Rodrigo says I could take you back to that inn where your sires were at and then falls silent staring off as if struck dumb a bit.
"Now that is an excellent idea, carriages first my friend".
Rodrigo brings you through the myriad dark passages and you come out at a stable area where you see covered carriages and horses. Luckily one of the carriages is ready and sitting to the side waiting.
"That's remarkable! What luck, can any of us drive this? Perhaps you Rodrigo?"
Daniel scratches his head. "I mean, I can give it a shot," he says after a pause. "But if Rodrigo actually has experience, he's probably the smart choice."
"Alright Rodrigo, you handle the carriage and we will stay in the carriage. Proceed slowly got it?"
Rodrigo opens the door for you all and then closes it behind you and climbs up and slowly but surely drives you out on the road until finally you pass through the gates and walls unchallenged and into the country side on the road.
"Well, we're out of there as luck would have it. To our Sires I guess is our only option now eh?"
The night and day passes and then night again until after a bit of time only Rodrigo's telling you it's been four days let's you know the passage of time it takes until you once more reach the Red Lion Inn.
"I guess we're here. Time to see our 'Sires' I suppose."
"Escaping the Founders was easier than it perhaps should have been, if they followed us and there is confrontation we had better be ready to have each others backs.
If we are caught between these older monsters, I say we all jump out the same window and set the damned place on fire..."
Joel does not know it but you can all see, his face has changed yet again.
"Well, your sires anyway. Mine isn't one of these guys," Daniel points out as he absently scratches the side of his neck, trying his best to control the apprehension building in him. "Hopefully they don't just tie me down and leave me out for sunrise."
You all sit talking staring at the inn from inside the carriage.
"Well, we're here. Let's head in and bring Roderigo with us. I think since he was my man I will claim him as mine once we do get in there.
Well Daniel, I would say that your assist with helping us escape should make you just as valuable an asset as the rest of us".
Joel gets out and commands Roderigo to step down, "Get those horses tied off, then you are coming inside with us, old friend".
The doors to the Red Lion in open once more the horrors of what seems a lifetime ago cleaned away. You find yourselves in a dark entry with but a single candle in he main room in the distance to guide your way. It is silent as a tomb besides Rodrigo's breathing.
Joel pushes through the hall to the main room and peers into the gloom, holding Rodrigo's arm semi-dragging him through.
The room seems to grow darker as if shadows grow across the room (know occult DC 8) and in that grasping ahadowy darkness whispering voices can be heard as if the dead (occult DC 8) are brushing up against you from every direction.
ah the prodigal children return a voice quiet with menace speaks from the darkness.
"Indeed we have." Justin says.
Justin
As shadow begins to engulf the room, Daniel finds himself squinting to try to see anything around him. Use the blood, use the blood. He focuses the power in his blood, using it to peer into the darkness.
Joel frowns and his eyes light up with electric energy in a nimbus.
Joel
Joel's eyes narrow, "We have returned from the pits of the Founders, the least you could do is give us the courtesy of a face to face meeting.
While our beginnings were not under the best of circumstances, the tender mercies of Hardestadt and his lackeys convinced us that, since we've nowhere else to turn, this would be better than to greet the sun".
The darkness slowly pulls back as well as the feeling of death. The candle becomes brighter and you see the Conspiracy of Isaac all sitting as if nothing had been occuring. They all look to the head of the table waiting and at the head is the Giovanni and he says nothing as well waiting for you all to continue.
"The Founders had us locked away. Fortunately, one of their servants happened by and I was able to command him to set us free." Justin says.
"With no other real options, we have returned here."
Though initially wary to bring attention to himself, Daniel decides he won't be able to escape the attention of the conspirators here. He speaks up. "Even though I'm not one of your progeny, I was locked in that dungeon just like the others. I wasn't going to stay there waiting for them to put a stake in my heart and leave me for the sunrise. I don't know anyone else here, and I don't have anywhere else to go. As they said, we have few other options."
Amborgino Giovanni leans forward his hands clasped most especially looking at Daniel with renewed interest and finally says the founders have made a critical error and we welcome you back to the Conspiracy, our allies and Childer.
Joel frowns, "While we appreciate the welcome the true question becomes, to what have we pledged our loyalty and how exactly can we strike back at these bastards!?"
all in due time. We plan on empowering ourselves by luring the capadocians into a trap using one of their own as the lure and giving us the needed strength to overcome the founders and their foolish camarilla.
Joel shrugs, "Well there must be some way we can assist with that endeavor then".
Daniel nods. "Right. What part do we play in this?"