Baldwin shimmies down the rope to the garden and hears the tiger interrogating those standing in the garden...
I’ll leave the talking to our saviors, beast...
He looks to Altin and Mwikali...
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As he is freed, this Englishman shakes the adventurers’ hands firmly and smiles gratefully. By the Lance of Saint George! I’m freed by good fellow Christians and Europeans! Praise be to God! I am Baldwin of Folkestone, blacksmith by trade... I am in your debt!
One slave gladiator is a middle aged Englishman, wearing leather cuirass and armed with war hammer and steel shield bearing a sea drake rampant...
UURRKK!!!!*gurgle-gurgle* Baldwin falls limp as his heart beats his life's blood out in spurts all over the parchment drawings of The Lusty Fools....
He has made some notes in English, and attempted to draw from memory a picture of Nacht!
It is not as good as the first drawing he made, while observing Nacht, and he seems to draw with a trembling hand, as if nervous.... He proceeds to draw sketches from memory of each of the other Lusty Fools, all poorly rendered as compared to the caricatures Nacht confiscated earlier....
Nacht sees that Baldwin must live alone.... Or at least, he's the only one home at the moment.... Baldwin does not expect Nacht to be watching him from his fireplace, so he does not notice Nacht for a long while.... His attention is drawn to the windows, and he frequently peers outside for some time before sitting down at a table where a stack of parchment pages, an inkwell, and a quill lay.... He picks up the quill, dips it in the inkwell, and begins scribing notes, or possibly drawing.... Or both.... After a while, he might notice Nacht hanging upside down in his fireplace....
Baldwin notices Nacht stalking him, and quickens his pace to his house.... When he gets home, he bars his door and peers nervously out the window to see if Nacht is outside his house....
Baldwin does not leave his home, but does look over his shoulder more than once on his way home from the feast....
I do not know, m'lord.... I meant know offense.... I only wanted to have a drawing of them as slayed Brinegullet, m'lord.... A momento, as it were.... I know not why he acted so....violently against me, m'lord.... Mayhap he be a criminal, wanted for some crime, m'lord?....
I beg your pardon, m'lord.... My drawings of the heroes.... Who slayed the sea dragon....
Baldwin comes back to consciousness with a start, and quickly gets to his feet.... Yes, but.... What happened!? Someone accosted me?.... He gathers his wits and searches around for his drawings.... Where did my drawings go!?
Nacht finds a purse of copper pences on the man's belt, a dagger, and the garb of a fisherman, plus the parchment with the drawings and a few pieces of coal for drawing.
The man's eyes roll back in his head as Nacht applies a neck lock that chokes him unconscious!
Initiative The artist vocalizes loudly in protest, though he can get no discernible words out with Nacht covering his mouth! He attempts to escape from Nacht.... but his feeble struggles are useless in The Beetle Man's iron grip!
It appears he is trying to make accurate sketches of each of The Lusty Fools, along with brief descriptions in English....
Those who succeed on the DC 15 Perception check notice a man at the feast drawing sketches of each of The Lusty Fools and making descriptive notes under the drawings, using leaves of parchment and a small piece of coal.... It appears that he is trying to be somewhat discreet about it.... |