"I cannot kill something that cannot fight back. It's not right. Mic go ahead and wake her. Maybe she will leave on her own. If not then Pharasma guide her." Relia readies her morningstar, and waits for the corby's reaction.
Her nose crinkled and she drew her pistol. This wasnt the brightest way to handle this, but she couldnt fault the others their morals.. besides it would be better if they could you know release her instead of murderlize her.
"Pretty bird I dont speak that tongue. You should calm down and let us take you out of here.. birbs dont belong in the sewer."
She offered in commmon not pointing the pistol at it ...yet.
Meliora readies an action to cast a grease under the monster if it attacks.
"I don't speak it either. Just gonna' be ready for when it tries to eat someone."
"Well so much for diplomacy. I don't know it's language and it struck first."
Mic steps in and strikes at the creature with the point of her elbow. Trying to smash it into the side of the creatures head.
Jack doesn't understand the dire Corby's speech but understands that its first impulse is to try to slay someone smaller than herself. He steps up and slashes at the bird creature without remorse.
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"Ignore me when I wake you up ya blasted bird. I don't think so."
Mic again tries to drive an elbow into the side of the cretures head.
Meliora takes a few steps over to one side and pcheews at the Corby with her ray of frost.
"Ow ow ow!"
She yelped as the bird thing clawed at her. All she was doing was trying to be nice. She stepped back and took aim.. she jerked to the side at the last moment to avoid the blur ray that shot past her eyes. the retort of her pistol seemed muted as her focus waned after her shot.
"Oh Jeez Melly the big black bird!"
She added sounding a bit annoyed at the errant ray.
Lena sighs as she takes a step forward, and swings with her morningstar at the bird."I knew it would come to this, but I had to give her a chance."
"That was a mighty swing Lena. Very impressive.
"Hard enough to smack it right through causality, I'd say."
Did she just have a vision of missing horribly and almost Raying Canacha by accident? That was clearly, clearly not the future. Must have been an accidental prescience or something. Ah, the trials and tribulations of being a genius.
"Aaanyways. We tried. Let's let 'em know everything's okay and see if they want to help us destabilize a city that doesn't owe them any favors. Mmkay?"
"That really hurt."
She whined slightly still smarting from the dire birbs claw.
"I wish it didnt have to end that way."
She added glumly taking a moment to situate the dead corbies body to some semblance of looking like it was sleeping still....
Lena looks around the room then says a rite over the corby. She'll go into the room with the tengus after she finishes.
Meliora just shrugs and heads out of the room.
She considers speaking herself, but opts to leave it to the more diplomatic members of the party for the moment, as 'Hey, got it done.' seemed a little too nonchalant for the situation.
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The tengu you talked with before stands in a circle with her three sisters talking with them. As Lena comes in she thanks you and answers your question from before "You asked me if we had any experience tumbling a goverment. I can inform you that we are not, we have mostly sold our skills in Riddleport as thieves and spies to the local gang and guardsmen."
Jack sizes up the tengu sisterhood, seeing some potential in the group.
"So...you can see in the dark but can't actually take flight, correct?" he asks as he further assesses their value to the budding rebellion.
"Then it sounds like you're just what we need."
Meliora takes a deep breath. Talking. To people. Ugh.
"The number one thing that you need going into any sort of anything is information. It's true in society, it's true in war, and it's true here, too. If you can steal and gather info, you're exactly the sort of friends we need. Seeing what's coming and reacting accordingly are going to be key for keeping Thrune's goons on the backfoot."
A beat.
"And I'm not just saying that because I majored in divination magic." Someone has a few insecurities, and her name is Meliora.
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The tengu's leader clocks her head considering Meliora's words. "Well informantion gathering is one of our most accomplished talents. We are good at studying targets and we have a good knack for languages so we can probably get some kind of informantion from most sources inside the city. We are also good at stealing earning a bit of gold. We don't have any way of getting out of the city with Thrune's lockdown we might aswell apply our talents inside of it, I want you to promise my sisters won't be in serious harm working for you." she responds to Meliora.
"That's..."
