"Hrm. Alright then, well it was good catching up! Stay safe, friend!" she gets up and musses up Hulester's hair as she heads back to join the group. "Not much there. Anyone seen Elchis?"
The party waits until last call and Elchis never shows.
Disappointed but unsurprised, Vaascht retires to his room to rest for the following days investigations.
"Anyone want first watch? I'll take the middle shift. Odds are good even the Lost know we're here tonight."
"I'll take last."
"I guess I'll take first?"
Vaascht yawns then grunts, "I'll sit first watch with Nik."
Nik nods.
"and of course Zombington can help keep watch all night" he adds.
I also will take last watch.
Day 4
The party walks down to the tavern area for breakfast. A small man holds a short sword threateningly at Hulester while a goblin pins your informant down. A second goblin has pinned Riaen behind the bar. The man has light blue skin and long white hair that never seems to stop moving about as if it was being blown by a chill win. A pair of too large wolves flanks the air genasi with a short sword and all eyes falls on the party as if they have just sat on the wrong pew.
Rinika yawns sleepily as she takes in the scene. "Morning Hulester, you making friends like always? Care to introduce us? We can have a chat over an omelette."
Rinika has heard of an air genasi that works with goblins and has pet wolves. His name is Ivth Nanright, unaffiliated with any faction but will hire out to the highest bidder. He does investigative work but is ruthless and more often than not will silence sources to deter competition.
Without waiting for a response, Rinika keeps talking, trying to give her friends some time to get into the room and draw attention to herself rather than Hulester.
"Ivth, right? Pleased to finally meet you, watcha doing in this neck of the woods? There any juicy contracts around here I should know about? Your wolves are cute, can I pet them?"
Nik nudges Rinika "Zombington is also furry." he says.
"You can pet her tummy if you Ivth's wolves aren't friendly."
Zombington, for its part, simply stands there, gaze fixed opposite the general direction from whence it followed Nik.
Supernatural Abilities
. 7/7 Power Over Undead (30' burst; DC 15 will)
. (1 at a time) Corpse Companion
Spell-like Abilities
. 7/7 Bolster (Undead) (+1 profane on attacks and saves; 1 temp hp/HD; +2 turn resistance; 1 round duration)
. 1/1 Pyrotechnics (DC 14)
Spells Prepared:
. 2nd (2+1/day) Command Undead (DC 16) (S), Flaming Sphere (DC 16), Glitterdust (DC 16)
. 1st (3+1/day) Repair Undead (S), Grease (DC 15), Infernal Healing, Warp Sense
. cantrips (at will) Acid Splash, Detect Magic, Prestidigitation, Spark
Vaascht surveys the room as he walks in and grins widely at the tableau.
"I didn't know breakfast came with a show, or is it a morning workout?" his hand finds the hilt of his blade, casually, but he makes no further motion, yet.
Akrynn walks down to the center of the stairs. The druid eyes each of the bullies.
Now, this is a party! And, what games are on the menu?
Jek delicately makes his way down the stairs and finds the group at an impasse. An air genasi working with goblins and wolves? That seems a bit... Jek caught himself. That wasn't fair. He also kept strange company.
With Vaascht giddy to murder someone before breakfast, Jek decides it would be a good idea to have his lance ready.
Seeing that the group is ready to go. Rinika keeps talking but readies an immediate action to cast Liberating Command on Hulester should hostilities break out.
Ivth looks over to the group and says, "I hate parties. Take care of them."
With violence apparently imminent Rinika magically compels Hulester to escape the grasp of the goblin holding him. He easily slips free and nods at Rinika.
"And just when I thought today was going to be boring..."
Vaascht quips as he rips his blade from it's scabbard and flings a hand forward, chanting as he does so, sending a dazzling display of light at the wolves, goblin and genasi in front of them.
The Patryn grins.
I love the smell of napalm in the morning!
One of the wolves, one of the goblins, and Hulester both look directly into the rainbow pattern of light effulgently glowing from Vaascht’s outstretched hand. They all begin to sway about, incoherent. As the fight begins in earnest the goblin and wolf eyes begin to smolder orange. This is when Vaascht and Nik start adding some facts together, the wolf and goblin’s surprising resilience, a singular goblin’s ability to strongarm a human who looks like he knows his way out of a headlock. Both the wolves and goblins are the same type of creature, barghest whelps. Barghests are fiends native to the four furnaces of Gehenna. They send their young to the prime material plane to hunt and grow strong. When they mature they develop the ability to plane shift back to Gehenna and take their place among their kind. Barghest whelps in humanoid form are normally indistinguishable from a common goblin but are far stronger and hardier. They also have the ability to transform into wolves or dogs. How Ivth managed to make four barghest whelps subordinate to him is a mystery too large for Vaascht and Nik to think about in the space of a few seconds.
