Day 20
Today was a busy day. We awoke and consulted our list of suspects and then went off to find the one that struck us as the most odd, an elf that the guild had no information on. Despite this lack of information, we quickly found him in an apartment in the noble district and after a very heated conversation with the gnome landlady and her pet owlbear we acquired access to his room.
Sadly, he was not our suspect despite the numerous maps and artifacts that he had in his possession that pointed towards a lifestyle of assassins. We let him go as it was quite easy to see he wasn’t responsible and then moved on to the mages college to make sure that whoever was going to be assassinated would stay alive. We contacted the one we felt most likely to be the target and then gathered the ones least able to defend themselves. As nothing was happening we sat down for some food and waited for this killer to emerge.
Naturally, our presence set everything awry and some beast escaped from its cage in the labs. The rest of the group went to deal with while I looked after our bait and they came back up pretty fast. We quickly left the building along with most of the mages college and watched it as the place got destroyed. The rest of the group informed me that they did not do it.
We headed back to the guild then and after some consulting with the leaders, went off to find another suspicious person. Kroze started a riot on the docks and we watched a prince get his money stolen from him. We also found the explosives expert we had set off to find and returned him to the guild. He was not responsible but he was able to point the way to a group who had been looking for someone to take the job. We convened with the leaders about this group and then called in the guard to assist us with their capture.
We set off for the house that this group was at and quickly forced our way inside. Several guardsmen died due to magical traps but we eventually got our way into the hidden areas of the place. We discovered then that the group was fleeing and so Sol went massive and chased down one of the groups with Kroze at his side. I confiscated some tomes that were present in the house and went off to meet them.
We took the leader of the assassins with us back to the guild hall and were enjoying a fine dinner when one of the leaders went down, dead due to poison, a very fast acting one at that. The hall was quickly locked down and we went about investigating, only to find that there was a being of chaos from the negative energy plane present. I drew up a protective circle around the main group while the rest of the group looked for something useful.
Sol acquired an upgrade to his eye that allowed him to see planar people and it was soon apparent that much of the group that was not us was possessed. I used a holy device that Kroze had found and seared many with holy light but that was not enough so I broke the device and an angel appeared. A low ranking one mind you but an angel none the less. Said angel took one look at the main focus of the possession and charged. It quickly lost that fight and so Sol and I took over while Kroze healed the angel in some way. Shortly after that, we drove the being from the body it was possessing and the angel struck out again while Kroze handed me the device that had held the angel. I quickly used it to seal away the chaos being and then it was over. Most of the guild was dead and so when given the choice, Sol, Kroze, and Zaraki opted to leave while they could. They shook down the place a bit, taking a few magic items with them and then we left, only to confront a massive crowd outside. We quickly decided to leave the city and the entire empire for other lands only to have Kroze draw a card from the deck of many things he had picked up. A dragon appeared and then he dropped the rest of the cards only to have them all activate.
We were all transported than to the realm between realms I believe. We all went our separate ways to talk to someone and I would up with my god. He thanked me for all I had done and then gave me a gift of a halo to forever light my way and keep me alive. The others got gifts as well I believe though I know not what they are. We were transported then back to the spot that we had left and found that the dragon was still there. Kroze quickly charmed it and ordered it to leave and then we went on our way to the east.
