Journal of Rollo Lavius 1

Entry #104 - The Perfect Date

[Rollo Note : Fenrir's journal covers the events of today. ]

(G104 28/01/11 OR - AP, ON(GM), GF, SS)

DAY 17 (28th Ches) cont...

During the day, Fenrir spent all his time setting up things and getting ready for his date that evening.

Raya went to the temple to research into a prophecy, possibly relating to Eno. She didn't find anything specific.

She then looked into the "dead rat" tattoo. She remembered that there was an organisation called "the plague rats" based in the rat hills that might have that sort of tattoo, but since they like rats, it's unlikely that it belongs to them.

It's likely that it could be a group that hates the plague rat gang and as such, has tattoos showing that they hate rats. There was apparently a large fight in the rat hills, during which the plague rats established themselves as the top gang in the rat hills. It is likely that the tattoo belongs to one of the "evicted" gangs.

In the morning (06.20), Corum was awoken by Jana stumbling around in the kitchen in his house. She was talking to someone who sounded like Eno. Corum got up and went to have a look. Eno was showing Jana how to set rat traps.

Eno told Corum that he was living above the "sailor's own" tavern. It's a dump.

As Eno was preparing to leave, Corum heard heavy footsteps coming up the stair leading to his flat. It was a group of 4 watchmen. It turned out to be an arrest squad coming to take him away for murder! They came to take him for the murder of a young half orc in dock ward! They immediately took him to the watch station. The name of the victim was Toruk.

Corum told them that he was me at the time of the murder (02:00). That was when we were chucking Finn over a wall.

Corum was then put in the slammer for a while as the matter was investigated. Corum got a cell mate. It was dirty Frank! Frank was in jail for pooing in a flower pot outside the watchhouse. After talking with Frank, we reckon that the pub outside which the murder happened was the bloody fist.

It may be likely that the half orc was the informant that the female watchman referred to. Abrix called on him for an interview. It turns out that the half orc contact was "Bulgar the brawler", who was one of the gang in Fred o'furs warehouse. Corum was subjected to a "zone of truth" spell, which proved that he had not murdered the half orc.

After a small lecture from Abrix, he was told he was free to go. As he went to leave, a team from the North ward turned up to talk to Abrix about Finn's body and Corum's involvement. They asked Corum a few questions and asked to see his boots. Corum (somehow!) managed to convince them that he had nothing to do with Finn's body jumping over a wall and landing in a rose bush.

Corum left the watch house and went to ask Raya if she wanted to go clothes shopping. She declined. As he went to go and ask someone else, he walked past the bloody fist and was recognised by a half orc barbarian as the alleged killer. The half orc ran inside to get his mates and Corum legged it and hid in the three pearls nightclub.

Which is a lap dancing club with very expensive drinks. He managed to avoid the barbarians and went back to the temple to get Raya. Raya and Corum then went clothes shopping.

At around 18:30 I picked up Corum in the carriage and then we went to pick up the girls. Corum's date, Nasenna, was an average looking lass and has pale skin with an almost bluish tinge to it. By Christ her breath stunk! We went to Boduccio's (a very posh place overlooking the harbour) for its excellent food.Towards the end of the meal, it became apparent to me that Giselle was torn between me, a hefty catch and her fiancée, who (I got the impression) she started going out with to annoy her parents. If I persevere for a while more, I think she will be mine!

Nasenna appears to be quite taken with Corum, or maybe watchmen in general. Raya, once again, was accosted in the pub by Eno. After they had been chatting for a while, 3 guys came up to their table and told Eno that they had a rat catching job for him. Raya offered to help him, but the 3 guys said that Eno would be plenty on his own. With that, Eno and the guys left. They left out the back door into a storage house adjacent.

Raya followed them and saw them go into the house. Raya looked around for a peep hole to see into the house but couldn't find one. She then opted to listen at the door and heard talking. She then climbed up to the second floor to look and listen through a set of shutters. She heard some voices and some thumps, but that could easily be the sound of rat catching in progress.

After the meal, the girls suggested taking a walk along the pier side, looking at the stars. During the walk, I stole a kiss from Giselle and we had a lovely long smooch. As Nasenna went to kiss Corum, he spotted 3 half orcs over her shoulder on the other side of the pier. Corum managed to give them the slip, but as I was occupied with Giselle at the time, they surrounded me and asked me if I knew Corum. I asked who they were and one of them threatened me and, worse still, Giselle. I immediately tried to intimidate them. I successfully scared one of them off, but the other two remained. I told Giselle to go down onto the sand, away from the two of them, which she thankfully did, and I then turned my attention to them.

It was going quite well, in that I managed to convince them that I had never heard of Corum, but unfortunately, my big mouth got me into trouble, when one of them took exception to being called a "big smelly twat" and went to punch me. I tried to get him first with my elbow blade, by they are not the easiest things to use and I missed.

Long story short, I was getting battered when Corum shouted "I'm over here, fucknuts!" and two of them ran over to get him. The remaining one punched me to near unconsciousness, and I escaped with my life by pretending to pass out. Once he had left, I healed myself and made my way to find Giselle who had, sensibly enough, ran to the restaurant to summon help.

Corum, meanwhile, had jumped into the sea and had managed to lose his pursuers by swimming underwater. I think we will need to go and have a calm word with these guys in the morning and try to sort out this misunderstanding.

One big bonus for me though, Giselle and I now consider each other as an item! Score for me! (her ex is gonna be pissed off! :P)