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Cultists by the docks.

Posted by NarratorFor group archive 0
Plutocrat Remulos
player, 52 posts
Priest and bureaucrat
Thu 15 Aug 2019
at 17:37
  • msg #688

Re: Cultists by the docks

"I could see forwarding some funds to hire appropriate assistants for that endeavor. I propose two days standard pay four your group and up to three additional persons, with a $3000 bonus if you bring proof of the permanent closure of the demonic enterprise. Any demonic paraphernalia and writing retrieved for the purpose of destruction would have a bounty paid, depending on the appraisal of the item, of course."
Ardenas Barehand
player, 1264 posts
Human martial artist with
a few spells on the side.
Thu 15 Aug 2019
at 21:26
  • msg #689

Re: Cultists by the docks

"What might be seen to constitute proof of permanent closure?  There is no fixed address, contents and proprietor are unknown."
Plutocrat Remulos
player, 53 posts
Priest and bureaucrat
Fri 16 Aug 2019
at 17:24
  • msg #690

Re: Cultists by the docks

In reply to Ardenas Barehand (msg # 689):

"Get me the proprietor alive. As to the huntress, our contingent does no summoning, as we see it as the will of the Gods that all creations stay where they were mandated."
Ardenas Barehand
player, 1265 posts
Human martial artist with
a few spells on the side.
Fri 16 Aug 2019
at 21:15
  • msg #691

Re: Cultists by the docks

"Alive?!"  Ardenas looks around at the group.  "You do know it's always harder to take someone alive than to just kill him, right?  Harder and more dangerous -- if we hadn't managed to kill that sorcerer when we did, it's a good bet he'd have killed at least a couple of us."  Ardenas gestures at the corpse with the burnt foot, his expression sliding into a scowl.
Aoife
player, 603 posts
Leprechaun
Priestess of Cerrunos
Fri 16 Aug 2019
at 21:18
  • msg #692

Re: Cultists by the docks

In reply to Ardenas Barehand (msg # 691):

"You want a living demon??? You know that our friend said it was manned by demons, right?"
Plutocrat Remulos
player, 54 posts
Priest and bureaucrat
Sat 17 Aug 2019
at 01:58
  • msg #693

Re: Cultists by the docks

In reply to Aoife (msg # 692):

"I see. A $4000 bonus then. I don't need them to be intact, omnly alive. We have found that the spirits of demonologists like this sorcerer here are not responsive to summoning. There also must be a mortal involved in the operation, because demons are not able to access our world without being summoned."
Ardenas Barehand
player, 1266 posts
Human martial artist with
a few spells on the side.
Sat 17 Aug 2019
at 19:17
  • msg #694

Re: Cultists by the docks

Ardenas mutters quietly.  "And how do we know the demons left their summoner alive after they were in this world?"

In full voice, he responds.  "How much does a Resurrection cost these days?  Not for the demonologist, for me or Oly or Norman?"
Plutocrat Remulos
player, 55 posts
Priest and bureaucrat
Sun 18 Aug 2019
at 14:21
  • msg #695

Re: Cultists by the docks

In reply to Ardenas Barehand (msg # 694):

"Unless bound by powerful magic, a demon can only remain on this plane for hours after their summoner is gone. Exceptions I have heard involve reanimation of the summoner as willful undead, which is as much an abomination to Hades as raising the dead."
Ardenas Barehand
player, 1267 posts
Human martial artist with
a few spells on the side.
Sun 18 Aug 2019
at 14:50
  • msg #696

Re: Cultists by the docks

"So, we bring you the summoner alive, and the demons he's summoned can stay?  But if we kill him, the demons will be returned to their own plane after a short time.  From here, it looks as if Hades is better served if we kill the summoner."
Plutocrat Remulos
player, 56 posts
Priest and bureaucrat
Mon 19 Aug 2019
at 16:03
  • msg #697

Re: Cultists by the docks

In reply to Ardenas Barehand (msg # 696):

"What we want is a list of his customers. If he is dead, we cannot compel him to speak, as we might with an executee who was not under contract for damnation. Our ability to interrogate the dead does not expand past those who are on the shores of the Styx. When someone is in the deeper hells, only demonologists may summon their spirits."
This message was last edited by the GM at 16:04, Mon 19 Aug 2019.
Ardenas Barehand
player, 1268 posts
Human martial artist with
a few spells on the side.
Mon 19 Aug 2019
at 21:29
  • msg #698

Re: Cultists by the docks

Ardenas nods.  "Ah, now I see.  This is the opposite of breaking a smuggling operation -- instead of leaving the small fish swimming so you can follow them back to the big ones, you want to take the big fish and find out who the little ones are."

