Tully takes you to , this slave pen
Its not as full there is two sad looking human females and a young elf boy.
The is a half orc half sleeping buy the gate the opens the slave pan.
"Tully, you sell them here?" Akira asked, trying to hold his gut.
"No not me, I sell Ale not slave, thats Ingorts trade not mine, thats Ingorts guy Gloth, he looks after the ben, feeds em and brings up out if they are poxed. He takes em to the pigs."
"No not me, I sell Ale not slave, thats Ingorts trade not mine, thats Ingorts guy Gloth, he looks after the ben, feeds em and brings up out if they are poxed. He takes em to the pigs."
"So if I understand you correctly, Ingort is the one that sells them, correct?" said Akira. "And you sell ale. Gloth there looks after the slaves and brings them up if they are under a disease. So, a pig is someone who buys the slave, is that also correct?"
Akira was wondering if he will get his chance to charm Ingotr. But that won't help the slaves' plight. They needed help now. He didn't want to waste a charm on Gloth. Still, if Gloth were on his side, he might get Gloth to open up the door and free the slaves. That would count on Gloth being stupid enough to fall for his charm overwhelmingly. Or, by the look of him, he was too stupid. He wondered if he could get the elves of Kyonin involved in freeing the slaves. But they needed help now.
"Do you think slavery is a good thing?" Akira asked Tully. "Shouldn't they be free to figure out their own destiny? How is it a good thing for them being a slave?"
"NArr not pigs mean them"
He points of at a pig farmer which picks in a muck yard.
"They get fed to the pigs, as for is it bad. Look I do my trade and others do theirs I don't ask what they do or question it"
The elf boy has not moved, Gloth gets up from his rest,
"The wee ones sick, been cofin and shiverin all night time ta feed the pigs."
he unlocks the gate and heads on to drag the child out
The elf boy has not moved, Gloth gets up from his rest,
"The wee ones sick, been cofin and shiverin all night time ta feed the pigs."
he unlocks the gate and heads on to drag the child out
"Thank you for showing me the slave pens," said Akira. "Are these slaves for sale? Or are they Ingotr's personal slaves?"
Gloth stops and looks at the group.
As he dose the two human women slaves moves over as if to protect the elf child from him. One says
"You can't take him, your crimes will be punished from on high. You.."
"SHUT YOU MOUTH SLAVE, YOU ANY GOT NOTHING TO SAY TAO ME!"
Gloth orders.
"The Boss can't sell em, they some religus-nut-mad-women them are, every time he bring them out off they go about gods and stuff. Ant worth anything but pig food if you ask me, I stopped feeding dem days ago, if you want to buy em ye, boss would be glad to see the back of em. But if they die any my problem so how much you offerin he says."
The human woman hearing this looks with pleading eyes.
"Sirs, I don't know you but we are no slaves, if you buy us and set us free you will be repaid by the gods ten fold I swear it."
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A tuft small but red, Fox fur, Kitsune fur. There where Kitsune with them for sure
Gloth stops and looks at the group.
As he dose the two human women slaves moves over as if to protect the elf child from him. One says"You can't take him, your crimes will be punished from on high. You.."
"SHUT YOU MOUTH SLAVE, YOU ANY GOT NOTHING TO SAY TAO ME!"
Gloth orders.
"The Boss can't sell em, they some religus-nut-mad-women them are, every time he bring them out off they go about gods and stuff. Ant worth anything but pig food if you ask me, I stopped feeding dem days ago, if you want to buy em ye, boss would be glad to see the back of em. But if they die any my problem so how much you offerin he says."
The human woman hearing this looks with pleading eyes.
"Sirs, I don't know you but we are no slaves, if you buy us and set us free you will be repaid by the gods ten fold I swear it."
"I'm more concerned about the boy," said Akira.
