Jack draws his cold iron dagger while moving toward the scrum. He then readies an attack on the first fey to fly within range.
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"Get off her you vile little ... you little... things!"
She growled before the report of his pistol went off.
Meliora takes a short step back behind the beefier party members and tries a Ray of Frost on the green that's still up.
Tries being the operative word, here.
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One of the creatures attempt to pinch Micheria's finger with it's pliers but it fails to do so as Micheria moves her hand to attempt a block from the other two who connects their attacks.
The last creature standing over by Jack jams it's pliers into his mouth and with a mighty pull for such a little creature removes one of Jack's canines. (1 damage and 1 cha damage)
Round 2: Blod may act.
Meliora, Canacha
Lena
Creatures yellow, red, green (3 dmg)
Jack Micheria
"Why you little...! I'm gonna carve out mo' than yo' tooff!" Jack snarls, stabbing at the amateur dentist.
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Lina moves up into the s pace with one of the little monsters, and swings her mace at it. "Little creep. I want to keep my teeth. Thank you."
Closing her mouth tight Mic continues her assault on the faeries around her. She aims a blow at each of the red tinged faeries.
"Dont worry Mic we are coming!"
She called out reloading her pistol then was a frown at the distance took a breath centering her thoughts hurrying forward with a flip through the ugly creatures to clear her path to make it easier to get to Mic.
Meliora draws her cold iron dagger (in case one flies into her square, she wants to stab at things that'd provoke AoO's!)
Then, it's time for another ray of frost to the green one that's still up.
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COmbat is quickly over with the last of the fairies being taken out by you all in a shower of fist, mace and daggers. You are sure that the multitude of injuries on the last victim you examined could come from a small gang like these attack in conjuction. It's past sunset and the patroles are begining to increase, but not inside the NUrsery just yet.
Mic takes a moment to find her tooth and scoop it back up. She does her best to fit it back into her mouth wincing at the attempt.
Frustrated she picks up the faerie to take with her as both proof and a grim trophy.
"I guess we should get inside though I would not want to be the patrol that tries to talk to me right now."
She wipes the blood off her face mumbling about the stupid faeries.
Jack, likewise, retrieves his stolen tooth, nodding at Mic's decision to nab a fairy corpse as proof. He grabs a set of pliers as further proof.
"Maybe we should bring the whole gaggle of these things. One doesn't look to scary I guess."
”Maybe we should check for a nest in case there are more of them.”
Meliora thinks about it for a moment, as she makes sure to CDG the ones her spray knocked out with her cold iron dagger. ”If we check on the locations of the dead on a map, we should get some kind of useable circle to check through, particularly if we rule out areas where people frequent.”
Lena moves up to Mic. "Let me help." She casts Cure Light Wounds on her. Then moves up to Jack and does the same.
"If they live in nests that sounds good but I have no idea where to look. Best we can do at the moment is let the folks around here the threat is, if not removed, at least lessened."
Let rest the night and bring these things to whats-her-name in the AM.
"Lets bring all the stupid things with us, nasty little creatures."
She muttered kicking dirt from the ground at one of them. She was certainly glad they didnt try to remove her teeth, it would have hurt a lot she bet. She was certainly glad they had Lena along, It wouldnt do her anygood probably but having a healer about for everyone else was probably a good thing.
|Do you think Zea will be glad we stopped these things... assuming it was these things responsible and will like help us out? She seems like a nice enough person, certainly has no love for the stupid Thru... uh mayor in change right now."
She began biting back a large yawn. Adventuring was so excitible and tiring at the same time.
"Which way did they come from? Did anyone see? We should try to back track them and see if we can find a nest or whatever tooth pulling fey live in." Lena tries to head in the direction she thinks they came from.
Meliora attempts to help look!
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The group searches around the nursery all through the night but doens't find anything they for certain could call a hideout for the tiny creatures. They did find a small cavelike hole in a green area but it was to small and dark to get a good look inside.
The next night the group with Mic acting lonely victim again spends a few good hours to lure more attackers out, but despite a few drunks they encounter nothing and can now only wait and see if the streets of the nursery is safe to walk again.
