Back in the Town

[Thomas Fulmer]

When the party returns to Ebersfjord (less Annadin and Thariania), there is a lot of activity going on.

Just outside the main perimeter of the town, a ship's crew or so worth of warriors are still on patrol, making sure the frost giants don't return. Although Grim gets some angry looks, they let the party pass without any issues as Ragnar, Hogni and Runa are with them. 

In the town, the men are carrying bodies of the slain back to the hall where their families both weep and also try to celebrate their likely trip to Valhalla. Some of Ivar's slaves bring them Mead to help.

Around the town, women with healing abilities are seeing to the wounded as are warriors and slaves with first aid or physicker talents. There are the remains of probably dozens of frost giants, although since they are all chopped into small pieces it's hard to get a good count. Slaves are carrying frost giant body parts to a large bonfire that was started to insure they never manage to heal.

Closer to the hall, Ivar is walking by, sees the group and walks by, "Glorious battle" He says as he approaches. He looks to Runa and Hogni, "I heard what happened while I was gone, I'm sorry, Hogni that such a threat against your family happened in my town. I'm glad to see Runa is here and seemingly healthy." Ivar looks to Caela and the other slaves, "Are these slaves the criminals who took your daughter?"

Hogni answers without looking to the slaves, "Aye, lord. They are and Runa will take an oath and speak to their crimes. There was one other that Runa herself killed in revenge, I wish the rest to face death as well."

Ivar nodded at Hogni's account, "I'll hold a court tomorrow then. You and your family may stay in the hall tonight, it will be good rest for Runa, I'll have my slaves attend you."

Walking to Ragnar, Ivar adds, "You've done well, Ragnar Dragonslayer, we cannot have crime in our land anymore than we can have frost giants in our town. We've not had a kidnapping in our town since before the history I know, had we not recovered Runa it would have been a disgrace on our family."

Ivar called a group of warriors over, "Take these prisoners to the hall and keep them under guard." To the party he says, "You seem to be short a few people, hopefully they died gloriously in battle. Is there anything we need to attend to this night, or can your affairs wait until morning?"

[dpo...@comcast.net]

  Ivy:  The elf  speaks up,"...Forgive me  , but  you must be extra careful witht he  one who is bound and gagged. She has a way of Not dying  and returning to cause more problems...She Either  works  with the dragonriders,  or is subject to them."

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[Sirius Mason]

"Your majesty.  As Ivy says, the gagged witch must not be trusted.  She will pierce your heart, and all who hear her, with her lies.  She only lives because some believe it important for her to deliver a message she has for you from our enemies.  Her message should not be heard except by those wise enough to listen through lies."

Good Fortune,

Richard / Sirius

[Thomas Fulmer]

Ivar listens to Sirius and says to his warrior, "Keep a double guard on them, and keep that one gagged and bound." He indicates Caela.

"It's better to bring them back, can't have slaves assaulting Wodinfolk and no public justice be seen.

--GM / Thomas

On Thu, Nov 27, 2014, 19:27 Sirius Mason <sirius...@gmail.com> wrote:

"Your majesty.  As Ivy says, the gagged witch must not be trusted.  She will pierce your heart, and all who hear her, with her lies.  She only lives because some believe it important for her to deliver a message she has for you from our enemies.  Her message should not be heard except by those wise enough to listen through lies."

Good Fortune,

Richard / Sirius

On Nov 27, 2014, at 5:40 PM, dpo...@comcast.net wrote:

  Ivy:  The elf  speaks up,"...Forgive me  , but  you must be extra careful witht he  one who is bound and gagged. She has a way of Not dying  and returning to cause more problems...She Either  works  with the dragonriders,  or is subject to them."

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Subject: [Mithras][Q2:TheCult] Back in the Town

When the party returns to Ebersfjord (less Annadin and Thariania), there is a lot of activity going on.

Just outside the main perimeter of the town, a ship's crew or so worth of warriors are still on patrol, making sure the frost giants don't return. Although Grim gets some angry looks, they let the party pass without any issues as Ragnar, Hogni and Runa are with them. 

In the town, the men are carrying bodies of the slain back to the hall where their families both weep and also try to celebrate their likely trip to Valhalla. Some of Ivar's slaves bring them Mead to help.

Around the town, women with healing abilities are seeing to the wounded as are warriors and slaves with first aid or physicker talents. There are the remains of probably dozens of frost giants, although since they are all chopped into small pieces it's hard to get a good count. Slaves are carrying frost giant body parts to a large bonfire that was started to insure they never manage to heal.

