Ptolus:ReqSum18
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May 9, 2009
{Continuing in the ice cave of hydra}
{Got a free 20 on any roll for the evening for updating Wiki, plus a +1 to Knowledge Supernatural}
We escaped the caverns as they started to collapse, after gathering the items and went upstairs. Kekitat dismissed Tannel with the Book of Thought's prayer. We entered the courtyard, and discovered that dawn was approaching rapidly, and we saw our next group of fun-ness. The leader (Lou Ferrigno meets Gollum) demanded the chaos weapons. It was pretty painfully obviously clear that he and his buddies were all followers of Chaos. His name is Wuntad, and he's associated with a powerful demon that came to town recently, and they are part of The Foresaken (interested in death and undeath). Wuntad is seeking to become Shigmaa of the Forsaken (living being that has touched death and returned). Otto managed to creatively generate more animal-offal and chased off the baddies for us, all while 'only' playing craps with our lives once more.
We realized after they departed, that we couldn't take the weapons to the house because of their HEAVY chaos taint. So we took them instead over to St. Gustav's for disenchantment. Corben Trollone talked to us as we traveled down Center St. Otto gave us some insight to this person, a crimelord of some note in Ptolus. The dawn broke for the 20th of New Year. Kekitat spoke with Brother Fabitor again, and we finally convinced him to give us a letter of introduction to St. Valien's Cathedral to try and convince the higher-ups in the Church to try and disenchant all these items. Kekitat spoke with the ancient priest of ancientness, Archbishop Adlam Theobold, and he 'suggested' that we go to the Pale Tower, which had become our next contingency anyway in case the Temple options hadn't panned out.
On the way back Otto and Kekitat noticed some street toughs following us. And then “The Bad” happened. Mulwrit's memory was wiped for a while, and an attack on my mind failed courtesy of my Psychic Shield. I ended up using my free '20' to reshape Mulwrit's memory to be functional. Last time we saw Tasilicus Rhendron, who is studying the mirror maze. This time, the Graven is in the entryway reading a book, and thinking. Otto approached him and started laying out the requirements for his assistance. The Graven suggested the Observatory for some privacy to discuss our plight. He tried to break the spear directly, but failed. He then suggested speaking with Aoska, said to be the leader of The Malkuth (Angelic fighters of Evil). The 'actual' leader is Sepheros, The Winged King, said to be a true Celestial. Aoska arrived in all her Assamar beauty, and Otto started the talking for us (ghods help us all). She prayed at the altar, got 'most' of the party a protection sphere, and then tried to strike the Spear for destruction. After a couple of failed attacks, she suggested a different item. I put the rod up there, and she struck it to destroy it, causing a MASSIVE wave of Chaos. After healing Otto from his near-liquidation by this wave, she suggested instead the Inverted Pyramid. This is the arcane sanctuary and head of the city.
The pyramid is invisible and floating above the city. The best way to contact them from the Pointy Hat. Another good way is through the Dreaming Apothecary. This is the only sanctioned source of magic items sales in Ptolus. A particular token is required, and that is placed under the pillow of the requestor. They think of what they wish to purchase. The transaction takes place in dreams, and upon awakening the money has vanished, and the item is there under the pillow. I then informed Aoska of Wuntad's presence in the city, just to unleash a wave of war through the city's streets. I also had her destroy the skull, just to be sure. Upon that destruction, I strongly suggested that we depart, though Mulwrit and Kekitat remained for a time perhaps to muscle in on Otto's Unicorn Chick.
We proceeded to the Pointy Hat, with Otto, Mulwrit and Kekitat waiting outside while Cheval, Côr, and I went inside. I spoke with Nallis Deverini, the male gnome proprietor. Côr ended up convincing him to give us a black gem to access the I.P. at midnight at the center of Balance Walk. It also came out that Nallis was kicked out the Inverted Pyramid.
Upon arriving back on the street, the three of us happened upon the other three discussing 'things' with Trollone. A good deal of discussion ensued, and I concluded the conversations by offering one of the 12 pouches of dust from the Smuggler Island as the pouch of Law warding dust to try and misdirect some of the more obvious pursuit toward Trollone. We're to meet him tonight at 6PM at The Aristocrats Table he mentioned. We then decided to return to the P house to take the sewer entrance to try and further throw off pursuit. Kekitat arrived first, to speak with the Archbishop to spell out our plight and get us permission to stay at The Pale Tower. I checked my Psychic Shield as well and discovered that there had been scrying attempts made previously, though there weren't any currently. We spent the day at the Pale Tower resting, recovering and waiting through the day to make our appt. at 6PM.
We left in time to arrive at The Aristocrats Table. Corben was waiting for us at the Seat of Opulence. Over the course of dinner, Otto slipped a Love Potion into Corben's drink eventually, just to get more and more information out of things. Corben admitted that the Killravens were involved. Killraven Crime League, led by Kevris Killraven who only just arrived in the city a year ago but she has already built up a syndicate to rival the Balacazar. Also behind an Arcane Guild to replace the Inverted Pyramid, and an Assassin's Guild to replace the Vai. Otto earned himself a +1 to Diplomacy for 'taking one for the corps' by more than seducing Corben as well.
