You are reading the writings of Truck, Windling Warrior of the 3rd circle.
The Kingdom is concerned about the cult that was shipping corpses from Wolfridge to Bamor. They hired several groups to stake out various locations. They sent us to map hexs 4612 and 4613 which is not far from Kaer Bamor. They also specifically asked us to find out about Brizius Bonecall who is thought to be a breeder of crossbreed and mutant creatures.
We traveled to the location and waited several days before we saw suspicious traffic. It was a single horse drawn cart. It was escorted by 4 dwarves in grey robes. The back of the cart had a large tarp covering a box or cage, we heard something snoring loudly from the cage. I had thought the plan was to hide and let them go by so we could follow them, but Strata thought it best to talk to them, so he approached alone. Then a few seconds later R'edtarian also got up from hiding in the bushes and joined him. Meanwhile Vallone had snuck a look under the tarp and found a very large Espagra asleep in the cage, told Amhran and I about the espagra, then went over to tell Strata and R'edtarian. When one of the guards commented that it seems like one of us was popping up from behind the bushes every minute or two, somebody said that there was only the three of them and that nobody else was behind the bushes. Then the three of them suggested that they travel with the cart for a while. So when they left with the cart, Amhran and I were left to follow the cart at a distance.
They traveled until sunset together, then made camp. Amhran and I made a cold camp about 300 yards away. In the middle of the night the cart crew silently hitched up the horse and withdrew. This was spotted by our watch, and we were a half hour or so behind them. We came to a spot where they had apparently unloaded the still sleeping Espagra. We also came upon a note that apparently fell out of the cart when they unloaded it, the first part was their instructions to unload the espagra here, the rest was instructions on what to do when they got back to their base. We killed the still drugged espagra and kept following the cart. It took us about 3 weeks! (via sossinopa to the Skol mountains, around hex 2209).
We found some large doors built into a hillside, which we opened and entered. The building seemed to be brand new and hastily constructed. There was a very large plant in a huge wheeled pot that spoke to us a lot, but did not say anything useful, it mostly just tried to lure us into getting within reach. There was also one of the dwarves from the cart there, whom we took captive. There were a large number of animals in cages, including a very huge lizard and a flaming dog. We had instructions for feeding them, and they turned out to be tame if provided with plenty of food, water, and play toys. There was a complicated sequence to unlock the coors to the lab, we unlocked it and attempted to apprehend Brizlus Bonecall. She sicked a pride of absolutly cute and adorable kittens on us. Despite being of root stock Tiger, Lion, Cheeta, and Panther, the kittens were not at all dangerous except that they were storm infused and could shoot lighting at us! Amhrán Fili soon had the kittens eating out of her hands. Meanwhile Brizius Bonecall tried to run out the other door, but Vallone made some great dagger throws and we captured her as well.
We searched the facility and found many interesting books and whatnot, but the piece of intelligence we found most disturbing was the following letter, which I copy here.
Esteemed colleagues
We write to you to request another creature. As our plans develop, the necessity for a combined threat to spread the Throal adepts thinner has become apparent. We have a desire to employ one of your simpler creature designs to poison the entire river. As you can imagine, this requires ether an excessive amount of the substance, or a substance with much more potency than is normally found. As you did such decent work with the Troll, we're sure you'll be more than capable of handling this request.We pray for your survival during the Scourge. May the Horrors purify this world.
When interrogating Brizius, she mentioned that she was not the only one operating under that name. She claimed that 10 or 20 people use that name.
We returned to Throal with our two captives, the entire library, and all the kittens and a monkey (I am not certain how many of them Amhran Fili ended up adopting, but we found good homes for them all, I was tempted to adopt one myself). The other animals we released. We turned the intelligence over to the person who hired us. Statistics:Posted by ChrisDDickey — Fri Nov 06, 2020 10:10 am
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