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"Kiri, were you able to see where the fairies went from your spot on the roof? How many were left?" Leora hopes Kiri saw something. Otherwise, she fears they'll be back to patrolling the streets and waiting for the few remaining fairies to ambush them again.
If there is time before they chase after the tooth fairies, Leora will see if there is any chance of saving the dog. She can't help but think of Cayden Cailean's loyal hound, Thunder.
Moving up to the edge of the roof at her name being called she looked down at them. After Leora finished her question the strix woman pointed to the north here she saw the fairies go and said, "Four of them went that way," she paused and corrected herself, "Well three anyway, I got one of them."
"Thank you for trying to save the dog Leora. We can take it to the Manor if it survives. Poor thing." she kneels and pets it keeping an eye out for returning fairies.
T'chazzar raises a white eyebrow and says, "I think this dog is going to need dentures."
Even as Kiri points out where the surviving fairies fled, an angry high-pitched shriek from that direction confirms the strix's words.
Down on the street, Leora's able to save the dog and bring it back to consciousness. When Davina tries to pet the wounded and confused animal, however, it growls weakly, perhaps preparing to bite her hand.
Leora is releived to hear that Kiri saw where the tooth fairies went, and listens to what the rest of the group wants to do - pursue the fairies now or later?
She tosses a bit of trail rations to the dog to see if it will calm down and let Davina pet it. Since the dog is preoccupied with growling at Davina, the piece of jerky hits it on the flank, startling it.
Seething, Domitius stares up the street, toward the sound of mayhem. "We finish this. Now. We've rocked the little plier-wielding jerks back on their heels, to not press on would be folly."
"I agree with Dom - we've got them on the run, we need to find a way to corner them," says T'chazzar.
"Let's get going. I'll worry about the dog later. Assuming we can find him again." she rises from her knees and is ready to move forward.
"Let's get going. I'll worry about the dog later. Assuming we can find him again."
"I'm glad you agree," Dom says as he offers Davina a hand getting up. "Now let's finish this."
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Although the flying fairies have a distinct advantage in movement over your group of landbound souls, the pissed-off little creatures keep giving away their position with angry shrieks and arguments. Your party eventually catches up with the surviving fairies, who are arguing near what appears to be an old coal bin. The little creeps are slow to react to your presence.
Running toward the little monsters, Dom draws a knife and flings it at the nearest one.
Dom's hurled dagger catches one of the fairies in mid-blather: The blade enters the thing's gaping mouth, pierces its brain, sticks out the back of its skull, and--cold iron be damned--drops the critter instantly.
Extremely agitated by the events that led to this fight, Dom doesn't even try to come up with something witty about his kill. He just snarls, "And you'll all get a piece of that," taking grim satisfaction as the fairy dissolves into a puff of dust.
"Oho," says T'chazzar, and he advances on the faeries and once again hurls alchemical fire at them.
"Yessss!" Leora cheers, thrilled that they caught up with the remaining fairies, and that Dom and T'chazzar are taking care of them so quickly. Since she hasn't gotten to try out the new ammunition yet, she aims her handy new cold iron crossbow bolt at one of the fairies towards the back and pulls the trigger.
Davina fires a cold iron bolt at one of the little creatures. She's so excited to finally catch up to the little creeps she misses.
As they chased down the little tooth stealing monsters Kiri leapt from rooftop to rooftop trying to spot them and to have a better vantage point to attack from. When they finally found the itty bitty fey she didn't hesitate as she drew harder on the winds than normal, without preparing herself, and slammed out with a gust of wind at one of them. In her haste she didn't account for how hard the recoil would hit her and the pain made her stagger slightly, throwing her aimd off enough she didn't think she would hit the toothfairy.
T'chazzar's lob breaks over the head of a flat-footed fairy, splashing all his mates a bit as well. While Leora's able to clip one with a cold iron bolt, the attacks of Davina and Kiri miss the mark.
The fairy T'chazzar bonked and set afire tries the old "stop, drop, and roll" technique, but it only manages to roll once before lying still, the alchemical flames still burning its body. The last two tooth fairies make kamikaze flying charges at Dom and T'chazzar in a desperate attempt to bite them.
Dom has had it with things trying to bite him. "Back off, runt."
While Dom's able to impale his flying foe, the drow's unable to defend against the incoming attack, and the tooth fairy chomps into his neck. Although its misshapen teeth barely scratch the skin , the area of the bite begins to tingle a bit.
Your muscles stiffen. You're paralyzed!
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Kiri cursed as her attack missed the fairy but at least the others were hitting well It seemed there was only one of the diminutive things left and it was swarming T'chazzar. Moving along the roof line to get a little closer Kiri unleashed a blast of wind at the creature.
T'chazzar shakes off the nuisance fairy, draws his sword, steps back, and stabs at it!
Davina drops her crossbow, and pulls out the cold iron rapier as she moves forward. She swings out at the small creature careful to miss T'chazzar.
