Cassius makes his way to the others as well. "Bad news, Saul. Your crazy buddy Logan is being publicly tortured."
"Saul and I have bought weapons and other things from a seller down on the docks. Maybe he has these scrolls as well?" Fhingle offers.
Zea feels caught in the whirlwind of scrolls and torture. "Oh um... ok. Wait what are we doing?" When Saul leaps up, she tries to get him to stay calm and quiet. "Don't attract attention! Let's figure this out."
"In broad daylight? Risky as hell. If we succeeded, though ...good publicity for the movement. And bad attention at the same time ..."
"You want to charge in there and do what? Let your self be known?" Fhingle says. "He knew what he was doing, I am not saying he should die but we cannot just let ourselves be captured. I WON'T let myself be captured again." Fhingle stands up as well, it is not quite as dramatic as Saul
"Yeah, actually. The first couple of tries looked too goofy. Feathers are difficult to work with, worse than hair. There were a couple that were too literal. But I'm pretty happy with what I've come up with."
Cassius hands Saul a sketch.
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Cassius hands Saul a sketch of a bird-man outfit, with a long sweeping cape with feathers across the back, and a beak-like mask to hide his face. It integrates Saul's elven cloak that provides so much enhancement to his stealth abilities. It is a loose design, to allow for quick movements, quick changing, and to fit over Saul's armor. The outfit is nearly completely black, with a few gray touches here and there to prevent Saul from looking like an unnatural black spot in the shadows. The interior cape is full of pockets.
"Cassius, this is fine work. Do you have a prototype already sewn then? With this, I could hide in the shadows tonight and sneak forward to release Logan from the cage. Perhaps you could lay down a color spray on the dogs. It could be quick in and quick out... Logan should be sober so that will help..."
"I think night would be better... Jackdaw is meant to strike from the shadows, not step out in broad daylight. Not yet, anyway... not yet." He speaks slowly, with purpose, articulating his thoughts carefully.
Zea breathes a sigh of relief when Fhingle calms Saul down. "Ok. I'll help. I can try to be sneaky or cast a couple spells too. What do you need? I can make us smaller and sneakier. Or maybe we need a litle fog in the park tonight?" she says with a wink.
Fhingle isn't taken with this idea but nods along, while everyone is talking Fhingle slips out to find Maggie.
"Maggie we may need you tonight, can you gather some info for us on how they are selecting people for these dog fights?" Fhingle then goes to check on Rexus. "Good day, I know yesterday was a lot but we will get in there and find out more for you."
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maybe we could all get a disguise to fit our nick names so we could all go in disguise and save your friend Saul? I think I could cast obscuring mist in the area and then we could all get in and out being able to see when no one else could and get your friend out of there Jarithe says simply with a shrug.
"Then we go get the scrolls we need." Fhingle eyes Saul once he returns only hearing the Few hours till dark
Zea nods. "That's a plan. I like it." She is ready to go get the scrolls whenever the others are. "Where do we meet at dark? Here?"
Cassius chuckles. "Yeah, I've got the working piece in my pack here. As for me ...you'll forgive me if I'm a little tired of feathers for the time being. I found this shiny make-up ...and silver kills devils, right? So I'll be 'Looking Glass, the Silver Mirror of Devil's Hearts!' It's so complicated a name no one would ever think it was the handsome bartender down the street."
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"It's a long walk from the Longroads to Aria Park. How about we meet at my office in Old Kintargo, BEFORE dark. Then we wait until midnight, and it is only a short walk from there."
"Before you go, Zea, can you identify this breastplate and mace? They are magical, but we didn't properly look at them. Hopefully we can sell some of this stuff we just got to afford the scrolls we need."
Zea nods to Saul. "That sounds like a good plan." When handed the items, she shrugs. "I just started reading a moldy old book I found but I'll try!" She refers to her book for a little while then studies the items.
Zea relays what she's learned. "This armor will make you tougher to hit. That mace hits a bit harder and is magically well-balanced so it'll be easy to use." She closes her book with a small smile. "I guess I'm getting the hang of this a bit."
Zea gasps a little at all the gold Saul is talking about. "Oh my... I've never smelled money like this before... Do we really need 10 of them? That's just so much..."
"I am smaller and would be easier to disguise since most of you tall folk don't notice halflings here and think we all look a like." Fhingle says, "Saul we are going to get the scrolls then meeting at your office later?"