Closer to the hall, Ivar is walking by, sees the group and walks by, "Glorious battle" He says as he approaches. He looks to Runa and Hogni, "I heard what happened while I was gone, I'm sorry, Hogni that such a threat against your family happened in my town. I'm glad to see Runa is here and seemingly healthy." Ivar looks to Caela and the other slaves, "Are these slaves the criminals who took your daughter?"

Hogni answers without looking to the slaves, "Aye, lord. They are and Runa will take an oath and speak to their crimes. There was one other that Runa herself killed in revenge, I wish the rest to face death as well."

Ivar nodded at Hogni's account, "I'll hold a court tomorrow then. You and your family may stay in the hall tonight, it will be good rest for Runa, I'll have my slaves attend you."

Walking to Ragnar, Ivar adds, "You've done well, Ragnar Dragonslayer, we cannot have crime in our land anymore than we can have frost giants in our town. We've not had a kidnapping in our town since before the history I know, had we not recovered Runa it would have been a disgrace on our family."

Ivar called a group of warriors over, "Take these prisoners to the hall and keep them under guard." To the party he says, "You seem to be short a few people, hopefully they died gloriously in battle. Is there anything we need to attend to this night, or can your affairs wait until morning?"

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[Ragnar Ivarsson]

Walking to Ragnar, Ivar adds, "You've done well, Ragnar Dragonslayer, we cannot have crime in our land anymore than we can have frost giants in our town. We've not had a kidnapping in our town since before the history I know, had we not recovered Runa it would have been a disgrace on our family."

Ragnar nods, "Thank you, Papa.  Just want ta tell you quick.  We slew two more apeps in the mountains' tunnels where we found Runa, Annadin slayin' the apep that was tryin' to crush 'im, an' Vesser an' I skewerin' the second one together in the dark.  We also slew three Joetnar near town just a little bit ago, Vesser knockin' out two while I was knockin' down the biggest one - an' then I chopped 'em all up while berserk."

"Anyway, this looney slave girl here's a Nidhoggkisser - we fought her before in Custiwald when she led a tricksy band of invisible sheep people to try to kill us - for killin' that first apep near Minot, it seems - somehow she knew about that.  Anyway, her name's Caela - she meant to sacrifice Runa to be eaten by those apeps we just slew.  What's buggin' all of us, though, is that this looney should already be dead - she was supposed to be executed in Custiwald after we turned her in to the count, but some of her tricksy Nidhoggkissin' handwavin' friends cast spells on the count's guards - sleep spells, I think - and then made her vanish from her cell.  We gotta make sure that doesn't happen again here, but how do ya stop tricksy cowards like that when they just make you fall asleep by wavin' their hands?"

 

Ivar called a group of warriors over, "Take these prisoners to the hall and keep them under guard." To the party he says, "You seem to be short a few people, hopefully they died gloriously in battle. Is there anything we need to attend to this night, or can your affairs wait until morning?"

Ragnar:  "The four missin' here still live, but our highest-ranked guest Violet of the Handwavers' Tower only barely so.  Remember that big Nidhoggkissin' lord in black I told you about, the one we met down south ridin' a Big Red Nidhoggling who raised his slain messenger from the dead an' tossed me through the air without even touchin' me?  Well, he was here tonight, within a horn's blow of Ebersfjord! While some of us were chasin' the three Joetnar, he attacked Violet, nearly killed her - apparently could have slain her easily but chose not to.  We took her to the Angel of Death, and there she remains for now."  

"Thariania, Annadin an' Darc I expect will return to town in the mornin' - Thariania had some witch-type talkin' to do in the woods, an' they went with her."

"So there's two things you need to know from all this, I guess - that Nidhoggkissin' lord might show up again tonight, with or without his BIg Red Nidhoggling, and even if he doesn't, he may have some other black-wearin' Nidhoggkissers come to free Caela again with more tricksy handwavin'.  Really we were all itchin' to cut her throat, rather than see that happen again."

Ragnar turns to Ekie, Sirius, Figol, Kevlon and Grim, "An' I have a question for those who were there.  Did any of you see or hear the Nidhoggling flyin' in or did the Nidhoggkissin' bastard just appear?  'cause if he just showed up, there may be another gate here near Ebersfjord, just like the one near Custiwald.  We know there's a gate or somethin' like it underneath the tunnels where we met the apeps tonight."

Ragnar / Eric

[dpo...@comcast.net]

 Ivy  listens at the words Ragnar says to Ivar. His eyes dart to  the woman when  he repeats , that the woman should be dead. When Ragnar is  finish, he nods his head and simply adds,"..She , indeed, should have died. Those  lives lost, since we last saw her, is on our heads, for failing to take her head when  we had the chance..."

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[Kelley Wheeler]

"I'm not sure that he will come again for Caela. She has failed him in her tasks. He may jusy leave her to her fate here. But all the same, be mindful of her and what take place concerning her. For the man in black, he just appeared."

