24/05/2022 - Nefarious Nilbog’s and Blagden Backstory

## Curses

* We are all cursed. Leo has remove curse, so heals us all.
* On the floor is crudely drawn purple symbol of an eye. Doesn’t seem to mean anything. Seems to just be a symbol of power. We have no idea what it means.
* Blagden reminds everyone we could go to see what the Goblins think. This leads to a discussion of who Blagden’s best friends are (soz Ves and Leo).
* We agree to go see the goblins then short rest (now we’re un-cursed) to see the King for our museum meeting later.

## Goblin time

* We (unstealthily) make our way down to the goblin entrance.
* Ves transforms into a direwolf.
* The goblins seem quite subdued, and solemn. Somewhat unusual for a larger group of goblins.
* Blagden talks to the King. They exchange hat for info.
* Jerry gives us his information…. He saw the eye in our room, had watched our house all night saw no-one enter or leave.
* Saw orange cloak guy sneaking around wo nights ago, all around the city, particularly in the magic district. Seemingly looking for something. Likely hiding somewhere there.
* He heard rumours that there was a break in, in the magic district. Suspects it was orange cloak guy.

## The King

* The King has one more task. He wants us to steal a golden ring with a ruby set inside it. It’s in the centre of their bank. Belongs to one of the royal families. Possibly a dragon item.
* Direwolf Ves finds a chamber leading away in the back left. She tries to go and investigate it. But two armoured goblins block her path. She tries to intimidate them out of the way, but fails.
* Blagden and the king have more discussion. Blagden accuses the king of being an idiot.
* Meets his “advisors” who are clearly being mind controlled.
* He tells us that the God Raxivort has been leading them.
* Blagden says he wants to meet Raxivort .
* The king says Blagden, Scribs and Leo (as a rat) can go and see the temple.
* Leads us there. About 5 minutes.

## Temple of Raxivort

* We get to an ornate building, with a stone alter, with an edge below which is with a shape and a small circle carved with crevasses and grooves. Area around is covered in red liquid. Two goblins guard the temple, four other priests dealing with alters and other things inside.
* Blagden tries to talk to the guards and priests, he introduces himself and they are very rude. Scribs notices that the guy on the left recognised the name Ogden, and looked away in disgust. The guy on the right recognised the name too, but looked more thoughtful.
* Blagden and Scribs go down into the carved area. Scribs backflips down.
* The red liquid is blood.
* We don’t recognise the sigils.
* Blagden goes into the centre, and blood starts to wind its way through the symbols towards Blagden.
* The king whispers, I knew it! And then Leo feels a pain and is sent flying off the edge to the floor below.
* Combat begins! The Nilbogs run in, as does Jerry. One of the priests turns into a giant rat.
* A fight commences… whilst Ves and Rocky, who have no idea what is going on, play cards.
* The Nilbogs are pricks.
* They eventually get killed by Leo’s animated coins.
* The priests turn into rats and try to drag Blagden into the blood vortex that appeared in the temple.
* He misty steps away and everyone escapes with the help of one of the priests who dropped a ladder down to help us out.

## King Blagden

* We run back to the others. We explain what happened.
* The king appears and casts a wall of blades around the group. Ves is fed up and blights him. Rocky banishing smites him, and then Blagden calls him an idiot and crossbows him in the face to death.
* The goblins start chanting “hail king Blagden, the prophesy is fulfilled” etc.
* Blagden then starts talking to his uncle (Dad’s brother), Robden Ogden.
* Robden tells him that…Blagdens birth matched an ancient prophesy, and he showed magical promise as a child. His mother died at childbirth. His Dad was worried that the king would try to turn him into a brainless Nilbog, so he smuggled him out to Mercendale, but obviously got lost/killed on the way.
* Blagden and his family are blessed by the Gods. That’s why original ratty protected him in Merchendale.
* Robden then runs off and returns with a book that belonged to his father and mother. It is a scratch book with drawings of goblins of the story of his parents, their lives etc. Towards the end of the book is a letter.
* On the next page is a spell scroll of Flock of familiars. Which Blagden is very excited about!
* He also gives them his parents “collection” of a dozen or so shiny and ornate buttons.
* Blagden asks Robden how he should deal with the crowd. Robden says that is Blagden’s problem and jaunts off.
* The crowd are still cheering Blagden’s name. He gives a speech, essentially telling everyone to keep living but have more fun, prank people, steal from people outside the group etc.
* He then makes Jerry his chief of staff and adviser. Pays him some gold, says he’ll be back to talk about things before he leaves, and then leaves the goblins and Jerry talking about how best to prank the dwarves.

## A magical heist

* Whilst this is going on, Ves and Rocky left and went to buy some diamond dust. They found that the magic shop with the diamond dust had had the break-in. Mostly high-level spell-scrolls stolen. Their alarms didn’t go off.
* They are insured and un-injured, but whoever did this was clearly up to no good.
* Ves buys enough dust for two casts of greater restoration.
* They then investigate the shop – there is glass on the ground which has been heated/melted before being broken. There is also a tiny hole in the glass roof.
* They discuss what this means… was this the Captain of the Phoenix Armada, i.e. the elven female Orange Pirate Captain.
* No sign of anyone around.