the sheriff, but she always keeps her telltale silver tongue. This woman is searching for a magical tome of great power relating to one to one of the deities of their world. Elisen is also seeking this book due to its power and religious significance. Elisen let on that this book was titled The Book of Veselka, but due to its religious significance Aggie nicknamed the book "The Bibble" for ease of remembering.

After this, most of the group retired to bed as it had been a long and exhausting day, but Aggie and Billy stayed up drinking and blowing off steam, sharing conversation as they did. Billy shared the information that in his past he was a priest (or other religious figure of similar stature) and that he was excommunicated when he got into a fight with one of his colleagues and accidentally (maybe) killed him.

The following day, Maurice visited the coroner to see if he had any further information after examining Becker's body. Unfortunately the coroner was only able to determine what the party had already learned: that the cause of death was unknown but definitely not caused by the wild animals.

The group visited Sheriff Gentry at the now-vacant sheriff's office following the death of both Bennett and Becker. Gentry stated that his own deputy Dick Johnson would be acting as the new Armadillo Sheriff. Meanwhile, the group convinced Gentry to take Jasper on as a new deputy and afford him training and experience.

Further examination of the ledger and the page torn from it revealed that the Bibble is included among a series of trades of magical items being organised by a company named Cromwell Industries. This news held significance to Maurice, who appeared to have a history with Alexander Cromwell. The ledger showed that the majority of these items were headed to a selection of major cities, but that the Bibble was the only item headed to Strawberry. The group made a resolve that stopping this woman and helping Elisen to be the one to get this Bibble was the most important thing for them to do, and decided that they needed to set out for Strawberry.

Aggie found Delilah as they were preparing to leave. She invited Delilah to come with them, but Delilah said that she didn't feel as though travelling with the adventurers was not the place for her. Instead, she decided to stay in Armadillo and try to set herself up as a gunsmith. While this news was upsetting to Aggie who had definitely grown a bond to Delilah, but she had no choice but to accept this decision. Before her departure, Aggie gave Delilah a necklace with a red heart pendant in addition to an apology for all the events that had occurred.

The group prepared to set off for Strawberry.

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