Start of #Sharn buffer: Wed Feb 20 20:04:07 2008 [18:18:37] [Two days have passed since the party's impromptu investigation into the vigilante known only as "The Divine Arrow". After getting a preliminary description of the man behind the murders, they hired the Truestrike Inquisitive Agency to track him down. Alexander gave the party instructions to return to the Agency in two days time, after charging them 200 galifars upfront for the agency's services.] [18:20:26] [The group arrives on Wir, Therendor 16, 998 Y.K] [18:20:30] [Session Start] [18:22:34] * Aurora knocks on the door. [18:22:47] * Phanos stands beside Aurora, dogs flanking. [18:23:44] * Loharath stands behind Aurora, arms crossed. [18:24:06] * Marianysa looks up at the sky, stretching. She's still looking pleased with herself. [18:24:32] [An unremarkable human male opens the door, dressed in plain brown wizard's robes. This is probably Ban.] "Oh hello. Please come in." [18:24:50] Thanks. [18:24:52] * Aurora steps in. [18:25:31] * Loharath follows. [18:25:35] [He steps asside and walks to the desk in the center of the meeting room. He scoops up a tiny frog and desposits it in an open-topped glass tank.] [18:25:52] * Phanos steps in as well. [18:25:57] "Let me go get Sigma, he has the information on your vigilante." [18:26:52] Ooh. Thanks. [18:27:04] [Ban walks out of the meeting room and toward the back. As he opens the door there's the sound of billiards being played. A short moment later, Sigma walks out, standing tall for a halfling.] [18:27:45] "Dis a lot easiah den goin down to de cogs." [18:27:54] "Hey there folks." [He takes a short drag from a cigarillo.] "So, let me tell you up front, there wasn't much to go on." [18:27:57] Yeah. It's crazy down there. [18:28:08] "Cogs?" [18:29:21] We had to go down there just to get the information about what the guy looked like [18:29:28] (No you did not.) [18:29:50] (You went to Callestan. It was quite above ground. You threw a Warforged off a balcony of a tower.) [18:29:57] (Aurora's lying to impress a halfling. That's rock bottom) [18:30:02] ( ... Whoops ) [18:30:14] ( All those places sound alike to me. ) [18:30:15] (thought it was the cogs:/) [18:30:27] (Cogs=Underground) [18:30:43] (Can't very well throw someone off a tower while underground) [18:31:15] (Sure you can. It just needs to be a really big cave. :V ) [18:31:20] (Also, check the Timeline before each session.) [18:32:08] "Dis a lot easiah den goin down to callystahn." [18:32:20] "Callywhat?" [18:32:30] We had to go down to Callestan just to get the information about what the guy looked like [18:32:55] "Oh, Callestan. Yeah, that's a tough place. Watch out for the halflings." [18:33:08] "Done got mugged by one." [18:33:27] Well, pickpocketed [18:33:49] The only difference is how much you can fight back. [18:33:56] [Sigma chuckles] "You're lucky it wasn't anything more serious. The Boromars aren't anyone to trifle with. Well anyway, back to business." [18:35:24] "So this character, the 'Divine Arrow', he's been making the rounds. Some of his hits have gotten into the Inquisitive because of the high profile targets, like corrupt Watchmen and especially church officials, but he's been making the rounds in the Cogs and Lower Dura." [18:35:38] * Aurora nods. [18:36:25] "A few darguul hobgoblins were murdered in their favorite tavern, after whitnesses apparently saw them beating a goblin servant near to death." [18:37:22] * Loharath nods [18:37:32] "Stuff like that. I pieced together a few witness reports and I'm fairly certain his base is in Callestan." [18:37:54] Wonder how he hears about this stuff. [18:38:54] "People talk." *he shrugs* [18:39:20] "Probably finds out about it the same way I went about finding him." [18:40:59] "Now, I'm afraid I couldn't manage to do much better than that. I'm sure he's operating somewhere out of Telan Towers in Callestan, but that's just based on the data of incidents I've collected, not any eye-witness accounts." [18:41:18] "That's a pretty wide area to search." [18:41:24] Yeah [18:41:33] If we go there and shake the