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Aria replied, "Barandor right? Yes lets see if we can get something to drink to go with it too." She waved at one of the serving staff to get their attention before whispering conspiratorially to the dwarf, "I wonder what all that shouting was about..."
Aria shrugged when the sheriff clammed up about the demonic altar, she supposed he was right, no good could come from such knowledge. Still what she'd learned had left her much to think about. Besides she was hungry, so she meandered back to the Rusty Dragon and ordered a spicy snack to tide her over till dinner. While she ate she wondered if she should say anything to Amiko, but in the end she decided it was better not to. Why rake over old coals? Only pain could come from raising such a subject... Her musings were interrupted by the sound of a door slamming and an elderly Tian man seemingly in a foul mood yammering something in his language.
Aria could scarcely believe what she'd read, the 'late unpleasantness' didn't really cover it. "Wow that was quite a harrowing read Sheriff. Frankly if anything I have more questions than before, who killed Stoot? What's all that about a demon shrine?! And as for what I read about Lonjiku Kaijitsu, wow. Amiko is a good friend, I had no idea."
"The Chopper eh? Isn't that the murderer nobody wants to talk about?" Aria frowned some pretty unpleasant things had occurred a few years before she arrived at Sandpoint which the community wanted to forget. She'd heard a few rumors but never anything concrete. "So wait you're saying the Cathedral just burned down? That seems hard to believe..." Aria's frown deepened, 'Could there be an arsonist, no a murderer on the loose?' Perhaps she should talk to the Sheriff. She thanked Amiko and set off to find Belor Hemlock. Once she'd tracked him down, she asked, "Good Day Sheriff. Yes I'm feeling much better, thanks to Father Zantus. So we had a nasty surprise the other day and I'm wondering if it might be related to the events that lead up to the old Cathedral burning down. Where there any records kept into the investigation? If so would it be possible to see them?"
It seems there was a debate about goblins, and Aria's words went unheeded in the excitement. Part of her wanted to join in but her near death experience had left her week and tired. Instead she warmly thanked Father Zantus and decided to follow his advice and get some rest.
Aria sighed and made her way to the bar, where Amiko was serving. She waved and ordered a fried breakfast before asking, "Hey Amiko, did you hear about that vault in the Boneyard Hemlock had us look into? Turns out the dead where not resting as peacefully as you'd hope. I reckon this wasn't the first incident, do you know if anyone has any stories to tell?"
Aria awakens with a gasp when Father Zantus heals her. For a moment she panics before realizing that the grasping skeletal claws are no longer there and that she's somewhere different... "W-what happened?" she asks.
Stable but unconscious, Aria continues to dream vividly of skeletal claws ripping her flesh. A thin wail escapes her lips and her eyes thrash beneath her closed lids before she rolls over and falls back into a deep slumber.
Aria dreams of darkness, and of skeletal hands ripping at her flesh. She moans softly before falling deeply unconscious.
Despite the Sheriff's aid, it was next to impossible to damage the skeleton with her rapier. It was simply the wrong weapon, brute force was needed here. She lunged once more this time aiming for the solar plexus, but her sword missed and passed harmlessly between the thing's ribs. Aria cursed inwardly, this wasn't the heroic start she'd imagined!
Aria tries to lunge at the remaining skeleton which had just clawed Brandor. Problem was trying to actually hit anything delicate was difficult with a piercing weapon like her rapier. Her form was reasonable and her aim wasn't bad but when she tried to lunge for the skull, the point of her sword simply bounced off rather than digging in like she'd hoped.
'Blunt weapons... Drat!' though Aria, she had a small warhammer back at her lodgings but in all the excitement she'd forgotten to bring it! Well she'd just have to make so, with a thought she sent a fraction of her power into her blade which caused it to glow with a soft blue light. She thrust at the nearest one before stepping back.
