184 - Caspar's Ascension (pt. 4) - His Sack in our Religious

• Return to Caspar
• Explain Rudin & vault
• Plan to make announcement of support at tavern
• Invite townsfolk, pay for round, make announcement about support and access to the vault
• Beer bad, food better than expected (skip night of drinking)
• Caspar covers expenses, Tit sleeps on roof
• Morning, discuss plans over half-decent breakfast
• How to find a dragon? Would people be willing to talk?
• Existing encounter with giemrayt, “Got fucked in a church”, “Sounds sacriligious”, “More like his sack in our religious”
• Plan to split up and talk to crooks (tit), head of guard (caspar), Rudin (Momen & Spesof)
• Ask Rudin if he’s hear of Giemrayt or Caylbaid
• Hasn’t really, vaugely heard of Caylbaid
• Asks who they are
• Spesof says dragons, almost spills Amalas Sylnala’s relation
• Rudin says he’s heard about a green dragon in a mine up north
• Dangerous with monsters
• Meet with Caspar
• Magnus says there’s a dangerous archmage to the north
• Hear Tittlin calling for Giemrayt in the forest
• Go to ask what the heck he’s doing, get into an argument about green things
• Spesof chucks a rock at a bush and a green kobold falls out
• Spesof wakes him up
• Easily intimidate, Momen asks wtf?
• “Tiny fingers that could bite off like carrots”
• Ask kobold where Giemrayt is
• Winces, North, leads us
• Get dragon skeleton
• 1 hour walking north, leads to cave
• “Giemrayt here all the time, at the end”
• Winces, takes us in
• Nice area, warm, well furnished, scent of paper and sound of distant machinery
• Introduce selves to cyclops door guard
• Monocle and list
• Tit & Spesof on naughty list
• Allowed in, shown coat rack
• Tit asked do we have to
• Yes, don’t track in mud
• Tit opens up necromancy laboratory
• Momen recognizes by smell (fromaldahyde, sulfur & salt)
• Terrible mess, maids busy cleaning
• Broken and spilled reagents, scorch marks on the floor
• Specimen on pedestals at back
• Magical power conveyed through runes on floor
• About to say “Clean up your workbench!” when I notice the power of the archmage
• recognize each other as necromancers
• introductions
• Tittlin wanders in and starts looking around
• He’s scooping spider goop
• Unable to elaborate
• Quality of notes: “Spider goop + eye = explosion?”
• Tit asks to see generator in locked room
• No
• Wanders away
• Dragon follows in
• Archmage impressed, scritches
• Asks what type it was and how I managed it
• Talk about 200 year research effort
• “Good start up”
• Talk about next step being spell permanence
• Control crystals
• Didn’t they get my notes? (300 yrs)
• Didn’t you send them (5 year maid)
• Who are you people
• Back to the goop
• Crystals
• Disection pedestal is actually the resurection platform (OSHA violation)
• Leave
• Tit opens other rooms (specimen room, mess hall)
• To audience chamber
• Big picture of Caylbaid vs Aodreia
• Introduce Momen & Caspar
• Explain purpose of visit
• So you want me to back this man over my own mother
• Tit: Yes
• Give him formal authority
• Provide social contract that would resolve villager’s fears
• Nat 20
• Couldn’t have said it better myself
• What position
• Marquis or Earl. Likely Marquis on the boarder with Torveldus
• Approval, but what about the lord of ice?
• Tit says we have a plan written down but forgot it due to romance and other pants
• Agrees
• Momen starts to relax
• Spes: What about Caylbaid
• Gymreit will come along to Talonmouth and talk it over
• Relaxing stops
• Formal business over
• Trade magic items
• Has ledger of treasure
• Mental juxtaposition with archmage
• Trade wand of binding for X-Ray ring + 3000 GP
• Tit tries to get better deal, but appraisal of friend of a friend doesn’t carry much weight
• Depart