Blynde Dyrwülf

Blynde Dyrwülf

Blynde Dyrwülf is an extremely popular Heavy Pirate Rock group made up entirely of elven bards, only some of which are definitely not pirates.

Personnel

• Luta Ford (Feywild Eladrin masquerading as a High Elf) - Lead Lutist and Singer
• Castanea Buteos (Wood Elf) - Accordian and backing vocals
• Vadania (High Elf) - Hurdy Gurdy and backing vocals
• Dariel Boldheart (High Elf) - Glockenspiel Keytar, drums and various assorted percussion
• The Drow (Drow) - Penrose Triangle

Biography

The only thing critics can agree on, is that Blynde Dyrwülf are nothing without the Triangle.

Involvement with the events of the 5666 Kassiter MidWinter Festival

Official Version

On the Third day of the Festival, Blynde Dyrwülf reelased this statement:

"We of Blynde Dyrwülf were shocked and horrified to learn of the events of the second evening of the festival, and the death of our esteemed collegues. In rememberence of the sacrifice of members of The Underdarkness, and many other good people of Kassiter, we shall be playing tonight, as the show must go on, and tomorrow night shall instead be a memorian gig for our fallen friends.

Jasterin, Dasterin, Spuggy, you live on in our hearts and your brave sacrifices shall not be forgotten."

True to their word, Blynde Dyrwülf played their, rather muted gig on Night three, and led a supergroup made up of all the festival's headline bands, and the remaining members of The Underdarkness on night four in a gig that will not soon be forgotten.

What Really Happened

Kassiter is a desert city and "wakes up" at dusk and and "goes to sleep" once the heat of the day becomes too much, so the following all take place from evening to early morning each day)

Day -1 of Festival

Blynde Dyrwülf spend most of the day rehearsing in their digs in Greyfane.

Their two dwarf roadies Fazim and Elbara share a barrel of local ale between them and all go to bed.

Day 1 of the Festival

the band wake up to find most of their instruments have been stolen. Most importantly, The hurdy Gurdy, the Accordian, the Penrose Triangle, the glockenspiel Keytar and drumkit and Luts'a precious Feywyld lute, Lita. Doing a gig without those would be basically impossible! The band is nothing without The Triangle. Also a grand piano and a pipe organ, although some band members are secretly pleased at this and hope they don't get found...

The Roadies are still snoring and blame a bad barrel of beer for them sleeping through the theft.

The band panic, decide to try and locate the missing instruments themselves, as they worry the promoter will try and replace them if he finds out, and leap into action... to find breakfast. At Henrist's Cafe. His daughter, Razella serves them and is totally starstruck and is over the moon to get pictures and autographs. The ale vendor is located and indicates he aquirred the casks from a dealer at the docks. A little more investigation also pointed to the docks as the probable location for a black market of the kind where instruments might end up.

At the docks, the band split up to try and find information about this market, with Castanea pulling on underwold contacts to find it was in a place called Greenglass Hollow and that you probably needed a token to get in. Luta walked into a dwarf bar, charmed the innkeeper and his assisant and walked out with directions to the market, the passphrase and authentication token, after leaving enough gold to cover the patron's drinks for the day. With Castanae making Herself, Vadania and the Drow invisible,Luta disguising herself as disreputable half-elf and Dariel disguising himself similarly the band quickly located the entrance to the market through old mine-workings that stretched out under the sea. Quickly gaining entrance for the 2 visible members with the token and passphrase, the invisible ones easily sneaking in with them, the hidden 4th market of Kassiter was revealed, a large cavern full of stalls of all sorts of hot and grey goods with many dark tunnels branching off it.

Use of Locate object quickly showed Verdania's hurdey gurdy on a stall, and Lut negotiated a very cheap deal, with a couple of silver rings thrown in- one a ring of the Guild of the White Wolf and one with a squirrel on it, apparently commemerating a time an Elven princess spoke to a squirrel, and a Necklace of Fireball, which was only 10Gold, as it had a couple of jewels missing, and the stallowner did not know what she had. Spotting Castanea's accordian on another stall, Luta quickly negotiated a deal and shook on it, aquirring the instrument. Unfortunately, during the shake, The stallholder had slipped Luta's ring off her finger without he noticing. Fortunately, Castanea spotted this and whispered to Luta, who immediately turned around and "suggested" to the stall holder that he get it back and return it to here immediately.

