Xynen's Hell's Rebels (Inactive)

Game Master Xynen

Figuring it's going to be dark inside, Femi tosses his continual light ioun stone up above his head where it takes up a lazy pattern around his bald noggin, providing light.

He then casts Prestidigitation on the door - particularly the hinges, but also the lock. "Anyone have any oil for the hinges and lock picks for the lock? I've neither." he shrugs.

He steps back and takes up a supportive position, waiting for more skilled hands than he to manage the door. If no one steps up, he wonders, "There must be another way in, right?"

Brask looks the door over. "I think it's a bit too tough to just shoulder through... anyone got a crowbar?"

Kalem produces a small short sword from his pack.

"If you're wondering why I'm not swinging this around, its because some of my work isn't exactly legal, and prison time is much less when you're not using a weapon. Not sure if we can use it as a crowbar though."

Kalem also looks around to see if theres another way in. Possibly the roof or a side door.

Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

As Femi casts his spell on the door he finds that the hinges are fairly sturdy and there doesn't seem to be an outward facing lock.

As Kalem looks around he sees that most all of the windows are shattered, few, if any, have glass in them.

"There's some shattered windows, but the jagged glass might make for a poor entry."

Kalem has regrouped with the others after looking around the warehouse.

"You guys might want to take a look in case I missed something, or maybe we can smoke them out or something. Not with fire though. Hate to see the district go up in flames. Like a smokestack or something."

"The building appears quite large. I have my doubts that this would work. I would suggest we pick a window with little glass in it, and on of us in armor go through first, clearing out what jagged edges remain with our plate."

"The building appears quite large. I have my doubts that this would work. I would suggest we pick a window with little glass in it, and on of us in armor go through first, clearing out what jagged edges remain with our plate."

"I'm right behind you!" Femi knocks some glass out of the way with his staff and makes ready to climb through after the armored make a cleaner path.

Mykhail smiles at Zhea "I do not blame you, you've been of much help to us and we thank you for your cooperation. Safe journey, and please spread the word that this area is defended, hopefully it will deter any further criminal activity."

Mykhail doesn't think he can shoot his way through this barred door so leaves it in the others capable hands. He takes a look around as well trying to make sure that they are not caught off guard once again.

Perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 14

Elias uses his armored forearm to scrape any remaining shards out of the frame, and then presses against the shutter, hoping it opens easily without too much more noise, but pushing against any resistance, muttering to himself a prayer to his goddess.

Strength check if needed: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

Elias easily climbs through the window, the ledges are wide enough to avoid whatever is left of the glass that was once their. Entering the front room of the warehouse you don't see much if anything. The sunlight bleeds through showing you that there is no furniture, however it does seem almost too clean. Once all of you are through the window you can hear a soft giggle as eight winged creatures suddenly appear and attack the party with their oversized pliers.

Fairy 1 and 2 attack Elias. Fairy 1 strikes a soft spot near Elias' knee dealing 2 damage to the cleric, Fairy 2 attempts to clamp onto one of his teeth but misses!

Attack: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 271d4 - 2 ⇒ (2) - 2 = 0
Steal: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9
Fairy 1 Confirm: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 211d4 - 2 ⇒ (1) - 2 = -1

3 and 4 go after Brask, eyeing his tusks greedily as they smile. Their mouths are full of misshapen teeth. Fairy 3 clamps down hard and tears on of Brass teeth right out of his mouth screeching gleefully as it lifts high it's prize! 1 bleed damage and 1 CHA damage.

Attack: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27
Attack: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20

Kalem and Mykhail are next from fairy five and six respectively. Both pliers hit and the tiefling and gunslinger both take 1 damage as their cheeks sting from the blows.
Attack: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 171d4 - 2 ⇒ (3) - 2 = 1
Attack: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (11) + 8 = 191d4 - 2 ⇒ (1) - 2 = -1

Fairy 7 rips a tooth from Femi's mouth, chittering happily. 1 bleed 1 CHA damage.

steal: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20

The final fairy, who sits a little farther back turns toward Brask and begins to cast a spell.

Round 1
Mykhail 1 damage
Brask 1 bleed 1 CHA damage
Elias 2 damage
Fairies
Kalem 1 damage
Femi 1 bleed 1 CHA

Mykhail, Brask and Elias are up!

No map, assume you are 5ft from any fairy that attacked you, a single move action from the rest. Mykhail at present you're probably unable to attack without incurring an AoO since the room is so cluttered.

