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With a furrowed brow and her index finger on her lips, Yasami remains silent as others talk. "Maybe we can lure it out with some illusion tricks? OH! Catalina, how does that mirror duplicate of yours work? Can we use that?"
"She'd still have to move quickly...but it's true, she's pretty good at fighting. Catalina, if you want to be the lure, that could work as well. And the invisibility potion sounds like a good idea."
"I am not going to be a lure. I do not think this is a smart plan. Vrock are not stupid, and if they are summoned and told to guard this place, they are not going to stray far from their responsibility. Not to mention, we haven't gotten a good idea as to what this place really has in store for us. We need to scout more before trying to attack this place." Catalina crosses her arms over her chest, clearly uncomfortable with pushing back against the planning. She did not, however, have any desire to lure anything in with so many unknown factors.
"That's fair. If you don't want to, we'll figure something else out." Yasami thinks as she pulls out some jerky to chew on. She takes a bite. "I guess I will volunteer. I'll go stake out the place, see what I can find. Maybe if we can find a way INTO a mine shaft, we can bottleneck. Keep your fingers crossed, ladies and gentlemen." she picks up her things, finishes the jerky, and heads out.
"It would be difficult to find a mineshaft in a quarry. They're not typically underground mining operations," Catalina says flatly. "I'm happy to help with staking out; I am not putting myself in harm's way for this half-baked plan that involves luring a creature away from a place that we don't have a clear picture of..." The thaumaturge trails off, shrugging. "Hopefully Yasami's scouting will be fruitful."
Caiten watches as Yasami leaves to scout alone. "If she is discovered, she will almost certainly be killed since the rest of us are not there to assist. And having more people go scouting increases the chances of being discovered." He begins nervously pacing around.
"I will go to watch her back. I'll stay back far away so I can rely on my pistol." Dario says, kicking off the mud from his boots. "I got the barrels in the bag of holding on me. We can use it as a distraction...or blow them all to hell if we're able to. We'll be back."
Dario would take off on a jog to follow behind Yasami, moving with a quiet step through the jungle.
Lisi is taken aback by Yasami’s decision to head out solo, but shrugs.
”We could have at least disguised her as a charau-ka—I have a spell that does that,”
but he closes his mouth and looks around. ”Let us wait, and not send more people to scout. Caiten has it. We minimize errors this way.”
After some back and forth over planning, Yasami and Dario wait for the nearest Vrock to pass, then slink along the edge of the treeline, planning to scout around the camp.
A short distance to the south, near the bonfire, Yasami signals to Dario to be careful-- a creature is roosting in the trees here, a humanoid creature that seems part bat, hanging upside down from a tree branch it has decorated with the bones of its prey. It is currently asleep. There are four other roosts, but they are currently unoccupied.
Carefully skirting around it, you hear snippets of conversation from the bonfire. Most of it is mundane, grunted conversation amidst the charau-ka, arguing over duties or commenting on the poor meal that was being cooked. One particularly grumpy individual growled a complaint you both took special note of.
"Rrrr...Boss Hezle greedy since other kobolds leave. She hoarding potions in lab instead of giving to us!”
The others around the bonfire warned him to keep quiet, lest the boss hear him complaining and do something about his disloyalty.
Moving towards the southernmost building, you can see the boggards on the cots appear to be sickly. Yasami is quick to recognize the symptoms, having helped to treat them quite recently -- they are likely suffering from arsenic poisoning, just like the kobolds you helped were. There are voices coming from inside the building, and you can't make out conversation, but it sounds like it's probably the bunkhouse where the cultists sleep.
You pause in your scouting for a few minutes, moving deeper into the jungle as the second Vrock circles around. Once it passes you move towards the smaller building.
It's a small wooden hut and wafts of smoke are rising from a single chimney in its north wall. West of the hut is a wooden table, on which several objects lie obscured under a leather covering. A bin of rocky refuse sits beside the table. South of the hut, a fifteen-foot-diameter magical circle has been dug into the ground, the grooves filled with dull gray metal and adorned at each point with stubs of burnt-out black candles. You hazard a guess this is where the Vrocks were summoned. The table offers you the best cover for approaching the pit, so once the Vrocks are positioned in such a way as to give you the best shot, you ceep forward and peer over the edge.
