Filbert takes aim at where Heinrich is stabbing his sword, with hopes it is in the right direction
Lizzie heads over to near Heinrich.
Luxina guards the door, making herself as big as possible and readies an attack when she feels something trying to move past her.
Momijii, her balance still exceptional, moved up close to Heinrich to try and box in whatever seemed to try and pass him. She reached out and attempted to grab whoever might be there and was almost positive she had him this time.
Heinrich shouts when the sorcerer bounces off him, but his blade slices only air! Reacting fast Filbert blasts a chunk out of the wall, opening a hand sized hole into the room beyond. Lizzie sprints over and tries to smash where she thinks he might be, but her mace connects with nothing. Lizzie guards the other door, ready for him should he come that way.
Acting by pure instinct Momijii reaches out and grabs where he'd have to stand to evade those weapon strikes and suddenly she touches something warm and rubbery!
He tries to pull free but fails!
<--- FAIL
Filbert Springbit
Luxina Tenebris
Deep one Sorcerer
Lizzie "beads" Tamar' <----- WE ARE HERE
Momijii
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Spoiler:Filbert Springbit
Luxina Tenebris
Deep one Sorcerer Grappled
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Barkskin (242 rounds)
Filbert Springbit
Luxina Tenebris
Deep one Sorcerer Grappled
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Barkskin (241 rounds)
Lizzie "beads" Tamar', Momijii, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Filbert Springbit and Luxina Tenebris are up.
Agrippa says Hold it still! and he strikes with Red Destiny
Her grip on the sorcerer firm Momijii held him for the others to hit. With her grip assured for the moment she smashed her forhead against the invisible foe though she didn't get as solid of a hit as she had hoped for.
Luxina stays her distance, still guarding the door. She doesn't want to get into that melee while swinging at something invisilbe. She might as well hit Momiji.
Filbert noticing both doors are comfortably blocked walks towards Momijii, making a particular point to be noticed.
"Sorcerer, cease this nonsense now! You are beaten" a rapier of force grows from his hand literally crackling with power
"I may not see you, but my friend here has a hold of you in a hug." pointing to Momijii "Now, if I were to take this rapier and repeatedly shove it between her arms how long do you think you can avoid it? If you want any chance at surviving make yourself visible and stop."
A disembodied warbly voice, with a strange accent you can't place, demands, "What will you do with me if I surrender?"
Filbert looks towards the others "Well?"
+2 to determine if its insane.
We will bind you so you cannot escape. And then we will bring you before the authorities so that you might tell us of this plot against Thrushmoore.
Agrippa then grips Red Destiny more tightly
We will not however, murder you outright...IF you surrender now. Do not test my patience.
Sounding defeated the disembodied voice replies, "It's not like I have any choice in the matter..."
A few minutes later his spell fades and you have a prisoner.
"Are there any more of your kind in this place?
If not, have you hidden any objects that are important to your schemes?
Because cooperation with preventing disaster, is often considered a positive in court, and can shed a better daylight on your behalf."
Agrippa says We've destroyed the Zombies and the Ooze on the battlements. What is left in the Fort?
Agrippa looks around for something he can use to bind the Sorceror.
momijii had maintained her hold on the sorcerer and worked to pin him long before he became visible. Once she had him she called out for rope and tied him up firmly.
With the now visible, and tied up, sorcerer she stood close by in case she needed to knock him out.
Filbert allows those better suited to question the prisoner, waiting to hear the answers.
Agrippa manages to bind him securely with his arms behind his back in a most uncomfortable position. The improvised finger restraints should make casting almost impossible.
He replies to Agrippa's question bitterly, "Just Tilsitari, you killed everyone else... AHH that hurts, did you have to tie it so tight? I should have known better than to trust drylanders!"
Something in the sorcerer's tone pricks upon Filbert's ears. " I get the feeling that was not intended towards us, just who put you up to this. And who and what is Tilsitari?"
The half-human half-fishy deep one gives Filbert a strange look, "Surely you've met her by now, she's the hired assassin that walks through mirrors."
"Ah yes nice lady, even better when on the other side of the broken mirror. Between zombies, deepones, oozes and your murderous lady friend, what happened to those who are supposed to be running this fort?"
he replies, "Most where dead when we got here, stacked up like cord wood in the cellar storage room. The assassins had been busy, not that we care about the fate of Drylanders but some of them had strange burn marks."
"Strange earlier you said Assassin just now you said Assassins. Are there more than your mirror jumping friend and who hired her by the way. I doubt she was cheap."
What caused those burn marks? Agrippa asks
and then And what should we call you?
Wearily he replies, "I am known as Deggorhbaatha, a name that your useless dry lander tongues can never pronounce. The burn marks where caused by acid, and by lightning. There was some sort of visitation..." He shudders once more.
Agrippa frowns.
We can call you Deggor. Tell me more about this visitation.
"Say, what is that in your pocket?"
(Yoink)
"Looks like a key. Have you discovered what for yet?"
Filbert studies the key attempting to remember if there were any locks this might have fit.
if no locks come to mind, Filbert searches the room for a match.
The captured sorcerer glares at Lizzie before answering eventually, "It seems to open everything, some sort of skeleton key."
Filbert thinks about the sorcerer's comment, "You know he might be right, the combination of angles just might make it your best friend Lux. You should answer Agrippa's question about the visitation."
"Seems so. Still I'll keep my tools handy for other things to disable."
Luxina inspects the key as it's passed down the group.
"Say, where did you find this key anyway?"
"You should answer Agrippa's question about the visitation."
He shivers and seems to sink inwards and half a sob escapes his throat, "It came through the walls! A hideous ghostly hag in black with a gauzy veil as if in morning, but she was all twisted! With strange growths and tentacles and one eye shaped like a goat's except its burned malevolently with an inner fire. She cackled and acid flew and things and people burned!"