"My tooth!" Brask shouts, angry and trying to kill the thing that hurt him.

attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6

... gorramn dice roller wants me toothless and feeble.

Mykhail quickly slams his mouth shut to deter the blighted creatures from stealing any of his teeth. 'What in the hell are these things!?'

He wastes no time in taking aim at the one who had just attacked him hoping to give it a taste of it's own medicine.

shot at creature: 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 5 + 1 = 14
damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Brask and Mykhail both miss their targets, Fairy 6 takes the gunslinger shot as an opportunity to move in and swing his pliers but misses. Elias calls upon his goddess for a bit of luck!

1d20 + 8 ⇒ (3) + 8 = 11

Fairy 8's spell goes off and a sense of drowsiness threatens to put to sleep almost everyone in the room, including his comrades!

DC 13 will save from the whole party, failure means falling asleep!

Faries 1, 2, 5 and 6 float to the ground asleep, as their wings carry them too the floor. Realizing his folly fairy 8 flies to fairy 6 and slaps him awake in a panic.

Fairy 3 and 7, in their glee fly to the back of the room, to drop their new teethe in their respector piles and fly back to their oroginal targets. Fairy 4 tries for his own prize but fails a second time.
Steal: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8

Fairy 6, newly awakened Chittenden angrily at his brethren that put him to sleep and attacks Mykhail again and succeeds in prying open his lips and ripping a tooth!

Steal: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 24

Round 1
Kalem 1 damage
Femi 1 bleed 1 CHA damage
Fairies (1,2 and 5 are asleep)
Round 2
Mykhail 1 damage 1 Bleed damage 1 CHA damage
Brask 1 bleed 1 CHA damage
Elias 2 damage

If Brass and Femi pass their will saves, they may take an AoO against the fairy that stole their tooth. Of Mykhail fails his will save, he is woken up when the tooth is ripped from his mouth.

The Party Is Up!

Will Save: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12

yeah. I'm down.

Round: 1

What the hell?! A swarm of… fey?! We’ve got to thin this herd.

Will: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11 vs DC 13

Sadly, that thought is cut short, as Femi drops to the ground again - twice in two combats, his staff falling away from his hand.

My save would have been made prior to my round. At the start of my round, I take 1hp bleed damage - which would wake me back up, prone, weaponless, and unhappy. Assuming that’s correct, what follows might happen. If I’m wrong, and I’m still asleep for some reason, please disregard…

Femi’s mouth fills with blood, and he dribbles a bit out as the pain wakes his shallowly sleeping form. He looks around from his position, and does what he can to drop the fairies. Or at least the one on him.

He casts defensively… (The DC for casting defensively is higher than the DC for ongoing damage and listed first. If no fairy is on me, I have the lower DC)
Concentration: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10 vs DC 17 or DC 12

Sadly, his spell fails either way… and a bad round is finally put to bed.

S+~+

Elias steps into the room, letting the magical sleep wash around him, feeling it's power drift away against the beat of his elven blood. Instead, he strums his fingers against the harp, calling upon the vengeful energies of his goddess.

Channel Negative Energy: 1d6 ⇒ 2
I'm going to step into the room, hopefully far enough that I can hit all of the fey and leave at least one party member out of the radius. If I can't do that, I'll let Kalem EDIT Actually, could I let Brask take it? Might wake him up EDIT take the hit, since he's both awake, and not bleeding. Will save dc for half damage is 14. I really need to save up some cash for a +cha item :P

I have no idea if this will work, or what the hell its gonna look like. But oh well.

Round 1

Kalem uses Martial Flexibility to gain the advantages of Improved Grapple, and he then....sigh....grapples the fairy thing? If that's possible. Don't laugh.

Grapple: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (8) + 7 = 15

Brask falls asleep, but the pain in his face wakes him back up.

He struggles to his feet, recovering his weapon in the process and is glad his shield was strapped to his arm.

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I imagine grappling the fairy looks a lot like trying to catch a mosquito with your hands. Like, clapping your hands over them, kinda thing.

oh whoops. I get to attack cutlass: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 5 = 25 crit!: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23 damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7
crit!: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

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Round 2

Mykhail cries out in pain when the flying creature manages to pry his mouth open and yanks one of his teeth out.

