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    This morning is a good pact with Ubro. The spirit's desire to work with one who values life as a virtue rather than a commodity makes Ubro more amenable. Delta tends to notice movement a little more easily, even if his senses aren't necessarily sharpened. Other than using his powers to determine that Paxre is, as guessed, diseased. This would be a great ability to attempt before full incubation, but once symptons have shown there is little more to determine unless there are secondary effects. Delta gives two specialized bursts to heal Paxre of his symptoms.

    Korvosa is a sizeable city with a sizeable sewer system. It's likely you won't be able to finish in a day. Where would you start?
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    Delta starts by inquiring among the townspeople about where the executed wererat was found, and hopefully better yet where it came from to start with. He enlists Paxre to help him ask around, with the rest of the party (including Idell, who obviously draws attention despite trying not to) keeping their eyes peeled for any others that may be scurrying about. Well, all of them except Alpha, who needs to be brought back on track multiple times to avoid him playing target practice with random objects people leave around as garbage.

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    Basically, Diplomacy checks for a good area to start, in addition to asking Paxre to do the same. Delta does want to keep the party together though, in case Vendra hasn't left town and is waiting to attack Beta and company while they aren't expecting it.
    Kitten: *bats around a mini a few times*
    DM: "Ok, it looks like Fluffy...err, 'The Tarrasque'...Full Attacks the Cleric"
    Cleric: "Full attack my a**, that was just two claw attacks!"
    Kitten: *starts gnawing on the mini*
    Cleric: "...nevermind."

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    Though the Midlands (the same ward wherein you live) is a decent place, it was a little closer to the shore of the Jeggare River that cuts through the city (on the east side) where there are some mixed stalls and so forth. You will find several who witnessed the wererat stumble in trying to run off with a butcher's display of meat into an alley. The wererat didn't realize the alleyway was closed as there was some construction occurring and he was cut off. A mob was formed, and the butcher had a silver axe from his adventuring days. Lots of mixed words, mostly what can be guessed. This is not a good time to be a wererat with an epidemic.

    "Vermin, on two legs or four."

    "Spreading filth and disease, t'begin with, now this!"

    "I say we appeal to the Guard to find every last one and burn them out of their holes."


    They get no better information on where the wererat came from, though the common consensus is the sewers. (Excepting, of course, a rather vociferous dwarf who said something about the skin-tails having been the goo that burst through from Lamashtu's belly, and then began to eat that goop up.)
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    After the information gathering proves to be effectively a failure, Delta decides to pick a sewer entrance closest to the butchers stand that the specific wererat was running from. He of course sends Idell down first, and then lets the rest of the party down afterwards. He sets Omega on the rear while Idell leads the way, wandering down the sewers for a sign of anything that might be a wererats community.
    Kitten: *bats around a mini a few times*
    DM: "Ok, it looks like Fluffy...err, 'The Tarrasque'...Full Attacks the Cleric"
    Cleric: "Full attack my a**, that was just two claw attacks!"
    Kitten: *starts gnawing on the mini*
    Cleric: "...nevermind."

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    What might be the closest sewer is already noted. A mob is forming around a group of drunken men with weapons and torches who are vowing to go down and purge the infestation. The group gets there as many have already likely gone down into the sewer. Just above alone are some 20 people ready to follow an unknown number down there.
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    Beta takes a moment to focus, growing in size as he pushes people out of the way to make room for his team. Once he's gotten his team through, he holds his place until he shrinks once more and heads down last after everyone else. Once down there, Idell takes the lead, leading them down the path behind the others who have already come.

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    Kitten: *bats around a mini a few times*
    DM: "Ok, it looks like Fluffy...err, 'The Tarrasque'...Full Attacks the Cleric"
    Cleric: "Full attack my a**, that was just two claw attacks!"
    Kitten: *starts gnawing on the mini*
    Cleric: "...nevermind."

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    Pax pops down as well, and is sure to hang close to Gamma. To keep the healer safe, of course. Not the other way around. Heavens, no.
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    This is like the classic "lynching mob of angry peasants" you see in monster movies (or, in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST). Included as such is all the noise and clamor one could expect. Gabby Johnson would be proud.
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    Pure, rowdy chaos as many people before and after the party are in this rabble. There are cries of outrage to kill monsters, and yet there are more speeches of bravado and stupidity of how successful they'll be than any true outrage (sans a minority).

