(G363 04/08/2018 via Roll20 - AP, JF(GM)) WA40

(G363 04/08/2018 via Roll20 - AP, JF(GM)) WA40


DAY 368 (8th Ches)(March) cont ...

Fenrir had just arrived back in Waterdeep to find his girlfriend had been tricked into marrying the former household servant Teru.

After a short sleep he awoke and talked to Giselle at greater length, attempting to come up with a plan.

From Giselle he learned that Teru was clever and cunning, but he was also very paranoid about being attacked by the likes of Corum or Fenrir who he knew were men of greater power than he.
To protect himself he had hired an 'ugly dwarf' and was turning the family house into a fortress. He may have also installed a secret tunnel.

After breakfast Fenrir set off north, flying and invisible. As an extra precaution he used is disguise kit to alter his appearance.

He inevitably got lost. As night fell he considered sleeping in a tree, but could  not find a suitable tree.

In the end he paid a happy farmer five gold for a room in his house.


DAY 369 (9th Ches)(March)

As you know dear reader, I am a druid. So it very much pains me to recount - yet again! - Fenrir's hopeless wanderings between Waterdeep and Kryptgarden.

Even when just following the road he managed to get lost and it took him  much longer than it should have to reach the Huntsman's Inn, which lies more or less halfway between the city and my father's estate.

He kept going past the inn as it got dark. He then got lost skimming over the tops of the trees, having lost sight of the road. It was at that point he remembered he had a compass and he dug it out of his bag of holding.

It was useless to him though, in the dark, when he didn't know where he was in relation to where he was going. He headed towards the nearest lights.

An ugly man in a dirty apron answered the door. 'What do you want?' he demanded. Fenrir couldn't say anything though before the door was slammed in his face.
He knocked again, the door was opened and a crossbow was fired at him.

Things escalated quickly from there and more bolts were fired from the upstairs windows. Fenrir burst in, killed two of the villains and stormed upstairs. He killed another and then discovered a room with six people chained up within.

He checked the rest of the house before releasing them and found an old man sat at a table downstairs. He offered no resistance, but Fenrir killed him anyway while one other man escaped through the back door.

Fenrir went back to the prisoners. One of them was dead, but the others he healed with his wand of Cure Light Wounds and fed from his box of provisions.

One of them, a man called Vink Jongler told them that he was a charcoal burner and his house was only a mile or so away in the forest so they went there.
Jongler's wife was understandably delighted to see him alive.
Apparently the villains had arrived in the area a few months ago and had been killing and robbing anyone they could catch.

Fenrir was given the best room in the house for the night.


DAY 370 (9th Ches)(March)

Fenrir got his bearings and headed off on his travels once more. He eventually arrived at Ottery St. Mary at about eight at night.

At ten he arrived at the Gnesher Lodge House. He flew around it, noting that all the windows now had bars on them. The back door had been bricked up.

The servants quarters were a different building and he went and knocked on the door. He was still invisible so he soon caused a ruckus.
He saw Sten Arbutt and Betburn Tinner, who is vaguely recognised as the First and Second Footmen. He also saw the 'ugly dwarf' who was indeed ugly.

The main house and the servant's house erupted into chaos. While he was indoors Fenrir heard the clatter of horses hooves as it took off down the road outside.
After about a half hour of both houses being in turmoil everything settled down again. Fenrir had managed to sneak into the main house and when Sten went around to lock up Fenrir approached him. There was no sign of Teru.

'Sten, where is Teru?' asked Fenrir forgetting that he was in disguise.
'Who are you? What have done with his lordship?' gasped Sten before making a run for it.

Fenrir sighed and started to search the house, looking for secret doors. He started in the kitchen then moved to the living room. After about twenty minutes a dozen mounted guards arrived, men that had come down with my father, Sir Humber Lavius, from  the Kryptgarden Estate.

Fenrir remained hidden though and eventually my father left, leaving six men to  guard the house for the night. Fenrir followed him, perhaps realising he had  caused enough chaos at the Lodge for one night.

On arrival he had to remove some of his diguise to prove who he was as my father's first reaction was to say, 'Well you don't look like him!'

Once that was dealt with, my father offered him some port in his study and  Fenrir took him through the highlights of his recent activity.


DAY 371 (10th Ches)(March)

My old man, he's a funny sort of fellow. I say old, in reality he's only in his fifties. I am his youngest son, he fathered me when he was thirty, but anyway he seemed happy enough to be involved in whatever madness Fenrir was cooking up.

In the morning, after breakfast, Fenrir went down to the Lodge again. He started by checking the stables. There were six stalls and a coach. There were four fresh looking horses.
He remembered he had heard someone riding a horse away from the Lodge last night and decide to fly down to the Huntsman's Inn.

He spent the night there, but the innkeeper told him, 'Teru's a bastard, but he hasn't  been here. Owes me ten gold. The only other thing I can think of, my lord, is that some say he sometimes rides north into the forest. Seems a dangerous thing to do that.'


DAY 372 (11th Ches)(March)

Fenrir flew back to the Lodge and arrived at eight in the evening. He checked the stables and saw that it now contained five horses.

He used his Knock ring to enter the main house and eventually found Teru's secret tunnel. It was behind the fireplace in the study and lead to the stables. There was no sign of Teru anywhere.

That night he slept on the roof of the stables, hoping I assume to catch his target when he returned from wherever he was.


DAY 373 (11h Ches)(March)

In the morning he saw the 'ugly dwarf' going about the place with wheelbarrows of bricks with which he was repairing a wall in the garden. It suddenly dawned on Fenrir that he knew him.

It was Zallater, the half-fiend durgazon that had been the architect of the dungeon underneath the 'Devil's Brew Tavern'.

When he was approached the durgazon was somewhat cross. 'Don't use that name here!
What the bloody hell do you want?'
Fenrir explained who he was and that he wanted to find Teru.
'It's cost ya guv'ner!'
'How about ... 5 gold?'
'More like 500!' laughed Zallater.
They haggled, but Zallater's desire for money overrode all of Fenrir's charm and the price was settled at 495 gold.
Zallater gave him directions to a cave a few miles away.
'Every time he gets spooked, that's where he goes,' explained the durgazon.

A couple of hours later Fenrir arrived at the cave. In the first side passage he encountered a massive sleeping dire bear. He left it well alone, but it woke up and started sniffing around. He continued along until he got to a narrow passage that lead over a five foot wide rift to a carved out room where four mushroom men stood.He decided to attack them and killed them with one blast. This startled the
bear though and it charged to attack him. At the same time some invisible
entity also attacked him.

He blasted the bear several times, but with the invisible thing blocking his retreat into the mushroom cave he was an easy target for the mighty claws of the dire bear. After a few swipes he was badly mauled. He realised he would die quickly if he stayed in this fight so he dropped down into the rift.

It was nothing more than a pit, fifteen feet deep, but he was safe from the bear. It looked down at him, and he blew its brains out with a well placed blast.

After getting his breath back and applying some healing he continued his exploration of the caves. He followed a short tunnel that lead to a door.
Behind the door were three 'Spawns of Kyuss' skeletons. He had encountered these things before in grappa valley. He killed them quickly, staying away from their evil touch.

Finally he found his way to a carved out chamber where Teru was hiding.
The rogue made some dire threats about revenge on the Gnesher and Thunderstaff families if he was killed and that 'I will just be resurrected, I have friends in high places!'

Fenrir hesitated, but then decided to take his chances anyway. He blasted Teru into chunks, then burnt what was left of his corpse.