Characters: Julian, Cael, Grim, Terus, Randal, Davvin, Balin.
NPCs: Constal Throffson, Moran the Cleansing Flame sergeant (Wainwrights), Cleansing Flame hospitalers, Illmaterian hospitalers, Civic Guard (Carpets, Ships, Wainwrights), Kyrillos Diamitros the Centaur, Daneus Bloodgrace the priest of Illmater.
M 24 Alturiak 1374 - L 24 Alturiak 1374
5200 XP
With the new knowledge that the Zaz Bloodfever was magical, Balin and Julian analyzed samples of grain and leaf-matter finding that these two plagues were also magically enhanced. Clearly, this was a foul plan being unleashed upon the growing metropolis. Meanwhile, Grim memorized a Discern Location spell and found that Jinjivar the lost Sorcerer-Lord of the Carpets District was in the bathroom in his Calimport tower. After much discussion of the exceptions of the quarantine and the urgency of finding Jinjivar, Julian and Terus telepoprted to Calimport and then hailed a carpet to the evoker's Calishite tower. Finding the lower 4 levels of the tower uninhabited they reached the highest level and found signs of a struggle as well as a great deal of blood in the bathroom. Jinjivar's plague-ridden corpse lay in the bathtub with a stab wound in the chest. The two rogues noticed his tower empty of any useful personal effects and significant magical items, however at the lowest level they found a blood written message on the wall... BETRAYER. Julian and Terus made haste to cleanse the tower of the plague and then Teleported with Jinjivar's corpse to the Carpets District. They turned the body over to the Sergeant of the Cleansing Flame on duty and re-joined their friends.
With this new twist of fate the party decided it be best to consult with Constal Throffson once again in the Wainwrights. After they witnessed the last few minutes of a well-organized burn of corpses, the party told Throffson of what they had found concerning the magical plague and Jinjivar's disappearance. Throffson thanked them once again and asked if they proceed to clear some of the waterways with their powerful arcane abilities. They reconvened in the Ships District where thousands of dead and bloated bodies were clogging the waterways. Grim was ready for the challenge. He polymorphed the other 6 party members into Large Gold Dragons and created two massive water elementals. Within no time they were removed tons of corpses and piling them onto an empty stone dock. Afterwards, Grim helped Cael heighten a number of powerful Disitntigration spells which reduced the 2700 cubic foot pile of water-logged bodies by two-thirds. Just as that happened however, Breca the Cleansing Flame paige approached and told the party that Throffson's Wainwrights operations were severely under-manned and needed assistance before things got out of control.
They immediately Teleported and found themselves surrounded by taverns, crowds, Civic guardsman and water-lines as the famous Smiling Centaur Inn was burning to the ground. Also nearby was a large Illmaterian missionary hospital where many parishioners of the suffering god comforted the dying inside. Throffson was in the process of evicting the tavern owner Kyrillos Diamitros for piling plague infected corpses on his property in a non-sanctioned area. Cael began to assist Throffson in grappling Kyrillos, while Balin rushed to help in the water-line efforts. Grim created an illusion of more fire to scare the rest of the Smiling Centaur inhabitants out of the structure, one panicked however, and nearly fell from the 4th story balcony. Randal Dimension Doored up and bravely rescued the civilian. Meanwhile, Julian casted many Telekinesis spells to lift burning timbers. Davvin rushed into the Illmaterian hospital and began comforting the dying before their passage.Just as things were beginning to get under control, the shifty winds began to blow fiercely. Massive burning timbers flew off the Smiling Centaur and smashed into the roof and sides of the smaller, adjacent Illmaterian hospital. Balin knew this was not possible for the current weather conditions and Grim located the magical rune and Dispelled it.
Cael and Terus rushed forward through the falling debris and flames and found Moran the local Cleansing Flame sergeant trapped under a heavy burning timber. Cael knew there was no longer any time, he activated the Ring and Sword of Kenewrec and a burst of ice instantly covered the area around them. Moran was rescued and Terus and Cael began to put out more peripheral fires. Grim also used his last spells to cover surrounding buildings in thin ice sheets. Randal and Davvin were still in the hospital just as a illusion of more flames activated, covering up a number of magical explosive runes on the roof. The building instantly began to topple as the two struggled to rescue any of the survivors. Grim and Julian were the only two that had seen the runes activate and knew that this had been a set-up. The party was able to put out the remaining non-magical fires on adjacent buildings and turned to address the rage-filled and panicked crowd of Wainwrights citizens whom has seen the whole event unfold. Throffson, the Cleansing Flame Knights, and the surviving Wainwrights civic guards are now fully pressed using all of their efforts to hold back the enraged populous.
