Lyssa&Sabel
"That news we've heard, but for all we know you could be connected to those thieves."
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[b]"Who is it?"
"It's two women saying thieves stole a list of adresses from Mary's and we're on it."
"Let em in."
The door goes off the locks and you are guided into the living room, where father Hayley and his other son are sitting.
Upon Lyssa entering, father Hayley stands up quickly...
"Megan?....", the man realises his mistake and sits down, gesturing the two of you to take a seat and explain.
Who the heck's Megan?
"Ahum... Anyway, we've come to warn you about the list stolen from Mary's. How come you were already aware of this, were the guards here before us?"
"Yes, we are indeed very curious. You aren't the first one to say that you already know this. And we came to you with great haste, who brought you this information."
Sabel gets the idea that the thieves might be faster than they are, which is very worrisome.
At the Kromm's
Round 1
-Grint fires, scoring a hit for 5 dmg.
-Elsa launches a ball of ice, but it misses.
-Malena teasingly threatens the injured thief suggesting imminent defeat, and he becomes shaken with doubt. {*}
-Callum walks up to the injured thief and swings his hammer, but misses.
-Thieves
#1 -6 Slashes at Callum, missing.
#2 Moves around Callum, ending up flanking him from behind, then attacks, hitting the carpenter for 2 Dmg.
#3 Draws a shortbow and takes aim at Grint, missing te fighter just barely.
Round 2
-Grint & Elsa
-Malena
-Callum
-Thieves
{*}
At the Lamares
Father Hayley sits down on his chair.
"Pardon miss, but you look strikingly like somebody i know, just younger so i briefly mistook you for her. To answer your other question, yes, two of the guardsmen were here earlier, bringing the notice briefly without going into further detail. You on the other hand may have more time to do so?"
Elsa hurls a shard of ice at the thief wielding the bow but the shard of ice flies past the thief and embeds itself in the wooden wall before melting.
Grint nocks two arrows on his bow and fires twice, the first one going to the thief he already shot. The second arrow soon follows the same course.
Malena, still cursing herself for not having all of her gear with her-- and making a mental note right after this to go home and get it, because things are clearly getting hairy and this is no longer a normal day in the city-- starts casting a spell, targeting the thief who is holding the bow. If the spell is successful, she says, "Help us out here! Get your friend to stop attacking, and nobody else has to get hurt!"
If the spell is not succesful... she will just be sad.
At the Kromms
Round 2 result
-Elsa launches a shard of ice at the archer but it lands into the wall.
-Grint launches another two arrows into the wounded thief. The 1st hits him painfully, the 2nd send the guy down, a bloodstain becomes visible on his chest. {*}
-Malena cast charm person on the archer. He just laughs at Malena and readies another shot.
-Callum turns towards the other thief behind him and swings his hammer, hitting the man for 2 dmg.
-Thief #1 -3/0 Dying
-Thief #2 Wants to return the favor and slashes at Callum but it bounces off Callum's board.
-Thief #3 Aims for Callum, hitting the man for 5 dmg.
Round 3
-Elsa & Grint
-Malena
-Callum
-Thieves
{*}
Malena sighs, not surprised that her charm attempt didn't work. Drawing one of the daggers that she does carry around with her around time, she flings it at the thief who is shooting at the others.
Elsa again hurls ice at the archer the icy shard strikes the archer!
At the Kromms
Round 3
-Elsa launches an ice shard, dealing 1 cold dmg to the archer.
-Grint
-Malena (On hold waiting for Grint, but it would hit)
-Callum
-Thieves
"Yes we do have some time, what do you want to know?"
She looks about.
"Mind if I take a chair then?"
"Anyway, I'll tell you what happened at Mary's. It was when the beauty contest Mary hosted had just ended that thieves entered the building..."
Lyssa takes a seat, and continues to explain everything that happened.
Grint now aims for the one Callum is in melee in and shoots two arrows with a precise shot at the thief.
At the Kromm's
Round 3 results
-Elsa launches an ice shard, dealing 1 cold dmg to the archer.
-Grint fires twice, 1st arrow hitting the thief in the back, disabling, the 2nd pierces through the guy, showing both ends of the arrow from the back and front as he drops. Critical Fatality
-Malena tosses a dagger at the archer, which hits for 5 dmg
-Callum walks up to the thief and attacks with extra force, slamming the hammer into his chest, disabling the man.
-Thieves
#1 Bleeds for another 1. -4/0
#2 Very much dead
#3 sitting against the wall.
{*}
[spoiler]
Elsa walks up to the sitting thief and studies the man for a moment.
Malena will draw her other dagger and hold it, moving up to the thief sitting against the wall. "Surrender!" she says, if he's still conscious.
