Rozi defeats the nearby dog. Alya, Gaius, and Flying Freedom all miss.
Twitchy, your target is down, so please redo your action, including rolling again.
Twitchy's attack misses.
The remaining dog bites at Flying Freedom.
miss.
Orenji is up.
Orenji's card smacks the soldier.
He swings his sword at Orenji.
You hear sounds of other nearby camps stirring from the noise of your combat.
The rest of the party is up again.
Rozi and Twitchy team up to deal with the soldier, and Gaius deals with the last dog.
You definitely hear other groups approaching your position.
[ooc]what now team? stay here or go into town?
You quickly make your way through a bit more mire, and into the town of Railford.
Atop a hillock stand half a dozen small stone cottages surrounding a tall brick and timber building topped with a massive tin-covered water drum. A sign over its looming doors reads Railford Distillery est. 4693. From a squat brick building sharing an adjoining wall with the distillery rises a long cylindrical chimney. A low, moss-covered cobblestone wall surrounds the entire property.
Every building in town has its shutters closed and latched. You also constantly hear threats shouted at you from directions you are not facing, and a few bottles and bits of trash are thrown at you.
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heads for the largest building in town. If there is not such a biulding in the center. Once there she stops and calls out at the top of her lungs.
"Could you speak louder? Some of the soldiers who we ran from might not have heard you."
Gaius keeps an eye out for more soldiers and keeps his bow covered but ready.
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"Be assured Edge Gaius I suggested that is all. I would not think to order. But right now we have bigger things to worry about, the way I see it is, we either, Negotiate turms which I am trying to do, find egress into a defendable position or we withdrew. I am all ears if you have a fourth better option, which I would be happy to follow."
She looked worried, this was not going as planned, what going on here, She look around to see of there is a response to her attempt to parlay.
What in the hells is going on here, if the towns are locked down, that means the men and dogs were guards but why an attack with no words at all?. She started to get a cold feeling that the new LOAD RAILFORD was behind what ever is going on here. Had he done something to this town and this was the default they spoke of?
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Freedom draws on her previous battlefield experience to suggest a plan with some hope of survival.
"We need to find spot where we can defend ourselves. Something not vulnerable to fire, with a chokepoint where our enemies cannot benefit from larger numbers. If we can hold them off long enough, perhaps we can negotiate, since dealing with us is not their primary concern."
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Freedom draws on her previous battlefield experience to suggest a plan with some hope of survival.
"We need to find spot where we can defend ourselves. Something not vulnerable to fire, with a chokepoint where our enemies cannot benefit from larger numbers. If we can hold them off long enough, perhaps we can negotiate, since dealing with us is not their primary concern."
"It doesn't appear that the people in the Distillery are working with whomever is manning the campfires or else they'd be calling for help, ringing a bell, something instead of throwing bottles and trash at us. Perhaps the people here think we're some of the people out there?"
After a few moments, a few villagers come out to talk. They are armed with household and farm implements, except the leader who carries an old sword. They demand to know what you are doing in their town, and if you are related to the soldiers surrounding the town.
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After a few moments, a few villagers come out to talk. They are armed with household and farm implements, except the leader who carries an old sword. They demand to know what you are doing in their town, and if you are related to the soldiers surrounding the town.
"As our rather excitable associate has indicated, we aren't related to the soldiers outside. In fact we had to kill a group of them and their guard dogs before we could enter the Distillery. We're here to find the son of Iodon Railford and hold discussions with him regarding the future of the Distillery and to offer our assistance. If you would be so kind as to introduce us, we'd be very appreciative."
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She did not respond the comments about her. Humans lived such short lives, what would be the point.
"As our bowmen here says, we are here to meet with Railford junior, but before you point us in right way to Master Railford, an explanation of what is according here would help more me thinks. Troops watch firs and dogs. Not a very warm welcome."
The man introduces himself as Dalard, and he confides that the distillery’s owner, Becher Railford, recently left town on a private excursion from which he has yet to return. Two days ago, Becher and a few men ventured out into the swamps to recover a secret cache left by his father, which among other things, contains the deeds to the entire town. Only this morning one of his men stumbled into town. Sickened with fever, he told a horrifying tale of walking corpses that fell upon his friends just after Becher recovered his father’s strongbox. The soldiers outside are using a new law to try to claim the distillery and town, and will do so unless the deeds can be retrieved. He begs you to go after Becher, tells you the location of the cave, and gives you a few things to help you. (two scrolls of remove disease and a potion of remove paralysis)
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"Greetings Dalard, I am Gaius Marius. Thank you for the information concerning Becher Railford. How many men went with Becher? What common hazards are found in these particular swamps? Did the man who returned tell you anything about how he became ill? I'm guessing by the items you've given us that disease and paralysis are not uncommom?"
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Alya nodes, finally.
She let Gaius talk to the man, Gaius seemed to want to lead so she felt it best let him. She went into her staddle bags and rearranged things. Taking out a few bits and putting some in. One thing she did was hand signal whistles to each of the party.
"If we are heading to a swamp then cave, best have the means to signal each other."
"I've already told you all I know. He was attacked by walking corpses. The scrolls are what might help you, from what he said before he got too sick to talk."