[pnpgm] Game Update #110 - File #430 - Truth or Dung
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HT Aliaver/Player DS Character Name Type Status/Notes Sex
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R1.John Haight.......HY..Arawn.............Druid .Normal/Alfar .. Ma
--.Tobie Bonahoom....YY..Fremea............Sidh....Normal/Faerry.. Fe
R3.Mark Murtha.......HN..Kell..............Trader..Normal/Human....Ma
R1.David Sanders.....HN..Kiet.Sunan........Acrobat Normal/Human ..Ma
R4.J H Hooten........YN..Raban.Usherwood...Bard....Normal/Human....Ma
W4.Wout Broere.......YY..Unali.............Ninja...Normal/Human ..Fe
R1 John.Stowman......YN..Will..............Hunter..Normal/Human....Ma
R4.Alex Koponen......YY..Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human ..Fe
-- Npc...............YY..Etain.............Teacher.Normal/Elf......Ma
Animals: Corona [Eagle] Z'leyra, Squirt (Ferret) Kell, Wolf - Will
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Game Update #110 in sequence (file #430)
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Admin Notes: Bleh. Vacation more or less over. Though I still
have about 10 more days off more than usual for the end of
the year but true leaving down stuff is over.
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[Recap]
From Kiet: [RE: Actions[
Well, as I said...torturing Mavac first would likely loosen
the tongue of the other guy without having to also torture him.
Kiet moves over to Fremea and tells her "we should ...
GM: Ack.
From Fremea: [Re: Actions]
Fremea hears the pleas of Gorsis. She just stares for a ...
"Yes, I do think that will work out just fine then." ...
GM: Ack.
From Arawn: [Re: Actions]
"Truly? I would have imagined some would have passed ...
GM: Ack.
From Arawn: [Re: Actions]
Forgot to add...
"And, at the least, I would be willing to bless and ...
GM: Ack.
From Kiet: [Re: Actions]
Kiet won't let Mavac live. You don't do these kinds of
things to people and allow them to live to be a deadly enemy.
So, unless someone forces Kiet's hand...very strong force...Mavac
will be disposed of.
GM: Ack. No issue with that from Fremea. As long as it looks like
his rivals did it. Obviously away from the barn and the
innocent blacksmith. I've gotten used to your "personality" by
now. But you ought to explain it to others like you did to
me with your orientation and such. Might show to others where
you are coming from. If you have a plan on that let me know
and where to store him. Some alley or street or in the
woods - those kind of things and manner of final blow.
From Fremea: [Re: Actions]
Mavac dies for sure - just need to stage it so that he is
killed by rivals.
Talk to Grosis in barn, no need to actually move him to get
info, plus just a good reminder of what can still be done to
him if he does not tell the truth.
She will keep her word that he can walk out of the barn. He
just better run really fast, Raban does not know about the deal
and he may not allow him to get far. :)
GM: Ack.
From Z'leyra: [Re: Actions]
As Z'leyra has mentioned before, sometimes healing requires
injury to the patient to cut out rot and to prevent further
injury. The killing of such evil folk she compares to surgery
on the 'people'. She will not object to the slavers' deaths.
GM: Ack.
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[New Stuff]
[Sepes 29th, 1634TH]
[Location: City of Samma, Donara]
[Kiet/Unali/Kell/Fremea/Raban Group]
[Time: 12:15:21 am - Samma city, Donara]
Grosis waits for them to answer and ignores Mavac's
glare of hate.
Kiet moves over to Fremea and tells her, "we should make the
deal with him, but make him prove his info is worth his life
first...we can always kill him later if necessary."
Fremea hears the pleas of Grosis. She just stares for a few
more moments, making him sweat it out more, wondering if he is
going to perish here or not. She has no love for either of these
two cowards, but she wants to hurt the whole organization more.
Plus she can make sure he perishes in another way.
Kiet speaks his peace to her.
"Yes, I do think that will work out just fine then." Smiling
at Grosis, but making sure Mavac can see her laughing at him for
his service to them in bringing this about.
"So we have a deal?" Grosis looks with open eyes of pleading.
Mavac shouts, "shut up you rat dung!"
Fremea nods and folds her arms around her chest.
"So untie me and I'll tell you outside." Gross smiles.
Fremea just stares and stares obviously not moving.
