Vardian Log #12: Cleaning Up After the Quaesitor, Part II

Date: Fall, 1200

The Players:

Acutus of House Ex. Miscellania		Magus		(Doug O.)
Aquilonius of House Ex. Miscellania	Magus		(Shannon)
Demorar of House Quasitor		Magus		(Billy)
Flamma of House Flambeau		Magus		(Eric)

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** From the Always Slightly Charred Lab Notes of Flamma Incendere

Fortunatus is a weenie.  Come to think of it, so are most Jerbiton.

Fall's second Council Meeting was as dumb as usual.  We'd just
finished deciding the Rome was all fixed now when another Ex.
Miscellania showed up, wanting to join. His name is Acutus and he
carries a big sword.  We all know what that means...His magic is
probably wimpy.  Speaking of silly Ex. Miscellania, Aquilonius kept
insulting me at the meeting.  My lab is now quite clean.  Maybe next
time I'll just punch him.  Anyway, at the meeting we had to get
together a bunch of people to go to Verdi, and toast some Faeries,
since we were theoretically to blame for Demorar's suggestion that
they all go there.

That bitch Karentia must die....

A couple of days later, Demorar and I headed off for Verdi accompanied
by those Ex. Miscellania types.  Aquilonius is good at getting in the
way of harmful things, and we needed to see if Acutus could perform
under pressure.  Before you knew it a little gnome/fairy king showed
up and was obnoxious.  We all tried to kill it and take its vis, but
it got away.  It left behind this really pretty silver brooch, and I
decided Demorar could hold on to it until they gave it to me later.
While we were deciding to give me the brooch later, a magic arrow
poked me in the back, so I stuck it in my pack. We never found the
fairy who did it, but I cast my see invisible gnomes spell just in
case.

We continued merrily down the road until we came upon a pit. This
looked really interesting so I hopped in and looked around, but there
obviously wasn't anything there but the pit. So, we continued until we
found another pit.  I flamed it, but this pit bounced my flame.  There
was some laughing over to the side of the road behind a bush.
Aquilonius ran towards it and fell straight into the real pit that had
an illusion over it.  I laughed so hard I forgot to fry the gnome and
it got away.  Fortunately, we came upon another pit.  This time I just
walked over to the side of the road and charbroilled the fairy.  I
pulled the vis into what was left of its tiny, crunchy nose and
snapped it off.  Then, I put it in my pack.

We finally got to Verdi without the Ex. Miscellania types getting any
more injured.  There, we discovered the Verdi people were mad at us
because the gnomes were stealing magic items. Missing were a quiver of
arrows, a wand of vis detection, an invisible-intangible ring (That
reminds me, doesn't Taron owe me a favor?), and a lovely silver brooch
that has wizard's boost and charm against magic.  I wear it all the
time.  But, that really happened later, first we had to scorch some
munchkins.

Since no one had a great plan, we decided to just hang around and see
if any gnomes showed up.  A couple of minutes later I noticed three
invisible short gnomes headed towards Demorar.  Since I forgot he was
holding my brooch, and since he can be a weenie at times, I decided to
just watch.  Well, they leapt on him and stole the brooch, the little
runts.  We all started chasing them and I was so mad I forgot to just
toast them and decided they would make good decorations for the end of
my morningstar.  I splatted one, but he managed to cut me a little
with some puny butter knife.  The king appeared again and got the
brooch, so we couldn't blast him and had to chase him.  I was just
getting close when some ground must have just leapt up and grabbed me
or something, because I fell down and went boom.  Not to be outdone, I
tripped Aquilonius as he went by so he wouldn't win.  While he
pathetically attempted to berate me, an arrow struck him in the back.
We all know Aquilonius isn't so tough, and it looked rather painful.
At least it gave Acutus the opportunity to do something.  He chopped up
the archer.  Then, we went back and hung around a little more to see if
any more would show up.  Three charred puny corpses later, they caught
on and stopped coming, so we needed a new plan.

Chavin is a weenie too.

Recalling how fond fairies are of beer I started making some.  I
handed some to some local grog and before you could say, "The only
good Fairy is a charbroilled fairy," a fairy tried to sneak up and
steal it. Right after I put his nose in my pack, I noticed Demorar
making signs above Verdi lab doors.  The signs said, "Free Beer." I
thought this was a great idea cause I was darn thirsty after torching
all them gnomes.  Then, I heard this explosion from another entrance. A
gnome had tried to enter a lab. I decided I wasn't really that
thirsty, and that technically, we had almost accomplished our mission.
All that was left was to convince rest of the fairies to go elsewere.

Have to re-evaluate Demorar, maybe he isn't such a putz.

Eventually the king showed up again and we promised not to try to kill
him.  He agreed to take his fairies to Doissestep (who sent those dumb
Quaesitors) and leave Verdi in peace, but he wanted the magic arrows
we had back.  Recalling how gnomes can't resist a contest I offered to
gamble the arrows we had for my brooch, that he was still wearing.  So,
he took it off and set it next to the arrows. While the others
gathered vis from his still smoking corpse, I put the brooch back in
my pack.  I wonder what Doissestep is like this time of year.

The Verdi magi traded us the two arrows for information on the brooch
and for some vis. Then, we headed back home.  The only remaining
incident was as we were walking along the road another arrow struck me
in the back.  So, I put it in my pack.

Karentia must die....

Never did see Acutus cast a spell...