Dirty Deeds

19-25 Tarsakh 1373

Faridoon and Vuutharak awoke to a bright spring day in Fogdown, the city streets bustling with activity, much of which was in preparation for the upcoming Green Grass Festival. Dynff had not returned from his personal business yet, but he two set out again from the Raven’s Tongue, in search of Etinee Blackmire, who they had learned the previous day may know more about Senator Olis Samreich and the Mechanex Faction.

When they found Etinee’s gallery on Burrow St., they were disappointed to found a rather slow-witted human attending it and Etinee nowhere to be found. The mumbling human informed the two that Etinee does not supervise the gallery during the day, only at night, and if they wished to purchase an item, to come back then.

Later that evening, just after sunset, Vuutharak and Faridoon returned to the gallery impersonating a fictitious noble and his bodyguard from a made up lizardfolk tribe along the Sword Coast. When Etinee greeted them in the main gallery, he was not fooled. He insisted they step into the back room to discuss the true nature of their business. Reluctantly, they agreed.

In the back room, Vuutharak continued to insist that he was a lizardfolk noble, despite Etinee’s visible rejection of the bluff and increasing frustration. Faridoon, thinking that Etinee was just a spineless, but witty, socialite, took it one step further – he insisted Vuutharak was a noble, and that Etinee shouldn’t ask any more questions. Startled and intimidated, Etinee reeled slighted and with his now white eyes staring into Faridoon’s, demanded he leave the gallery and, “go wait outside for your friend.” Dominated, Faridoon agreed.

Returning to their business, Vuutharak gave up his disguise and requested for Etinee’s help in getting into a party where Senator Olis Samreich will be on the night of the Green Grass Festival. Etinee agreed and offered his invitation to be copied for 75 gold, and stated he was helping for his “own reasons.” Vuutharak agreed to return the invitation no later than Tarsakh 21.

Vuutharak left quickly and grabbed Faridoon who had been wondering around outside, and was startled to find himself out there, claiming he was “just inside talking to Etinee.” Vuutharak explained that Faridoon had just stood up and left when Etinee had asked him to leave, and they both suspected magic was behind it.

With an invitation in hand, Faridoon recommended a well established printing shop on the other side of town, which has a reputation for being some of the best forgers in the area. They travel through the cover of night and fog, and using a secret teleportation circle in the alley behind Jacobson’s Printing, arrived in a long hallway illuminated by magical lights, leading to a one way mirror. A man’s voice greeted him on the other side and agreed to make a copy of the invitation by Tarsakh 21 for 100 gp. Vuutharak and Faridoon agreed, and asked for the name on the invitation to be “Atraus Sunleaf” and “Dynff” will be picking it up. The two returned to the Raven’s Tongue to bed down for the rest of the night.

In the morning, Dynff returned to the room explaining that he was running a few personal errands. Vuutharak and Faridoon had proven to be very useful and explained, what they thought to be, the best plan for getting into the festival.

Using a scroll Vuutharak was given some months ago, Dynff would transform himself into a Sunelf with Faridoon as his body guard. Vuutharak would sneak into a room in Aldonmir’s Manor, and using some ploy they would lure the Senator into the room, poison him and strangle him with a garrot. They had the invitation and the scroll, now all they needed was the poison and the garrot.

Proving their usefulness, Dynff agreed to send a message to his superiors recommending Faridoon and Vuutharak for possible services. He traveled to his contact in the area, Rondell Riverstone at his business, a jewelry store called the Waterstar.

Faridoon, went and visited his reacquainted friend Jack “The Feather” at Concreto’s hoping he could get some more information about the Mechanex Faction. After a few drinks, Jack divulged all he knew, which wasn’t too much more than the group already had discovered. Afterward he purchased a simple garrot in the Midmarket.

Vuutharak set out to find a herbalist shop called the Withering Leaf, located near the wall between the Crescent Downs and the Upper Docks. He found it without much difficulty, using a pseudonym pretended to be inquiring about some “poison to paralyze vermin for his elderly pet snake”. He discovered quickly the shop to be well versed in the illegal business of poison selling. Vuutharak conducted most of his business with a raspy voiced, seemingly elderly humanoid by the name of Pox. Unable to pay for the poison he requested, Vuutharak agreed to do Pox a “favor” and was told to return on Tarsakh 29.

The three meet again at the Raven’s Tongue, now with all the pieces to the puzzle, except for one: it turned out that Dynff lacked the skill to use Vuutharak’s scroll and they would need to switch roles. To ensure that Dynff could get the best shot he could at the Senator, he investigated using magical means. The result: a recommendation from Rondel to speak with Beltha’zar Tha’zi at the Black Ink, northwest of the Midmarket.

There, Beltha’zar using his magical abilities inscribed in Dynff’s arm a magical tattoo with the spell in exchange for one of the three scrolls of Alter Self Vuutharak possessed.

Finally, in preparation for any possible problems following the job, the three checked out of the Raven’s Tongue, and head over to a less “upscale” inn, called the Crow’s Roost, northwest of the Midmarket, in the grimy heart of the Crescent Downs. On the eve of Tarsakh 26, with all their preparations set, Dynff, Vuutharak and Faridoon patiently awaited for their coming evening of blood.