"I don't get it. This is exactly what I mean. Why would anyone want a slave? Seems like more of a bother than a blessing to me. And now you are just going to toss them to the pigs as food? If they were free they could be hunting or farming and producing something for the good of all. Pig food is cheap. Surely they could produce more than pig food if they were free. I just don't get it. I got a couple of gold here. It's worth a couple gold to see what they could do if the were free, don't you think guys? How does one become a slave, anyway? Is it a debt thing or something? That would almost make sense - you know, pay off your debt and all."
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"I'm more concerned about the boy," said Akira.
from the tattoos on the woman they follow the faith of Alseta
Alseta is the goddess of doorways, portals, thresholds, and the transition from year to year. She maintains favorable relations with most civilized deities, watching over their domains in times of their absence or playing hostess for gatherings of gods. She is informally the goddess of teleportation, which comes with her dominion over doorways, though this additional aspect of her portfolio is unofficial. Elves also consider her the patron deity of elf gates, though again, this is not part of her official portfolio.
"Narr they are a job lot, 300 each thats 900 and ya can have em
"900 copper? I think we can manage to get that much between us."
"Nice try mate but gold is the price 900 gold"
Tally is honestly shocked.
"GOLD! How much does pig food cost around here? Are you kidding me? How about I find 500 pounds of pig food somewhere and trade you? Win-win. These little fellows can't weigh that much between them. Heck, the pig can't be worth that much. You ARE kidding me, right?"
"He does have a point, is pig food that expensive around here?" said Akira.
Yuichi shakes his head. "Wouldn't know one track from the next. Horses, maybe? Mules?"
Still waiting for the others to gather, Yuichi decides to try and keep the conversation going with something he actually did know something about. "You want to see a neat trick?"
And with that, Yuichi shifts into the human form that Tsume had, matching him completely except for the clothing.
"Pretty cool, right?" Yuichi asks, obviously proud at the one kitsune talent he was good at.
Tsume starts as Yuichi changes. Kiba looks back and forth between the two 'Tsumes' and hisses in irritation at Yuichi.
"How many can do this?" Tsume asks, after he recovers.
Gloth smiles "I seen that one, we hate a stage mage here last year, he made himself look like dar barman maid and Gliff the cook, then turned into a duck, can you become a duck, it was funny"
She looks back at the slaves
"Look give me 300 and you can have all three, all just say two of em died."
Hes lying he would say they are ALL dead and pocket the coin
Tally is just not quite grasping all of this. 300gp sounds just as stupid as 900gp, but what does he know about slaves and pig food. He's just a hunter. What he does know is that you could feed a person for a year on that much money. No pig is worth 300 gp, so there must be something else involved in all this. He shakes his head and walks off a bit to scan the horizon and check out the tracks left by the previous slaves, trying to get a decent independent count, and to see who else is about in case there is trouble.
Yuichi shifts back into his own form, looking a bit nervous from Tsume's hissing brother. "I know that Fei can do it, but my brother can't even though he's a whole lot better at magic than me."
Gloth smiles "I seen that one, we hate a stage mage here last year, he made himself look like dar barman maid and Gliff the cook, then turned into a duck, can you become a duck, it was funny"
She looks back at the slaves
"Look give me 300 and you can have all three, all just say two of em died."
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"You know, the secret of making a lie is this," said Akira. "You have to make sure the one you're lying to is gullible. After all, Manners maketh the man."
Akira casts hydraulic push at the Half-orc. "Watashi wa yuatsu pusshu o kyasuto." Translated to I cast Hydraulic Push.
"Sorry about that. Tally, are you going to stand there or are you going to fight?"
The half orc guard thinking your going to cast another funny joke trick looks close at your hands AkiraK before being slammed by the push. He hits the wall behind him and falls on to his back side.
He looks up at you bewildered
"What ya do that for?"
He asks, trying to work out is this is a track or attack.
tUlly the barman who is charmed and with you seem also shocked.
"Look I don't want to trouble"
He says holding up his hands and backing away from the group.
Then as AkiraK says fight the orc ranges and starts to get up.
Tally is somewhat shocked that the bartering turned to violence all of a sudden.
