Orange, who had surrendered in a prone position and begged for mercy, is impacted by Geo's missile and now lies very still.
ROUND 3 [bold may post]
Geo
Kavor
Merisiel
Kranzer
Andracar -7
BAD DUDES!!! [yellow/green/pink: sleep; orange dying blue -30 disabled white 0 black/teal/purple 0 gray dead]
Shrec
The feathered creature blasts another fiery spell, this time at Kavor, burning the dwarf badly!
for fire dmg. [HIT!]
Purple, Teal and Black stand firm with Total Defense , with Purple filling the hole left by his fallen comrade.
ROUND 3 [bold may post]
Geo
Kavor -20
Merisiel
Kranzer
Andracar -7
BAD DUDES!!! [yellow/green/pink: sleep; orange dying blue dead white 0 black/teal/purple 0 gray dead]
Shrec
ROUND 4 [bold may post]
Kavor -20
Merisiel
Kranzer
Andracar -7
BAD DUDES!!! [yellow/green/pink: sleep; orange dying blue dead white 0 black/teal/purple 0 gray dead]
Shrec
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Round 4 - Initiative 20
Merisiel dives directly between teal and purple in a roll, coming up behind purple in a flank with Shrec.
She slices at purple from behind and prepares to disrupt any spellcasting from the feathered creature in the back.
"Yeesh!" She cries out. "You all just won't see logic will ya?"
Merisiel tries to dive between the two defenders but they'll have none of it! their defensive line holds!
Shrec, however, almost cleaves purple in two, leave an open road ahead.
ROUND 4 [bold may post]
Kavor -20
Merisiel [STANDARD ACTION ONLY]
Kranzer
Andracar -7
BAD DUDES!!! [yellow/green/pink: sleep; orange dying blue dead white 0 black/teal 0 purple dying gray dead]
Shrec
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Round 4 - Standard Action
Merisiel uses her action to walk past the defenders, stepping over their falling purple comrade as she does, and gets directly behind the flying caster in back. Why do I keep doing things the hard way?
"Thanks for clearing the path." Merisiel says to Shrec as she goes past the line that does not hold.
for bludgeoning dmg. [MISS!]
for bludgeoning dmg. [MISS!]
Merisiel cleanly shivs Teal in a major organ.. he bends over in pain as his blood sprays out!
The feathered creature attempts to cast a spell, but Kavor's bola catches her square in the mouth! "OOOMMPH!!!"
[SPELL FIZZLES HARMLESSLY!]
She casts a hateful glare at Kavor, spits blood to the floor below, and with a powerful beating of her wings, flies north and around the corner, retreating!
The men in front of you throw their weapons to the ground and put their hands in the air, kneeling in front of you...
COMBAT OVER
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"Probably just business, my friend. They were here to guard the ones we came to collect."
He addresses the surrendering men.
"We have a job to do as well. We're taking Forvian Crowe and his men and leaving. You showed good sense throwing down your weapons. Keep showing good sense and find another town, another line of work, or another employer. Thrune's days in this town are numbered, and you don't need to die for them. If you report this, they'll send you after us to make up for your failure. That would end badly for you. So just disappear. I think you need to move fast - that feathered creature might rat you out."
"Huh... ok!" say the two leftover goons, almost in unison, agreeing with Kavor. They depart immediately.
Sleeping, dying, and dead fools everywhere.
Forvian Crow sluggishly lifts himself up and comes over to clasp Kavor across the forearm, "I don't know who sent you, but thanks are in order. But first.... do you happen to have water? I think I'm dying from thirst and feeling my eyeballs shrivel..."
The men jump in the wagon post-haste, as fast as their exhausted bodies will allow them. They start gorging themselves with water, some showering themselves with some, as if a miracle just happened. They keep their voices low not to attract the guards patrolling the city walls just above, but they are incredibly happy.
As the men drink in the cart, Forvian says, "Thanks for the rescue guys. It I were you, I'd take advantage of those bastards sleeping and rob them blind... I think the dwarf was skimming from Thrune's operations here... he kept counting his money in the office."
Shrec waits for orders.
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I'll help you Kranzer and Kavor. Thanks for the tip.. Forvian I assume? Merisiel says. "We are the silver ravens. We can fill you in on our trip to a safe place."
She climbs out with the others and will move to head back in. First order will be to make sure the sleepers have no weapons available for when they do wake up.
@TeamGold --> VIRTUAL IN-MODULE LOOT (not to be confused with actual chronicle-sheet-granted loot)
-lockbox in the front office: contains red bearded dwarf's profits thus far from selling salt on the black market: 67 gp and 423 sp.
