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The World of Teréth End - Chronicles - Othic |
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"Too often days swiftly pass / Weeping in the evening grass / There just is not enough time / Forthings you dreamt you'd do / The hours still drift by. "Too many years, too high a cost / Too many lessons earned but lost / And still you complain all the time / Cursing the days before you / Lamentng the days gone by. "And finally laying in your bed / Staring skyward, nearly dead / It all floods back one last time, / The chances that you left behind / But alas there's little left to do / ... but cry." Dirimoran song  |
Trouble in Temple Square Dinners with the Rothic priests. Jak learns some history about his father's spear "Punishment". An altercation within Temple Square leaves one man dead, and Kaithah one step closer to an inescapable past. Mishara and Kaithah meet and punish a vanishing assassin below South Temple Arch. A deep ringing resonants through the temple, and an acolyte appears at each room explaining that "dinner is served above, please follow me." The group was escorted to a wide low dinner hall and seated at one of the front tables. After the priests had arrived, a bell sounded and all stood until the Great High Priest Barran was seated. Servants brought forth platters of venison and vegetables for the night's feast. The group talked at length with two High Priests seated to either side, Charul and Utelig. After dinner Barran introduced the group by name to the assembly and told of recent omens of the changing times. Afterwards, most of the room dispersed except for those that wished to question and speak with the group. The next morning, Jak was visited by a priest named Anjon, with whom he browsed though two tomes for most the morning, trying to identify what the priest said was Jak's Attrakan spear. Eventually they found a story of twelve such spears called Protectors followed by a passage of Roth prayer. Once uttered, the room and hallways were filled with the disembodied sounds of priests and monks chanting. Meanwhile, Alcerra and Mishara ventured into the Temple Square with two grey robed Temple apprentices. Alcerra purchased a silver necklace to offer to the hosting Temple. Mishara noticed a flutist on a distant stage, that looked and sounded familiar. Drawing closer they found Kaithah performing in the square for a small and un-generous crowd. After some discussion, Mishara returned to Alcerra and the bardess was attacked by a knifeman, wielding a poisoned blade. Mishara released arrows into the combat, hitting an assailant with at least one shaft dissapearing into the circling crowds. The poisoner was eventually killed, and given last rites by the Death priestess before a circle of onlookers. Before finalizing the rite, Alcerra summoned voice from the corpse and learned that the attacker had been directed toward Kaithah by someone named Nelgin, who had identified her as an escaped prisoner of the Poisoners. Another suspicious figure that Kaithah reported as having seen from the stage was nowhere to be found. After a brief encounter with the Merchant Guard the group returned to the Temple. Pushing back toward the Iron Colonnade a small boy ran up to Mishara with a message. After paying one silver and allowing the exhausted boy to gain his breath, the boy explained that "the Elve" was in danger and that a safehouse might be provided for his protection. He explained further that if he was looking for work while in town, there was a Merchants' Guild official named Olaunda Aldar who had fallen into the Fat Man's "disfavor". A "solution" to that problem would be worth 300 talas. The group returned to the Temple and rejoined with Jak to find the Elve. Alcerra stayed behind. Searching inn by inn, they found a bar brawl and a good dinner, but no elves. At nightsdeep they walked to the South Temple Arch to meet Worron, a contact the messenger had mentioned. After looking around in the dark for a half-a-watch, a man with spiderweb markings on his face approached Mishara. He explained the reward had risen to 500 talas and gave Mishara a crude map to the woman's home. The next morning, Mishara spoke with Ichmel concerning his encounter with the messenger and Worron. The priest was little help, but did remember hearing about an underground figure named the Fat Man nearly a decade before. At the time, reward posters had been pasted around the City for his capture. It was the general belief at the time that the Derecauln and Merchants' Guild wanted him dead. The rest of the 24th was spent in the Temple Square and around the Perimeter looking for an Elve. None were found. After night fall, Mishara and Kaithah wandered out from the Temple and back to South Temple Arch. There, Mishara was attacked by a figure that materialized from still air. After receiving a substantial beating at the swordpoints of Mishara and Kaithah the figure vanished, and could not be found further. Kaithah and Mishara returned to the Temple that night, looking over their shoulders. 2 May 1997
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Navigation People Anjon (Ftr1) Introducing The Poisoners: Hidden beneath the sloping cobbled streets of Oth lies another city, and another beneath that one. This subterranean realm is ruled by many factions, but none are more well-known and feared than the Poisoners. |
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