Guess Post: A Fey's Journal, 2nd Entry. Part 1

A Fey’s Journal 2^nd Entry

As I’m writing these few lines we are yet again… (Cruguer! Stop moving around with the light I’m trying to write over here!)

Ah! Crap! Just forget it! I’ll make the light myself… There, all set!

Like I was ‘saying’, we are, yet again, stuck in some stinking, gods forsaken, sewers! You would never believe how the scum of the multi-verse always ends-up in the sewers. If we were adventuring in Elysium we would, for sure, end up in some Celestial City sewer.

But I digress; let me go back to the beginning.

We were setting up to enjoy a peaceful evening of discussions and good natured fun. As I was reaching for my flute to further add to the sense of complete bliss, a Knight of the Pale burst in on us, asking for our help. Seeing how pale he was (Tee Hee!), we just could not ignore his plight. So, like they say: “no rest for the good guys” or was it ‘the evil ones’? Hmmm… Crap! I always get these stupid human sayings mixed up…

(Chatty DM: Its not the Knights of the Pale, it’s the Keepers of the Veil… but I might have screwed that one up…This is a very Ptolus thing, all players mix both organizations, Monte Cook’s group did too. I think I’ll just merge both groups and leave it at that)

Let’s just say, we went to Knight of the Pale’s HQ to meet with the knight’s superiors. In case you did not know, the office of these Knights is smack dab on Ptolus’ cemetery walls!… A pleasant place… really! Well, I would have chosen some other place but the rent must be as cheap as it gets since there are all these zombies and demons prowling around at night. The leader of this order definitely knows how to get the most out of his money..(Chatty DM: Yan you kill me! Lol!).

As we arrive, we can see that the Knights have had some action and that currently a weird, never seen before, plant-like humanoid creature is walking toward the Necropolis from deeper in the city. A few others broken forms of these creatures are seen lying around.

The knights don’t seem that intent in engaging it and once it enters the Cemetery they close the gate behind it. Obviously the knights want us to find the source of this new threat.

After some investigation by yours-truly, investigator extraordinaire (and friends, of course), we gathered the following information:

• These creatures seemed confused and came from the south.
• One of them was not confused and came straight from the south-western part of the town.
• This creature is from an unknown origin.
• One of the knights wound by these best transformed into one.

Our hypothesis was that someone, or something, was creating new ones somewhere in the southern part of town. Also, we think that the one that came from the other direction was one that had wandered long enough to get its bearings. Obviously their ultimate destination was the Necropolis.

On our way south, we meet with an overly-friendly, and reformed, Ogre-Mage that had taken a liking to Cixi. He (It? I’m confused!) had just dispatched one of those weird walking houseplants. Amongst his constant bragging we managed to gather that the creature was coming from the Warren district. In other words the slums of Ptolus…(sigh) great!

As we start looking around for some clues, we stumble on some gang members harassing a ‘poor’ alcoholic/junky. Either way he was none too swift. The gangers, Pale Dogs I think they call themselves, were playing ‘keep away’ with a vial. That bottle contained some very unnatural-looking green liquid. The poor sod was trying to get it back. Well, deciding to take the matter in my hand I went in and ordered them to stop…

Well they did stop harassing him… Suffice it to say that the streets are now a little bit safer, if a bit dirtier.

We did manage to find out where those creatures come from though. It was this green stuff. While we were ‘entertaining’ the Pale Dogs, the Junky downed the whole bottle and started transforming right in front of our eyes. Yuk!Questioning the sole gang member, we found out that this was a new drug distributed by a local curios’ shop.

(To be continued tomorrow)