There was a long spiraling ramp leading down into the quarry, the entrance on the southwestern side of the pit. Charau-ka and boggards alike toiled there, and you found the two missing juvenile elephants -- they were being tasked with pulling heavy carts laden with ore up the ramp, then heading back down for more. Another of the dragon-headed pillars is down there, this one purple in coloration, and strange, tiny, floating worms are orbiting around it. There is a large murky pool of polluted water in the northern portion of the quarry.
Completing your circuit, you find the mud to be the mine tailings, the waste material left over after the gold has been separated out of the rest of the rock. There are some odd burrow holes in the northern part of the mud pile, as if something might be living within. You pass the strange reptile in the cage, and make your way back to the others to report on what you saw.
Yasami walks ahead of Dario, beckoning him to move onward when the coast is clear. She carefully sneaks below the creature hanging from branches. She looks at Dario as she shrugs, and mouths "What is that?", then moves on further. She moves through the camp, quickly listening in on the charau-ka conversation, but decides not to push her luck. She carries on with Dario in tow, noting the dragon totem with the vermin around it. Once they return to camp, she sits down to process the stakeout. She takes out her notebook, and starts drawing the plan of the camp.
"Right. Two wrocks patroling around. Something that looks like a summoning circle..." she marks it on the map she draws. "Another dragon totem. Not sure what it does, but there are some worms around it. I have no idea what that is about."
She continues with the drawing, and makes another X on the map. "This here - there are some bat-human hybrids. I think there are five of them. We only saw one, but there were four other sets of claw marks on that tree. We might be careful, as they might be hunting."
She pauses to think. "What else? The elephant calves are in the mines. The cult uses them to pull carts with material uphill. And the charau-ka are angry with the kobold, Hezle. Supposedly she is hoarding potions in some sort of lab."
"Also-also, this building in the south, it might be some sort of barracks or living quarters for the cultists. Perhaps we could set that on fire, although I didn't see any kobolds anywhere. So Hezle might also be in that building, and would just be collateral."
When she is done, she leans against a tree trunk, and wipes some sweat from her brow.
"So - give me your thoughts. Can the summoning circle be used to - I don't know - either banish the vrocks, or break the cult's control of them?"
Dario responds by lifting his finger to be especially, nodding in regards to the man-bats hanging in the air above them. He had recognized the creatures from a circus that had passed through Alkenstar, a sideshow of the "Queer Exotics From Within Mwangi!" was written upon the side of the worn wagon. At the sight of the strange, floating worm creatures brings a curious if worried look to the gunslingers face. He returns with Yasami, taking up the rear of the scouting after lagging behind to overhear more of the camp's activities.
"Those man-bat-things are called "sabosen". They're blood drinkers and they have a scream used to stun their prey." He explains to the others, pointing then to the dragon totem and the strange worms it is crawling with. "Those are voidworms. Saw a shipment of them arrive for an inventor back in Alkenstar. They come from the plane known as Maelstrom, drawn towards chaos. They ain't dangerous but for them to be hanging around that totem...that ain't looking good at all."
"We still have the barrels of gunpowder as well. With a bit of flame or lightning, we could make them explode like no one's business. I still have my elemental chamber and can fire a burning bullet, if need be." Dario suggests, gesturing at the quarry. "Roll them in towards one of the vrocks, set it ablaze, and blow one of them straight to hell." A dangerous smirk spreads on the gunslinger's face as he pats his side, his memory coming back. "I also heard something at the camp, something strange..." He shares what he overheard just before he left the camp.
Dario shares the snippet he overheard, one of the cultists complaining loudly. The ape man had been upset about "grubbing around in the muck to pay the Scarlet Triad" instead of keeping the gold for themselves.
"I wonder...if we use gunpowder on the mine entrance, we may trap the creatures within and prevent them from escaping to act as reinforcements," says Lisi, processing all the information. "Blowing up a barracks sounds good to me as well, although we don't know if that's what it is."
"Of course, if you roll a barrel into that bonfire, you don't even need a match," he says with a sly grin. "I am of the mind that we should free the large reptile in the cage. I can speak to it, and offer a bargain. If it attacks a vrock, then we'll give it all of the boggards to eat. Unless it just wants to run, in which case I'll ask it to hit the vrock on its way back to deeper jungle."
