Prep for Session 17

[stabs felcher]

Okay. In the interests of not getting bogged down, I want to start next session with the party being ready to leave Holmgard. If you need a refresher, the plan to go get Mathaeus' clone is off. Instead, Sean thinks it'd be a good idea to go swipe Maltarin's spellbooks, and since no one objected too violently, it seems like that's the plan.

From selling off the loot of your dead comrades, everyone gets 2000gp. (yes, this is more than market value. You guys win this time.) Xe instead got a Ring of Protection +1 and 1000gp.

Orion also offers each of you one free item to help. You can pick from...

• +2 Weapon
  
• +3 Armour/Shield
  
• +2 Stat Booster
  
• 2nd Level Wand
  
• Any other Wondrous item/Ring under 5000gp
  

With the entire school's heaped resources, you can use your own cash to purchase anything under 8000gp.

(and if Ralt trades Orion his 3337gp, he can have a +2 version of whatever that armour is he's looking for).

With everything identified courtesy of the school, you have:
-Golembane Scarab (Found on Ogres)
-3x Knowstones: Dispel Magick, Water Breathing, Identify
-Moncaede is not even magick. Don't be ridiculous.

You also have in your custody one Elcid Barrett, known bandit and red-head.

Now, onto Orion. Resolve any discussion here (In Character preferably).

You arrived at the school early on the morning of the 87th day of Spring, with just 13 days to go until Maltarin blows up Geoffrey's stomach. Not that it matters to you, since Geoff's dead, but once the time's up, all bets are off and Crescentium's vampiric population might want a word with you.

Orion: "Friends! And ... erm... Keirenna. Thank you for coming. I had one of my students cast the spell of sending to Maltarin and pass on the message that I needed to speak to him about an astounding new discovery. He said that he would meet with me to discuss it, but that his journey would need to be brief.

"I don't know how much time that gives you, but there's one more thing you should know. Maltarin said that before he was leaving, he would have to get a couple of friends to come and look after his Castle. He said one would be coming from Holmgard, and the other from Graven. Perhaps if you leave now, you will be able to arrive before the guest from Holmgard, but as for the 'friend' coming in from Graven? I doubt you could arrive first.

"Now... there is one last problem. Maltarin carries a lesser spellbook with him at all times. Even if you destroyed the ones he kept in his castle, he would still have a number of magicks on hand."

Sticks and Blurn: "That's where we come in!"
Sticks: "We wait until Maltarin's just about to leave..."
Blurn: "Them I'm gonna swipe his book!"
Sticks: "Then I'm gonna eat the pages!"
Blurn: "Then we replace them with drawings of me on the toilet!"
Sticks: "It's fool-proof! He'll never realize until he tries to rememberize his spells!"

Orion: "... yes. I suppose that takes care of that. I will contact you with a Sending spell as soon as possible about the success of Sticks and Blurn's plan. In addition, I will be sure to have Maltarin 'demonstrate' as many of his spells to my students as I can. He's always eagre to display his power, so hopefully he'll be near to depleted of his arcane power by the time he arrives back at his castle.

"Good luck in this. And remember, Wizards are most protective of their spellbooks. Beware any traps that Maltarin may have left. But after those books are destroyed, and providing Sticks' plan is a success, Maltarin will be much easier to kill. How you do that is up to you. An ambush from inside his castle, waylaying him on the road, more... explosive options..."

...

So yeah. Sean's plan depends on a pair of incompetent dwarves, but these guys -have- to succeed some day, right?

The castle layout (or as least as much as Ralt and Spus have seen) :

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[Eikre]

Orion also offers each of you one free item to help. You can pick from...


* +2 Weapon
* +3 Armour/Shield
* +2 Stat Booster
* 2nd Level Wand
* Any other Wondrous item/Ring under 5000gp



With the entire school's heaped resources, you can use your own cash to purchase anything under 8000gp.

(and if Ralt trades Orion his 3337gp, he can have a +2 version of whatever that armour is he's looking for).

And on that last note, Krin's usefulness is diminished almost entirely!

Keirenna is somewhat more reluctant than polite with the offer of magic stuff, if it extends to her. Lagardère makes it clear that the Lady Keirenna could make all that stuff, only better, and prettier, and probably with alot more general awesomeness that probably can't be described with mortal words. Krin looks uneasy about it as her loud homunculus continues, lamenting about the lack of time.

She’ll accept a wand of Combust, if they have one, or perhaps a wand of Scorching Ray. She favors the former. She also, perhaps feeling a bit guilty about pressing a few points the night before, promises to pay back the favor with her own services in the future.

If the school would be so kind as to find a merchant selling fine Mithral, she would appreciate if they purchased a chunk suitable for creating a full set of plate-armor in her name. She’ll leave them the money right now, if they require it, but really, Mithral is in such high demand that they should be able to sell it at price if she’s not by to pick it up at some point.

-3x Knowstones: Dispel Magick, Water Breathing, Identify

“Haha! Two out of three!”

-Moncaede is not even magick. Don't be ridiculous.

“Really, what’s to hide? Give ‘em back…”

[emagius]

"I rather favor the explosive option. Particularly if it is my magic doing the exploding."

Xe picks out a light suit of armor (a +2 Twilight Mithral Chain Shirt). "It is so light and flexible that even a mage can wear it without consequence. A fine find, Master Kurnous. And is that not one of those baubles that makes one's skin tougher? Well, I'll give the school a fine donation for it." (2000 GP for a Amulet of Natural Armor +1)

"I know nothing of Maltarin's friends, but if they are half as formidible as he, we should make haste so as to be able to face the two of them separately. And while it pains me to see those spellbooks destroyed -- would not the other students find them of use? -- it shall be done. And I might even make use of those Knowstones along the way. Worry not, Master Kurnous, as you will have a full report upon my return. It may even be more detailed than my last term paper!"

"Speaking of school... Well, I'm a little short on the next installment of my dues. Here's 40 gold. I'll get you the rest shortly, well within the grace period. But I do get my bed back, right?"

[stabs felcher]

O thinks he has enough mithril lying around from creating borken Mithril Twilight Shirts that he can spare enough for full plate.

Orion ponders Xe's suggestion that they not destroy Maltarin's spellbooks... "The books are of great value, true. That said, I mean no offense to your abilities, Xe. But should you leave the books in tact, and then fail in your mission to kill Maltarin, your mission will have been in vain."

[Eikre]

Keirenna thanks Orion for the Mithril, but asks if he wouldn't mind keeping it for just a bit until a few unpleasent things were delt with? She'll be back for it later. Time allowing, she'll have a suit of armor to her own specifications.

"Destroy the spellbooks? You'd have to do the like to me, first. And Sean, if his motives are of any indication."

[emagius]

"That can be arranged, my lady. As Master Kurnous so rightly points out, we need to deprive Mintarin of his resources, no matter the cost. All who stand in the way will be blasted to bits along with the books themselves. We can discuss this after our mission is completed and Mintarin dead. That is, after Maltarin's dead."