As a player, I am interested in all that stuff. As Gruul, I just don't know about the timey wimey aspect yet.
I'm good to keep on however folks want to.
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As Gruul hears the cries of ambush, something flies past his head at incredible speed. "Get out of here! Get help!" he yells to the people who had been milling in the street, admiring the sights. The ranger readies his longbow, preparing the fire back at the trio who shot at Mog and himself.
Miss a day and look what happens!
Ahh great, he's brought the 'dog' again... Gruul thinks as he approaches the cathedral and spots Mog already waiting. The ranger approaches his friend with a greeting ignoring the mount sniffing at his hand, searching for any scrap of breakfast that might be hidden. "How goes, friend? Still waiting on the others?" he says.
That all sounds good to me, seems like a good point to fade to black... :)
"Catch up with you later, friend." he says as Mog walks away. Gruul takes a moment to consider his next move. I guess it's down to some street work to locate those folks..."
I think we would probably want to try to find them before the agreed meeting time, but if you'd rather hurry stuff along I'm up for that. Could say we are going to ask around the area, see if anyone saw them leave the catacombs / cathedral on sunday, etc. Some rolls if you wish but assuming we fail to find them, then we meet them at the agreed time / location?
I think the other thing was finding the group again, unless I missed something of course. Had my long weekend yesterday, as it was Canada Day. I imagine some of you folks might be around less with this weekend coming up.
"I doubt the captain will want to spring for that... and I certainly can't afford it." Gruul says to Mog after they thank the men and take their leave. "So, if we can't go any further with this, maybe we should try to find the blue lady and the others. I'm not sure how we might find them earlier than the planned meeting, except old-fashioned street work. We could cavass this area, asking about them and about Kudzu too. You got any better ideas?"
Dejected, Gruul turns to Mog, "They could have gone down any of these alleys, or to the street beyond. I think we'd better see if those men can tell us anything further." Gruul jogs back the way they came, hoping to find the men still in the street.
Gruul approaches the men and helps them in their efforts to collect the items scattered from the cart. "Seems like they've vanished. Please, can you tell us anything further about these six men? What did they look like? Anything unusual at all? Even if it seems insignificant, anything might help..."
Yeah, I also realize that the main show is sort of held up for us to finish this little bit. I've been trying to stay on top of my posts to keep things moving. If there's anything I can do different, let me know!
"Thank you citizen. We are Greycloaks.. please if we don't come back this way, make an official report of this incident. You may have witnessed a kidnapping, and we must pursue them immediately." Gruul says in a hurry and gives a nod towards Mog beside him to say let's go. With that, the ranger runs towards the alley in pursuit.
Gruul runs up to the men and makes sure the third man has regained his footing. "What's happened here? Are you hurt?" he asks, with a look of corcern.
I'll also get levelled tonight I believe. My first level up in a PbP game :)
"Well let's try this path then." Gruul suggests, motioning to the path next to the dislodged bricks. He walks towards the path, keeping an eye out for anything suspicious.
Gruul scratches his head for a moment before replying. "Well, we can search from here, whoever assaulted this group may have taken Kudzu down one of these paths... maybe the one with the bricks knocked from the wall. Other than that, I'm not sure I have any good ideas..."
Gruul nods, and moves to the halfling. He scoops her up gently in his arms and hurries as quick as he can while being careful not to jostle her. He returns he way they came around the building and enters the cathedral, looking the woman they spoke to or anyone else they can find. When he finds someone, he explains quickly what they found, leaves the halfling girl, and then rushes to rejoin Mog.
"Well, should we quickly go tell the miss in the Cathedral before searching for Kudzu? These folks might need medical attention." Gruul suggests to Mog.
"Could those have been used to fire the darts stuck in those folks?" Gruul asks, seeing Mog inspecting the 'cartridges'. "I can't be sure if they are alive or not, it might be a good idea to get some medical help." he says as he walks to the North wall. "Looks like there was a struggle here, and by the garden..." Gruul searches the grounds in this area for any tracks or signs as to where the perpetrators might have gone.
I'm not even sure if I'm alive at this point :p
Gruul is confused and moves on to the next closest figure on the ground. Again, he kneels and leans in to check for vital signs.
Gruul keeps an eye out as he approaches the nearest cleric. He kneels and attempts to determine what has happened.
"Sounds good, let's find the lady." He replies to Mog as they make their exit.
Gruul relaxes slightly as realizes that Hermione is more upset at the work they'd caused her, than at their actions themselves. "Yes, Captain Kellorian, right away." he replies. "I'm sure we can find them within a few days, if not sooner." As usual, her bark was worse than her bite. No reason to anger her further though...
Gruul turns away from the table and snaps to attention. He nods in the affirmative and starts to follow her up to her office, ignoring the chuckles from the group at the table.
Gruul shoots a cold look towards the dwarf. "It's possible that less thorough Greycloaks haven't found anything strange down there... but we have." he says, bristling at the implied accusation that Mog and himself are either inept, or else liars. His gaze lingers on the dwarf for a moment, just long enough to make his point stick but not so long as to be overtly hostile. "Maybe we should go see what this woman wants. I wonder if it's the Dwarf we met that pulled the disappearing trick on us."
So, what do we want to do now mog? I presume we'll see the goblin family set up somewhere as you said, and report to the greycloaks, possibly try to get permission to investigate further (and do it anyways if they deny the request). If I get this straight... there's no time distortion for Mog and I? We entered and left the catacombs on the same day?
Gruul would have no issues with showing the goblins some charity.
Gruul nods as he turns to follow Mog. "Four days then."
Gruul nods at Mog's words. "Three days... why the wait? I'd like to see if we can find someone who can shed some light on all of this. Maybe the dwarf up top has some idea..." Gruul suggests.
Gruul listens intently as the man explains what he has found.
Gruul walks to the apparently dead monster and looks it over intently. "These.. strings.. they seem almost like veins though I've not seen any creature quite like this. Those others we killed must have been kept down here."
"Let's move on." Gruul says, after his search turned up nothing interesting.
Awesome! What are you using? I've played around a bit with roll20 and it seems pretty great. The downside for me is I cant access it from work :/
Gruul can't help but smile at his friend's antics, as he begins to search the room in detail, looking for anything not immediately apparent.
Gruul watches Mog mess around with the sink, and considers Krevek's words. "Have there been folks living down here? Looks that way but I just can't imagine it." he says, scratching his chin thoughtfully.
Gruul readies his falchion, anticipating another danger behind the panels.
"Thanks." he says to Ryko. "Well, should we check another set of panels? Dealer's choice..." Gruul calls to the group.
Gruul stows the boots in his backpack, walks over to where he dropped the bag of linens and hands it to Ryko. "You mind carrying this?" He asks rhetorically, and then follows Krevek.
"All of this is so strange. Maybe we should take these unusual items with us for now." Gruul suggests. He hands the "pistol" to Mog and moves to inspect the boots.
Gruul picks up the strange metal device, turning it over in his hands, attempting to discern it's function. "I have never seen anything like this... could it be a weapon?" he says to no one in particular.
:) I suppose there's been no further word from our cleric?
Gruul shrugs as he stands up straight, not sure what to make of this creature. He then joins in the search of the room.
Gruul carefully cleans any trace on the creature from his blade before putting it away. He then leans down to inspect the twisted carcass.
Gruul fills with rage as he watches the horror attack his friend. He drops the pack he is holding, closes the distance while drawing his falchion, and then attacks the creature with all of his might.
I had forgotten about him, truthfully. Should've tossed him a backpack :)
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