"I can Entangle the boggards as well. We still need a plan to divide and conquer the vrocks, though. If we blow up the charau-ka, at least one will come to investigate and attack whatever did it. We may want to incapacitate that vrock so we can take them on one at a time, so perhaps--one barrel at the charau-ka, and one behind the barracks. First one barrel, then the other."
"We still need a plan to divide and conquer the vrocks, though."
"That would certainly be ideal. Battling everything at once is very dangerous. If we can separate and battle one of the Vrock first - even if we don't fully defeat it before the other arrives - that would be an improvement."
"I still like the idea of luring one away with a low threat ruse."
"If we can predict where the enemy will likely come from, I can rig the explosives and try to cover them. It'll take a spark or a shot to blow them up but we can put it where the enemy likely will take cover." Dario suggests, looking amidst the others. "I just ain't sure how we'll bring over a vrock is all. Any ideas on that? Maybe we steal the dinosaur and ride off with it?"
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"Wait...didn't Voz's notes mentions something about the Scarlet Triad? They were supporting her financially right? As long as she got those damn portals working?" Dario says after taking a moment to recollect on their information.
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"They did, yes. And we put a stop to that, but I imagine that they have to be getting suspicious now that they haven't heard back from Voz. Surely, they'll have to be looking for some new way to get the portals."
Caiten looks at Dario and Oren with confusion clear in his expression. "I feel like I am failing to notice something. But since I am failing at it, I don't know what it is that I am missing."
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Yasami gets to thinking again. Not her strong suit, but, at least she wrinkles her brain once in a while. "Noted. Scarlet Triad, whoever that might be, somehow in league with Dahak. We can figure out the politics later. For now - we need to stop this operation here. So I propose a plan."
She stands up, and pulls out her diagram again. "We cause a distraction. We have an invisibility potion, we have the bag that eats things up whole, we have ... Uh. The scroll that allows someone to turn into one of those big creatures Renali warned us about. We have other things, but that's the starter kit, I guess."
She points towards the buildings in the south. "I would really like to know what is inside those. If we want to-" she makes air quotes "-liberate- the kobolds and their leader, we would need to take a look inside, so that we don't kill them. My plan involves gunpowder."
Anyway - the potion of invisibility we have? We can use that to scout the buildings out and plant a powder keg on the outside. Then Dario and Catalina both, at the same time with the explosion of said keg, shoot one of the vrocks that flies near us. Hopefully, the other one would go find out what caused the explosion in the south. Then we can use trees to our advantage - set up a net, or just a set of ropes to lure it into it, then just... Well, you know - excessive violence. Charau-ka, I don't think will cause problems. We've had dealings with them before, and came out on top."[/b]
"In any case, find out where the kobold is, plant a keg near the OTHER building, detonate it WHILE one of the vrocks is nearby so that we can attack it."
She pauses. "Another alternative is to just starve them out, although I am not sure whether we are pressed for time. When I was back at the academy, they told us that any revolt or mutiny is just a few meals away from happening."
"Using the invisibility potion to place the powder kegs and scout seems like a good idea."
"I will join in with the blitz attack on the Vrock when the first keg is detonated."
"Is the plan to attack in the morning then?"
"Good plan," Catalina comments, genuinely impressed. She leaned over the diagram, tracing her finger over some of the drawings with a small smile. "I think the plan of 'excessive violence' is better. We do not know their stores." She grins at the dancer. "I will be ready to shoot."
"At the very least, we should see what the place looks like in the morning. It is possible they will be easier to attack. Creatures of hate are not usually creatures of daylight."
Yasami gets to thinking again. Not her strong suit, but, at least she wrinkles her brain once in a while. "Noted. Scarlet Triad, whoever that might be, somehow in league with Dahak. We can figure out the politics later. For now - we need to stop this operation here. So I propose a plan."
She stands up, and pulls out her diagram again. "We cause a distraction. We have an invisibility potion, we have the bag that eats things up whole, we have ... Uh. The scroll that allows someone to turn into one of those big creatures Renali warned us about. We have other things, but that's the starter kit, I guess."
She points towards the buildings in the south. "I would really like to know what is inside those. If we want to-" she makes air quotes "-liberate- the kobolds and their leader, we would need to take a look inside, so that we don't kill them. My plan involves gunpowder."
