Welcome to Sandpoint, Varisia! You have arrived just in time for the Swallowtail Festival and the reopening of the Cathedral after the old one burned down five years ago.
HP 32/32, AC 18, DR2/armor, F +2, R +7 W +4, bab 3, melee 3/6, ranged 6 CMB 3, CMD 17, init+2, perc +14 half-elf Bard(Archaeologist)/4
"I was... um... helping take inventory? Yes, and then there was a rat... It got away... and well, I was just leaving... " Alric tries to stumble his way through an excuse for being in the basement of the shop. He gives the man a sheepish smile.
What the hell, he's never gonna believe any of that, I wouldn't if she were my daughter... Oh hell, she'd better not be his wife. He looks back at Shayliss for a moment and gives her a smile and a wink, which hopefully is out of sight of the man.
Oh well, that makes sense, Shayliss has always been scarred of rats. I am glad for the help you have offered. Thank ye boy, now get along! says the Shopkeeper as he hands Alric a silver piece. Shayliss winks at you before you leave.
HP 32/32, AC 18, DR2/armor, F +2, R +7 W +4, bab 3, melee 3/6, ranged 6 CMB 3, CMD 17, init+2, perc +14 half-elf Bard(Archaeologist)/4
Alric takes the coin and leaves in a hurry before her father figures out what really was going on that basement. At the top of the stairs he turns back and flashes Shayliss one last smile before he joins the others outside.
"Oh, hullo all, you weren't waiting for me, were you?" he asks, all innocence. "What's up?"
"We were hoping you would be so kind as to continue your tour. More specifically, we would like to go to the cemetary at Thistletop to further investigate last night's troubles."
HP 32/32, AC 18, DR2/armor, F +2, R +7 W +4, bab 3, melee 3/6, ranged 6 CMB 3, CMD 17, init+2, perc +14 half-elf Bard(Archaeologist)/4
"I'd be happy to take you to the cemetery.. why are we going there? What does the cemetery have to do with yesterday's troubles?" Alric asks even while setting out in the direction of Thistletop.
Female Aasimar, Init +3,Perc +3, HP 10 (Wounds ),Speed 30' Fly 20'(Poor),AC 13,Touch 13,Flat-F 10,F +2 R +3 W +4,Bab +0, Oracle Lvl 1
Arabeth walks out of the shop with out buying anything, trying to make it obvious she is unhappy with the Shop keeper's service, though she does spare Shayliss a playful/conspiratorial wink as she goes.
Hurrying up to her companions and the slightly disheveled Alric she catches mention of 'Thistle top'.
"Ah..I was hoping to continue shopping..." Arabeth remarks, though gives a shrug setting her great cape to rustling its feathers.
"Still...let us see to another scenic part of town then?" She finishes with a smile. (^_^)
HP 32/32, AC 18, DR2/armor, F +2, R +7 W +4, bab 3, melee 3/6, ranged 6 CMB 3, CMD 17, init+2, perc +14 half-elf Bard(Archaeologist)/4
Alric turns to Arabeth and gives her a little smile and a wink, mouthing the word "thanks" to her without saying anything aloud.
He gives a brief summary about each area along the way as they pass through on the way to Thistletop, though he is still waiting for an answer to his question about why the group is going there.
Eventually if no one answers, he'll ask again. "So why are we going to the cemetery anyway? What does it have to do with the attack yesterday?"
Cerin turns his attention away from the giggling girls. "Sorry lad, I got distracted by the tomfoolery of the ladies.
We are not sure if it has anything to do with the attacks, but a grave was robbed last night. It's not something that goblins would normally do and the timing seems a little too coincidental..."
HP 15/29 | DEFENSE 18; Defense 16 until I drop an opponent; FF 13; Tch 17; DR 1/armor; Perception +8; Init +5; FRW 2/9/3
"So let's see this grave that was 'robbed'."Blythe says, walking alongside the others. "Likely some old lady misplaced the flowers to her husbands grave is all."
Female Aasimar, Init +3,Perc +3, HP 10 (Wounds ),Speed 30' Fly 20'(Poor),AC 13,Touch 13,Flat-F 10,F +2 R +3 W +4,Bab +0, Oracle Lvl 1
Arabeth glances at Blythe, her features now scowling. "Damage to the church is no laughing matter." She retorts.
