Hecktor moves forward, ready to swing his weapon at the first adversary within his sight.
Here we go, let's get to the action.
"You're in for it!"
Gilmork activates his armour and steps into the room, taking Lucanor's place when he moves and fires two arrows in rapid succession at the red stunned thug.
"You've all been judged," Lucanor springs forward, appearing as his invisibility drops as he stabs at red.
Round 1
Silas casts Good Hope and moves into the room.
Bodyguards draw their weapons and prepare to defend Bloodeye, they have potions in their hands also...
Muscle are all stunned except Blue who stands and draws his weapon
Ladies scramble for cover!
Bloodeye does some things that no one can see because he isn't in the main room.
Lucanor stabs Red for 13!
Hecktor chops yellow for 23
Gilmork fires two arrows hitting for 33
Jaxom
Good Hope +2 morale bonus on saving throws, attack rolls, ability checks, skill checks, and weapon damage rolls.
Inspire +2 to most of the same things
Round 2
Silas
Bodyguards
Muscle
Ladies
Bloodeye
Lucanor
Hecktor
Gilmork
Jaxom
Silas lunges towards the nearest guard, while simultaneously imbuing his blades with a trickle of power. He parries one blow leaving the man wide open for a pair of strikes aimed at his kidneys! The twin blades leave a faint blue trial in the air as they whirl about in deadly patterns.
Jaxom summons fire elemental and begins summoning again. The three elementals swarm on Blue hitting once for
Round 2
Silas goes Ginsu on Blue and hits for 25
Bodyguards each drink another potion and then arm themselves more appropriately.
Muscle
Green hurls a dagger at Hecktor hitting Hecktor for and Hecktor feels funny Hecktor takes DEX damage from the Giant Wasp Poison.
Yellow stabs Hecktor with a poisoned dagger! hitting Hecktor for and Hecktor feels funny but only for a second. Yellow then dodges away from Hecktor but Hecktor isn't having any of that and dispatches the poison wielding menace
Blue stabs at Silas hitting the Bard for and Silas feels funny but only for a second. Blue dodges away from his enemies
Red stabs Lucanor with a poisoned dagger! hitting Lucanor for and Lucanorfeels funny but only for a second. The Rogue then dodges away from Lucanor
Ladies all back away into the corner, but they have small daggers clutched in their hands.
Bloodeye makes an appearance and shouts Tuskless Pigs! You dare attack me in my house! and he intones something very mystical...a spell perhaps?
Lucanor
Hecktor
Gilmork
Jaxom
Hecktor is poisoned for 5 rounds DC 18 1d2DEX damage
Good Hope +2 morale bonus on saving throws, attack rolls, ability checks, skill checks, and weapon damage rolls.
Inspire +2 to most of the same things
Round 3
Silas
Bodyguards
Muscle
Ladies
Bloodeye
Lucanor
Hecktor
Gilmork
Jaxom
Hecktor moves up to green to strike back, the fullplate with skull face closing in for the kill.
"BIG mistake little man."
Gilmork moves up between Hecktor and Lucanor and incites a prayer to Gozreh, asking for his aid to the group.
Silas tries to catch the man as he backs away from his assault, but he's too nimble and the blade bites only thin air.
As Bloodeye enters the room, a visceral hatred causes a red rage to welling up deep inside. Like a mad man, Silas surges forwards and jumps up onto the table next to the rogue who ran away.
Glowering beet red in the face, Silas point one bloodied blade at Bloodeye and shouts with incredible vitriol, "Pigs eh? Ah look, it's the godless swine himself. Time to make mincemeat of this traitorous rapist and murder! JUSTICE. WILL. BE. SERVED!"
With all that rage, Silas has no clue what spell was actually cast by Bloodeye.
Lucanor feels the cut, but shakes it off, then Bloodeye comes in, "Bloodeye, you'll never force another woman to do anything she doesn't want to again. We'll see to that."
Seeing his prey has backed away a good distance, Lucanor casts bless upon his allies.
