Slei's sword sinks into the glowing troll, in spite of a strange resistance like the monster was wearing boiled leather.
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Giles leaves his blunderbuss behind and moves 60' closer to the troll while drawing his bastard sword in both hands.
"Why don't you try someone bigger on for size ye oversized goblins bottom!"
Eldan will take a double move, staying close to the building. This should put him around A4.
Frum also advances on the glowing troll while drawing a greatsword, but sees Giles coming and alters his angle of approach to leave space for the farmer to charge in.
Tarakona and Zepfina hear the commotion and pick their way past the ruined portion of the building.
The troll claws at the halfling who pricked him, but Slei is too quick and nimble for the beast.
Zigil double-moves to -C3.
Slei will once again attack with her longsword.
Slei's sword cannot get through the troll's thick hide this time.
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Die beastie!
The troll snarls as Giles' sword strikes home.
Eldan will move up another 30' feet to F1 saying, "Do we want to take him alive for questioning?"
Then casts magic missile.
The impact of Eldan's magic bolt sounds like something piercing the rind of a melon or gourd.
Frum staggers to the side, and swings his greatsword at the small giant.
Whether it was skill or drunkard's luck is difficult to tell in the darkness, but Frum's sword chops deep into the troll and sends it crashing to the ground.
Frum shouts, "Gotta burn it so it doesn't get back up!"
Giles pours some gunpowder on the troll and sets fire to it.
A couple of rounds later, Zigil makes it to the troll.
"I wonder if this could have been the same troll that Rodrik encountered. Could it be with Othdan's captors? Maybe we should hide again."
The gunpowder burns brightly, and the troll cooks slightly. There is no sign of its wounds closing.
Sergeant Frum asks, "How many are we supposed to arrest? Are you sure that they aren't inside already? Maybe some of us should go check while the others watch the exits."
"Let's wait another hour or so for more to show up. If they are inside, they've been there for a while, and we may be able to surprise them coming out."
"Who knows what they are up to in there? I say we jump em."
Zigil shrugs "Maybe you're right. If they're in there, they will have discovered that Othdan is gone. Anybody need healing before we go in?"
Frum adds, "Shtratezikly, it makes sense if the close fighters go in, and the ranged folks cover the exits. Or we could just shplit on completely random lines. Like you 4 go in, and me, the dwarf and the drood wait out here."
"That sounds like an excellent plan. I will lead the way."
Gilles ensures his blunderbuss is loaded with pellets and heads for the entrance.
Looks at Giles, "'That' meaning the random plan? Let's go!" Follows Giles in. "C'mon Eldan, Slei."
Let's go in the same way we did before. "Watch out for snipers on the platform. They might be expecting company."
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"They won't be expecting Bessy." Giles pats his blunderbuss.
The quartet makes their way into the Plague House through the room with the balcony, past the main hall, and down the stairway. Nothing is spied on the way.
Shortly after they reach the cellar, Slei and Giles hear shouting outside.
We rush outside to investigate
Eldan will double move to get back outside assuming it is round by round.
So will Zigil
Outside, the trio who remained behind are standing around an unconscious half-orc.
Zepfina explains, "He has kommt out ze door, and triet to use schmoke to get away. But I hit himm vit der felsblockhaub unt he fall down."
"You caught Othdan's guard! Let's time him up and question him! We'll find out what they're plotting!"
Frum points at the unconscious half-orc.
"I rekanize him. That's Daktani. He's a trouble-maker. Obviously."
"We could take him back to town n I could get answers from him."
The sergeant cracks his knuckles.
Zigil utters a few words and gestures, and the half-orc stabilizes. Then she begins to bind his arms and legs.
At Sergeant Frum's comment she looks up and says "You know him? Who is he? How do you know him?"
When he is tied up, she will search him.
Wouldn't hurt to get a nights rest while we are at it. Plus Garm is prolly hungry by now.
"He lives in town. Has for most of his life, I think. Always complaining about how tough the half-orcs have it. Me and the commander try to keep an eye on him."
"Alright, let's take him back." When we get him back into town, and locked up, Zigil will use a to bring Daktani around, so we can question him. Here are the questions he intendes to ask:
"What were you doing at the Plague House?"
"Who are you working with?"
"Why did you lock up Othdan (that human lad)?"
"What were you going to do with him?"
"Why are you digging the tunnel in the Plague House?"
"What is your favourite colour?"
"Don't forget this troll. He should provide us with some information as well. It seems to me that outside forces are stirring up trouble within Trunau. I would question them on the letter as well, as notify Kurst of what we found."
Zigil secures the half-orc.
The half-orc is wearing leather armour, and is armed with a well-made morningstar, a shortsword, and 5 daggers. He also carries a crowbar, a set of thieves' tools, 4 potion vials (two of which are empty), some strange looking coal, an alchemical bag-type weapon, an alchemical pellet, and a pouch containing 30 gp, a key, and a garnet.
The troll has been killed by the burning black powder.
As you take Daktani back to town, Tarakona expands on what happened.
"The door opened, then he appeared out of thin air. Then he threw something on the ground and was surrounded by smoke, but Zepfina was ready for him when he came out."
There is no problem taking him to a cell in the longhouse, but it is getting quite late at night.
Zigil will detect magic and note any magical items, and will also take his weapons, equipment, including the pouch. (He will keep them separate from the loot, in case this guy turns out to be less guilty than he looks.)
Does the key look like it might have fit the iron door where Othdan was locked up?
If we haven't, we will search the remains of the troll for any interesting items as well.
We can question him in the morning. We should get Othdan to identify him as well.
The contents of the full potion vials are magical, as is his belt.
The key is the appropriate size for the coal room where Othdan was imprisoned.
The troll has nothing.
"Hmph I've sampled worse at the pub. Hand them over."
Siiip
"What's so strange about this coal. Let's have a look."
"Coal? What's in those vials?" Takes a taste of each. ,
Zigil is fairly sure that the first potion is of cure light wounds, but nobody can identify the other yet.
The coal has been coated with some sort of powder. Giles has experience with various flammable powders, and he is fairly certain this one would not make the coal any sort of weapon.
The heroes retire for the night, hoping to get a few hours of sleep before dawn.