Journal of Rollo Lavius 2

Entry #439 - A Birthday Party

(G439 30/01/2021 via Roll20 - AP, KT, JF(GM)) WA79

DAY 493 (8th Flamerule)(July)

Not entirely sure what to do with young Reinward, Fenrir took him to work with him and dumped him in the canteen.

The next thing Fenrir did was to set Portia onto what she could find out about Blackthorn, the Druid of Silvanus who was apparently also a member of the Nightmasks.

A hooded dark elf approached Reinward and introduced herself as Merlock Tomes. You may remember that she was a detective that operated in Pedestal, a city in the Underdark.

She gave her name and Reinward gave his as 'Jim Bob'.
'Are you friends with Commander Lightingrod?'
'I know him from Waterdeep, from back in the day,' he replied warily.
'Can i get you to arrange a meeting with him?'
Reinward said he would be able to do so for the princely sum of 15 gold.

Mia the Magical, a stern 125-year-old female elf and Fenrir's assistant was not impressed with Reinward though and made him wait. He sat beside a man that looked like a rogue and another that looked like a monk.

Reinward watched as the man picked the pocket of the monk. Reinward swapped seats and whispered into the rogues ear, 'I saw what you did!'

The rogue, one of Fenrir's informants by the name of Mr Prantopo told Reinward to mind his own business.
'Tell us what you got, or I'll snitch,' said Reinward
'You stay out of it, if you want to keep your kidneys,' growled Prantopo.
Just then Prantopo was called in and Reinward was left alone with the meditating monk.

Half an hour later he was able to bring up Merlock, who was happy to tell Fenrir that she knew him from Pedestal.
'I'm investigating another murder!' she told them.

It was the murder of Katheera Urdo, of House Urdo who had recently been resurrected and was determined to get her revenge on her killer - Barry Shitknees (aka Fenrir).
Merlock wondered what Commander Lightingrod (aka Fenrir!) could tell her about this man.

'Oh he's terrible!' declared Fenrir. 'He's going around killing lots of bad people, a sort of vigilante.'
'Are the watch actively trying to apprehend him?' she asked.
'That's sensitive information?' he replied.
'All I can say is that this has the hallmarks of a power struggle within the gangs of the city,' he went on, sticking to the script that Random had set.

Merlock thanked him and gave them both her card, with the address of a local inn on it. She then thanked Reinward and gave him his gold and left.

That evening Random came around to the house and privately told Fenrir;

'Keep that fellow Reinward as close to you as you can! He's vital to our mission here.'

Random then very kindly arranged for Reinward to receive quite a lot of magical items and went back to his island.

Next Fenrir had Veddic cast a 'Mark of Justice' on Reinward. Hearing about this later I am amazed that Reinward so readily allowed Fenrir to curse him, but perhaps he had been dazzled by the 50,000 gold pieces worth of magical items that had just been lavished on him!

DAY 494 (9th Flamerule)(July)

At two in the morning, Reinward, who was sleeping in one of the spare rooms of Fenrir's house, was awakened by tapping at the window.

He opened the curtains to reveal a vampire perched on the window sill. Reinward, in a high state of terror closed the curtains and hid under the covers.
'Let me in,' whispered the vampire. 'I just want to talk to you...'

Reinward bolted out into the landing and called a guard, then inexplicably went back into his room. He had, perhaps, remembered some of his vampire lore and grabbed a hand mirror from the dresser. He then opened the curtains again and pretended to check his appearance in the mirror.
This plan did not work. A vampire must have the mirror thrust before them to have any effect and thus Reinward was dominated by its undead powers.
'Come to me,' whispered the vampire. 'Let me see these remarkable wrists of yours...'