Lucanor holds his action
Hecktor loses more DEX. He also has to double move to get to Green since there are tables/chairs in the way that act as difficult terrain.
Gilmork casts Prayer
Jaxom finishes another Summons more fire elementals show up it attacks. Jaxom casts HASTE on his allies.
Round 3
Silas casts Blistering invective and now I have to roll six reflex saves Green goes down in flames. Blue catches fire and the bodyguards both catch fire.
Bodyguards put themselves out. miss.
Muscle
Blue burns for and tries to stab Silas
Red hurls a dagger at Lucanor hitting Luc for and Luc feels funny Lucanor takes dex damage
Ladies scream in confusion and remain still
Bloodeye says Now you know what it will be like to face the Boss in his own den. and the chairs in the room spring to life! Bloodeye says Kill the intruders. and he draws his own weapons after downing a potion.
The Furniture
hit
hit
Lucanor
Hecktor
Gilmork
Jaxom
Hecktor is poisoned for 4 rounds DC 18 1d2DEX damage
Lucanor is poisoned for 5 rounds DC 18 1d2DEX damage
Good Hope +2 morale bonus on saving throws, attack rolls, ability checks, skill checks, and weapon damage rolls.
Inspire +2 to most of the same things
Haste +1AC and 1 extra attack on Full Attack 5 rounds
Round 4
Silas
Bodyguards
Muscle
Ladies
Bloodeye
The Furniture
Lucanor
Hecktor
Gilmork
Jaxom
Lucanor casts expeditious retreat
Lucanor springs forward to attack his foe in red
Gilmork takes a 5-foot step forward and fires twice at the red guard in front of Bloodeye.
Bolstered by the many magics the party unleashed and aided by a height advantage, Silas bats away the rogue's lunge and replies with a 1-2-3 flurry of strikes aimed at his neck!
Cured!
Lucanor moves forward, suffing an AoO from the angry chair in front of him the chair misses. Luc misses his attack (no extra attack since you used Spring Attack, and its a full round action)
Hecktor attacks a chair I guess, he reduces it to splinters.
Gilmork hits twice for a total of 31 (no crit their AC is above 21)
Jaxom's elementals all attack stuff and I'm annoyed I have to roll this many extra d20s
miss
miss
miss
miss
Round 4
Silas ginsu's through the Rogue and deals 16 damage to the chair (Hardness 5)
Bodyguards one drinks a potion the other attacks the Elemental
Muscle the only one left flips backwards away from Luc and Luc gets a free swipe hitting for . The Rogue flips another dagger at Lucanor hitting Luc for and Luc feels funny Luc barely resists this application of poison.
Ladies the presence of Bloodeye galvanizes the women into action...one of them sneaks up behind Silas and tries to stab him in the back! however her fear of the Adventurer makes her attack go awry. Bloodeye chortles Yania you're a good earner, but that dagger just aint meant for ya.
Bloodeye speaks a magic word and disappears (Spellcraft to ID, Perception DC 25 to spot Bloodeye)
The Furniture
hit
miss
hit
miss
miss
miss
Lucanor
Hecktor
Gilmork
Jaxom
Lucanor is poisoned for 4 rounds DC 18 1d2DEX damage
Good Hope +2 morale bonus on saving throws, attack rolls, ability checks, skill checks, and weapon damage rolls.
Inspire +2 to most of the same things
Haste +1AC and 1 extra attack on Full Attack 4 rounds
Prayer +1 to rolls, -1 to enemies
Round 5
Silas
Bodyguards
Muscle
Ladies
Bloodeye
The Furniture
Lucanor
Hecktor
Gilmork
Jaxom
Gilmork sees Boodeye disappearing and knows what kind of spell it could be. He has seen Jaxom and Lucanor use it often enough. Alas his ears and eyes can't pick up his position.
"Let's get this sorted out. Bloodeye! You're going down for all you've done here and with Kreed. I hope you've said your prayers, cause you will be down in hell tonight!"