Ekie/Kelley

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[Sirius Mason]

"Caela's purpose is to deliver her message.  The will not come for her."

Good Fortune, 

Richard / Sirius

[Thomas Fulmer]

Ivar listens to all of Ragnar's report of the events of the evening, nodding periodically as a group of warriors haul the prisoners away and take them into the hall where they'll be guarded.

"Well, put enough men on guard duty, it'll be hard for a wizard to make them all sleep at least."

Hearing the details about Violet he winces, "A guest injured on my lands, I'll have to hunt down this man and get revenge. As for your friends in the woods, that doesn't seem safe, but I suppose women do what they want when it comes to magic."

--GM / Thomas

[Ragnar Ivarsson]

Ragnar looks puzzled at Sirius, "Do we really know that?  I sure don't remember this looney sayin' anythin' 'bout a message in the seconds before Annadin knocked her out tonight. Right when we all charged in, she said somethin' 'bout knowin' we'd come - but then Ivy shot her an' Annadin whacked her - an' then Ivy gagged her - so the looney's been gagged ever since, right?  An' Annadin's kept on whackin' her every hour or two, whenever she's come around.  So when did she say anythin' else?"

"Besides that messenger Vesser an' I slew west of Menii, the only other thing I remember about anyone havin' a message was that one that the other Nidhoggkissin' handwavin' woman in black gave you personally." 

"Anyway, I agree, the less the looney gets to say tomorrow the better. I'd've cut her throat myself if i hadn't known Papa would be displeased.  He wants public justice."

Ragnar / Eric

[Nils Lindeberg]

"I will retire, and see if I can get some answers. Blow the horn if you need me quickly, otherwise just walk up the hill to the east and call, I will hear you. If you have any thoughts on the questions, walk with me and we can discuss them." Grim bows and leaves the company for his den outside of town. He will be glad for company on the way and any input on what questions to ask.

Once in his den he will start to prepare for his Trance spell, arrange his drum, runic bones and place his seiding staff in the ground.

/Grim "Garm" 

[dpo...@comcast.net]

 Ivy  adds,"...One thing to beware of. This Public  Justice? Could be a way for the Dragon riders  to have  a show of force. Send a couple of Dragons  and a few people with those sticks? Kill  some People, burn some Buildings, then  make some  strong speech of how the Wodin folk should follow  such a strong leader, and get your  people to follow him, or  at least...stop us?" he  shrugs  " for all we know, the Giants could have been  used  just to soften up the defense, or to see how many warriors are in play?"

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Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2014 6:45:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Mithras][Q2:TheCult] Re: Back in the Town

[Sirius Mason]

Sirius replies to Ragnar.  "This is Caela we're talking about.  Do you remember the last time we encountered her?  Back then she was intent upon causing mischief with her lies.  She has not changed, even if she has fallen from grace.  She will deliver a message to Ivar, and it will not be easily un-heard.  She is a wild-card in a game where we need your father's help.  We should have killed her.  After she speaks, it will be harder for us to keep your people from doing what the riders want them to do."

Regarding the 'nidhogg rider message', Sirius is confused by this.  His eyes light up after some thought.  "Oh, you must mean the message warning of the rider's return that was given to the party who traveled to Coran Torvir through Mithras.  As you recall, I traveled by gate to the tower.  Your company was brought to the tower by the Baron Souleymane Aksum.  Apart from the rider knowing my full name and that I am not of this world, I don't think they care much about me.  It is the daemons which seem to seek me out wherever I go.  It is still unclear if the riders sent the greater daemon."

"Of course, my mind is clearly still addled by the spells that were placed on it.  Please keep reminding me if I am forgetting things.  For example, I recently forgot that the dragon rider cast a spell that might have removed Violet's protections, like reverse missile.  The spell he cast was unknown to me, but so were the other protections he was wielding.  Regardless, he has an attack beam that could be an alternate form for wizard's wrath.. or it might be some new weapon.  He clearly has spells that we are unable to counter.  He absorbed Violet's lightning attack."

Sirius appears to remember who he is talking to, and ends the conversation. 

Good Fortune,

Richard / Sirius

[Ragnar Ivarsson]

Sirius replies to Ragnar.  "This is Caela we're talking about.  Do you remember the last time we encountered her?  Back then she was intent upon causing mischief with her lies.  She has not changed, even if she has fallen from grace.  She will deliver a message to Ivar, and it will not be easily un-heard.  She is a wild-card in a game where we need your father's help.  We should have killed her.  After she speaks, it will be harder for us to keep your people from doing what the riders want them to do."