If he's unconscious, then she'll retrieve her dagger, and attempt to stabilize the thieves who are dying but not yet dead.
At the Kromm's
The noise of combat has faded, with just 1 thief disabled against the wall, conscious but his eyes unfocused due to the beating.
Malena tends to the unconscious thief, but her effort was a little short and the man continues bleeding.
You find 3 daggers, 1 shortbow, 8 common arrows and 20gp.
Callum looks around the space, "Well, the vermin are down, let me check if anything's missing.", and he takes a quick look around.
"Nothing, the chest is still there, it's showing signs of being lifted though. Maybe hired help, though quite rude, taking without paying."
Elsa,
As you approach the man puts something resembling a small candy into his mouth and chews it before swallowing. {*} His eyes close and he goes limb.
You find a vial in a camouflaged belt pouch. It's content has a weird color of red. Also in the same pouch is a small note with the address of the Kromm brothers scribbled on it.
A small line below says:
Upon completion: WH5-D
{*}
At the Hayleys
Father Hayley listens carefully and remains quiet until your story is over.
"This is weird, as i already told the guards. We sell household goods, no fancy things, but the things people need alot of. Unless one steals a good in large quantity, things themselves are not worth much.
Like for example rope, that is...."
A yelling sounds from outside.
Perception 14 at the Hayleys
You, stop right there! You won't get away like those two buds of yours.
From the sound of boots, about 3 guardsmen are in pursuit.
Alchemy check 14 on liquid
This is a non-magical liquid.
Accoding to the color, this liquid is a weaker version of Drow Poison.
It makes the victim unconscious for 1d3 hours.
Grint gathers up the arrows from the bandits and adds them to his own stock, replenishing it partly.
"Well they don't seem very talkative chaps now do they?" We should bind their hands before they come to again."[/b]
"Excuse me, I'll be right back..." Lyssa storms out the front door and looks around to see what's going on. If there's anyone to chase, Lyssa will directly do so.
"What's that?!"
Upon saying that Sabel hurries outside, whilst grabbing her bow, to see what's going on.
Outside of the Hayleys
Three guardsmen are nearly at the house door in pursuit of several thieves. They are currently 10ft away from the door, 4 thieves are 20ft away from the other side of the door.
The closest thief lets out an Ow as an arrow pierces his lower leg.
His 3 buddies don't look back and keep moving.
Outside of the Hayleys
As the guards are chasing the 4 thieves, Lyssa and Sabel acts swiftly, Sabel shooting an arrow in the lower leg of the nearest thief and one near him gets a teasing "boot in the back", pushing the guy 5ft further into the direction he was going in.
Chase is possible, should you choose to do so, otherwise you are entrusting the situation to the guards.
Intended route: the thieves are going straight ahead, turning a few streets as they go to try to lose the guards and the two women.
On the route there are several small obstacles to overcome to both pursuers and the running.
It's a 300ft chase over a 15ft wide street route. Make 2 Acrobatics checks of DC 14, Climb checks checks of DC 14 and 2 reflex checks of DC 14.
Each failed check reduces the next move action speed by 10ft, this goes for both you and the thieves. Any thieves that reach the end on a distance advantage of 15 will be able to escape.
Naturally you're free to use other actions than giving chase.
Sabel gives pursuit, having wounded one of them.
"Lyssa run after them!"
At the Kromms
What will you do from this point?
You've got 1 dead guy, 2 tied up of which 1 took something and stopped moving.
Grint looks around and sees that none of the thieves are moving at all.
"Well guess we're done here. We could make them talk when they would be alive and awake, that not being the case.. I'll go get some guards to here."
As he gets downstairs he'll greet the other brother with a stern face and says.
"Everything taken care of. We need to call on some guards. Be right back."
When he's outside he looks around for any guards, if he doesn't see any of them he'll give a few short shouts: "Guards! Guards! We could use some assistance."
At the Kromms
The other Kromm thanks you for the trouble as Callum quickly fills him in. Meanwhile outside 2 city guards come up to Grint's calling.
"Hello sir, what can we help you with?"
Outside at the Hayleys
3 guards, Lyssa and Sabel are now chasing the 4 thieves.
The pursuers and the thieves came upon several obstacles on their route.
-A wagon, 1 guard, Lyssa and 2 thieves found the parked vehicle slightly bothersome.
-A geese herder, whom lost 4 geese to the feet of a guard, Lyssa and 2 thieves.
-A hanging basket, which got knocked into by a guard, Sabel and a thief.
-A small wall, scaled easily except by Sabel and 1 thief.
-A very slippery street imbalanced a guard, the two women and a thief.
