Curiously you discover two sets of footprints leading into the home. They come from opposite sides, perhaps someone came from either side or maybe someone surprised the person who came first.
"Well well, prints of our culprit....and another one. Give me a moment to check which came first."
Guaire inspects the tracks, trying to determine the 1st and the "surpriser".
You cannot tell which one was first or second.
Seventeen bends down to examine the tracks pointed out by Guaire but she can't make head nor tails of the scuff marks.
"Looks like we shall have to follow both, Val's prints should be fairly light.", suggests Seventeen.
Seventeen cocks her head, as she often does while thinking, and a few moments later suggests, "Unless one of you can determine which set of footprints came first, we shall have to guess what happened here. Based on what little knowledge we have, I surmise that Val saw somebody coming and left the back way. The tracks going to the front are from whoever searched the place. Omo and I should go after her."
Guaire shakes his head at his earlier attempt.
"Hopefully your eye catches more detail on where the prints came from.
Seems this isn't my day with that."
In a practical tone Seventeen announces, "I shall summon a small dog to track, I hear people find them ... Well I believe they find them 'cute' meaning small."
Seventeen mutters several arcane phrases and then makes a beckoning motion shouting, "Here boy! Here boy!"
In a ridiculous voice Seventeen pets the wolf saying, "Whose a good boy? Whose a good boy?" She lets it smell one of Val's cardigans, "Here boy track! Here boy track!"
The wolf howls once and bounds off enthusiastically, following a scent trail.
The Wolf follows the trail for several minutes, moving swiftly East towards the Weeping River and then crossing the bridge, moving past several startled Torch residents and heading north towards the Warehouse district. Fewer Torch residents are here, the area is primarily used to store foodstuffs and tradeable goods for the thrice yearly caravans to Hajoth Hakados.
The Wolf heads to the door of an abandoned looking Warehouse before disappearing.
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Jarreck will trail the wolf along with Seven and Guaire, liking the idea of using the wolf to track Val's scent - her welfare being most important in the immediate future.
Seeing the wold stop at the abandoned warehouse, he moves into the shadows of a nearby building trying to see if any are paying undue attention to the wolf being at the warehouse. Also trying to see if he can spot anyone inside.
to hide in the shadows of a building across from the warehouse
can he see anyone or any obvious traps from his vantage point across the street
is anyone more worried about the specific warehouse the wolf went to more so than the fact a wolf was running through town.
Omo is in shock that someone abducted Val. The young ratfolk seems at a loss, but it seems that Val has less time than his father.
"You guys are right. Whoever took Val is intimately familiar with both us and our residence. We need to find her quickly."
From his place of hiding Jarreck can't see anything out of the ordinary. It looks like an abandoned warehouse, the doors are boarded up as are the windows. There isn't anyone nearby to see though.
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Sticking to the shadows Jarreck walks the perimeter of the warehouse looking for a good spot to climb up to the roof; hoping to find a way in and another spot to look in the warehouse from.
"I gonna try and find a way up to a either get a look inside or hopefully find another entrance to this building that isn't boarded up. I'll drop a rope down for anyone else that want to come up."
Once on top of the warehouse, Jarreck will lower the rope for anyone else who wishes to come up.
Jarreck moves closer to the warehouse and he notices that the main doorway only looks boarded up, its actually disguised that way. The Boards nailed over the door do not impede its use. Jarreck attempts to climb up the sheer walls of the Warehouse but he cannot gain purchase.
Guaire decides to give the climb a go.
"Let me try, it's not exactly new to me....when you're chasing down culprits one climbs too."
He takes a small distance sprint.
Guaire manages to scale the squat 20' tall building. The roof is almost flat with a very slight pitch. There isn't any entry into the building from the roof.
In case there's a good spot to attach the rope to.
"Jarreck, rope's coming down. No entry from up here though."
Meanwhile he takes care not to make noise up on the roof, and will explore the surroundings of the building.
Seventeen impassivly watches the man ascend the building. Eventually he succeeds and she murmurs, "Impressive. I suppose I need to get up there too..."
She gamely tries to ascend but slides back down after only making a few feet of progress.
Without emotion, Seventeen remarks, "I appear ill suited for this mission..."
The door is locked, it looks well used. It should open as quietly as most doors you imagine.
Jarreck is unsuccessful in his attempt to disable the lock.
"About as straight forward as you can guess. Of course this isn't my home city, but if we break and enter without being seen there's no problem."
Jarreck manages to disengage the lock and can open the door and enter.
