Session45

December 27th 216B Korvath leaves to go to Radcliff and study with the one priest he has met that he feels he can respect. (The old Pelorite artificer that retired a while back) The party unencumbered by an conscience travels to Dibs to buy goods. (The Lothian market is messed up from the deaths of several senior artificers.) While shopping Herunaro hears a nearby commotion and flies up invisibly to look around. He sees a golden cat amidst a large crowd of screaming onlookers. Thinking fast he throws a disintegrate underneath the cat which he believes to be magic immune and watches as it sags oddly. Jaenelle also nearby turns around at the commotion and throws a couple of dominates. The crowd quiets down and the party notice that the "cat" was a golden "Fo Shan" lion outfit used by a group of bards to reenact the news. The act was realistic enough that the cat looked real at a cursory inspection. Slightly chagrined at the mistake the party soundly scolds the bards and makes them feel incredibly stupid and lucky to be alive. December 28th 216B More shopping. Get a message from Korvath stating he has arrived in Radcliff safely. He passes on an obscure warning from Essandri about evil spirits lurking around the party's old haunts. December 29th 216B Jaenelle begins winding up deals. The Dibs market is rather tough. It is still adjusting to the shock of Lothian production halting. Jaenelle sells several items. Herunaro gets bored and decides to make trouble. He convinces Alex to help him go out and screw over Constantine. Pretending to be priests of Constantine (the new god of Law and Pedophilia) they go to a child slaver to purchase slaves for the sanctification of a temple. Lots of haggling ensue and the slaver tries to slip in midgets and halfmen. The party notices many of the more recent additions still have bumps on their heads. Highly skilled child slaves turn out to be extremely expensive. (up to 1000 gold) The "priests" decide to stick to the cheaper slaves and with the help of Swiftwind they purchase 3000 gold worth of slaves. (about 20 children) The children are to be cleaned up and prepared for ritual. The party goes to prepare other parts of plan. The party goes to what passes for a city hall in Dibs and ask for a permit to build a church to a new religion. They go all-out to be orderly, requesting additional forms for their records and so on. The clerk seems at a loss until he realized that they are interested in buying property. He asks some questions to ascertain the "priests" have money and offers to show them a place perfect for a church when he leaves at 3. Party insists that he should work his full shift and they will see him at 6 when the shifts change. (They are being orderly after all) The group comes back exactly at 6 PM, The clerk is there and seems eager to show them a place near the docks where there are lots of lost souls to convert. Swiftwind follows in disguise. The clerk noticed Swiftwind so Alex's familiar Qarnain takes to relaying messages so Swiftwind can follow out of sight. Guide leads the group through some stores and crawl spaces saying, "Gotta watch out, there are some pretty nasty people out there." Group is finally lead into an old storefront and told to crawl through a hole in a back closet. Their guide is continuing with the sales pitch, "this place has been bricked up inside other buildings, it is a great place though." Immediately upon entering Alex is hit with a silence spell and several flail wielding Zealots run up to attack him. Alex polymorphs and tears into the priest even as the goons realize that they probably jumped the wrong people. Herunaro pops off a prismatic spray blinding several opponents and liquidating others. The battle is quickly wrapped up. Swiftwind jumps some stragglers as they attempt to escape. The party then whips out the disintegrates, sonic fireballs, and fabricate spells to make the temple of Hextor into their new temple of Constantine the lawful proponent of child loving. ("If you you love your child, thank Constantine!") The store in front is removed and a grand archway is created. Holy scripture is inscribed on walls. Rules advocating the legalization and practice of pedophilia are enumerated in great detail with an attention to process and ritual. (Though Alex's attention has already begun to wander and large sections of the text appear to have been cut and paste via fabricate. Finally a completely new temple is present where only a few hour before the Temple to Hextor stood. (Amazing what a few high list spells can do.) December 31st 216B Temple slaves picked up for sacrifice. A great procession is made to through the town. The slaves are convinced to cry for their lives. Alex sprays the room with beet juice while the slaves are teleported to the plains school by Herunaro. People outside see the torrential flow of dark red liquid as well as hear the gradually diminishing screams. A couple macho guys actually stop in to ask when service is. The slaves are all safely placed into school. Priest in charge still seems bewildered about whole Jaas/terrorist attacks/etc. The party explain a bit about the new church and leave some money to help with feeding and clothing the orphans. Party goes to Radcliff and find the Colorless lodge were devastated by an attack on their planar fortress. The attack was mostly conducted via mindflayers fighters and trained basilisks. (note: mindflayer warriors were said to be extremely nasty to fight. Several tentacles attacks a round a high hit bonuses and after 3 tentacles hit the tentacles slither into an orifice and kill the hapless victim. Higher ups largely survived but are now busy deciding where to go and what to do with the survivors now that the lodge is practically destroyed. (The orifice as the gateway was known has been permanently disabled killing the sentience that operated it.) The party muse that mindflayer warriors might have been used since the psions are now much rarer. (The party nerfed psionic creatures when they impressed the world slug) SESSION END December 31st 216B NEXT TIME : Cat hunt...