Desnus 02 - The plague of wedlock!

For a number of weeks now a large number of citizens had begun to fall fatally ill and it wasn’t long before a greater plague began to sweep it way across the city!

During the outbreak Gregory (one of the party guests from the feast of the dancing lady whom had been invited to become the city crier), Natalia and Miro meet for a drink at Gregory’s request.

During the drinking Gregory admits to his two friends that he has a confession to make. He begins to recount a long drawn out tale which resulted in Gregory being employed to spy on the group and their kingdom by one of the other noble houses and broadcast the groups “evil” doings and mistakes to their citizens and to cause as much unrest as he possibly could.

Shocked at his courage to confess his secret Natalia asks why come clean, the crier admits that because the group has treated him so well and with respect he feels he couldn’t follow through with the deed.

Miro asked the burning question of whom the identity of Gregory’s employer was but the crier did not know as he was employed by a 3^rd party of another 3^rd party but from his digging he has been able to unravel that one of the noble houses is responsible.

 

Natalia and Miro thank Gregory for his honesty but obviously feel that had to jokingly threaten to make him one of Vaneers altar boy should he try anything else. Gregory laughed nervously hoping that it was indeed just a joke!

Of course the plague was an issue and Vaneer seemed quite capable dealing with the outbreak but there was one event that had the great Otto shaking in his boots wedding preparations!

Meanwhile as a distraction Chief Sootscale invites the group for a feast with him and his fellow kobolds to which the group graciously accepts, when they arrived at the kobold hold they find it to be a busy place with kobolds running backwards and forwards, the smell of roast boar and elk filled the air.

The group where shown into the grand common room where Chief Sootscale and 2 trolls were sat waiting for the group, Otto started to worry that the trolls were female and this was some sort of Stag event ahead of the marriage.

Otto soon relaxed when he saw that one of the trolls was the same troll that was present at the feast of the dancing lady – King Holgoka whom to seemed surprised to see the group in Chief Sootscales hold.

Tensions then rose as the group and trolls nervously watched each other over till Sootscale explained that King Holgoka was visiting the kobolds and was trying to convince the kobolds to leave Wyvernshore and join his kingdom instead and so Sootscale wanted to know the groups opinion on the offer.

The group asks Sootscale if he feels oppressed but Sootscale insists that they answer his question first on how they view the kobolds, the group tells Sootscale that they value the alliance and friendship of the kobolds and is why they honoured Sootscale with his position on the council but if they felt oppressed there would be no hard feelings should they wish to join the troll kings kingdom.

Sootscale sits and ponders in silence for what seemed hours but agrees that the pinkies have been true and kind to his tribe and that they will stay with Wyvernshore. King Holgoka expressed his dissatisfaction and left disgruntled as the group begin to feast.