There is no answer. At this point, a guard that you recognize from the Goblin attack, Jacinth, comes over.
"Everything all right here, friends?"
Despite Asa's abrubt accusations the moment he saw the guard he moved torwards her. He felt almost ill as he began to speak.
"We are here, investigating reports of a goblin disturbance... since we are the experts I was leading the heros here. There will be a full report to the sheriff of course Guardsman Jacinth. It would be helpful if maybe you uh.. kept the townsfolk away just in case. You may need other guards to set up a perimeter?"
He began hoping to well get her to be in a place he thought they were about to break into.
Looking first at Calin, then at the guard, Asa shrugs.
"We are doing what we do best. Saving the day, off course. Do what you do best and keep the innocent from entering or the guilty from fleeing."
So saying, Asa conjures up an acid ball in her free hand.
"We are coming in. If you are friendly best be keeping all extremities away from weapons and where we can see them!"
So saying she lobs the ball at the door handle.
His shoulders slumped slightly. He wanted to hang his head and put his whole face into the palm of his hand. 'Why in the lights name could she have not just waited til the guard left to break into the place.' He thought to himself smiling hoping the guardswoman didnt well take things the wrong way at all.
At the rusty dragon Selaros went to his room to pick up the old glaive, to have a backup weapon. As he comes down again "Guess I'll bring this old thing with me just in case. I'm ready to go when you are."
Selaros didn't care for the talk with the guard and found his tools of the trade "No need to destroy the door, if we can open it." He squats down to have the lock in eye height and begins fonding the locking mechanisme.
Jacinth gives you a frank look.
"Calin...come on now. I'm not an idiot. I know something's amiss here, but you've earned more than enough trust amongst the guard. I will set up a perimeter, but if something is amiss here, one of you should go contact Sheriff Hemlock. Someone that can move unencumbered by armor. Perhaps you, Selaros?"
"Hmm. Might be a good idea, but I'd have to get all the to the Sheriff to don't give anything away."
When Selaros is finished working on the "damage" lock he rises and turn his attention to the guard "That might be a good idea, if the rest of you can handle yourself while I info the her of what we are doing?"
"Sorry, you are right." she says to Selaros and backs up to allow him access to the door.
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After the guard gives his blessing Rast prepares to enter with the others. Just in case it is to dark inside he cast [u] light [/u] on his mace thinking this will make him look more prepared.
"Thank you. We will check what is going on."
[i] If we can keep from killing each other we can do some good here. [i]
Eloisa reads the note and shakes her head. "Has the brother been around lately? I don't remember seeing him in the Dragon. I wonder if this has anything to do with the father's visit last night." She tries to keep her voice down so the guard won't hear.
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Selaros, the Rusty Dragon is southeast in Sandpoint, pretty much on the other side of town from the Garrison, which is just north of where you are at the Glassworks.
"I'll go and inform the sheriff quickly, should only take me a few minutes to run there." Selaros says running towards Rat Alley to get out on the main street closer to the Garrison. "I might have to use the old glaive, the Inn seems to far away."
Ah, sorry! Yes, Selaros' check was sufficient.
Selaros founds a guardsman outside the Garrison "Guardsman can you give the sheriff a note from me? Tell her the Sandpoint heroes are investigating the glassworks for goblins hiding there."
As the guards goes to find the sheriff Selaros returns to Rat Alley finding a obscured place to make the change.
Nodding thanks to Selaros as he leaves to get the sheriff, she proceeds to open the unlocked (slightly damaged) door.
"Ameiko, we are coming inside."
Eloisa casts light on a rocks she finds, and picks it up. "Let me know if you want this tossed into the building."
Shaedeen draws her rapier but then holds its blade close against her right leg so passersby will be unlikely to spy it from a distance. She waits semi-patiently to see if anyone's going to give orders or if folks will just start swarming inside when they've got the opportunity.
He unlimbered his shield and carefully took out his flail, He gave a slight pause and in general looked at everyone.
"Be careful, Miss Amieko and miss Agustianna, may be some sort of hostages, takes as much care as you can to keep them from harm."
He began not looking at anyone in particular but he avoided looking torwards one person in general. If Asa had nor already entered the building he would, shield up eyes alert and ahead looking for trouble.
Asa rolls her eyes at Calin.
"Obviously. After you, oh level headed one."
With an almost mocking half bow, she holds to door open for Calin to lead the charge.
Shaedeen takes a moment to load her light crossbow before slipping inside the glassworks.
You enter the Glassworks. This is clearly a display room for customers to browse, with various bits of worked glass on display.
