At the main gate is a ring with a chain, that rings a bell in the house. As Cassius pulls it, a servant comes after a few moments and asks what Cassius is here for.
"Special Kintargo-Thrune Delivery Service. I have an urgent message for Master Marquel Aulorian, His Eyes Only."
"Just a moment please." the servant replies and disappears into the house again. After a while he comes back and leads Cassius into the manor, where he is left standing in the entry hall, with another servant.
A young man with long black hair, a pale complexion and a sad look comes down the stairs. He extends his left hand to receive the letter.
An older man with short grey hair observes all this from the lounge.
Cassius tries to read the younger man's mind while handing him the letter.
Marquel takes the letter, turns and walks back to the stairs leading to the 2nd floor.
Fhingle stays quiet allowing the "Humans" to talk as most halflings aren't allowed to and it might benefit him more here.
"My Lord, I was ordered to await your reply by the Captain."
Two people suddenly change their posture. Marquel becomes chipper, telling [b)"I'll be back with a reply."[/b] while the older man raises a brow on the mention of a captain.
After a really short time Marquel comes back down with a folded parchment. He hands it over, looking Cassius stright into the eye, then on the parchment, and back in his eyes.
Following the eyes of Marquel to the parchment Cassius sees the 'Read It!' written on the outside.
"Very good, my lord. She will be glad to hear of it." Cassius performs an elaborate salute meant to hide his casting of Message on Marquel.
Marquel gives a nod, then a glare at the older man and then retreats to his room upstairs again.
Cassius bows and retreats. Once outside he whispers. "Marquel, I cast a spell that will allow us to whisper to each other. I have others available to help. What sort of security are we facing?"
Fhingle follows after Cassius awaiting to hear what happened.
First there is a startled "Huh!"
Then a more concise reaction is heard. "There is that abomination of a three headed hound from hell in the garden, and the house has four guards. But they are afraid of the hound."
"Right. If we could subdue the old man how would that change things? Just the 2 of you was hard to leave."
"The guards have order to not let me leave. I don't see where you want to go with this."
Zea whispers to Cassius in their hiding place "Ask him if there are any magical wards on the house."
At Zea's suggestion, Fhingle looks the place over for any magic that he can see.
Fhingle just shakes his head hoping that Zea sees him, then he shrugs
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The options are clearly laid out before you. If you go in by force, through the garden where the hell hound is, you face this terrible beast and draw the attention of everyone in the house too. This will not go silent.
Or you go for frontal assault, which will also lead to death and destruction.
But with Cassius having a connection to Marquel there might be other options. It's not sure, but with continuous intelligence about what is going on in the house it might be possible.
Zea repeats her question to Cassius "Ask him if there are magical wards on the house. Such might alert them even if I were invisible."
"An5 wards or magic security we need to know?"
"No, nothing I know of." the distant voice replies.
"Lets take him now and go." Fhingle whispers 'The longer we stand here the longer they have to call for help"
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"I'm not wearing my costume... But thanks to Jarithe's bag of holding, it is never far.... My costume, good sir!"
With Jarithe's help, (and assuming we can hide in an nearby alleyway out of sight), Saul shrugs on his black birdman costume.
"Anyone else? If you don't conceal your identity, it means we have to kill everyone who even glimpses us."
"I'm already disguised ...but what if I dressed as our target?"
Figgy is ready to go.
Zea nods at the two who are well disguised and casts invisibility on herself. She whispers "Ready."
"You lot, watch that window with the candle. Fhingle, come with me. Follow my lead. Marquel, hide in your room. I've disguised myself as you." Cassius makes his way back to the front. "HELP! HELP! THIS HALFLING IS KIDNAPPING ME!"
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Fhingle a bit shocked at this turns and flees with Cassisu
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Zea hides invisibly and shakes her head. "Oh my... What a plan..."
The voice sounds weird for Marquel, but the disguise is really convincing. The guards come out of the house and save Marquel from that tiny agressor, by kicking at Fhingle routing him and dragging Marquel into the house. "Don't you dare showing your face here again." they call after Fhingle.
"How did you get out?" a guard asks, as all are inside again catching their breath.
"Another halfling! Over there!" he indicates where the group is hiding. When they turn around he casts sleep!
One guard falls asleep. The others turn shocked to 'Marquel'
"The other halfling had magic! Oh!" Cassius "falls asleep."
Zea whispers to the others "Um... should we be doing something right now?"
Shocked, Zea runs invisibly after Saul in case he needs help.
Saul managed to wound the guard badly, but misses the vital organs. Jarithe hides everything in mist, making it impossible for passerby's to notice what's going on.
The guards retaliate with their halberds. But due to the fog they miss.
The guard inside who is still standing turns to his colleague, to check on him.
Cassius casts Sleep on the standing guard.
The other guard falls asleep too. But the people in the house start coming out of the rooms because of the ruckus. First of all the old man from earlier.
"I'm free at last, old man!" and he bolts out the door.
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