Cayosin assists Aerodus in searching with a frown on his face.
Raggo crouches down and ruffles through the dark slayers' belongings hoping to find some clue.
With the immediate problems finished Terra begins a prayer, one that takes longer than most and when she's done, touches the nearly dead woman's chest, the glow from her hands suffusing into the woman's body and healing some of the harm the poison did to her.
Wulfrun moves herself outside for fresh air.
Aliesah moves out to fresh air, coughing badly as the gas hits her.
"So..." says Gregary, holding his torso and grimacing with pain. His throat and lungs hurt - that smoke had dealt some damage to him, even if he had managed to resist it twice. "Rudwilla's gone. Any of you trackers? And are any of you very hurt? We could stand to use a couple of those potions."
"Not that we should take any more than we need right now - the lesser restorations and maybe a couple of the cure lights could be useful, though."
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Aerodus lays all of the items on the table, before turning back to the room. "Anyone got any idea what the six potions off of the Stalkers were? And their boots and cloaks? They are magic unless I miss my guess! Aye I can track also, we will do that once we are ready to move out!"
He begins to search through the room once more, looking for anything useful.
Having restored as much damage as she could for now, Terra casts another spell, this time infusion the young woman with healing energy to try and bring her back to consciousness.
Cayosin nods too, "I can track or assist as well. My guess the stalker potions are either poison or healing, or maybe something else?" Cayosin picks up (2) of the (3) Dark Swords and can feel their balance but he can tell that they will need some practice. He begins to like their feel and not liking that feeling, he places the swords down."Perhaps someone with Detect Magic and spellcraft can figure out hat the potions and other items are?"
Rudwilla's orphaned apprentice
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Barely awakening and still quite staggered with a glazed look over her eyes--
Wha- ...Who- ...Ma? ...Where's Rudwilla? What happened?
It is obvious that Cora is very young, maybe 11-14, somewhat unkempt and ugly. Her last bath may have been as a toddler. But she is confused, dangerously weak and very afraid.
Looking around the inner chamber of Rudwilla's hovel, and considering the design of the foyer and the walls and floors themselves, not to mention old, mostly gone frescoes on the ceiling, you my get the feeling that this structure was built for a specific purpose, however long, long ago...
Knowledge Religion DC 29 AND/OR
Knowledge Planes DC 26
While searching the items on the table it may be possible to notice something hiding...
Aerodus find tracks made by Cora and, most likely, Rudwilla, but none from a Sin Spawn or three Dark Slayers. Rudwilla's tracks lead out into the wilderness and are very fresh; she has not been gone long a all.
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Wulfrun pulls her helm off and takes in a large breath while waiting outside for her heart to stop pounding. She leaves the others to ransack the house and claim the spoils.
When the young woman wakes up and begins asking questions, she finds Terra kneeling over her. The aasimar replies, "We came here to speak to Rudwilla but found that hideous creature and the three dark ones inside with you unconscious and bound in goo. As the dark ones died they turned to a poisonous gas, I drug you outside to keep you alive. Can you tell me anything about what happened?"
Taking Cayosin's word (and a nod to the dragonborn) he sits cross-legged on the floor in front of their pile of new loot and begins to scan and attempt to identify each item that's garnered.
Cayosin follows Aerodus out of the house, "Aerodus, like old times, I'll assist you indirectly looking for tracks. Once we find what we are looking for, I am going to comb the house one more time." While searching for tracks, Cayosin can not get the feeling of those Dark Swords in his hands out of his mind.
remember, this house is not ours. Careful what you take, witches can be irritable.
Three of the potions that the Dark Slayers carry are potions of Cure Moderate Wounds. One of them is a potion of Gaseous Form and, though Gregary is unable to identify the other two, they seem remarkably similar to the other potion of Gaseous Form. It's likely that each Dark Slayer had one of Cure Mod & one of Gaseous Form. The three Cloaks each give magical protection against sunlight, allowing the wearer to reduce any penalty associated with Daylight conditions. The Boots give the wearer an enhancement when climbing: +4.
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Hearing Cora tell Terra that Rudwilla was going to pick ingredients by night, Aerodus turns to Cayosin. "How is your nightvision friend? Does the night appear as if the day?" Aerodus gestures around himself. "I am filled with the blessings of the Dawn, thus my eyes do perceive what they will, even at night. I could follow these tracks and we could guard the woman and return her here, lest there are nastier things lurking!"
"Raggo!" He calls in to the house. "We need your Dwarven eyes!"
"Aye, Aerodus I bet ya do!"
Raggo hurries out of the hut and joins his friends.
Gregary finishes identifying the first group of items and moves on to the sinspawn's items - he stands up and begins to walk over to the sinspawn's corpse, but while checking it out he sees movement.
He looks up to see a tiny creature lying on the ground, eyes squeezed tightly shut, and his face contorts with frustration. Gremlins.
"You!" he shouts, "You're going to tell me what happened here and you're going to tell me right now."
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Aerodus turned to the group and smiles. "So it appears to me that there be at least three, if not four of our party who can see in the night. I propose then that those of us who need no light to travel by would go track Rudwilla whilst those of us who require light, and the young lady Cora, would stay back here and protect the hut, and keep an eye on our mounts of course!" He nodded.
"What say you?"
Terra gives the girl a hug and says, "Don't worry, a few of our group will stay here with you, the rest of us will see if we can find her and bring her back safely." At Aerodus suggestion Terra nods in agreement, "A good plan, I can see just as well in the dark as you can so I'll go along. Besides, someones gotta keep you all in one piece."
Gregary strides over to the tiny creature and tries to lift it up by its collarbone. "I'm speaking to you, gremlin. And you will tell me what I want to know."
He's got his sword in one hand, ready for any...mischief.
Aliesah looks in at the sound of stern ordering.
gregary, what are you doing?
"I found this tiny creature spying on me." Gregary says, indicating the quivering gremlin in his hands. "It must have been in the house for awhile. It's likely that it knows what happened to Rudwilla and these stalkers."
Raggo looks at his dark vision companions each in turn.
"Well let's get movin' then!"
"Where did these creatures come from?" says Gregary, gesturing to the corpses around him. "From what I hear from my friends outside, there aren't any tracks outside from these creatures. Did they come from underground? Were they created or housed here?"
Wulfrun hastily returns at Cora's call for help, dropping her helmet, "What's happening here?!"
Gregary narrows his eyes, but he recognizes at least that this creature likely isn't going to tell him anything else that he wants to know, so he drops the little thing and proceeds outside. Somebody called for help.
When he sees the situation - the witch coming back, the girl calling for help, seven armed individuals standing near her house...well, s&&!. This could go poorly.
Gregary sheathes his weapon.
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"How about dashing heroes who come seeking advice and happen to save your daughter, and your posessions in the process?" Aerodus smiled, stretching his jet white wings and stepping forward in to a bow. "You must be the Wise Woman of this house, Rudwilla yes? Greetings, I am Aerodus Aluain. We come seeking information about Blue Sprites and the Kidnappings that occurred near here. May we have a moment of your time?"