Bandaluthia Session 04

Bandaluthia: Session 4

This is a session of cleaning up the mess from the last session. Whilst putting out fires and cataloguing papers found, the warehouse gates open. Ratsel bravely hid and Tyven positioned himself for attack. A North Jongelese driver opens the gates, returns to his cart, drives it in, then goes to the back of his cart and lets another man out. The driver was oblivious to the 2 dead men lying on the ground. The other man however was not. He draws his falchion, and shouts for Abdullah and Panwar. With no answer, he and his driver make for the gates. Tyven charges and skewers the falchion wielding man against the wall. The driver makes his escape. Shaniqua and Coolio leap into action and give chase. Ratsel creeps out from his hiding place and steps up to the figure of the man pinned by 2ft of cold steel. The man gurgles blood, his eyes bulging in pain and the realisation that he could not live for much longer. Ratsel bravely puts his crossbow to the stricken mans head, and pulls the trigger, finishing what Tyven had started.

Shaniqua and Coolio give chase, but the man is running for the pub not 200 yards away and shouting to the pub. Coolio shouts “Stop! Thief!” (Shaniqua is confused at first, but soon realises its not her this time.) A big chap kindly ‘clothes lines’ the man on the run. Coolio pays the man to drop the driver off at the Satyr & Sickle and to tell them that this is the guy who stole the leopard. Two men, both with North Jongelese attire, come out of the pub the driver was running to. Shaniqua takes matters into her own hands, runs at one of the new guys, jumps straight into the guys’ arms, a darkness globe into his eyes, and runs off. Panic over? Not really, as within a few minutes the place is swarming with town guard. This makes the clean up more urgent. Shaniqua and Coolio rush back to the warehouse.

Coolio asks Tyven to put Abdullah Kelanos’s body and the unconscious Hellhound into an empty cart and takes them to the church of Yondalla. Ratsel raced to the Town Guard office to ask if they could leave the North Jongelese owned warehouse on Ljungberg Street alone for the next 24 hours. Tyven and Shaniqua then search the whole establishment for more clues.
Coolio asks to see Father Irmao; who then comes to the gates. Coolio asks Father Irmao for 2 favours. Firstly to heal Hellhound, and secondly to make sure that the dead Abdullah Kelanos knows just why he has been killed. Coolio wants it explained to the dead man that he died not for his business in animal trading, but for the murder of Pete & Co. Father Irmao agrees, as he and Pete are acquaintances from the old days.
Ratsel enters the Town Guard station and there on the front desk is the man he needs to see. Sergeant Jagers ensures his clerk is otherwise busy, and sets to talk with Ratsel. Ratsel asks that the town guard pay no heed to the North Jongelese warehouse on Ljungberg Street. Jagers asks him what he may find in a day or two, once he is called to deal with an abandoned warehouse; Ratsel assures him it will be just bodies, or at least parts of them.

Shaniqua and Tyven discover a trap door, which leads into a cellar. In the cellar are several boxes, each containing woman, or more accurately, girls. After gleaning no real information from these girls, Shan decides to let them go.
Upon the return of the cleric, newly cured fighter and wizard the group decide to throw the 3 remaining bodies into the cellar, along with the wolverine. They then go to the Satyr & Sickle for tea. They have the papers, which show many order forms for many and various creatures. Ratsel is pleased to discover his mentor dining in the pub. D’Jarra-Leon calls over is unofficial apprentice where the two (the rest of the party join them) discuss the papers. D’Jarra-Leon tells them that the Silver dragon egg has been ordered by Shimo Nokama, and that the group would do well to deliver this item to him post haste.

With this piece of advice the five set of to the Cherry Blossom Lanes on the east of Bandaluthia. Not with the egg, but with the promise of its safe pick up, as the group do not have the knowledge (or the balls) to smuggle things over the bridges. They arrive at “Maggie’s” a strip club of some renown throughout not just Bandaluthia, but throughout the country, and perhaps even beyond. The taxi driver suggests that the group are not dressed well enough for Maggie’s and takes them to a steam bath house, then to a tailor. Within a couple of hours the group try to gain entry to the strip joint. Only Ratsel is successful, then on a whim, the bouncer lets in Coolio. Shaniqua tries to get in through the stage doors, but is refused. Her comical attempt is rewarded with a spliff and is made to smoke the lot. The orcling pair are pointedly refused. Hellhound goes elsewhere for information. He is shown the way to The Crane pub, and then to The Naga’s Head where he is coerced into a fight. Hellhound slaps the guy down and is then made to fight the ‘In House Champion’ Hellhound beats him soundly as well.

(DM’s note: Make bad guys tougher!)

Hellhound is then inundated with many drinks, and fails to go home that evening. Meanwhile, Tyven tries to intimidate the bouncer at Maggie’s where he gets told, in no uncertain terms, to go away or be killed. Tyven takes the first suggestion. Inside Ratsel and Coolio ask to see Shimo but to no avail. They see one of his henchmen and the egg problem is solved. The group make it back to The Whip Inn without Hellhound, with a stoned Shaniqua, with a miserable Tyven (the 17 year old turned down free lap dances in Maggie’s and free booze with Hellhound. Any red blooded 17 year old would be miserable!) and the two spell casters of the party, who both agree bed is the sensible option at this juncture.