Bounty Hunter Blues Part 1

## Episode 7 - The FeyWild West

At the Argent-Grey mansion between Kal-Kanar and Kal-Undar. Seline and Talia Argent-Grey notice the light on in their guest house. Captain James Wilde greets them and catches them up on current events in Airpike. In response to the Airpike Militia behaving badly, Lord Mayor Galen Van Alden requests funds to build barracks around the district. In these new barracks the militia will eat, sleep, train, and learn discipline under Van Alden's guise of making the militia more efficient. With the telegram service being expanded to more parts of the district along with barracks Van Alden claims the response time will be cut down significantly as opposed to the DMP. The Argent-Grey’s in turn catch James up on their adventures in District 3. James mentions that there's no extradition agreement between Districts 1 and 3. While talking about the cleric of the Mother who is down in District 3 Seline reasons out that it is Brother Martin. The last diplomatic mission that James went on was to District 5 and he can't talk about it. District 5 has a trade embargo on anything being exported from the district. There's some trouble brewing in Jaldin. There are accidents where the bodies don't match up with what was reported to be happening. There's so much paperwork flowing through James's office, he's catching stuff that they don't want him to know. Dispatches to District 2 but not to anybody in charge over there. District 2’s economy is based largely on mining precious minerals and gems. It's central city is a mountain fortress. It's a mostly mountainous district. James assumes that the dispatches are to spies. Van Alden is also keeping an eye on Raven now that her mine is miraculously producing different precious minerals. James has tried to redirect that interest to other mines in the area as best he can. James is still keeping an eye on everyone he can from the DMP and they're all right for the most part. They have almost completed construction in Jaldin. James says that a lot of the DMP that stayed and joined the militia, stayed his request and are helping him by being his eyes and ears. Harmon is also still doing well and passing messages to James via sheet music. James was able to break the code Harmon was using but also found out that it's beautiful music when played. Chief Constable Sarah Cremihn is getting ready to run for re-election. Talia makes sure that James is okay before he leaves and she starts making her way toward bed. Seline asked the Undertaker but they would need. The cards respond five of rings (isolation security and worry), the queen of wands (determination and strength). Talia asks Seline for a small raven skull to use as a holy symbol of the Undertaker. She's going to add a wire to it and turn it into an earring. In the pre-dawn hours, Seline and Talia disguise themselves and continue down the road without the group. After 3 days of traveling east, the Argent-Grey’s run into Rhenalle. Rhenalle was trying to get to District 2 but airship travel is disrupted between the districts for at least a month now. Travel by airship between districts 1 and 2 has been halted. There's still some travel between one and four and there is none between one and five. There's occasionally an airship that travels between one and three. That is how Rhenalle got here, hoping that she would be able to catch an airship from District 3 to 2. She just came up from the south where there's a city by the ocean that is removed from the politics of Kal-Kanar. Rhenalle heard Talia and Seline wanted. Ironically, Rhenalle is also wanted. The city she just came from, is trying to separate itself from District 3. Rhenalle says that there's a lot of superstition about the lawmakers here and she's not sure how much of it is true. About Lawmaker Bisha the Pale, the legends say she cast her eyes into the river she called up. From her eyes hatched the fish of the river. The chief of the 12, the Monarch is said to have brought the sun back after Anthonious's Curse was laid along on the land. When travelers here give blessings of the Moon, it is because the Monarch (is said by the loyalists who include the guards of the cities), can see all through the Sun. Rhenalle says that she was talking to Brother Martin in Kal-Undar. At the mention of the 500,000 gold piece reward for Brown, Rhenalle decides to clear her schedule and tag along. About midday, there is a commotion coming from behind them on the road.

    What starts off as a mass of red fur coming down the road, reveals itself to be four guards holding these massive bronze-colored chains holding this massive creature standing hunched over at about 10 ft tall. It has pinkish-reddish fur two massive curling horns coming down from its head and burning red eyes stomping forward on massive hoofed feet. Its arms are bound in two huge shackles a chain going from each arm to arm and then to each leg. This group is being led by a slender person wearing dark robes carrying a staff. The crowd parts as they come forward. The leader speaks quietly into Talia's mind suggesting that they come quietly because its masters did not say they needed to be brought back alive... four guards draw rifles while Talia starts to shoot. The slender person, a warlock, lowers their hood revealing a face-like mask. Two smooth bony plates cover their face and meet in a peak above their head. The peak tapers back over their skull like a bone mohawk to the back of their skull. The center of their face was open revealing a bright purple light. During the fight, the reddish hair thing is revealed to be a goristro who rushes Talia goring her and sending her flying. Rhenalle enlarges and attacks. Talia *darksteps* behind the warlock and kills her. Talia blows her head off, the purple energy leaves the warlock's body and screams off for the sky. As the warlock dies the enchanted manacles fall off the goristro and the guards turn on it before two of them run off. Talia's next shots finish the goristro and last guard’s kneecaps. The guard says the 12 ordered their capture. At Talia's threat of death, Rocker will see to his afterlife. The goristro burns away leaving the manacles and its skull while the crowd cheers the defeat of the bounty hunter. Talia claims the guns while Seline with Rhenalle's help claims the goristro skull. The crowd wants to throw them a party naming them slayers of bounty hunters.

## Location

* District 3 Between Kal-Kanar and Kal-Undar

## Characters

### Players

* Seline Argent-Grey
* Talia Argent-Grey

### NPCs

* Captain James Wilde
* Rhenalle
* Warlock Bounty Hunter Relberron