It doesn't take long with the combined attacks of the party to subdue the remaining ifrits!
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Calistan tries to heal himself with his wand but he is having trouble drawing the mystical energy from the piece of sandalwood. He bonks it against Bizzle's head and the tip of the wand illuminates in bright positive energy.
Calistan happily uses the wand two times on himself, fully healing up his wounds. He looks over Dalton to make sure that the oread isn't hurt anymore, but see that he doesn't even have a scratch.
Calistan pats the rock man on the head before moving to find some fresh fruit. He has a craving for figs.
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Oh right ! I'm relieved ! said happily Kaâb.
Then she turned to the oread owner
Please, don't judge to harshly these three ifrits. They just follow the orders of Lady Cinderfury. She's the problem, not them. I'm sure once she will be dethroned all will be better for Oread and ifrit !
And together you will be able to make Cristalcrag grow.
the she turned to the oread crowed and added
Some ifrit are your children, some other not, but you are all citizen of Cristalcrag. We hope to stop the tyranny of Lady Cinderfury's rule but not at the price of Blood, yours or them ! she pointed the three incounscious ifrit. We need you, all of you, to help us took Lady Cinderfury castle with as less casualty as possible.
We hope to offer you a better future, under the light of Sarenrae, but to be able to do that, we don't need a witch hunt against Ifrit.
Yes, they were spoiled by Lady Cinderfury rules and laws but that's not their choice or their fault, that's Hers ! Let them choose for themselves, help us took Lady Cinderfury's Palace !
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Once he's knocked his pinned opponent unconscious, Dalton ties him up and offers to tie the others up as well. He notes to the others, "We should not delay in securing these individuals." He then turns to the alchemist shopkeep. "I trust we were able to prevent any harm to your store. We will take these hooligans and deal with them. But, as you can tell from madame Kaab's words, we are planning to dethrone Cinderfury. Is there any help you can offer us?"
Dalton will suggest that the unconscious ifrits be locked in a secure room at either the common house or the Fifth Facet.
Many of the oreads slowly slink away once the situation is resolved. Morak nods to Kaab, "Believe me, we understand that not all of the ifrits are bad. They're just carrying out orders. And many of them are our sons and daughters!"
"I refuse to turn over my profit to that tyrant and so she sends her thugs out to burn my shop down! How can anyone live under such a rule? Whatever you have planned, you have my full support." Morak listens attentively to any your plans for confronting Tygora, and he shows his support of the endeavor by giving you a potion of resist fire and four potions of cure moderate wounds. He also gives you a potion of fire shield —a rare tonic that exceeds the normal limits of potion creation.
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What are our plans? We have the Giant cutting off supplies to the queen and this guy not giving her money but that's not really going to get her off her throne. I know some of us want to try and do this with out any bloodshed but I don't think sending the angry letters and signing a positions is going to cut it. We need to do something big and we need to do it now before Cinderfury starts to crack down hard on this city and its people.
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"Kayluss, you speak the truth - we must indeed act quickly. However, we shouldn't act hastily. Let us bring these ifrits to the Council House. The oread there, Eurdan Stonemantle, may be able to provide us with guidance for how to best proceed."
Dalton then hefts one of the ifrits onto his shoulder and begins leading the way. "It's just across the way from the Fifth Facet. Time is of the essence."
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Dalton pauses, his brow creasing as he considers Kayluss' advice. "That is true. Master Morak, do you have a secure, cramped space in which we may stow this baggage? They are well bound and- wait. Do we want to rouse one of these fellows and interrogate? Maybe we could..."
Before anyone can stop him, Dalton is off and down the road. "I'll only be a minute," he calls to the others over his shoulder.
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Within a few minutes he returns. In the oread's hands are a simple woolen cloak, a wide-brimmed hat, and a pair of smoked goggles. Dalton sets them on the ground next to one of the unconscious, bound ifrits. He begins untying the rope...
"I saw this in a stage-play once. It was about these two lower-level clerks working for an important minister. The minister invites them to his country estate, but when the two clerks arrive, they find that their minister has passed away, yet nobody else knows. So, in order to ensure that an important diplomatic trade goes through, the clerks devise a scheme in which they pretend that the minister is still alive! And it fooled everyone. So here," Dalton hands the hat, cloak and goggles to Megfarra, "hold these please."
With the ifrit untied, Dalton lifts it up on to its feet, supporting the ifrit by the under-arm. "Kayluss, you get his other arm, there - yes, put it over your shoulder like this. Okay, now Meg, would you be kind enough to dress this ifrit in his new clothes."
"There, now, perhaps we can walk over to the Council House a little more inconspicuously."
Morak nods at Dalton and says, "Of course, of course! I can look after the rest of them and see that they heal properly but I'll keep them out of the way until you've finished whatever it is that you're doing. Good luck with this-" he gestures to your outrageous idea to transport one of the ifrit across town-"scheme of yours."