The one barghest wolf that remains coherent pads over to Hulester and mauls the insensate Anarchist.
The barghest goblin by Riaen lets her go and stabs her with its longsword. It follows up with a claw rake across the face and a bite into her shoulder. To Riaen’s credit she doesn’t pass out, but she does look rather angry.
The druid traces Runes in the air, causing his tattoos to glow (Bull's Strength).
"Sorry, Hulester." Nik says, before adding insult to injury by catching him (and the foes near him... and the statue) inside a cloud of Glitterdust (DC 16).
"Slap that closer goblin-looking devil, Zombington."
before this post
Supernatural Abilities
. 7/7 Power Over Undead (30' burst; DC 15 will)
. (1 at a time) Corpse Companion
Spell-like Abilities
. 7/7 Bolster (Undead) (+1 profane on attacks and saves; 1 temp hp/HD; +2 turn resistance; 1 round duration)
. 1/1 Pyrotechnics (DC 14)
Spells Prepared:
. 2nd (2+1/day) Command Undead (DC 16) (S), Flaming Sphere (DC 16), Glitterdust (DC 16)
. 1st (3+1/day) Repair Undead (S), Grease (DC 15), Infernal Healing, Warp Sense
. cantrips (at will) Acid Splash, Detect Magic, Prestidigitation, Spark
Zombington travels at a faster speed than anyone has ever seen it move before as it charges at the 'goblin'.
It also stumbles as it moves down the steps, missing the goblin very badly.
Ivth and one of the wolves rub their eyes as the glitter clouds their vision.
Riaen grabs a nearby bottle of expensive looking liquor swings it at the nearby barghest. It ducks out of the way just as easily as the other barghest avoids Zombington's.
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Not wanting to become colorful or sparkly, Jek charges the barghest (bar guest?) on the right.
A devastating blow knocks a ferocious-looking table across the room.
"Ah, right. New lance. I was holding it upside down. That should do it."
Ivth slashes his sword where he last saw Hulester. But the Anarchist wobbles out of the way and he is missed at the last moment. Ivth commands his minions, "Kill the spellslingers."
Ivth rubs the dust from his eyes and stares icicles at Nik.
Rinika scampers over to Hulester and tries to pull him out of the way.
Try as she might Rinika cannot budge the overweight man.
"Hulester, I'm tryna help you buddy, but- HRRK!"
Using the moment of distraction to his advantage, Vaascht casts another spell.
Double post
Looking at the mess happening downstairs, the druid claps his hands.
This shit gonna have nuts in it!
The blind fight the blind as the wolf near Hulester digs its claws into him. Two of the whelps slip closer to Vaascht, obeying their boss. Vaascht catches a pair of claws with his Katana while the longsword is deflected sideways by some unseen force. Still two Vaascht finds his leg and bicep bitten causing thin rivulets of blood to stain his clothing. The goblin near Riaen finishes the job and the bartender slumps over unconscious. It moves into striking range of Jek, unintimidated by the table tossed across the room.
Tracing Runes onto his club, the Patryn grins.
Nik draws his cold iron dagger, takes a step closer, and coats the floor underneath the blinded wolf and Ivth with Grease (DC 15)!
"Come here, Zombington!"
before this post
Supernatural Abilities
. 7/7 Power Over Undead (30' burst; DC 15 will)
. (1 at a time) Corpse Companion
Spell-like Abilities
. 7/7 Bolster (Undead) (+1 profane on attacks and saves; 1 temp hp/HD; +2 turn resistance; 1 round duration)
. 1/1 Pyrotechnics (DC 14)
Spells Prepared:
. 2nd (2+1/day) Command Undead (DC 16) (S), Flaming Sphere (DC 16), Glitterdust (DC 16)
. 1st (3+1/day) Repair Undead (S), Grease (DC 15), Infernal Healing, Warp Sense
. cantrips (at will) Acid Splash, Detect Magic, Prestidigitation, Spark
The shambler steps closer to Nik, blocking the way up the stairs, and then swings for the goblin again.
The Barghest Welp disguised as a goblin deflects the blow easily.
The air genasi tips over as his shoes and now back becomes covered in Nik's magic grease. Hulester draws a pair of kukris and slashes an area no one is currently occupying. He yells, "I could have given them the laugh, at least until you started helping me!" He's bluffing.
Jek steps back, lines up his shot more carefully, and stabs at the barghest again.
"Getting there..."
Jek's lance comes dangerously close to skewering the barghest's head, it had the presence of mind to move its dead before that happened.
Ivth says, "You're annoying me Aasimar. Silence!" He stands up. Those on and near the stairs don't notice it immediately but the sound of combat fades away. The crash of Jek's lance into a nearby chair, nothing. Hulester's complaints just him mouthing words for some reason.
Arkynn recognizes the spell as Silence.