Ramez and the Rose are quite famous for the right reasons. Rose Talfaux is famous for being a man of fine taste and a man willing to spend his gold on anything of value. He hires people to find artefacts, magical items, books and more all for the wealth nobles he then sells, well most of it, on to. However he also is rumoured to be a member of the harpers and having vowed to remove cursed items from the public.
Ramez is, rumoured to be of course, a witch hunter and dedicated to the same eradication of evil protecting the innocent from the same cursed artefacts. Whether that is part of the charities that he has organised and manages or whether he does this as a member of the city watch he is favoured where ever he goes. Which is why Ramez’s disappearance has troubled many.
A bit to unpack tonight so grab a coffee, sit back and let’s roll into tonight’s adventure!
Ramez and the Rose
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The adventurers had just left Rose before he activated the ring he kept on his right hand. A string of glyphs appeared around the office he was sitting in which blocked scrying or eaves dropping of any kind. Taking out a small book from his draw he opened the first page and removed a polished black stone from a compartment in the lid.
“Stone of Azriah, show me those responsible for the evil afoot in the city” he asked the stone. He hated using this thing and even as a swirl of black dust rose from the smooth surface he felt the familiar pangs of doubt in the magical item. Soon the dust revealed a face. A man with flowing hair, sharp cheekbones and an intelligent stare greeted him. He knew those eyes and that moustache anywhere and with a sigh he head held low. “You stupid stone. There is no way Ramez would have created this evil. Again, show me what caused this evil!”
After a moment the dust settled back into the stone before rising again, twice is all he could use it until it rested in moonlight and he was betting a lot on this use. As he watched he saw images of a group of people, the thieves, as they carried a crate but a blinding flash of light from the crate removed the dust-created figures and the crate late inert. After a moment another figure appeared, before reaching into the crate and retrieving an item from it. Upon contact the new arrival writhed in pain before both it and the item it retrieved withered and disappeared like the others before it.
After its latest attempt to answer the question the black dust then drifted lazily down to sit upon the stone. Rose stood up and walked to the window. “So the cursed item was stolen, the crate taken but something went wrong and who ever the late comer was has it and has disappeared.” he mused to himself. It wasn’t enough but he began to scrawl out a note while he still had the runes of warding up. Satisfied by the notes contents he called out his oldest friend, a small hawk who flew unbidden down to land on his shoulder.
“Celise, I need you to take this to Polson.” he said as he tied the message to the hawks leg. It wasn’t really a hawk as all familiars were something different entirely but he still marvelled at the creature as it took flight. Polson would get the message to the adventurers he just hired, or to the watch and they would be able to investigate. He could at least finish what Ramez started to remove the Amulet of Vek’lakah from this world.
Thanks for visiting tonight and meeting Rose and getting a glimpse of Ramez. While one is trying to puppeteer the situation the other is very much in the thick of it. So don’t forget to come back daily as we continue on this adventure and lastly, as always, don’t forget to roll with advantage,
The Brazen Wolfe
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