There are three doors, one to your left, one in front of you and behind a counter with a ledger on it, and one to your right.
Shaedeen begins thumbing through the ledger while waiting for the party leader(s) to decide on a course of action. Or come to blows! she thinks with an amused smile.
Asa looks around intently, trying to determine if Ameiko had been there recently.
"Anyone know what those lead to?"
"The counter is clearly the store front as it were... one of these rooms probably leads to storage, but..."
He slid around the counter top for the door in the middle. He grabbed the handle and threw the door open.
"Master Kajitsu! Miss Ameiko?"
He yelled clearly not familiar with the idea of stealth. Taking a quick peak he stepped into the room it led too.
Brandishing her falcata in one hand, Asa walks to the left hand door and tests to see if it is locked. Begrudgingly turning to Calin, she addresses his back as he walks to the counter.
"Eh bien, c'est certainement un endroit intéressant pour avoir une réunion. Surtout à minuit, où la lumière des flambeaux aurait des effets bizarres sur la marchandise."
"Well, this is certainly an interesting place to have a meeting. Especially at midnight, where torchlight would have odd effects on the merchandise."
"I am surprised she didn't ask one of us to come with her, given the earlier dust up with her father." She adds in common.
Eloisa stands in the center of the display room, and waits to see if closets are opened or if someone comes flying out of the darkness at the group. "Do you think yelling will help? If they are in trouble, we just lost any chance of sneaking up on them" She points out to Calin.
Now that you're all in the building, you all actually hear the roar of furnaces from deep within the building. It's not out of place; this is a Glassworks, after all. But it's entirely possible that you were not heard.
Calin, the door opens to a hallway. It's about twenty feet long, with the wall ending on the right and opening to what appears to be another hallway. There's a door along the right wall before it ends. The door is closed.
Not spying anything of interest in the ledger's last few entries, Shaedeen keeps quiet, casually examining the inter-party relationships of the Heroes of Sandpoint.
"Eloisa makes a good point," is her only contribution...to this point.
Merrick has his bow ready to go, hanging in the back of the group and keeping an eye out. An arrow is fitted but the bow is not drawn.
"Perhaps the sneaky of us should proceed in case there's trouble? It is, after all, odd for the furnaces to be active but no one to be at work, is it not?"
"Well, I'd hardly call myself sneaky, but I can move rather stealthily when I wish to," Shaedeen offers. "Want me to scout ahead a bit?"
Asa nods. "Might be useful to know what we are facing, but don't take unnecessary risks. If you see them, come get us."
Shaedeen returns Asa's nod and scoots quietly to the first door on the right before listening outside it and then trying to crack it open enough for a peek inside.
While they wait for Shaedeen to finish scouting, Asa turns to Merrick.
"I hope that now is not the time to find out, but I trust that your bow is to your liking? We still have a full tusk from the boar if you need a replacement." Asa pauses, then adds to the group, "Well, or use in weaponry for anyone else who wishes it. If no one wants it I might just make something for myself with it, or something to sell later."
Eloisa follows Shaedeen as far as the first hallway area, and waits to see what happens.
Shae, the door opens into a small storeroom. You see an entrance across the room and estimate that it leads back to the main entrance.
Shae exits the same way she entered the room, spots Eloisa, and mouths the word "Storeroom" before shaking her head. Then she proceeds to the next passageway, peering around the corner before slipping forward again.
The passage opens into a hall going left, essentially parallel with where you were. On the left, there are two rooms with closed door, and there is a closed door straight in front of you beyond the rooms.
Asa takes a few test swings with her falcata as she passes the time idly.
"So why is the place running and no one here? Furnaces require someone to man them, so why lock the storefront? And why would her brother pick this place to meet of all places in Sandpoint? Does he work here?" You can tell that she is more asking questions to herself than expecting anyone to answer.
Eloisa continues to follow as far back as she can, and just keeping Shae in sight. She turns and if she sees anyone behind her she'll relay Shae's message.
You may roll a Knowledge Local check to see what you might know about Ameiko's brother.
Shae, the two rooms are small supply rooms. One looks like it has cleaning supplies; the other, parchment, quills and ink.
The other door leads to a much larger room. The room is, however, a wreck; there is a large table with several chairs. The chairs are all overturned and the surface of the table has been damaged. What appears to have been a deck of cards is scattered about the room.
There is a door immediately to you right, on the same wall as the door you came in from. There is a door on the left wall. The wall continues to what appears to be a small room, also closed by a door. There is another door straight across from where you are. All are closed.
Asa seems to finally lose patience and storms after Eloisa to check on her and Shaedeen.