Meliora scratches the side of her forehead, before brushing some of her bangs back behind her ear.
"That isn't something I can promise. Getting information is vital, and nabbing funding is probably gonna' be more vital--" Gods only knew it was her #1 worry in life so far. "--but at the end of the day your sisters would have to be cautious to avoid attracting attention while you're doing what you're doing. I can promise that we won't knowingly send you into a likely combat zone, and I can promise backup if something unexpected happens and things go south on a routine mission or something... but I can't go saying that there's a 100 percent chance none of them will be in serious harm at some point. Not even I can see that far ahead."
Lena lets Meliora talk to the sisters. Looks like we have our first recruits.
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She smiles at Meliora "I know you can't promise that, it was a test to see how honorable you are when making a deal with us. You have to promise to do your best to not send them into open combat. But with that I think we can come to an agreement, I'm Korva Fushi and my sisters are from oldest to youngest Jay, Maggie and Treep." she says putting a hand out towards Meliora
'By the fire's lascivious gaze did I just--?!'
Meliora takes her hand, shaking it as she tries to process what, exactly, just happened. She's expecting another shoe to drop.
"It's good to have all four of you with us, then. I'm Meliora. Erm... Just, Meliora. Don't have a family name." Feeling self conscious, she looks off to the side and back at the others.
"Um... and these are my..." She trails off. Companions? Co-conspirators? Meatshields? She isn't sure how to quantify the relationship.
"Well, they're sort of in on things too... right?" Someone save her, she's floundering before the hellish opponent that is 'societal pleasantries.'
"Call me Mic, it is a pleasure to meet you. I am sorry that your other sister had to be dealt with. I am sure, despite her recent actions, you feel the loss on some level."
When there is a moment Mic pulls Meliora aside. "Well done with them. I know you do not think yourself diplomatic but you just made a deal like a seasoned trader."
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Once you return to Laria she thanks you with a sad face upon the news of the death of her friend. She allows you to use the Wasp Nest as a starting base for the rebuilding of the Silver Ravens.
From here you are to start doing the rebellion phase at the beginning of a new in-game week, I need you to each take one of the commanding roles in the player's guide, one of you must also take the leader role.
Thanks to Meliora's diplomacy you start with a bonus team that doesn't take a number of the allowed teams you can have in the rebellion. The Fushi Sisters gives you the possiblity of doing the events Earn gold and Gather Information. Once you have decided on your roles the leader will have to do the first activity and event phase.
You will also be going into the next part of this adventure as Level 2
"W-well... y'know. I just said things were exactly what they were. That's not diplomacy, it's realism. Won't work all the time."
She's looking away and covering her mouth with a hand, trying to cover up her expression with absolutely no subtlety at all. She's not used to compliments.
"I just sold scrolls for a livin', you know. So I trade. Sometimes."
"Oh man Melly that was well said i would totally sign up if like there was as sheet to sign up on. "
She nodded as if it was a simple as that.
"Sisters it is great that you will help support our new cause. It is much appreciated and I will do what I can to keep you safe. Now we must take a first step it seems. perhaps we need more information."
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As you begin to look around the hdieout making sure nothing els unpleasant lives in here you stumbled upon a secret drawer in the base of the statue of Calistria it's submerged in water so all the paper that was in it is disintergrated, but you manage to salvage a gold holy symbol of the savored string aswell as a +1 whip becuase it's that deity.
Rexus also comes to you "I would like to take one of the back rooms near the bunkroom. I'll set up a small study and begin to decode all the documents we found under the Fair Fortune, it's going to take some weeks if I do it alone, so if you any of you are skilled in linguistics and can read elven, strix and celestial can give me a hand to shorten it a little bit."
"...Just elven and celestial..." Meliora mutters, scratching her forehead. "I could probably help if I could get my hands on a scroll of comprehend languages to add it to my book. Or just found a wizard... Actually, I should have the cash to do that. Lemme check around with my fellow casters and see if I can put together something to help."
She doesn't really have it in her to ask for either the holy symbol or the whip--she can't use either, and while she's a follower... well, they're both worth a lot of cash. There's definitely another one of those complicated expressions when she sees them, though.
