Hilde points at the front door.
Dilwyn quietly follows Hilde, gripping his staff tightly for when things inevitably go sideways.
Iskender nods, ”Hilde’s way works for me.”
Hilde knocks on the door, hard.
Min sighs and follows Hilde's lead. "Iskender if you have a chance say hello before Hilde smashes them. It's only polite."
”No promises.”
After a few moments, a small panel in the door slides open and a set of nervous eyes look back at you. Yes? What do you want?
”I am to tell you ‘hello,’ before Hilde, well, Hilde, did you want to show him?”
Hilde smiles fiercely, nods, and then tries to kick the door open.
Show me what? The servant says with fear in his voice. He has seconds to step back before a Hilde propelled door is launched in his direction. Please don't hurt me! He says while holding up two fingers and pointing to the door on the left as you hear commotion coming from behind it.
Hilde goes towards the door on the left and opens it.
Even expecting these events isn't enough for Dilwyn to be properly prepared for just how quickly things went from zero to hectic upon arrival. Not wanting to get left too far behind, he takes a moment to breathe deeply and enhance his quarterstaff into a shillelagh.
Iskender grins, ”so far this plan is working perfectly.” He moves into the room, whip in one hand, and wand in the other.
Thanks Bub! Kit says as he moves past the servant and stands next to Hilde in front of the open door.
Min enters the room. When Hilde opens the door, you see two Skaardorn Skulks standing there.
Iskender drops soundburst behind the two critters, so only they get nailed by it (and maybe others in the room we can't see).
and DC 13 Fort Save, or be stunned for a round
With Kit and Hilde occupying the bulk of the doorway, Dilwyn tries to do what he can from the back. He gathers a crackling burst of electricity around his free hand and releases it over Kit's shoulder at the one in front of him.
Min sends a magic missile at the southern most enemy in the doorway. At the sight of the Skulk she says, "Well we know we are in the right place."
Iskender drops a soundburst on the two skulks.
Dilwyn shoots a lightning arc at the one in front of Kit and fries him.
Min shoots a magic missile at the one in front of Hilde and wounds the creature.
The skulks are surprised at the savagry of the attacks and know they must put these foes down quickly.
Kit is missed, but Hilde is struck.
Thanks for softening them up for us! Kit yells over his shoulder as he brings his axe to bear.
Seeing his opponent fall, he takes a swipe at Hilde's.
He misses.
Hilde quietly turns into her feline form, and unleash against the Skulk with all her might.
”For the record, I loosened them up!”
"I helped some. At least with one."
Yes, Thank you Dilwyn and Min! Kit says as he slaps Iskender on the back.
The skulks collapse in barely recognizable heaps. You notice that the front door is still open and the servant is gone.
"Where would you keep a prisoner?" Min looks around for a door that might go to a basement or a clue to the location of their quarry.
Hilde transforms back, leaning on a wall while catching her breath.
While Hilde recovers her energy, Dilwyn goes to the center door and listens to see if there are any more hostiles coming from that direction.
Hilde sees Dilwyn shaking his head about the door he is listening to, so she proceeds to go an open the other door, reading an attack is something approaches.
Hilde opens the door . A polished wood desk sits parallel to the north wall here, with a large chair behind it. A complicated brass orrery, no larger than a map globe, sits on one corner of the desk. Ornate rugs cover the floor and lend a more comfortable and luxurious ambiance. Paintings of strange, inhuman cities decorate the walls, their architecture suggestive of geometric insect hives. A few bookcases stand against the far walls, and a set of double doors exits west.
”An office such as this is definitely worth perusing. Shall we?”
Iskender browses, looking for, well, he will know it when he sees it!
"Probably a good idea," Dilwyn agrees. Instead of searching, personally, he instead will keep watch from the lobby area while others search the office room in case the disappearing servant causes reinforcements to come looking for them.
Hilde seems disappointed at the lack of kicking targets and stands idly while Iskender checks the office.
Iskender does a quick, but thorough search of the room. It looks like many of the books in the bookcase deal with the history of Agrosa as the unique races which eventually migrated through its many interplanetary gates. The more valuable volumes represent an eclectic range of theories on nature, magic, and science.
The desk is locked.
”These books might be worth something,”
Hilde sees Iskender trying to open the desk and stipping finding it locked.
She proceeds to break it open, secretly hoping the noise will attract more skulks to fight with.
Min sighs as she hears Hilde breaking the lock. "We didn't come to rob the place. We came to free a woman, and find out more information."
Hilde shrugs and keeps breaking stuff.
Dilwyn gives Min a wry smile. "I get your point," he says. "But, to play Asmodean advocate for a moment, a big, locked desk like seems a likely place for information to be hidden. Also bringing any other close-by guards to us with all that noise is probably a good thing for bringing guards to us instead of letting them set up an ambush elsewhere, if it works out like that." He shakes his head. "But mostly, I've noticed that worrying too much about plans and stealth with this bunch is only likely to give you indigestion. Best to be a duck, you know?"
"Oh I know, but I do have to try." she answers Dilwyn wryly. She waits just to the right of the doorway as Hilde continues to "search" the room in her way.