The stallholder shot off after the urchin he had given the ring too and the band followed him through a tunnel to another cavern to a jewelery stall where he was now remonstrating with the proprietor that he had to have the ring back, to little avail. Still invisible, Castanea located the ring on tray with several others , retrieved it and threw the rest on the floor, causing much confusing and a punch up, during which the band slipped out and deeper into the market complex. Luta got her ring back, and remembered to command it to be invisible this time!

Deeper into the market thre was all sorts of caverns with speciality goods, including rare silks and a room of dinosaSneaking, evesdropping and investigation, revealed these to be members of The Sandsharks, an underworld gang seemingly under the command of Pasha Zulma Further investigation of their den was curtailed when someone made a bit too much noise and alerted them. The band quickly withdrew back to their digs with the instruments they had retrieved.

Day 2 of the Festival

The Days sleep was interuppted by the arrival of a teenage girl and her friends outside the digs screaming for The Drow, fortunatley The Drow delt with this in his normal, understated, manner (Hold Person). On rising the band found the outside of thier digs grafittied with poems of undying love for The Drow.

The Evening of Day 2 sees A trip to see the promoter resulted in the band being granted better accomadation in the secure compound due to all the unfortunate events and a promise to find replacement instruments. While the promoter was definitely thinking of replacing the band, a smile and persuassion from Luta soon turned that around. Fazim and Elbara made arrangements for the gear to be moved during that evening.

Getting breakfast at a nice coffee and pastry shop where the waiters acted all weird, but excellent pastries came out nevertheless. Eventually. For such nice pastries the place was strangely empty though. Because of the issues at the market the day before, Castanea moved her stolen orb to the Portable Hole that the band used for keeping costumes and other things while touring, for safe keeping.

Castanea's Locate Object spell, this time attuned to Luta's beloved lute, Lita, showed that she was still in the ctty and the band set off in hot pursuit, eventually ending up through the Maltrasi Gate and in Maltrasi Square. Maltrasi Square is a beautfiul dessert city square, full of colourful awnings and stalls and several streets leading off. It was one of those streets that the spell indicated that Lits was, and getting closer. The band members hid around the square and waitied. Looking down the street reveled none other than Jasterin and Dasterin, the brothers from The Underdarkness walking toward the square. Jasterin was carrying a guitar and had a Vox Halla Amplifier strapped to his back, but Dasterin had Lita strapped to his back!

Luta stepped into the street and put on her best charm, and was nonplussed when it just seemed to slide off them, with Jastering saying "'ere, I think she's trying to charm us!" and laughing. It quickly became obvious that the Underdarkenss brothers were, in fact vampire spawn, and as such immune to charm. There then followed a small altercation with all the band pitching in while Luta attempted to find the right spell to control Jasterin to give her the lute back. During the fight nobody made a fool of themeselves at all, and despite escape attempts including scaling walls, Lita the Lute was retreived unharmed, Dasterin was captured in a magically-animated awning and jasterin spontaneously transformed into a smoldering pile of ash curtesy of 2 of the Necklace of Fireballs's jewels. Various bits of the street were on fire, but this was deemed to not be related.

While getting ready to make themselves scarce, a bloody arm dropped into the street from a roof above, and looking up, the band spotted Spuggy Marengo, who had been watching the whole sorry affair while gnawing on some poor sod's arm. Alarmed, he ran off to raise the alarm. The band memebrs realised he could not be allowed to return to his master so set off in pursuit. At a nearby crossroads, he was spotted again on a roof against a chimmney. In a flash of desperation, Luta threw the remainder of the Necklace of Fireballs At him ( 5 jewels) and there was a large explosion and fireball and no more Spuggy. Or building. There was, however, a lot of fire. The members of Blynd Dyrwülf made themselves excedingly scarce, down to the docks with Dasterin in tow, still wrapped in an animated awning.

Down in a secluded area of the darks, Dasterin was interrorgated, and revealed that The Underdarkness were all vampire spawn and worked for their vampire lord,Pasha Zulma who had a compound fronted by a certain coffee shop, which at least explained why it had been so empty earlier in the day! We ascertained that we would find the rest of our instruments in the compound.Dasterin was dispatched. It was around this time that we noticed a srange smell and smoke coming from the portable hole!

On opening the Portable Hole, acrid smoke poured out of it, and it was obvious that most of our costumes were destroyed. Sitting in the smoldering ruins, the orb that Castanea had placed there was pulsing gently with a sickening light. Castanea quickly pocketed the orb and we did our best to disapate the fumes from the hole.