Although Leora hadn't been able to see much in the previous battle, she had caught on that the fairies sometimes exploded in a cloud of nasty white glitter stuff. Hoping to protect at least one of her friends from the effect, she thumps Davina on the shoulder, saying "Drunken Hero, protect Davina from these evil fairies!"
Domitius bears down on T'chazzar. "Something on your shirt." He glances at his comrade and raises an eyebrow. "Hold very still." The gladius sweeps upward quickly.
"You flinched!"
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"I stepped back out of the way!"
"Right! Ty vzdrognul!"
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"Surishtiruvchilar har doim meni urishga harakat qiladilar..."
"Kak roshka. Tak boyalsya nebol'shoy porez..."
Kiri, T'chazzar, Dom, and Davina all aim attacks at the last tooth fairy, but only the latter's draws blood. The fairy hisses as it's wounded, bringing its overly-long pliers to bear against Davina, trying to do some free dental work on the woman who stabbed it. Davina turns her head away, thwarting the attack.
Taking a beat to look over his foe, Domitius stabs at the remaining tooth fairy, but his continued bickering with T'chazzar throws off his aim.
"Vzdrognut!"
"C'mon, I'll show you how it's done" Leora brags, seeing all of her friends attack but not manage to kill the pitiful pixie. She steps forward and swings her cold iron rapier, but she too misses her mark.
"Rats!" she says, as her rapier comes nowhere near its tiny target.
"Rats!" she says, as her rapier comes nowhere near its tiny target.
Leora seems to shake Domitius out of his flinching fixation. He grins, "That was the night before last, Leora. Try to keep up."
"Gentlemen let's finish this thing." she stabs at the little creature hovering right next to T'chazzar's ear impaling it clean through. "Caballero es cómo cuidas de un hada de los dientes." She ducks waiting for the upcoming explosion.
Dom smiles and nods admiringly. "Otlichno, sudarynya." He looks around the alley. "That's probably all of them, no? Any thoughts on how to find their lair, or hideout?"
"I wonder if they lived right around here" Leora says, peering around to see if there are any fairy nests or other signs that they lived nearby.
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After misses by Dom and Leora, Davina shows some excellent swordswomanship, running the last fairy through with her new rapier. Although the little creature ceases struggling, it does not yet explode into foul fairy dust. It does seem to be starting to glimmer a bit, however, as do the bodies of the other three fallen fey.
"Best to get clear of them," Dom says, making an effort to avoid the imminent eruptions of fairy dust.
T'chazzar says, "Who's flinching now?" and simply covers his mouth.
He waves away the sparkling dust. "I think Leora's right, it makes sense that they'd flee from us to their home, or some place they considered a safe place. We should check out all the cracks and crevices around this alley."
He sheathes his sword and commences a methodical search.
There's a hole in the wall and foundation of the eastern building, partially hidden by the coal bin. The opening leads down into the basement, and you'd need to crawl to enter it.
"Steel is one thing, T'chazzar. I'm not keen to take my chances on weird fairy-magic juju."
One by one, the fallen fairies expire and explode into clouds of glimmering (and foul-smelling) dust.
An investigation of the tooth fairies’ den reveals a chamber slowly being decorated with teeth of all sorts; it seems the tooth fairies hoped to wallpaper the entire area with teeth, but for now only a few disturbing patterns decorate the walls. In the center of one of these is a gold tooth worth 250 gp.
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.
The sinews come from an adult tiefling's body. It appears that tiny symbols or letters of an unknown language have been painstakingly inked onto the sinews.
Davina looks around with the others. She doesn't see anything but exploding toot fairies. "Where to next?"
In the cellar, Domitius is repulsed by what he sees. He bore no love for the fairies in the first place, and seeing this makes Dom feel even better about what went down. A corner of his mind thinks about the sorts of things that would be done to prisoners of the Cinder Hearts, the orc tribe of his childhood. Well, the Cinder Hearts are no more, and you are no longer a part of that life. You can choose to be something better.
The gold tooth in the wall leaves him curiously uninterested. It would be, what would Sudarynya call it, 'unseemly', I think is the word.
On seeing the grotesque display of the child's body , Dom heads over to the corpse. Noting her bonds, Dom looks to his comrades. "Safe to move her? I think we should take her back to the Brimstone Hearth; maybe Baelgar can identify her."
Leora follows Dom through the narrow crevice. She too is shocked by what she sees. At Dom's question, she examines the tiefling body for what killed it and if they can safely take it back to the surface.
"Cayden Cailean, make sure this poor kid has an awesome afterlife after the horrors he saw at the hands of the tooth fairies," " she prays aloud for her god's support.
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The tiefling child--a young male who likely was no more than 8--is probably safe to move, though the smell of decay is heavy around it.
You aren't quite sure what to make of the rune-covered sinews, just that they're likely an element of some dark ritual.
Domitius surveys the room, flexing his fists. "If it was my call to make, I'd say knock these revolting displays off the walls, and take the boy out of here. If Baelgar's people can identify the body, we return it, otherwise to Songbird Hall, see if they can give this boy a proper rest."