bushes, maybe he'll get word and find us to see what our problem is. [18:43:17] "That's a good way to get ambushed. Though you don't fit the profile." [18:43:44] Profile? [18:44:00] Even if he ambushes us, I bet he'd give us fair warning first. [18:44:08] "Victim profile. They were all authority figures." [18:44:14] Aah [18:44:21] "What makes you say that?" [18:44:38] "Because he pays attention." [18:44:59] * Aurora blinks [18:45:15] * Marianysa turns towards the door. [18:45:27] Wow. It's really you? [18:45:38] * Loharath turns around to look [18:45:40] How'd you find us that fast? [18:45:40] [Alexander walks in from the back room, buttoning the cuffs on his wrists.] "The Divine Arrow has a warped sense of honor. Always lets his victims know he's there and going to kill them, but always just too late for them to do anything about it." [18:46:12] * Aurora nods [18:46:39] "Who dis?" [18:47:25] "Oh, I don't think we've met, huh?" [18:47:44] This is Alexander, another guy at True Strike. [18:48:27] "I'm Alexander ir'Telzenon, owner and proprietor of the Truestrike Inquisitive Agency." [18:48:38] (ir' suffixes denote nobility.) [18:48:39] * Phanos shakes his head. "Phanos mon." [18:52:06] "Anyway, I'd watch out for this guy. He's taken the Code of Galifar into his own hands. So far all of his victims appear to have been guilty of corruption and abuse of authority, but no one man should be able to pass judgement on another. Thats why we have a jury." [18:52:16] Yeah [18:53:01] I'd prefer he just... I don't know, tied them up and left them before the watch with incriminating evidence. [18:53:35] "Except he's a man who's lost faith in the justice system. He doesn't believe in it." [18:53:44] "He thinks he can do better." [18:54:03] How long has he been operating, anyway/ [18:54:33] "As far as we can tell, his first hit was actually our fault, in a way." [18:55:20] "He killed two members of the Watch who patrol the docks at Cliffside at night. Apparently, they were paid-off by Daask to look the other way as they smuggled slaves out of the city." [18:55:54] "Except we stopped Daask's slaving operation, caused a huge ruckus, and got the Watch involved officially." [18:56:31] * Aurora blinks. [18:56:47] So I guess he might know us quite well? [18:57:06] "It could be. It could just be a cooincidence as well." [18:59:58] Hm. Okay, anything eles you found about him? [19:00:16] "He's a really really good shot." [19:00:18] I don't think he'd go after us, would he? I mean, we're supposed to be on the same side and all, but we ARE trying to figure out who he is. [19:00:54] [Alexander shrugs.] "Like I said, you don't fit the profile." [19:02:24] Right. [19:05:08] In the meantime, we've got a few days before the meeting up in Skyway... [19:05:10] Anyone have ideas? [19:06:19] "Nah mon, mebbe we should try an' guess who his next target be." [19:07:13] [Sigma snorts] "Yeah good luck." [19:07:30] Wait... hm. Hang on. [19:07:35] Got a list of people he's killed off? [19:07:43] I'm a bit curious about when he got that bow of it. [19:07:46] ( his ) [19:08:18] "I've only been on his tail for a day and a half. I don't have a complete list." [19:09:08] I see. [19:09:13] "If you're talking about the light-shooting bow, about a tenth the stories I heard about him include that detail." [19:09:18] * Aurora nods. [19:09:30] When's the earliest story you heard about him with the bow? [19:09:32] "It'd not something that really stands out for the most part." [19:10:10] "I don't know, it could be as early as one or two weeks ago. People aren't the most reliable for remembering exactly how many days ago something happened." [19:10:12] I guess so. Most people probably wouldn't see the shaft of light darting through the air. [19:11:35] "I wouldn't waste your time trying to figure out who he's going to go after next. There are over twohundred thousand people in this city. I think it's being generous if you said half of them were honest and fair people." [19:11:42] Yeah. [19:11:48] (Yeah?) [19:11:57] ( Agreeing with not wasting time. ) [19:12:53] I wonder who he had