15 May 2004
We're at Dinas Mawr.
<moose ears> Liz wanted to know about double-slit diffraction experiments.
Delyra asks about the Black Amulet. Kawg does not offer up an explanation.
Delyra commissions a dark blue dress.
Tam wanted to go after the ghosts. Pheldran concurred.
Joel suggested that if we are go after the ghost, Delyra should have named the dog
Scooby-Doo
N-Guuk notices down an alley to the right beyond some crates a bunch of half-orcs laughing and jeering at something. There are about a half-dozen. N-Guuk launches forth, axe in hand.
The half-orcs have some people cornered. They are beaten and moaning.
N-Guuk jumps up upon some of the crates.
Tam comes up and casts Sanctuary on herself.
Pheldran comes up along the left side and casts Color Spray.
Some of the blinded half-orcs stagger back. Some of the orcs move in to attack.
One aims a wooden axe at Pheldran, hitting him hard.
Two take aim on N-Guuk. One hits him slightly.
Dunbarton moves in, but not close enough to attack. He advises people in battle.
Tang Zhen moves in, but into battle.
Delyra moves in yelling "Fire" but actually casting Sleep at some of the half-orcs.
Fthunk.
N-Guuk smacks a half-orc damn hard.
Pheldran retreats.
Half-Orcs retreat.
Jasper comforts the victims.
Some of the half-orcs were wearing plaid.?
Dunbarton tries to offer verbal comfort. He doesn't fare that well at this task.
Delyra ties up the sleeping one.
N-Guuk goes over to a half-orc and intimidates him.
Alanzo introduces himself to Jasper.
The woozy half-orc is interrogated/intimidated by N-Guuk.
The charmed half-orc is interrogated by Delyra.
Dunbarton might have hired the half-orcs to chop some trees.
Alanzo and Benedetto are the names of the humans.
Jasper offers to have party escort them back to their Maplewood Grove apartment. We do just
that. It takes about half-an-hour to get to this next section of the city. These brothers live in a
nice house, with a yard, and wrought-iron fence, etc
Apparently one works in his dad's casino. The other works in his uncle's restaurant.
As we approach the doors, some servants come out. They are curious about our group. Alanzo and Benedetto report about our saving them. The servants look at us admiringly, and one tells us to wait for a moment.
The master would like to thank us all with dinner tonight. We accept.
Jasper goes to look for a vantage for glimpsing the layout of the town. It is longer north-south then it is east- west. There are no strict boundaries. The northeast quadrant houses important looking buildings, including the Church of Zadrinia goddess of community, safety and children.
We go to dinner and meet the grandfather is Lucio Dericci. He is in our debt for our earlier acts of bravery. Dinner was good. Someone arrives to met Lucio for a business matter, for which he excuses himself.
Jasper recognizes the important person that comes to see Lucio on business. [Edit: We only know that out of game. Sorry, Brian!]
We get to the Not So High Quality Inn. The City Guard knocks at one of the hotel room doors. N-Guuk, half- naked, answers the door. "We are looking for 'Gareth D'Lyons'." One of them realizes that the window is open and that escape probably occurred. They are heard again outside once Jasper is back in the room. They fan out searching.
Morning happens.
During breakfast, 8 guard show up. Jasper races out the back door and the guards chase through. The rest of us are dumbfounded. He heads up to his room, blocks the door, and thinks about putting on his Slippers.
Dunbarton doesn't realize that the guard isn't after him. Pheldran follows.
It sounds like most of the guard fell as they hit Delyra's Grease spell. Tam asks "Is there a problem, Officers?"
Jasper heads through the bazaar en route to a tall building a nearby temple.
Meanwhile, two cops now slide out through the front door.
Action slows and finally we are informed that Jasper's father, Lord D'Lyons, has issued a warrant for his arrest.
Dunbarton is located in the kitchen by one of the guards. The guard asks him why he is in there. Dunbarton tells him that he is hiding from the guards. The guards blinks and asks him why he should be afraid. "I don't want to get arrested." The guard tells him that in order to not be arrested, he'll have to turn his friend in. Apparently, there is a reward of 30 GP for his arrest.
Delyra hypnotizes a merchant to buy N-Guuk's extra axe at 13 GP (instead of 8 GP).
Down at the station, the guard explains to his captain why Tam and Pheldran have followed. The captain thinks that it's a runaway case. "Who is Lord D'Lyons?" Tam asks.
Delyra picked up the dice-bag blue dress.
People gather up to leave Dinas Mawr. Missing are Jasper and Dunbarton.
We get to the next town's inn.
Jasper, at nightfall, descends from the building and attempts to sneak out of town. Jasper happens to catch up wit the party at that inn after everyone else is asleep.
Tam and Delyra head back to Dinas More to check if Jasper has been caught. They give each other language lessons along the way.
Jasper wakes and find us. We confront him on the issue.