Session 11: Help at the House of Mercy
General Summary
Notes by Fizzywit Thimbledown
Tirsday, Secondden, Wolf Moon, 751 AC Lawless Steppes
- We are pulling up on Pendril
- Gate is open
- Black wall that looks like it was made by magic
- Glossy Black wall
- One ox cart rolling into the city, not a lot of people
- Follow the edicts and judgement will come for you
- Magic judgment
- Large pillar next to the gate
- Fizzywit does some reading
- Deep blue marble white lettering
- 4 phrases
- Thou shalt not harm another
- Thou shalt not deprive another of lawful property
- Thou shalt not break a lawful agreement
- Thou shalt not use magic other than sourced from the gods
- Man in the nice green coat come over (conversation ensues)
- Asks if we have been here before
- Welcoming for the law abiding
- Tower of clouds keeps them safe
- Green guy's name is Daughten faye
- Looks nice
- Hand shaking with Roux
- Asks what brings us there
- Travelers of fine taste and distinguished
- Recommends the Powdered Pig inn
- Close to the Tower
- Tell them he sent us
- Tell us not to cause trouble
- Large thriving metropolis
- Tarric asks about heart disease clerics
- North west part of the city is where the great temples are
- They have a saying to always treat strangers with kindness
- Extends arm and leads Ishta and the rest into the city
- We all follow
- Pendril streets are laid out straight
- 2 gates Mud Gate and Lawless Gate
- Lawless cause they lead to the Lawless Plains
- Lawless due to weather
- Giant tower in the center of the city
- Nice well repaired buildings
- Does not appear that dense in population
- Don't see many residences
- Feel queasy air shivers and everything wobbles
- Hear a voice
- Several years past broke a contract
- Man vanishes
- Ishta asks about the 7 years ago judgment
- Ask Daughten about the rules
- There are grievances and they file them
- Violence is quite frowned upon
- Asks if Tarric is a man of the cloth
- Tarric answer about being a follower and keeping their gods
- Arrive at the Powdered Pig
- Red two story timbers
- Sign with smiling pig with blonde curls
- Everything is pink in the inn
- Young man greets us we ask for food and rooms
- Rooms are nice
- 5 gold per room
- Dinner is 3 gold
- Istha asks if there is a cheaper place around here
- We get directed to a cheaper place
- We head away from the tower
- Into the town
- Ishta suggests camping outside the place
- City is chiller than Katzpütch
- Meat on a stick for sale
- We hear “look I just need more time!”
- Person being ‘pushed’ against an alleyway
- Time does not change someone would repay their debt
- Big bald muscley guy behind them
- Guy who is being shoved up against the wall is wearing a holy symbol
- He owes him 10 gold
- I give him 10 gold
- Bald man gives us a quizzical look
- Eyes us suspiciously
- Says he held a spear prior to retirement
- Tarric asks about the medallion
- He works at the House of Mercy
- Don't talk about the plague
- We ask to be taken to the temple
- It's going to be a full moon
- Ishta takes out gold bracelet of Arithmatica
- We head to the temple
- He takes some wrong turns
- Its dark…
- Ishta stay close
- Reena sounds like the healer
- Temple is a small wooden building
- Classic catholic church
- Door is locked and shut
- Not huge but decent sized
- Ishta knocks
- Twice
- Someone yells back
- Says go around back
- Plain door around the back
- Dark hair young women splattered in blood
- Leather apron white blouse all spattered in blood
- In one had a saw other hand bloody towel
- She goes back and there is a leg in a bucket
- Can she remove a curse?
- She says she is understaffed and limited number of miracles
- Fizzywit hold and applies pressure to the wound
- We stabilize the leg
- She apologizes and says that she is surgery and that
- Walks behind a changing screen
- Really basic
- Tell her about Ishta
- She needs a drink
- Says we will have to put him down cause there is no cure
- Introduces herself as sister Reena
- Used to be a working hospital everyone left to go save the poor
- We need “special incense”
- The Van Gratenss supply never arrived
- The merchant was attacked
- Twelve days ago
- Supply wagon from Katzpütch never showed up
- She doesn't know what's going on along the road
- She keeps drinking
- Seems overwhelmed
- Suggests we kill Ishta again
- Tarric and Ishta head out of the city towards the Lawless Steppes
- Not much outside the city just some roads and field
- They keep moving away
- Tarric and Ishta prepare to play wack a rat
- Ishta takes 11 points of damage due to failure of punches
- Ishta is knocked out
- Moon starts coming up
- Tarric tried to set her nose
- Its better
- Red Moon is rising now still nothing exciting
- Back at house of Mercy
- Sister eats something
- Half study half quarters, its a mess
- There is nothing to eat in this place
- We follow them to go get food
- 20 min walk
- Arrive at an inn
- 2 story
- Bright red sign
- Red Drum
- Looks like an Eldorian legionnaire drum
- Common room looks empty
- Basic
- Smells like bread and stew
- Eldorian legion standard hangs on the wall
- Behind the bar early 50’s strong man with white beard
- He has a peg leg
- 4 bowls of stew 4 bowls of ale
- Super is at sundown
- Roux slides him a silver
- We will read about incense
- And don't need a room
- He asks what I helped Callum with earlier today
- I politely decline to share
- Rats bane or whatever
- She doesn't know how to concoct any of that stuff hersel
- Long time till the abbot returns
- Finish dinner
- We go back to the church she goes to sleep
- I spend all night researching
- Roux also stays up all night
- Found some ways to approximate Wolfsbane
- Shorter days less sunlight
- Sometimes it's pink sometimes its purple we need the purple stuff
- Bookmark and set the book aside
- Dawn
- Ishta wakes up with a splitting headache
- Ishta has a broken nose
- Claim it looks better than before
- They come to find us
- Get some food and the silver stings Ishta
- Everyone comes back to the house of Mercy
- Guy without the leg is yelling
- He is missing the leg and seems upset
- He is upset and yelling
- And Ishta tells him to bite on a spoon
- Pastries for days!
- Reena is just waking up
- Fizzywit sitting at the desk reading
- Ishta says he didn't turn last night
- Reena asks for a doughnut
- Ishta offers a doughnut in exchange for telling us where purple wolfsbane is
- They come from the Feserune forest
- Near Wargun… so probably very far away
- Ask for names and there are none
- Offers to do it free if we can find the cart
- She goes to help the spoon
- We are probably heading back to Katzpütch looking for a shipment
- We go to get supplies
- People run past us screaming
- Cavalry trumpet
- Something massive comes thundering at us along the ground
- Tall and looks like a horse
- Has big horns