"Fight? What? Why? Uh, sorry mister, I'll try not to hurt you too bad."
Usually, Tally's tactics are to use his spear to get an AoO, then rage and attack with his hands and teeth, or charge with the spear, then drop it and go teeth and claw. But he is a bit restrained here, not really understanding why there is a fight. It seems rather rude of the mage to plaster the poor fellow with a water blast and then tell Tally to step up and beat him up. He hasn't quite picked up on the fact that the half-orc has entered a rage.
Tally moves up tries to take a non-lethal swing with the spear.
He winces as the spear connects (provided it connects), and says, "Perhaps if you just surrendered? Akira, this seems so unsporting to me. Why am I doing this?"
"The idea is to knock him out," he said. "Lets teach him a lesson. If we knock him out here, we can teach him a lesson about keeping slaves."
Akira wasn't trained to fight unarmed. But he hoped Tally would be trained to knock him out with that spear. Akira was preparing another spell. This time, mirror image, so he could give Tally enough time to knock out the half-orc.
The Orc seeks to get back up.
"What's he up to now!?" Yuichi mutters, drawing his knives.
However, he stops right before rushing toward his twin. His brother had a defender from the half-orc, but just how much would this fight spread in the town?
Changing tack, Yuichi slides his knives up his sleeves for the moment and moves toward cover to keep watch for anyone that tries to interfere.
"Fighting in the nest?" Tsume asks, confused. He follows Yuichi, Kiba trailing after, not quite certain what's going on.
"Watashi wa kyōzō o nageta" says Akira. Translated as: I cast mirror image. Suddenly four different Akiras pop up around him. Akira prepares daze as his next spell.
"Come on, Tally, just beat the half-orc and we can move on."
Saino is distracted outside, looking at the grass and caressing his fox. The rest is doing whatever they're doing, and he doesn't really be a part of it. Suddenly, though, he hears a loud noise. He comes in and check what happened, only to find various copies of Akira and the half-orc getting up ready to fight.
"What the...?"
Set on the map and adjusted to squares size.
The half orc on the ground lets out a bellow and a bellow comes back as three more half orcs from down the street come running too his aid. The half orcs running will be with you in rounds
As Yuichi realizes that more will be coming, he begins to move in to intercept them.
Akira is moving to regain his stance, he's surprised by the half-orc's summoning of his fellows. That means he will have to defend himself with his life. He hopes that Yuichi would back him up.
Oh oh. I don't think this is going to end up a nice fight.
Tally drops his spear and enters a rage bellowing in response to the orc. His hair grows bushier, his hands grow claws, and he seems to grow a little larger.
Tally literally rips the throat out of the Half Orc cowing on the floor in fear of this band of attackers. His last words are
"WHY?"
Before he bleeds out.
The other orcs range seeing their brother killed in such a way.
"YOU WILL PAY FOR THAT!!"
Screams the leader angry as hell.
Tully the barman on seeing the gushing and spurting blood from the hapless half orc just massacred before him, snaps out of the glamour on him and in pour shock runs away in fear, shouting
"O my gods help me, they will kill us ALL!! run run for your lives"
Tsume, seeing that there is definitely fighting going on, starts running towards the others, Kiba following him. The pair catch up to and soon pass Yuichi.
While not being approval of wanton massacre, Saino now is put in a situation where he will need to defend his comrades. Whistling a sign to Inari, the big fox literally jumps on the group of orcs, biting and clawing to protect its master and his friends.
The oncoming half orcs lower thire long spears and head for the group.
During that time Tally transitions into a Kitsune and moves rapidly towards the orcs , leaving his own longspear behind. His gutteral snarls, feral fangs and claws, and abundant hair make him look like a wild thing. The bleeding corpse behind him additional evidence of the image.
Tsume and Kiba continue racing to join the fight.
Akira prepares sleep, just in case to take them all out with one spell.
Yuichi runs for Akira, not wanting to leave him alone with so many coming in.
The half orcs lower there long spears and go for the attack as a group.