Urgeon will try to go back to sleep. His familiar will keep a silent vigil.
The party lets Sanvil go, and he gives you his address and the address of the Warehouse.
You finish your rest.
Aftera bit, Val comes in to make some breakfast and lets you know that Khonnir is awake and lucid.
Urgeon will visit Khonnir and will tell him everything that has transpired. "Old friend, if Sanvil is to be trusted, Garmen Ulreth must be stopped. We plan to visit the warehouse first thing this morning. What are your thoughts?"
Ridic will also go and visit with Khonnir
Ridic looks at Khonnir with the sigh of great relief. "How are you feeling today? You look much better, thankfully you are ok! As Urgeon was saying, Sanvil is not be trusted. He has been corrupted by the Technic League and was conspiring with them."
Khonnir is sitting up in bed, sipping on some cold grains mixed with milk in a bowl.
He smiles weakly but his face has much more color than when you saw him last and the shrewd intelligence is apparent in his eyes as he focuses on you as you all barrage him with well wishes and your thoughts from the last night.
"Well met, again, friends. I see much has transpired since I've been ... incapacitated by those, those ... robots. I think they were trying to ... cure me? I had some notes on a couple things I'd observed, but I don't see my journal here. Did you happen to collect it on your way out? No? Well, nevermind then, but if you do see it when you pass back through ... if you wouldn't mind getting my things."
His face darkens a bit as he listens to you talk of Sanvil. He mutters, almost to himself, for a moment, "The Technic League, here?" but then continues on to your pressing questions, "I will trust in your judgement of the man, but will be sure to keep an eye on him. I would like to question him once I am at full strength. There are Technic League specifics that I would know more about," he pauses for a moment as if considering his next words before continuing.
"Garmen Ulreth is a problem. But he's a problem that we have no hard evidence to eradicate. If this warehouse lead turns out to aid in removing him or at least his influence from the city, you could provide a significant boost to the city's struggling economy, and likely some very tangible gratitude from the City Council. I would know ... I'm a member, you see," he smiles at his own joke, but frowns quickly.
"However, I did not discover the source of the Torch's disruption and it sounds like you have not either, so you need to consider which of these things you think is most necessary to accomplish next. Those robots were deadly, and you may want to research more effective weaponry or spells. A raid on an Ulreth warehouse may aid in that, so I can see the cause for a diversion. But ultimately, it's up to you."
"Checking the warehouse might turn up a clue related to the Torch... Sanvil said the purple-haired woman was discussing the warehouse with Ulreth before the disruption. Something's going on there, Nethys knows."
Urgeon nods at Khonnir and Razorend, "I agree, let's investigate the warehouse first."
He smiles and winks at Khonnir, "Perhaps by the time we return you'll be fit enough to join us for our return expedition to the ruins? Who knows what kind of trouble you'll get into this time?"
He turns back to the others, "Let us be on our way."
"Ha! No friend, I've had enough of that young man's game," Khonnir replies with a weak laugh and then his face falls.
"I still see them, being cut apart by the robot and drug off screaming ... the spore creature infecting Saunders ... no, no ... I don't need the reminder of my failure."
"I agree, the warehouse is the place to start. We may be able to satisfy both needs from that location."
"Do you have a plan moving forward? Couple of you are still bleeding. Take this note to Joram. He will heal you up."
Khonnir scrawls a quick writ for healing on his tab for today.
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"Thank you Khonnir, we could certainly use a little help."
Ridic will take the note.
Razorend nods his thanks to Khonnir. "Last night was not very restful. How about we use the day to heal up and get ready, then make our move on the warehouse tonight... after midnight, perhaps?"
Urgeon nods, "Good point Razarend. Perhaps we can sneak into the warehouse undetected."
Urgeon will spend the remainder of the day preparing.
You arrive just after nightfall with enough time to take a circuituous route around the building before hiding yourselves in the trees across the street behind a fairly sturdy fence. You find a couple holes that you can look through.
The warehouse itself is boarded up and appears to be abandoned. All the doors on all sides of the building are boarded up and nailed in place. There are stairs on the western side of the building leading to a landing and a pair of doors that appear to access a second floor, but those are boarded up as well.
are all securely boarded up
Perception
Ridic will just stay focused on the building as a whole, looking for any lights that may flash.
Ridic will hit himself with the wand before we head out. Anyone else need any healing?
Wand
"Those doors are fully functional -- the boards are just a clever disguise to make it look abandoned," Razorend whispers. He looks over the warehouse slowly. "I can have a closer look, if you guys will wait here."
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Taking up the Body of the Night stance, Razorend melts into the deeper shadows and slips across the street.
Razorend sneaks across to the door, checking and listening carefully. He hears the faintest constant humming sound ... definitely not made by a human. He can also hear a faint cough and the sound of a couple men speaking, but he can't make out the words.
Continue to circle the building, looking for any openings or gaps to peer inside.
Razorend circles the building and verifies what he noticed at a distance, but nothing new.
Razorend returns to the others and details the humming noise and voices.
"I think we need to start planning out entry. Razor, which door seemed like teh best option for us to get in quietly.....or at least furthest from the sounds inside?"
Razorend shakes his head. "No way to tell, really."
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Urgeon whispers, "The boarded-up doors will make too much noise. Let's enter through one of the disguised doors."
Urgeon will move up to the double doors on the north and will quietly attempt to open the door.
"It might make sense to see if there is a changing of the guard and take out one of those groups for a key or to see if there is a secret way in"
"I'm pretty sure the fake boarded up doors is the secret."
Razorend sighs as Urgeon stumbles around noisily. He hugs the shadows beside the door and draws his kukri.
I will attempt to disable the door silently
Stealth -
Disable Device -
The wizard steps up to the door and yanks on it ... it doesn't budge. He realizes that it is locked and steps aside for the mechanist to take a crack at it. However, the complexity of the lock and the positioning of the boards make it just too difficult for him to tackle.
Razorend signals to move back to the hiding spot.
Ridic will follow back to the hiding spot.
"At this point, I think we should just bust in. Make whatever noise and deal with them at that point. Either that or we make a bunch of noise removing boards from the other door. If we remove the boards, they are just as likely to leave through the locked door and flee."
"We could set up an ambush at the door, and hit them when they leave. But that may take hours... if they leave at all. And we'd be caught in the open should any of their friends arrive. The more I think of it, waiting around is probably not our best move here."
"I agree, I think we should take this warehouse on our terms."
Urgeon nods and sets himself up for the ambush, "This may be a long night."
"I'm fairly certain I argued against waiting around..."
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As the party turns around, to depart, Urgeon yanks on a final board, allowing Kovax a quick glimpse of the tumbler he was missing and he clicks the last one into place and with a quiet click, he unlocks the door, cracking it open for a quick view inside.
The warehouse inside is littered with crates, but well lit. The soft and somewhat unpleasant hum gets audible as the door opens. Kovax spies a couple of Ropefist Thugs looking about or leaning against crates. He sees others up top on a catwalk that extends across the middle of the warehouse with handcrossbows at the ready. To the west is an internal door and wooden internal wall built inside the warehouse.
Urgeon will move in after the others, "Stop them before they can raise the alarm."
"Do you have a plan moving forward? Couple of you are still bleeding. Take this note to Joram. He will heal you up."
Khonnir scrawls a quick writ for healing on his tab for today.
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Kovax will pull his blunderbuss and fire if anyone seems to be going for an alarm
Slug loaded.
Razorend will stick to the shadows and sneak around the crates to the west.
If Ridic can get within 15' of one or multiple guards, preferably multiple, he will use burning hands.
Burning Hands