[HQ Ignorance] Scene 33: A Meeting In the Bowels of Seguarane

Fri Nov 2 22:41:43 UTC 2007

"Greetings Rotterex.  I am very sorry to hear of your plight.  I know how dangerous the outside world is, it's much safer and pleasant underground.  I am very sorry to hear that some of your clan have been injured by this."

Kalen thinks that the damned plant is partially responsible for this problem but knows that the distraction is necessary in order to get to the broken king.  He wonders how he should explain this to Rotterex.....

"I think my companions and I might be able to stop this" Kalen says haltingly, considering his words carefully as he doesn't wish to be attacked. "Once we have gotten rid of the king, things are likely to return to their former state and you will be safe in this underground haven.  But first we need to get to the king"

----- Original Message ----
From: Lev Lafayette <lev_lafayette at yahoo.com.au>
To: HeroQuest Glorantha <ignorance at mimesisrpg.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 31 October, 2007 9:55:10 AM
Subject: Re: [HQ Ignorance] Scene 33: A Meeting In the Bowels of Seguarane

Several of the bazak pounce upon the offerings of
canned stew. They grimace as they chew into the
culinary delights of the Mostal, but nevertheless they
eat ravenously. Kalen now notices that they are indeed
somewhat thin.

"You will call me Rotterex", says the talking Bazak.
"One there was many people coming in and out of this
city and there were plenty of scraps for us to feed on
in the eve. Suddenly, several days ago, all that come
to an end. We have been forced to come out to the
surface, in the day even, and the humans protect their
food with ferocity. Already several of our number have
been blasted by their magics and their spears."

"And now you have arrived", Rooterex looks
suspiciously. "One would be tempted to think you have
something to do with this..."

A disconcerting sound of teeth bruxing echoes through
the chamber from the other bazak.

--- Erica Hoehn <caseopaya at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Kalen says to the leader of the Bazak - "As you
> said, I would not make good eating, a bit stony and
> hard in fact.  Can I entice you with my tin of stew?
>  Why is there a food shortage here, I would have
> thought that with the number of people in the
> fortress there would have been plenty of eating for
> you and your children?"
> 
> He opens a tin or two from his supplies to show his
> good will to the Bazak.
> 
> "Mayhap I can help you, my friends and I are trying
> to enter the castle to rid the land of the broken
> king.  After he is gone things may return to a more
> fruitful land and this lovely stonework can be
> restored? Are you willing to assist by directing
> me?"
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Lev Lafayette <lev_lafayette at yahoo.com.au>
> To: ignorance at mimesisrpg.com
> Sent: Tuesday, 30 October, 2007 5:18:08 PM
> Subject: [HQ Ignorance] Scene 33: A Meeting In the
> Bowels of Seguarane
> 
> Scene 33: A Meeting In the Bowels of Seguarane
> 
> Aided by the communications of Icthya with the
> birds,
> fishes and rats a point of ingress to Seguarane is
> discerned; from the riverside, beneath the fortified
> harbour where a small number of knights and wizards
> still hold the winding clifface path to the Outer
> Wall
> there is an entrance which eventually leads to the
> city well.
> 
> In the early hour of the morning Icthya and many
> Aldryami launch a series of spectacular raids
> against
> the harbourside. None are designed to penetrate its
> significant defenses and all are designed to draw
> attention away from the Mostal Kalen. It is only
> through the magics of Icthya and his own hardy
> constitution that allow the stone man to travel
> beneath the water; he cannot swim (indeed, he sinks
> like the stone from which he is made), but he can
> walk
> along the river bottom. Following a fish summoned by
> Icthya, Kalen travels beneath the harbour into a
> tunnel that leads into Seguarane city.
> 
> The first stop is an bronze gate under the water,
> nominally designed to prevent the entrance of large
> fish and also as an afterthought to prevent the
> entrance of any imaginative thieves. The magic on
> the
> gate is weak and old however, and Kalen evokes the
> Iron Dwarf magic of Unstoppable Advance, easily
> shattering the defenses and bending the bronze to
> his
> will.
> 
> After traveling some hundred yards or more in the
> pitch darkness, Kalen's Earthsense detects a landing
> and makes his way onto it. The stonework here is old
> and impressive; Kalen is impressed by the quality of
> the masonry and concerned that one so broken the
> Guilarm The Fat could have taken control of such a
> structure. He only hopes he can "repair" the
> situation
> before the fecund Aldryami growth tears apart the
> fine
> craftsmanship.
> 
> Again journeying another hundred yards, Kalen comes
> to
> a halt. Finally his poor hearing hears the scuttling
> of various noises around him. Grasping about on the
> wall, he encounters a torch, which he brings to
> light.
> As his Earthsense told him, he is in a chamber, some
> twenty by ten yards across. What it did not tell him
> was he was not alone; Kalen scans his surrounds and
> finds himself surrounded by large rodents, almost
> two
> feet in lenth, with razor sharp teeth and scale
> hide.
> "Bazak!" Kalen exclaims to himself, calling the
> rubble
> rats by their proper name. One or two or even ten
> would be little threat to an Iron Dwarf; but a score
> or more?
> 
> One of the runners hops up onto a stone with
> disturbing ease. It has red eyes, and white hair
> with
> an agouti hood. It sniffs at Kalen then, amazingly,
> it
> speaks. "Stoneman. Not very good eating. But food
> has
> suddenly become scarce, our children are many and we
> hunger. Why should we not eat you?"
> 
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