Downtown Abbey
At the abbey, Wilhelm was allowed to take a rubbing of the
Von Krieg family tree, which shows confirmed and suspected Von Krieg vampires.
However, the vampire that Fritz spoke of, Jonas Von Krieg was not among them.
The group only stayed a single night in the abbey, except for Milgrom who would
not enter the abbey proper. The next morning, everyone left for the Mootland,
but before they left, they decided to stop in Biemerhoff to resupply. During
the resupply, everyone chipped in on an extra horse, extra food, and Bartleby
purchased several sets of sourdough starter so he could trade it to the Halflings.
Riding for the
Moot
During the rest of the ride to the Moot, everyone healed
their horrific injuries from the spider attack. Soon, they were within a land
of rolling hills, rich farms, and delicious smells. They had entered the Moot.
This made everyone uncomfortable as Halflings are notorious conmen and thieves.
It was even rumored that they tricked the emperor out of his richest farm land
to give them a homeland. Petra was even more uncomfortable than the others
because it was the first time in her life she had been that far from the swamp.
Stopping at a small village inside the Moot, Milgrom tried to gain leads on
Jonas by asking for information on a Jonas who might have the best tobacco.
Though no one had information on that Jonas, they did tell the group to go to
the capital and try staying at Blue Willow or Ferry Town Inn, both of which
were human friendly inns.
Eel Pie
The group rode on and in the early hours of the evening,
they arrived in Shady Oak. After going to Ferry Town in, everyone was settling
in, but Milgrom upset the chef by insulting his food, so he was asked to leave.
Everyone ended up in Blue Willow. Whereas the clientele in the Ferry Town were
a little more down to earth, the clientele in Blue Willow was much more
upscale. That night, everyone planed the best ways they could gather
information. Petra went to work the docks, Bartleby walked around to gather information,
Milgrom went to smoke shops, and Wilhelm got a lead on a Halfling gardener.
Paydirt
During their investigations, Bartleby learned that there was
a very famous Halfling chef named Varadoc the Knife that gave up his restaurant
and prominence without warning. He was last seen trying to gather specialty flours
that were more common to Sylvania. Petra
worked the docks, and learned that about a year and a half ago, a man came on a
barge at night, a Sylvanian lord and left with a Halfling that was carrying a
bundle of knives. There was even a guy still working the docs that worked back
then. He said the lord then traveled north up the river. Later he even revealed
who was the captain of the barge. Milgrom got a lead on a knife shop, and after
visiting the owner, he found out that though the owner had no idea where
Varadoc the Knife was, he had a lead through his cousin, Harrigan Lilywine in
Barnbaum. Wilhelm asked the gardener about any prominent humans that might be
causing problems, and learned that some Middenheim mercenaries had been hired
to take care of an infestation of Orcs in Bogglewood.
Booglewood
Petra went back to the Ferry Town Inn, and bribed a Halfling
waiter to tell her when Captain Dawson, the man who ferried Jonas, might be
coming back through that night. After a while he came in, and during a
conversation in which they learned that Dawson was actually an honorable man,
they managed to bribe him to take them all to where he dropped off Jonas. After
a good night’s rest the man and his son take us all to Bogglewood. They dropped
us off, and since Petra helped on the barge and Wilhelm shared his wine with
them, everyone became friends. He even showed us the road where he dropped off
Jonas and Varadoc before leaving. He also let us know that Jonas had a weird
cargo, a box the size of a large dining table. There were a few people waiting
for him with what used to be a fancy carriage, but the carriage had become old
and worn. Thanking the Captain for his assistance, everyone parted ways.
The War
Riding down the road about an hour and a half after sunset
everyone heard some voices and he horses were getting skittish. The group came
across a man in wolf furs and a pack of wolves surrounding two Halflings. The
group charged in to rescue the Halflings. While the others engaged with the
wolves, Petra tackled the human. While she was grappling him, he started to
transform into a werewolf. The Halflings transformed into vampires, and shots
rang out from the woods along with cries to not let them get away. The wolves
savaged and harassed Bartleby’s and Wilhelm’s horses, almost killing them both,
and Milgrom’s arm was dislocated. The werewolf bit Petra, infecting her. Her
punches did nothing against the creature, but one of the Halflings threw her a
silver dagger that wounded it. She
stabbed the creature as Milgrom broke away from the Wolves and stabbed the
werewolf with the horns of his silver helmet. Bartleby chased one of the small
vampires into the woods, and pinned it to the ground with a bolt from his
crossbow. Then, the little vampire offered to turn Bartleby and give him immortality.
Bartleby was in the process of trying to trap and contain the vampire when it
was killed by a Halfling. Eventually, all the vampires, werewolf and wolves
were killed. The Halflings took everyone back to their camp where Petra used a
burning log to try and burn out her infection. The Halflings revealed that they
could not trust anyone in their town, it was being infected by vampires. Also,
10 mercenaries from Middenheim came and killed all 50 orcs in the area. The Halflings
had killed two werewolves about 10 vampires. Their leader was revealed to be
Speaker Tuckerberry Lilywine, out to save his people, AKA Slimtuck.
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