The Murderer at Ellenar Report
General Summary
Kursi 36
Watching the port for the ship that (supposedly) has the murderer on it, Adaon decides to cast the spell wallflower so that people won't really notice him. Ivan decides to explorer the city and Evelyn decides to see if she can find a wizard shop.
The Ælf who runs the wizard shop is obviously over 800, as she is starting to look old.(Note: Ælfs between 320 and 800 all look like they are about 25 to 30-year-old humans in age, thereafter they start to age slowly until they die of old age, ending up looking the same as venerable humans.) Her name is Sweterun (lit: 'Sweet Mystery"). Evelyn discusses the possibility of teleporting to Darron, and Sweterun says that far would cost 500 blun per trip.
In his wanderings Ivan finds wanted posters for Adaon, Cyren, Monster, and Lord X. With the town guard's permission he takes these back to the Inn and shows them to Adaon and Cyren. With everyone together, Evelyn comes up with a plan to scam the city and turn in Adaon's hat for a reward, proving that he and Monster are dead, thus eliminating his "wanted" status. The elaborate plan includes enscorcelling Evelyn so that she actually believes the story that she will tell the guards and clouds her memories of Adaon. Adaon decides that it's best to use his spell "mirror mind" to save all of Evelyn's memories, just in case. As this requires using a rock of at least two tonnes, Evelyn insists that they find one that has graffiti of a dick on it to store her memories. This spell is so thorough, that it is a sorceric means of (literally) backing up the whole person; including personality, thus can be used as a means of resurrection (when combined with other magics).
Adaon casts the spell on Evelyn and flubs it! A mystery spell ensues... Apparently nothing happened at the moment... What is it? What will happen from here? As Adaon knows that he screwed up, he explains this to Evelyn. They decide that trying to back her up again isn't worth it. So, for practice to get himself into the immersion of the illusion cast into Evelyn's brain Adaon decides to cast "Adventure" - spell whereby he creates an illusory, immersive world within several people's dreams. He draws the whole party into this "dream". He succeeds in this new spell.
After casting several spells to make the illusory memories stick and be realistic to Evelyn, Evelyn goes and hangs around one of the wanted boards. She takes the poster and finds a couple of guards who take her to the guard station. The sergeant listens to her tale and decides to take her to his superiors. Once there they have a wizard cast a spell on her. The wizard clears her, stating that the memories are real, so they thank her and try to dismiss her. She mentions the reward for them all... Sighing, the captain agrees to give her the reward for Monster, but only 200 blun for the other two. She gives Adaon (in her mind Adelle) the 2500 blun they agreed to.
Around dinner time they go back to look for the ship that Randall (the suspected murderer) is coming in on. As Randall comes up from the dock, Ivan, Adelle (Adaon), and Evelyn ambush him. He resists, of course, and is clocked by Adaon such that he is stunned, so Ivan grabs him and the two of them walk through Adaon's portal to Porte-Entre-Portes with Randall and go straight to Adaon's shack.
Big discussion ensues between the three on how to outfit the shack in the future... An interesting sidebar...
Randall is put against the wall by Ivan, and Adaon looks into Randall's eyes to read his mind. He finds that Randall did do the first murder, but was involved with a woman in the other two, and that Angelique's murder was accidental (an assault that wasn't intended to kill). They take Randall to the city guard. Ivan wants to torture him to death because of the killing of the others. Adaon says, "No." However, he does use "Thief of Time" on him, stealing three years of Randall's life and adding them to Adaon. However, Ivan does take one of Randall's teeth.
Ivan wanted to take Randall's fingernails and toenails, then fingers and toes. Adaon nixed that, and stated that the tooth is a consolation. "Take it or leave it." Ivan took the tooth.
They get to the guardhouse, and the captain remember's Adaon. Therefore, he believes that Randall is guilty, per Adaon's testimony. Adaon uses the planar sword to update Evelyn, as he has agreed to testify at the trial.
After the briefing, Evelyn goes to Sweterun's shop and pays for a one way trip to take at 8 am. She then pays for a couple more nights at The Drunken Mermaid.
Kursi 37
The next morning Ivan goes to the Temple of Althea and tells Clarence that they are going to clear his name. Clarence is quite pleased. He comes out of hiding immediately. Through their discussions Ivan gives Clarence an open invitation to Bear Keep. He then goes and speaks to the widow and lets her know what's going on, too. She decides that she will likely use the earnings from the ship to support herself.
Ivan walks back to the shack and finds Adaon in a 1/2 metre deep hole in the floor the entire size of the house's floor, using magic to create a new lower floor. Adaon then makes a staircase down into the floor magically, kind of freaking out Ivan. Adaon explains his plans to build a couple of stories downwards in the cabin so that it is inconspicuous.
They then go to the guardhouse and find that the trial is in 18 days. Ivan is shocked by this, but Adaon explains that it's really not that long, and is probably expedited for their sake. Ivan is skeptical until Adaon explains that this is a major port city and probably has a lot of crime.
When they get back to the cabin they start to plan how to make this place the way that would be best for Adaon's future plans.
Adaon then uses the sword to see what Evelyn is doing and finds a note that she has gone fishing. He then goes to the stone. and finds that there is no magic there. He then travels back to his shack where Ivan is waiting and making a crude sculpture of Adaon. "I was bored." explains Ivan.
Meanwhile Evelyn has gone to Darron. She used Cyren's sunder stone so no-one can trace her (which Cyren gave to her). From there she did some shopping and then booked a ship along the southern coast to the next major port.
For the next couple of days Adaon works on his house, continuing to build downwards, with suggestions from Ivan on how to improve the design. After two days he discovers that Evelyn has used Cyren's sunder stone to make it so that she cannot be traced as to where she has gone. This puzzles him and the rest of the group, since she said nothing to them. He searches his memories of what he learned from his past times when he read her mind and realizes that in her culture "gone fishing" is also a term that is the equivalent to the modern Australian term "gone walkabout."
Session ends here. Date is Kursi 39.
Rewards Granted
Evelyn was given 10,200 blun for the reward proving Monster's death. She gave 2500 of this to Adaon.
Adaon of Datova
Report Date
12 Jul 2020
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