Session #70: Torkol Here, Torkol There

[as noted earlier, the advent of the Kzinti warlord the Red Cloud has delayed the Scribes; which is to say, this is a very tardy recap of an expedition in January]

It has been some time since "Torkol" has been taken and held somewhere within the precincts of the Kantor Kabljauhof, with the agreement of his friends, most especially Sesel and Gan the Physician (not Gan-ad-Din). Their claim? That their friend had been "replaced" by someone not truly him ... the kind of rumors that certain old legends speak of, that secret "masters" of society move and shake everything according to their will.

Well, if there were any truth to the claim, Sesel was the man to go looking, and so he gathered a company together at Cothon-Under-Star, and they all set out for the place where all had been set in motion for Torkol to become "Torkol"--in the Weirding Caves, specifically seeking out the old "electric tree":

• Barlow (magic-user 1)
• Sesel (fighting-man 7)
  accompanied by Raoden (magic-user 5)
• Durham (fighting-man 7)
  accompanied by Pako (renyu)
• Revna (magic-user 5)
• Dehuhada (fighting-man 4)
  accompanied by Seven-Toes (renyu)
• Heijo (magic-user)

The company returned a little richer--and with a much distressed Torkol in tow! One may hope this is the "right" one ...

As the crew returned Under-Star to count their haul--and a fine one it was, as rumored by the serving-maids there, despite the private room proffered to the very well known Sesel, Survivors, & Co.--Revna was heard to be raving to herself more than usual, talking to "her pretty" and how "the fires will be bright, you'll see, we just have to find them." Anyone who asked about the meanings of these things found themselves with inexplicably hot feet and had to flee from her presence and intensely heated stare.

There was also talk later of something strange the Poor Brothers of the Dead had been asked to be ware of--a strange slouching sluglike thing that might emerge from the crypts?--but their attention has been rather more focused to the south of late, what with growing rumors of tsoggu and other strange things emerging from the ruins of Tsur al Qadim.

The Lucre

• 5000 dinars (gp) of older but legal mint
• 3080 dinars from 8 gems (2@1000, 2@500, 1@50, 2@10)
• ornamental silver scimitar with strange double-blade (1000 gp)
• a true-black (fuligin) cloak of dklakolel-hairs (1000)
• silvered conch-horn with an old Cothon-Under-Star sigil (900)
• still-supple feshenga-skin belt, silver-chased and with red gem-eyes (800)
• gilt raptor nasr brooch (500)
• a tripartite circle brooch, with an obsidian circle overlaying an emerald circle, overlaying a large red-garnet circle  (~7000 gp, if the right buyer could be found)
• a piece of a strange yellowish frond (taken by Revna)
• a ru'un "power cell"

The Learning

• 19280 xp from treasure
• 554 xp from the "electric tree" (500 + hp)
• 560 xp from the ru'un (500 + hp)
• 400 xp to each player-character for exploration into "the Brig"

The Cut

• 1637 dinars (gp) and 3 dirhams (sp) per player-character
  818 dinars and 6 dirhams each to Raoden, Pako, and Seven-Toes
  
• 3799 xp per player-character
  1900 xp to Raoden
• the strange tripartite brooch (can be sold to the right buyer for more gold)
• the strange yellowish frond (claimed by Revna?)
• the ru'un part

As always, items without explicit value may be divvied by the company however is deemed fair, or may attempt to be sold "to the right buyer" with the use of downtime to increase shares of treasure (and xp). Explicitly valued items may be "bought out" at their gp-value by any player-character especially desiring them. And reports, drawings, etc. provided by player-characters to be published to this chronicle will earn the corresponding character 100 xp per level.