Chapter 32: Hunted, Hunter, Captured
General Summary
HEARTHFIELD PUB AND INN: THE FRISKY FIRBOLG
In a flash you feel and smell the muggy air of Hearthfield in the summertime. Outside of the war carrage, many carriages and horses pass as you have been transported in front of a public house, bursting with loud chuckles and revalries. A carving of a Firbolg with a sultry look on his face and his hand in his pocket hangs above a sign that reads "The Frisky Firbolg"
Sycamore doubles over from a horrible stomach ache and rests in his room.
The Sun has just gone down.
You walk into the bar as most of the patrons don't even mind the new arrivals. Patrons of all sorts of races partake in watery ale and dry bread to candlelight. Music in the air of the room as a Gnome bard strums a loot and sings a song.
-Ryuk tries to mimic the bard’s singing but just sounds like he’s 2 seconds behind the singer and gets pelted with a loaf of bread from Mugag.-
-Uul walks into the bar and casts flare distract, then minor illusions a version of Morrow’s face, asking if anyone has heard of him. People mind to themselves but some figures stand out.-
-Uul walks up to the bartender and the Tiefling and gets information from the bartender.-
-Ryuk walks up to Muggag and tells him he has a good arm, quickly charming him into becoming a Warlock of Bayez.-
IF THEY LOOK FOR PEOPLE OF INTEREST:
The Bard seems quite well dressed and comfortable in the bar. He must be a regular performer. His name is SARICK. She's seen Meivas, he normally kept to himself and often times listened to his music after spending all day in his room. Sarick would part with information for 50 gold.
A dwarven woman with a braded beard gives Budrash a look. She drinks from a large flagon and polishes a warhammer. BRULEBELL.
A Half-Orc with a black eye leans on the edge of the bar, looking at the door. He cracks his knuckles as you look at him. ROGTH
A grey skinned tiefling with curled horns sits at the bar, looking over at you, then back to the Halfling bartender. He wears a long leather coat and has a painted red crossbow slung over his back. On his sholderpads he has two smaller handheld crossbows affixed to his shoulders. CHEK
The tavern owner, a Halfling named XANNA refuses to let them in. "Locals only! We don't want no more trouble!"
CHA 15: Mont 'go a bunch of hairy lookin fellas and a Deva came in demanding to know where Morrow was! Broke po'or Mugag's nose!" She points to a half-orc with a poorly healed nose.
*If they mention that they are the Kings of leon, the Tiefling laughs and turns to them. "Kings of Leon are supposed to be dead. You're telling me that you're them?"
If they say yes, he buys them a drink.
"Takes a lot of balls to go down south like that."
-As they walk down the halls, they inform the Bartender that The Kings of Leon are not dead and that they killed the Ky. -
She takes them to a room and points to the door handle "Havn't been able to open the door since a mont' ago"
IF THEY TRY TO GRAB CONST SAV THROW OR TAKE 1d6 FIRE DAMAGE
It's magically locked with Arcana 10+ Check.
STR Check 20+ to burst through.
IN MORROW'S ROOM
As you enter the dark room, a cold draft blows in from a the large broken window. The inside of the room is a mess, a desk covered in paper both torn and put together, bed with the mattress displaced and blankets were strewn about, and a chest that looks like its been pryed open.
-Ryuk tries to break the door down with a ram reinforced by gust but can’t. Uul gaseous forms under the door and gets in. Seeing the chest, he searches it and gets his hand bitten by the mimic. Ryuk misty steps in from the crack under the door and engages the Mimic who is blown away by Uul who ignites his robe, casts thunder wave, and shoots the Mimic with a crossbow. Budrash kicks the door down and Ryuk narrowly dodges the door before getting jumped on and bitten by the mimic. Ryuk casts sword burst on the Mimic before Lerai hits it with a sacred flame, detatching it from Ryuk’s arm. Budrash kills the mimic by cutting it up with his hand axe.-
CHEST MIMIC:
HP: 50
AC: 12
ATK: +6 1d8 + 6 Bite
SPELL:
ADHESIVE: DC 13
Grapple Advantage
INVESTIGATE THE BED: Drops of blood stain the sheets. This could be Morrows, but as you inspect. the blood splatter is probably not from a slash mark as they are clean drips.
INVESTIGATE DESK: Piles of books from "The Devic Order: A Complete History" to "Mystery of the Blue Skinned, are the Deva and Triton working together?!" are scattered across the desk. Morrow's writing is everywhere on the inside of these books to sheets of paper. "Deva origins?" "How close to the Eternals are the Deva, really."
TORN UP PAPER IN CELESTIAL: "FACILITY 18"
Letter from Rivah IN CELESTEAL:
Dearest Morrow,
I must confess, I was made uncomfortable by your last letter. I feel the need to remind you that while the integrity of our envelopes may be uncomprimised, the Devic Order has ways of reading unseen text. Your interest in our work is understandable. As someone of your blood, curiosity must boil within you after a mortal's lifetime of being surrounded by the Deva. You may not like hearing it. But the importance of the Devic Order's work cannot be explained on paper. Not to someone like you. I urge you to give up your incessant questioning. Hiran wants to report you to the Will of the Stars. I don't think that's necessary, do you?
Let's hope not.
I wish you the best,
Rivah.
