9th session: The conspiracy

5th moon, 16th day, year 4553
The T'orghs spend some time in Menzo, honing their skills. Raheem learns to fight in the dark from Tagar. Raheem also crafts a composite bow. Meanwhile, Ukerin tries to ID the maul, but no luck.

5th moon, 23th day, year 4553
Mistress Quira informs Raheem that they caught an orc snooping around the palace. The orc in question was not a house slave, nor a mercenary affiliated with House T'orgh. They tortured the greenskinned humanoid, and it got around mentioning secret meetings and weapons in Menzo before it died. It also mentioned the Yellow Fountain, a fountain in Scumtown, which stones have turned yellow from a longforgotten magical event.

5th moon, 24th day, year 4553
The brothers headed back into Scumtown, and soon located the fountain. From there, it didn't take them long to figure out which building the orc had been talking about. One of the blocks had every single window up to the third floor blocked, so that noone could see from the outside and in.
The T'orghs found a way in (through a wall), soon found themselves in sort of a warehouse (walls and floors had been removed). They fought a score of orcs, and when they were dead, they found evidence of multiple locations similar to this one (map), as well as evidence of what was in the boxes. Weapons and armors by the thousands. Someone was obviously trying to equip an army. The only drow there was later IDed as a young noble of House Xiltynn.

In the other side of the building, the brothers faced two brothers and a pet basilisk in a room full of war dogs. More evidence of something largescale and nefarious was going on.
Father was very happy with all the weapons and all the dogs. He even gave them a bonus for all the hard work they had done.

5th moon, 25th day, year 4553
Father told them that soon, they would have to kill Zirgox, noble of house T'uin, the eleventh house. The goal would be to provoke house T'uin into a war that House T'orgh would surely win.

Notes: 

ID mage does not have the Strength spell.

Birthdays:

Ukerin 12/7

Nalfein 29/8

Tagar 25/9

Raheem 11/9

 

 

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