Vervigis Sealed

[S­cu­pi Province, East­ern Bad­land­s, Ny­nano(07) 1024]

Ian guides you eas­i­ly in­to the bad­land­s. Pass­ing through canyons band­ed with deep red and yel­low rock­s. The oc­ca­sion­al Rock Ea­gle screech­ing over­head. Late in the day af­ter giv­ing a pair of graz­ing Rhi­no a wide berth you scram­ble up the rocky side of a shal­low gorge. Tread­ing up old, er­rod­ed steps for the last bit you come up­on an iron wall seal­ing the lab’s en­trance. It is em­bed­ded in the the sur­round­ing rock and looks fair­ly new even though por­tions of it have a pink­ish hue. Stamped in­to the iron in both Pelosian and Khem­ish is the fol­low­ing.

DO NOT AT­TEMPT TO EN­TER

This location has been sealed by authority of the Pelosian Republic.

It is owned prop­er­ty of a Cit­i­zen of The Re­pub­lic.

En­trance is for­bid­den. Vi­o­la­tors will be pros­e­cut­ed.

DAN­GER DAN­GER DAN­GER DAN­GER

Dead­ly traps have been in­stalled through­out the in­te­ri­or of this lo­ca­tion pos­si­bly in­clud­ing this en­trance. In ad­di­tion the wild mag­ic that per­me­ates this area is un­pre­dictable and dan­ger­ous.

DAN­GER DAN­GER DAN­GER DAN­GER

By or­der of the Coun­cil, Scu­pi, Scu­pi Province, Pe­los Re­pub­lic 6-25-1024

Ian gath­ers a few rocks from the area and Qazir a cou­ple un­usu­al plants while Djinn eyes the Rhi­no’s and con­sid­ers the prob­a­bil­i­ty of jump­ing on one from this height. Af­ter in­ves­ti­ga­tion the rocks and plants turn out to be un­nat­u­ral trans­mu­ta­tions but ul­ti­mate­ly of lit­tle in­ter­est or val­ue.

Lat­er Hyr­mi­na ex­plains that since dis­cov­ered var­i­ous in­ter­est­ed par­ties as well as Ung­var(a dwarf and mem­ber of the orig­i­nal dis­cov­er­ers) had been re­turn­ing to and emp­ty­ing the place. In con­trivance of her very spe­cif­ic or­ders to stay out. Vervigis had re­spond­ed to the in­quires she had sen­t. Al­though, he ad­mits he aban­doned the place, thus the Ung­var’s “claim” was valid, Vervigis still felt the place was high­ly dan­ger­ous, did­n’t want any “in­ci­dents” on his con­scious and re­quest­ed this claim to be “s­tayed” which the pro­vin­cial coun­cil[1] had grant­ed.

Well, just be­fore Judg­ment Day[2] Taz­ix caught up with Ung­var and his new com­pa­tri­ot­s. Slew him and most of his par­ty. The sur­vivors stum­bled in­to Sil­ver­town and told us what had hap­pened. Af­ter that we set sev­er­al traps for Taz­ix and sealed the place. She re­grets not hav­ing the re­sources to do ev­ery­thing prop­er­ly.

When asked if the group can as­sist, she eyes you in­tent­ly, the yel­low gem in her cir­clet draw­ing your at­ten­tion. “H­m­m­m, I still don’t know what you Babrem are do­ing here or what Cit­i­zen Ikase is af­ter. But, you’ve aid­ed me and haven’t done any­thing so bad it can’t be over­looked… I feel I can trust you. It could prove use­ful for me to have, lets say “op­tion­s”, out­side my nor­mal com­mand. Yes, not now, lat­er. I’ll con­tact you. But, be warned cross­ing me is cross­ing The Re­pub­lic” while say­ing this she be­comes even more erect than her nor­mal per­fect stance, her gold­en breast­plate faint­ly glows, her yel­low cloak bright­ens and flut­ters “ma­jes­ti­cal­ly” even though there is no wind. As if her pride and pa­tri­o­tism lit­er­al­ly man­i­fests phys­i­cal­ly. “and The Re­pub­lic will not wait for Bea­ho to ex­act it’s ven­gence.”

She’s an­noyed to hear of the “pink iron”. No doubt the lin­ger­ing mag­ic trans­mut­ing the seal. “We’ll have to keep eye on it. That Vervigis bet­ter hur­ry up and han­dle the “clean up” of the area. Wiz­ard­s! Pain in my… ex­cuse me. Thanks for the re­port. Cit­i­zen Bot­er will see you out­.”

Oh yeah, on the way back to Sil­ver­town a gi­ant in­sect al­most eats Tariq. It laid in am­bush at the bot­tom of a sink hole. Af­ter much hero­ics Tariq was pulled from it’s pow­er­ful mandibles. Suf­fer­ing sev­er­al punc­tures in it’s thick chitin it at­tempt­ed to bur­row an es­cape but Djinn tracked it down and Ian fin­ished it off with mag­ic­s. Then Qazir leaped in­to it’s hole and spent the next sev­er­al min­utes chant­ing while carv­ing out and eat­ing it’s brain.

[1] This coun­cil is in Scu­pi and has au­thor­i­ty over the en­tire province(what there is of it). The town coun­cil­s’ “juris­dic­tion” is more or less just the town and im­me­di­ate area. Hyr­mi­na’s mil­i­tary com­mand is “East­ern Scu­pi” ba­si­cal­ly ev­ery­thing East of Sil­ver­town. This broad­er au­thor­i­ty leaks in­to the Sil­ver­town Coun­cil she is part of.

[2] Judg­ment Day 07-05, a “hol­i­day” of Bea­ho god of vengeance, pun­ish­men­t. It is sup­pos­ed­ly when Bea­ho catch­es up to those who have es­caped jus­tice dur­ing the pre­vi­ous year.