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Shaking off the worst of her opponent's blow, which she was half expecting, Ioxeia nonetheless grudgingly revises her opinion of his speed. Struggling to hold him off as Chimaeryus and Gabriel unleash a barrage of magic in his direction, as soon as she sees her opponent's eyes close against the golden cloudburst, she decides to put everything into a last desperate manoeuvre. Bracing for the worst, she leaves herself open to attack for a moment as she folds a spell over her rapier and thrusts.
Thorfinn hustles across the shop floor towards the melee.
As Gallusand Throfinn continue to move up after the others Gabriel shots glittering dust at the half elf, which seems to blind him as Chim lobs another ball of force the slams into the man. Ioxeia continuing her heavy assualt tries to strike at the man, but even being blind he manages to avoid the blade.
The half-elf turns knowing the door was right behind him and opens the doors, then he slowly moves out of them.
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Incredible, Ioxeia thinks, as the half-elf obstinately resists capture. From the corner of her eye, she sees Thorfinn relentlessly close the gap, and takes heart.
I suppose it would be futile to threaten that he cannot escape, she adds, noting the tighter confines of the room ahead and another set of doors that should slow him down just sufficiently. As Thorfinn surges ahead, though, Ioxeia realizes her own difficulties, and hastens to take her place beside him, clambering over a pile of small casks until she's balanced well enough to continue her harrying strikes. Nonetheless, although she avoids slipping from the uneven footing, a solid hit escapes her.
My post didn't show up. Thorfinn double-moved up, ending the round next to Tsuto.
Gallus continues to move forward lining up behind Ioxeia his rapier in reach of Tsuto.
As the half-elf moves away Ioxeia manages to get in a blow, but it doesn't seem to hinder the man. Everyone moves up to try and surround the half-elf. He opens the door and continues to try and run away.
Thorfinn is taken completely by surprise when Tsuto shifts direction and moves past him, and the dwarf barely manages to wave his axe in the half-elf's general direction.
Seeing an opening between Ioxeia and Thorfin Gallus swings his Glaive high and drops it like some giant axe straight into Tsuto's fleeing back.
Gallus finaly caught up to the half-elf takes a swing as the man is turning to run, even with Ioxeia in the way he manages to catch the half-elf right in the spine and drops him with one blow.
"Well done, lad! Best we be finding Ameiko now, and seeing if there are more of the little rateaters about." Thorfinn checks and opens the door Tsuto was trying to get through when Gallus cut him down.
We should finish the sleepers off first before they wake. Gallus looks at his bleeding foot. Anyone got something I can bind this up with
composite shortbow with 20 arrows
a really nice looking ring
high quality thieves’ tools
a high quality flute
silver earrings
a journal
6 pouches of gold dust
8 pouches of silver dust
10 pp
As Throfinn opens the door and looks into the room he sees a staircase leading down into a basement.
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Detect magic while digging. Chimaeryus places everything of interest in a pile near the body of Tsuto.
His monotonous voice oozes from his mouth
He has a diary. Does anybody see anything they want?"
Thinking about his time on ship, he remembers something about booty.
"Make sure Ameiko does not see any of us wearing any of the jewelry, that is if she is alive."
"Some of this might be hers, Chim. Best we give her the pick of it." While the dwarf speaks he walks back up the way the party came. He's about to kill the sleeping goblins when he pauses. "Let's tie them up and give them to the Sheriff. Maybe he can get them to talk, now that Tsuto's mouth has been shut." He binds the pair with some of the rope he carries.
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In the pause after Gallus' terrific blow, Ioxeia catches her breath, gingerly testing her goblin-battered limbs. While Thorfinn takes care of the surviving goblins and Chimaeryus sorts through the bloody wreckage of their leader, the journal catches Ioxeia's eye. "I'll take a look at that diary, Chimaeryus, unless you've got an eye for it, and come back for the bow, if no one has any objection."