"You son of a..!" He cuts off as the pain becomes to great for a moment and he growls in anger, spits out the mouth full of blood, then aims Iustitia and fires

Will: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 17
shot at the M.F. fairy: 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 5 + 1 = 26
Confirm: 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 5 + 1 = 20
Reg Damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
Crit damage: 2d8 + 2 ⇒ (5, 4) + 2 = 11

Kalem reaches out and grabs at one of the fairies that is still awake, it squirms in his grip but he holds fast! the one in front of Kalem fell asleep so I assume you'd move toward one still flying,we'll say one in front of Brask.Femi nods off, but wakes up almost as quickly as the pulsing wound in his mouth continues to ache. The pain proves too distracting and he loses the spell he's trying to cast. Mykhail reloads his weapon as fairy 6 swings at his face! The fairy hits, but so does Mykhails bullet and the little creature disappears in a cloud of mist, obliterated by it's foe. Brask stands as the remaining fairy in front of him takes advantage of his vulnerable side and swings it's pliers. The fairy misses, and Brask's cutlass cuts through it's limbs easily, dropping the foe. Elias moves away from the melee as much as he can and channels energy, any remaining sleeping fairies wake up and chitter angrily. As his negative energy floods the room, the fairy in front of Brask also explodes.

Brask and Mykhail roll a DC 10 fort save or be sickened for 1d4 ⇒ 3rounds.

AoO vs Mykhail: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 211d4 - 2 ⇒ (4) - 2 = 2
AoO vs Brask: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 221d4 - 2 ⇒ (3) - 2 = 1

Fairies 1 and 2 attempt to steal some Elven teeth! 2 succeeds, ripping out one of Elias' top front teeth and squealing with glee.

Steal: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11
Steal: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18

Fairy 3 tries to break itself free of Kalem's grasp. It succeeds in pulling itself from his fist and prepares to win itself a tooth!
Escape Artist: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27

Fairy 5 rushes Brask and tries to avenge her kin but she does not succeed.

Steal: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 181d4 - 2 ⇒ (4) - 2 = 2

7 and 8 attempt to beat Femi while he's down, one succesfully bounces it's pliers off the bald mans head!
Attack: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (13) + 8 = 211d4 - 2 ⇒ (1) - 2 = -1
Attack: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 91d4 - 2 ⇒ (3) - 2 = 1

Round 2
Kalem 1 damage
Femi 4 damage (1 bleed/turn) 1 CHA damage
Round 3
Mykhail 3 damage (1 bleed/turn) 1 CHA damage
Brask 2 damage (1 bleed/turn) 1 CHA damage
Elias 3 damage (1 bleed/turn) 1 CHA Damage
Fairies

The Party is up!

Round 2

"Come here you!"

Kalem attempts to grapple the small creature once again.

Grapple: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20

Round: 2

Trusting that their damage will be lower then the struggle to cast defensively, Femi casts again.
Concentration: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12 vs DC 12 (ongoing damage)

Magic Missile: 2d4 + 3 ⇒ (4, 3) + 3 = 10 - All on the one who has my tooth if it's still up. If not, either one on me.

Round 2

Mykhail ignores the pain of a second blow and cries out in triumph as he manages to obliterate the creature. He quickly reloads and turns to take out another creature.

Fort.: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15
Shot at Fey 8: 1d20 + 5 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 5 + 1 = 11 Tried to help you out Femi, but apparently my rolls are going hot and cold on me

Round 2

Elias closes his eyes, keeps his mouth clamped shut, and focuses on pouring out more of the negative energy...

Channel Negative Energy: 1d6 ⇒ 2
will save dc 14 for half

Brask will save: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

Kalem continues to play cat and mouse with fairy 3, once again grabbing the fairy in his hands. Femi fires off two missiles and Knicks fairy 7 out of the fight! Mykhail fires but misses again. Elias sends a wave of negative energy across the room exactly as strong as the last. Brask starts to dry heave but attempts an attack against fairy 5 but misses.

Attack: 1d20 + 5 - 2 ⇒ (11) + 5 - 2 = 14

Fairy Will: 6d20 ⇒ (13, 17, 12, 8, 1, 16) = 67
Fairy 8 2nd will: 1d20 ⇒ 17

Fairy 7 explodes in a cloud of dust as the energy waves over him. Femi DC 10 Fort save or be sickened 1d4 ⇒ 2 rounds.

Fairy 1 tries to retrieve a trophy of his own, as fairy 2 tries to beat Elias with the pliers that hold the cleric's tooth. Fairy 1 fails to steal a tooth but fairy 2 scores a hit! [ooc] 1 lethal damage

Steal: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11
Attack: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 181d4 - 2 ⇒ (2) - 2 = 0

Fairy 3 attempts to once again escape the tiefling but this time fails, waving it's pliers angrily in Kalem's face.
EA: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11

Fairy 5 retaliates against Brask by going for another tooth but misses, nearly toppling head over foot.
Steal: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8

Fairy 8 continues its assault on Femi.