Jarreck moves into the Warehouse. His teeth immediately begin to hurt from a constant low humming that emits from seemingly everywhere in the place.
Jarreck sees five individuals who seem to be lounging about one of them hears Jarreck as he enters, and calls out Vic, that you? Come on then, I'm hungry!
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Grimacing from the hum within the building, Jarreck eases his other sword out of it's sheath; but remains in place. Speaking loudly so the 5 men can hear him clearly and hopefully anyone standing outside the door.
"Vic? No I'm not Vic. Eric told me to come here, we would spar so he could try out his newest blade design. He said anything about this being a sparring match! Now where is Eric? We need talk. This is by no means worth my time and 5 silver."
You ain't suppose to be ere. the tough looking man says Da boss. He ain't gonna like you being here... The man begins to move forward. The other four thugs all whirl at the sound.
Surprise Round.
Jarreck
One Thug
Round 1
Omo
Mort
Seven
Jarreck
Guaire
Thugs
Surprise Round.
Jarreck opens the door.
One Thug charges Jarreck hitting the Rogue for
Round 1
Omo
Mort
Seven
Jarreck
Guaire
Thugs
Omo moves up and throws a bomb at the gold Thug.
Round 1
Omo hits Gold for 9 and then the other thug dodges the splash.
Mort
Seven
Jarreck
Guaire
Thugs
"You're the clever one, you'll get a new home from now on."
When he gets to Val's house he sees the apparent signs of a skirmish and the trail of footsteps leading hastily away from the house leading east.
He puts a quickness in his pace and jogs after them.
Almost out of breath Mort joins up with the others and immediately gauges the situation to be a hostile one as he just heard the familiar 'kaboom' sound of Omo's bombs.
"Just in time I'd reckon.... What's all this about? What happned at Val's place?"
He says he draws his shield and club while moving over to be side to side with Jarreck.
Seventeen's eyes narrow as Jarreck gets attacked. She pauses calculating the probabilities as Omo's bomb hurts the gold thug. Quick as a viper she follows his attack with twin missiles of her own.
Round 1
Omo hits Gold for 9 and then the other thug dodges the splash.
Mort moves up with Jarreck
Seven blasts Gold for 7.
Jarreck
Guaire
Thugs
Guaire noticed the sudden difference in sounds. He quickly heads for where the others are, ending at the edge of the roof.
Round 1
Omo hits Gold for 9 and then the other thug dodges the splash.
Mort moves up with Jarreck
Seven blasts Gold for 7.
Jarreck hits the thug for 3.
Guaire moves to climb down.
Thugs
Green attempts to punch Jarreck in the face! he misses, and then takes a step back.
Red moves up and hurls a Thunderstone
Gold drinks a potion
Blue climbs up onto some boxes and uses a flask of Alchemists fire hitting Mort for and Jarreck for 1 damage.
Purple disappears into a door.
Round 2
Omo
Mort
Seven
Jarreck
Guaire
Thugs
Some instinct makes Seventeen slap her hands over hear ears when the tiny pellet lands near by and explodes with concussive force.
Guaire sort of climbs eagerly, but his grip is somewhat less solid than scaling up.
Mort cringes slightly as he first hears a bang and then gets blasted by fire, though the fire is quickly extinguished the bang leaves him with ringing tones in his ears.
Mort drops his club and his hand emits a light blue and black glow, then he takes a 5-foot step towards the green thug.
His right hand glowing with light-blue hues and colours and the faint sound of cracking ice can be heard.
He reaches out with his hand to touch him on his leg and make him cringe as well.
Omo throws another bomb at the green thug.
Round 2
Omo [deaf] hurls a bomb hitting the thug for 12 and the other thug dodges the splash.
Mort [deaf] tries to touch Green in a bad place but the Thug dodges. Mort takes fire damage.
Seven stands in the place vacated by Mort and blasts, unfortunately Mort is caught in the blast
Jarreck steps up and puts Green down.
Guaire tries to climb down but fails, he falls 20 feet and is now prone.
Thugs
Blue climbs down from the crates.
Red moves forward You killed my friend! and attacks Jarreck missing.
Gold moves forward
Others ready for combat and move.
Round 3
Omo [deaf]
Mort [deaf]
Seven
Jarreck [prone]
Guaire
Thugs/Bad Guys
Guaire shakes his head to lose the dizzyness of the fall.
"Aw man....that went awful."
He stands up and heads for the door next to Omo, drawing his bow.