He frowns, and knits his brow.

"You're going to be even more shorthanded when you have a potentially long list of local demon summoners."
Plutocrat Remulos
player, 57 posts
Priest and bureaucrat
Mon 19 Aug 2019
at 21:38
  • msg #699

Re: Cultists by the docks

In reply to Ardenas Barehand (msg # 698):

"That may lead to further subcontracting.... What is this city coming to?"
Aoife
player, 604 posts
Leprechaun
Priestess of Cerrunos
Tue 20 Aug 2019
at 08:51
  • msg #700

Re: Cultists by the docks

In reply to Plutocrat Remulos (msg # 699):

"Sounds like you need to get a few more religions involved. Anyway, we will do our best. Do we need anything else before we go?"
Ardenas Barehand
player, 1269 posts
Human martial artist with
a few spells on the side.
Tue 20 Aug 2019
at 22:38
  • msg #701

Re: Cultists by the docks

"So, the two days pay for us and a couple more -- is any of that up front?  Some of us aren't exactly wealthy, and this sounds like a job where a little magic might be handy."
Plutocrat Remulos
player, 58 posts
Priest and bureaucrat
Fri 23 Aug 2019
at 13:03
  • msg #702

Re: Cultists by the docks

In reply to Ardenas Barehand (msg # 701):

The priest narrows his eyes. "I can forward the five of you a day's pay. That would be $660."
Aoife
player, 605 posts
Leprechaun
Priestess of Cerrunos
Fri 23 Aug 2019
at 21:55
  • msg #703

Re: Cultists by the docks

In reply to Plutocrat Remulos (msg # 702):

"Each?"
Ardenas Barehand
player, 1274 posts
Human martial artist with
a few spells on the side.
Fri 23 Aug 2019
at 22:58
  • msg #704

Re: Cultists by the docks

"Aoife, that amount would be $132 each for five people.  Not going to go far buying magic, though.  That's almost one vial of the new blue paut each."
Aoife
player, 606 posts
Leprechaun
Priestess of Cerrunos
Fri 23 Aug 2019
at 23:02
  • msg #705

Re: Cultists by the docks

In reply to Ardenas Barehand (msg # 704):

"Is that the paut that makes me sick?"
Ardenas Barehand
player, 1275 posts
Human martial artist with
a few spells on the side.
Sat 24 Aug 2019
at 11:16
  • msg #706

Re: Cultists by the docks

"It's pretty much all the paut you can buy these days.  I heard there was a serious shortage of one of the ingredients in the old formula."
Narrator
GM, 6692 posts
DM says
roll for initiative!
Mon 26 Aug 2019
at 02:31
  • msg #707

Re: Cultists by the docks

In reply to Ardenas Barehand (msg # 706):

Chugging a few shots of paut has effects that might be more of use if one learned the Elder Futhark...

The pay rate is $120 for 5 250 pt characters, and $60 for one 125 point character (i.e. Norman)
Aoife
player, 608 posts
Leprechaun
Priestess of Cerrunos
Mon 26 Aug 2019
at 07:30
  • msg #708

Re: Cultists by the docks

In reply to Narrator (msg # 707):

"Well, it seems to me we have to head back to town to find out more where this peddler has gone..."

[Private to GM: Did the Sari Aoife purchased for her disappear with her, though it was from this plane?]
Ardenas Barehand
player, 1277 posts
Human martial artist with
a few spells on the side.
Mon 26 Aug 2019
at 08:55
  • msg #709

Re: Cultists by the docks

"I agree, I doubt there's more to be learned here, and unless Kalima shows back up, we don't have a way to detect demonic incursions directly."
Narrator
GM, 6703 posts
DM says
roll for initiative!
Mon 26 Aug 2019
at 13:38
  • msg #710

Re: Cultists by the docks

In reply to Ardenas Barehand (msg # 709):

The gear she had left with her sadly, and she may never collect the silk one that was requested.
Aoife
player, 612 posts
Leprechaun
Priestess of Cerrunos
Tue 27 Aug 2019
at 07:22
  • msg #711

Re: Cultists by the docks

In reply to Narrator (msg # 710):

You mean the silk one Aoife ordered for her? Now she has a REAL reason to come back...what woman would leave a silk dress behind!
Narrator
GM, 10913 posts
DM says
roll for initiative!
Thu 13 Oct 2022
at 20:24
  • msg #712

Re: Cultists by the docks

In reply to Aoife (msg # 711):

pick up in

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