Ch 2, Part 1: Infection

The Dead Warrens

The heroes wait a few hours while Watson and Artox recover from the poison then continue their exploration. They ably deal with a rather stupid half-ogre jailer and a derro guarding some prisoners. The prisoners are rescued and taken to the Temple of Sarenrae. Most of the prisoners suffer malnutrition and from the shakes, though one woman seems more capable then the rest. She introduces herself as Tiora, most suspect she is some kind of rogue (or prostitute). A rather humorous scene takes place at the Temple where Gritt enrages the priestess by dumping the rescued prisoners at the temple then walking out without fully explaining the situation.

The heroes then return to finish off the complex, killing an undead golem creature and successfully recovering all the body parts of the fallen Shaonti warrior. They stuff the body bits in a sack then drop them off at the Citadel Volyshenek for the Field Marshall Kroft to deal with. 

While meeting with her she informs them that Trinia Sabor has been found guilty and that she is to be executed the following day at sunset. She gives everyone an invitation to the execution and asks that the heroes to be there in case something goes wrong.

That night some of the heroes pursue personal agendas. Gritt sends Sabina a fine bottle of scotch and continues his attempts at courting her. She flatly states that she has no interest in men but Gritt is resolute, convinced he can change her mind. He does learn something of the investigation into Trinia and that divination spells had clearly shown that she was lying. The spells were cast by the Archbanker of Abadar; also the queen and two other guardsman were present for the interrogation. A further twist was revealed that the arrested guard who had confessed to letting Trinia see the king, murdered another guardsman before being slain.

Sparrowhawk makes good on her promise to visit the artistic evening sessions at the Shrine of Shelyn; both Mandraiv and Watson join her. A rather amusing night follows where Watson poses nude for a painting; Mandraiv gets on the bad side of the priest of sheyn, while Sparrowhawk does her best to paint Waton and is generally pleased with herself and Church of Shelyn.

The following day Gritt pursues a line of inquiry into the Archbanker Darb Tuttle and learn that he is bit of a work-aholic dedicated to advancing the city of Korvosa. he meets with him but is unable to learn of anything untoward in his inviestigation of Trinia.

The Execution

That night the heroes attend the execution and witness the queen order Trinia's execution. Gritt boldly protests to the queen, but before anything else can be said, Blackjack flies into to the courtyard and rescues Trinia. Mandraiv is also quick to summon an air elemental to help aid Blackjack's escape.

Following these events; the queen declares a bounty of 5000gp gold for the capture of Trinia but in general the city seems to have settled. Though there remains a simmering tension over the whore queen and general doubt over Trinia's guilt.

The Infection

A few weeks pass until Grau pays the heroes a visit and asks them to help his niece who has taken ill. They visit the niece, Brienna; she is bed ridden with a high fever and red pock marks all over her face. Also present is a priest of abadar who is busy preparing healing poltices. Tayco Soldado, Brienna's mother has hired his services. She cannot afford a healing spell, so has to rely on mundane services.

Gritt, Sparrowhawk and Watson all chip in to purchase a guaranteed healing treatment and before long the disease has been removed. They question the girl and learn that she had found a box of silver coins washed up on the river's banks and then set off into the city to spend all the money; mostly on sweet cakes. Watson also returns to question the girl a bit more and ends up terrifying her and the mother's rushes to her aid.

The heroes, ever sensing a greater plot a foot, quickly start tracing the girls movements until they locate the High Town bakery where the girl has been. There they find the cook had also come down ill. 

They report this to Field Marshal Kroft who sighs at the bad news but promises to take action. She also tells them that Vencarlo was looking for them this morning.

The heroes then go to Old Korvosa to visit the Orisini Fighting School where they discover that Trinia has been hiding there and Vencarlo is the legendary Blackjack. He asks the heroes to smuggle Trinia out of Korvosa to the small town of Harse where there a couple of ranchers that should be able to take her in.

At this point Zellara makes her presence felt and performs another Harrow reading for the heroes.

Encounter	Grit	Justin	Mandraiv	Sparrowhawk	Sol	Watson
Pre-Session	8,422	6,922	7,522	6,922	6,922	7,222
Journal	300		300
Ogrekin + Derro	267	267	267	267	267	267
Carrion Golem	200	200	200	200	200	200
RP: Returning Gaekhen's Body	133	133	133	133	133	133
Humour: Walking out on the priest of Sarenrae	300
RP/Humour: The shrine of Shelyn			300	300		300
RP: Drinking with Sabina	300
Humour: Watson and the Little Girl						300
Altruism: Healing Brienna	300			300		300
Total	9,922	7,522	8,722	7,822	7,522	8,122