League of Mongeese

The organization started with the sole purpose of stopping the League of Snakes.

Individual Members
Bay, Tisha, Not-Star, Seven Quinn, Kit, Barris Waynewrite, Morgana, Det. Noyar, Cpt. Black,

MAL 13

 * First, the party tied up loose ends in Mendham Wood. Aler, after discussions with the young ranger Brand, sent a letter to Iscariot suggesting an alliance with the Elemental Druids against Chavalk and the League of Snakes. Zadkiel agreed to talk to the Temple of Altaris about the same matter. Adriel had a brief encounter with a unicorn, and the party unanimously voted to let Bay stay with the party.

MAL 18 & 19

 * As the party passed the church of Tallian, the saw a group of elves walking down te steps expressing frustration that the authorities in Ruastin were all too distracted by local concerns like the tax fraud, the bomb scare at city hall, and Petros arrest to take their concerns about something seriously. The party approached them and told them about Seven's abduction, which they appeared not to know anything about. They declined to tell their own business to random human strangers and a drow, but did give Jon a letter to send the Ducal Emissary in Hastenport and gave their inn room address.
 * Then the party picked up Terreira and went to the witches' dance copse to look for the undead menace. Once they cast darkness, the creature emerged--it was large, toothy, and intensely black, but appeared to be trying to communicate, not fight. The party attempted to use Speak With Dead to converse with it, but just like the witches said, the spell yielded only static. After some unsuccessful attempts to communicate using charades, the party tried Comprehend Languages and realized they could understand some of what it was saying, then had Terreira cast Tongues on Zadkiel. Apparently the monster, which called itself "Not-Star," was trying to find the King of Malachi to parlay with about an elder chaos that was awakening. Zadkiel explained that there is no king of Malachi, which the being responded to enthusiastically and called him "King Zadkiel the Not-King." Even with Tongues, it was a little difficult to communicate with this being, but the party managed to piece together that it was trying to ask who the allies arrayed against Chavalk's confederation were, and felt that the allies you were able to describe to it were too few. Jon tentatively identified Not-Star as a being from the Negative Material Plane, a plane which is completely unsurvivable to humankind and whose denizens are nearly unknown. Not-Star ended the interaction by slashing Zadkiel with a black bone blade that sprang from its stomach, causing wracking pain, however Zadkiel was the first to admit that he had sort of brought that on himself by telling the creature that his blood needed to be shed in order for them to communicate. It certainly didn't seem angry, concluding the conversation with "This... alliance... is unprecedented," and disappearing.

MAL 20

 * Red, Adriel and Khirg went on to visit the oracular trolls, making an appointment with them for another augury the following night, and then to speak with the elven delegation they had seen at the Church of Tallian that morning. This time Red introduced herself as an archdruid and an elf-friend, and the elves decided to tell her everything after all, revealing that they were in Peraine trying to offer their assistance with the upcoming Invasion and had found trouble getting the authorities here to pay attention to them (being busy with the bombing of their City Hall, the tax scandal, the looming execution of Petros, and other issues.) They did not know Chavalk's name, saying that the one they had encountered leading these demons was rather ancient and named "Lasanta," but mentioned that extraplanars often went by more than one name over the course of a history as long as elven history, so these could be two different names for the same demon (or the name of two different allies.) They asked whether the Duke, the King, or the High Priest of Tallian knew about the League of Snakes, to which the PCs said they did not know. Red told the elves about the Green Guard, the Elemental Druids, and Iscariot as possible allies to fight against the League of Snakes. The elves exchanged animal messenger contact info with her and departed for Asture immediately in an attempt to pull strings and meet with the Duke directly.

MAL 24

 * Meanwhile the rest of the party went to the compound of the King of Clocks to speak with him. As they crossed his courtyard, they triggered some spike traps and were attacked by mechanical pit bulls. The party was well on their way to wrecking these enemies when two large walkers blasted the crap out of Red's T.Rex form and demanded their surrender. The King of Clocks came out to parlay. He was aware that the party had been the ones to, as he saw it, break into his warehouse in Ruastin and steal his magical teletype machine. He was unimpressed by their claims to be there to return the stolen item, since they had unfortunately left it with Jarth and therefore didn't have it. The King of Clocks denied any plans to attack the Duchy of Peraine or the Kingdom of Cloudwatch, nor did he recognize Chavalk's name, but he acknowledged plotting with Harasket and the Keres to overthrow the oppressive government of Averdale, which he judged to be not the PC's business. Red suggested an alternate plan to prove the worth of machines to the Averdale theocracy, at which point the King of Clocks said the theocracy didn't have any problem with machines and revealed himself as the human son of the former High Mage of Averdale, wearing some sort of bio-armor. His name is Kevin, and with his parents jailed and his would-be career as a mage ended in childhood by the theocracy of Averdale, he has become a technologist instead-- a "high-tech terrorist," as he bluntly puts it. He acknowledged that he was trading weapons to Harasket in exchange for help overthrowing the Queen of Averdale, but still felt that was pretty much a wash for you guys, as it would also mean taking the Keres out of the fight Peraine. Red made the argument this path could have more destructive results than he realized, which he seemed unhappy with, and then Adriel suggested the party could help overthrow the government of Averdale if the King of Clocks would join them against Chavalk now. Kevin said if they convened a meeting of the forces aligning against Harasket's group, he would attend and see whether they could work something out. Jarth came jogging over from the Cartographer's Guild to return the stolen typewriter.