Gilmork takes another step closer and raises his bow to kill of the red thug, switching to the red guard if the thug goes down.
"Coward, always hiding behind others. Those women have more balls than you do, you weasel."
Hecktor 5ft steps towards where Bloodeye was last.
Attack targets:
1) blue chair
2) white/in black chair
3) 5ft onto white/in black's square and hit pink.
Unless they happen to have 30hp plus, then it's hit till it drops.
Lucanor can target the square that Bloodeye is in, the spell he used is part of a Ring of Invisibility. Also, Luc passes his save! No more dex damage.
Lucanor grins, and invokes a spell he hasn't used yet, "Feel free to tear him a new one when he appears... now"
Silas laughs easily, "Stay out of this Yania. Besides you've been drinkin', why else would you be seeing double? Or perhaps even quadruple... Yeah that piggy has been serving craaaaazy juice!"
Three of the elementals attack the animated chairs, and the final one to the south attacks one of the thugs.
Lucanor purges invisibility making Bloodeye very visible.
Hecktor tries to 5' step but cannot due to difficult terrain, however he moves left and attacks Bloodeye, but misses (I used your first roll)
Gilmork drops the rogue and hits the bodyguard once for 13
Jaxom's elementals don't do much versus the chairs besides scorch them a little, however one hits the boduguard. Jaxom nukes Bloodeye for
Round 5
Silas casts Mirror Image
Bodyguards Blue attacks the Elemental hitting for
Red steps forward and attempts to disarm Lucanor but Luc keeps ahold of Crythua.
Ladies scream in terror at the multiple Silas' and attempt retreat. Bloodeye grunts Worthless dogs! I'll deal with you later!
Bloodeye tumbles forward suffering an AoO from Hecktor who hits him for 24 (used your second roll) Bloodeye stabs Hecktor with a poisoned dagger! dealing and Hecktor feels funny but only for a second.
The Furniture
miss
Lucanor
Hecktor
Gilmork
Jaxom
Good Hope +2 morale bonus on saving throws, attack rolls, ability checks, skill checks, and weapon damage rolls.
Inspire +2 to most of the same things
Haste +1AC and 1 extra attack on Full Attack 3 rounds
Prayer +1 to rolls, -1 to enemies
Silas Mirror Image 4 images
Round 6
Silas
Bodyguards
Ladies
Bloodeye
The Furniture
Lucanor
Hecktor
Gilmork
Jaxom
Silas cut's him down to size verbally, "There's no later for you piggie. Treason is a capital offence, as is drug dealing and keeping slaves."
Having three good reasons to put him down, Silas tries to use the superior reach of his swords to strike past Bloodeye's dagger.
If Bloodeye didn't die from Silas' weapons, Hecktor has some beef with him.
If Bloodeye dies before his full attack is completed, the remaining swings go for the chairs.
Jaxom begins another summoning spell.
The elementals continue to attack their previous targets.
"Gents, I hate old Bloodeye powerful bad, but Iomedae teaches us justice being done is more important than who does it. So do feel free to purge him from this town once and for all if you have a chance to do so before I do."
Indeed, Lucanor is forced to focus on the fellow who tried to disarm him. His blade stays in his hands, and swings out twice powered by the haste granted him.
Silas and Hecktor combine to slay the hated drug dealer and pimp known as Kabran Bloodeye. Bloodye's death ends the spell that animates the chairs and seeing his employer go down causes the kukri wielding man in front of Lucanor to say I surrender! Ain't dying for that bastard, not when he ain't payin no more.
The two womenfolk rush out the door of the Rouge Lady into the dark night of Falcons Hollow and soon a quiet envelops the tavern/cathouse.
Hecktor stays silent for a moment, looking at the bloody slicing he and Silas had done to Bloodeye.
He then drily adds; "Well, the Hollow's a bit cleaner now, everyone not too beaten up?"
Maybe Silas is shaking with tension, maybe not.