INVESTIGATE to find that the letter was from Hammerhead. (A sigil stamp of a Deva with one arm stretched out to the left and the other making a fist (Like a Hammer) History check to find out that that is the sigil of Hammerhead.
WHEN THEY GET BACK DOWN:
The bar has been evacuated and you see Chek (Or the Tiefling) hand the bartender a sack of gold as the door shuts.
"Now then, howdy again y'all."
To make fun of Chek, Ryuk disguises himself into Chek’s form and starts mimicking him.
"Kings of Leon are still wanted by the Bounty Hunter's Guild. N Fact, Y'all are no longer just a normal contract, you're a Glory Bounty. I actually came to this here city lookin for more information on y'all. If you could please kindly turn yerselves in to me, I'd be much obliged."
They find out that the Glory Bounty on The Kings extends only to those who killed the Fenden Family: Ky-Uul, Ryuk, Sycamore, And Budrash.
"I'm not a fan of killin, never try to do it. You have my word I wont Kill y'all but I'm gonna make it hurt if you refuse to come with me."
He cracks his back and sighs as he spins his heavy crossbow around and shows it to you. "See this here crossbow? I don't wanna use it, but if I have to, I will." As two floating mage hands appear and equip themselves with the crossbows on his shoulder.
-Then, Ryuk and Uul hatch a plan to kill Chek instead of going with him so Ryuk can cash in the glory bounty on the Kings. Ryuk and Uul and engage Chek, Ryuk eldritch blasting him and Uul casting magic missle on him, but failing because . Uul blinds him and Ryuk makes him go deaf as Budrash blasts him with his electric breath. Lerai does her best to keep up. Chek casts Arcane Eye as he continues to blast the group with magic imbued crossbow bolts, even sending Budrash to a Fay forest for a time period. Ryuk engages Chek and blights is arm only to be caught in an electric net thrown by Chek. Uul animates 5 of the bar’s chairs to start beating down on Chek. Chek fires an arrow from his heavy crossbow at Lerai who heals Ryuk, but Uul divinities Chek’s bolt into erupting all over him, covering him in poisonous burs and breaking the string of his heavy crossbow. Chek is then beaten to death by the animated chairs.-
-Ryuk loots Chek, taking his clothing, Crossbows, and his ID card to be able to perfectly assume the form of Chek Kovsgun.-
-The Kings hatch a plan to get into the Bounty Hunter’s Guild with Ryuk disguised as Chek, Lerai disguised as Ryuk, and Chek’s dead body Disguise Self-ed as that of Sycamores. -
-They decide to ditch their War Carriage and walk to the guild with a crying Budrash carrying false Sycamore on his shoulders.-
-Ryuk stops in a Tabaxi owned Armory and successfully impersonates Chek, learning from the smith who knows him, that Chek has 2 young children that he raises on his own. Ryuk gets Chek Kovsgun’s Heavy Crossbow repaired and buys 5 Poison Arrows and 3 Dynamic Matter Arrows. -
-As they continue to walk, they realize they don’t know where the bounty hunter’s guild. They convince Lerai-yuk to ask a nearby Bugbear, NUTTIR who is smoking 2 cigarettes in an alley for directions. Lerai fails to get any information from Nuttir as he wants to be left alone, but Lerai persists, resulting in Nuttir punching her in the face and breaking her disguise self spell. This confuses Nuttir but Chek-yuk aggressively tells Nuttir that Lerai-yuk is his prisoner. Wanting to diffuse the situation, Uul casts Greater Invisibility on Budrash and tells him to “Go for it.” Budrash carries the false Sycamore’s body and puppeteers it, Weekend and Bernie’s style and asks for the location of the Bounty Hunter’s Guild. Nuttir gives them directions and escapes this uncomfortable situation.-
-They get to the Bounty Hunter’s Guild. A Large, Brutalist square building that is as empty inside as it is large on the outside. They walk to the secretary Vorlu And Chek-Yuk successfully convinces him that he is Chek, even after admitting to killing Sycamore, the first time Chek ever would have killed a target. VORLU Takes Lerai-yuk, Budrash, Uul, and the falls Sycamore away and congratulates Chek-Yuk on becoming a Guild Member, informing him that his guild card will be sent to his address.-
-Vorlu Takes the rest of the kings to their cell, briefly stopped by Ress in a hallway who remarks that he’s surprised the Kings were caught. Vorlu moves the Kings to a cell and tries to cuff them, but after they give him too much trouble he just locks them away, magic locking the door with a wand, Uul counter spells the lock, and Vorlu Locks it again. Vorlu Informs them that the final living member of the Fenden family is on his way to deal with them. He then uses a different wand that casts Resilient Sphere on the space.-
-Meanwhile, back in the lobby, Ryuk grabs Vorlu’s attention and asks to see if the Guild has his address correct. Ryuk learns that Chek lives in the outskirts of Hearthsfield and takes his leave, grabbing the war carriage and making his way to Chek’s house to wait until the Kings free themselves. -
-In their cell, Uul prepares for the groups’ grand escape, Lerai expresses her worry for their situation as Uul polymorphs himself into a T-rex, crushing Lerai, Budrash and himself in the cell. Uul de-polymorphs himself and stabilizes Lerai, realizing that they are now trapped.-
Report Date
07 Mar 2019
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