OffDET107

Ref: NewGallo / DragonStar / OffDET107

The Office of Deaths, Exploration & Treasure

 Session:  107 - Wednesday 1st May 2002
 Referee:  Tim "The Mechanic" Evans
 Title:    What goes Up / 1
 Author:   Tim Evans
 Previous: OffDET106
 Next:     OffDET108

CD/172 = th of th Month in Year Zero

Characters

    HowardT
        Filthy Ike - Half Orc/M - Barbarian/2 - CN

    DaveF
        Silverbark = Elf/M = Cleric/2 = N

    PeteN
        [Klick the Monk]? = Halfling/M = Monk/2 = LN

    PhilippeK
        [Lady Rhyad de Grances]? = Elf/F = Paladin/2 = LG

Encounters: (E0 each)

    9x Wild Dogs (Driven off)
    Lots Gnolls (Chased the party off)
    1x Elfs (Follwed)
    1x Albino Elf (Tries to understand)

Trophies:

    2 Metal Bracelets (Unknown value)

Events:

The party was summoned by Sir Tsukin, who ordered them to continue there investigate if the world found under the Dwarven Guild represents a danger to New Christiana, he gives them One Nobel to pay there way, and a note to get them into the Dwarven Guild.

The party then go to the Dwarven Guild, where after a certain amount of discursion they are taken very a complicated route through the guild, The party draws arrows on the wall so he can see how often they circle before getting to the Gateway. Once they get to the Gateway, there are still dwarves attempting to get the gold out of the floor. Ryhad touches the Nobel to the wall which opens, and the Nobel disappears.

The party now enter the new world...

The party decide to go back to the large tower, and investigate further, on the way the spot a small group of Gnolls, and decide to set a ambush for them, while setting up the ambush they notice another group of Gnolls, while the party are working where best to ambush the 2 groups, one of the groups spots the party, and start shouting and chase after the party, the party fire a few arrows, and the Gnolls hide round a corner, the party then spot a hand beckoning them to a doorway, the party decide to follow.

When they get to the building they find it is an elf who has been beckoning them, he indicates for them to follow, the party follow, being chased by a group of Gnolls. The party run across roads and through buildings, before being taken down into a cellar, where the Elf bars a door behind them. and then sits down and waits. Silverbark offers him so pastries he has brought with him, but the Elf seems not to like it, he then offers him so Alcohol which drank by the elf. Filthy is getting impatient he wants to hit things, and being trapped in the room is getting to him. After half a hour the Elf open the door, and indicates for the party to follow him, he then leads the party to some public toilets on the edge of a large park, he goes to last but one cubicle, and out of site of the party does something and the back wall of the cubicle opens revealing a passage down.

The party go down the passage, and eventually come to a chamber which has a Albino Elf sat in a chair, once the party enter the Albino says 'You Dead Speak', Filthy does not take it well, and thinks its a threat, the rest of the party have to hold him back from doing something violent. after a strange conversation, the party think that the Gnolls are taking the Elfs to be in the Navy.

The party decide to capture a Gnoll to try to find out where they are taking the Elfs, so the leave the albino, and go back to the surface. They decide to go back to the Large tower, as they keep encountering Gnolls there, they get to the tower with out incident, so decide to enter, they find the ground floor is full of strange alters and the center of the building is made of a large column, that may have doors, but if they are doors the party has been unable to open them, they decide to explore up the tower to see if they can get a better view, and spot so Gnolls. They climb up 40 Floors in all, they all look the same, full of alters, but unlike the ground floor, the central column has no entrances, as they are looking out of the windows looking for Gnolls or any sea for the Navy, the building vibrates, as something is moving in the central core, moving down it, the party rush down to the ground floor, and round to the door, they see that a set of foot prints leads away from from the door, and out the building, they rush after them, and follow them out to the road side, where they disappear, they search around to see where the person when, but find no trace, so they go back to the central column, and see if they can open the door this time, after much searching and poking, the door opens, revealing a circular room with a central alter, and padded seats around the edge of the room. Everybody except Calmert enter the room, Calmert positions a 'chair' in the door way, in a effort to prevent the doors shutting, the party then go and poke around the temple, suddenly the doors begin to shut moveing the chair out of the way, Calmert has to make a snap decision, is he in or out..?

He decide to jump in at the last minute, once the doors have shut, the party feel the temple start to move up, they figure it is getting faster, and faster, after 2 hours of acceleration, the party suddenly feel this very strange sensation, as if they had just lost some weight, after a further 2 hours, during the party feel quite unwell, the room stops and the doors open, and beyond the door they see a clear white marble corridor.

The party leave the temple, and follow the corridor to its end, which is a blank wall with small blue rectangles on the right and left. Filthy puts his hand on one of the rectangles, and a strange light seems to scan his hand, and then a voice barks some command in a language that is not understood, some one in the party responds by saying 'In Common please', the voice then responds by saying 'Access Denied, please stay there security has been informed and is on its way'. The party then tried a few other peoples hands and got a similar result, after about 10 minutes of nothing happening, Filthy said 'We can hear Security on the other side of the door, open so we can meet them.' which the AI did.. corridor continued beyond the door, curving to the left, and to the right there was large windows, which looked out onto a night sky, with a very large moon beneath the party. After some more exploring the party ended up in security central, where they found 2 metal bracelets on some long dead bodies, when queried the computer informed that the no one had been in or out of security for over 400 years. but also insisted the party stay there as security would be along shortly.

This is where the party was left.

Sheriff Sir Karl Tsukin OGE <sheriff@newgallo.net>, The Office of New Gallo Law Enforcement and Aggressive Defence