I feel strangely calm, but content.
"Been better, been worse," Lucanor says, then eyes the man who surrendered, "You'll be putting down your weapons and answering any and all questions we've got of you, and then, I'll be taking your oath that you'll be leaving town and never returning. Seems a fair price to pay for your life, I'm thinking."
To the remaining ladies, "Ladies, I am not here to tell you how to live your lives. But I do want to make sure you're doing it of your own free will. It's not a life I'd suggest, but if you insist on it, I want to be certain none of you are beaten beaten, bullied, or coerced. We want to free you like we want to free the rest of the town. Silas can explain it sweeter than I, but it's the plum truth."
Silas starts to feel jittery and queazy now the fight is over. So much so, he needs to step outside for a moment. After a couple of minutes he steps back, looking a little better. He inspects the items found by the party.
He catches the tail end of Lucanor's speech and nods, "Many of you owed Bloodeye a debt, a debt he saw to that you could never repay. He no doubt described it in terms of a business transaction. He promised to give you a place to stay and work while you pay the debt off, of course you couldn't. Perhaps he said he'd protect you from the worst of the customers, I've no doubt he did that from time to time. Plenty of bodies have been found downriver with a knife in the back. But the thing is he didn't always protect you did he. And another thing, that business arrangement he had you y'all. There's another word for that. Slavery. I mean to see that you don't get taken advantage of again. Each of you ladies, including Yania is getting 100 gold out of my pocket. To start a new life with. You don't need to stay here, in fact given the way things are I'd suggest you leave. But if you want to say you can, and we'll do our best to protect you."
Ring of Invisibility
Potion of False Life
Potion of Cure Moderate Wounds
Potion of Barkskin
The burly bodyguard, a man Hecktor recognizes as a mercenary, says I'll give up my weapons...but leaving here at night without em is a death sentence. Can I wait until morning?
There isn't anyone left in the tavern for Silas and Lucanor to speak with
"I've seen you around the mercenaries hall in Almas.
When did he hire your rotten ass?"
While Hecktor questions the man, Silas has a quiet word with Lucanor, "I suggest we search this place thoroughly, then torch it. This can be Bloodeye's pyre. We'll need to escape, I think going north along the river for a while is best. We'll cut into the woods and avoid town tomorrow, unless we are feeling very daring. There's Vade's tower to clear potentially..."
With backup, incase of surprises, Silas checks the unexplored room to the south and then the cellar. He'll cast a light spell before venturing below.
The Southern Room is Bloodeye's "chambers" and the two small rooms where his girls entertained clients. Inside after a careful search you find several large gold bars (5) and GP worth of coins. This was Bloodeye's stash of on hand money.
The Mercenary responds to Hecktor Worked for Bloodeye since last summer...he felt he needed some real fighters with him and not drug addled scum he nods at the "muscle" that Bloodeye usually employed.
The cellar is a storage room, inside are several boxes of illegal drugs as well as more mundane things like alcohol and foodstuffs.
"So you regulators have been here all this time now.
Since you're here anyway, having protected this dead sack of scum, you must have heard or seen some of the people or 'things' he has been dealing with. Monsters for starters, like trolls and flying old women. He's not hired both you guys and them for nothing. What the hell's he been up to?"
Regulators? I ain't one of them. I'm non affiliated. Just a man earning a living...Bloodeye wasn't keen on the trolls an harpies..said they was bad for business. He liked things like they was..he was working something to get rid of the Gavel. But I guess that's done with now huh.
"mmm," Lucanor looks over the merc
"How would you like a new job?" Lucanor finally says to the man who was trying to kill him, "Assuming you staying loyal to an employer until he dies would apply to me as well?"
Depends on the risk involved. And the pay. the man replies without a thought.
Is there anywhere unexplored? If so
"Sorry, Silas. Didn't mean to ignore you, but this fellow maybe of use." He gestures to the mercenary, "Hecktor, you know the going rate for fair?"