2021/06/27: Cubit - Knowledge Is Part 3 Report
General Summary
Knight, Sith, Immori, Ba’alzamon, Keel, Dragoth, Ios
In next room of Knowledge Is, the party found themselves in a rolling landscape, investigating a ruined temple at the top of a hill. Using Knight's spyglass, they got an image of a British police officer in a more urban area in a place where it’s raining, with odd colors in the view.
Knight made friends with a cricket! (Or at least gently caught one.) Keel and Ios found a tripwire/string surrounding the temple ruin. Sith, Immori, and Ba’alzamon investigated a weird runic planar portal towards one end of the ruins. The string turned out to be a Helpful String which was pointing out a set of four altars that required blood to activate the portal.
We dug up the altars, then rested for the night. A swarm of crickets showed up and led Knight to an evil stump in the woods. Ba’alzamon summoned an army of kobolds and watched the stump for the rest of the night. (Several kobolds disappeared without a trace.) After morning came, we grouped up and killed the stump. It had really toxic blood. Its heart was a magic item, which we retrieved.
We also discovered that due to some unknown magical reaction, the kobolds were not just summoned creatures; they weren't vanishing again, and both they and the party were concerned by this. Existential questions aside, it meant that if they died here, they were dead,, and their only way out of Cubit was to follow the party through. The adventurers promised to get them through as safely as they could.
After some more loot searching, we jumped through the portal with the army of kobolds and found ourselves in a steampunk noir scene. (Knight brought all the crickets from the fields with him.)
Knight is in a tiny top hat and tuxedo, with an umbrella with a retractable dagger. He has a sharp mustache drawn on his mask. Immori is in a steampunk dress and tall boots. Sith is in a pinstripe suit. Ba’alzamon is in a black suit, white shirt, bowler hat. Keel looks like a dockworker/goon. Flat cap, t-shirt, undershirt, work boots, nail-studded blackjack.
The kobold leader, Grubber, is in a Dick Tracy detective outfit. One of the crickets is on Knight’s shoulder, smoking a cigar.
We need to solve a murder/kidnapping mystery. Kidnapped nunnery woman was very innocent, was falling into a bad crowd, was talking to Tony down by the docks. Disappeared in the middle of the night. Was going to meet a boy (probably), snuck past curfew.
Victims:
Vivi Laurence. Greedy woman. Girlfriend of Tony Baroni.
Tony Baroni. Professional killer. Member of the Baroni family.
? Minarette. Innocent nunnery woman. Ran away.
Phil Villet. A businessman/profiteer who got into bad business involving people down by the docks.
Rewards Granted
Helpful String, heart of evil tree, kobold and cricket friends
Character(s) interacted with
Grubber, various Noirville citizens
Report Date
27 Jun 2021
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