Vendalfek casts a silent image into the corridor to give the impression the double door is closed.
The dwarf stops in front of the door and reaches for the handle with one hand, keeping the mace ready in the other. As he grabs into thin air he realizes that there is only an illusion.
The armor of the dwarf makes the punch ineffective though.
Saul stabs the dwarf, causing a bad wound. The dwarf commands "Get them you lousy cowards."
Most of the dottari see through the illusion and keep shooting with their bows. But no one wants to run into a spear. Only the one who can't see even though he knows the door is fake moves into his doom, ending up impaled and dead.
The others have a hard time hitting Saul, but one arrow finds it's way.
The dwarf steps over the dead guy and swings his mace at Saul. In his rage he keeps dealing the pain, but lucky Saul it is only a terrible and not a deadly wound.
Fhingle whips up his sling Calling out in Celestial as a pulse of holy energy touches everyone.
Fingle steps one step closer to Saul and Logan and channels positive energy, before the dwarf steps in.
"Oh, Mighty dragon Vendalfek, please give us some grease here for the bad guys." Maggie calls out of the room
Vendalfek does as asked to. But only because of the respectful addressing. A mighty dragon doesn't take orders. Beneath the two dottari in front of the door forms a greasy spot.
One dottari manages to stand, but both are flat footed.
Treep opens the door and throws a dagger at a dottari.
Jay moves around the one standing last, to be out of the way and to offer flanking to Maggie. Once Maggie is out she stabs at the guy.
Maggie steps out last and stabs the one to the right
Treeps dagger hits the wall and bounces down the floor. The dance of Jay is not good enough, but as all dottari have their bow in hand, they can't hurt her. Together with Maggie she stabs at that one and takes him out of the fight.
Saul stabs at the dwarf adding to his serious wounds.
The dottari turn to the new assault from behind. The one next to Maggie draws his mace and swings it at her. But doesn't even touch her.
The other one gets up and steps out of the grease, shooting with the bow at Maggie.
The one attacked by Maggie and Jay swings with the mace at Maggie too, but misses.
Korva comes back from the main door and stabs at the dwarf too.
The dwarf swings his mace at Saul but misses.
The Fushi sisters continue to stab. Jay stabs her dottari.
Maggie gets rid of the guy on the grease.
And Treep moves out of the room to aid Jay with her dottari, giving him the rest.
The dwarf follows Saul and swings his mace past him.
Vendalfek loses interest in this fight. There is no fun and nothing to laugh at. He flies out of the back entrance.
The two remaining dottari shoot arrows at Maggie and Treep.
The dwarf goes down with a death rattle.
Fhingle just stares in Awe at the Fushi sisters.
"You ladies are a whirlwind of death!" Fhingle says
Logan considers feeling the blood spittings dwarf's pulse but decides that lying on the floor with the eyes rolled up so you only can see the white is good enough for now.
Stepping over the dwarf swings his fist at one of the dottari. Those are more to his liking, as his fist strikes true and not only hurts his hand on hard iron armor.
Maggie, Jay and Treep decid eto not stand in the grease and throw their daggers. But they all miss. Korva opens the right door wing.
The dottari, seeing that they are outnumbered by far and their boss down in his own blood, drop their weapons and surrender.
Fhingle moves up to Logan, motioning for him to move with Fhingle to saul, once they are all together Fhingle's body changes to that of a pure white light. Touching both men, their injuries begin to heal a bit.
"So now what do we do" Fhingle's speech is normal again
"In there." Maggie replies, pointing to the room which the Fushi sister hid in.
"What are your plans for these dottari?" Maggie inquires.
"Chain them to the door? Or put them in the salt vat?" Fhingle asks
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Saul thanks Fhingle for the heal.
He pulls out another set of manacles, but after Logan says his name he sighs and frowns at his perpetually inebriated friend. He opens his mouth to say something, and sighs and frowns again.
F$+% f!#* f&$#, Logan.
"Maggie, could you and your sisters take the prisoners and row them back to base? It looks like the rest of us need to stay here just a bit longer."
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Logan is totally oblivious to the fact that he just gave away Saul's name.
"Are we going to become jailers now? What good to prisoners do us? Interrogate the ones you want, but let's not burden ourselves with extra responsibilities. Kill the ones still breathing and dump the bodies. Then we know we won't be discovered."
"Logan is mostly right, they would be out causing mischief if we didn't com,e here and they have probably killed innocents already. We came to free some people not to take prisoners. I would rather die than be a prisoner or slave again." Fhingle says
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Saul manacles the remaining guards, gathers them all up, and pushes them into the salt vat.
It is only then that he turns angrily on Logan.
"What are you thinking, you drunk?!? There is a reason we are wearing these masks and these robes! We could have easily just locked the guards up in the salt mines and been on our way. They would have been found at some point, probably in the morning, and would have had no idea who we are. But you had to say my name! Do you know how many Sauls are in this city. Four! I should know, it is my business to know things like that. Now we have to kill them all. And it is going to make the Thrunes even more pissed than ever."
Saul sighs, growls, and sighs again. "This is your fault. Now it is your job. You go in there and take care of it."
Saul turns around and begins searching the dead dwarf and any dead guards. He will also look through the complex, in particular the bunk area for anything of value.
The two dottari chained to the wall panic, and the two who surrendered draw their maces.
Maggie and her sisters end the threat. Only the two bound dottari remain. The tengus start looting the dead guys and throw them into the salt pit.
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The threat over, Logan yells back to Saul,
"Yeah, I'll take care of it. And you'll thank me for it later when there's that many less dottari that can come for us and they WILL come for us. This is a zero-sum arrangement, it's kill or be killed. We won't be able to run this rebellion from the shadows forever. Eventually, they'll find out who we are. So yeah, I slipped and gave your identity away, but we'll all be discovered, probably sooner rather than later. The only difference is that, now, we only have a few to dispose of rather than an entire army."
Logan, who was actually sober through this entire day, grabs his hip flask and takes a long pull. He glowers at Saul's back as he wipes his arm on his sleeve. Then he pulls out his dagger and kills the two bound guards, adding their bodies to the pile in the salt vat.
Once Saul is done looking over the already dead guards and their dwarf commander, Logan helps the tengus dump those bodies too.
Fhingle looks back and forth between the two long legged men, "Lets just finish this and get away from here." Fhingle goes to help with securing those they have freed.
The valueables the dottari had are put on a pile. And one might wonder about the wealth these guards can accrue.
The dwarf has even better equipment. As you would expect from the boss of the group.
mwk heavy mace, 28 gp
In addition to Kossrani’s personal wealth, a lockbox in the front office contains 67 gp and 423 sp.
"Nothing ever comes in my size." Fhingle looks through the equipment they just found. :"How do we get this all back?"