Ragnorra Session 3

start: 10 PM, wednesday, june(kythorn) 3

The party staked out Lilly, the half-elf innkeeper's assistant motel room until 10:30. They did this because an unidentified purple man attempted to break down her door the previous night. This seemed to follow the kidnappings of several women in the nearby area, so the party investigated.

A hooded purple man attempted to break down the door, as Lilly feared.

Ronja was waiting for him in the shadow, and shot him in the back with her bow, and he went running. When he was shot, he shouted in infernal.

Vix stayed behind to make sure Lilly was safe. Kal and Ronja pursued the purple man.

Ronja and Kal cornered the purple man in an alleyway.

They commenced combat without Vix.

Kal and Ronja were narrowly victorious.

Vix caught up with them.

They woke up the unconscious purple man. He seemed diseased. He was covered in pustules and tumors that seemed alive, with roots that went deep into his skin. He appeared emaciated as if he was the victim of long term malnutrition.

He did not answer any of their questions. They resolved, by his blank and somewhat bug-like expression that he might not be capable of doing so.

Kal whispered a word to the purple man which he reacted to. He stared at Kal and would not look away. He seemed alert and tense, by whatever he said, but nothing else. He did not say a word.

Vix retrieved a city guard. She explained the situation. The guard promised a reward if the kidnappings were resolved. He got their names. He specified they could collect the reward at the north gate guard barracks. The party briefed the guard on Lilly's situation. He did not seem bothered and specified she should have filed a report. The guard took the purple man away.

The party retrieved a chain shirt, an unidentified magic light mace, an unidentified magic potion, 7 silver, and 3 nets from the purple man.

Kal immediately went to check on Lilly. She told him she planned on leaving Proskur soon. She intends to stay with family in Evereska for a period of time until these kidnappings die down.

Ronja and Vix talk. They both uneasily got the impression the other one knew more about the situation than they would like to admit.

The party regroups and heads to Speedy Sam's Messenger Service just outside town.

Kal pays 1 gold to send an expedited message to Geralt. He was told Geralt would receive it in the morning.

The party, following the map they copied at the university, heads to Middlesburgh apartments to find a sewer entrance. They find an entrance, but it is in an occupied home with two sleepers inside. They reconsider their options.

They instead head to the Standing Stone Inn.

They check out the tavern side first. Vix has patroned the other side of the Standing Stone Inn in the past. She remembers it serves as a tavern, inn, and brothel.

They enter the back entrance. The Madame, a red wizard, converses with Vix in Thayan. They come to an agreement, and Ronja pays for a special room for the night for the three of them.

The Madame leads them down stairs and a smoothed-stone tunnel that seemed older than the foundation of the building.

They reached the end of the tunnel and found the corridor opened to a set of rooms. The Madame showed them to their room and wished them a good evening.

The room contained restraints, a saw horse, stockades, and other related equipment. Notably, an entry grate to the sewers was situated in the middle of the ancient room. The grate was six feet across, and could accommodate any of them. The party spotted a ladder three feet down the tube below.

Ronja gracelessly unscrewed the grate, and Vix threw one end of her rope over a portion of the grate, forming a sort of thong lacking a knot. The party rappelled down into the tunnel. Kal left his coffin backpack in the room.

Similarly to the bordello room, the paths in the sewer were smoothed stone, carved out of bedrock. It stank like a sewer, as one might expect.

After a moderate amount of navigation through the maze-like network of sewer passages, the party found chalk arrows etched on the sewer cavern walls. They followed them. They followed to another ladder up. They unscrewed the grate, and Ronja entered the cramped broom closet it led to.

She opened the door and found it led to an abandoned hallway. Despite this, she could track footsteps through the dust. She followed the path and positively determined it led to the tax administration building in Proskur.

She left and rejoined the party, sharing the information she found.

The party continued on, and did battle with three giant rats. Vix was afflicted with filth fever, which will incubate in 1 day. They vanquished the rats.

They continued on, first hearing of, then vanquishing a Troglodyte.

The session ended here, with the party out of breath and quite literally diseased, but alive, and stronger for the experience.

600 xp for session.
end: 1 am, thursday, june(kythorn 4