MAL 25

 * Lochrann returned with Vanima Kaimelar, upsetting Jon's brother-in-law, who isn't entirely down yet with the idea that the fey get to go wherever they want whenever they want. Jon calmed him down and spoke with Lochrann, telling her everything the party had learned about Lann Lasanta and/or Shyra (the party is not certain whether they are the same person or two different ones.) Lochrann explained the constraints upon her: that there is a fey policy of systemic non-interference on Malachi, though she still retains the right to interfere at a personal level; that she had asked the Queen about taking revenge on Chavalk for the selkie slayings and was told not to at this time, the Queen wishing to avoid fighting with the Abyss and Malachi not being her domain; that attacking another fey lord without clear provocation would result in war between their clans; and that in general, as she put it, "Fey politics are complicated. You understand, whatever transpires... we have to keep living with each other.
 * Lochrann did, however, assert that if Lasanta/Shyra breaks the code of non-interference by joining battle against the realm of Malachi, as foreseen in Jon's vision, that is an act of treason (albeit "a small one") and could be acted upon. She gave Jon a crystalline horn to use to call her in that event, stressing that it was to be used only in the case of one of her Folk leading troops onto this plane against the rightful denizens here. She also gave Jon the fireproof bag of dragon leather that she had used to carry Vanima Kaimelar as a gift.
 * The party also discussed the Averdale situation with the King of Clocks, who told them that the island kingdom was patrolled by archons of Tallian, who he had hoped for the Keres to defeat. Red and Adriel suggested that perhaps the gnollish Xhorhasi would agree to help overthrow the government of Averdale, since they are free mercenaries and their involvement would not embroil the King in a war nor the church of Tallian in a crusade. The King of Clocks asked Red to let him know when the allies were ready to parlay.

MAL 27

 * The party then went to the Temple of Sesharet and met with the acting priestess Mayalei again, presenting her with the sum of their evidence against High Priest Ander. Increasingly alarmed by this information, Mayalei called in the temple elders and assumed leadership of the temple, then led the priests down to the pavilion where they summoned an Aspect of Sesharet to chase down the leviathan. Mayalei asked the party for more information about the cult in the sewers, which they did not have. Some of the party members remembered the goblin maintenance man they had encountered in the sewers and paid no mind last time, and determined to speak with him again.
 * Zadkiel secured Mayalei's agreement to meet with the other head clerics Thursday night to discuss the danger posed by the League of Snakes.
 * Red, meanwhile,  was organizing a meeting at Jon's house  (newly christened "The Piper's House") in one week's time for their allies to plan their defense against the League of Snakes and also hopefully to make a deal with the King of Clocks. She sent animal messengers to the Druid groves and to the elves, as well as getting the agreement of the party's other allies in Hastenport.

MAL 29

 * The angel, Hastaros, didn't actually turn out to be that much of an asshole at all. First he told the assembled dwarves of the threat to Peraine and used the forge to rally them against it. Second, he told the high priest to contact the dwarven King and ask him to ally against the League of Snakes. Third, he finally explained himself to Zadkiel--he had been unable to tell him anything of his heritage earlier because he had given his word to Zadkiel's mother and angels cannot go back on their word under any circumstance. Now that Zadkiel already knew the truth, he agreed to remove the spell he had cast to suppress Zadkiel's ability to access his angelic form. Fourth, Zadkiel brought up Piper's problem. Hastaros said it would be possible for the angels of Moradin to restore her to life as a mortal by undoing her sacrifice, and that they might be willing to do this out of their abhorrence for child sacrifice, but that such a powerful magic would be sure to have cascading effects, since everything that she has used her powers to accomplish would also be undone. Jon and Piper were too concerned about the negative ramifications that could have for Malachi to take him up on the offer, but he said Zadkiel could contact him again at the temple if Piper changed her mind.

MAL 34

 * Returning to the walking hut, the party encountered the gnollish leader, Ataman Finera. Khirg unhesitatingly offered her his golden bow, at which point she formally bestowed it upon him and declared him her champion, warning him to keep it out of enemy hands or the Xhorhasi (the gnollfolk) would be destroyed. Finera also agreed to join the allies at Red's meeting in Hastenport on May 17th (one week from today.)

MAL 37

 * Continuing on foot, the party came across a curious fountain of glowing green fluid powered by a large Archimedes screw and manned by three genies. Jon insisted that the party not stop to talk to the genies, but Aler and Zadkiel did anyway, learning that these genies belong to the same clan that was stranded in the Underdark due to the destruction of House Vel'sharren. The party learned that the genies could be freed by the "highest-ranking living member of House Vel'sharren" speaking aloud a formula of dissolution. Aler admitted being a survivor from the House, but expressed concern that the other drow would realize he was still alive if all the genies suddenly disappeared. The foreman, a blue-haired genasi woman named Tylini, suggested her clan could swear an oath not to return to the Auran plane till after Aler had left the Underdark and informed them so. She would not agree to committing her clan to doing an unspecified service for the party, but did agree to attend the anti-Invasion summit on their behalf, and also agreed not to speak of Aler to any but the other genies of her clan (who number 144 in total.) She put these promises into writing and gave them to Aler.

MAL 39

 * Meanwhile, the rest of the party entered a secured conference room with Talisha Ken'rae (encased in two inches of solid lead, which the matriarch said seemed to be proof against telepathic intrusion.) Adriel described her intelligence that the illithids would be joining in the Invasion on the surface and her suggestion that this would be an opportune time for the drow to hit them while their attention was elsewhere. Aler recalled the name of the Illithid faction, Hrin Fhtamgali, that was engaged with the League of Snakes, and Talisha immediately recognized them as an illithid group near Ellenun. The party then shared their information about the illithids' vulnerability to magic, and Talisha said that if the party gives her advance notice of when they are about to engage the illithids on the surface, she can see to it that they will be unable to bring their full resources to bear, giving Adriel three pearls she can use to contact her with such information. Adriel was pleased.