In that case, Mirabella grabs the ring and turns her attention to the war room. Maps and strategy documents sound yummy!
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After listening at the door for a few moments, Mirabella can't hear anyone on the other side and opens the door. Inside you see a circular table with several chairs sits in this room. Sprawled atop the table are numerous maps of Cheliax, along with several scrolls weighed down by a bejeweled dagger.
Logan didn't want to spend long here, but he quickly hummed a seeking mantra in case there was any magic present.
Mirabella lets out a low whistle, gives the items a quick inspection and checks the dagger and scrolls for magic auras before scooping everything into her pack.
Since this really is not the time for a reading session, Mirabella shoves the papers and maps into her pack, but takes a moment to examine the dagger more closely before storing that.
"All done gathering things?"
She asked pulling out a sking of oil for her latern getting ready to light what was left on fire. She kept it mostly to the table and chairs to keep the fires from spreading everywhere they had to get away after all....
"Anyone have an arrow or crossbow bolt they dont need?"
She asked next looking at ther handywork and pulling out a torch
Jack gladly donates an arrow to the cause.
Looking at the window she did come quick calculations she made a whistling noise and jabbed the arrow into the table....
"There fire caused by an agent trying to do evil... now they wont know if things are stolen or were destroyed.... chaos."
She nodded and prepped to light the table on fire.
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Mirabella identifies the dagger as a +1 merciful dagger, also the scabbard looks rather expensive with it's red garnet pentagram patterns.
While Canacha and Jack are getting ready to torch the room, Zorumar comes running to find you. "My friends I can feel the bindings on me fade away. I thank you for slaying Thrune. As thanks, here is a map over the fort and I have marked the secret door I found on it. I will leave the material plane as soon as possible. But once I have had a few days to recover, I'd like to return with a proper reward for my freedom. Where may I deliver it?"
Logan made sure the door was closed and replied in a whisper (so that the guards in the other room couldn't hear), "Thank you, Zorumar. The Lucky Bones in Kintargo."
Turning to the others he suggested, "Lets try this secret door? That could lead to what we're looking for."
Logan quickly moves to the top of the spiral staircase and listens, just in case he can hear anything from downstairs.
Mirabella moves after Logan.
"Yes, let's move as quickly as we can. We'll deal with any trouble if it appears."
Logan gingerly walks down the stairs and listens at the door below, and if everything seems quiet he'll try to open it.
Once the others had followed him down the stairs, Logan opened the door as quietly as he could and walked over to the room containing the secret passage. His intent if they encountered any soldiers was to pretend they were still here on official business...
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The party moves unopposed to the next room, Logan notices three off duty guards at the far end of the room enter the door leading to another staircase going up near Thrunes office. They might have heard something and are on their way to check the upstairs.
Logan opens the door into the armory as indicated on the map, where several suits of chainmail armor lie in a neatly organized stack on the floor, while nearby weapon racks hold halberds and crossbows. A large chest sits near the north wall.
She rushes over to the chainmail tossing it in her pack and then appropriates one of the halberds...
"how does this thing work quietly? like poke poke or like swish swish?"
The party moves unopposed to the next room, Logan notices three off duty guards at the far end of the room enter the door leading to another staircase going up near Thrunes office. They might have heard something and are on their way to check the upstairs.
"Quick, call them back down the stairs...we have to deal with them or they will raise the alarm and free the ones we just tied up." she says to Logan.
"Both-both!" Jack quietly answers Canacha with a grin. He gives a more serious nod at Mirabella's words to Logan. The chest intrigues him, however, so he leaves guard deception and redeployment to his fellow nobleman and examines the chest for traps. After that, he'll decide on whether or not there's time to try to pick a lock on the chest or simply hide to ambush the guards, depending upon developments.
Logan cringes inwardly, hating how easily aristocratic presumption and hubris comes to him. Puffing himself up and looking down his nose at them as he adopts a commanding tone, "Oi! You! Yes all three of you. I require your assistance, by imperial command we are performing a survey of the stonework and there things inside this here armoury that are in the way. You will move them for us."
Bicks shudders and whispers, "I don't think I have heard Logan speak that way before. Quite startling. Well done."
