Way of the Wicked (Inactive)

Game Master Aku Warashi

Seren looks over at Nahia. "What? you propose we go right now to do this? While the guards are still out? What have you done with my Nahia? Whatever you've done, keep her, I like this Nahia better." Seren whispers back with a chuckle.

"Okay! afternoon Tower raiding should be interesting." Seren adds, concentrating on her circlet and changing her image to look more like one of the tower guards. "Shall we?"

Nahia giggles at Seren and quickly whispers "No no no, not right now! Tonight! Both the Magister and the Captain were interrupted in their sleep, and they are going to need to spend the day in investigations. That means that the mage should be low on spells, so tonight, while they are sleeping deeply, we raid again."

Taking another sip and a puff, Nahia adds "Besides, I still need to recover my own magic."

Nahia grins at Seren and playfully says ”And what’s wrong with this Nahia? You want me to be more spontaneous?” Nahia moves away from the window and starts slowly stepping towards Seren, still grinning and locking eyes with her. ”To be less concerned with the consequences?” Nahia stops barely an inch from Seren, looking up into her eyes, and whispers in a hushed voice, ”To just... do... whatever I want?”

The silence is thick… until it is broken by Nahia falling back in a fit of giggles.

Just to note, Seren and I can take this into spoiler tags if we want to continue. : )

Hound will waffle a bit on what armor he wants during the raid but will settle on his leather for a stealth mission.

Rose was equally indecisive about her clothes that morning. She eventually settled on a split-layered riding skirt. There was a chance she would need to run today.

Yes, I am making fun of hound fussing over his clothes.

Did we ever come to a consensus on what the plan is for today?

Rose was equally indecisive about her clothes that morning. She eventually settled on a split-layered riding skirt. There was a chance she would need to run today.

Yes, I am making fun of hound fussing over his clothes.

He is just a little girl at heart.

PLan is to sneak in at night and kill the wizard.

Guess I don't need to pretend to be everyone after all. What are oir daytime plans? What unrest can we sew during daytime?

Use leftover poison to kill dwarves when they get out or other important people?

After making their plans, our band of villains start to talk and try to gather what the town knows about the past events.
Mysty and Rose as usual, with their lovely appearance and sweet tongue were able to gather information quite easily. Surprisingly enough, Hound too dressed the outspoken party-man disguise and was able to get information, envy stares and lustily sighs from man and woman alike.
Seren and Nahia however, with their mind still in their bedroom events, could not find any useful gossip.
Here is what the town thinks it happened:
”Mad Martin, went mad, madder than he already is. He tried to kill the birds, and then killed itself, jumping from the tower.” says a nameless person
”Mad Martin did not jumped from the tower” resort another ”he was thrown and then his birds were killed.”
”No, no! Ye are all wrong! Me brother is a soldier, and he says that the bird-keeper was killed by a she-child and a devil conjurer half-human!” says another
”Don’t make up those histories! There was a fire, and the man choked to death in the smoke, as did the birds!” says one of the locals.

I’ll move things foward, if you want to RP something from the past event, feel free to do it under a –Earlier spoiler. Also, as usual, feel free to describe anything you char could have done in the time fast-forwarded. For mechanics and preparations, you can your First post after this one, to state anything that you might have changed in your char or preparation. (Buy/change spells and so on.), After your first post, I’ll not accept any ‘But I did this in the time you fast-forwarded…’

The day passes and the party decides it’s time to give a feedback to Sakkarot.
They task Sourat and Troost, to retrieve all the ‘buried’ gear they got from the watchtower and their previous fight and instruct them how to reach the bugbear camp.
Those NPCS are unavailable to interact with from now on.

The night arrives and you gather once more to share the acquired knowledge, at Nahia’s room.
Intentions?

Rose had given Sourat and Troost a warm hug and a kiss on the cheek as they went on their way. "Tell Sakkarot I miss his fuzzy face and that we'll have the gate open when he comes."

Later, in Nahia's room, Rose was biting her lip a little and smiled at her witchy friend. Nahia, you can make magicy stuff, right? Do you know how to make those neat sleeve things Troost has?"

Nahia will look at everyone and say ”Ok everyone, anything to add or discuss before we start going over things for tonight's activities?”

