Goblin needs to CHEW!! Bref flies out the room heading down the stairs towards where his friend Grumble is going to smash. As soon as he is close enough to the ground where he can feasibly jump down without hurting himself he does, giggling all the while.
Edmin looks down at the warden's crumpled body then to the blade of his new axe and smiles. "Tough old bastage, I'll give him that."
Perception:
-->The Judge quickly looks around for anything interesting while catching his breath after having had to suddenly dismiss his shadow before it succumbed to the ball of fire.
The Judge suddenly realizes that the the guards are downstairs and calling for help.
Taking a deep breath, the Judge goes over to the window and calls out mimicking the Warden's voice as best he can.
All is fine. I heard the dogs and then tripped over a book I had been reading when I was going to the window.
Bluff:
Looking to the sky, speaking to someone that no one else knows is there Does that mean goblin can chew?
Bah, those fools. They are secure. I bumped my head when I fell, I might have screamed something like that. Just make sure the axe is sharpened in the morning. It is going to get a lot of work this week.
Seeing the owl appear (and I assume that the Judge would know that wizards frequently have familiars), Tohram smiles and then 5-foot steps back from the window while summoning a eagle.
Standard Action: Summon Monster 1 (spell like ability, standard action casting time)
I would also like to shut the window as soon as the owl is inside.
The eagle will ready an attack as soon as the owl enters.
Edmin heads down to the second floor and waits at the stairs to the first and tries to slow the Ogre down. "Easy Big Guy. I promise you will get to smash someone, but we want to make sure we don't end up back in our cells."
Goblin needs to cheeeeeeewwwwwww .
Tohram calls the hideous eagle to his shoulder, and then returns to looking around the room to see if anything is of note.
Cast Detect Magic and scan the room for any magical auras. I also begin to search the Warden's body for any scrolls.
At the sound of the voice from above saying all is well, just a bump, Rosa will indicate to the Bref and Ogre to hold, with her back to the door, She will put a finger to her mouth the the well knows sign of
"Don't make a sound"
Smart enough to understand the necessity of quiet, Bref does so. But he starts jumping up and down in frustration and runs over to the stairs and begins to chew on the banister.
Chomp, chomp, chomp
New toys! Bref races back up the stairs and starts searching the wardens room
whisper "Bref Tell the others, alls well here and we will hold until they are done"
Then to Grumblejack
whisper
"You will have your chance soon, we are not out of here yet, Smashing time soon, for now hold here in case they come back"
Rosa waits ear to the door, just in case they do come back.
Perception
As Bref searches the room he pauses.
Where is Shadow Beastie?
He dives under the bed Beastie? Looks under Cy Beeeeaaaastie? Behind the door. Grabs the handles of the wardrobe Shaaadooow throws them open Beastie!
Finally he stops and looks confusedly at Judge. As he gnaws on his rolling pin.
Jax walks over to the Warden and scoops the scroll out of his dead fingers. What have we here. Well, lets look around and see what we can find? That was a good deflection, Judge.
Perception to aid another on Bref->
What have we got left magic wise? I can drop the colours the Warden did if we can get some guards to cluster together.
Edmin has a seat on the bottom of the stairs and cleans the warden's blood from his axe. The knight needing a moment to calm himself after the mad rush and fight.
Bref is becoming paniced.
Once Rosa is happy the guards have gone she will have a look around the ground floor GM, Detect magic on the rooms.
"Come on Grumblejack, lets see whats of use down here."
Have a peek in the small closet under the stairs.
After a minute the hellish eagle that nobody else seems to have noticed disappears.
Turning to the frantic goblin: Toothpick, don't worry. Shadow Beastie got burned by that bad old man. He will be back in a while. For now he is resting.
Jax will loot through the pockets of the Warden as well and will take a look in the chest after having Toothpick check it for traps and (if needed) unlock it. He'll then head down tothe library (Second floor) and start analyzing the books for anything worth some money (take 20 on appraise check). He'll likewise appraise the tapestries on the first floor.
After cleaning his weapon, Edmin goes back up stairs and recovers the Warden's head and takes it back to the first floor, placing it in the middle of the entry way facing the door. "Ladies and gentlemen, dawn is fast approaching. Please recover anything you want from this damned place but insure it will not hinder us during the rest of our escape. We still have alot to do to get out of here, and many more people to kill if they get in our way."
The Judge looks over at Bref: Suppose we should check the office. You want to open the door?
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Oh Edwin, you think so small! Look at all of this...its too bad we can't take it all with us...Or can we?
Jax lets out a low, mischievous chuckle. Someone mentioned the Warden was a noble, yes? I can't recall who. Whichever of you knows about him, could you help me with some paperwork? To the study! I swear this will be but a moment and its well worth the time.
Jax is going to the Warden's paperwork. He's going to get samples of his writing, specifically dates, inventory lists and signatures. He's going to attempt to forge a will requiring that all the tapestries, books and magical paraphenalia owned by the Warden goes to certain people. If the Warden is married, he of course places most of the Warden's wealth with the family. If he is not married and has no children/family, Jax writes the will to give some to Brandenscar, some to close relatives and 10% (including everything in this tower) to the Warden's old adventuring buddy...Jacob Warrington III, one of Jax's old aliases. He's a little known noble so not likely to attract much attention.
What's the worst that happens?
Edmin's eyes narrow at the thiefling's words," The time for us to run around looking for shineys is quickly passing. I advise you all to concern yourselves more with your own survival then feeding your greed. You will not have time to enjoy these...things, if we are caught. All of you now are murders and will meet the headsman if we do not escape this place."
While the search is going on, and before opening the office, the Judge sits down on part of the bed not covered in the Warden's gore. He then begins a ritual of some sort which appears to mostly cause him to bend over and grimace in pain as though he suddenly caught a bad case of food poisoning. While doing this, you slowly see his shadow stretch out and once again become manifest. Eventually, Morsum is lying next to him on the bed, unconscious, but still real.
Next, the Judge turns and once again speaks in the hissing grating tongue that he uses to call to the arcane.
Mejju, il-qawwa ta 'mejtin fejqan għalik.
May the power of dead heal you.
Cast Rejuvenate Eidolon, Lesser:
Once he completes this, you see shadow flow from the Judge's hands into Morsum and a moment later the Shadow Beastie's red eyes pop open.
Then, in its grating voice: Master, I am sorry, I failed you.
Tohram simply stares at the monster, no emotion apparent.
Rosa give the ground floor a once over, She finds nothing of use or value to aid them in there, getaway, she goods up to the top floor to see how they are doing, Seeing Edmin harmed she passed him the healing Vile.
"This was given to you, now its the time to use it"
She moves the Witch into a seating position checking to see she is unharmed, once shes awake Rosa go's over and looks at Edmins handy work.
She looks at the headless body and then pics up the head of the Warden and takes in his features for the time she may need to make herself look like, him.
Then she walks over to Edmin saying.
"That axe has now been blessed with blood, You should name it"
Then closer to his ear says whispers.
"Ready to move out on your word, Ill be at the main door."
She looks at the others seeking to loot the room, then walks off back down to the front door.
Looks under Cy Beeeeaaaastie?
Goblin hurts...
Bref finishes checking the room then moves to the office door and looks for traps.
Goblin pleased
Can open with ease
Just as he is preparing to push open the door, or unlock it, he sees Morsum has returned.
He flies across the room and does a double flip onto the bed in between Morsum and Judge and begins to bounce.
BEASTIE! Everything shall be chewed! Tee hee tee hee hee hee