"What happened? Is she injured?" yelps Ally in concern.
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"That orc-f!cking dragon is back!" growls Ally, pointing out of a window, as Elen peers cautiously out the front door.
Guess she doesn't see anything either.
Ally flutters over and lands on Elen's shoulder. "David Warwick; Elsbeth Scarnetti," she informs her mistress while pointing out the newcomers.
"If you're wanting to sing, I can accompany you," pipes up Ally.
Ally whispers to Ruul in Giant, "She's not evil, as far as I can pick up, nor is her assistant. "
Ally sighs in relief when she detects no evil from them, and glances over both. So very pretty, thinks Ally. If only I wasn't here on business, and had access to an Enlarge Monster spell...
"Very good point. Hmm, what's this now? My goddess, she's beautiful... what's with her eyes, though?"
Ally mentions this to Ruul, and notes that if the driver has such a strength of corruption that she can detect it, then he is either not what he seems (i.e. not a humanoid) or is not merely a simple driver.
"Well, I detect no taint of corruption about him. He probably won't try to knife us in his sleep. Other than that I'm not sure." Ally will try to use her detect evil capacity on any members of the caravan who get close enough, especially the gnome and whoever might be in the wagon he is driving.
"Right you are!" exclaims Ally. "Let us go check on your rooms quickly. Ruul, I'm sure you and this gentleman can come to an agreement." Ally and Elen check the rooms to make sure no items were left there by the four members of the away team, and that Ruul's gear has been entirely moved to the master bedroom.
"You don't have to stare -- I won't take offense if you don't," smirks Ally. "But I don't mind either. I'm clad in the grace of Elysium and the good fortune the Lady Desna has blessed me with. Mere textiles would be superfluous."
Ally snorts, "Just a little example of the chaos of the Abyss warping the minds of the people who live here. They use coins made of iron rather than noble metals. I'm Ally, by the way... You seem pretty accepting of taking lodging from a minotaur, a bunch of elves and other unusual creatures."
Ally nods at Digory, shrugging and saying, "I guess we'll take care of that when we can." She returns to Elen as she and Ruul greet the newcomer, and she will use Detect Evil to evaluate him.
Ally will find Digory and speak to him. "Say, Digory, think there's anything we could do to make sure any guests don't find, or can't use, the trap doors? I don't know a whole lot about locks, I'm afraid..."
Ally snorts in amusement as the orc shows no gratitude at all, and no sign of table manners either. "No surprise there. Still, it was the principle of the thing. If he's part of the group that keeps this little community safe, then he's worth saving, even if he's uncouth."
Ally follows with the scroll, casting Lesser Restoration to allow the orc to recover. It seems to help only a little bit, but it might make a difference. The two also administer a dose of antitoxin to help him with his natural recovery against the poison. "Well, we've done as well as we can, now its up to how lucky he is," says Ally.
Ally pops her head up and grins at the goblin, bowing and asking, "May I look over the scroll, Priest?"
"You're welcome." Macavity replies to the azata. Ally winks playfully at Macavity and, winging over to him, whispers in Tien: Tien and DC 15 perception:
"Keep searching and you never know what else you might find... you might just get lucky!" She gives a saucy wiggle of her hips and flies back to light on the table.
"A warrior! Wonderful! I have no doubt we can use your help in destroying the foul demons we are likely to encounter! What luck in finding you!" Ally makes a gesture that in Desna's faith is a wordless way of thanking Lady Luck.
Ally decides to make herself known, now that the being in the ring is not one of her race's traditional enemies. "I am Alliriyallin, and I would know more of you. Like you, I am bound to this plane, though for other reasons and purposes. Would you serve Ruul willingly? What tasks would you be capable and consenting to perform? Could you, for example, repair or remodel a building?"
Ally starts a sweep of the area, looking for any sense of evil.
Ally catches what Elen fails to, and flutters over to the lad, lighting on his shoulder and whispering, "It's just that what, dearie?"The lad jumps back, not expecting someone to just land on his shoulder and start talking. He peers at you closely for a moment, trying to figure out what you are. But he is not leering at you in the way that most men would. He is naturally curious. "Oh, sorry honey, I guess you didn't see me before. I'm Ally, Elen's little helper. It seemed to me that you were about to say something more there..."
Ally catches what Elen fails to, and flutters over to the lad, lighting on his shoulder and whispering, "It's just that what, dearie?"
Ally squees.
Ally flies over with a coil of silk rope in her grip, landing next to Ruul. She peers at the giant curiously. "Is he dying? Or just unconscious?" she asks. Move: Ally moves to a square next to Ruul, doesn't really matter which one.
Ally will call out to Ruul and the others near the giant, "Need to tie the big guy up?" If the answer is yes, Ally will fly over and provide them with Elen's rope. If not she will maintain her readied action as described previously.
