Liam
Stark II PC Staff ShadowRun B oldEsplanade Kallistier WhatNot Rune Bound Esplanade
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Attending: Reino, Ray, Kevin, Dav, Yeager, David
The party had a prisoner, a cleric of Beelzebab, but what to do with him?
In capturing the cleric the party had hit him pretty hard so he would be out for a while. While they waited the group carried him further into the woods in case anyone came looking. It wasn’t long before they were found though. Loslagost returned.
It took some time to explain to him what had happened and he was his usually hyper and excited self remarking, “Hmm.” He was just as verbose about the rest of Liam’s plan. First, Liam, Dahlia, and Los had to avoid talking in front of the cleric because of their distinctive accents. Second, they needed to show the cleric the marks and ask him what they mean. Third, ask the cleric what language the marks are in. Fourth and fifth is how does one get the mark and how does one get rid of it.
(Note that this was the first time Damileor and Rudo learned that the marks on the time travelers was different than their’s. This is the first of the two secrets Liam told his long time friends to keep a few logs ago.)
It was decided that Damileor would ask the questions of the cleric, that the cleric would have hood over his head except for one small hole to look out and see the marks, and that the questioning would happen inside of Liam’s shelter. It was further decided that the cleric would be tied down so he could hardly move.
The plan was ready so Liam made a shelter. Damileor created a wall around the cleric effectively locking him into a stockade with no way of being opened. The cleric was positioned so all he could see was the back of the shelter and Dahlia cast dancing lights to make the effect even more eerie. Finally, Los used his druid magic to heal the cleric. He woke up, naked, bound, and able to see only out of one small hole. Damileor stood behind him asking questions in a husky voice.
“WHAT ARE THESE MARKS? WHAT DO THEY MEAN?” Everyone was shocked by the force and confidence Damileor displayed as he intimidated the cleric asking the questions. The cleric started to answer, saying one mark made no sense, but then seemed distracted, talking to someone. Liam panicked and sucker punched the cleric to knock him out again.
Liam dragged the cleric out and promised to explain what happened later. The cleric was woken again but this time he was outside the shelter and couldn’t see at all. Having seen both marks, there was nothing else the party needed him to see. He was again questioned about the marks and this time, wasn’t distracted by voices only he could hear.
The cleric explained, with some encouragement, that the mark was the crest of a demonic family line. It wasn’t a language but it did represent something well known (at least to the clerics of Beelzebub). He also said, once prompted forcefully, that the second mark made no sense, it was as if the demonic line had merged with another and a new crest with origins from both was represented. Of course, that wasn’t possible since there was only the one demon family. The concept didn’t seem so strange to the time travelers. The cleric had little to say about where the marks come from but he did say the only way to get rid of them was to be killed by a demon, get dragged to hell and be tortured forever. He seemed to like the sound of that as a payment to the group that had kidnapped him.
Once the questioning was done he was knocked out again and Dahlia flew him back to town and left him dangling from a flagpole. When she returned she left everyone know the guard was awake and searching the town. His absence had been noticed.
The party moved from where they’d questioned the cleric and made camp, planning to get extra sleep. Instead, they were woken early by Rudo who somehow sensed someone was coming. The party packed quickly and started moving and heard the sounds of dogs getting close. Once Damileor and Rudo explained what dogs were, the plan was to have Los take items with scent from the party and rub them on trees and plants in a separate direction to throw the animals off the trail. After several trys Los made his way back to the party. Somehow, the dogs weren’t being fooled and one pack of them was vectoring toward the party once they gave up on the false trails.
As Los returned to the party a group of 7 men with 3 dogs were just closing on the group. From behind, Los called out to them surprising them, and they attacked him. The party closed, made them scatter, and killed them all but they kept the 3 dogs. The canines seemed to like Liam but once they got around Los they forgot about the Ranger. The Druid now has three pets.
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