    There is nothing you can do. Beta might actually notice the faintest scent of one of the caverns having been used by wererats quite recently ... a fire was put out .... but, the inhabitants left well ahead of time. Without having a clue on the sewers, going it blindly, and not really being able to get away from the din right now, today is a bust. In fact, Beta is likely to figure that if the weres are anything like they're animal side, they are not likely to return to a former part of their lair "just 'cause" like a sentient might do.
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    "Well. This is a bust. It's not like we know how to get around down here, anyway."
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    As Paxre goes to leave, Beta stops him. "We've only just started. I can smell their scent. That means..." He stops, letting his sentence trail off.

    Delta perks up, having already given up. "We can track them. Genius!!" As the others look at him shocked, Delta walks up to his snake like eidolon and places his hands on it, casting a quick spell before stepping back. Idell, among the scents you smell, I need you to pick out the scent of rat, and start tracking them. Ignore all else, and just focus on it."

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    Delta will cast Lesser Evolution Surge on Idell to give him the Scent evolution. Using his scent, Idell will attempt to track the Wererats by smell, and if he can find a good trail, Delta will renew the spell when it expires to try and find them. Hopefully 8 minutes is enough to set us on the right path.
    Kitten: *bats around a mini a few times*
    DM: "Ok, it looks like Fluffy...err, 'The Tarrasque'...Full Attacks the Cleric"
    Cleric: "Full attack my a**, that was just two claw attacks!"
    Kitten: *starts gnawing on the mini*
    Cleric: "...nevermind."

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    Idell starts to move forward and after a short bit you get to one of the actual sewage flows, and ...

    Idell yaks and is overpowered by the smell of sewage (not that you find it pleasant, either). Not only can Idell not parse out the smell, but he it is almost debilitated.
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    The group ends up giving up and heading back to the house, although Beta takes a detour to check and make sure Vendra had split town and left her shop behind. When they get home, each member of the EE gets to work on their own studying, most notably Delta delving into books to try and discover more about the Occult.

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    With lack of other plot hooks to chase down, I guess I've got little more to do but prepare for the future.
    Kitten: *bats around a mini a few times*
    DM: "Ok, it looks like Fluffy...err, 'The Tarrasque'...Full Attacks the Cleric"
    Cleric: "Full attack my a**, that was just two claw attacks!"
    Kitten: *starts gnawing on the mini*
    Cleric: "...nevermind."

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    There is no sign of Vendra.

    Delta, as you are getting ready for bed, that is when you actually see it .... a sigil scrawled into your headboard, which you easily can tell is blood that almost colors it. The marking is easily two-fists wide. Today you were at peace, but as soon as you see this you are reminded of your dream and fully aware of the sounds, smells, and horror as this mark is the same as that of the bodies/innards/branches of the children hanging in the tree.
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    Paxre wants to play cards with anyone who will play with him (Alpha?). Later in the evening, he will take Murray's share of gold and bunch it in a pile in Paxre's room out of the way. Preferably someplace darker and "safer" but without a container. That way the pseudo-"dragon" can now begin his hoard.
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    Of course Alpha will play. At least until he attempts to light one of them on fire because he was losing. Beta, Gamma, and Omega spend their time sparring for the night, and Delta spends his night trying not to have another psychotic breakdown by having a deep philosophical argument with Ubro in his head. At least until he does fall asleep.

    The next day has the party putting their usual preparations, with Delta making sure to heal any injuries inflicted from a member of the party catching the blood veil, if any.
    Kitten: *bats around a mini a few times*
    DM: "Ok, it looks like Fluffy...err, 'The Tarrasque'...Full Attacks the Cleric"
    Cleric: "Full attack my a**, that was just two claw attacks!"
    Kitten: *starts gnawing on the mini*
    Cleric: "...nevermind."

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    The three martials spar and conduct general combat practice with each other. Very likely Paxre is done playing cards with Alpha. For good. His cards are the same Hallow deck that brought forth the spirit of Zellara. Muhrbala, who is now comfortable with the Epsilon Elite, lazily watches the warriors do their thing; later, he primps his coins like a cat primps a pillow and curls up to sleep on his little hoard. Ubro is less a function of words so much as concepts, but through a vestige you are able to have an excellent form of sounding board for your own ability to improve proper negotiations (which in turn will help your real-world application). Also in the later evening, Omega and Gamma tend to Paxre again.