Grosis looks to Mavac not wanting to say much in front
of him but realizes there is no choice. Resigned he sighs
and sits back against the railng. "I trust this deal
will happen." He stares at Fremea and then briefly at
Kiet realizing he can't trust him. Then he eyes Z'leyra.
"You are a healer. You have that oath thing not to harm
others or such. The gods would be deeply upset if you did."
He stares to see what her reaction is.
Z'leyra glances at Fremea who nods every so slightly its
barley even seen. Z'leyra then turns to Grosis and nods
half way. Truth is not truth till the final end.
"Fine. I've been out of the game for about 11-12 months.
But some things don't change. I used to deal with a guy
in a tavern. He had his own men to deliver and pick up. But
I could never trust him so I had him followed." Mavac tries
to get out of his restraints and Kiet pushes the funnel in
his mouth along with the bit of horse dung in the funnel
and pours the bucket of water down the funnel.
"My man reported that he went to a estate outside the
city. We learned it was owned by a Count of some sort.
he is not politically favored but is tolerated by the
capital. I could only determine that this is who is
the main guy in this area."
Mavac begins to choke on the dung and water as Kiet
smiles. He slaps him in the ribs with the rope to
force his mouth open more.
"He has dealings with pirates. Some say he might even
be dealing with Climans but we found no proof. He can
get some of his targets through pirate raids on ships. No
one misses a ship lost at sea. Merchant ships go down all
the time. He also has paid for bandits to capture some
from roads. A long couple with kids is a good target. Kill
the men and take the others. We don't know how long he has
been doing this. But the rumor is that he lost favor about
18 or 19 years ago from the capital. He is technically not
invited there for events. The province may not be against
slavery directly but indirectly they are. They will tolerate
servants from debt or crimes but stealing innocents tends to
annoy the ruling families and their reputation."
Mavac tosses the empty bucket and reverses the funnel so
any dung slides down onto Mavac's face. Mavac coughs and
glares as he tries to stir around.
"His place." He glances at Mavac. "May have papers for
this to study and find info to prove what I say. "
Fremea left those papers with Etain back at the tavern to
study if he's not drunk dead now.
"He does have many guards though. My man estimated at least
a dozen or more. A person like this count would not have
direct evidence but I can't believe a man like him would not
have some evidence there. My man later sneaked around and
saw women and children in windows but could not tell if they
were slaves or servants. He did say one child was naked and
leaving the room she was in. So I don't think a servant
would do that? Wait my man is the one that knocked me out.
Did you kill him?"
Fremea smiles the one she thralled outside could confirm
this. It would be great to have Arawn her to test his
truth. But to be honest Arawn could foul things up. He
would not tolerate this scene and try to be nice nice
and talk.
Grosis continues, "his legit business is shipping
on the river here. He owns many barges and small ships
that aren't sea worthy . You asked him how we got into
this line of work. Well I was a street merchant who found
this boy on the street. As a good worker I paid him but
then this noble of some kind found him fancy. He paid good
money for him and that was that. Mavac from what I gather
has the resources in the city and protects the count. "
Mavac turns toward Grosis and hurls a half spit-half dung
filled goober at Grosis in hatred. "Fine. I'll take you
to him. Just let me kill the scum first!"
Fremea and Kiet ignore this.
"Mavac tends to give all his slaves to a drug lord named
Bogan. If you need info on his location I can supply that.
He doesn't hold his slaves longer than a day. Too risky
in his line of work. I had a couple at home for fun and
education. Before you ask this man at the tavern I've not
seen for almost a year. I don't know his name. But he
would leave notes with my men and I'd meet with him. I don't
know if he is even alive. I can draw a rough image of his
estate and directions there. But my man never went inside
so don't have direct floor plans."
"Would slavery end in the province with this count gone?
Probably not. But for this city and county probably by
at least 95%. For other areas I have no clue who is in
charge. There are rumors but none I could verify. Is
this enough for you? Can I leave now? I will give what
little coin I may still have at my place if you let me
live."
Fremea just scowls at the sniveling man grovel. Grosis
turns to Fremea.
"I...I...you were a .happen stance...at first I figured
I'd use you like one of those carnival animals...I mean
people. On your last job...going into that nobles house
to steal that stuff. I was going to free you. As a equal.
To help me out. You were more worthy as a person to help
us than a slave. I promise you that! You must believe me."
