All That Lives in Darkness

28 Tarsakh 1373

Dynff, Faridoon and Vuutharak finished thier elaborate planning and killing of Sen. Olis Samreich and took a few days to stay low and recuperate. On 27 Tarsakh, the Fogdown Herald came out with a special edition paper, the front page article detailing the assassination of the Senator, and pointed out several pieces of evidence that the authorities were investigating: the bloody footprints leading to the window, the arrows and poisons found in both bodies, and researching which guests were not present at the festival after the assassination, but had arrived before. The article also mentioned that a special detective had begun to actively look into the crime. Among the possessions of Senator were two gold rings which Vuutharak had took: one with an elaborate emerald crest of House Samreich and another with a black and purple nautical star.

Strange nautical symbol

Reminded of his debt to Pox of the Withering Leaf, Vuutharak recruited the help of his former partners to find a missing “package” for Pox. Along the way they picked up a charming young half-orc by the name of Drall, who was sent by his employer to assist Vuuthrak and company in their investigations. After following the path that Drall’s couriers typically take (which as it turns out were undead rats stuff with illicit goods) the group came upon the entrance to a pocket of ruins deep below the sewers. Inside, the group found a Thiefling priestess of Shar tending to the entrances, who Drall recognized as a worshiper of Shar by the symbol on the palm of her gauntlets. Drall convinced her to help the group out, and in doing so, she and her three zombie bodyguards led the party to area where a pair of ghouls had been feeding on Drall’s rats that passed through the area. During the fight, Faaridoon had been bitten by one of the foul ghouls. After destroying the them, the Sharite wanted a replacement for her “guards”. The group dispatched the priestess and her guards, and using a rat scout, returned to the surface. By the time everyone returned, Faridoon was already feeling the effects of some disease, likely contracted from his bite. The package, which turned out to be a pair of demonic mandibles were returned to Pox, and the group went their separate ways: Dynff to the Day Harbor Inn, Vuutharak to his sewer lair by the Upper Docks, Faridoon to his small tenement apartment north of the docks, and Drall to Xobol’s Taxidermy.