An Urban Interlude Part 6- Rats a Respite and Escape
Dramatis Personae
Leon – a Brandobian Human Fighter & self styled hero
Nyadryn – a Brandobian Human, fighter
Esme– a Brandobian human, a loud over enthusiastic person, Nyadryn’s girl friend
Siskin – a Halfling Cleric of Chance
Larifus – a Gnome,
Quelsteine– a Gnome
Lori – a Gnome, rescued captive
Briana – a Half Elven fighter magic user
Aeneste – a Brandobian? Human rescued captive
Varill – a Brandobian Human the tanners apprentice and rescued captive
Location
Some where in the sewers under the new town of Vayham, across Vayham town finishing off in the containment cells under the Temple of the Caregiver at the Great Hospital
Events
(These take place during episode XV of the main story and they follow on exactly from the end of the previous session of an Urban Interlude)
Gap to fill
Detained at the Great Hospital the company had the chance to reflect on their recent experience and also discover the unpleasant fact that Quirrel had doubly dropped them in the mire. First as they had already worked out by being at least in part responsible for them getting trapped in the smugglers lair and associated areas which was in truth something they already suspected but worse by the reasons that he had given for having this done. Reasons which came back to the company via the lesser temple staff and trainee priests who where tending to them in their isolation as extremely damaging to the companies reputation. The tale which came back painted the Company as traitors one and all and Quirrel as quite the hero in the tale as he had single handedly thwarted their evil plots, though details of what exactly those might have been did vary according to the teller. Further variations on the tale and the rumor mill in the frenzied atmosphere of the siege had quite gone to town on it, it had them in the pay of the same Dwarven Sorcerer who was behind the goblins and said that they where going to open a secret passage and allow the goblins in under the walls to murder every one in their beds or worse. It probably did not help here that when Aeneste had finally been tracked down about a day after every one else she had resisted arrest by trying to cast a spell either even if she had by this point been so delirious that the spell had failed and she had collapsed from the effort. So some versions of the tale had her down as one of the Dwarf’s apprentices.
The rumors also on occasion implicated both Larifus’s uncle whose house had been attacked by the mob again on the strength of this thought given that most of the able bodied where too involved in the defense of the town to take part so the mob had been smaller and this riot had been less dangerous with no one was killed on either side, several windows where broken and the house front door sustained some damage when the mob tried to force it. However Larifus’s uncle’s family sought refuge in the keep and according to rumors at least all swore terrible oaths to the true that they and Larifus had had no part in this. Esme’s father and brothers where also implicated in the plot which caused them to fume some what impotently as the chief priest of the Caregiver would not allow them out of the temple bounds any more than he would those of the company itself. However no one was about to attack the house of quite such a prominent man especially when the Guilds guard where deployed to protect it and several of his loyal apprentices and journeymen where quite prepared to break heads of the romour mongers for the defense of their master’s honour and made this widely known.
None the less it was defiantly true that a warrant had been issued for the arrest of all present in the company by the Count even if the only ones named in it where Leon, Siskin, Larifus, Nyadryn and Esme all the rest where included as unnamed associates. Further the Chief priest of the true had made representations to the Chief priest of the caregiver about handing the company over to his custardy for questioning; thus far he had got no where. That the two men had quite a history of not agreeing on most matters as well as having a lot of other things to deal with at the moment with the siege had likely contributed to this.
To the good there was no outbreak of the wasting sweats in the town with all the cases being confined to the company ant their immediate contacts, there was sickness in the Shambles part of the New Town but it was the lesser black rash which the company learned from their nurse geolers any way is self limiting even if its likely from the same source as the Wasting Sweats as its one of the many deceases to be caught from being around giant rats.
