(G421 08/08/2020 via Roll20 - AP, JF(GM)) WA70

(G421 08/08/2020 via Roll20 - AP, JF(GM)) WA70

[Fenrir and friends had returned from the Lost Shrine of Tamoachan.]

DAY 478  (23rd Kythorn)(June)

Spectre Island and Fenrir divvied up the loot. Once everything was sold to Random's shopkeeper they ended up with 16619.46 gold each! A nice little haul that.

From what I gather Dorette went back home, declaring that she had enough gold on her to become the Queen of Pedestal. I don't know if she was joking or not.

Wayney was also somewhat overcome by the amount of gold she was now in possession of and laughed that she might buy herself a castle, but then turning more serious she said she might see if she can use it to get Mr Rattles back from Nexelmode and resurrect him. 

Cavu gave Fenrir seven shards, that had come to him from Random in the FAMP. He briefly explained to him that they were very powerful spells, but like scrolls they could only be used once.

After going over their plans again (although when Fenrir and Cavu get together I can imagine they soon fall into talking about Waterdeep gossip), Fenrir headed home to his townhouse in Westgate.

There, he and Raz discussed how he would be best presented to Westgate society (in his quest to marry Thisle Thalavar!) and decided this:

''

They say lowborn on his mother's side, but in Westgate investigating his father's side for possible highborn connections.

''

It was a decent enough ruse, Raz's mother had been a fighter, a sort of knight attached to a barbarian lord's retinue, so a powerful women in her own right, no just some scullery maid.

But she was lowborn, that much was true.

And Raz's father was highborn, that was also true, but what was not true was that they already knew who he was - the late Lord Argaunt Thalavar. The only problem I could think of that it was a story that invited questions, but otherwise it was good, like all good lies it had some truth to it.

Of course, revealing too early he was the bastard son of Lord Argaunt Thalavar (and a potential heir to the throne of Westgate) would land him in big trouble and most likely a target for arrest or  assassination. 

Remember, dear reader, this is my old pal Raz we are talking about, from back in Sasserine and the Sea Wyvern, the same fellow that smeared his own shit over my harpsichord keys and who used to smell and laugh at his own farts.

So I can only imagine Fenrir did the best with the material he had. It takes a life-time to breed a gentleman and Raz would never be that. What he could be was a 'visiting dignitary' though - someone 'important' that had to be 'humoured' if they did anything out of turn.

Westgate was a large port city, so was used to the strange ways of foreigners so between them they worked out what sort of show they would put on for the nobles when they met them.

They would get their chance the next night, as a Solstice dance would be on, in the fields outside the city, an ancient tradition that welcomed the lowborn and highborn alike.

Thistle Thalavar would be there.

The last thing Fenrir did before retiring for the night was talk to Gelly and ask her about the bards she had hired.

'Well!' she declared. 'The Bards died!'

She'd not dug into it (out of fear) but said she would and get back to him. She also mentioned that there was 'trouble in Dockward' over the death of Sweetpea.

Fenrir had forgotten (he kills a lot of people after all) but she had been a popular maiden in the area, who had been part of the contingent of rogues Fayder the assassin had hired to kill Fenrir.

They'd failed of course, and in typical Fenrir fashion everyone in a local radius of the attempt had been incinerated.

Well, the locals of the ward were upset at Fenrir being the new head of the Watch and there was much grumblings.

DAY 479  (24th Kythorn)(June)

I don't know all that much about what Fenrir was doing at work in these times. I suspect not an awful lot.

He had several key assistants, I think, that kept the day to day stuff running while he thought of higher matters.

They were:

Mia the Magical - his personal secretary (a goodly soul who was much loved by the watch, a female elf wizard)

Portia Cadger - his 'Special Advisor' (a female halfling rogue)

Rocky "The Fool" Hammertong - Head of the Watch Wizards (a male dwarf wizard and old pal of Random's. Unpredictable)

Relleme Filchbatter - current head of the DAW (a female gnome monk on the back of a giant celestial bee called Honey) 

Today his interest landed on the 'Sweetpea' issue, that seemed to be drawing in more and more resources. He thought of issuing a statement or the like, but Portia advised 'Actions speak louder than words'

He organised a sort of 'community outreach' for the next day.

