Smugglers of magic 16: The death of the reveler

General Summary

Lady disguised as Nua, triest to convince Fikri she still alive, Fikri listens but suspicious, partway through convo notices and then Matt burst in the door starting the fight. Fikri in a burst of fire blows the top floor up destroying many walls and pieces of the roof in fire. Fikri fights valiant and hard, but is quickly whidled down by the party their attacks, even as he tries to use the roof for cover. Matt annoyed he was kept out of the fight with wall of fire, drops his shield and with just his spear climbs through a hole onto the roof where from there he jumps and impales Fikri on his spear, falling down onto the ground with Fikri impalled.
Though they won that fight the party quickly set up as Fien through her card realizes Vena is free and coming towards the Red reveler club really quick. As he arrives people don't immediatly see him, except for Matt who used a truesight scroll and Fièn through her card. Vena looks monsterous in his transformed form, with gnarly batlike ears and nose, a sharp moutfull and his arms which have wings along them, even his body is twisted with longer claws and a more hunched posture. Through blood still lying on the top floor from the fight Vena creates mists of blood obscuring the battlefield, after which he looks for Lady, unable to see her (because lady went in hiding while using an invisibility scroll), Vena instead sneaks in the room and attacks Jade who thought she was hiding well on her broom right below the ceiling.
After that first attack, Vena quickly vanishes again, however as he triest to fly up to circle again Matt manages to just catch him in the air with a fireball scroll and javeling both, dealing major damage. Up in the sky Jade is there with the vampire and tries to hit him with a tidal wave but misses because the vampire is still invisible. After that jade rushes as far back as she can on her broom. Vena decides to instead target Fien to try and get information on where Lady is from her, Fien tries to hide by hanging upside down on the roof with her spiderboots, but vena notices and from the top of the roof claws through a hole and grabs lady, taking her into his beastly legs and flying into the air, asking where Lady is.
During this Irial manages to avoid most the fighting through his blink still up, he manages to run away unseen still and activates his wings cloak to be able to fly after vena when needed.
During this Zombies took the corpse of Letya (one of Vena's vampire spawn) from the floor below and now were ripping it apart, during which Lady also while still invisible fakes a scream of Letya, though the scream was not very convinicing, it seems to convince Vena who bites into and drops Fien, though fien nearly dies from the drop, she is saved by the horde of zombies from Jade who catch her fall. After that Fien still goes down 1 floor more through a hole, to be even safer.
Vena however turns his attention to the body of Letya being ripped apart and moves towards it with a sadness and hatred in his eyes. Vena rushes over to the undead ripping Letya apart and quickly kills all of them, realizing Letya is already dead he grieves for a second before moving on realizing the call must have been Lady who is somewhere around here.
Her tries to smell her out with his enhanced senses and start to slowly find her. Jade tries another attempt of a tidal wave which mostly misses again. Vena continues trying to figure out where Lady is, while lady went and hid INSIDE a horde of the undead to mask her smell. However Vena still roughly manages to pinpoint lady, in response to being hit and figured out lady transforms herself and her clothes into Mariette. She tried to convince Vena that she actually is Mariette, which Vena for a split second wants to believe, however he does not and attacks Lady instead. From which Lady is slashed, bitten and thrown away against a wall. after which Vena stands over her again closing the distance.
Seeing Lady about to die through a tiny opening with Vena over her Irial rushes over with his flight, he moves over the roof landing behind Vena and before hitting the ground slashing out at him, dealing a significant chunk of damage to the quickly weakening vampire. In response to Irial rushing in Matsrur rushes to not wanting to leave his friend do it alone. He rushes in and throws his magic shield with an incredible magicaly fueled force. this pushed him away of the body of Lady.
In retaliation to being hit, Vena uses his own blood to create blood spikes again which though Jade's undead try to save her finally get the better and drop Lady to the ground bleeding out, while also damaging Irial and Matt
After this Fien comes up being helped up by the undead of Jade out from the middle floor through a hole. Once up she throws the cards she can at the wounded Vena who nearly killed Lady with, however it is not enough dealing damage but him managing to dodge the worst of her tricks. Immediatly after Jade comes aroundon opening in the wall from outside on her broom, trying to hit the vampire with a lightning bolt which he manages to dodge through teleportation, ending right on top of Lady again.
Thinking he's won Vena strikes out at Lady while triumphantly looking up at the rest with a smile, but .... misses because of that arrogance, then when trying to strike again Matt distracts Vena by implying the 4th of his vampire spawn is dead too, which slips him up in anger causing him to miss again, however the final attack before people can react Vena finally manages to strike at lady dealing damage to the already bleeding out girl, which however wasn't enough yet to fully finish her. throug this slip up Irial takes the opportunity and flies up to Vena, striking once to slice the arm about to hit into Lady, then turning and in 1 quick swoop slicing off the head of the beastly vampire. Afterwards immediatly saving Lady with a healing potion.