"I'm afraid I'm not good with languages or I would help you. Rexus." She smiles at the Fushi sisters. [b]"Make yourselves at home. I think we're going to be here for a while. She claims one of the bunks and works on setting up a shrine to Milani in a corner of the nest.
I'll take it.
"Not so much on languages sadly but we appreciate your help. It is nice that we will have a place like this to work form as well."
Loot sheet updated if anyone wants to claim the whip.
Hey uh... thats not a bad idea... about setting up shop down here i mean. I uh i mean if we are plotting rebellion i cant just go to my uncles to work on whatever strikes my fancy you know. My own private area where i can work on whatever....
She sighed half wistfully. Then with a giggle her eyes widened and she almost squeed in excitement.
"BOMBS! I can finally work on my design for them.. my uncle wouldnt let me, he kept telling me I was going to my durned hands off... but man!
She did a little spinning dance.
"Oh and Raxie? I only speak dwarven and elven and common, sorry im not much help!"
"Yes! Good. Live your dreams, Cana..chy? Cachy... Catchy? Catchy!"
If she got a nickname, it was only right to return the favor in kind.
"While we're down here, we should compare notes. Never know what rumors prove true and which don't. Um... I was a little busy lately to actually hear any gossip, though, so..." Paper, paper, where did she have paper... Just the backs of her scrolls, which she didn't want to scribble all over.
Okay, memory it was.
"Did anyone hear anything since Thrune took over that could give us another lead? Places that are vulnerable, or things we can look into to give us a leg-up in finding some support... heck, even wrongs to right. You guys like righting wrongs, right? Right. We're gonna' need good public relations almost as much as we'll need to focus on keeping things quiet."
When she gets a chance, she'll also have to ask Lyra if she has any advice. The halfling's been running an underground escape crew for a while now, right? She has to have some insight.
[ooc] For activity Mic will give a security check of their new facilities, looking for unseeen points of weakness and what not.
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Laria comes into you smiling "It seems we have had a quite good start off to this rebellion, now some advices upon building a successful rebellion there is five phases to follow that ensures we can survive both the rebellion. First step as you have already started goes to rally and recruit supporters and allies. Step two would be to secure a stronghold that can sustain a growing rebellion, but the Wasp nest should be a good starting point for you. Step three is rather important, if we want any chance to defeat Thrune and keep Kintargo we need to get regional support from the outlying area around the city. Step four will be to finally move against Thrune and take the city back and throw our Lord-mayor out on his ass. Lastly we need to prepare for the future and find out how we can keep Kintargo out of Thrune's hands."
During his downtime, Jack does a little asking around about certain people.
Jack wants to learn a bit more about a couple of his new would-be allies; he'd also like to poke around a bit concerning the Rose of Kintargo for Lena.
EDIT: I probably should explain a bit just why/what Jack wants to learn about Canacha and Meliora. He finds them a bit...quirky, shall we say? If he's to join an actual rebellion against the Lord Mayor (and possibly the House of Thrune), he wants to know that they're more reliable than flaky. So he'd be digging a bit into their backgrounds and history in Kintargo to determine if they can be trusted. Jack might look into Mic and Lena later, but for now he has confidence in Mic's attitude and leadership qualities and is taking Lena at her word that she's new to the city. Besides, it's kind of Jack's MO--gathering info for his family about the movers and shakers in the city.
When Jack next returns to the rebels' headquarters a couple of days later, he tells Mic (and anyone else present) that he did a bit of further research on Clenchjaw's Tavern.
"Seems there's been an influx of new customers there who used to visit the Thrashing Badger--one of the places that 'accidentally' got burned down during the Night of Ashes. Apparently, there's a level of culture clash between these new folks and the old regulars of the place, and there have been some fights and other incidents. Clenchjaw himself's got a bit of a warrior background himself, though that's about all I learned of him. Want me to dig deeper into Clenchjaw or maybe try to learn more about the Thrashing Badger so we can figure out why Thrune's goons targeted it in the first place?"