"I don't know what you're talking about, but I'll wake him." Aric picks up the survivor and gives him a back hand to rouse the man to consciousness.
The bard motions for the gem, deciding to give it a good once over to see if he might know anything useful about its worth.
You end up snapping the bits in half and flipping the around and relinking them using bits of things found in the saddle bags after wraping them in bits of leather to form roller mouth pieces with snaffle style fastenings. (This is about the best you could hope for without a blacksmiths setup and these will degrade quickly just a warning...)
Here you are Grim. These will degrade, but at least they will not harm the creatures.
"And this is definitely worth a good deal. Probably about 100 gold pieces or so." Alex grins, just a bit surprised at his own ingenuity.
"We scored decently over this."
The bard chuckles.
Dorvren accepts the nuzzle and pats the beast on the nose. So that happened. Foolishness to treat these animals as they were. It is painfully obvious that Dorvren is not used to affection.
When the horses prove to be relatively natural creatures, Aninga smiles, approaching the most battered of them and pats it gently.
Aldiran approaches one of the beasts, and pats it gently - "These are Winter Blessed Horses - I have heard of their breeding before. They are extremely intelligent for their kind, and quite magnificent"
The woman seems mesmerized by the creature, as almost without notice, she reaches for the Wand handed to her by Dorvren and zaps the creature.
"There... She whispers in its ear. It is all fine now..."
Dorvren walks around the horses checking them closely for wounds, he tries to scrabble together some bandages to keep them from being infected or the like.
Must keep the machine running.
"How did these random bandits get a hold of such magnificent beasts?"
"Thats the question of the day, really." Alex nods slowly.
"Killed some fey, and took the horses is the most likely. And the least surprising."
Grim pulls the fruit from his bag and provides some to the beasts. "You'll get better. It'll just take some time and some care."
Hearing Aric & Alex, the young hunter snorts. "I doubt it. They were quite probably in service to this queen the Fae spoke about. I would expect these were gifts for helping her in some task. They could have been involved in hitting the caravan where our quarry was kidnapped."
"I like to think the horses were the smarter of the bunch." He slowly walks closer to Grim, extending his hand to let the horse smell it first, not exactly familiar with these animal tactics.
"I don't doubt that." Aric nods in agreement.
Someone tie this fool up and wake him so we can interrogate him. I can cast a spell on him that will wrack him with pain if he does not answer. I only get one so let us choose carefully what we want to ask. I will cast it just before we wake him so he cannot resist.
"I guess the logical question would be "what were they doing here, and if they know anything about Tessica?" - Aldiran pipes in.
Dorvren takes a quick search around to see if there are any herbs that he can make into a paste that might help sooth the pain.
"There is no need to waste charges, when I will regain the spells by tomorrow," Aninga says to Aldiran. "As for this man, he is no danger. Wake him and see what he knows."
This should help with the pain. Dorvren mashes them up and administers a poltice to the horses mouths.
wow that should just do it.
Now listen here Horses. Don't be eating this or scraping it off. Leave it.
Now lets deal with this fool.
Just before we wake the bandit Dorvren Casts interrogation on him.
"I don't need any more practice shooting things that are running away. You're not bright enough to have captured these beasts. Where did you get them?"
"Answer before I decide that you don't get to wake up again."
apparently i dont need to. show offs.
"Troll? Aninga frowns. This is worse than I imagined. Whatever this is, we need to stop it soon.
"Where will we find this troll? And the noblewoman ... Tessica?"
"A troll? Now there's a fight." Aric seems to grin at the thought.
If he looks like an elf, why do you call him a troll?
Dorvren listens and observes
"This is sounding less worthy the more I find out."
Alex tries to think what in the heck could look like an elf but be a troll.
"So this troll hates iron, huh?
"That sounds real strange. So you know we can't let you go running back to him, right?" the bard smiles and shakes his head
"We just have to figure out what to do with you. Something that doesn't involve horrible death or dismemberment."
Why don't we let the horses decide. Dorvren offers.
"We should let him go." Aric says before turning to the bandit. "Anyone you meet, you tell them to stay out of this forest. Got it?"
Approaching the man, Aldiran offers - "Give us the directions to the lodge and the bridge, and you may have a shot here... Your chances at survival increase according to your cooperation - for example, how many trolls are there in total? How many are stationed at this lodge you talk about - all humans? Any with arcane casting abilities? See where I am going with this?"
"I think we should tie and gag him up - these horses are strong enough to carry him, and a rider if we so decide" - she pats one of the horses - "When we are back in town, we should deliver him to the authorities, and perhaps add that he cooperated, if he does so. If not... "
"I suppose that works as well."
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The horses snort unhappily when you speak of putting him on them.
No idea how many trolls. As for the lodge its up the trail bridge is beyond it. There's like 11 of us but some of us are sick the boss is tending to them makes everyone nervous cause he's a necromancer. Oh and theres the new girl too half orc. Now look just k et me go and I will be on my way I helped you ain't gotta turn me over they will kill me. I wasn't even with them whenthe boss took Tessica. Come on let me go....
Noticing the horses reaction, Aldiran adds - "If it is up to me, you are not going just yet - I want to confirm if you are dropping a lie on us. Since it seems not even the horses want to carry you, I think we'll just tie and gag you, and you will walk like the rest of us"