Having beaten Vena and saved the city through killing Fikri as the witchhunters lynchpin, the party goes to the Stranded Sailor  through the city, which the chaos while still going has mostly died out. There Rodrigo welcomes them suprised and helps them out and gives them bandages and drinks. There the party talks and rests for the night. During this Lady asks why they saved her and the party some of them talk about their reasons showing a tiny bit of comraderie in some, and in others a more simple answer. As the sun is coming up a tiny bit Mattsrur with Irial after him go back to their territory, where Matt says goodbye to Irial, though they never truly say it Irial understands that Matsrur is going back home, to his wife and child, who he never mentioned and only Irial also knew of. Matt packs his things and money he'd been saving and leaves.
After the events of that night of the 11 and 12 of Wulf 655 the city quickly stabilized from here is described what happens in the future from there. Very quickly after the night, the witchhunters leave Bersail defeated only some stay to try and continue their work though those lunatics often don't get a lot done, though the witchhunters are gone the people of Bersail still distrust the "heretics". quickly after the witchhunters leave The 5 families retake control, putting the Fealcen family on trial for betraying the other families and exiling many of its prominent members. Some time later a new grand-priest of the faith is appointed and declares the witchhunters over, resulting in only small group of brigands continuing their job as witchhunters as unoficial zealots, though sadly often with support of lots of local people. the gangs of Bersail continue their tipical squabbling, though Red revelers fell apart and were likely taken over by the Fishmongers and Smugglers mostly, with maybe tiny territories being individual gangs that sprung up like maggots from the corpse of the revelers. Now as for individual people: Fien: She stays in Bersail deciding she now has enough history there to want to stay in the city, there she grows further as very soon she becomes the sole owner of the smugglers as the rest leave, she grows the business opening more casino's and trying to build her territory, though she tries to keep peace between the gangs, its unlikely to last. Fien also tries to expand into different cities with casino's which who knows how that goes. Fien over time becomes famous in the underworld of Bersail and beyond as both a fearsome combatant and the leader of a large criminal empire.
Flynran: Flynran was sold into slavery by Jade and Fien for what he had done, he ends up a servant slave to some rich and savage northern lord in Miovik.
Jade: Jade continues gaining more and better magic, after which she also visits Lytrin, meeting Rhiannonand her Baby there again, additionaly she travels further onwards into the mountains back to her hometown to meet her family again, there she kills her father and by right thus becomes the leader of her goblinoid tribe, though some of her siblings might challenge her, with her magic Jade would make quick work of them. With her tribe behind her, Jade roams the countryside of the cotinent and particularly Porondar, there she finds those witchhunters gangs left, or just commoners executing spellcasters and kills them in return. Through this Jade and her goblinoids become quite feared by the populace through the damage caused but spellcasters and heretics are gratefull to them. During this Jade also uses acrued wealth to erect towers over the conintent as well to function as wizard towers with teleportation circles to connect the continent for herself, additionaly she makes sure they serve as safe havens for spellcasters all across the continent. Somewhere far later in her life Jade additionaly achieves immortality through lichdom.
Matsrur: He left Bersail and that underworld, taking Lana Yakovna up on the deal of making sure they would not be chased he goes back to his wife and kid in camelot getting to live happy with them again, he now also has the money to provide for them into more luxury than they already had. Together with Edild(who left the gang behind too with her workers to follow Matt on his offer) they start a private mercanery company in the city for the various guilds of Camelot.
Irial: After the events of Bersail, Irial is free from his service to the Morrigan, but she still offers Irial to continue working for her as there are plenty more places where Irial's help could be needed. Irial accepts and so continues on into a world of the fey and spirits, writing wrongs in the timeline (at least what the morrigan finds wrong) and going to all kinds of places.
Rhiannon: Rhiannon after she left Bersail settled in Lytrin for a bit, where she has a kid who she names Damien. She married Hope and after the witchhunts are over moves back to Scarbell where a lot of her family is, during the wedding some of the party come over and tell her what all happens, which she uses to write an performance, which is later performed in Scarbell by her to great success.
Lady: When Irial leaves Lady for a while follows him, though she accepts he doesn't really love her, she learns to live with that, she simply travels with him to all the crazy places he goes for the Morrigan. After a while however she also has her own things to do, she seeks for and eventually finds Orlon living on the countryside somewhere. She VERY slightly connects with him, but mainly gives off money to him in order to support Orlon's kids, to give them an upbringing she never has. Together with the money Orlon still has this reaches the goal he'd need to give his kids an academic education in this medieval world the great goal Orlon was after. Over the years however Lady doesn't go well, she mentally deteriorates and never gets over Vena who she truly loves and now talks to the skull off, eventually this mental stage reaches a breaking point where her magic splits herself into 2. 1 creature has the feeling and emotion off the soul a weak being with all the feelings of Lady, the other creature the heartless one, is a creature of magical strength whose only goal is acrcruing more strength, a transformed magical monster this creature gains magic in her half soul whenever it defeats a worthy opponent. This creature keeps on going defeating enemies 1 by 1. While during this the weak creature tries to find Irial again to help her in the quest to reconnect with the heartless one before they die.

Report Date

25 Jul 2023