    That night, even the subconscious calm of Ubro could not help Delta. He has terrible dreams as before. He does not wake up screaming, but his dreams focus on the strange language that keeps droning in his ear. Delta wakes up fatigued from a poor night's sleep. This distraction is enough so that when he binds Ubro in the morning, it is a poor pact.

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    The next morning, the healers check on Paxre. He has not kicked the disease, but Gamma's delay disease spell held just long enough so he can apply another dose of delay disease. This is of concern, as the healers thought they were doing quite well, and yet the disease has not truly broken.

    Anything specific to do regarding this, or move on with a training day, helping the sick (if you dare expose yourself), or conduct any particular research?
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    Gamma will take Beta and Omega as bodyguards and see what he can do to tend to the sick, with Omega's help, of course. Delta and Alpha will take the day off to study, research, and so on.
    Kitten: *bats around a mini a few times*
    DM: "Ok, it looks like Fluffy...err, 'The Tarrasque'...Full Attacks the Cleric"
    Cleric: "Full attack my a**, that was just two claw attacks!"
    Kitten: *starts gnawing on the mini*
    Cleric: "...nevermind."

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    With the healers out, Murray has fun with Alpha. By now, it is clear that Alpha desperately wants to fly. So, Murray offers to "teach" him. It involves him flapping his arm and hopping about on his feet - double hops, single hops, change-of-foot jump steps. The effect is comical, and ridiculous. Before long, as Alpha gets winded and probably has no idea what he truly looked like, he hits the books. He studies various mathematical formulae concerning thrust-drag-lift, as well as Shyamal's own treatises concerning bodily movement. That takes up the majority of the day. Nerd.

    Delta, just when things were going so smoothly ...
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    "Delta, Delta ..."
    seems to dreamily call a distant voice.

    "Delta," says the familiar, squeaky voice this time more firmly. Delta wakes up feeling drool by his mouth and bleary-eyed. "I think I have an idea about all of ... this."

    Delta comes to his senses and notes that all around him on the table in the library is all manner of childish scrawlings, though vague, of the various horrors he had seen the other night. The image in the trees, the children themselves. There is also all manner of written language in unknown, though unsettling form. The language and drawings were drawn in by both charcoal and pen on blank parchment as well as in several random books that must have been nearby.

    "I think I finally have an idea about your autographia, the scribblings, and the song you've been humming in your sleep. A lot of nursery and children's rhymes actually focus on terrible events. What you have written is in Aklo, a language that I learned without learning but was whispered to me over the years from the darkness. But it's backwards. I put what you muttered and have been scrawling all day into a coherent form, and it is pretty frightening." Here, Paxre's little insect hairs have been slowly, barely perceptibly been raising, as if just discussing this is scary.

    "You are being haunted by an unknown villain known simply in the nursery rhyme as the Tall Man. The rhyme, called 'Dead Children,' goes like this:

    'Dead children, dead children, swinging in a tree
    How many dead children do you see?
    Tongue turned blue and face gone grey
    Watch them as they twist and sway.

    'The Tall Man killed the butcher man
    Then cooked him in a frying pan
    Served him to his hungry guests
    And gave them seconds on request.

    'The Tall Man with his smile and sweets
    Stole poor children off the streets
    To men who dressed unsavory
    He sold them into slavery.

    'Dead children, dead children, swinging in a tree
    How many dead children do you see?
    Six feet long and six feet wide
    Around their neck their own rope is tied.'

    That is when Delta notes something that was previously lost in detail. By having focused on the details of the children and the forest and their own intestines used as rope, it was too easy to overlook. But here on paper where lines and shapes are so much simpler, and in some cases the subjects themselves aren't even perceptible, Delta finally gets it ...

    ... the "design" of the major branches, the intestines, and the splayed children actually make up a complex design. Very much, in fact, like a sigil for binding.

    "My mind is cursed. It is a conduit to a dark place far, from all that is knowable. Out there appears to be a primal terror known only as the Tall Man. With me around, he sensed you as an open mind, no doubt. Your bringing forth summoned creatures plays a part, I guess; but really it is the fact that your mind is so open for strange entities to inhabit. Entities themselves don't hunt me, merely voices. I think you will have no rest unless you force the Tall Man to appear and bend him to your will.

