Azyrah Faynore - Session 5

# A Tale of Two Mayors

Azyrah starts out walking to the car repair shop with Vic and Quele. She fills Vic in on everything that has happened since she left Ava. She also pulls Quele aside and asks her what happened after she jumped off the roof. She thinks Girthor was acting strange, so she wanted to get Quele's perspective.

Quele explains that Girthor kept trying to give himself up for Azy and trying to get Quele to go help Azy. Azyrah explains that Quele made the right choice in staying with Girthor and that she did great on the roof.

At the repair shop. Azy sees a car turn off the lights just as they arrive and someone recline in the seat. She shrugs it off and heads inside the shop. Gahl gives Azy the keys to her practically new car plus 100g. Azyrah asks if anyone came looking for her, hoping that Sary had made it to St. Louis after all, but instead he tells her that some official from the mayor's office stopped by looking for her.She thinks it's weird, but goes about her business anyway.

They head to the museum and Azy leaves Bone Shot with Vic in the car--telling him to keep it safe because it's the only reason they got out of the pit and it's the key to taking down the deadly monsters that are popping up everywhere. Quele and Azy go into the museum. Corriander flinches when he sees them, but when he realizes that Azy doesn't have Bone Shot, he relaxes. She asks him what she can do with the earings, ring, and bracelet that she found in the previous session. He sayd that they can be used as-is or enchanted to be permanent spell components. She asks him where she can find someone that would do that and he lists off some big cities like Chicago, New York, etc.

She also buys one Ruby Shard from him for 200g and asks him about the Michipicoten Monster. He tells her that it originally protected people, but then turned bad. He asks why she wanted to know about it. She explains that she wants to help and take care of the problem. He laughs and blows her off. She and Quele exit the building to find the car that was brand new is now scratched all over and Vic and everything that was inside is now gone including Bone Shot. A blood trail leads to the alley.

A body is laying in the alley. At first, Azy thinks it's Vic, but upon closer inspection, she realizes it's a gnoll. From behind her, Vic's voice speaks up. "Hey you guys just gonna stand there all day?" He's got all the supplies. Azy and Quele rush to help him.

Azy says, "You gave me a heart attack!" Something shimmers behind Vic. A man comes into view after being invisible. Vic tells Azy she should thank the stranger because he did most of the work. He introduces himself as Mike. He's a yellowish orc with a mowhawk, but he's wearing a suit like the ones the agents wear in Men in Black. He tells Azy that he's from the Mayor's office for the Illinois side of the city (East St. Louis) and they've been trying to contact her about a monster hunting job.

They load into the damaged car and follow him to the town hall. On the steps, the Mayor, Nathaniel Corman is waiting for them and leads them into his office. Once in the office, they get down to business. They have reason to believe that the Mayor of the Missouri side of the city is a monster that has been going around killing people. Corman makes a racist comment that angers Azy, but she keeps her cool as killing someone for racist remarks isn't her style--however the urge is there.

They show Azy and her friends some pictures of her with a long tongue and sharp teeth, presumably eating people and leaving quite a high body count in a bar, etc. They say they will pay Azyrah 4,000 gold if she brings them her head. She accepts the job, they give her an advance of 1,000 gold and she uses some of it to buy 2 ruby shards for a total of 3. She also gives all the diamond jewelry to Quele. (One diamond ring and two diamond earings.)

From the town hall of ESL, the go to the town hall of SL. They stake it out and see the other mayor, Mikaela Kim going out for lunch. They follow her and pretend to window shop while she goes into a Starbucks. When she's inside for 10 minutes, they go inside to see what she's doing.

Inside the Starbucks, everyone is dead and Mikaela Kim is in the corner in a very unstable state. Her hands are on her head and she's scared and confused.

Azy draws Bone Shot and points it at Mikaela and asks her, "Did you do this?"

She responds that she doesn't know and starts sobbing. Vic is pretty unphased. He sits at one of the tables and tells Azy to let him know when she needs something. Quele starts looking around the store. No one else is inside. After some debate on what to do with the woman, they end up breaking into the office where the surveilance stuff is. They also see red stuff under her finger nails which appears to be blood, but they can't tell for sure. The tapes were blank during the attack. Azy still doesn't understand what happened.

After even more debate, and Quele getting angry and walking out, Azy and Vic decide to let Mikaela go back to work. Azy charms her into calming down a little. Azy and Vic follow her back to the town hall and sit outside for a few hours waiting to see if they see anything out of the ordinary. Quele is off doing something else as she doesn't want to be part of it. After two hours of seeing nothing, they decide to go inside and check on her. Inside, the scene is even worse than the Starbucks. There are dead body parts hung on the walls like decorations and scattered about. Blood is everywhere and the carnage is really bad.

Azy and Vic make their way to Mikaela's office. Inside, they find her laying on the ground covered in blood and unconscious. They see no one else in the office and there's nowhere for anyone to hide. As they search, Mikaela coughs up a finger. Seeing this, Azy decides that one way or another, she has to put an end to the deaths. With Mikaela on the floor, Azy uses Bone Shot as a spear and stabs Mikaela Kim in the chest with it. (Nat 20 attack, 21 dmg).

With Mikaela most likely dead, Quele bursts into the office saying "Wait! It's a setup!"

**Session 6**