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Lots are
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The management reserves the right to make last-minute changes
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Also at the reception, Steve met Semblina Ulbrinter, teenage
daughter of a noble family. She asked if it was true that Arrikes
Jhanczil was using a poweful magic item to take over people and
eventually take over Waterdeep and that the Lords of Waterdeep had
hired AFAL to kill him. Steve denied this. Henkles met Gulvre
Burntstar of Persons of Interest who wore the bracers to match
Silver Strike and knew Morgath from her days in Silverymoon. She
mentioned that Mrap-M'rap used to adventure with Morgath before
the Time of Troubles. Maanamere was handed a note by a server
that "a young man asked us to give to you".
Hope the auction goes well for you sweetie. Come out to your
cabin later and we can talk about it. I get so bored lying
around all day with no one to talk to.
XOXOXOXOXOX
-A.
XOXOXOXOXOX
-A.
Just before they headed upstairs, Steve saw four ogres attacking
through the eyes of the gargoyle that the party had left guarding
the smoke powder smuggler's area. He quickly dismissed it.
During the interview, Rinnal Rilarnal of The Manticore Riders
approached Henkles to ask about Silver Strike. She made it plain
that she had heard of Balthazar when she named it to trigger the
thunderclap.
During the auction, a young man (13-15?) in elegant but
ill-fitting clothes was seen to be looking nervously at Maanamere.
Steve developed a headache. When lot 4071 (Amulet of Turning
Resistance) came up, he bid on it, but didn't get it.
About halfway through the auction a cargo door that opened two
stories above the street into the third (balcony) floor, opened up
and two apparent Lords of Waterdeep drifted in. They floated over
to the balcony (in the area where AFAL was standing), drifted over
the heads of those there and down to the podium area. Once there
they announced that lots 3046 and 3047 (Rods of Rulership and
Terror) would each be selling for 20,000gp to the Lords of
Waterdeep and bidding on those items was closed. When they
arrived Maanamere checked on the young man in the audience and he
didn't appear as nervous as when he was looking at Maanamere. The
Lords departed the way they came, drifting over the heads of AFAL.
Semblina Ulbrinter was seen giving Steve some very suspicious
looks. Shortly afterwards it was noticed that the young man had
left.
Steve, on behalf of AFAL, bid on several items. He succeeded in
purchasing 6 +3 sheaf arrows for 2000gp, a Nose Ring of Load
Easement for 2700gp and an Eversmoking Bottle for 1800gp.
After the auction, the chairs were cleared and tables were set up
for purchases to be completed in the middle of the audience area.
The party realized that the audience area was a null-magic zone
(hence Steve's headache).
Several people who had bid on some of the leather armor, Oil of
Slipperiness and the Eversmoking Bottle seemed to be interested in
following Steve, but when the party got outside, the well-dressed
young man was there with the City Watch to accuse Maanamere of
being in league with "the witch" who charmed him. The party tried
to explain the Arcturagana situation to the Watch, but they asked
to see the note that she had sent Maanamere and were unconvinced.
Eventually they let the party go (after getting their names and
address) around dusk.
Interviews for 1370-04-21:
Emas Dadonaradrin Cook hm, N, CHA Remarkable
Sent to interview with the mates before the party got back by Gulkker.
Shortly after dusk, Gulker announced a lady visitor, who truned
out to be Marraba Jhansczil. She had come, in response to Henkles
suggestion that they talk at some other time, to negotiate for the
purchase of her daggers. She offered 4000gp each for them.
While the individual owners were formulating a response, Gulkker
walked in and announced another lady visitor, and Arcturagana came
rushing into the room behind him! Arcturagana was very agitated
and kept repeating "He's here! We have to leave now!". She also
freaked out at the site of Denyae and tried not to look at her
until Denyae left the room. Occasionally she would look at
Maanamere and calm down for a moment, but she kept cycling back to
panic mode.
Eventually, the party extracted the following information:
* "He" was "The General", a powerful vampire executioner who
acted as Dread William's enforcer.
* According the Arcturagana, The General was an unstoppable
monster who could walk in daylight, enslave everyone around
him with a thought, and kill just by looking at you. He was
also immune to all weapons and magic.
* The General could only be in town because Dread William had
gotten tired of waiting for Arcturagana to kill Denyae and
come home, and had therefor sent the General to kill
Arcturagana, Denyae, and anyone associated with her.
* Arcturagana had been deliberately avoiding the completion of
her mission in order to avoid returning and further weaken
Dread William's control over her.
* She felt strongly that it was time for AFAL to head out to the
Star Chaser with her and flee the city, or (as someone
suggested), head into Undermountain together and flee to Myth
Drannor.
In the mean time, Ag, who had "decided to step outside for some
fresh air" discovered that there were six child vampires in the
yard, two of them trapped in a sphere of force, and Gorask was
missing and presumed gaseous. Ag decided to hang out in his
bedroom.
The party eventually calmed Arcturagana down and, bizarrely,
convinced her to sleep in the cellar for the day so that they
could all decide what to do the next night (probably take her to
Myth Drannor). They then concluded their business with Marraba
J. (whom Maanamere introduced to Arcturagana as his girlfriend and
she strenuously denied). The daggers were sold for 5000gp each (a
10,000gp letter of credit from "The Noble Bank of Waterdeep" and 5
1000gp rubies). Marraba collected her daggers and got assurance
of safe passage from Arcturagana and left. Maanamere was very
nice and walked her to the door.
Around that time, the four vampires who had helped Gorask in the
past showed up. They started dusting the kids and Arcturagana
dismissed them all. Two of Staros's vampires left in pursuit.
The party invited the other two in and they demanded to know what
Arcturagana was doing inside. The party started to explain
but only got as far as "She says The General is in town" before
they left.
The party left Arcturagana to sleep in the cellar for the night.
| Tarsakh 20, 1370 | Year of the Tankard | Tarsakh 22, 1370 |
