Tish wounds the crocodile. Lamm doesn't react to theorder for obvious reasons. The croc and Yagrin don't though. The croc turns around and bites at Tish . Yagrin waves his wand in sheer panic, but still nothing happens.
Narciso shoots the stunned Lamm at point blank range, and then steps back to exchange places with Briggi. Then he immediately respans his crossbow.
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Briggi moves up to Yargin and thwack him with the sap.
Nice Beasty, don’t you want some nice dwarf? I’m not nearly as tasty,
After just barely dodging out of the Crocodile’s grasp, Tisha takes the suggestion and withdraws away from the Crocodile.
The croc isn't feeling well and sinks under the surface. Yagrin also doesn't feel well and acts strange in what can only be described as a panic dance, that ends in throwing himself to the floor begging for mercy. Lamm is frozen in place.
"We're not here to take Lamm prisoner, " is Narciso's reply to Ernhild. He continues "Get him, that spell won't hold him for long!"
"We're not here to take Lamm prisoner, "
Agreed!
Tisha steps in front of Narciso and stabs at Lamm.
Thats for stealing from the kids.
Wait! If he is going to die, then let it be at the end if a rope after the law is done with him. We have a giant list of crimes to pin on him.
Bah, like he won’t just weasel out of jail…. We know his crimes, let justice be done before he hurts others.
Briggi manacles and ties up Lamm and Yagrin
While they are being actively manacled/tied up, Tisha does not stab them. but if they are in any way aggressive or try to move away she just stabs them right there and then.
Yagrin lets Briggi put manacles on him, but Lamm comes out of his freeze, draws a knife and stabs Briggi in the back.
Narciso pits his will against Lamm's...
Tisha stabs at Lamm.
I told you!
That was a stupid move, plus you suck at stabbing people in the back. Briggi allows the others to dispose of Lamm.
Briggi kicks Lamm
Ernhild breaks some ribs of the old man, leaving him staggered and Tish takes him down. The kick from Briggi's boots gives Lamm the rest.
With the combat over and only the sound of the river splashing below left, you hear from somewhere outside in the distance a bell from a belltower ringing frantically.
Disarm him and take his stick he was pointing around... Tisha points at Yagrin as she begins to go through Gaedren’s pockets and pulling every weapon out of reach from Yagrin.
Her immediate concern is to make sure there is no more weapons in reach during an interrogation, but she will also share anything interesting she finds.
Narciso contributes to searching Yagrin and Lamm with a detect magic cantrip...
As he does, he asks Briggi "Is that belltower ringing some sort of a code used by the watch?"
Briggi tries to recall the various alarm bells.
The bells are rung in case of emergencies the public needs to be aware of. Which could be a house being on fire or an army approaching city walls. Just from the bell you can't tell what it is.
Lamm is wearing padded armor, has a dagger, a mwk hand crossbow with 7 bolts, a brass key and a rusty iron key.
Yagrin wears leather armor, has a dagger, a light crossbow with 10 bolts, a brass key, an iron key, a wand of acid splash , a thunderstone and is wearing a garnet amulet .
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Ernhild checks for Lamm's breathing. If he's still alive, she stabilizes him, and shackles his hands behind his back.
The broken rib makes it a tad more difficult than what she had anticipated.
She more or less gives up after the third try. It'd take magic to fix.
"Let's leave quickly once I've patched them up," she says.
If there is an emergancy happening, I need to get back to the barracks and report for duty.
Don’t you want to interrogate this one first to make sure we have all of the organization?
But I’m telling you right now, I’m not leaving without looking for what’s left of my gold.
Lamm is dead.
"First, I agree with Tisha, Lamm would have a stash somewhere here... As for a second matter, as a public service, we should bait the crocodile to the surface and finish it. It's a man-eater; Lamm used it to dispose of people. Given he won't be feeding it any more, it'll go looking for food... But it won't come back immediately, after the beating you guys gave it. So let's search this place carefully while we wait. "
Narciso suits word to deed, and begins searching:
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If Ernhild is calling upon the divine to heal us, do it above with the orphans, so they can be told Lamm is dead. Feed Lamm to the croc.