Anyway - the potion of invisibility we have? We can use that to scout the buildings out and plant a powder keg on the outside. Then Dario and Catalina both, at the same time with the explosion of said keg, shoot one of the vrocks that flies near us. Hopefully, the other one would go find out what caused the explosion in the south. Then we can use trees to our advantage - set up a net, or just a set of ropes to lure it into it, then just... Well, you know - excessive violence. Charau-ka, I don't think will cause problems. We've had dealings with them before, and came out on top."[/b]
"In any case, find out where the kobold is, plant a keg near the OTHER building, detonate it WHILE one of the vrocks is nearby so that we can attack it."
She pauses. "Another alternative is to just starve them out, although I am not sure whether we are pressed for time. When I was back at the academy, they told us that any revolt or mutiny is just a few meals away from happening."
"I think we are close to having a plan, although I am interested in talking through the starvation strategy also. Another day of observation might not hurt us at all, but it could certainly help. Understanding whether they hunt for food, whether supplies will arrive here, whether the demons teleport or not, all of this could help us."
"I suspect that we would starve before they would. I expect that they will have provisions and probably replacement workers and soldiers being brought to them. It also appears that they are able to summon reinforcements if we leave them alone for too long."
"Do vrocks even need to eat? How do we form a cordon? I doubt that will work. Anyhow, how heavy are those kegs? I'll head to talk to the mokele-mbembe if no one objects."
Lisi wiggles his fingers, ready to cast a spell or two.
"Wait...another day of observation? Hmmm. Possibly, that way we can do some more reconnaissance. I can talk to the beast today, maybe offer it a snack for continued silence."
"I suspect that we would starve before they would. I expect that they will have provisions and probably replacement workers and soldiers being brought to them. It also appears that they are able to summon reinforcements if we leave them alone for too long."
"Caiten is right. Starving them out without the right information would be foolish," Catalina comments, waving off the notion that they explore that option.
"Wait...another day of observation? Hmmm. Possibly, that way we can do some more reconnaissance. I can talk to the beast today, maybe offer it a snack for continued silence."
"Yasami's plan is a good one. I think we should at least look at things in the morning, but we don't necessarily have to spend the whole day observing...and if you can convince the big creature to side with us..." The thaumaturge shrugs. "We have a lot to accomplish...placing kegs, positioning ourselves...any little bit helps."
"Sounds like we have a plan then. We'll get some rest, get to it tomorrow, and kill a fiend or two. Can't wait." Dario says, starting to unpack his backpack to setup their cold camp. "Normal watches everyone. No fire. Cuddle up if you need to."
"Sounds like we have a plan then."
"It is at least a plan. No plan is perfect though. But at least a coordinated attack is more likely to be successful than a haphazard one."
Catalina starts setting up for their cold camp, pulling out her bedroll and the like, and arranging her things for the tent she usually shared with Yasami.
After, the tall aasimar would wander over to Dario, her firearms cleaning kit and implements in hand. "Some company while we clean our weapons?" She offered cheerily, her accent peeking through with 'z' sounds replacing the 's'.
Should the gunslinger agree, Catalina would settle near him, carefully taking her gun apart as they moved through the familiar, routine motions of weapon care. Her Harrow deck lay in her lap like a safety blanket, her fingers brushing against it occasionally as they worked.
Yasami sets up her sleepong bag. She comes up to Catalina and Dario. "Alright, guys. Wake me up for second watch. Who is with me and who is after me?" she asks with a hushed voice.
With the plan under discussion, Dario offers the best explanations and practices to detonate the barrels. He has his magic item that will temporarily change his ammunition into something fiery but anything electrical or fiery would set the barrels to explode as well.
As the sunlight began to fade, Dario began the arduous process of cleaning his firearm. The jungle was hell on the oil, grime and dirty collecting quickly upon the weapon. He barely registers someone standing beside him as he moves through his practiced motions, his eyes only lifting up from his work to stare up at the tall angelkin woman before him. Dario grunts in agreement, nodding to the side of the log he was sitting on. The leather canvas was spread out, protecting the gun parts from the moisture of the earth. He would offer what little tips he had that she had not already had, nodding in approval at her technique. She could tell that there were some things she did that irked him but it was more the tradition of the dwarves that he had been raised with rather than anything else. He kept his consul to himself, only helping if she missed something clearly.