- BLUE: potion cure moderate wounds x2, mwk chainmail, heavy steel shield, composite longbow (+2 Str) with 18 arrows, mwk heavy mace, 28 gp
- GOONS: (studded leather armor, light mace, manacles, bronze Thrune pendant worth 30 gp, 4 gp) x6
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Merisiel will send out a Silver Raven message to Laria once they are safely away from the saltworks. "The rescue succeeded, we are planning to return to you with them." She will wait for the raven to return, and listen for any message that comes back with it.
"I think we can bring them back to base so we can talk things out with Forvian and his team" Merisiel says to the group meanwhile. "What a rush! I feel like we did something good today!"
The Silver Raven returns with a small note attached to its leg, and deftly lands right on Merisiel's lap, awaiting the note to be taken off. Merisiel takes the note, and the silver seagull returns to its miniature figurine form. The note reads, "Understood. Thanks for saving these fine ladies from Janneece's boring book club. I will prepare some hors d'oeuvres for their arrival. I'm sure our Sisters will love the company! Well done friends! These fine ladies will be a great addition to OUR book club membership! To be in full compliance of curfew laws, praise be our Mayor and Savior, and due to the advanced age of some of the fine ladies, I shall set aside and prepare a few guest rooms for them, in case return travel would take them past our glorious Mayor's curfew time. May his soul be forever and ever cherished and fully appreciated by The Dark Prince."
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Kavor Doan appreciates the discretion in the message. "Ah, a good reminder. Messages can be intercepted."
He is quiet on the journey, only opening up to the rescued mercenaries once safely inside the Coffeehouse.
"We're doing what good we can here without drawing too much attention. But we need to find out what happened to the previous Lord-Mayor, Jilia Bainilus. She is either captive or in hiding. If you have any contacts that can help us, I think that an important task to focus on."
"I've heard no scuttlebutt on our true Mayor's whereabouts, alas. Have you investigated all the leads we've discussed thus far?" says Laria, before busily returning to the tables, coffee jug in hand.
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A couple of days later, Kavor Doan comes in, sweating and breathing hard. "That was a close one! But our new recruits helped save our eyes and ears on the ground. They street performers will need some rest, and some bribes to make a few problems go away, but we'll be okay."
He turns to the party. "The Night of Ashes. Let's follow up on that. The Silver Star musical store (itself a cover for the church of Sarenrae), the Thrashing Badger (a tavern known to cater to rebels and their ilk), and the Victocora estate. Burned to the ground. I assume all the buildings are in ruins, but there could be something left behind that we would do well to find. Or, we could try to investigate Hocum’s Fantasmagorium and the Opera House, which were also taken over that night. The Opera House I get - it was a base for the Silver Ravens. But the Fantasmagorium? A long-closed museum? What's in there? Anyway, I am happy to investigate any of those sites."
You find nothing at Rexus' burnt down house, and nothing at the Thrashing Badger either. However the Silver Star's fire has destroyed load bearing beams which resulted in the whole burnt establishment to collapse into the underground basement.
You realize that it sits right in between Castle Kintargo and the Temple of Asmodeus... so the retribution on this shop must have been swift.
The site is now a sinkhole filled with scorched rubble—the building collapsed into the chambers below when it burned. Investigating the site can be tricky, as loose beams and debris can shift.
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Merisiel pokes around within the Silver Star's ruined establishment, carefully avoiding spots that look unsafe. She kicks ashes from her new boots, cloak sweeping through soot. Nearby, horse and cart are carefully hitched out of the way of foot traffic in the shade of the temple.
She glances down into the sinkhole, looking for anything of interest.
While leaning over a big beam to inspect the wreckage, the large piece of settles and sends Kavor tumbling upside down into a deeper part of the hole... landing on his back relatively unscathed, Kavor looks up to see a bunch of bricks and burnt wood logs tumbling towards him!
for dmg from the collapsing rubble.
While pulling Kavor out of the wreckage, Merisiel notices a glint of metal! investigating, she pulls out an iron coffer containing a small cache of potions and scrolls that survived the fire. The scrolls in the coffer are a scroll of cure moderate wounds, a scroll of daylight, a scroll of remove blindness/deafness, and a scroll of remove disease. The potions include three potions of lesser restoration and four potions of cure light wounds.
You climb out of the crater unnoticed... what do you do?
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"What tunnels are you thinking of checking out Kavor?" Merisiel replies. She readies to head back to the horse. "You aren't too hurt are you?"
She loads the iron case into the back where the others presumably sit waiting. She knocks on the solid wood and watches the street while Kavor gathers himself.
"We can send a raven over to our host to ask if she has any news. Discretely, this time" she says, grinning.