16 April 2010
I ask Julienne about the changes at the palace. She says that some of the guards and even nobles have been rounded up for questioning. We leave.
We head for the mage academy. Along the way I notice small animals seem to be watching us. I tell the group.
We arrive at the mage academy, I wave my pass and we head to see Aaron. We are stopped by the receptionist and she asks us what we are interested in and she can direct us to the right person. We tell her we are asking about Valmarellian, teleportation and animal control. She says she will ask if Aaron will see us, and he does.
He says, so you are interested in Valmarellian. Why? I explain what Gnorm said. He says that Val has been studying arts that allow mind control. Kross asked, “of animals?” Aaron said, “No, not really. He relishes controlling sentient beings.” He has a very powerful wand that has stored energy that can keep firing even if he has no energy left personally. We are done with Aaron and go back to talk to the aide. We ask to see Igor, who is a gnome working in the lab, to see about something to control teleportation and defense against mind control. She says Igor is not available but we can see one of his apprentices. A page comes and takes us to another building, down in the sub basement. We go past several doors to a room with 4 small desks. It is pretty cramped but there are 4 people at the desks. They look up and we ask what we want and they say they can research it. We pay them 4 silver each and they say they will be ready tomorrow at noon. We leave to go to the skyfather’s temple.
On the way I notice a cat looking at us funny. I do magesight and see no magic in the cat or anywhere around other than small expected magic items here and there. Jarlyn detects no evil out of the ordinary.
We get to the Temple of the Skyfather and talk to Matthias. He directs us to the Temple of Hospin to report about the slavers and refers us to the temples of Veridon and Aladan to ask about items to suppress teleportation or guard against mind control. Jarlyn asks about Kelgar and Matthias tells us the four leaders of the Red Talon are Kelgar Coalbeard, Arvagh, Valmarellian, Yanna Windhand. We thank Matthias and leave. We head toward the temple of Hospin.
On the way there as Kross passes by a cat, it hisses and runs away. As we pass underneath a crow it caws and jumps. He tells us about it and I approach the crow to do magesight. As I get close I notice that it is still looking at the group. I tell the group members to come over to me one at a time. Jarlyn comes and the crow keeps looking at the others. Ghoral comes over and the crow continues to look at Kross and Glaive. Just then a shutter is opened and the crow flies away.
We go to Hospin and talk to Helen. We tell her about who is behind the slavery and she gets very tense.
We head back to the inn and on the way I notice a dog looking at us. I am able to narrow it down to Kross.
We get back to the inn, eat dinner and go to bed. During the night, on Jarlyn’s watch we wake to find a spectral creature with it’s hand in Kross’s gut.
Segment 12! Jarlyn scares off the undead creature (wraith) with his Turn Undead spell.
+2 XP