Turning his eyes towards Yasami when she comes over, he looked around the camp. "I'll find a volunteer to go with you. Maybe one of the big boys, eh?"
Catalina would welcome the suggestions with a smile, towering over the scarred gunslinger even while they sat. The angelkin took extra care to check the etchings and symbols that coated her pistol, taking a moment to fix an etching that was beginning to get worn down. She borrowed one of Dario's little metal brushes, detailing where she needed to and smirking quietly at the small noises of irritation that Dario would make about her process here and there. Nikolai had taught her well, but when the weapon was part of her strange brand of resonant magic, things needed to be done in a certain way.
Catalina was snapping the last pieces back into place when Yasami approached and essentially set her and Dario to first watch. The thaumaturge let the gunslinger handle the watch arrangements without paying close attention; instead, she stowed her pistol in its holster and brought out her mirror, polishing is surface as the two spoke, more than happy to engage in conversation if she was addressed.
When Yasami made her leave, the thaumaturge would stretch languidly, glancing at Dario out of the corner of her eyes. She spread her blanket on her lap and quietly shuffled her Harrow deck, eyes on the treeline. Despite the size of her, the blanket had quite a bit of excess. After a moment, Catalina turns to Dario with a mischievous smile, her light blue eyes glowing in the growing darkness. "So, what is your favorite drink, then? I'm guessing some sort of Dwarven ale, but I feel like that's too easy of an answer." She continues to fidget with her Harrow deck, splitting and shuffling it with a practiced rhythm.
"I'll take third watch," says Lisi distractedly. He's deep in the midst of thinking about spells, moving his hands as if he has an invisible cat's cradle and muttering in Druidic.
The night passes without incident, the sounds of mining picks on stone a constant background percussion as the cultists seemingly have shifts work even in the darkness.
Morning comes, and rain comes with it. The overcast sky is still light enough to see unimpeded, but fat, heavy drops fall from the sky to make for a dreary, drenched start to your day. On the up side, the sound of the rainfall will mask the sounds of you moving through the foliage. On the downside, it's likely to make the ramp down into the quarry more treacherous, not to mention that muddy patch to the northeast of the clearing.
Sweet. I'll wake you. Good night, everyone." Yasami prepares her bag, closes the tent and tries to sleep.
When woken by Catalina and Dario, she climbs oit of the tent, stretches a bit, and pulls out her medicine kit, blades, and bow.
She checks on the twine and the arrowheads a few times, she polishes her sword and dagger, then continues to make short patrols around the camp just to keep her away from falling asleep. To the point where she creates a few walking paths around the place. Her sight frequently drops to the warglets, blissfully rolling around in the undergrowth. After two hours, she walks up to Lisi and nudges his shoulder. "Your shift, Lis. You okay to go?”
After making sure Lisi is awake, she slowly opens the bag to make sure she is not disturbing anything. If not, she climbs inside, tries to move Catalina away to make space, and lies down.
Rain peppering the tent wakes her up in the morning. She gets out of the tent, and sighs. "Well... Might as well make use of it. Be right back."
Yasami walks away for a few minutes. When she comes back, her skin and hair seems cleaner. She has her hair in a bundle, and wrapped in one of her shawls.
"Oh, I needed that. There's a large leaf that way that collects water and it runs down in one place, if anyone needs soap? Obviously not hot water, but... Does the job."
"If nothing else, it wakes one up."
Caiten is mostly silent in the morning as he prepares his gear. Finally Sulee asks him, "What is wrong? Why so upset?"
"I am worried that this battle is going to be extremely difficult. The last time we fought an extraplanar creature, it did not go well. Several of us nearly died and we had to retreat. Now there are two of them."
"But I'm not going to back down now. I am just very nervous." He looks to Yasami and Lisi. "Whenever you are ready. I'll provide backup as best as I can."
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"True, but the last time we had no idea what we were fighting and no plan. This time, we know what we're going to fight and we have a plan. And Catalina's here, so that's three advantages that we didn't have that last time."
"Ready. Trying to keep my head clear for tomorrow," says Lisi with an apologetic smile to Yasami.
"All we can do is all we can do, Caiten," says Lisi with a smile. "If I'm discovered, you'll hear it."
Lisi gets to the edge of the clearing and casts Speak With Animals, and then waves his hands again, muttering, and shrinks down to a teeny tiny size.
