Lazarus quickly stabilizes the two fallen guards before following after most of the others, quickly regathering in the hallway outside the break room. A small earth elemental seems to be doing its best to hold the heavy iron door shut against the horde of confused guards on the other side. The voice of Meredith continues to add to the confusion, insisting that some crazy wizard did it, while Jan bellows out a challenge and Dalen hurries back towards the Archives and calls for Krima.
Krima races out of the Archives towards the doorway where Dalen stands. "Oh no, killing everyone isn't what I had in mind! There's too many of them!" she cries, face pale.
And, finally beginning to marshal themselves a bit, a loud *THUD* comes from the other side of the iron door as someone throws their shoulder against it.
"What's going on out there!?"
"The door, get the door open!"
"Ulmari can't face that wizard by herself!"
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Round 5
Brayden
Meredith + Elemental
Lazarus
Frankie
Dalen
Jan
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Krima
Guards
Active Conditions: None
Everyone is UP!
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"You can't win forever, you wizard! Brainwashing my friends like that? I'll chase you to the ends of Golarion!"
Meredith looks around for something to block the door with. She sees Brayden run and follows him.
Now hopefully out of earshot, Meredith relaxes. "I'm right next to the statue. They think I'm under attack by some wizard. You think we can move this statue over? Frankie will hopefully try to lock the door. I figure if they can't get out, we'll have plenty of time to pull this off."
Hoping to help Meredith's elemental keep the door blocked, Lazarus begins to summon a souped-up pony to help with the task while Brayden and Meredith hurry back to the entry hall to see about moving one of the statues to block the door. Meanwhile, on the other side of the prison, Dalen offers to help Krima do whatever it is she needs to do to get everyone out in one piece...
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Round 5
Brayden
Meredith + Elemental
Lazaru
Frankie
Dalen
Jan
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Krima
Guards
Active Conditions: None
Frankie and Jan are UP!
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Frankie keeps his mouth shut for now and hugs up next to the door, one eye on the lump of earth and stone next to him I hope that thing's been fed lately... if not I hope he likes cocoa and candy!
He does his best to block the view to the door lock as he puts his picks in and starts to quietly fiddle with the lock. If I can just get this thing locked up and stuck.. wouldn't that be perfect!
Frankie quickly sidles up next to the door and gets to work while Jan also waits to hear some sort of word from Krima and Dalen before acting. While the elemental, apparently the strong and silent type, keeps holding the door shut, the little halfling quickly manages to not only lock the door to the break room but thoroughly jam it as well! Between that and the general heaviness and thickness of the door in question, Frankie is positive that the guards won't be getting out anytime soon.
And so, though there's plenty of yelling and cursing happening on the other side of the door, the coast otherwise seems to be clear. For now.
Krima quickly comes running from the other hallway with Dalen close behind, clearly anxious to see just what's happening. She comes to a stop, gaping a bit at the elemental still holding the door to the break room shut.
"What's...are they all in there?" she asks as angry yells, curses, and banging can be heard from beyond the door. Krima clearly seems unsure of whether to be impressed or simply astonished.
Description of the rooms/areas all or most of you have visited or discovered the whereabouts of so far:
Interrogator's Office, Vault, Storage Rooms
Krima Answers Some Questions & Offers a Helpful Item
And once more, here is the Current Map for reference!
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"If we have a little time, Krima, I'd like to look around the interrogator's office and the archives. Might find something useful, information of value to our friends," Lazarus whispers.
Lazarus glances at Lil Frankie. "Want to try to get into the vault, Frank? Who knows what these folks keep there."
Still whispering, the samsaran turns back to Krima. "But only if you think we can get folks out of here and still take a quick look around."
Mission first, people always. But damn, I'm curious! Lazarus licks his lips in anticipation.
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'Frank' turns from the door, his work complete. He slides his picks back up his sleeve before turning around and adjusting his skewed mustachio... "Vault? Oh yes. But we must stick to the plan. The office first!" He mentions the key from Krima...
"Oh.. maybe we should make sure the front door to this prison is locked up good ok? I don't think we want anyone stopping in for a visit before we're ready!" He heads off to check on that before going to the office.
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Meredith begins to heft the statue, only for Frank to run in.
"Frank, is the door secure? Good." Meredith dismisses the Earth Elemental and spends 1 minute summoning her eidolon.
"Denair, let's follow Frank. And call me Ulmari for now."
Meredith summons an Unseen Servant and turns to Frankie. "I can use some of my magic to enhance Denair's skills. Tell me if you need her to be better at picking locks or something."
Denair shakes off some leaves and yawns. "Oh hey Boss! Um... Boss? Where did you go?" She looks around for a bit before sniffing and nuzzling her Boss.
"Okay, I'll follow Frankie- why did you call him Frank?" Meredith spends some time getting Denair up to speed.
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Brayden had begun exerting himself to drag the heavy statue across the room, pulling and tugging at its solid stone form and cursing as he failed. With sweat beading down his blue head, the samsaran gives up and emerges. "... Oh. It seems we've been bought some time, statue or not." He pants. "To... To the vault?"
