(G344 03/02/2018 via Roll20 - AP, JF(GM), MJ) WA22

(G344 03/02/2018 via Roll20 - AP, JF(GM), MJ) WA22

DAY 311 (16th Hammer)(January) cont ...

Now I admit at this point, when I first heard this story retold to me, as I committed it to paper, that my first thought was 'I bet they just go to their beds now, without a care in the world and give everyone in the valley enough time to come to terms with the fact that watchmen from the city have just shown up.'
So, fair play to Fenrir and his friends that they did not do that. Perhaps they are finally learning from all their past mistakes?

I am thankful to record then, that they did not rest that night, judging wisely that the perpetrators of the crime of dragon bothering would most likely be all a flutter and highly active that night.

Fenrir, flying and invisible, with Arahel, flying and invisible as a will-o-wisp flew to Berwin Bale's house at around seven o'clock that evening.

They could not gain entrance, but after about ten minutes Bale, accompanied by a guard, exited via the front door. Fenrir and Arahel followed her to Lord Paynon's manor house.

The doorman ushered her in quickly and Arahel zipped inside also. Fenrir made a noise (he sniffed!) though and  everyone froze. He froze too, not wanting to give his position away further, so was left outside when the door was shut.

Arahel followed Bale into the bowels of the house where she met Paynon. Paynon ordered a servant to 'Fetch Tamba Wazerio from his tower!' and then offered Bale some wine.

Fenrir managed to get through an upstairs window. He listened to some servants talking in another room, but could not make out the words and made his way downstairs.

I'm totally confused as to what happened next, but I think Fenrir followed a messenger out of the house for a bit, then made his way back in through the window again. In any event he managed to get into the room where Paynon and Bale were.

By this time the meeting room contained:
Lord Paynon
Berwin Bale
Tamba Wazerio - a man that seemed to be a wizard of some kind
2 unknown men
1 unknown woman

Fenrir used his 'Detect Magic' ability to also discern that Arahel was in the room, floating up by the
chandelier.

The people in the room were talking about Fenrir and his friends. They were agitated and after some discussion Paynon said, 'Well, our course is clear. We need to kill them. They are too close to discovering our secrets.'
The other's nodded agreement.

At this point, the chaotic Fenrir, the one that acts first and thinks later that I am more familiar with returned. He swept the whole room with two eldritch blasts. He was gaining power now and could not only do a cone shaped blast, but chain them from one person to another. He did one of each and the only person left alive to react after that was Tamba Wazerio.
The wizard did look charred, but still had enough life left in him to step into the shadows and vanish.

Fenrir appeared and had a look around. The wizard had gone, using a Shadow Walk spell.
'Not fair!' he cried as Arahel appeared (if a will-o-wisp could face-palm it would have been doing it now)
'Not fair! How could he have survived that? All these other's got burned to a crisp! Even if he was a really high level wizard he must have... how? That's cheating! Cheating wizards, I hate them!'
Arahel didn't know much about wizards but could see that everyone else in the room was very dead indeed. Whatever she thought about Fenrir's latest set of murders she was still willing to help stuff all the bodies into Fenrir's bag of holding for later looting.

Veddic was just thinking about changing for bed when they arrived through the window and told him. 'Pack your things, we're leaving!'

At around ten at night, they walked out the inn and through the city gates. They then returned to Haggam's cave.

DAY 312 (17th Hammer)(January)

They arrived at the cave at about one in the morning. The hermit was asleep but awoke as the entered.

They spent the night in the cave and in the morning they asked him how much treasure he thought had been stolen. 'About a wheelbarrow load I expect,' was the answer.

As Haggam tidied up the breakfast things and started to wash the dishes he was shocked to see them pull six burnt corpses from a bag and then proceeded to relieve them of their rings, jewellery, coins and anything else that looked valuable.

As they did so they discussed their next move. Various ideas were floated, one of which was to go and talk to the dragon.
'I don't think that will work,' warned Haggam. 'The dragon will kill anyone he finds in his lair without question. Like a man killing a rat in his house.'
They thought about Arahel taking on a form that the dragon might be more friendly towards or leaving it a letter written in a language it might understand.

In the end though, it seemed clear that in order to prevent its full wrath they should find the missing treasure and bring it back. If they had that with them when they next went to see it, it might not kill them straight away.

Their first port of call would be the scene of Fenrir's latest crime - Lord Paynon's house.