Aria concludes "So something new is a-foot then, we'd best investigate thoroughly, wouldn't do to have another invasion! Everyone has folks they care for in town, Savaha's been good for me and Amiko, you've got Kaye. Yeah we'll do out part Sheriff."
"Of course Mr Hemlock Sir, I'd be delighted." replied Aria at once and looking around she was gratified that the others from yesterday seemed willing to oblige too. One thing had been bugging her since the other day, how had the nasty little goblins managed to get into town? History had a nasty habit of repeating itself so she asked, "Sir, has anything like this happened before? I've heard all sorts of stories but it's hard to separate truth from the tall tales..."
Aria was rather surprised when one of the Rusty Dragon's staff handed her a letter, doubly so when it turned out to be from the Belor Hemlock. Of course she would set out at once to see how she could help the good Sheriff. As she walked to the rendezvous at the Cathedral, she wondered what he might want. Perhaps he was looking for eye witness statements about the goblin attack? Or perhaps he really was impressed and there'd be a job offer. Well she'd soon find out!
'Mmm.' thought Aria, 'Here for the festival, like everyone else, but not it seems for business reasons. Religious perhaps? Oh flirt. Well he's not my type for sure, he'd better not get any funny ideas...'
Nobody seemed to have time to speak to her at the Inn, but Aria wasn't so easily deterred. But first things first, she was hungry! She rummaged through her pockets and found a couple of silver coins and put one down on the table. Now with coin on display the serving lass had enough time to take an order. One of Ameiko's recopies, something spicy. A little while later, appetite satiated, Aria decided to try her luck once more with the bar staff. Surely somebody knew something about Foxglove? There had to be gossip, she knew it!
Aria found Aldern Foxglove to be a rather strange individual. Surely there's got to be gossip about somebody like that! Curiosity piqued she decided to ask around. She started at the Rusty Dragon, pestering the staff, "He's boarding here right, what's he like?" Thing was with the town in uproar nobody had any time to stop and chat and to her annoyance she was ignored. Next she decided to try some of the higher end shops, the kind of place she imagined nobility frequenting. Places like The Feathered Serpent, or Bottled Solutions but they where shut. A little non-plussed and smarting from the battle, Aria decided that she really ought to lie down and get some rest.
Huzzah a warpriest this should be interesting. Nothing against Verus, but an Elder God Cultist isn't exactly somebody Aria was ever going to be comfortable with. I'm curious to see how the influence scheme works - I'll have to think about who if anyone Aria would schmooze up to (and why). Amiko might have been her first choice but frankly free lifetime drinks sounds about all a gal could ever ask for? ;)
Aria nodded sadly at Verus, "Guess I'll stick with a stiff drink at the Golden Dragon later. No doubt there will be many stories to tell from today's events!" She wasn't at all sure what to make of Aldern. If anything he seemed a bit foppish and useless, hiding in a fight, really! Still didn't mean she had to be rude, and as she had been taught - if you don't have anything good to say, keep your mouth shut.
Aria realized she was standing there bleeding and after marveling at Verus's healing she asked, "Are you able to do that again today? I'm not sure I'd wan't to get into another fight after getting cut..."
Yes. Do we need to recruit if he's gone?
Still bleeding, Aria was going into shock when the foppish man revealed himself. She glanced at the dead around her, the goblin blood on her blade and her own blood staining her clothes. She glanced back to the man and replied, "Uhh I guess the training worked, was all instinct, didn't have time to think. Anyway maybe we should find the Sheriff, might be more of them roaming about."
Aria cursed inwardly when she missed. Gritting her teeth against the pain, she waited patiently till there was another opening. There! His wounds where slowing him down and he'd parried a Verus's attack aimed at hid dog, but this left himself open to Aira. She suddenly lunged, hoping to end this quickly by piercing something vital.
Aria winced as the Kobold's blade opened up a wound that felt like fire along her leg. She tried to lunge at it, but it was too painful to put pressure on her leg and she missed by several feet.
