Dalnor/Campaign1/session-17
Three Card Monty
Session Date: June 27, 2009
A con man doesn't choose to play the shell game with you if there is any possibility of him actually losing. The con isn't in getting you to pick the wrong shell. The con is in getting you to accept that the basic premise of the game is still being followed. The con is getting you to pick a shell at all. - Haley, The Order of the Stick
Dalin 5, 53
The party finishes cleaning up after fighting off the demons. They decide that trying to track the quickling that had fled would be difficult (and not advisable) in the swamps. They decide to ship the dragon corpses back to the city in the hopes of selling them off. The demons begin to dissolve preventing any attempts to scavenge the demon corpses.
Safiria has the quickling preserved and throws it into the bag of holding.
The party takes the dragon back to the city. The guards immediately balk at allowing a dragon corpse into the city.
Elrohir, Alex and Crash enter the castle and look for a buyer. They pass through several plazas and eventually come upon a dwarf that is in the Import/Export business. Initially the dwarf offers to purchase the fine war marchine that he presumes is for sale. He is quickly apprised of the fact that Crash is sentient. The dwarf takes a look at the tooth Alex presents and agrees to examine the dragon. The dwarf rounds up his goon squad and heads back to the castle gate.
Lucius Telfane, Safiria, Winyar, Varien stay with the corpse. Slowly a group of rubberneckers forms to look at the dragon. In the crowd Safiria picks out Orea and calls him over. Orea is surprised to see the dragon and even more surprised to find out that there was no warehouse, just the dragon.
Characters bring the buyer and his goons back to the dragon. After an inspection the dwarf buys the dragon and pays cash on the barrel head. During the purchase, Safiria and Lucius keeps a tight reign on Orea. Near the end of the transaction a couple of the party members get the weird feeling that they are being watched. Although they get the impression that who ever is watching them is in the crowd, they cannot track the person down.
Once the party realizes that they are being watched they decide to get off the street as quickly as they can. The party forms up around Orea to prevent him from being attacked in the street. During the walk back they decide to break contact with their tail.
Party debriefs Orea at Maedros house. They explain to Orea that his cunning plan of using the party to discredit his father did not pan out. Orea is told that since the party hadn't been killed by the dragon and the party didn't kill Orea, Orea will be seen as collaborating with the party. Varien talks to the intelligence officer at the consulate of Castle of the Sun.
The intelligence officer clarifies some of Jim's questions and agrees to hide Orea.
Varien returns to Maedros house. As they prepare to leave, Orea is picked up and spirited out.
The party makes a big showing of preparing to go look for Orea's father. After the big show they attempt to break contact with their tail and high tail it up to Elrohir's house.
Sneak up on house, see that it has some guards in the house.
Party leaves Crash out in front and Wynyar out back in case people attempt to escape.
The rest of the party sneaks up to the house and climbs the outside of the house, and breaks into the third floor.
The party snags a guard, and skewers him. Well dressed but with no markings or adornments.
The party then suckers a guard up from the second floor and skewers him as well.
Fail to catch the guard as he falls. Thump.
Varien checks the stairwell, and picks up on the fact that several people are coming up the stairs. Varien pokes his head around and sees six heavily armed eladrin coming up the stairs. As Jim starts considering what action he should take, the eladrin down the stairs call out "the silver knights demand your surrender or destruction". this puts the party on their heels since they were expecting a goon squad protecting Nimia. There is a second call up the stairs "The attempted assassins of the princess will surrender immediately or be destroyed". The party immediately realize that they have walked into a trap of their own making.
As the party surrenders, Safiria whips the dead quickling out, chops into a bit and yells out how they were attempting to catch a quickling.
The party is disarmed and rounded up.
Previously: Bait and Switch
Continued in: Interlude
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