Looking from one of his companions to the other, Amari waits a few second wether or not they are going to report before starting to sign fast - then stops and cooks his head.
You can practically hear him thinking whether or not the bird-messanger could understand his sign language.
In the end, he leans in closely to the bird, whispering to it.
"We shadowed Moses and Swain meeting in an abandoned storehouse. We are about to enter and take them out if they turn out as drow."
You move quickly and quietly into the warehouse, totally surprising the two targets inside! The two men seemed to have been discussing something by a crate on the ground.
Hadha successfully jams the front door and unlocks the back door.
Amari lungs forward and jumps upon a stack of crates close to the two men, the bow pointed threatingly at them.
From the elevated position, he tries to perceive the contents of the crate, hoping to find a confirmation of their theory about these two's true allegiance.
You can barely make out bottles inside the crate. From their markings, it seems likely they contain something poisonous or otherwise nefarious.
***
The day already saw him breaking is how of silence.
He knew, that he just had to worsen it still.
He would have to do an hour-long pinishing-run through the desert at noon to cleanse himself from the broken vow.
At least.
***
Still aiming at the closest man, the monk growls threateningly.
Loud enough for the two to undeniably hear and understand, but far from actually shouting.
"Stay. Down."
There was no need to say more at this point...
Hadha melts into the shadows to the side and practically runs up onto some boxes to get a good view of the area. His gut could not rule out an ambush here, so he strove to rule out that possibility.
Lo'laan moves into position to cover the others.
The two men whirl around in surprise and look ready to take up defensive positions as they snarl in anger.
Lo'Laan lunges forward and strikes out at the nearest opponent.
Lo strikes at the surprise man but misses! The light-skinned man laughs at you. "Fools. You have no idea what you are doing. Why do you fight us? We are here to destroy Taldor." He waves his hand and a pit opens up inside the door through which you entered!
A sheath on his wrist springs a rod into his hand and he steps back. Meanwhile, the other man steps forward to retaliate against Lo'laan, Serenity, and Amari. He trips all of them with a flurry of rapid kicks!
Small, unheard bells tinkle across your mind as Hadha attempts to invade the mind of the caster.
He then moves forward, drops off the crates, and makes for the next group of crates.
The spellcaster shrugs off the intrusion.
Growling, Amari tries to stand.
As Amari goes to stand, the very thin man strikes him lightly but Amari finds himself unable to move!
Serenity dives upon her prey as Lo'Laan struggles back to his feet after being swept to the floor.
Lo'laan is struck a light blow as he stands up (3 dam) but then missed as he moves.
The man grins at Agaban as he casts a spell at him. "Fools. We won't let you make it out of here alive." The smaller spellcasting man snaps a finger and an illusion washes over both of them, revealing dark skin and white hair. As suspected, both of these citizens' identities were replaced by Drow!
The drow steps back while striking Amari and Serenity.
He strikes Amari once (1 dam) and Serenity once (1 dam). Then the smaller drow in the back waves his left hand while pulling out a rod with his right. A globe of shining dust erupts in the warehouse, stealing any sort of vision from them. The shadows try to shake it off!
As Amari comes to, he lies on hard ground, blinded by dust with his head ringing and his conciousness still slippery from before.
He briefly wonders, if this is the afterlife, before his hands find the grip of his trusty bow at his side and he remembers.
Carefully, he tries to stand, using the composite shaft of his bow for support, trying to rub his eyes off the dust.
As the action unfolds, Hadha races up the stack of crates on the right and gets the spell caster in sight. He holds off though, waiting for the caster to start casting again...
Agaban's rush of water does not trip the Drow monk. The Drow spellcaster seems to resist Hadha's attack somewhat but Hadha gets very lucky and overcomes that resistance.
Following the sound of Hadha's attack, Amari sends an arrow flying by hearing and guesswork alone!
Amari lands an incredible shot, barely hitting the mage past the cover of the box and despite his blindness!
Lo and Serenity stumble around blindly as the dust consumes their vision.
Satisfied with his blind shot, Amari tries to rub his eyes free of sand again - in the same motion he uses to draw another arrow from his back.
The drow prepare to attack again! The mage begins casting another spell. "Puny Qadirans! This will wrap you up for good!"
Hadha strikes fast, hoping to disrupt the spell!
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I should have made Jackdaw do this. He is the fighter. But I, of course, am the lover. Follow the blonde dame, I thought. But should have known better. Dames are always trouble, and now they have stirred up a hornet's nest. And here I am, hiding against a crate like I'm twenty again. I'm not a young man. I'm old, tired, and full of no coffee.
The tall and lanky black man peers out from his hiding place in the shadows. The side boards of the warehouse came out easily enough, thanks to a crowbar, but Saul Gibson did not expect to find drow in here... Drow talking about destroying Taldor.
I'm no patriot, but I'm no slouch, either. If Taldor is threatened, life is threatened. And these Qadirans... strange bunch, stick out like a sore thumb, but maybe the enemy of my enemy is my friend. And they do have a blond dame. Aw dammit.
His mind made up, Saul darts out of cover, gets behind the mage who is making life miserable for the Qadirans, and slams him in the back of the head with his mace, as the mage starts casting a spell.
The brown-skinned Taldane man you had preciously seen skulking around town leaps out from behind a box and stabs the Drow just as he is about to cast another debilitating spell. Surprised and angry, the drow fails and cries in pain. The other drow, unsure what is happening, keeos fighting. He tries to renew his tripping efforts and only succeeds in knocking Hadha to the ground as he moves over to him.
Hadha hits the crates with a thud. He doesn't bother to get up and instead fires another sparkly-sounding spell at the drow.
With a decisive swipe of his wide clothes, Amari wipes his eyes clean.
Being able to finally see again, he snaps around to aim at the close-combat specialist who was able to disrupt the shadows so throughly up to this point.
Within a few heart-beats, three arrows spring from the sinew at point blank range.
The drow caster seems to completely ignore Hadha's spell that is thrown against him. Meanwhile, the other drow strikes him a slight blow as he leaves an opening.
Agaban steps forward and thrusts at the lanky drow but the monk dodges with grace.
Amari blindly launches arrows at the wiry drow but none of them land home.
The Taldane who has leapt into this situation attempts to strike another blow in your aid but misses!