Niamh rolls her eyes. "Now I have to be careful not to pee into my armor." She continues with the next children until she's ready. "You're welcome."
"Thank you." Gwenhwyfar replies.
She then checks every kid for scratches or bruises or worse. She heal every kid in need of healing.
"Who wants to help me cooking some stew for all of us?"
Twelve hands go up. All the kids want to help with the cooking.
"Alright. Then come with me. We need to fetch all the stuff from the cart." She leads the kids outside and tell sthem what to take inside into the kitchen. As all of them have their hand full and are carrying stuff she asks Carl "Would you please go to the garrison and get officer Kasadei to send a patrol to collect this criminal?"
"Sorry mam. But I'm rather uncomfortable alone at the garrison. If someone else could do this?" Carl replies.
"I could do that." Niamh says and disappears to bring Kasadei Gwenwhyfar's wish.
She walks to one guard and let him bring her to officer Kasadei. "Good oh, which time of the day do we have?"
"I'm here to tell you from Gwenhwyfar Yongisdottir that you should send a patrol to fetch some criminals at the old temple of Szeneare. No Szenerae? I don't know for sure what her name is."
"Good. Then please carry this one into the room to the other and guard them until they are collected by the guard."
Gwenhwyfar walks into the room where the other thug lies on the ground. She checks on him and as he is not dead she takes away all his weapons and heals him.
As he comes back to consciousness she says "Shhhh. Just stay there on the ground."
She nod to Carl and Ernard and goes to the kitchen to cook a stew togeter with the children. She explains them how to wash and cut the vegetables and to put them into the large pot.
The children busy themself with the vegetables but there is some loss in the process. A lot of the carrots, kohlrabi and other stuff go directly into hungry kids stomachs or pockets. But after some time everything is done the pot is half full with cut vegetables.
"You mean the Sarenrae shrine in Underbridge? What criminals do you have and why doesn't she bring them herself?" Kasadei asks.
"Yes, Sarenrae. Some of the creepers. And they're hurt. And Gwenhwyfar is a bit busy." Niamh answers.
On a roof near the Gull
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"Maybe we try something else. We didn't bring Abomentolor and he'd be really upset if we start a big fire without him being here. Could you create a distraction so that I could spy on them inside in the resulting commotion?" Tauriell asks Darthdy.
"How many of them do you have? And what is she busy with?" Kasadei inquires.
Niamh sighs but answers "Gwenhwyfar is busy with cooking for some people. And we have two creepers."
"And what did they specifically do that you call them criminals? And since when is Mrs. Yongisdottir in the cooking business. I would have thought bringing justice would be more important to her." Kasadei wonders.
"Gwenhwyfar is always cooking for us. However, it's such a moral thing. She thinks cooking for 12 children who were slaved by the creepers is more important. I can't argue with that." Niamh answers Kasadei's questions.
"You know, it would be much easier for both of us if you would tell me all that information in some structured manner instead of me tearing every single answer out of you." Kasadei replies.
She then calls a patrol officer "Officer. Escort this halfling here to the abandoned shrine of Sarenrae in Underbridge. There are two creepers to arrest."
To Niamh she adds "If that's all I wish you a nice day."
"Thank you. You too." She leads the patrol officer to Gwenhwyfar and tells her "Here is the patrol officer you were asking for."
Gwenhwyfar is delighted. "Good afternoon. And thank you for coming. Please follow me." She leads to the bedroom where Carl and Ernard guard the thugs. "Here are the two who use these kids as work slaves. Would you take them with you please?"
"Yes. That's what we're here for." The offices places manacles on the thugs and pulls them up. Two of the guards take one thug and lead them out.
The officer looks around and asks "Are you sure that this is a good idea? What happens when the creepers find out?"
"You're welcome to place a patrol here." Gwenhwyfar invites him. "We can offer them food and a place to rest."
"How about some wolves." Darthdy suggests Tauriell.
"I don't think that will happen. Have a nice day." The officer says his good bye. The patrol leaves and takes the two creepers with them.
"What do you mean wolves?" Tauriell asks.