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Eurdan is quite surprised at the odd assortment that knocks on the doors of the Council House. "Oh! Come right in, come right in!"
After hearing your tale, Eurdan repeats, "So the oread workers seem to be ready for action. . . and you've gotten Valsog to stop giving weapons and armor to Lady Cinderfury's forces. . . and Valsog is arming the oreads. . . and Morak's shop has been recovered and he is holding ifrits, well, hostage."
Eurdan thinks for a moment. Obviously oreads are generally peaceful and slow-moving people, but when they are roused their determination and passion is unstoppable. "We must strike quickly! You've opened up the perfect opportunity to take down the tyrant. If we let this moment pass, we may not see another one; Lady Cinderfury will only crack down harder in the future."
"I am fairly certain that with a little oversight-and I volunteer myself to the position if you'll allow it-the oreads can easily subdue any wayward ifrits or other guards in the city. With her main force distracted with the riots in the city, I think it might just be enough to allow you to assault her fortress and take on her personal guards. If you're lucky, you'll rescue your friends and remove her from power in one fell swoop. Do you think you're ready?"
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Dalton shrugs his shoulders at Stonemantle's idea. "I can't think of anyone better to lead the resistance. This is your town after all - we're mainly concerned with our fellow Pathfinders."
He binds and then drops the ifrit on the floor of the Council House. "Wake up!" Dalton hands Calistan his wand of cure light wounds and tries to mime healing the ifrit. Once the ifrit is awake, Dalton squats down to get a close look at the ifrit's face and asks some questions.
"You can see that you're not in any position to trifle with us. I shall ask these questions and I expect answers. What can you tell us of Cinderfury's personal guards? What about Cinderfury herself, what sorts of powers does she possess? Finally, what do you know of a group of Pathfinders that have been taken prisoner - are they still alive?"
"The truth is appreciated. Lies will not be tolerated." Dalton cracks his knuckles as he makes this last statement, hoping to intimidate the ifrit.
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Dalton, you really should't mumble when you threaten someone. Kayluss says as he gently moves the Oread away so Kaab can speak with the guard.
Alright Eurdan, lets get this revolution rolling. You need to start spreading the word right away. Send your men out to Valsog's in small groups to gather arms and armor. Pole arms might be your best choice since the guards seem to like to get in close to fight. We also need to see about having Morak provide some non-lethal weapons too, things like Tanglefoot bags and Thunderstones.
We'll need to act fast and strike hard so we can subdue the guards in the city before reinforcements can arrive. The fewer opponents you have to face at a time the easier this will be with out shedding too much blood. So try an coordinate attacks with as many or you men as possible. Try and set up ambushes if possible.
Should things start to to look bad we'll need to set up designated rally points through the city, easily defensible positions. Have non combatants move there now and start stockpiling food and healing supplies.
Kayluss lays a hand on the councilman and looks him in the eyes. Spread the word too that any looting or violence against innocents will be dealt with harshly.
The ifrit stumbles and looks frightened but Kaab calms him down. "Uh. . . there are elementals, of course, and she usually keeps Shyvera-a fellow ifrit who is skilled in magic-nearby. The prison is guarded with flame traps, not that it matters much to the jailors."
Eurdan promises to keep the revolt as nonlethal as possible against the ifrits but makes no such promise against any elementals or other foes who assault the oreads.
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I'm sure I could convince the Elemental guarding the gate to let guide us to Lady Cinderfury. Once there I'm convinced that we could talk to Lady Cinderfury to abdicate without blood shed. At least let me try, the Mighty Elemental guarding the gate seems a good guy to me, I would prefer to not kill him at least not without trying to find a peaceful way to get to Lady Cinderfury.
Two huge fire elementals guard the gate. Unfortunately for Kaab's plans, it seems that the rioting in the city has put the palace on-guard and they have been warned about the foreigners causing trouble. They do not look in the mood to talk!
The elementals act quickly and move to surround the party, slamming into Dalton and Baz and then continuing to move past their foes !
Kaab knows that fire elementals of this size will resist physical damage of all types ; they are immune to fire damage but are vulnerable to cold damage.
Kaab begins a dance but it only distracts Kayluss, whose swings go wide!
Meg moves around and the elemental swings at her! She is unable to block the blows and gets hit in the side! She is then able to dig her blade into one of the elementals though!
Dalton slips but Kayluss digs his blade in again as Bizzle's magic speeds the party's movements. Calistan does what he does best.
red: 27 dmg
Baz swings and misses! The elementals roar in anger and press the attack to defend the fortress!
red: 27 dmg
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Knowing that the creatures were fire elemental, Kaâb call for the Judgment of Sarenrae to send back the two creatures in their home.
Then, she continued to dance and striked twice, thanks to Bizzle's spell.
Only one attack hit the creature.