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I'M HEEERRRREEEE!!!!!
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After waking up on the cold stone floor, A group of guards walk in. The largest one shouts at Shinyai "Hey fox, you've got a visitor. Don't know why they would be interested in you though." & a few guards pick SHinyai up, & take her away.
Rosa did not sleep, but she had been thinking, she was thinking back to the trial. Rosa had said nothing, from the moment she and G`mork had been captured. Not a word. Throughout the trial, she had just ignored her accusers. A short trial, there was no real evidence she was to good for that. Just her client telling all and begging forgiveness. Rosa and looked at the young noble child. Not really understanding why, after the plan had worked so well, she was here now telling all. G`mork had tried to explain to her what love was. Rosa knew its effects but the logic of it just seem so alien to her.
Then guilty was given and the crowed called for blood. She had not reaction at all. G`mork jokes as was his way, but Rosa, said nothing.
Then journey here through out which all she did was look and observe, working out the thickness of walls, the doors in and out a room. The hardness of chains. Calculating and assessing means to escape, none that did not lead to termination from the guards presented themselves. The Noble family's she had decimated really wanted her ended.
She knew where they would them, the dreaded jail where only the those deemed to evil, to cruel or those to stacked with rebelliousness from faith or hate of state. All the time she was working on means to get away.
When they bright them into the large cell, her eyes had adjusted to the gloom, she could see others. That may be of use, presumably all waiting deaths fate. She had taken the time to walk around the room, checking every all, every opening. Nothing again. She had ignored the other occupants of the cell. That as until she came close to a young human male. Who come over and started what she thought was to pick pocket anything she had. She had waited until his hand came close, and then in one fast movement she grabbed him, pilling him in to her and off balance and around, one of her hands clamped over his mouth. The other grabbing his out stretched hand. Pushing back on the fingers and braking two with a soft cracking sound. He had screamed, but her hand over his mouth meant only a muffled sound came out. She had leaned in and whispered in his ear something. His eyes had gone wide and she let him go. Sobbing and crying he had moved off to a dark corner and not moved form it. They had come for him a few hours later, taking him away to his punishment for what ever crime he had done.
Rosa had only noted the guards, trying to work out the time outside from the rotation of them. The human did not even register.
Once her search was done, she had found a spot close to the door and stood with her back to the wall. Her eyes looking ahead. She had not moved again until the doors opened and they had come for the fox. As they did she walked back deeper into the cell. But had look back at the door, trying to get a better look at the lay out.
Now this is new, I was told no one got visitors here and yet
She looked over at G`mork and nodded, letting know this was of interest.
Rixis was sitting on his cell... crossleged. He had begun work on a unholy symbol using his claws to scratch it out. He knows it won't make a suitable replacement he watched the guards drag the kitsune away, spitting a curse at them as they stride by in abyssal.
Shinyai stood in the back corner constantly stretching her muscles thinking "Ice better stay loose in case one of these hooligans decides to get a little 'fresh with the fox'." As she stretched was also studying the faces of her fellow inmates because if, somehow, she can make her way out of here "putting on" the face of a dead convict might prove useful. In fact she was so engrossed in her "studies" that she almost missed them calling her about a visitor. After getting bumped back into reality by one of the other inmates she slowly, but gracefully, walks to the gate. Before crossing the threshold though she turns to everyone else and says "It has been nice sitting in this dank cell with you all, but I hope never to see you again." and with that the guards yank her out of the cell and towards her "visitor".
Rosa watched as the door cell door closed, a plan was starting to form in her mind. One that could work, going deep into the cell she slipped off the rags they had put on her. Her body was that of a female humanoid but with out genitalia. A slick form with just the semblance of human female. she was still and then he skin shades changed, the coloration shifting and letting her blend into her background, her infiltration camouflage circuitry employing fully.
G'mork nodded back to Rosa, imperceptible to most, but knowing that she would pick up on even the slightest changes. He had so far been pretending to spend most of his time looking either bored or asleep. Too small to frighten any of the others into submission, he instead took on an air that all of this was beneath him, and he was going along with it until it suited him.
Inside, however, he was fuming. The insolence of arresting him and Rosa, of staging a trial that was far from fair or unbiased, and of now encasing them in cages like common animals. It made him want to tear their eyes out. Whoever they were.
At the moment, it seemed like anyone would do, and the burning hatred of his gaze as the two guards came in to drag out the fox was displaced only by his curiosity of the events unfolding.