Aria lightly stepped towards the mounted goblin, and with a form that her teacher would have approved of, thrust towards his belly!
Aria saw the mounted goblin coming towards her, and it was obvious it was going to slash at her. She saw its pass coming and easily dodged before tapping the end of his weapon lightly with her rapier, hoping that would nudge it into the goblin next to her.
Aria tries to thrust past the mounted Goblin's blade but she was too slow and his mount moved him out of danger.
With a thought she sends a fraction of her power to enchant her weapon causing it to glow softly, and she then bats aside the goblin foot soldiers's blade and lunges!
Status: Effects: Shield (9 rounds), Weapon Enhancement (10 rounds)
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Suddenly multiple blades where scything through the air towards her. Aria knew she couldn't block all of them, but the Goblin to the left's swing was wild and she could exploit that. She slapped his blade with the palm of her hand hard, hoping he'd hit the other goblin instead!
Unfortunately that exposed her to the the second goblin's blade. She tried to step out of the way but was too slow and he scored a painful red line down her arm. Gritting her teeth she cried "Ow!" before stepping back and half snarling the words to her warding spell. As before an insubstantial circle of force snapped into place, which moved to defend her!
Status: Effects: Shield (10 rounds)
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"G-goblins, in Sandpoint." "I know!" replied Aria who couldn't quite believe it easier, "What the world are they doing here? Wait is that more I hear in the distance?!"
Aria lightly parried the maniacally laughing goblin and by instinct lunged. Her rapier punched through the menace's chest and poked out the other side, likely a fatal wound but in battle nothing was certain.
I'm taking the family on holiday to get a bit of Christmas sun. I won't be able to post till tomorrow but I expect to have internet at the villa.
Aria had to duck the Goblin's curved blade as it sliced towards her. This made her take a half step back and even though the goblin had left itself wide open she had a long way to lunge! Was she close enough to hit, or would the goblin dance out of the way? Only time would tell!
GM do you mind if we post out of order when we're in the same block? I've seen much table variance on this :)
Aria blinked with surprise when her rapier punched through the goblin. Later no doubt she'd feel bad for having likely killed it but there was no time to think because another one had charged her. She parried a blow and thinking she had an opening she lunged!
Aria didn't want to break ranks and get surrounded, so she waited for the enemy to come to her and lunged at the first one to come into melee range! Despite her nerves, her aim was good and she manged to run one of them through with a fierce cry. Whether that that would actually kill it or not was another question!
Status: Effects: Shield (5 rounds)
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With all the goblin chanting, Aria hadn't bothered to sheathe her rapier. It seemed combat would break out again any moment and indeed it had! She positioned herself in front of Wewndall. It seemed the old man was a mage and would be a target in the combat to follow.
With the last of the initial wave of Goblins down, Aria feeling jittery backs away from the one that died messily in front of her. Staring at the group of strangers around her, she warns "This is crazy! Goblins in Sandpoint?! Sounds like there's there's more coming too! Fight back to back, don't let them pick us off one by one." As she spoke her mind was racing, 'How on Golorion did this happen?! Surely a band of goblins couldn't go on noticed? Never mind that for now though, what should we do? Find Hemlock! The sheriff will know what to do.'
Yeah sorry! I played a bard before so I know how annoying that is :)
The song was getting closer, but there was only one goblin left she could see. So Aria buoyed by her earlier success lightly jogged over and attempted to skewer it! Unfortunately in her haste the only thing she managed to skewer was the side of the wagon because she slipped and very nearly fell over in her haste to get up the wagon.
Gripping her rapier hard, Aria watched the goblin approach with big round eyes. She wasn't too bad at sparring, but this was her first real fight and it all seemed so sudden! She remembered her training and with a word, sent a trickle of power which caused her rapier to glow with a soft blue light. Distracted by this the goblin attacked clumsily, which she easily she dodged. She counterattacked with a thrust of her own, aimed towards it's heart!