Ally maintains her readied action as a standard, and retrieves a coil of rope from Elen's pack as a move.
Ally readies an action to use starlight burst should any of their opponents come within 5 feet of her. She flutters over to Elen and is holding on to Elen's belt and gets towed anywhere the elf goes.
Ally will move to within 30 feet but out of reach (if the giant has a reach weapon that allows him to hit 25 feet out, ignore this action) and uses detect evil to determine if the giant is evil. She will also look around for any other dangers.
Ally draws her wands from her thigh holsters , and taps Elen with the wand of Shield. Success! When Elen's ear-blistering curses emerge from the normally-demure elf's lips, Ally just laughs and adds, "And so's your mum!"
Ally mentions this to the others, and then takes her own thimbleful of tea when it is ready. She explains in greater detail what she noticed that led to her trying to wake Numair and drawing Jashanah's attack, and then suggest that she, and others who do not need to sleep any more tonight stay awake and watch for possible attackers, and that everyone else sleep in whatever armor they are capable of sleeping in.
Ally also keeps her attention on catching the gnome in a deception or omission.
Ally returns to the kitchen after her explorations and sees Ruul interrogating the gnome. Clearly grumpy, she starts complaining to Elen: "Ever since I came to the Prime Material plane, I've had nothing but trouble with gnomes. Remember that gnomish necromancer in Osiron? And those gnome bandits in Numeria? Then those gnomes on the boat, and now this! I thought gnomes were generally friendly folk, but ever since I've arrived on this plane... Bah! Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherf#*#ing gnomes on this motherf*!!ing plane!" She then blinks and realizes what her temper led her to say, and blushes profusely, her entire naked body turning a shade of pink.
The tunnels are small enough for the triplets to move back and forth, probably with just enough head room so they don't bang into anything. You find no (obvious) traps in this system. There are hatches that correspond to each each guest room, the back of the privy, and their personal room. There are also two exits, one to the north, about 100' north of the boarding house itself. You find another one leading south, but this goes much further than you might be willing to go at the moment. Given this information, is there any particular area(s) that you want to explore more thoroughly? Ally is relaying everything she sees through Azaraunt's timely Message spell. She carefully looks for any sign of hidden passages or caches, and then travels up to 170 feet into the southern tunnel (to the limit of the spell). Does she see any sign of a far end?
Ally will fly back to the kitchen and ask Azaraunt to cast Invisibility on her. Once this is done, she will fly back and go into the tunnels and look around, finding out where they go, looking out for traps or hidden foes while being stealthy herself. She will find out where any entrances to the tunnel system are, and return to the ground floor of the Inn to report.
"I would hazard a guess that it winds its way under all the guest bedrooms, over to the privy, because I sensed an evil presence there earlier that left and went under the floor, and then out of the building somewhere. Probably elsewhere. If I were an evil innkeeper with secret tunnels under my floors, I would certainly have them go to every room. Could either of you open this? It looks heavy."
While Elen sees to her poison-detecting, Ally flutters back to the guest bedrooms. She peeks into Elen's room to check on the Alchemy lab, and assuming it is in good condition, will duck into Numair's bedroom to inspect it. Since Numair has a perception score that will allow him to expertly detect a herd of elephants after they trample him, Ally will search his room carefully, notably under the bed, for secret trap doors or other entrances.
"We need to find Jeblie. Calendir, perhaps you should make a sweep of the area? I think she was in a tunnel under the building. Jashanah came up under Numair's bed. There might be an entrance there, and possibly in the Privy as well -- although that's rather disgusting." "We also need to arm ourselves, and warn Macavity. Does anyone know where he has gone? There is the distinct possibility that Jeblie has gone to rouse the rest of the camp against us."
"We need to find Jeblie. Macavity, Calendir, perhaps you should make a sweep of the area? I think she was in a tunnel under the building. Jashanah came up under Numair's bed. There might be an entrance there, and possibly in the Privy as well -- although that's rather disgusting." "We need to arm ourselves. There is the distinct possibility that Jeblie has gone to rouse the rest of the camp against us."
Ally also will be using Detect Evil to try to locate this other person, who is probably Jeblie. She will try to get close to it and shout, "Jeblie! If that's you down there, you'd better come out and surrender. We have the capacity for mercy, but it'll only be offered once!"
Joshiah drools in response to your question. Blood slowly drips down her arm as she swings her rapier back and forth, obviously not registering with the world around her at this point.
"Give her a few seconds, I hit her with a touch of chaos, she'll come out of it shortly." "Quick, check her and the blade for poison if you have that spell readied! If not, I'll let Elen know."
Ally flutters into the kitchen, looking for the source of evil in there. As soon as she sees the Drow fighting with Lavinia, she will cast Lesser Confusion on the Drow.
Ally speaks to her friends who are in the tavern still:
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