Gameplay Date 07-01-07
Players present: Mordek, Taneus
The Battle of Teryll - part 5 - The aftermath
As we're still examining Merrick's lifeless body, Vorus is approaching from the direction of the docks, armed and armored and demanding to know what is going on. I guess he managed to get himself out of his little predicament. As Vorus looks at us waiting for an explanation, Wrend & Divina approach from near to Wrend's shop, saying that they saw the whole thing. So we fill Vorus in on all that we've gone through since we got back into Teryll, starting with the fires and the crazies, to Luvana's near sacrifice, our capture of the Erythnul priest, Cedric & Tundle's antics, and finally our encounter with Merrick. After listening intently, Vorus says he wants the entire town to meet out front of the garrison at first light. He then turns and heads off to let everyone know about the meeting. I start cutting more strips from my ever-shrinking blanket to make some more bandages... you know, I really need to just buy some extra blankets and cut up a bunch of strips ahead of time so they're already ready when I need them. As I bind up my wounds, Taneus takes a look at the kid... he's really hurt. We need to get him back to Meg's to see if she can do anything to help him.
Taneus starts helping Cornelius hobble back to Meg's, while I move over to our cart full of prisoners, in order to pull it along with us. But I stopped in my tracks as a see a pool of blood has appeared next to Tundle. Checking him out, it looks like he woke up at some point and bit off the end of his own tongue and let himself bleed out... he's dead! Dammit!! I was hoping we'd be able to get some useful information out of him. Checking our other prisoner, he's still out cold, but alive. I follow the others to Meg's and park the cart just outside. Heading in, I arrive just in time to see Corny pass out from Meg's treatments as she's trying to stitch up his gash. Once she's taken care of the kid, she comes over and takes a look at my injuries as well. I ask her if I'm gonna get sick from Merrick's bite, like I did from the last rat bites I'd come here with. Taneus says that this isn't the same thing since Merrick was a Were-Rat. When she hears that, Meg pulls out some Wolfsbane for me to take, but she says we won't really know if it works until the next full moon in three days time. If it doesn't work, I'll find myself changing into a Were-Rat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . wait, what?!? I'm gonna turn into one of those things!! With the whiskers and the tail and everything??? As Taneus starts to chuckle, I swear under my breath that if Merrick wasn't already dead, that I was gonna kill him!! In the meantime though, I am feeling pretty weak from the bite wound, so I decide to turn in for the night, asking Taneus & the others if they can keep an eye on the prisoner tonight and wake me up in the morning in time for Vorus's meeting.
When I'm finally roused from sleep in the morning, I find that everyone's been busy. Meg & Luvana had been putting together as many medicinal potions, salves, herbs, etc. as they could into the cart with our now awake, yet still shackled prisoner. Luvana's also wearing some leather armor now... guess last nights events kinda spooked her a bit. Nobody's seen Fazu in a while though... probably off checking on the Evertree. As soon as everyone is ready, we grab the cart and head for the garrison. There's already a crowd gathered around it, but we made our way through so we could drop off our prisoner in a cell, making sure to get Wrend's manacles back so we can return them to him. Back outside we can see that Meg & Luvana have started tending to people's wounds right there at the cart. Vorus waited a few more minutes to let a few stragglers arrive before he addressed the crowd. Beyond the expected reassurances to the crowd that last night's events were over, Vorus made a motion calling for the city to choose a new leader. Corny almost immediately piped up, suggesting that Meg should be in charge. Though she was a bit taken aback and seemed not to want the responsibility, the loud approval of the crowd spoke otherwise. As she reluctantly stepped forward to the front of the crowd near Vorus, she did voice a few changes that she had long wished to see implemented in Teryll. She wanted to do away with all the taxes that Merrick had imposed on the townspeople, and she wanted to see a real city guard patrolling Teryll to help keep it safe. Her ideas were met with a lot of enthusiasm. When it quieted back down, Vorus motioned for Taneus & I to come forward. He then told the crowd of the events from last night that not everyone knew, and our parts in all of it. He then asked the entire crowd to welcome us as friends of Teryll... well now... I wasn't quite expecting that. The crowd erupted with applause and huzzahs that took a little time to quiet down... they're not expecting us to make or speech or something, are they? Taneus gave a curt bow to the crowd in acknowledgement and I followed his lead, then we stepped back to allow Vorus to address the crowd again.
As he continued to speak, Taneus & I quietly slipped away from the gathered townspeople to go looking for Fazu and see what he was up to. We checked around the Evertree and he wasn't there, so we checked down Cornelius's well underneath the Evertree, still no sign of him. Thinking that perhaps he had gone to Merrick's residence in the hope of finding clues as to why his goons were so interested in the "Key" to Zan, we headed in that direction. With Merrick & Tundle both dead, and Cedric not seen since he ran away last night, no one was around to restrain Merrick's war dogs, and they came charging right at us as we approached. Taneus put his hand forward and sent forth a blast of fire that roasted them in their tracks, but they were still twitching, so I put a crossbow bolt in each of them to end their suffering. We went around to a back window on the off chance that Cedric was hiding somewhere inside. We managed to get a window open and quietly snuck in, but as we searched through the place, we found no sign of either Cedric, or Fazu. We went outside again to find that Meg, Corny & Luvana are all approaching our way. Meg's looking appraisingly at Merrick's residence saying "I think this place will do." Sounds like Meg's gonna be setting up shop here in the near future.
To be continued...
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