"I will cast some wolves in the base of these thugs. I can show it to you, but not with wolves, with an other animal." Darthdy casts summon nature's ally. A little pony appears on the street.
"Ok. I'm going to ride that to the Gull." Tauriell climbs down to the road and places herself on the pony. "That one is a bit small for me to ride." She gets off the pony again and walks towards the Gull.
Darthdy climbs like a spider from the roof to the street and follows Tauriell. "This is realy cool but the problem is, it disappears after a half minute." Darthdy says to Tauriell.
"That will be a rather short distraction." Tauriell replies.
"Better than nothing isn't it?" Darthdy says
As the entrance comes near, Tauriell says "Count to ten and then send the wolfs in." she ducks behind the pony, downs the potion of invisibility and then runs towards the entrance and up the stairs.
Darthdy says "OK 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10." Darthdy casts summon nature's ally and 3 Wolves run the stairs up and attack every thug they see.
The entrance to the Gull is some 20 feet above sea level and the way to the stairs lead through some shallow water. Therefore Tauriell leaves wet footprints where ever she walks. But outside is no one to notice that. At the top of the stairs is a large entrance into a corridor set back are a few thugs guarding the entrance.
As the wolves are faster than Tauriell they reach the top almost simultaneously.
The thugs draw their short swords and wait for the attackers to come.
Tauriell would love to stab a few of these thugs but she braces herself and moves past them to explore the Gull.
She moves through the corridor and looks into all open doors and entrances carefully avoiding to run into someone.
Wolf 1
Wolf 2
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The wolves make a charge attack at one thug each.
Wolf 1
Wolf 2
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The Gull's interior is similar to the Crow. It is some rooms and then a flight of stairs leading upwards. On this level the rooms are filled with tables and chairs or straw beds. All in all there might be about 15 thugs around on this level.
The three thugs slash at the first wolf coming up.
But only one of them gets a hit in before they are attacked themselves. One thug evades the bite. The other two get to feel the wolves' teeth and are thrown down.
The one still standing shouts "We're under attack!"
Darthdy goes upstairs to her Wolves.
Tauriell gets concerned as she watches the entrance as it will get rather hard to get out unnoticed again if everything is clogged up with fighting thugs.
She quickly moves up the stairs to check on the next level.
The thugs try to get up and the one still standing slashes at the wolf again.
Wolf2
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The next level has mostly locked doors. Some of them recently added. The large passages boarded over and normal sized doors set in. What they contain is of course hidden behind the doors but with the smell of meat and a thug carrying a crate with food around it might be a level used for storage. The design of the level is the same as below. One long corridor leading from the one stairs to the next with two rooms on either side.
One thug stands up and slashes at his wolf again.
The other tries, but fails and stabs his wolf from the ground
From the other rooms come more thugs. They move into flanking position with their buddies and help them with the threat.
The wolves are really angry after the thugs hit them.
Wolf 1
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Wolf 2
Two thugs stop moving. The one on the ground and the one that just got up. The remaining thugs attack the wolves and additional thugs come from the rooms.
The additional thugs attack the wolves that killed two of their buddies.
Only one wolf survives that.
Darthdy casts summon nature's ally again.
3 wolves appear 3 meters in front of the thugs.
Tauriell climbs another flight of stairs.
The third level of the Gull has workshops installed in the rooms. The corridor is patrolled by eight thugs who shout commandos into the rooms now and then. In the rooms are children toiling. They are washing and ironing the laundry. In another one they are sewing new clothes. One room is filled with straw and has a bucket in the corner as a toilet.
The wolves make a attack
Wolf 3
Wolf 4
Wolf 5
the tree wolves attack one thug.
And Wolf number one tries to bite the hurt thug
But he missed his attack. The Wolf thinks this time he will die.
All the new wolves attack one of the thugs and kill him in an instant.
The thugs are not happy that the fight that looked pretty easy now has turned serious again.
The others don't manage to get into flanking position against the phalanx of wolves.
The first wolf dies. The other wolves are hurt but none too bad.
Darthdy casts Bull Strenght.
The wolves attack the next thug, this time the hurt one.
Another thug falls down to the ground unconscious. The rest close their lines and attack again.
None of the wolves are dropped.