As Rosa began to fade somewhat from view, he watched with interest. Despite the time they had spent together, she was as much a curiosity as what was happening. While he knew that her feelings for him bordered on trust and protection, he was not yet sure how he felt about her. Her logical way of viewing things made her surprisingly... unpredictable.
Even now she was putting a plan into place, with no warning, because she had thought it through. Anyone else may have conspired, may have had second thoughts. Rosa just worked it out silently. Without knowing what it would entail, G'mork knew one thing for certain: Their time in the cell was coming to an end. With a smile that showed several sharp teeth, he prepared for her to make her move.
Yaswick stood with his back leaned against the corner of the cell and his arms crossed, a wide smile on his face, but he said nothing. He simply stared at each guard, one by one, the smile never leaving his face.
GM says
You are all in one cell.
You have rags. Your equipment is held somewhere else. [So we have nothing but rags]
The cell has 6 bunks & a toilet,
Size its, 60 square feet with a high of say 8'.
6 Guards are present, standing outside the cell.
Presumably ours is one of a number of cells with or with out occupants, but we do not know that, nor do we know if we are underground.
So that is what we know, we are the last in the cell and fox has just been taken out for a visitor. Rosa has gone to the left of the door and has blended somewhat into her surroundings. Yaswick the Smiler is standing with his back leaned against the corner of the cell and his arms crossed looking at the cell door and smiling and evil smile at each guard. G`mork keeping a keen eye on the cell and waiting.
Rix taps his fingers on the metal bars of the cell. He hums a tune and continues scratching the symbol in his peice of wood. He seems to be reciting a tune in Abyssal, but the song makes no sence to those litening.
As the guards walk Shinyai away she starts to "mess around" with her shackles.
Shinyai pretends that the shackle she just removed is still on as they continue to the visitor.
Shinyai will continue to try until either she is free, at which point she'll proceed with the above mentioned action, or we meet the visitor, which ever comes first.
As you sneak out of the shackles, the guards place you down in front of the visitor.
They fail to notice you are unshackled as they sit you down.
Shinyai arrives in a room with woman, & the guards leave the room.
The woman looks at Shinyai & says "I missed you, sister. I'm glad to see you are mostly unharmed."
Looking outward, Porath stares at the guards with dark eyes.
Do I notice anything about the guards?
Upon seeing her sister Shinyai relaxes just a little. As soon as the guards closes the door Shinyai pulls her arms out from behind her back revealing her roos about being restrained. Looking at her sister she asks "What do you need dear sister" emphasizing a note of acid at the last couple words.
Yaswick also studies his surroundings, and sizes up the guards to see who seems the most fearful.
From her place off to one side, Rosa was still letting her mind feel the space around her, a slight move of a hand and a word said as a whisper.
She suspected that the cell would be warded in some way, any one with magic that could get away would do so, she needed to know how so.
The ratfolk doesn't seem to be doing much... seems he's done the math and figured that with all the others in the cell he's bound to get out... if one of them could tackle or disarm the electric sword guard, and use it against them... but with the "visitor" he's desided to keep on planning...
Looking at Shinyai, the human woman remarks "Were not sisters. You should know that. If you keep talking to me that way, you won't be getting out of here."
Porath & Yaswick, you notice that the guards seem confident.
Shinyai holds up the shackles that she had squirmed her hands out of town show the woman. "Does it look like I would have had much trouble getting way? These dolts they call guards probably wouldn't have noticed I was free even if I waved these right in their faces. But if you really want to help me get out I'll let you, but what's in it for you?"
The woman looks at you & says "I know you had no trouble getting away. I wouldn't trust anyone incapable. As for your question, nothing is in it for me, someone on the outside wants you out."
Shinyai raises an inquisitive eyebrow and says "Well then whom might this mysterious benefactor be and that would be in it for them?"
"None of your business who he is, or what he wants. Now take my veil as a parting gift."
The veil feels oddly heavy.
In your head you hear "Three Days. Don't disappoint me."
You're taken back to your cell.
As Shinyai comes back, Rosa is intrigued and keeps perfectly still, why had she come back. She wanted to see what would develop from this change of normal events.
Perplexed by her mental message, Shinyai places her hand back into the shackle and allows the guard to lead her back to the cell.
The ratfolk once again cursed at the guards in abyssal, the words not worth repeating- how fowl they where. he looks at the kitsune, casting detect magic on the fox, curious about what had happened.