You have a few rumors to follow up on from here and some loose ends you can tie up if you like to do those now.
First rumor: “Take care traveling alone at night in Redroof or Temple Hill. The gangs there are getting restless, and they say the Red Jills’ boss has gone some sort of crazy.”
And: “The Thrashing Badger burned down a few nights ago. They’re saying it was another bar fight gone too far, but they’re just a bunch of drunk old professors and barristers… Seems like a lot of places are burning down lately, between this, the Silver Star, and the Victocora estate.”
On the last note a week has soon passed since you started the rebellion so prepare to do the rebellion rolls again and let me know when you are going back to the hideout.
Jack flashes a restored smile and thanks Lena for the healing and restoring his good looks.
When the next night passes without an attack, he states that the threat's likely been eliminated but warns his comrades not to expect much thanks or any reward from the inhabitants of the Devil's Nursery.
"They might give us some begrudging respect or let us pass through their streets unharmed, but that's about it. This city treats them as little more than animals, and they hold a grudge."
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Retcon seems my pdf has gotten corrupted and missed a few paragrphes.
The next night the group with Mic acting lonely victim again spends a few good hours to lure more attackers out, but despite a few drunks they encounter nothing and can now only wait and see if the streets of the nursery is safe to walk again.
At the small cave the two remaining creatures swarm out to attack you but are quickly killed by you all. Further investigating the cave reveals a chamber slowly being decorated with teeth of all sorts including a gold one. A more interesting find than the gold tooth lies in the far side of the area, where the broken, toothless body of a young tiefling child has been set in a place of reverence in a niche in the wall. The child’s body has been tightly wrapped with thick preserved sinews, its wrists and ankles shattered and bound with cold iron chains. All but one of its teeth have been knocked from its jaws.
An examination of the grisly find reveals dozens of phrases have been inscribed in a language non of you recognise in very fine writing along the sinews.
"That is gruesome. What in Milani's name caused this?" Lena takes the body of the child out of the chains and lays it down carefully. "I think we found the source of the creatures. But who did this?"
Meliora transcribes the letters and whatnot onto the back of one of her scrolls for later translation. She'd been planning on picking up Comprehend Languages sooner or later, so this was a good excuse to do it.
"If I were to hazard a guess? Someone who really doesn't like tieflings, and knows more about fey than any of us." Her nonanswer is as flippant as ever while she does her work. "Since we're out anyways, you guys want to go check out the burned down bar? Might be something there, and it's not likely we'll run into too much trouble what with the Thrunies already having burned the place down. We can ask Zea in the morning about the gold tooth, and let her know about the kid so they can. Well."
She gestures at Lena.
"You do god stuff. You know."
Mic shudders as she looks at the body.
"Just terrible. A good reminder to us all that monsters exist everywhere in Golarian. Would we be safe to move the body do you think? The parents need a chance to say goodbye at the very least."
Mic will not easily move on without doing something with the body. The loss of a family member strikes a nerve with her.
"I can say some prayers over the wee one. Then we can let Zea know what we found. She may know who the family is." Lena carefully folds the hands of the body and begins to say prayers over it.
Jack stands silently, a grim look on his face as the others discuss the dead tiefling child and what to do next. Eventually, he speaks his mind.
"This may sound cold, but this child's murder might be spun to our advantage. Tieflings are despised in this city, especially by those in power. If we make public what we found--how this child was used by some monster to terrorize and kill other tieflings--well, assuming the locals have heard about the Night of Ashes, it seems a safe bet their anger and outrage should be directed toward our new tyrannical Lord-Mayor. He has no compunction against killing those he sees as a threat or nuisance. Shall I try to sow a seed of vengeance and rebellion in Zea when next we see her?"
"Sure. Work your people magic or whatever." Meliora shakes her head, politely opting to look elsewhere once her transcription work is done. "Just. Maybe next time phrase it differently? I'm supposed to be the ruthless one here, yeah, but 'spinning a child murder to our advantage...' Ehh, just seems like that sort of thinking's a couple inches from being as bad as the guy who we're trying to gut."