Hound gets his weapons ready for the excursion. Since this will probably be a stealth mission he willw ear his leather armor.

Must remember, smash any horns this time.

Rose was trying out her brand new transforming wardrobe.

She had supplied Nahia with a black silk short coat that ended at her ribs. It was really little more than a pair of sleeves connected across the back by a swath of fabric. Running along the hem, cuffs and collar were thin gold jewelry chains. In the front they held a clasp which bound below her breasts to accentuate her waist. It was one of her favorites, and now it was magic!

As she sat and listened to the others she put on her new coat and willed it through a dizzying array of outfits, each elegant and expensive looking, ranging through dozens of colors and fashions. Her excitement grew by the moment.

"I think this might be the best day of my life." she said, unable to contain her happiness and moving forward to give Nahia an extremely overzealous hug and a kiss on the cheek. "Thank you so much!"

"Well no more wasted gold on these bloody Onyx." Seren replies to Nahia as she displays the small bag of onyx dangling at her side. Aku how do you want me to handle multiple minions? Can I just have them all act within Seren Minion's turn?

"Also picked up some scrolls of silence. Should let us get the jump on those damn horn wielders this time. Last night was too much fun, can't have it being cut short again." Seren adds.

Hounds sharpens his weapons, oblivious and uncaring of the actions of his team. honing his greatsword was foreplay and the clash of steel and scream of the dying were his sex act, the splash of brain and blood across the floor his orgasm.

Mysty prepares in her own way in her room, practicing combat moves, and checking her equipment. She worked on a new move, that would distract her opponent allowing her to loose a deadly attack.

soon, soon, I will be shed of this disguise, and those who opposed and rejected me shall pay dearly she thought, thinking back to her childhood.

@All: That was nicely done. Now let's move forward.
After the party is gathered, Nahia will look at everyone and say ”Ok everyone, anything to add or discuss before we start going over things for tonight's activities?”

What is known about the magister? What magic has he displayed?

"After the Mad Martin debacle I feel like we need to talk this out. Hopefully a lot of this is inneccessary, but I'm erring on the side of caution."

"Those silence scrolls are a blessing and a curse. I worked with them once before. I don't know exactly how they work, but I know what they did to our operation. The last time Hound and I worked together it came up. It worked, but it made things complicated. If we cast it on an object that we can carry with us, that keeps fights from alerting other guards. It also stops us from being able to talk to each other, and keeps Nahia and Seren from being able to cast spells. That means whoever is varying the silence needs to pay careful attention to where Nahia and Seren are, and try to keep them at the edge of the effect, so if they need to they can step out of it to cast something."

"Whoever is carrying it needs to be as mobile as possible and willing to be in the middle of everything. Hound or I would probably be best for that."

"We can't afford any more horn incidents. Hound, you see someone pull a horn, it's your job to break it. If they run to get clear, chase them down."

"Nahia, do you think you can coordinate with Mysty? If you can put her targets to sleep while she's fighting them, she can just slit their throats and move on to the next lucky victim."

"Hound, leave sleeping people alone. You're better off dealing with people who can still swing swords."

"Am I missing anything?"

Hound nods at Rose when she gives him her instructions.

Nahia will nod at Rose and say "I'll do my best, though I do usually try to prefer key targets."

Nahia will then add "And I'm assuming we're still going for disguises as servants and guards?"

Mysty smiles. guards may let us slip in to take out the magister, and others. Dwarves might be good though.

Nahia nods at Mysty and says "Yes, but with the exception of you, the crowns are not powerful enough to disguise us as dwarves. A nice thought though."

Dwarves are Medium creatures. Mysty is the only one who can't disguise herself as a dwarf.

"Are you sure? I think they will get us close enough."

Perhaps if I carry the silence object, I can keep the horn blowers quiet if I fail to smash the horn.

Look at my post in the discussion thread.

Nahia looks at Rose for a moment and then stares at Hound and says "Yes. I'm sure..."

Rose looks at hound also, following Nahia's gaze. "Oh... gotcha. Yeah, that isn't going to work."

Then she shook her head at Hound. "If someone makes a break for it, you are our best runner. We can't have you taking the silence with you to chase someone down."

