Session Twenty-Two (Graveyard of Empires Summary)

Session 22 – August 27, 2014

That accused pounding in my head finally stopped! Thank the roots of the mountain!

We delayed too long to get all the platinum imperials, the grey cloaks beat us to them. Get the loot at all costs first from now on, I say!

We spoke to captain Gosprin and learned that pear-shaped Apidius spiked the portcullis shut and ran off across the rooftops with a story and hasn’t been seen since.

We got over to Dell Gate and hired a street boy, Flan, who showed us to the alchemist shop of Tobertus.

We pretended to rent the room over Tobertus’ shop. It was very clean. Virgil, the young cleric paid 5 sp for a week’s rent to get Tobertus out of the way. We found where a chest of something had been and an area where loose boards had been repaired. We did find 15 platinum imperials in the cupboard.

That old wizard Finklemur magicked Tobertus, the Alchemist to make him friendly and tell us what he knew. That his renters disappeared and that the gray cloaks ransacked the place and took all the furniture and gave him enough money to buy a new bed.

I offered gold to Flan for information on Apidius the pear-shaped man and to leave a message with Tobertus.

We then visited Thornton’s place. He was out and we dealt with Perrette. He gave us 75 gp for the platinum imperials. He said that they found about 200 imperials and a couple of spell books. As it was all evidence, poor Finklemur couldn’t get the spells for his own books.

We traded the two tapestries and 3 large sacks of 50 books and the caretaker’s notebook to Aldus Runnelbrook and gained over 7,000 gold to split amongst us.

We returned to the shop of Tobertus and found we had a message from Flan. We found Flan and learned that Apidius and the archer from the ambush Saiden fled the city. Flan gave us the impression that it was too dangerous to ask about Richie and Aliva. We paid him 3 gold for his information and offered more to keep his ears open and stay out of trouble to get us more information on the imperials, including Vardin. Flan is to leave a message with Tobertus. Who knows how long until we get back?

We then returned to the town house and made arrangements to rent it from Elspeth for four additional months, just in case our efforts at Xen Kel take longer than expected. She will stay in there occasionally to make it look like we are still in town.

We tracked down Kottar and Sturloc. They have four friends that they will try to convince to join us. We agreed on a price. 5 gp per week each plus meals for Kottar, Sturloc and Talon, their former commander. 5sp each plus meals for their other three friends.

We agreed to meet by the Low Gate the next day to head out.

We bought supplies a cart and animals to help with the journey.

We then went to the Seven Brass Tavern and spoke to Roger Salford, who Elspeth directed us to.

Roger suggested we talk with Saunder Worksworth owner of Worksworth Hauling. We plan to meet him the next day with our men. he is paying each of us who met him 1 gp per day, and at least 5 sp per day for the others. We have no problem letting our men get paid again by someone else for the same job, it should make them even happier to work with us.

We returned to the city, 7sp to go in and out of the Low Gate, what a racket!

I look forward to one last night for a while in my own bed.

Fresh bread sounds good, but it is late. I wonder how the baker and his family are doing?