Tracking Down the Rat Headquarters

Submitted by dracon on Tue, 02/20/2024 - 22:27
Remitag, 2nd prime post-Calm 1056
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Days in Game
1 day
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  • Peb Pebbles, Carmen Granau, Elwin Sarberos, and Beck & Bock Hudson took the mission from Martin of Kowiri Music & Tavern to track down the origin of the rats attacking his tavern.
  • The Freelancers headed over to the western Trade District, and found some rats.  Carmen and Peb used speak with animals to ask them about the organized rats, but these rats ran away when Peb shaped a dire rat.
  • The Freelancers wandered in the direction provided to find an alley behind a bunch of specialty food shops.  In the alley, very orderly rats were raiding the refuse bin of Ye Olde Ice Creame Shoppe.  Peb, still shaping a dire rat, joined their line, trying to get more information.
  • The Freelancers, other than Peb, were swarmed by the rats, including two big ones.  Carmen invoked Āhua to charm them, and again cast speak with animals, to learn how they had become organized.
  • The rats told Carmen that "rat people" had been teaching them to raid in this fashion, in exchange for their sometimes attacking Kowiri.  He also learned that the "rat people" were sometimes people and sometimes rats.  Expressing the Freelancers desire to meet these "rat people", he procured a promise from the rats to bring a note.
  • Peb remained with the orderly rats until they arrived home, to find it's a very nice place: clean, well-stocked, comfortable.  Once there, Peb negotiated with the two big rats, using some cheese they'd been carrying as a rat bribe.  The big rats agreed that Peb could meet the "rat people" but were unaware Peb was with the other Freelancers, and demurred at having everyone meet at once.
  • Returned to Freelancers Tavern same day.
Loot
  • Mission pay: 100 eagles each (10% to Freelancers)
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