    "My guess is that Aklo is a trigger to understanding, but your own idiomatic language - Taldan - is what you must sing since that is how you actually think. Aklo was backwards, so you probably have to sing the 'Dead Children' rhyme backwards. I don't know what you actually do with binding stuff, but I am sure that drawing that and singing the song backwards is at least a part of it. You can ignore him, and it might be worse if you fail. But if you don't do something now, how much long can you resist before you are driven mad, or worse? Possessed and made into a mass murderer?"
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    Meanwhile ...

    ... the best place to go to work with others would be the Pantheon of Many, where the other itinerant or part-time shrine priests might be. The place has many, many sick, and while expert medics, without proper tools and sterilizing agents Omega and Gamma are at a disadvantage. Still, some succor must be given and hopefully the sick do not develop too much beyond their means.

    A woman of barely more than 50 years, and yet roughened for her poor life, approaches Beta while he watches the others. She is a mousy, second-hand fishmonger with jaundiced eyes. Omega and Gamma are too focused on their tasks to really pay attention to anything else; that's Beta's job.

    "Sir,"
    she says with a meek and cracking voice, one that shows a life of poverty and salt air, "from one who is truly different to another, I bid you friendship. My name is Eries Yelloweyes. A contact of mine in the Korvosan Guard said someone like you and your group could help. Paxre is a friend to the poor, and through him I trust that you are as well. You are the one called Beta, right? You turned out the woman that tried to prey on those of us who live day to day, and many of my neighbors in Midland are so very thankful. I have a matter to discuss, but even in this noise I cannot bring it up here for lives are at stake if there are wagging ears. I will come by later this evening, likely after you have dined."

    She turns and moves back and through the crowd. Your [Beta's] senses easily track her small frame through the throng of people begging for aid.

    Fast forward .... It is too late by the time Delta's and Paxre's discussion occurs and Alpha's only study (he probably took some books into the dining room because Delta kept muttering noisily to himself) to impact here. [Continue RP on the Interactive thread, if at all.] Los Tres Amigos return, and it is time for dinner.

    Anything particular to mention before dinner? or, move right to the meeting?
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    Nothing in particular to mention before the meeting for the time being.
    Kitten: *bats around a mini a few times*
    DM: "Ok, it looks like Fluffy...err, 'The Tarrasque'...Full Attacks the Cleric"
    Cleric: "Full attack my a**, that was just two claw attacks!"
    Kitten: *starts gnawing on the mini*
    Cleric: "...nevermind."

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    Sure enough, well after dark but well before most households would turn in, the fishwife shows up and is shown in. She brings the smell of the river with her. With the pleasantries and niceties she gets down to it.

    "My name is Eries Yeloweyes, and I am worried that Korvosa will blame my people for the plague. My people being .... wererats. If you wish proof I can shift, but this is polite company and I do not feel that is necessary.

    "As in many large cities, the tunnels and sewers beneath Korvosa attract all manner of creatures, most of which are most unsavory. Though I am ashamed to say it, due to society's prejudice we combine elements of the thieves, vermins, and monsters that prowl the reeking depths. MY people must eke out a living from the city's refuse. Most Korvosans contentedly believe we "monsters" are nothing but stories to keep children out of trouble, and thus, we lycanthropes and our oft-unwitting hosts have long lived in an oblivious accord. Until now.

    "Giving voice and violence to their fear of the plague, a mob from here in this ward found a foolish member of my kin in an alleyway and executed him with a silver axe. A mob descended into the tunnels and I hear that you were of that group, yet not so vocal. We are used to fear and abuse, and most of my people responded to the attacks by abandoning their dens and hiding elsewhere in the city. One wererat, however, a firebrand called Girrigz Ripperclaws, refuses to do so, instead calling our kin to war against the weakened humans here in the above.

    "I have lived in secret as a wererat for more than 50 years and I am one of the oldest wererats in the city. I've seen much suffering in my time, including devastating government-directed rat-purges, a return of which I fear Girrigz's warmongering ways could quickly incite. My efforts to talk to my violent kinsman and his gang have failed, and so I turn to you.