Attack: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (2) + 8 = 101d4 - 2 ⇒ (1) - 2 = -1

Round 3
Kalem 1 damage
Femi 5 damage (1 bleed/turn) 1 CHA damage
Round 4
Mykhail 4 damage (1 bleed/turn) 1 CHA damage
Brask 3 damage (1 bleed/turn) 1 CHA damage
Elias 5 damage (1 bleed/turn) 1 CHA Damage
Fairies

The Party Is Up!

Kalem looks at the small creature flitting frantically in his grasp. These were the tormentors of his kin?

He tightens his grip but deals non-lethal damage, so as to show his people who their attackers truly are.
Maintain Grapple: 1d20 + 7 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 7 + 5 = 18

Unarmed Strike: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

As long as I'm grappling it, I can deal it damage equal to my unarmed strike, lethal or non-lethal.

Kalem, holding the fairy in the grip of one hand, brings his other hand level with its head and with a small flick of his index finger the fey goes limp and it's pliers drop to the floor.

Fairy 3 is unconcious. 1, 2, 5 and 8 are left.

Brask, still sickened, tries to swing at the next nearest enemy.

Attack: 1d20 + 5 - 2 ⇒ (11) + 5 - 2 = 14 and again cuts only air as his watering eyes made pinning down the flighty fairies difficult.

Round: 3

Fort Save: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 1 = 13 vs DC 10 or Sickened

Seeing how little it takes to drop them, and worried about his remaining spells (and failing health!) he tries a Force Missile this time to drop his fairy.

Concentration: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21 vs DC 12 (ongoing damage)

Force Missile: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

"Now give me back my toof!"

Round 3

Elias snarls as another wave of negative energy pours forth. He's not so worried about the tooth. As one might imagine, elves are long-lived, and replace their teeth continually over the years. Kind of like sharks. Of course, it will be a good decade before his next set will come in...

But no, he's more concerned by all the bleeding, and what lies farther into the warehouse. The group will not do well if they encounter more swarms of these things.

Channel Negative Energy: 1d6 ⇒ 2
will save DC 13 to resist. Damned charisma damage!

Eliastraza, ability damage doesn't effect you until you've taken two points. It doesn't actually lower your stats the way drain does. Here's the description (link) for reference, but here's the key line:

For every 2 points of damage you take to a single ability, apply a –1 penalty to skills and statistics listed with the relevant ability.

Nice! dc is will 14 then!

Fairy Wills: 5d6 ⇒ (3, 4, 5, 1, 2) = 15

With a final surge of negative energy every fairy drops from the sky and lands on the ground unconcious and bleeding, the only sound is the clattering of pliers as they hit the stone floor, and that of a couple scattering teeth that do the same.

Brask searches through the dropped items to find his missing tooth, trying to staunch his bleeding with a handkerchief.

"What... fe hell. Toof faires?" he mutters to himself. More upset than angry.

Femi also tries to stop the bleeding before he collapses...

Heal: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 1 = 16

Whew.

"When you get a chance, I'd love a hit off the wand, I'm really hurting here." He hunts for his tooth, trying to wedge it back into place before the wand is brought to bear - hoping for the best...

CLW Wand: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8

That one charge will bring me to full health. Eli, are you tracking charges/using the wand?

Once healthy, Femi will look around for treasure in the immediate vicinity. He'll do so with a Detect Magic up and running just in case, though he doesn't expect much.

Perception: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 1 = 19

Yup. I'm tracking them.

"Brask, Mykhail, and I shall go first, as we continue to bleed, but we should all get in proper shape before we continue. Who know what dangers lurk further in?"

Elias presses the wand against his own wounds, followed by Mykhail, then Brask, then finally Femi. As Kalem seems to be suffering from little more than a split lip, Elias will allow him to determine if he wants a use of the wand to treat it.

Wand of Cure Light Wounds: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
Wand of Cure Light Wounds: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
Wand of Cure Light Wounds: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8
Wand of Cure Light Wounds: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

As Femi receives a touch of the wand, he feels his gums warmly accept the tooth he's holding in place. It's a strange feeling, as the tooth settles back into it's home, but once the healing it done it feels as sturdy as it had before.