"It was the good Father who help we who were injured yesterday under the Goblin onslaught and to whom we will probably be turning to again should any of us be hurt in the future."
You arrive at the cemetary and sure enough there is a grave that has been dug up and the remains have been exhumed. They took the remains and left the dirt unfilled.
HP 15/29 | DEFENSE 18; Defense 16 until I drop an opponent; FF 13; Tch 17; DR 1/armor; Perception +8; Init +5; FRW 2/9/3
"If the 'gods' of this chapel fret more over the offense to their stone and wood than to the desecration of someone's relative, of the body of a person, then no wonder they deserve no respect but by con-men and their prey."Blythe says sadly, no offensive tones in her voice.
Female Aasimar, Init +3,Perc +3, HP 10 (Wounds ),Speed 30' Fly 20'(Poor),AC 13,Touch 13,Flat-F 10,F +2 R +3 W +4,Bab +0, Oracle Lvl 1
Arabeth frowns,
"What are Goblin's doing attacking so openly and brazenly. T'is not normally in their nature." Arabeth voices her thoughts in counter point to that of Blythe.
HP 32/32, AC 18, DR2/armor, F +2, R +7 W +4, bab 3, melee 3/6, ranged 6 CMB 3, CMD 17, init+2, perc +14 half-elf Bard(Archaeologist)/4
"Radbar, you think the goblins may have been a deliberate distraction rather than an available opportunity? That's quite disturbing, but I suppose it's possible."
M (HP42/42, AC 21 Touch 19, Flat 12, DR5/armor, F +9, R +6 W +7, bab 4, CMB 6CMD 18, init+2, perc -1, AAsimar Paladin/3 Paladin/3
Well Arabeth says the goblins don't normally act like this. And the chance someone would have been ready to act so quickly on thier distraction is slim, I would believe.
HP 15/29 | DEFENSE 18; Defense 16 until I drop an opponent; FF 13; Tch 17; DR 1/armor; Perception +8; Init +5; FRW 2/9/3
"I don't think they are that organized. Maybe someone nudged them into attacking, rather than organizing, and just capitolized on the opportunity. But why steal a body? And was this the intended target? Or would any body do?"
Female Aasimar, Init +3,Perc +3, HP 10 (Wounds ),Speed 30' Fly 20'(Poor),AC 13,Touch 13,Flat-F 10,F +2 R +3 W +4,Bab +0, Oracle Lvl 1
Arabeth frowns and proceeds to look for the good father or an acolyte to ask. Also to simply check around and see if any other graves have been disturbed or mausoleums tampered with.
This is the only body, and the coffin is still in the ground but broken apart.
The name is just someone of the town, no particular extraordinary event in his life.
There seem to be have been tracks around the grave. It appears as though some goblins and one human sized individual. The tracks fade after a while however.
HP 32/32, AC 18, DR2/armor, F +2, R +7 W +4, bab 3, melee 3/6, ranged 6 CMB 3, CMD 17, init+2, perc +14 half-elf Bard(Archaeologist)/4
Alaric frowns as he examines the area... "This 'Ezakien Tobyn' was no one special, just a local. I am concerned that there is a set of human tracks with the goblins. I wonder if the human came here with goblins and dug up the grave. Or perhaps the goblins dug up the grave and somehow reanimated the corpse which left with them, leaving the human prints. Either way, it's distressing. What are they doing with a body, eh?"
Do the human footprints come both directions (walking to the grave with the goblins, and leaving with them... or do they only leave with them? That is, if we can tell after leaving our own tracks all over the area now...
HP 32/32, AC 18, DR2/armor, F +2, R +7 W +4, bab 3, melee 3/6, ranged 6 CMB 3, CMD 17, init+2, perc +14 half-elf Bard(Archaeologist)/4
Alric shrugs. "They do have shamans among them, who knows what they are capable of... who would have thought they could be as organized as they were today either? Someone or something is directing them I think."
HP 15/29 | DEFENSE 18; Defense 16 until I drop an opponent; FF 13; Tch 17; DR 1/armor; Perception +8; Init +5; FRW 2/9/3
"How many were in the city, exactly?" Blythe asks quietly. "Our seven or eight and what...double that? Another twenty? Forty?" She looks around at the group. "Do we have any idea? Were there injuries? Buildings lost?"