As the guards get to work, Logan gives Mirabella a pointed look since he's uncertain what to do with them after.
Discreetly, Mirabella signals to the rest of the group to get their weapons ready. Then, when the guards are done with the work, she says.
"Thank you kindly for the help, gentlemen. Now, I regret to inform you that there has been a change in the command structure of this fortress. I'd strongly advise you to surrender your weapons or suffer the same fate as your recently deceased commander!"
"yay more practice with the tying up and we dont have to smash their cute little faces in...."
She gave her best toothy grin directing one of them to lay done on his belly so she could tie him up proper....
Logan disarms and ties the soldiers up, he wasn't quite as harsh this time not cutting the blood flow off. He hoped he wouldn't regret it.
"Well then," he said "We've had a tip off that something is irregular with the stonework in this here room. Time for an inspection!"
With that he sets about trying to find a hidden door.
"I suggest we get this lot stowed away upstairs along with their buddies we found sleeping before we proceed. And I'd also feel safer if we could take Lucien's pet Erinyes out of the equation. Any of you lot know where that one would be at this time?"
"We could... But we're right here and the Erinyes isn't." pointed out Logan.
"I just want to make sure we're not rushing into trouble if we come back in a hurry with the entire keep about to collapse. On the other hand, you are right...we've made it this far without much opposition. Perhaps looking for another fight when we don't have to is asking for trouble.
Logan shrugged as he whispered in reply, "I guess I'd forgotten how destructive this might be. If there's anything in particular we need, like the payroll, perhaps we should get it?"
Jack, poor in coin but fairly rich in equipment, raises one eyebrow when Logan mentions a payroll but then merely shrug. "We didn't join this rebellion to get rich...," he points out with a wistful smile.
"oooh payroll we definitely need that. Also i know we like met someof the cooks here and stuff but i thought there would be more... well you know..."
She glanced at The stalwart Mirabella, her meaning probably clear. There had to be more servents or the like about right? maybe a few officers that should be ... taken out. It wasnt just the commander in charge here right he had to have underlings they should 'take' care of.
"Might be the last time we see aplace like this... are their stables we should free the animals will make it harder for them to report on us quickly too....."
”Lets secure the prisoners and check the secret passage. Once we’re certain we have found what we’re looking for, we can assess if we need to clear out more of the keep or if we can just activate the mechanism and hightail it out of here.”
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Jack warns the others to stay outside the room while he does a quick scan for traps.
If the coast is clear (or if he finds and disables any trap at the room's entrance), he moves to the opposite door and repeats the process there.
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Jack doesn't detect any traps. Jack doesn't make it all the way to the opposite door, as after a few feet into the room two of the statues begins to animate and swiftly draws their warhammers and move to block Jack from going further in.
Turn 1 (Bold may act.)
Jack, Logan, Bicks, Canacha,
Statue A, Statue B,
Mirabella,
Bicks will fire off a burst of radiance DC 17 reflex save.
"Ohh here we go..." muttered Logan before casting a defensive spell and moving to engage the closest statue.
With a thought Logan sent a trickle of power to his blade, causing it to glow softly.
He made an experimental jab, to test the thing's defences.
She wasnt sure that the report of her new gun might not give the game up.. it was certainly louder than clashing steel. Which she was not good at fancy polearm she stole from teh armory or not. There was one thing she could do... She rushed down the stairs mixing a few vials of ingredients which she shoved down Her Jack Jacks mouth.
"Drink up love and go mess up some statues..."
She added with a grin.
temp hp
Jack takes a step forward (if necessary to engage a statue) and goes full ginsu on the stony guardian. After a whole lot of silver flashes, Jack examines his foe to see if he did any damage at all.
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Bicks can feel the statue furthes away isn't affected at all by the spell, while the one closer to you seems to have been dazzled.
Logan's and most of Jack's seems to not be able to hit throught it's natural armor, one of Jack's attacks seems to connect but the statue seems to not take any damage.
The statues attack back at their attackers.
Turn 1+2 (Bold may act.)
Jack, Logan, Bicks, Canacha,
Statue Red (dmg:), Statue Green (dmg:),
Mirabella,