She looked back to Nahia and Seren. "How big is that silence feild, and how long do they last?"

Nahia tips her head back and forth and says "From the center of the silence, about 8 paces. Or about as far as a torch throws light. As for time, given it is a scroll...not very long. Probably just shy of a third of a minute."

"Oh." Rose said, brows raised. "I thought they lasted longer. That is a pretty short window."

"It's enough to stop someone from blasting on a horn. Should give us enough of a jump hopefully to disarm, sunder, or even better kill the guard before anyone is aware." Seren adds to Nahia's description.

"I disagree Rose, I think Hound's idea is a good one. If they are running, it's to get reinforcements, keeping them silenced so they can't yell and scream for help is pretty valuable."

"I agree, but that will leave the rest of the noise of battle pretty exposed. A horn is the worst case scenario, but people overhearing a fight won't be good either."

Nahia looks thoughtful for a moment and says "True, but chances are the one running will be running towards help, and therefore, towards the closest group of their allies. And the field of silence generated by the spell doesn't allow sound to pass through so it would muffle or block the combat sounds from from reaching them anyway... I think Hound's plan is a good one too."

"I didn't know that. I thought sound would come out the other side normally, but the people inside it just wouldn't hear anything. I guess if it works like a big sound sponge wherever it is, then putting it on Hound is a great idea."

After the place settle down and everyone goes to sleep, the party sneaks inside the cellar and into the secret passage.

The tunnel, about one mile long, has nothing different from the last time you came here.
After traveling in the dark for some minutes, Mysty opens the secret door, to the watchtower vault 1.

It holds a vast stockpile of durable, emergency rations. Several thousand days’ worth of iron rations fills this vault alongside barrels of potable water and other durable provisions.
There’s a trap door in the ceiling, and after listening for a bit, Mysty declares it appers to have nothing on the other side.

Intentions?

Just to confirm, Seren and I with detect magic didn't sense anything and Hound and Andros didn't detect any scents other than our own?

Nahia whispers to the other "Ok, let's get our disguises ready and let me make us more secretive."

Nahia, again, retrieves a small piece of copper wire and steps towards each of her comrades, one at a time, chanting faintly and bending the wire into a small loop. Aklo: "Spirits of wind, hear our words and carry them for us, to keep our secrets safe." With each chant there is a very brief gust of wind around Nahia and her current partner that quickly dies away.

That done, Nahia closes her eyes, bows her head, and begins to chant Aklo: "Spirits of fortune gather your precious light, be my armor to protect me!" As she speaks her words a haze of blue light surrounds and coalesces upon her, concentrating as it draws nearer to her form, before disappearing suddenly with the faint tink of a glass bell.

Casting Message on everyone and then casting Mage Armor on myself.

Her spells done, Nahia takes a moment to close her eyes and imagine her disguise. She grows a touch taller and her skin darkens to a faint tan color. Her hair shifts from black to blond, and her ears shrink, taking on the short curves of a human. Her eyes become blue and her features gain just a touch of wear to them, like someone who has spent much time worrying. Her fancy clothes change to a simple dress of faded blue, her boots becoming simple cloth work shoes. The only ‘fancy’ clothing about her is a pristine white apron, and a yellow silk caul holding back her long hair.

Rose was in full armor again, glamored to look like a Ballentyne soldier. She stood at the base of the ladder, amazed when Mysty gave the all-clear.

She looked back to Nahia and Seren, waiting for them to scan for auras on the trap that might indicate some sort magical lock or alarm.

Did those idiots seriously not find the trap door? We practically left a map for them to follow. If I wasn't planning on killing them for being in the way, I think I would do it on principal. No one that incompetent should be allowed to live.

Hound carefully inhales, taking in the smells. Noting if any indicated that others lurked beyond the doorways they were heading towards.[/b]

Hound shifts his form back into the simple looking man with drab work tunic and pants.

Mysty moves up the ladder to the trap door, and cautiously listens. If the sound is clear she quietly opens the trap door, then listens again. Then she slips out, moving to the side to allow the others clear passage up. She will move quietly, and keep her profile down.

BTW she is disguised as a gnome at the moment.

Aku, mysty is trying to stealth here. I assume you are handling the rolls.

Just revised my statline to show I am wearing the leather armor