Slain by Elf

{lang: ‘en-GB’}'Who’s that?’ ‘That’s the Maladorian peace envoy.’ ‘What’s he doing here?’ ‘You may well ask that.’ ‘… what’s he doing here?’

{lang: ‘en-GB’}As is becoming far too common, our breakfast is interrupted by a despatch rider with an apparently urgent missive. The last time we had a meal interrupted we finished anyway and then were surprised when we saw that the messenger had waited outside for us with his carriage, when we had unintentionally ignored the [...]

{lang: ‘en-GB’}'Can you roll a Sense Motive check please?’, asks the DM of one of our players. ‘Can anyone roll?’, I interject. ‘If you were paying attention, yes.’ ‘Of course I was paying attention’, I say, starting to roll my D20. ‘What are we rolling for?’ ‘<sigh>’

{lang: ‘en-GB’}The summoned gryphon is destroyed, the puppy dog with the big teeth runs away, and the demonic sorceror is defeated. After ensuring he cannot cast spells, a bit of interrogation reveals who hired him to kill the councillor. Success! We now have the two people responsible for the death of the councillor in our [...]

{lang: ‘en-GB’}A councillor was murdered in his sleep. Twice. We have uncovered one plot almost to its conclusion, but the other remains elusive. We still don’t know what sort of creature ripped out the councillor’s throat, or how it got in to his room, or who was controlling it. In fact, we pretty much know [...]

{lang: ‘en-GB’}Having defeated the acrobats and now looking for their escaped leader and hunting for further clues as to his motivation behind the murder we start to head back across town to the inn where we found out the troupe was staying. The inn is about a thirty minute walk from the theatre, and we [...]

{lang: ‘en-GB’}What with the recent fight that involved multiple grappling foes and a troubled Dexter failing to draw a weapon, lethal versus non-lethal damage was mused upon. If you hit someone with a chair leg it counts as an improvised weapon and you do lethal damage. By the same logic, if you hit someone with [...]

{lang: ‘en-GB’}Tumblers, fire-breathers, all the thrills of an acrobatic troupe about to kick your arse! This is high-theatre, and we have font-row seats. We quickly move back a few rows to avoid the initial rush and allow us time to compose ourselves a bit better. Dexter and George, our two able fighters, set themselves at [...]

{lang: ‘en-GB’}Our rummage around the dressing rooms back-stage produce some sweet meats next to a bottle of what we know to be the poison when ingested in sufficient quantites. It’s quite damning evidence, damning and obvious enough to be framing someone for the crime, but it’s the best clue we have so far and so [...]

{lang: ‘en-GB’}We’re investigating back-stage at the town’s theatre to find any clues of who might have poisoned the dead councillor, and how they might have done it. Investigating the dressing rooms of the various artists, perhaps sensing some evidence is close by, or that we are about to be ambushed by goblin ninjas, the DM [...]