Restoration of the House of Tephet - Session 2

Sean – Tepet Lintol – Master Sorcerer and ruler and rightful heir to Tepet.
Jeff – Tepet Barad – General and landed baron.
Mike – Tepet Katel – Warrior extraordinaire and brother to Lintol.
Tom: Cathak Jory – Sorcerer and spy master.

The group agrees to try and get the Priest that is disrupting the south of the Dragon Blooded lands. The idea is that this will increase Lintol’s prestige. Based on Jory’s intelligence they learn that this guy can make people fanatical followers with a single touch and they learn the name of the town where he is. The group decides to leave the army behind and travel by Lintol’s sorcery due to the distance involved.

Jory and Katel go into the town to try and scout it out. Right off the bat Jory is suspicious given the armor and weapons being made but the complete lack of visible soldiers. It’s a fairly small village but he wants to perform the most innocuous activity possible. They go to the store and he asks to buy bread. The shop keeper is asking unusual questions, and Jory is cautious but not sufficiently cautious since the store keeper asks why they want five days worth of bread but have no means of carrying it. He then switches to two days, but says that the nearest town is 5 days away and that traveling without leave will be vagrancy. They buy the bread and leave.

The two do not notice that they are followed by a group of 25 soldiers. As they approach the group, they immediately demand that the group pay a fine for vagrancy. The group asks some questions and the head of the 25 soldiers (gruff and authoritative) immediately then says that they need to move on or be arrested. Then he increases the fine. The group finally agrees to pay the fine (since it is a pittance) but in the process Jory is highly annoyed and asks the guard’s name. At this point, the guard (who had effectively asked for a bribe) immediately tries to arrest everyone. Since the group is not sure if the guard work for the local baron or not, after Katel struggles, the rest of the group gives up and Katel surrenders as well.

It turns out that the soldiers are working for the renegade priest who is also a powerful First Age soldier. He tries to compel the group but in the process, Jory breaks free using the powers of his bonded demon and moves to stop him, and then the whole group begins to break loose from the bonds holding them. Lintol and Katel work together to free Lintol’s hands. They are doing alright but in the process the Solar uses an incredibly powerful social charm that forces everyone to work with him, but only Lintol and Jory realize that they have been affected. So negotiations open. At this point the Solar initiates ANOTHER powerful social charm and convinces Katel and Jory that his is the right way of thinking. Lintol is the only member of the group not affected by the Solar’s effect.

The Solar offers to help the group with the understanding that in exchange Lintol come back and help his cause to unite the Empire under his rule and fight the things threatening creation. The group leaves, with the Priest’s offer to provide troops likely to be accepted and none of them knowing for certain who is affected by what. Upon return the group decides to keep the whole affair quiet lest they be accused of conspiring with a Solar. It is decided that the group will go to the Satrapy of Blackrock, which Jory’s intelligence has told them is ripe for revolt against their own rebellious Satrap.