Fhingle looks at Zea and noods. "Lets ask Rexus what he knows."
Zea agrees heartily with Jarithe's plan. "Yes we'll need disguises. I'll need some help with that. Never worked in that line before." She also nods to Fhingle. "Sounds smart to me. Let's go."
"I can handle disguises. Just give me some parameters if you have any. Feel free to request weird stuff like being another race, if you want. Not that you should be ashamed or anything, just for the identity."
Zea looks down at the table and wonders. "That's interesting. I don't want to bring bad attention back to Redroof.' She looks up. "What race would help hide my horns?"
"Any race can wear headgear that would cover them."
Zea nods, embarrassed, to Cassius. "Good point. Ok then, anything that looks a little like a sparrow sounds good to me. Maybe a grayish-brownish that won't draw too much attention."
As Saul approaches the place where the Chelish Citizen Group thugs set up the dog house he witnesses how they threaten people that watch the scene too long and usher them to move on.
But when Saul takes a seat on the bench it is feeding time and their attention is on the doghouse. One of the thugs unpacks some raw meat. Teh dogs act up and pull on their leashes that the thugs are barely able to hold them back. The meat is thrown in front of the doghouse and and the dogs are given enough leash to charge in from both sides to fight over the meat.
Out of the dog house comes Logan, on all four, the pain written in his face. His arms with wounds. He crouches closer, trying to grab a piece of the meat. The dogs bite at him, with the handlers pulling them back to not kill him, but also giving enough leash that Logan can't get at the meat. It's a derogatory procedure that leaves Logan with a small piece of the food and another bite in his arm, before he retreats back into the doghouse.
A mask like this for Fhingle but grey like a Peregrine falcon
Fhingle and Zea head to the store that they have purchased items at before.
"Good day sir." Fhingle says, "We need to buy some scrolls, ones to enhance weapons vs law and chaos."
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Saul burns with anger at the scene, and it takes it self control to not jump up right then and pull him out of there.
Holy Hell's Balls! I hate these Chelish Citizen thugs so much. We are getting you out of there, Logan, and I'm going to look for a reason to run one of those thugs through.
Saul walks away, disturbed. He heads back to his office. It looks like Logan will live at least through tonight... They will get him out of there!
Cassius heads back to his loft and gets to work on the disguises.
Chuko greets Fhingle and Zea as they enter the War-Cage. "I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I deal only in weapons and such. For magic scrolls you're at the wrong place."
"How about you try it at the temple?" the Tengu suggests.
Zea nods gratefully then once they exit the shop she whispers to Fhingle. "The temple of Asmodeus? There's no way in hell I'm going there. Let's try the temple of Abadar." She sets off with Fhingle toward the temple of Abadar.
As Zea and Fhingle arrive at the temple of Abadar they are greeted by a acolyte who is quite surprised by the request. They are brought to an office off the main room where there are only bank business is dealt with.
And elder cleric listens to the request. After searching through some drawers and shelf he offers "I have four scrolls with spells that make weapons good aligned and two for lawful aligned for 150 gold each. But if you want I can also sell you a wand for good aligned weapons with 21 charges remaining for 1800gold."
Zea looks at Fhingle for approval and hesitantly says "I think we can only afford the scrolls for now."
Zea nods to the priest. "Thank you. We are interested in the wand but will require a bit more cash. Perhaps we will return." She heads out to find somewhere to get a good deal on the goods, especially the armor.
For selling stuff, Zea returns to The War Cage. Putting the stuff on the counter and asking for a prize.
"That breastplate is worth 1350gp, that Holy Symbol 115gp, that eye is just glass, and this charm was sold for 25gold. That's a nice thing. Havent seen any of them for a while now."
"You're good customers and I'm sure that selling this golden pentagram means you've done Kintargo a favor. So I make you a fair prize: 750 for the breastplate, the star and the charm at full prize, rounded up to 900 gold. What do you say?"
"I think so" Fhingle says nodding to Zea.
Zea and Fhingle take the money and the eye-gem and try their luck somewhere else. In the general store Maercin Kelimber is excited about the gem, even though he is totally wrong with his assumption about what it really is. He pays Zea and Fhingle 150 gold for it.
With that, and the money Saul handed them from the Raven's funds they acquire the magic wand at the temple of Abadar and then meet with Saul in his office.