Ragnar responds to Sirius:  "Well, I'm not really all that worried about her influencin' Papa. The Nidhoggridin' lord is givin' orders to our ancestral foes, the Joetnar and the Nidhoggspawn, an' he just attacked Violet who is Papa's honored guest, which is a huge offense against Papa as a host.  So if we're tellin' Papa the Nidhoggkissin' looney Caela's a stinkin' tricksy liar, I reckon he'll believe us.  An' the Wodinmen will follow him whatever the looney says.  I think the only issue maybe is what the slaves hear an' think, but that's the whole point of havin' a public execution for this murderous kidnappin'."

Ragnar turns to Ivar, "Papa, I'm thinkin' - I know it's important to have the execution be public - but for that, you could gag Caela an' just announce what she's been found guilty of.  But what about the trial?  Do the slaves witness that, too, or just your warriors? 'Cause it might be smart to exclude the slaves from hearin' her lies."

 

Regarding the 'nidhogg rider message', Sirius is confused by this.  His eyes light up after some thought.  "Oh, you must mean the message warning of the rider's return that was given to the party who traveled to Coran Torvir through Mithras.  As you recall, I traveled by gate to the tower.  Your company was brought to the tower by the Baron Souleymane Aksum.  

Ragnar looks confused himself, "Um, well, no.  I wasn't thinkin' of the Baron of Oxen at all.  I was talkin' about right after we slew the first big Nidhoggling in Canigli.  On our way back to the coast, didn't that tricksy pair in black outside Custiwald ask you to deliver a message to our leader - an' you delivered it to the Countess Aylia in Minot before you left us?  Or am I mixed up?  Wouldn't be the first time.  But no matter.  We're both talkin' about the looney Caela here anyway."

Ragnar / Eric

[Sirius Mason]

Sirius seems to recall now.  "Ah!  You mean the pair of toughs we encountered near Custiwald!  Oh no.  Those two simply delivered a threat to someone who might identify as our 'puppet master'.  Since I never really knew who the message was supposed to be delivered to.. what was I to do?  I delivered a private note to the Count of Custiwald with the message and instructions telling him how to best defend himself from the two cultists we encountered."

"So, that message was resolved... as best as I could manage.  I know that in the period following that meeting my own behavior was .. well.. less than orderly.  But I have spent considerable time working with the doctors in the tower; and now I see that my hysteria was being caused by horrible memories of the daemonic plane, and not my own logical mind."

Good Fortune,

Richard / Sirius

[Thomas Fulmer]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014, 00:01 Ragnar Ivarsson <ragnariv...@gmail.com> wrote:

Ragnar turns to Ivar, "Papa, I'm thinkin' - I know it's important to have the execution be public - but for that, you could gag Caela an' just announce what she's been found guilty of.  But what about the trial?  Do the slaves witness that, too, or just your warriors? 'Cause it might be smart to exclude the slaves from hearin' her lies."

 

Ivar looks unconcerned, "Some slaves will likely hear her speaking at her trial. but I don't fear words. She can say all the flowery lies she wants, and when she hangs for it people will know how much those words mean and what their result is"

"I'm far more concerned that she might escape as you've warned. Escape is an action, and living to defy us makes us look weak. It's actions I fear, not words."

--GM / Thomas 

[dpo...@comcast.net]

  " I think it would be a good idea to have  lookouts posted to watch the skies and the forest for giants and dragons...I will Volunteer to keep watch while the trial goes on....I still think The Dragonriders  will strike, with this as their stage.."

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Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2014 7:26:03 AM

Subject: Re: [Mithras][Q2:TheCult] Re: Back in the Town

[Thomas Fulmer]

On Tue Dec 02 2014 at 5:44:25 PM <dpo...@comcast.net> wrote:

  " I think it would be a good idea to have  lookouts posted to watch the skies and the forest for giants and dragons...I will Volunteer to keep watch while the trial goes on....I still think The Dragonriders  will strike, with this as their stage.."

A wodinfolk warrior on guard duty looks down the good foot and a half between him and Ivy. He stares at him blankly for a minute then rolls his head back and lets out a roaring laugh. "The little elf wants to guard our village!"

"BAH HAHAH" The warrior laughs a bit more then points at the hall, "Go to the trial little elf. Don't worry, we'll be fine out here. We'll get a drink later though, I like your spirit."

The warrior walks to one of the other guards and points back to Ivy, "The elf wants to guard the village!" Both warriors laugh as they take up their guard posts outside the hall.

--GM / Thomas

[dpo...@comcast.net]

  Ivy smiles  at the  fellow  , then grins as he shakes his head,"..Alright, a Drink it is...but? Between the two of us? which of us has Killed a dragon with an arrow?" He nods and laughs good naturedly, He turns to Ragnar  and shrugs.

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