He then makes his way across the right hand side of the mine clearing, carefully.
When he gets near the cage, he whispers to the giant reptile.
"Hello. I am a friend. Do you want to get out of that cage and away from the two-legs and their stinking 'civilization'? I can get you out tomorrow, if you can do a few things for us."
"True, but the last time we had no idea what we were fighting and no plan. This time, we know what we're going to fight and we have a plan. And Catalina's here, so that's three advantages that we didn't have that last time."
"Remember also Caiten, the vrocks are uniquely suseptable to my forcing them to consider acting "good" -- so we have an edge we didn't have before."
" ... and Catalina, and a plan, and knowledge; technically, this attack is almost an act of worship, Yuelral always looks favorably on planning."
"My favorite drink?" Dario said with a chuckle, scratching at his chin. Even at night, the humidity of the jungle stuck to him and left a sheen that the faint light that remained glinted off of. Sure that his weapons were clean and maintained, he fetched the string, leather, and needle to patch his clothing and reinforce the parts that were slowly falling apart. It wasn't as nearly as focused of a task though, able to hold conversation easily during it. "You'd be wrong actually. It is the most common drink but I myself am a fan of cacti fruit. There is this fruit, the prickly pear, that grows on them. You ferment it and in Alkenstar, there is the Oilroad Distillery. They distill it into a beautiful, clear drink. Mix it with cactus fruit juice? Delicious." Dario murmurs, thinking fondly of the cool drink mixed with the wonderful burn that would spread through his very being.
"The clan weren't that appreciative of it at first but I got them warmed up to it." Dario said with an amused grin, his mind returning to the drunken stupor as they all 'tested' its potency. "How about yourself? I'm not one of Torag's children but I have a soul of rock just like them. I need to know how to make your drink."
"We'll fight smarter, stronger, fiercer. We'll make them pay for every inch they try to take." Dario offers to Caiten, smiling at his android friend. "You've made us as ready as we can be. We'll take it from here, yeah?" He grins at Cev's words, lifting up his wooden bracelet. He gives each a quick kiss, whispering a small prayer in Dwarven over the symbol.
"Bit' goryacho, bey tochno, bey pervym."
As they approach the encampment, Dario hands over the bag of holding that contains the explosive barrels and moves to an overwatch position ready to lay down gunfire as needed and support the fall back to the appointed rendevouz spot where they will fight.
Caiten nods at the words of encouragement from the others, but says nothing more.
To Sulee he mentions, "Well, it is time to go. Let's see this new trick of yours then."
"Yup. Pick me up then." Once held, sulee begins flattening and compressing herself. Caiten watches curiously as over the course of about a minute, Sulee becomes a much smaller and two-dimensional version of herself flattened up against one of his arms. She then walks up his arm and nestles herself on his shoulder barely visible underneath his armor.
"Most interesting."
Caiten pulls out his longbow and heads out with the other ranged weapon users. "Well, let's see how this goes."
"Oh- it's a go?" Yasami quickly drops the hair down and takes the bag, barrel and one invisibility potion. At least she assumes it's the right one. "This is my drink?" she confirms with literally anyone know knows.
"Be right back. If chaos ensues, that's your cue to wing it." she gives the group a quick smile, and disappears in the trees.
She moves closer towards the southern building, waits for an opportune moment, and drinks the potion. Quickly, she moves to the door of the southernmost building and peeks inside. She moves inside if necessary to poke around corners and such, if there are any interior walls.
"Oh- it's a go?" Yasami quickly drops the hair down and takes the bag, barrel and one invisibility potion. At least she assumes it's the right one. "This is my drink?" she confirms with literally anyone know knows.
"Be right back. If chaos ensues, that's your cue to wing it." she gives the group a quick smile, and disappears in the trees.
She moves closer towards the southern building, waits for an opportune moment, and drinks the potion. Quickly, she moves to the door of the southernmost building and peeks inside. She moves inside if necessary to poke around corners and such, if there are any interior walls.
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"Yasami wait ... you know a long time ago, I had a lot of these. I want you to take this dagger, from Kyonin. There will be a day that I have more, hopefully there will be a day that we all visit Kyonin together, but on THIS day, it would mean a lot to me if you would carry this with you into our next battle."
Cev smiles, very gently, very sincerely, and hands his last elven dagger to his friend