Implant Protocol

By Asher D’Deneith
DM Morgan (Assistant Editor)
Keepers: David S (N-D311 “En-Dell”), Matt H (Henley Lytton d’Sivis), Kay (Rzhavvy), Christian (Asher d’Deneith), Aaron (Xander)

Objective: Protect New Cere from a nefarious threat implanted by the Restful Watch within Kennrun.

Outcome: New Cere is is a growing western Talenta-styled town that is a home to many refuges of the destruction of Cere. Following brain bending confession of Restful Watch twisted Dentist from Wroat we were directed to stop a new threat at its inception. We all packed extra supplies and pack animals to be able to resupply the city of new Cere when we arrived. While making ourselves available was initially met with suspicion of general store keeper and leader of the town, after seeing N-D311 revitalize crops, HL performing legal duties, and Xander lightening the town they were at ease. We were tasked with finding out what had made the neighboring town to the east so seldom heard from as of late from Kennrun.

In order to hear from the people Xander was adorned in the finest Hat of the Haberdashery with his own name embossed on it. It was instrumental in the sound arm wresting contest noted in mission planning notes C2-D5 “Xander Goes over the Top”

With news of Kenrunn we set out for a full days travel. When we stopped for the night we kept a watch and managed to catch the slight flame of an adventuring party attempting to return to New Cere in the middle of the night. The Rest of camp was roused and we got ahead of them for Xander to once again be our ambassador. We soon accertained that they had some slight inconsistancies with their stories. They were a human fighter, elder wizard, Dragonborn rogue, elven cleric. We invited them to stay the night instead of forced march back to town. As the cleric was also a vassal of the Soveriegn host we conversed on what they had to treat while out here on the frontier of the Mournlands. The fact that they said they had only dealt with undead seemed at odds since nothing in the surrounding countryside was affected by undeath and I had just come from Karrnath. With this in mind we prepared out prayer together for the next day and I asked her to prepare remove curse if they had any lingering time amongst their station at Kennrun. HL witnessed necromancy upon every word that they spoke from that entire party. With that fact we brought it to the other wizard’s attention who confirmed this with his own eyes. He then allowed himself to put up no resistance to detect thoughts and probe deeper. That is when we confirmed that he was and likely all of them under the affects of modify memory.

The next day we first set to freeing the cleric as they were the only other being able to cast the spell like myself. Upon casting the spell and black magical ichor falling from the theads of the mind they began screaming and pulling at their mouth. We quickly reached in and removed a warp stone tooth. This brought the wizard over quickly and we asked him to please move into a sphere of silence. “when asking why he should trust walking into a silence amongst strangers we simply told him he was under the affects of a curse. Another Remove curse and tooth extract later they were also free. Then we really had to be convincing to have both the fighter and rogue be within our care. After they walked in we both removed curse from them and the following teeth they were in their right minds again.

They had now silly guard captain only the despondent and sadistic Dylan programing their commands in Deepspeech after forcing a warpstone tooth in place to make them his warp spawn sleeper agents. Warpspawn are the physical force manifestation of the realm of Xoriat the plane of Madness. They are born from very twisted necromancy which often saps the mental capacity to make it resilient and dangerous. With the triggering command in place they are ticking time bombs or a precision weapon to detonate into violent rage with their trigger.

With this knowledge we needed it to appear like the fight had indeed occurred as it should within New Cere. So we staged a performance of the breaking of the general store before Oath Keeper managed to put down the one massive Warpspawn beast. With the supplies of the town successfully hidden we managed to keep up appearances on the success of the programming. But that party was instead free to try to help other programmed individuals break from of Dylan’s domination.

Posted on Zor, Nymm 12, 999 YK in C1S05 by Asher d’Deneith
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