With that said, she thinks things through a bit further.
"You'll need proof, though. This coulda' been any kind of sicko, and Thrune seems more like the devil type than the creepy fey type. Not to mention that the tieflings are already on the down and out with Thrune... we really don't need to do much more than just show we give a flying fighter about 'em and they'll come around to help us eventually...
Right?" She gives a short glance over in Mic's direction.
Jack quirks an eyebrow when Meliora describes herself as 'ruthless,' but then nods at her words.
"I think that was just my frustration speaking. You saw how suspicious the tiefling population was when we said we were here to help just to make the streets safer. They have an 'Us vs. Them' mentality...and some sicko just used one of their children in a dark ritual to bring killer fey into their midst. That won't be forgiven. Maybe it's a pipe dream on my part, but it seems logical that the tieflings of Kintargo should be our allies if we're really intending to get rid of Thrune."
"I get ya', yeah, but..."
Ack. Words. Failing her. She rubs her temples. Why is it always so easy to talk about heavy stuff like people getting murdered or how she's going to this-or-that if so-and-so doesn't capitulate, and so hard to talk about anything delicate?!
She makes a mental note to research a spell to just get the concepts she wants to convey out in as eloquent a manner as possible. Actually, now that she thinks on it, such a spell probably exists already. Knowing her luck, it's from ~enchantment~.
Surely, by this point Nethys himself had to be laughing at her regrets over her choice of major.
"I want to get along with the tieflings just as bad as you do, and almost as bad as I wanna' rub that gnome's nose in all the good we've done and get him to admit we're the Ravens. Just... Be careful?" It's the best that she can come up with, and she tries to back away with an immediate joke.
"Enchantment's one of my bad schools, so I don't know how to charm anyone if you mess up, right?"
Listening to the others Mic is intreguied by the idea of winning over an area to support them in their struggle.
"I think Jack's idea has merit. Rather then saying it is to our advantage I think it is easier to say it shows we care more about the people then the cities leaders to. The best thing would to bring Zea in, let her see and spread the word as to what happened."
"If we word things properly we can imply its Thrunes fault without actually saying its their fault. These folk are angry, wouldnt be too hard to get them to chose a scapegoat... especially when the goat in question is an evil jerk face. I'm with you on the gnome... im half tempted to work up an actual shop to make healing items and selling them on the cheap to run his business to the ground. Hells... he should owe us for trying to blow jack jack up."
She grumbled watching the others. She was frustrated enough her mind couldnt really focus on anything... which was certainly strange...at least for her.
IN WHICH TIME MARCHES ON...
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Yes, thank you Meliora.
Also, I'm officially putting my bonus skill point into Knowledge (local). Probably. :)
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At the beginning of the new week Rexus comes to the group with a stack of notes on what he has learnt from the documents they recovered earliere. "Many of the original Silver Ravens were adventurers or worshipers of Milani. Jackdaw, a swashbuckler, was the most powerful and influential of them all, but others who rose to particular prominence among the Silver Ravens were Amyreid (a female half-elf cleric of Milani), Ba (a male halfling enchanter), Kyda (a female human rogue/bard), and Brakisi (a male human urban ranger)."
After the group has had some much needed rest upon the events in the nursery, they have decided to investigate the burnt down buildings from the night of the ashes. As they are about to leave the hideout Rexus comes to them with some knowledge "I heard that you were going to looking into the fire the Thrashing Badger. During the Night of Ashes, three buildings mysteriously burned to the ground, not just this tavern. No one’s saying it out loud, but the general consensus is that these three buildings (and many of their occupants) were specifically targeted by Barzillai Thrune as dens of sedition. The other two buildings were a music store called the Silver Star and my family's estate. I think our estate was targeted because of my parents who were part of the Sacred Order of Archivists."
The Silver Star was not only owned by Shensen but the stores basement served as a shrine to Sarenrae.
The Thrashing badger were reputed to be a favorite watering hole for the rebellious cult of Milani.