[Time: 12:23:16 am - Samma city, Donara]
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[Kell/Unali's Group - En route to Tavern]
[Time: 12:10:00 pm - Samma city, Donara]
Kell take's Unali's arm again and glances over wondering
if she is paying attention. They walk down the dirt path
toward the city. Its about a 10 min ride by wagon or a
good 5 min by just fast horse. But by foot it might take
20-25 min.
Kell shrugs and figures Unali is aware and planning
to do something. "So there is this one market in my
city back home. Imagine tables and tables of weapons.
One table had 500 daggers on it and the wall behind it.
So many it would take some time to look at. But each
was distinctive and artistic. One was more ceremonial
I assume with a nice ruby on the hilt costing about
12 gold! The guy was insane to charge that much.."
As the two walk the woods on each side get a bit thicker.
Bushes and trees get thicker and taller. Bushes now about
4-5 feet and trees as tall as 120-150 feet. The trail
is well worn with horses and feet but few wagons go
this way it seems.
Kell can see movement to the left of Unali and grins as
he uses a finger in her arm to indicate it. Unali uses
her side vision and notices a dark form but the bushes are
too thick. She decides to draw her magical dagger just
slightly off the holster and then pretends to shift it
in the holster around.
Suddenly three darts flew from the right of Kell. Two
hit Kell. The third though, Unali's mind is warned a
half second and she steps back and tries to pull Kell
back with her. But this only forces him to turn his back
to the darts. Both impact squarely on his lower and mid
backs. The first bounces on his armor and falls on the
ground but the one on the lower back slips just under his
armor and hits him in the waist area.
Unali looks to the left and sees nothing. Then she
glances to the right and sees two men moving out of the
bushes toward them. But then as they get in sight Kell
drops to his knees and onto his side not moving.
Unali draws her other dagger just as the two men get
to the edge of the woos against the dirt trail. They
raise their swords and seem to slow down. This causes
Unali to glance behind and see another person this time
raising a tube toward her.
"We don't want to hurt you. Just drop your weapons
and we will talk from here." One of the men to her
right yells out.
The one to the left points the tube to her but does
not seem to use it. She tries to glance around but
is not sure if there is more than three and unsure
how many may be hidden. With Kell down and the others
at least a mile or two behind she considers her options.
"We aren't bandits. We just need to talk." The other
man to the right says. "Your friend is just knocked out.
He isn't dead."
[Time: 12:14:11 pm - Samma city, Donara]
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[Arawn/Jordi's Tavern]
[Time: 12:28:21 pm - Samma city, Donara]
The quiet tension builds then Arawn smiles at the General's
questions. This causes the tension to lower a bit.
"Truly? I would have imagined some would have passed through
the gates at Elysium to wander the Wild Wood," Arawn responded to
the lack of Alfar presence among the elves. Moving on to the
general's question he replied,
"Officially? Neither. Unofficially? Who knows."
"I came to this tavern of my own accord, though I cannot say
that divine fate has not led me here. But my appearance in the
Middle World... that is another thing and one wrapped in shadow.
It is part of my own personal quest and perhaps we may sit and
discuss if you desire and time allows for it. For now, I would
at least ask those present to keep my presence quiet."
The Elves nod in agreement as the humans are now gone from
the room.
"As to why I came to this tavern, I'm assisting one of the
Sidh with their quest and thought Jordi's knowledge and
connections might prove beneficial. In particular I have heard
of one who has the talent to mask or alter thoughts and memory
to fool others. I was hoping to see if the individual would be
willing to assist or teach such a technique to the questing
Sidh.
I would tell you more of the individual and the quest but
it's not my story to share. But if you and my ally are willing I
would see to a meeting where more can be shared. For now, suffice
it to say, if our mission fails the ensuing chaos could prove a
troublesome for all."
Two of the Elves look worried at those comments. But the
General and Jordi seem oblivious as if they've heard of
the doom of the planet thing every day.
"And, at the least, I would be willing to bless and seek
divine guidance for the council if you wish."
The General nods, "I'm not one for luck or blessings but
I know the others would appreciate that. I know the
humans would just scoff since they really have no idea who
you are. But for our people it would mean a great deal
at home. As to other Alfar there may have been others
but it may be before my time. Plus such things may have
been kept quiet. I know that some from the upper realms
have come down and remained aloof or in hiding never
telling anyone about it. Tamas was one such that we
didn't know was around till his death. That was a long
time ago."