Looking around the room, Femi spies small piles of teeth in various places and even a few patterns along the wall. In the center of one such pattern is a gold tooth that could be worth a small fortune. 250 Gold

Unfortunately there is a grisly, disturbing find farther in the back of the room, where they light barely reaches. Shackled, wrist and ankle, to the wall, is a corpse of a tiefling child. All but one tooth has been removed from it's mouth and it's wrapped thickly in thick perserved sinew.

All along it's body seem to be phrases written in a strange language.

HAHA just kidding! apparently the healing restored the teeth! that's awesome!

Mykhail searches for his missing tooth and once he finds it he grimaces and wipes it on his coat to get it as clean as possible before holding it up into its slot and sighs in relief as Elias gives them a heal. He brushes his tongue over it and is glad that it is firmly reattached.

"Thanks very much friend."

Now that the threat was taken care of Mykhail starts to search around until he happens upon the body of a child Tiefling. His stomach churns at the grizzly scene and he feels his anger surge at the injustice of a dead child. "Kalem, you might want to see this. It seems this poor child was sacrificed to summon those creatures we just fought off." Mykhail starts to search around the body looking for any clues as to who could have done this.

Heal: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8
Ling.: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (19) + 3 = 22
Perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 27

Heal: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 1 = 18
Linguistics: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (12) + 8 = 20

Femi shakes his head at the evil they face. "Someone sick is behind this. Someone who doesn't like Tieflings. Let's make sure the warehouse is empty." he says as he starts to look around - keeping his distance from the gruesome child.

He picks up his quarterstaff off the floor, and continues his search. Any other rooms in the warehouse?

"Where should we look to find their summoner?" Brask asks, looking around impatiently now his face isn't any less pretty. "This seems like being able to summon them this way is something even most summoners wouldn't know how to do."

The group searches the warehouse but you can find no other clue about who sacrificed the child or what the purpose was. As you wander through the few empty rooms you find nothing of significant value.

As you search, you hear a knock at the front door and Zhea's voice, quivering a little, comes through one of the windows.

"So, a-are you all okay? Have you found anything?"

Kalem is silent.

He kneels by the corpse, his head facing down. He pictures himself as a young tiefling, beaten blue from fights at the docks. People would pass him by until he had enough strength to pick himself up and limp back home. There his mother would be beside herself, almost shrieking at him for getting involved at the docks again. But she was there, someone who waited for him to return.

Who was waiting for this child to return?

I could have never saved you, but your vengeance shall be fulfilled.

He gets back up as his companions speak around him. Picking up the small unconscious form of the fairy, he brings it over to Zhea.

"And here is one of your tiny murderers. As my friend said, we believe someone summoned these things to wreak havoc on our kin."

He speaks calmly, but anyone paying attention can see his fist tremble as he holds the being aloft, taking most of his willpower not to crush it.

Zhea doesn't even seem to notice the fairy that Kalem is holding as she looks passed him and sees the child. Her tears flow freely as she climbs through the window and kneels beside the small form.

It takes her a few moments but she eventually regains her composure and listens to Mykhail and Femi's explanation. She takes the child in her arms and strokes it's head. She then looks at the shackles and, with a few tools she carries, opens them, and picks up the body.

"I don't know whose child this is, but we'll see her cremated."

She heads toward the window again and gingerly makes her way out into the street. A few passers by take notice and come to assist. None ask questions, murder has been commonplace in the slums for a long time now.

"I don't know if there's anything else you need from us here in the nursery but I'll tell everyone how you stopped the murderer's." Her eyes finally drift to the small fey and she snarls.

"And I'll keep my ears to the ground for any information on the summoner."

Mykhail wants to put a stop to this as soon as possible and so he turns back to the group and speaks "we should return and report what went down. We might get some further insight on what to do next."

"Thank you."

Kalem feels a bit of peace within him, knowing the body will be looked after and slowly but surely crushes the fey in his hand.

"I agree Mykhail. As much as I want to pursue this now, perhaps returning is the best option."

Femi, annoyed at not finding the true culprit for this crime returns with the others.

"We'll just have to keep our eyes open. Whoever did this won't stop with just this. They'll do something else next. Maybe even the same thing again. We'll catch them." he says hopefully.

"Thanks for taking care of the little one Zhea. Do you need any funds for the cremation? Happy to donate to the cause. Please, let us help." he takes out his coin purse...

Elias takes Kalem aside for a brief moment, "I do not know what faith you follow, Tiefling, but in this time, and until the child is avenged, know you have the blessings of the Lady Calistria. If there is any need I can provide for, ask and you shall have it."