-A crowd around a corner got run into by all but a guard, Lyssa and a thief.
Though the thieves got close to their destination, they failed to outrun the 5 pursuers. The thief whom was shot in the leg got both women catching him. Some other guardsmen came up as well and the thieves were tied up.
Well done, your course of action now? It's not restricted to the thieves at this time, should you choose so.
@Lyssa, at this time it wouldn't give a bonus.
{*}
"G'day sirs. The Kromm brothers have had an armed break-in and robbery. We do not know how they got in, but it was fortune that made me and a few others to assist the brothers in defending their hearth and home. One of the robbers lies dead, but the other two seem to be still alive. I thought it best to let you know instead of us delivering them to the prison uninformed."
Malena sighs and nods. "Yes, probably turning them over to the guards is the best bet now. Before we do that...."
Malena carefully searches all three of the thieves to see if there is anything incriminating on any of them.
At the Kromms
Callum informs the guards nothing was missing. "Well, mr Kromm and visitors, we'll take them then. Come see the guard captain if you wish. I think you might want to after this incident."
he guards head up and come down with the 3.
"You said 1 dead and 2 alive? We've got 2 dead and one that seems an unsure case."
Outside in the streets after a wild chase.
"What did they do? There were 6 of them at first. We spotted 2 of them stealing wares. Ropes, shackles, candles."
Father Hayley comes out at the moment the guards tell about the stolen wares and goes to check on the small supply they have at a small adjacent storage. The lock was busted and missing items matched what the guard had just mentioned.
"2 of them got away with the goods, heading southwest."
Grint
Because Elsa saw the thief against the wall take something then dropping limb, i'll assume she assumes he's alive and says so. Though after such a weird thing it's always useful to check.
Malena
The loot has been taken, the thief against the wall was searched by Elsa before and yields nothing on him....save for a chip with small engravings.
It has a tiny compass on it. After thorough examination the other two also have a similar chip well hidden.
Malena takes the small chips (wood chips?) on the thieves. She shows it to the others: a tiny engraving of a compass.
"Do either of you know what this symbol means?" she asks.
"Unsure Case, Usually we feel a man's pulse before declaring him dead."
Grint tries to make sure if the man is alive, in such case he looks for him breathing and checking his pulse.
Grint checks the man but can't quite decide. But at least he's still got a healthy color.
Heal check 15
The man has a very faint pulse, seemingly in a deeply sedated state.
Despite it there is no sweating, he'll live but if he's suffered any odd effects they will be known when he wakes up.
Elsa watches the proceedings impassively
I do not know what the symbol means Malena
"Ropes... shackles... and candles...?" Lyssa asks, a frown showing on her face. "Sounds... suspicious."
What the heck are these guys into? Yuck...
"Sounds really... weird. Well Lyssa shall we go after the thieves who went to the docks or are we going to interrogate these suckers? I say we follow the others, maybe we can get the wares back."
Lyssa fills the guards in on the recent events, involving the pritate with compass earrings and the list of names from Mary's. "I expect these people to be a part of the same group. Please allow me to interrogate the thieves we've caught, because we need to learn more about this dangerous gang of pirates on the ship."
Meanwhile with the guards:
"Any interrogation will be conducted in the guard station. However, since you involved in apprehending them, you can write down any questions that could be relevant and we'll ask them. You can get the results on them with the guard captain's permission. I suggest you head over there if you want any personal dealings with this wrapped up."
The guards firmly yank the captured thieves together, about to drag if needed, taking them in the plaza's direction.
"Well...The most obvious questions of course, 'who do they work for' and 'where can we find him'. Though I'd wager you are asking those questions as well. Also why did they break into the Kromm's shop and what do they want with the list of adresses on which the Kromm's were mentioned. Let me write that down for you, we have another lead to get to."
He looks to Elsa and Malena.
"Shall we head out to next adress? I have a feeling that Lyssa and Sabel might have already informed others of possible thieves.Let's head to the next one on the list."
Yes Grint, lets do that. says Elsa letting Grint lad the way.
Malena nods. "Yes, let's get there as fast as possible. The thieves, or whoever is behind them, is obviously moving now too."
The trio takes to the streets again. It seems likely news of the thefts is spreading, as there seem to be some more guards patrolling than before.
Perception 12
A cat can be seen on one of the rooftops, overlooking the masses as it lies relaxing.
You arrive at the Landorras house...a very spacious house, a mansion almost. The door already opens, a servant greets you.
"You have been expected, follow me please."
The corridors are quite spacious with what you guess to be guest rooms.
The servant opens the door to the living room. In two chairs sit Markus and Beatrice.
"Ah, the adventurers i take it, though there were more of you were there not?"