Megekki rushes to help Brenton. His spear hovers nearby, walking a post around the surrendered goblins.
Zeriax approaches the goblins, herding the ones still conscious close, stripping them of weapons and possessions, and tying them securely.
Looking at the unconscious ones he comments - "Who has another rope, I say we need at least two more..."
"Megekki shirt...", the thin man says, shrugging out of it. Tossing the already-tattered garment to Zeriax, Megekki sniffs, tastes, and then feeds the potion to Brenton. "Wake up!", he demands of Brenton. "Still to find girl!"
Megekki's oilskin cloak drapes itself over Longiku's glazed body. "Words wrong. Show wrong. Thing is wrong, how to share?"
"I fear for the girls safety... We need to wake this one and question him, though I admit I am not much help in such affairs. I will do a quick tour of this area, see if I can find any signs of Ameiko"
Zeriax does not move much further away from his companions, but he will try a quick survey of the big room where they are in at the moment, looking for clues or distinctive sounds.
"What? What just happened?" Brenton asks Megekki as he gets to his feet. "Thank you." he says looking embarrassed about having fallen so easily.
"No sign of Ameiko?" He responds to Megekki. He looks around to catch himself up on current events. "Good job!" he says seeing the enemy taken out. "How long was I out?"
Brenton helps Zeriax look for signs of what happened. He glances at Ameiko's father for a few seconds. "Poor fellow. And to think I almost joined him. Eeh!" he shrugs. "Thanks again." he ackwardly offers to the others.
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Zariak, you don't see many clues in this furnace room. Shards of broken glass litter many parts of the room where the goblins were having lots of run. Furniture tossed and destroyed only makes it look more chaotic. And, of course, there's the glassed nobleman which is chilling, to say the least.
The tiefling, bound in ropes, begins to stir from the effects of color spray. oooh...my head....
"Foot strikes head. You fall. Light strikes eyes. They fall.", Megekki explains, pantomiming pertinent points. "You sleep, this long.", Megekki says, later interrupting Brenton's questioning of Zeriax to clap once, loudly. "That long."
Megekki settles himself where the tiefling can see him. His spear dances behind him; he periodically gentles it back away from the prisoner.
"We come for girl.", Megekki repeats in his masked monotone.
He allows the cocking click of his crossbow to punctuate the point.
"Seems like you're in over your head. Your only choice now is to tell us why you're here and what you did with our friend. If you cooperate it will go a lot easier for you. You don't want to be interrogated. Trust me."
"Yah. Love might do that.", Megekki admits, nodding. Megekki snatches the spear from the air as it poises to kill the tiefling. "But Megekki does not kill, like that." Megekki stares at the tiefling through his melt-face mask, not moving. As a dipper of molten glass hovers into the tiefling's view, above the bound man, Megekki says again, "We come for girl."
"You won't be needing these." Brenton says as he removes his items.
"Oh you won't be dead," he says matter-of-factually. "But you can be sure that you will wish you were." A grin forms on his face.
He looks over the ring he just took.
He gags the tiefling and walks over to a goblin and asks, "How did you get mixed up with this fellow? Do you realize the trouble he has just caused you?"
Zeriax seems puzzled at the mans' irrationality - "What is he talking about? Is he perhaps mad?"
"This deviant, mischievous one MUST be turned in to the sheriff. But Ameiko may still be alive, we need to search this place"
"Megekki watches. Spear helps."
After the dipper drifts away, Megekki adds to the bonds of the tiefling, wary until the man is bound to stationary objects. "Kicks to head.", he commiserates with the spear, which seems to disapprove. "Maybe punch with head. Maybe kick with knee." The spear agrees.
While Megekki binds the tiefling better, the spear slowly drifts toward the bound goblins...
"No!", Megekki shouts, startling the spear before it can scratch a goblin. "No tasting! These one might talk. No tasting ones who talk." The dejected haunted spear drifts toward the tiefling, and prepares to pierce him, when Megekki again commands, "No! Him talked, maybe talk later. NO TASTING!"
