DAY 350 (23rd Alturiak)(February) cont...
While Fenrir worked, Veddic got the guards of the house on Wizard's Cut arranged.
He hired:
15 swordsmen
2 sergeants
2 rogues
1 wizard
The fee was negotiated down to a whopping 210 gold a day.
Random grudgingly agreed to pay it for the foreseeable future and also allowed a budget of 50,000 gold for traps.
Fenrir had a new start at work today, a young half-orc maid called Zeni Indenor, a sorceress whose main qualification for the job was that she own a Broom of Flying.
Her first day was windy, so they didn't do much flying, but the did bump into Grannie Stormskuttle as
she left the city.
'Why are you still not going through the gates like I asked you?' chided Fenrir.
'Oh, its like that is it?', she replied tartly. 'Tell me, have you conducted all your business back in my valley? Oh, on an unrelated note I heard that Castle Dread got attacked. It's a den of thieves right enough, but things like this happening are of interest to me. Have you heard about it?'
'Be on your way,' growled Fenrir, motioning the old busy body to depart his city.
'Is this how it is?, asked Zeni. 'I heard Dressdelle was quite corrupt and took bribes.'
Fenrir shrugged. 'Maybe she did.'
After work he returned to Spectre Island and talked to Random. Among other things, Fenrir learned that the ship he had attacked was called "The Uncultured Strumpet" and luckily they were an independent outfit. It looked like this particular episode might not leave any loose strings after all.
Random also said he would try and find the merchant that Fenrir rescued.
They also discussed the situation with Fayder. Fenrir was determined to get rid of this nuisance and they talked at length. When Fenrir told him the strange song that Fayder had sung at the eatery and the lyrics written in his hallway in blood Random said;
'Oh you know, that rings a bell. I've a feeling I know where his hide out is! Those words are from the songs of Pixies. Everyone knows these songs in Westgate, they've been around for years, but a few people know where they originate from. They are said to live in part of the southern forest of Cherborn. Go and ask Nexelmode for the location as she'll surely know it.'
Later that evening Fenrir flew back to his house on the Wizard's Cut.
DAY 352 (24th Alturiak)(February)
Today Veddic resurrected the last of the servants. Later Fenrir would work his charm to convince them that being murdered in his house was definitely a one off and that they should stay.
At work Fenrir met Zeni again and they also gained another person - Relleme, a gnomish lady who flew on the back of a giant celestial bee called Honey. She was a monk, not ideally suited to aerial combat, but the DAW just had to take what they could get.
So it was her very first day on the job then, that the DAW had one of their most spectacular fights over the city. An Elder Arrowhawk, for some unknown reason, decided to start eating the guards on the wall so Fenrir, Zeni and Relleme flew out to fight it. Fenrir did most of the work, as the Arrowhawk zapped him with its electrical rays, the warlock returned fire with his eldritch blast until the monster was slain, tumbling down from the sky and landing in someone's back garden on Gromit Street.
That evening Fenrir invited the ladies back to his house, charming as always, showing off his plush new residence and generally being a good host.
I should imagine the Relleme was all rather stunned by the day on the whole as she had only joined the watch three weeks earlier on a whim.
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