When the goblins arrived, Aria's jaw dropped and she did a double take, "Huh? What!?" She could scarcely believe it, goblins in the heart of Sandpoint! What was the world coming to? Without realizing it, her prize teddy fell to the floor as she scrabbled for her rapier. She nearly got the darned thing stuck as she yanked it out of it's sheath. Realizing there where at least four of the nasty things behind a near by stall, she had the presence of mind to whisper the words to a warding spell. Suddenly an insubstantial disc of force appeared in front of her!
Status: Effects: Shield (10 rounds)
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'Groetus?' Aria arched one eyebrow in surprise, that was a turn up for the books. 'Damnit did he just wink at me? He did! I'm not sure how I feel about that. He is handsome. But Groetus...' Distracted, she watched the interplay while she inwardly debated what to do next. There where other games, but there was also food. In the end her stomach gurgled and she headed back to towards the Rusty Dragon. Ameiko always did something special for the festival and this year she'd really outdone herself, curry-spiced salmon and early winterdrop mead, yum!
Aria watched with amusement when the Dragon Races had an unlikely winner, a somewhat unkempt older man with graying hair. She was fairy sure she'd seen him in the tap room at inn last night. Apparently he was called Wendall Romanski, not that she'd heard of him.
She was pretty sure he'd just cheated, having cast what appeared to be a mage hand to propel the lizard along. Judging from Gressel's reaction this hadn't gone unnoticed although nobody moved to decry Wendall. Aria guessed it simply wasn't worth the hassle. She then looked at the younger handsome contestant to see if he'd noticed, this might get exciting!
Aria grinned at Das and accepted the bear replying, "Why thank you!" She wandered off and stared at it for a moment not quite believing that she had just won a trail of strength! 'Perhaps this is my lucky day after all!' she thought while she looked around the other games. Noticing a crowd round in the Sandpoint Market Square where Gressel had set up the 'Dragon Races', Aria wandered over to see what what the fuss was about. A group of people where shouting at some lizards. Aria idly considered placing a glamour on to make them look like real dragons, but then she realized she hadn't memorized that spell today. She then paid attention to the players, most of them where locals but one of them stood out. He was tall, handsome and seemingly rather excitable. Thinking this might be interesting, she stayed to watch.
"All right then Das, I'll try anything twice...", Aria grinned at the Smith who seemed to be well on his way to getting half cut despite the hour. She handed over a couple of coins, and accepted the mallet. She gave it an experimental swing before suddenly lifting it high over her shoulders and bringing it down hard in a wild swing upon the end of the board. Aria's aim was a little off and the mallet smashed into the corner of the board wasting much of it's momentum, the weight didn't go as high as he'd have liked.
'Perhaps there's more skill to this and it looks' she thought, 'like chopping firewood which is about letting gravity do most of the work.' This time she visualized where she wanted the mallet to hit, and lifted it with a fluid motion and let it fall, guiding it onto position. It hit solidly in the center with a satisfying THWACK!
Next morning somewhat worse for wear, Aria stepped out of The Rusty Dragon and marveled at the great throng of people. She hadn't intended to drink quite so much, but the tellers completion had been amazing and one flagon kind of lead to another. Thankfully she'd been too stuffed with Ameiko's fabulous steak pies to have truly gotten drunk. She was sure the low grade headache would soon evaporate like the morning dew. She wandered the streets for a while before listening to Sheriff Hemlock and the others opening the festival. There was a general hubbub of excitement in the air and various games of skill and strength to try. She felt like playing something, but didn't account herself as a terribly good shot with the bow. Perhaps races or the even the Ogre Stomp, she tittered at the thought. That was silly, she was strong but others where way stronger - still she was curious, to see how badly she'd do. So she wandered over to the Ogre Stomp stall and asked the attendant, "Hey how does this work?"
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