'Frank' and Dalen hurry back to the entrance as Meredith and Brayden attempt to wrestle one of the statues back into the corridor. It doesn't go particularly well and so the pair are quite relieved that the guard situation has been taken care of, at least for now.
While everyone quickly reconvenes to figure out the group's next course of action, 'Frank' is able to make sure that the prison's front doors are securely shut while Dalen and Jan wrestle one of the statues in front of it as an added precaution. No one's getting in or out, at least not without some effort!
Krima then beckons everyone away from the break room, where it's easier to talk without the barricaded guards overhearing anything. "The interrogator's office? I agree, that's probably the best place for you to start," she nods. "I know you don't want to dally - and neither do I - but his office might have more information on any security measures that lie beyond the main prison cells. If you like, I can keep watch near the front doors to make sure no one else tries to get inside while you're looking around?"
Eager to do what needs to be done and get out, Meredith, Denair, Lazarus, and even Sid the Silly Surly all move to check the two doors leading into the interrogator's office. As expected, both doors seem to be locked tight but otherwise free of traps and other nasty hazards. Luckily, you've got the crude copy of the key that Krima passed along to you so it shouldn't be too difficult to get one or both doors open...
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Denair will wait patiently for Frank to unlock the door. "Yeah, you should steal candy from candy shops. That way the Boss can get really embarrassed when the owner asks her on a date, right?" Denair scratches her head.
Even with the aid of the copied key, it actually takes Frankie two attempts to pop the lock on one of the office doors. But once he does, the door swings open with ease. A smoldering fireplace illuminates this room, casting red light over a massive corner desk littered with disorganized papers. A seven-foot-tall statue of a four-horned fiend with a burning crown overlooks the desk from the corner. The room seems to be empty, otherwise.
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"I'm gonna look for clues, too!"
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(Jan scans the room, then enters)
(Assuming he see nothing, Jan heads straight for the desk)
(Jan grasping at various books and papers, briefly holding them up and flapping the pages... then casually tossing them aside in a rather callous manner), "Does this look important? How about this one?"... (and so on).
OOC- how long has it been (in rounds) since Jan invoked his Weather Blessing?
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While most of the group pile into the office and begin nosing around, Lazarus hangs back for a moment to call after Krima. Krima hurries back from keeping vigil near the front entrance; brow furrowed, she considers Lazarus' question.
"I can tell you that there's not anything of interest to me or to yourselves inside the archives," Krima replies. "Believe me, I've had enough time to go through them. Anything that's classified, any other keys, would be there in the office or the vault, best as I can figure. But if you folks want to split up to cover more ground...well, it's not like there's anyone else in here that's going to catch you out," she smiles grimly.
While Frankie makes a beeline for the statue, Denair and Jan begin rifling through the papers on the desk while Meredith and Dalen stand by, ready for trouble. Thankfully, Frankie's absolutely certain after a few moments that the statue really is just a statue - an ugly statue, but a statue just the same. And even better, there don't seem to be any traps within the room or on the desk.
Denair and Jan, in the course of flipping through the stack of disorganized papers, note that the majority of them are interrogation schedules, prisoner transfers, and Loyalty Day agendas. However, their sharp eyes pick out three papers that seem different from the rest...
One is a copy of The Asmodean Disciplines, bookmarked to a chapter on crime and punishment with a handwritten note.
You notice that on the sixth line, the word 'expressly' is misspelled...seemingly deliberately. Perhaps it's part of a code or riddle?
The second document is a twine-bound set of instructions for activating the prison’s soundproofing mechanism. The manual notes that the prisms emit light when active, and they create a wall of magical silence between any two prisms with an uninterrupted line of effect to one another. No sound passes through this border, but if an object, creature, or wall disrupts the border, the entire effect ends until the obstruction is removed. Most of you remember Galvar mentioning something about a soundproofing mechanism when he was giving you the guided tour earlier, so this manual bears out his words. Attached to this manual’s binding is a key.
Last but not least, the third paper appears to be a letter addressed to the interrogator from someone that appears to be a ranking officer.
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Frankie gives the statue a few good solid pokes and smiles "Neat statue, looks kinda serious though..." He scampers over to the desk where everyone is pawing through paperwork, he groans. "I've never been real great with homework, why don't you guys keep doing that while I take a closer look at that statue!"
Frankie heads back to the statue for some 'work'.
Denair giggles as Frankie messes with the statue.
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Trusting Krima's assessment, Lazarus joins the search of the interrogator's office. He takes a look at the 'Asmodean Prayer' and is frustrated that its meaning eludes him. "Can anyone glean the meaning of this 'prayer'? If not, we'll take it with us."
When he reads the letter from Inspector Lusarious Deckland to the interrogator Vasenti, the samsaran's eyes go wide. I must get this intelligence to Venture-Captain Zarta Dralneen. She needs to know about this.
The instructions and details about the prison's soundproofing system fascinate the wizard-priest. "How convenient, the key is attached."
Lazarus looks at everyone, "So, ready to gather the inmates and liberate ourselves the heck out of here?"