OffDET107

Ref: NewGallo / DragonStar

The Office of Deaths, Exploration & Treasure

 Session:  107 - Wednesday 1st May 2002
 Referee:  Tim "The Mechanic" Evans
 Location: What goes Up/1
 Author:   Tim Evans

CD/172 = th of th Month in Year Zero

Characters

    HowardW?:
        Filthy Ike - Half Orc/M - Barbarian/2 - CN

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

    PeteN
        Klick = Halfling/M = Monk/2 = LN

    Philippe
        Rhyad = Halg Elf/M = 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 Enforment and Aggressive Defence