    "Something must be done about Girrigz before lives are lost. Please speak to him and, if necessary, offer him an example of the force the city will doubtlessly employ should his rebelliousness continue. Please. Please, I beg you. Don't kill my people if it can be avoided. Many of his gang are simply impressionable youths who are following a strong leader. I can give you directions to his lair, which actually lies underneath this ward here in the Midlands. In exchange for your help, I offer you the spoils of his camp and, once you've disbanded his ragtag army, information on what might be the true reason for Korvosa's plague."
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    "Aid the downtrodden against the reaction of a strict regime, caused by a radical whose too bloodthirsty for his own good?" Paxre pipes up. "Sounds good to me! Of course, I'm just a hanger-on of these guys. They are sort of a boy band or something, and I'm just a roadie. You have to ask them about what they want to do, but I'm in. Besides, I have been hit ... TWICE ... by this disease, and only Gamma's magic holds the plague at bay. It would be really nice to earn the favor-for-a-favor."

    The bug-man looks at the EE. "Well?"
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    Delta clasps his hands together for a second and thinks carefully about what he had heard. Before long, he looks the elderly lady in the eyes and speaks quietly. "This Girrigz, you wish for us to confront him and talk him down? Or are we allowed to incapacitate and/or kill him? I believe a proper means of action would be to take him down and capture him. Without this assumed strong leadership, his followers would be heavily demoralized."

    Gamma stands up carefully and stares down Delta. "What do you have in mind? What are you plotting?"

    Delta turns back to Gamma and smiles. "Nothing nefarious, I promise. The mobs will not rest without a scapegoat. If we can bring him back, we'd be able to quell the riots by promising that we have broken the Wererats apart by taking out a leader.

    "That's crazy talk! What happens if you do this and they catch another Wererat? They'd simply brand us allies and try to kill us along with the rats." Gamma slams his hands on the table, angry at the risking of lives for a weak gambit.

    Omega slides in between the two of them before either can react, and holds his hands out. "Calm down, both of you!!!" The Guru looks first Gamma, then Delta, in the eyes, and the both of them back down as they see the darkness in his eyes, a side of himself he never shows. "Miss Yelloweyes. While I do not agree with Delta's plan, I do see that removing Girrigz from your society is probably the best plan. I'd rather not us kill him, but I believe if we can capture him and take him from your society, we can bargain with him on our own terms. Your statement intrigues me." Omega smiles softly at the lady. "Does that seem agreeable to you?"
    Kitten: *bats around a mini a few times*
    DM: "Ok, it looks like Fluffy...err, 'The Tarrasque'...Full Attacks the Cleric"
    Cleric: "Full attack my a**, that was just two claw attacks!"
    Kitten: *starts gnawing on the mini*
    Cleric: "...nevermind."

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    Paxre shakes his head, "Where we would take him? No, we talk to him. If that fails, we kill him. The saving is with the rest of Eries' people. If Girrigz is this incendiary, the concept of exile won't work, and bringing him to surface authorities will have him killed anyway. What's the point?"
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    Delta smiled at Paxre. "We'll figure it out after the fact. Sound fair?"
    Kitten: *bats around a mini a few times*
    DM: "Ok, it looks like Fluffy...err, 'The Tarrasque'...Full Attacks the Cleric"
    Cleric: "Full attack my a**, that was just two claw attacks!"
    Kitten: *starts gnawing on the mini*
    Cleric: "...nevermind."

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    The agreement met with Eries, the party gets what rest it can.

    7 Gozren, Sunday ... Sunday being one of the two holidays of the week (Toilday being a semi-holiday), and is usually used for religious worship.

    Paxre's fever finally broke; no one else awoke sick. The next day, Delta has an incredibly capable pact with Ubro, and everyone makes their morning preparations. Gamma leads morning household worship of sorts, giving a benediction for continued success in the field before everyone gears up and is ready to head out.

    Jumping right into the sewers again to search? or, is there anything you do beforehand?
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    The party will head straight into the sewers, making it most of the way there before Delta summons Idell to support them. Assuming we run into no resistance, Delta will enter with Gamma and Beta flanking him to speak to the leader first.
    Kitten: *bats around a mini a few times*
    DM: "Ok, it looks like Fluffy...err, 'The Tarrasque'...Full Attacks the Cleric"
    Cleric: "Full attack my a**, that was just two claw attacks!"
    Kitten: *starts gnawing on the mini*
    Cleric: "...nevermind."

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    As the party is moving through the sewers, using a crude map given Eries to Paxre (this is more his style), the group hears the boisterous laughter of men.
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