While that was going on, Raz went to get 200 gold's worth of fancy togs (with a 'Hordeland edge' whatever that means, maybe a tiger tooth necklace or something) for future engagements.

When Fenrir got home from work Gelly told him what she had learned about the bards he had hired.

'They were called Mulligan and O'Hair, from the Sword Coast. They went into one pub and spread the rumours, then another and did the same. In the third pub, about four in the morning some Nightmasks came in and stabbed them to death, then left.'

That evening it was the summer ball, in the meadows outside the city, with maypoles, fun fairs, food and drink. 

Thistle Thalavar was there, arm in arm with Dauntinghorn.

It was a busy party, where nobles and commoners mingled together, there were thousands of people threading between the stalls and playing the various games.

Fenrir, Veddic and Raz, all three of them big fans of rash, ill-thought-out plans hit upon the genius idea of randomly firing off 'Turn Undead's into the crowds to see just how many vampires and whatnots they would flush out.

In the pretence of telling the story of their recent adventures in Tamoachan to Thistle and Dauntinghorn, Veddic demonstrated how 'Turn Undead' worked.

Dauntinghorn gave Veddic a very long and hard look.

Veddic tried again, a really powerful turning attempt. Again Dauntinghorn gritted his teeth and did nothing, but did turn to Thistle, made an excuse and left.

As he did so Veddic detected that Dauntinghorn was indeed undead, and an incredibly powerful one too, as he had just shrugged off two powerful Turnings!

'How odd!' declared Thistle, but then three of her friends joined them at their table.

Twins sisters, and also young red head lass called Janness Ssemm.

Fenrir talked to Janness for a while. They did not have much in common, but she was drawn to his unusualness.

Raz did his best to talk to Thistle, but failed to make a big impression. Her rather plump cousin Primrose Thalavar found him more appealing.

DAY 480  (25th Kythorn)(June)

Fenrir, sensing that he and his friends might have really stirred things up a bit vi's-a-vi's the vampires in Westgate today invested in large quantities of garlic, mirrors and holy symbols, to be distributed around the house.

After he'd done that, he went down to the Dock Ward to see what could be done about the 'Sweetpea situation'. His initial idea of having people come and talk to him didn't work as everyone in the Ward sensed (probably correctly) trouble.

In the end some watchmen, getting the wrong end of the stick, went to round up some 'troublemakers'. 'Here's one of the wee villains been bad mouthing you, yer lordship!' snarled the tough constable as he showed a raggedy man into the watch house.

It was not hard for Fenrir to butter up this one terrified man, but he sensed he would have to do more than a few smooth words to individuals dragged off the street, so he went around the Ward, from pub to pub, with a trail of watchmen behind him, doing his best to... to be honest I'm not entirely sure what he thought he was doing, as (and this should have been no surprise to anyone) all the taverns and pubs were mysteriously empty by the time he got there!

Fenrir then went to Berty's Whelk Shop to 'talk to the local merchants', but apparently Berty was utterly insane and just gibbered, pranced and cavorted until Fenrir gave up and went home.

I fear the most obvious and simple solution to Fenrir's problem of being hated in Dockward for killing their most treasure beauty seemed to continue to elude him.

Well anyway, that evening he went to Spectre Island and talked to Cavu. They decided that it was best to go after the vampires first (prior to killing the Croamarkh and making Raz king!) as Dauntinghorn was now highly suspicious of them.

Cavu promised to send some spies to watch over Dauntinghorn. He also told Fenrir that a good place to start was to go look for a young man called Whitey 'The Kid' who apparently could provide information on the Nightmasks and possibly their vampire overlords.

Fenrir came up with a fairly wild scheme to dig a trench around his house and with pipes and  an Unseen Servant to man the pump maintain a constant flow of running water to keep vampires away.

I can report that two days later he had had this work done and was one step closer to making his house vampire-proof!