to go after to get that bow. I handed it over to the church, then they denied ever having it. [19:13:13] And the church is a bit far from where he usually operates. [19:13:57] "Mebbe he be in de church." [19:14:26] A double identity? Vigilante by night, priest by day? [19:14:33] * Phanos nods. [19:18:11] "It's possible. He does come from Thrane, after all." [19:19:03] Hm. [19:19:07] Yeah, that's pretty possible. [19:20:02] "Mebbe we should be askin' de ones at de church ya done gave de bow to." [19:24:32] Well... in the meantime... [19:24:42] We still have that Rakshasa. [19:25:13] That place that pointed at Sarlona was pretty bad, but I don't think the Rakshasa were directly involved. [19:26:16] "Welp, I tink dis guy, he ain't no problem to us. Even Alexandeah heah say he ain't killin' off no innocents." [19:26:37] "I didn't say that." [19:27:05] he'll go after anyone he THINKS is guilty. [19:27:11] No fair trial. [19:27:12] "I said, so far, he hasn't been wrong. It's not impossible for him to be wrong in the future." [19:28:29] "If he wasn't wrong, why didn't de law bring dem in afore he got to dem?" [19:29:12] "Cause this is Sharn." [19:29:29] "Sometimes the law looks the other way if you shine enough gold in it's face." [19:29:58] "Which is usually where indepednant inquisitives like us come in..." [19:30:12] "so he takin' work from you?" [19:30:43] "Quite the opposite, actually." [19:31:08] "If this city wasn't so Gods damn corrupt, the law would work like it's supposed to and no one would have to hire us." [19:32:23] * Loharath nods [19:33:14] "I guess you can say we're both symptoms of a social disease." [19:33:29] "As a professional, mon, whatcha suggest-a we do to find dis guy?" [19:33:56] "Well, as a professional, I suggest you pay us more money and gives us more time." [19:34:18] * Phanos smirks. [19:34:29] "We narrowed his base down from the entire city to a group of towers in one district, in two days." [19:34:51] That's a mighty convincing argument. [19:35:05] [19:37:48] Alright, how much for another two days? [19:38:09] "Standard rate of 100 gp per day for information gathering." [19:38:44] Sounds good. [19:38:57] We'll take it. [19:39:24] * Aurora fishes around her purse and hands over 200 Galifars. [19:42:24] You can wait if you want to. I'm going to go out and try to find what's happening myself. I'll see you around, Mari. [19:42:25] [Alexander nods and takes it.] [19:44:13] Are you kidding? I've been cooped up for days, I'm coming with you. [19:44:24] Alright. I'll see you in a cuople days. Thanks for this. [19:44:34] * Aurora looks over. "I've got nothing to do for a bit, so I'll tag along." [19:44:35] "May as well be follerin' you around, mon. You get into trouble all de time." [19:44:57] No, I think I'd rather just go with Mari. [19:45:28] Just her? [19:45:31] Alright. [19:46:08] * Marianysa grins. [19:46:24] "Oh, sho." [19:46:30] * Phanos shrugs. [19:46:58] * Loharath heads out, slow enough for Mari to keep up. [19:47:15] * Marianysa follows Loharath, naturally. [19:47:22] Have fun, you two. [19:47:58] "She looked happy." [19:48:10] Yeah. [19:48:35] I think she likes him. I mean... it's hard not to. [19:48:49] [19:48:56] "It is if you're subtle." [19:50:42] I did at first, but... well, he looks pretty, but I just don't think it'd work out between us. [19:53:39] "Well, les let dem go on a date. Les get outta eah too, wanna talk wif you bout someting." [19:54:08] Hm? Sure. [19:54:22] * Aurora looks ot the others. "I'll see you guys in a couple days." [19:54:58] * Loharath is now known as Charles [19:55:06] * Charles is now known as Loharath [19:55:10] * Phanos steps outside with his dogs and Aurora. "Metink we oughtta look into dose oddah places, girl." [19:57:19] Might be best to wait for the others in case trouble comes. [19:57:30] Though I guess there's no harm in a casual look. [19:58:03] "Well, I say we wait, ya." [19:58:11] "But deys need some lookin into." [19:58:30] Definitely. [20:02:02] * Loharath is now known as Charles [20:02:44] [Session End.] End of #Sharn buffer Wed Feb 20 20:04:07 2008