After the party frisks Lamm's corpse, Briggi rolls it into the water.
How do you know something is coming?
Tisha says as she examines the door and if she doesn't see any traps, and it is locked, tries the keys she took from Lamm.
Tisha tries to open the lock
Once the door is unlocked she opens the door and looks inside.
When Briggi is throwing Lamm into the water, Narciso readies himself to take a snapshot with his crossbow if the alligator shows itself...
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This foul-smelling room seems to be a combination bedroom and study. A wooden bed with a lumpy mattress stands against the east wall, while a round table heaped with dirty plates, bread crusts, stained goblets, fruit rinds, and scuttling cockroaches sits nearby. At the foot of the bed sits a large strongbox; a slightly rusted lock secures it and a moldy ledger with pages rippled from moisture sits atop its lid. A sagging dresser filled with moth-eaten clothes well past their glory days is in one corner. What appears to be a wooden hatbox surrounded by a small cloud of flies sits atop this dresser.
The brass key fits the lock in the door. The rusted key opens the strongbox.
a narrow teak cigar case inlaid with tiny bits of jade (worth 25 gp),
a 2-pound gold ingot bearing the Cheliax coat of arms (worth 100 gp),
a miniature gold crown (worth 350 gp),
a fist-sized scrimshaw carving of a kraken with garnets for eyes (worth 200 gp),
a silver ring bearing the inscription “For Emmah—the light in my nights” (worth 150 gp),
a highly realistic and highly scandalous ivory figurine of two entwined succubi (worth 450 gp),
a masterwork shuriken,
an adamantine arrowhead,
a masterwork dagger with a strange blade shaped almost like a key bearing the inscription: “For an inspiration of a father” (worth 750 gp) ,
an abalone-shell holy symbol of Shelyn (worth 300 gp),
a glass tube containing a dose of oil of keen edge,
an obsidian wand of magic missile (23 charges),
a crystalline vial (itself worth 50 gp) containing a dose of silversheen,
and a bejeweled brooch with a broken clasp.
Even to an untrained eye, this brooch is obviously the most valuable object in the entire collection. The circular gold brooch depicts a house drake and an imp coiled around each other in an almost yin-yang pattern. The pseudodragon’s eye is an amethyst, while the imp’s eye is
an emerald. The brooch itself is worth 2,000 gp
Below all this lies a harrow deck.
The corpse of Lamm floats on the water, but nothing else happens. The croc doesn't reappear.
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Narciso takes a quick scan of the ledger, as he guesses that it is a record of Lamm's business transactions. Then he waves away the flies and opens the hatbox...
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"How do you know something is coming?"
"The gnome got away, and this sounds a little too desperate to be a changing of the guard. Someone just rang an alarm," she inspects the ring closer to read the inscription. "I expect this is all stuff stolen from Lamm's victims."
She pockets the harrow deck. "Let's take what we can and leave."
The ledger contains listed information, but it is written in some sort of code.
The hatbox contains something shocking—Zellara’s severed head, poorly preserved and decorated with unsightly makeup in a crude attempt to give her dead flesh the semblance of life.
So the Zellara we met was some kind of vengeful spirit?! This gets more snd more bizzare.
Tisha looks up as she finishes sweeping all the loot into her bag. If nobody else has it she also takes the log book with the intent of translating it.
I don’t know, a mother who refuses to move on until her son is avenged?
It sounds more like she wanted to save the other mothers her pain, rather than anything vengeful. Maybe after you two finish dealing with him we should visit her home again and let her know what happened. It might give the spirit some peace.
Well Yagrin, your boss is dead and your pals have run off. You think you might want to take a long trip somewhere, like Kaer Maga?
"W-w-w-well, it's a nice city, isn't it, and I wanted to visit it for a long time. And this is like the perfect opportunity to do so." Yagrin replies in the hopes he is sucking up to the guard hard enough.