Brenton reads the journal out loud. "We need to find this smuggling tunnel entrance and seal it off for now until we can decide how to use it to our advantage."
"Twisted mind. Maybe can fix, but not Megekki. If girl not found, tunnel we might need. But block it, yes. Trap it, yes. Guard it..."
Megekki shouts as the spear drifts off, "No! You stay here!"
"Where is girl?", Megekki asks the goblins.
Zeriax approaches the door, listening intently behind it, before taking any action, while he whispers to his friend - "Megekki, are you coming?"
"Show where", Megekki says, lifting the goblin to his feet. "Show where girl goes. Same path."
Megekki will either get somebody to escort the goblin, or get somebody to watch the prisoners.
"How goblins come here? Show door.", Megekki demands flatly, while his Ioun Spear orbits him and the goblin as well.
"When you come? Sun still down? Windows, bright or dark?"
Megekki calls out, "They came here in the dark. We are late to stop Ameiko gets taken, Megekki thinks. This door." Megekki indicates the northern door. "We are so late, better time to get more? Or better time to chase now?"
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After all the commotion in here and the scene we made outside, the Sheriff has to be on his way by now.
Emrys pinches the top of the goblins ear wickedly and twists his grip.
Do you mean this door you little bugger?
The wizard tries the handle but is ready to shove the goblin in front of him should there be a threat the other side.
Megekki's haunted spear poises...
...in Megekki's hands.
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As you approach the door, it is already slightly ajar. A wheelbarrow sits against a wall here, and shelves on the walls contain additional reagents to create different colors of glass (manganese for clear glass, cobalt for blue, and tin for white; untreated glass is green, while a high quantity of any reagent makes black glass). A safe on the floor hangs open, empty. You see a number of doors here, including one that's also jar to the north.
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Obviously Emrys knew the Sheriff wasn't going to be present. How could he be when he was halfway to Magnimar? But he also hoped the Tiefling didn't know that and that the thought of institutionalization might loosen his addled tongue.
Did you steal what was in this safe? Is this what you came for? Not you but perhaps who sent you - of course it was.
Emrys asks quickly but doesn't bother waiting for an answer.
The door here is ajar, is this where you came in? It leads to the tunnel Brenton talked about doesn't it? Of course it does. Come on, show me.
He half drags, half shoves the now squealing goblin.
Brenton peers outside, "Do we want to trust our binding skill on these goblins and tiefling? I'd feel better if they were taken into custody before we moved on."
He motions to the biggest most capable person in the crowd to come forward. He hands him a weapon and tells him to watch the captors and to hit any that look like they're trying to get free before he moves on.
"To the north?"
"We bring the goblin? Megekki holds the spear.", Meg monotones from his mask. His oilskin cloak drapes itself over his shoulders, as he moves to be ahead of the archers, and beside or behind Brenton.
"I have taken the steps search and bind them securely, but no rope is failproof. I do fear that, if there are other associates to this wretched one, Ameiko may be in immediate danger is all..."
Brenton listens for any sounds coming from below the staircase.
He descends.
"Goblin words, I do not have. But what I hear... Ameiko is with demon? Who brother calls 'love'. His mind is twisted. Tomorrow, maybe straighter."
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Brenton moves down...by himself. It appears that this room is used to store sand and other raw materials. Two wheelbarrows sit against the wall. Just east of the stairs up to the previous room, a brick wall has been dismantled to reveal an older passageway leading south.
You see four doors in the hallway ahead.
"Looks like someone has been down here and recently broke these walls. Do you think this could be where they came from?"
Brenton looks in the all the rooms as he waits for the others to catch up.
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First room: This room is used to store glassware, windows, and other finished goods.
Second one: This looks like some sort of office.
Third: The long tunnel leading from this room winds for some distance through the bedrock below. In invites you to investigate further but you decided to look into the last room...
Fourth: The door is locked.
Zeriax listens at the closed door.
"I hear shallow breathing inside, we must get this door open!" - Zeriax throws his strength against the wooden barrier.