Session 56

In an attempt to regroup the party Siegward and Kaspar both sought out local advice where one would be taken for breaking the law. Hoping to find Herbert they went to the nearest guardhouse to Wittgensteins townhouse. From there they spoke with watch who were clearly busy as constant reports of fighting and debauchery rolled in. The watchman told the pair that nobody was held here and this was just a barracks, instead they should check the gate watch houses. They make their way down to the Southfate-Ostwald district only to find a prison riot nearly breaking out. What they didn't find was Herbert. Attempt number two was made at the Westor-Sudgarten district where they found the watch barracks there almost set up as if expecting assault. Barricades were out in the street leading to the building with half a dozen watch hanging around. Inside they were able to confirm that Herbert was in fact in a cell inside but the watchman couldn't help them as this particular prisoner was denied bail. He queried what he had done but Siegward feigned ignorance claiming "last I knew we left him when he clearly had too much to drink".

Meanwhile Ava and Siegbert made their way back to the Geldmund-Kausfeit-Brotkopfs district, with Siegbert have a new disguise. They made their way to the warehouse from last night only to find the doors were wide open and workers were moving in and out cleaning it. Ava attempted to sense magic and found a powerful spell had been cast here recently. Siegbert disguised himself as a worker and wandered in only to find the whole warehouse empty apart from blood stains on the floor that the workers were cleaning. After this they made their way to the dwarfs engineers guild hoping to find more entrances to the sewers. The building however was closed and Siegbert had to distract the city folk on the street while Ava unlock the door with magic. Inside they found lots of documents relating to meetings and appointment's for the guild. Upstairs they found more offices, a dorm room and a head office of some sort. Inside was a chest containing blueprints to odd inventions like an axe conveyer belt and a boat that stored clothes on top of itself in a large tarp. A warhammer was also in this chest but the pair felt bad about taking from the dwarfs. Finally Siegbert found a strange small pointy object. It had a metal body with a thin wooden strip inserted inthe middle that had a pointy end and a vial of ink on the other.

The pair made their way back to the college of magic to meet with Siegward and Kaspar. At the college the group planned their next move, convinced now they had something on Wittgenstein. Ava tried to contact Jana but the deputy wizard was away from her room. She did run into the High Wizard Albrecht Helseher with Siegward. Ava decided it was do or die time and told Helseher everything. The young wizard had made an impression and with her charm(10 degrees of success) she convinced the High Wizard of Witgensteins treachery. Face changing demeanour Albrecht told them to wait outside the college where he would join them shortly.

Outside the college the four notice signs of smoke coming from the west side of the city, specifically from the Westor-Sudgarten district. Not long after Albrecht Helseher joined them outside and they marched towards Wittgenstein's warehouse. There the High Wizard confirmed Ava's suspicions of magic having been cast here recently. With a stern face he marched off towards Wittgenstein's home to confront the Komission Convenor. As the continued on they noticed people fleeing from the west of the city with wounds and covered in blood. More smoke continued to rise and Kaspar and Siegbert broke off from the group to investigate. As they entered the Westor Sudgarten district they found crowds of people fighting in the streets, looting shops and the watch doing their best to prevent the spread of what could only be described as a full blown riot. Siegbert moved in for a better look at the situation but before he could get the chance the crowd moved like a wave to envelop him and Kaspar. They were caught in the riot.

At Wittgensteins home Albrecht demanded entry by loudly proclaiming his full title. A few moments passed before the door was opened by Wittgenstein himself. Gotthard greeted the High Wizard and invited the trio in. Playing it cool Gotthard offered them tea before the High Wizard interrupted and laid forth the full accusations against the Komission Convenor. Wittgenstein held his hands up and smiled as if to surrender. "You've caught me red handed, I knew nothing could get past you Albrecht". From here Wittgenstein began to explain the situation to the High Wizard, Ava and Siegward. The Warehouse in question had held farm animals that were to be slaughtered for a feast on Festag so Wittgenstein had gotten a wizard to make sure there were no diseases in the animals via magic. He confessed that he shouldn't have gone over the college's head in this manner but he wanted to save some coin. When Siegward pointed out that the guards had said the warehouse held grain Wittgenstein dismissed it by saying that it had always held livestock, the guards were just ill informed. He followed this up by asking if Siegward had evidence for grain being held there. Siegward had nothing and was now beginning to suspect Siegbert and Herbert were just incompetent idiots. Ava queried the magic cast in his home and Wittgenstein laughed and said that someone had tried to break in so he added some more protection to the building, but of course should have done this through the college. Wittgenstein apologised again to the High Wizard, either having no idea that they had come here to claim he was a part of a cult or just expertly hiding his schemes. He offered to get coin and pay the college their dues for use of wizards in the city. As he left Ava tried to follow but was rebuked by the High Wizard who, under his breath, chastised her and mentioned she had thoroughly embarrassed him this day.

Siegbert and Kaspar barely made it out of the crowed alive, both suffering injuries from both crazed city folk and the watch. Thanks to Siegberts scream they made their escape back to Wittgensteins home. There they met Siegward and Ava who were utterly dejected. Wittgenstein had a perfect alibi and after paying his dues the High Wizard had given out to Ava before leaving the pair of them. It seem all hope was lost. There was only a few hours left in the day and they had nothing.

Meanwhile in his jail cell, Herbert could hear a ruckus outside before Wighard Rott, with two bodyguards, approached the cell and opened it. As the other captors moved to get up the bodyguards raised crossbows. Wighard motioned Herbert to follow while the kind old man also tried to leave but was rebuked. After this his expression turned to rage and warned Wighard that the Hand would hear of this. "I don't think they will" Wighard said before drawing a dagger and slitting the old mans throat. Herbert, Wighard and the two bodyguards then left the watch barracks, passing by everyone as if they couldn't be seen, and entered a carriage. Wighard criticised Herbert for getting arrested before handing him a vial for him to drink, which Herbert did. Almost instantaneously his eyes grew heavy and he fell into a deep slumber.

After meeting up with Ava and Siegward Siegbert and Kaspar all went to Geldmund-Kausfeit-Brotkopfs district and made their way into the sewers to hopefully find some evidence of the ritual that happened yesterday.