Ptolus:ReqSum14
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March 15, 2009
For the new day of the 18th of New Year, we awoke to a beautiful, sunny day and found a note from Grundric excusing himself from our company. Kekitat and myself arrived at the Ghostly Minstrel and found only Otto there. He stated that he needed new clothes to manufacture a disguise for himself as his performance was indeed the worst on record for their bar and would need a new 'face' to gain entry again to meet our contact. I offered him some of father's older, rattier clothing, just for the amusement of having a human wearing noble clothing. As part of this shopping trip, I went spice shopping as well and found some herbs from the homeland and purchased it for 5GP.
Upon our return to The Ghostly Minstrel, we found Cheval reading the notice board but little else going on. After some idle chatting, and Otto showing the letter to Cheval and then Mulwrit when he arrived from wherever. There seemed to be limited sympathy or sorrow to the loss. Mulwrit also returned with news of Phon Quartermane that she was still involved with the Night of Dissolution and she was still in the city. Helmut, her boyfriend, is tied intrinsically to her being involved with the Night. He was rife with information, but the sacrifice is not within the next week. We spent a tremendous amount of time discussing options regarding The Night of Dissolution and options for stopping. So far, we determined that the best option now is to follow up with Torridan Cran, and finding the cure that Lord Z. requested we find to then garner as the reward for that work to get as much information on The Night as Lord Z. has.
We then proceeded to The Pointy Hat, where we had to look for the contact for Shilukar who would be wearing an Amulet of the Knights of Shadows (a white octopus) who also seemed to specialize in overthrowing governments. On the way, at the intersection of Emperor's Road, and Dalenguard Road there was a group singing some hymns that Otto took a sudden interest in. Once he was no longer interested we returned to the journey to The Pointy Hat. There, Otto and Cheval first noticed the contact, a fair elf sitting at a table by himself. Cheval noted some 'fans' that had two humans drinking and watching us over the mugs of drink they were drinking. Otto requested Mulwrit watch them to make sure we weren't backstabbed in the bad way.
Otto, in the clever disguise of pseudo-Grundric, however, managed to talk through the contact to threaten his life in very unsubtle way. After much more cajoling, the contact offered to give us the information on how to reach Shilukar directly. We heard, “In the guildsmans section of town, on Brandywine street, there is a empty lot with a small shack on it. Enter the shack and climb down the ladder. Per the agreement with Otto which said that he would attack us first, he started to fire off a psychic blast spell at us. I formed an ice ball of his mouth, and Kekitat lopped off his head. After we discussed moving on to 'ambush' Shilukar without his having knowledge of the death of his representative. On the way we once again were passed by The Iron Knight, and I determined it was some sort of 'elven thing' what's happening with the person in the armor.
{Bad summary ahead as I was idled to get the pizza action going.}
We met and fought several gnolls below the house, once we arrived and discovered the periscope from the basement. Otto slew the 'big' gnoll, I slew directly the spell caster (Nyatrah), and everyone else took down several other dog persons. He had full plate, flail, sling, potions, wand, and a scroll. I was also trapped under a LAME net with rope and barbs, which also afforded me opportunity to kill another. We continued to pursue the hallways in an effort to track down Shilukar before he had a chance to run away from all the noise. We found, in our explorations, a room with a wooden bed covered in animal furs and arcane writing all over the walls and floor. Further south, we found a pool with cool, clear water. Otto drank first, and offered it to everyone after he felt 'great' from his drink. Kekitat drank, and opted instead to attack Cheval, nearly slicing off his leg.