The fox herself is not different, but the veil is magical.
Rixis goes to take the veil. "Spells!" He says, "must I know what kind..." it is obvious common was the last language taught to the rat.
Rixis is having some trouble thinking with a fly buzzing in his ears.
Seeing Rixis loudly casting a spell, Yaswick observes and tries to figure out what is being cast, though his knowledge of spellcraft of the arcane and divine nature is next to non-existent.
Yaswick steps over next to Rixis and Shinyai, and speaks in a hushed tone.
"If these guards have any sense they know you just cast a spell with all that chanting and waving of arms. Next time, let me know and I can provide a distraction. Did you figure out anything about that veil?"
Shinyai allows Rixis to identify the spell on the veil,because she is interested in the information herself, but gives him a disgusted look that basically says "Why are you even near me?" without actually saying the words.
Rixis huffs. I cant... all I knows it that magic, it is. he hands the veil back and huffs, the little rat on his shoulder glareing back with blood red eyes.
Rosa, thinks for a moment, Magic, this changes things She males up her mind to change her plan of action. She moves from her hiding place, going quietly to Shinyai and Rixis, her skin changing color has she move, to match the that of dark skin tight clothing.
She whispers has she moves
"G`mork, Your needed, keep a look out"
Then getting to the Katsune and rat kin she says.
"Let me see, I know magic"
She holds out her hand. Her voice is flat and even.
Yaswick decides to try to draw the guards' attention away from where Rosa and the others are investigating the veil, whatever it may be. He walks over and grabs the bars to their cell with both arms at his sides and rattles the bars as hard as he can.
"Hey, piggies, c'mere. I want another cell, get me out of this one. Smells like wet dog and rat, I think I'm gonna be sick," he yells to the guards, hopefully distracting them from Rosa, Rixis, and Shinyai.
Rosa: You find out that the veil is a veil of useful items that contains:
• 4 daggers
• Bullseye lantern (full, lit and shuttered)
• Hempen rope (50-foot coil)
• Sack full of needed spell components (worth less than a 1 gp)
and common clothes in the PCs sizes
• Thieves Tools, Masterwork
• Window (2 ft. by 4 ft., up to 2 ft. deep)
• 2 potions of cure light wounds
• 100 gold pieces
• Unholy Symbol of Asmodeus (silver)
Note that the window patch will create a window (and therefore
a hole) in a nearby wall. If there are no nearby walls, it simply
turns into a common wooden window frame. It cannot be
placed on a living creature however. Once removed, a patch
cannot be replaced.
Yaswick: The guards pull you out of the cell & beat you with saps, not noticing the investigating of the veil.
Take 14 non-lethal damage, & you are returned to the cell.
I look at Yaswick & snicker, before checking out the items that came out of the veil in interest.
The rat huffs and pets his "familiar". he says something in abyssal to it, but those who listen just find it to be gibberish.
He moves to the unconscious man and chuckles.
Rosa looks over the veil, and seeing the guards being entertained with
Yaswick, points and says in a low whisper quickly.
"This veil holds items compressed, pull them off they activate. With these things and acting in unison we have a change to get away. Now is not the time, this needs to be done slow and carefully. Go around and distribute where needed. I would take a Dagger, the other items are... When you are done distributing, tell the other to wait, come see me, I have a plan."
As she lists the items she takes a dagger, and it seems to just vanish.
Once dine she hands the veil back to Shinyai, She nods then walks over to her clothing on the floor and beings to pick them up and places the dagger with in them. Walking to the back, she nods her head at G`mork to indict she wants to talk to him.
Spell bag, mine! he says, grabing the patch holding the spell component pouch.
Shinyai sneakily slips the MK Thieves Tools into her pocket and a dagger into the waist band of her pants.
She then whispers to Rixis "You might want this to." slipping a dagger into his robes.
"And could you give me a hand with our smiling friend here?" Assuming he agrees she will walk over and drag Yaswick over to a wall to rest and while doing so also slip a dagger into the back of his pants.
The guards aren't paying much attention to you. They're barely even listening, almost as if they're statues.
Everyone, make a perception check.
Something was off with the guards,
Shinyai, was making sounds moving the hurt one over. Yet...
Rosa moved, she walked over leaning down and helping Shinyai while still looking the way of the Guards.
"Something is off with the guards, they are to still"
She whispers.
The guards skin is grey as stone. Matter of fact, it is stone. They're statues.