Suddenly from the tavern a noise is heard. "You can't
bring that in here!" Others start to yell a bit or laugh
or make rude comments. Arawn turns to the door to check
out what is going on. The noise seems to die down a bit
as a muffled female voice is heard and then all noise seems
to silence.
A few seconds later the door opens and in steps a young
female elf in a flowing green and purple tunic with brown
pants, nice animal hide belt, a pendant of some sort on
her right breast area of some sort, nice walking shoes
and a necklace that looks golden that dips inside her
tunic to hide the bottom of the necklace.
She looks to be about 30 in human years but in Elf
terms that could be 50 or more. She has flowing blond
hair that reaches to her shoulders, bright green eyes
and a cute face for a slender body. She is carrying
a small bird cage of some sort.
"Callista! What are you doing here." The General
beams at a her entering.
"I was...directed here by our friend the seer. She
said once I see a white owl fly from a tree and then
a white fox run past I must find you."
The general moves toward her and wraps a arm around
her. "Arawn this is my wife Callista. She was supposed
to be across the river away from danger." He glares
at her for that last part.
She ignores him and places the bird cage on the table
before Jordi can protest. "You must be the one seeking
the Moon plant? I was told one would be here this day
by the signs and the seer. She told me to bring you
this bird. I've had it with us for the last month. I'm
not fond of birds myself but if she says to do so.." She
points to the bird which is a green winged bird the size
of a blue jay. It has a red crested head with yellow
beak. "This is a rare bird. They say they feed on the
flower you seek. They don't know how. During the full
moon nights they fly for hours all night in seek for the
plant you want. The say they can sense them up to a
dozen or so miles. The seer said that she does not know
where this plant is. But she is ware it is on the plains
as most times it is found there. Course this could be
hundreds of miles around this ...human ..." She shakes
her head avoiding the insult. "So she said to bring
this as well." She slips a hand in her small belt
pouch and draws out a talisman. "It is said only a
true warrior of the light. Only the truly loyal to the
ways of nature can use this item. It was created by
...means of a part of such a bird's body. I'm not told
which but to kill such a rare bird for this purpose was
bound to be grievous." She hands the talisman to Arawn.
Arawn glances at the mug bottom sized talisman. It
fits snugly in his palm. It is circular with tiny
gold and silver striping around it around runes of some
sort. It is unclear if the runes are Elven or not. The
back is flat and brown with no decoration. But the front
has a inner circle with a thin piece of needle size like
iron of some sort. Actually it almost looks like jade
rather than iron. Arawn uses his finger to touch it and
can sense magic from it for sure.
"I don't know how it works. But it is said to point to
the location of the plant. Only in general terms. Like
what those humans call a compass. It only gives direction
but not distance I'm afraid."
The general resigns to the rude interruption. "Well I
suppose this helps you? I need to get her to safety across
the river." He glances to one of the elves to depart and
summon his guards.
[Time: 12:37:55 pm - Samma city, Donara]
---Ending Time---
[Current time for each group]
[Time: 12:23:16 am - Samma city, Donara] - Fremea/Raban/Z'leyra/Kiet
[Time: 12:14:11 am - Samma city, Donara] - Kell/Unali
[Time: 12:37:55 pm - Samma city, Donara] - Arawn
Actions? Comments?
Next Update...Monday?
GM: Well I wanted to a bigger update. But last night had
some serious computer issues and thanks to our fearless
Faerry it is solved. But I ran out of time on it last
night. So this will have to do for now. It is a decent
size though. Next Monday if I get enough posts will do
another one. Thursday is Turkey day. I'm not a fan
of turkey so will be working that day. But I may have
a thing that night so I don't think I'll get a update
out for that Friday. But who knows if I get enough posts I
could try Wednesday. Plus I figure folks may be going out
of town. So no push to get replies out next week.
Happy Thanksgiving day!!!
GM: Fremea - enough info to work with? Follow up questions? Any
of you 3 can answer that. If not will assume you let
him leave and RUN away as fast as he can next update. At
that point what then? Tavern/regroup?
Kiet - let me know how you end Mavac.
Unali - Darn magical dagger! Blame Z'leyra.
Arawn - Looks like your part will be over soon. So if
anything to add or do let me know.
GM: Tasks to do -
* Find mysterious Mage - Upcoming updates
* Sell loot if possible Upcoming Updates
GM: Teams -
Jordi's Inn - Arawn
Barn - Fremea, Raban, Kell, Kiet, Z'leyra
Inn - Etain, Will
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