She drifts back into the main workshop, and peers through the glass of the gruesome centrepiece to find out who it might be, if not Ameiko. Looking up, she comments, "Shall we see what else is on this floor before going downstairs?"
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Chimaeryus gladly hands the journal over to the masked elf.
"I need to buy a wand or two, the earrings, ring and platinum pieces can go a long way towards that. I'm not too interested in the rest of the items."
"Amara lost her claim when she was captured."
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been rejected, the implications should be ominous nonetheless.
Most of the drawings of of the woman are quite striking, although one on the last pages of the book portrays her with a single demonic hand, and also bat wings, horns, a forked tail, and fangs.
Three short passages in the half-elf's journal contain information that is of particular interest.
"Lets figure out the stuff later. We need to secure this place and make sure we don't get surprised by anything else here."
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Ioxeia leafs quickly through the small book before snapping it shut again, but chooses her words carefully nonetheless, glad that no one can see her blushing. "Well, that's ... interesting. Some sort of, erm, erotica, and rather a lot more goblin tactics. It's dangerous business, though at least we know now who led the goblins on their raid. It will take a closer reading to see what next move they might be planning."
"Let me see Chim, I may be able to tell."
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While the spellcasters are looking over the ring and the book, Thorfinn searches the rest of the areas upstairs to the best of his abilities, starting with the unfortunate encased in glass.
Checking out the rest of the Glassworks, you don't find much of interest other than a bloody mess in the mass bed chambers. You get the idea that a number of the mutilated bodies in the main room are workers, likely sleeping when the attack occured. The one man encased in glass has a bit of a resembalance to the half-elf, at least his human looking aspects.
"One of you who's better at talking should get someone out there to call the guards. Then we better be going down the stairs."
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Chimaeryus shifts his eyes between Ioxeia and Gabriel at Thornfinn's suggestion.
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Gallus helps the others in searching the other rooms. Pausing to look at the glass encased individual that looks somewhat like Ameiko. Lets hope this is not her. Maybe her father? Did he not run the glassworks?
"Lets finish exploring before getting the guards. I'm worried about other dangers here as well... Actually some backup wouldn't be bad in case things go pear shaped, I'll step out send somebody for help and then we can go exploring and we'll have backup on the way."
Baring any objections Gabriel will do such.
"Well, lad, I'm more concerned about the guards showing up and maybe thinking the strangers had something to do with it. They need to collect the goblins before the little maggots get away, too."
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"It's a ring of protection," Ioxeia says, handing it back to Chimaeryus. "This one's got just a shade of magic bound to it, but still, it's nothing to sneer at."
She undoes a couple of convenient thongs from her pouch-belt and ties up the journal, letting it dangle against her thigh. Looking up, she slings her shield over her shoulders as she catches up. "I agree. We earned a bit of a respite thanks to Gabriel's quick thinking even with a battered-down door, but I would rather not have a skittish local do our explaining for us, once someone works up the courage to peek inside."
She takes an appraising look at each of the others. "Not to put too fine a point on it, but I can only hope there's not another surprise downstairs. I'm certainly, and I think Chimaeryus too, down to cantrips. I'm willing to press on, but I'll have to provide support from the rear, and honestly, there's a part of me for cleaning up, barring the doors, and seeing if anything comes up to beat on them during the night."
Determined to put a brave face on it, Ioxeia does not directly refer to the solid beating she's received, but she wordlessly picks up their deceased foe's bow and tests its draw before snatching up his quiver too. I'll have to beg a blessing from the priest or some hedge witch when all this is over, I'm sure.
Thorfinn shakes his head. "We haven't found who we came for. I'll go in front--none of the little rateaters have laid a blade on me yet."
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"Though I have nothing vested in saving Ameiko, I feel we should proceed."
"The folks of this town may just look for someone to blame afterall"
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Gabriel will cast cure light wounds on Ioxeia.
"If Gabriel hadn't remembered he could heal, I would have asked to wear that ring while we were down below."