"Say, where did you find this key anyway?"
He needs a moment to compose himself, but after the sobs die down he admits, "The assassins gave it to us, so we could move about."
Well. If we are to believe our "friend" Deggor here, there is but one being left in the Fort. That loathsome creature that attacked us through the mirror. There was also this...ghost. We don't need to continue here. We know enough, and we've seen enough. We have a witness that can convince the town what is happening. The Magistrate, if he was ever a source of lawful assistance, is long dead. Agrippa says, his hand resting on Red Destiny.
With Agrippa making his statement, Filbert takes it the questioning is done. And not wanting to run into any ghostly hags throwing around acid heads for the door across from the where he's standing, figuring it leads to the front gate.
"Hey we should be able to get to the front door thru here."
One cabinet contains records of a lawsuit presented against Count Lowls by a bookseller from Thornstep, who lamented not being paid for an occult book
titled The Revelations of Hali. Lowls lost the case, and was ordered to pay the price of the book. A later note indicates that months passed before the payment was actually issued.
• A memo documents an official interrogation of Count Haserton Lowls IV about the unexplained death of his mother, Nemira, made at the request of her elder brother in Kerse. The response from the count was that his mother died suddenly of the same strange disease that claimed his father, and was buried privately in the family crypt under Iris Hill. Despite a strong protest from her family in Kerse (and the offer of a substantial bribe), the magistrate was unable to gain legal access to Iris Hill to investigate further.
• A document shows the record of arrest of Luxina after starting a brawl at the Silver Wagon where several people where badly wounded. The arrest resulted in Luxina spending a week in a cell below Fort Hailcourse and Lowls having to pay a fine of 250 gp to avoid any further inconvenience.
Filbert leads you through the doors to the west and finds the skeleton key opens the door. The room on the other side is furnished with a wooden desk decorated with the Ustalavic coat of arms. The walls are almost completely draped with warm, woolen tapestries. You gather this room was used by Magistrate Padgett to perform administrative work, receive guests, and informally question citizens. The desk stands near the southern wall, while a small cabinet and chair sit against the northern wall. The cabinet is locked.
Entering the office Filbert will look around and send a blast into any mirrors that adorn the walls, afterwards spying the chest "Nice digs, Luxina, no time like the present to test that key."
Agrippa takes notes as to the contents of the Archives.
Filbert tries on the cloak, thinking it cool to watch the color seemingly change with each turn of his hand. While Agrippa searches thru the records, he checks out the next room. Attempting to find a way to the front gate.
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Having gotten all they could from the sorcerer Momiji's first impulse was to kill him so he wouldn't be a threat. She started to step towards him, murder in her eye, but stopped. A memory hit her, one that was vividly connected to a situation not unlike this.
She was fifteen and had been on the continent of Avistan for several months when someone had caught up to her and her Master in their travels. A ninja assassin sent by enemies of her family who were...displeased with the survival of any of them. The attacker came up on them in the middle of a town one night and tried to kill them by setting the inn they were staying at on fire. The bastard camped on the roof across the way and watched for anyone getting out of the barred doors. The instant someone got out he mercilessly shot them, each arrow taking it's victim in the eye.
Had her Master not realized what was happening she would have died as he pulled her back just as a mother ran out the doorway with her child and was taken down. The Ninja, not caring for the life of the child, shot it as well, killing it before Momijii's eyes. She felt something she had never felt before, hatred, and she was going to kill the honor-less bastard as soon as she could catch him. It was her Uncle who got them out, having grabbed a burning table, flipping it up, and charging through the doorway with it like a shield.
Momijii followed close behind her Uncle as he went and, when they were out of the burning building, used his distraction to slip into the alley, leap up to the roof by jumping off the walls, and landing on the roof to charge the ninja. Despite the assassin's training he was unprepared for her charge from such an unexpected direction she grabbed him, crunching his arms to his sides with hers, and leapt off the building to slam into the burning table.
The ninja was stunned at the ferocity of it all and was left looking at her in horror as she prepared to deliver a death blow. Her Master pleaded with her not to give in to those feelings, to keep her honor, and when she screamed a shout to focus her ki and her fist lashed out was sure he had lost her. Instead he heard the sound of the wood breaking as she shattered the burning table right next to the honor-less knave's ear, the force of the blow reverberating through the wood and knocking the ninja unconscious. She looked at her Master and nodded in understanding of his words and proceeded to disarm and restrain the assassin for the local authorities to deal with.
They left before dawn, no longer welcome, but Momijii learned something that day. It was a lesson she thought she would never forget and it seemed that she hadn't, not really. Anger and hatred are tools only for your enemy, justice can never be meted in heat and never by anyone who is not duly appointed. If one takes the law into her own hands she becomes no better than those she kills.
In a flash it was over and Momijii said, "We need to deliver him to the proper authorities for trial. He has surrendered and it is no longer our place to judge."
Agrippa looks wryly at Momijii Indeed. Perhaps you've forgotten that once Count Haserton Lowls himself was the "proper" authority here...Although, of late he seems to have abandoned that obligation.
Agrippa shrugs, the life of some creature from the deeps is of no concern to him.
Come Deggor. You will plead your case before Mistress Wentz. May the Lady have Mercy on you. Agrippa makes sure to gag the spellcaster.
Agrippa walks with Deggor toward the front gate.
The party leave the squat fortress to brood in silence as they escort their prisoner towards town. Half way down the hill a nervous looking group of villagers and Sleepless Agents nervously gawp at the prisoner.
"Good Heavens! What's that you've caught?" exclaims Cesadia, before peering at you intently. In a harsh whisper she asks, "Did you find the magistrate? What happened to him?"