Grimhagen Assassination

The **Grimhagen Assassination** is a tale and a true story of three assassins who assassinate the terrible marshal Crixus of Ascalon. The tale follows Vaec Selas, Caldrin Tel'Schau, Bennet Frost, and later Angor'Kai, who are assassins of the Invisible People fighting against the Ascalonian oppression led by King Aldor. In the end, Vaec and Caldrin sacrifice themselves whilst Bennet's fate remains unknown.

## City of St. Laurentia

### 5th August

Adventure began with the Heatstream Band sailing the river Isne up to the recovering City of St. Laurentia. The sailor, an orc by the name of Samuel, gave money and food to the Heatstream Band, roughly 10 Vistars and 100 Cilse. Then the trio disembarked and stumbled upon the trading port of the outer city.

As it was night, the team decided it was best to venture into the city and find shelter. They marched their way to the Tower Gate, where they stole the Tower Gate Key from a sleeping guardsman. The Tower-Gate-General allowed the trio to enter without a pass, since all of them were clearly human (even though only one was).

Inside the city they quickly found an inn, Dann's Inn, to be precise, where they slept the night. The rooms were quite unpleasant and the beds were poor. The night sucked big time. Little did they know, their time in Laurentia would only become worse and worse.

### 6th August, everything goes wrong

The the Band woke up and ate breakfast at the tavern. There they stumbled upon a massive man and a fight between them and him nearly broke out. The massive man revealed to be a guard in the city. Following breakfast, the band marched to the noble estate of Baron Vernon that they needed to rob the invitation of. A noble there told the Band that only invited nobles were allowed to come to the Baron's party that was happening on 20th August, and even though Vaec and Caldrin where barons, they were not believed. Vaec thought that they may be able to find an unsent invitation from the Postmaster.

The Postmaster General, Amigo, bored of his job, revealed hefty amounts of info the the band. He even gave two invitations to the Baron's party to the band. One invitation was for an acquaintance, another for one of the old mistresses of the Baron. The band realized they had to disguise one of them as a woman. Amigo then told the band that a potion capable of changing ones sex was about to be transferred from the bank to the local Daemonlogus keep on 8th August. It was decided they were going to rob that potion. They also needed a white dress, as the invitation remarked that Baron Vernon wished his mistress to arrive in her white dress. One last thing they required was a forger who would forge fake letters to the actual recipients, telling them they were not sadly invited.

Amigo said to the band that they should meet with the brewer of Laurentia, who was in on the potion theft plan, as he was a subject of Killer Bonnie, the leader of a criminal group in the city.

Vaec, Caldrin and Bennet then marched to the brewer, who was an old about 75-years old man. Vaec asked weird or irrelevant questions which led the band to decide that they try to seek audience with Killer Bonnie herself. The band walked to Bonnie's house where they gambled at least 8 Cilse and 1 Vistar away against potentially cheating dealer. Caldrin was then invited to a Dragon Liqor drinking contest at the bar side of Bonnie's house, against the drinking champion an Elf named Essa. The contest was a run-of-the-mill fight, until Caldrin emerged victorious, earning his name in the local hall of fame.

The band, not allowed to even talk to Bonnie, left the establishment. Outside they met a dark figure, a Vanekin, who was suspicious of Bonnie for one reason or another. He persuaded the band to infiltrate the second floor of Bonnie's house and count the windows they saw facing towards the city. The band agreed, however as Caldrin was very drunk, he would serve as a distraction with the Vanekin. The Vanekin and Caldrin went back in to the bar where they kept drinking.

Vaec and Bennet climbed their way up to the second floor, where they were spotted by a guard. Vaec reacting quickly, slew the guard before he even managed to make a sound. However, the guard and his lantern fell to the ground, alarming nearby guards at the stairs. Vaec and Bennet then tried to lockpick the only doors they saw on the hallway they were in. They threw the body outside the window and went into the room. In the room they saw Bonnie herself, sleeping. They woke her up and tried to negotiate with her, trying to achieve her help on stealing the Sex Bender Potion. Afterwards Bonnie divulged the two that the old brewer was the operational leader for the capture of the potion. The two, feeling frustrated, left the room and bumped into the guards. The guards demanded a fine, which the two paid.

Outside the bar, the Vanekin became furious at the two as they had not been counting the windows toward the city. The Vanekin threatened them, telling them he knew they were demons and he could make it known to the public. The trio, depressed and tired merely sauntered back to Dann's Inn, where they slept a very bad nights sleep.

### 7th August, things go worse

In the morning at 9:00, Vaec and Bennet woke up aiming to see the local festival that they were invited to last day by a random guy. The woke up Caldrin and forcefully took him with them. Caldrin, slightly drunk, took his gun with him, whilst Vaec and Bennet took no arms. The group visited the well where they washed the blood off of Vaec and vomit off of Caldrin which he had accumulated from all the drinking.

The display at the festival told the story of the Scouring of Annarath and the creation of the city of Laurentia. The crowd crew increasingly hostile towards outsiders and began to be rallied by the host to take arms and so forth. The heated crowd then realized that there were three outsiders in their midst, Vaec, Bennet and Caldrin. They began questioning them and grew more hostile.

### Caldrin's Bomb Threat

A guard then popped up who tried to confiscate Caldrin's gun. Caldrin did not like this and tried to *ease(?)* the situation by declaring he would explode everyone there. Claiming he had a bomb (even though he didn't). The guard, a little shook, didn't budge and now ordered Caldrin to come with him to the sheriff's office. A request that Caldrin refused.

At that point the Vanekin from last night appeared and reported to the guard that Vaec and Bennet were both marked by Malrich, making them half-demons. Bennet went all in and showed his horns, which frightened the guard who alerted other guards with his horn and then he ran away. The Vanekin began to fight Vaec and Bennet, as Caldrin ran back to Dann's Inn, trying to get his stuff.

Unarmed Bennet tried to hold the Vanekin back, whilst Vaec called forth the Lissathra'a. The Vanekin demonstrated his fierce skills as the fought the two half-demons, though Bennet was unarmed. A minute later, Bennet charged the fleeing guard, whom Bennet crushed easily. Malrich then aided his two subjects by taking the body of the dead guard. Bennet took back Caldrin's gun from the corpse, as well as the guards sword before Malrich's appearance.

Bennet then lunged his sword into the Vanekin, killing the knight. Malrich one again appeared and took the Vanekin's body to his realm of Dark. Vaec, Bennet and Caldrin sprinted back to the tavern where they hid from the approaching Castle Guards. In the tavern Caldrin made the host suspicious that Caldrin might have been the bomb threat guy, and thus the host alarmed the guards.

The guards came to check Caldrin's room. Bennet hid on Caldrin's bed and ate a Stealth Berry, making him partially invisible, while Vaec hid in the closet. After brief banter with the guards, the guards left.