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Horgus puffs as being called Lord, turning to Khaz Horgus addresses him. "Well I thank you for saving me from becoming a flesh-puppet indeed but maybe those things should be explained to one before being dragged from his home to this place." Horgus looks around "They said the Queen is coming? She will know what to do."
Horgus pratically beams at the title Khaz gives him, behind him Anvia looks as if she is going to be sick. "The case I have never seen before, maybe this petty thie.... young lady here can use her special skills to open it for you. You said there were cultists in my basement? Did you see any of my house attendants? Up here it looks as if someone has made off with many of my valuables."
Horgus looks at the group, "My money is down stairs, if you want to be paid you should be going to clear it out. I am not sure who would be down there."
"Well I cannot pay you if you leave enemies in my house." Horgus says with a bit of disgust in his voice, this disgust isn't directed at you but at the situation in his house. The basement remains dark, Horgus told you his vault is in the basement.
Horgus smiles at being refereed to as "Lord" "You are right, once I am home I will pay you and you can be on your way to saving this city or whatever it is you wish to do." Horgus says with some niceties in his voice.
Horgus trumps around, looking at the door then looking back at the group
"We are down to about 2 days worth of food and rations, this siege could take a few days if not longer and then we have to rebuild. If there is food and provisions in those warehouses then we need to capture them." Horgus says while looking over calculations on some papers his aides are carrying.
"You can take me home now!" Horgus commands, "Then I can lock myself up in my vault and wait this out." Perception DC 15: From the small set of buildings you can hear some banging.
Horgus grunts his "agreement?" at Khaz and does watch behind your group.
"We just leave back the surface, I get to my house and you leave me be. That works best for me." Horgus says, while trying to look everywhere all at once.
Horgus walks over with a few aides following him, "I hear that you are going to drive off that giant swarm? We only have 2 days worth of food left, we need to get into the city and see if there is more food."
Horgus huffs at Terry, his face going red at being called out on his rudeness.
Horgus and the others come around the final bed with Aerleth, upon seeing the new comers "Who are these freaks? Why are we helping them? We just need to get to the surface."
"I agree with Terry, take his stuff since he wanted his pets to eat your faces." Horgus is a bit red faced from climbing the wall.
Lorena's words are enough to Halt any further hostilities from Horgus for a while. "You're right I am not hurt, they are making us more slower but I know them from above." Horgus goes quiet for the length of the travel.
"But I am tired and don't want to go further." Horgus states
"IS that structure going to get me out of here?" Horgus asks overly frustrated at this whole thing.
"What is going on up there? Is that a passage to the surface?" Horgus starts to move up.
"What is the hold up on leaving here? Anyone who gets me out of here now I will pay once we get back to my home." Horgus bellows from the rock slide.
Every tries with no success to move the pile of rocks, the stones are to large to move.
Aniva helps Aravashnial, Horgus looks shocked that someone just "ordered" him to do something. "I will have you know I am Horgus Gwerm, I have the ear of the council in this city." Horgus doesn't move far from the rubble pile. Sense motive DC 10: He seems afraid but to proud to admit it.
The human male groans loudly, rolling over then standing up. "Last time I attend that festival, waste of my time. I have orders to fill and things to do." The man looks around in the light, stopping short at seeing what is going on.
Horgus looks Azrael up and down. "I met some of your kind before, most of them seem pretty pretentious and full of themselves. They are "Divine Beings" they said, needed money and weapons all the same. I will be going since you asked so nicely, no one else will be able to manage all the food and supplies anyway." Horgus moves off to continue his preparations.
As everyone finally gets back together at the Eastern gate , Horgus approaches you all. "We have enough supplies gathered for a 10 day march, you could push it to 11 days if you ration smaller portions but you will be hard pressed to make it last that much longer." Horgus has some papers in his hand and one of his aides is holding an ink well and a quill.
"I should be yes, I have stores here for 2 weeks. Come get me if you can find a secure place and more people." Horgus closes his eyes.
"They are cold Iron reinforced, I own the Cold Iron Mine. After the crusaders weapons were all made I had this done. More weapons were going to be started being made this month but It appears not." Horgus goes over to the chests, unlocking one and counting out something. He returns after a few minutes and hands each each of you 100pp, "As I promised." Horgus then goes to a plain looking chair and sits down.
Horgus stomps up beside Lynn, drawing out a ring of keys from a side pouch. He goes to unlock the door but sees that it is not closed and it appears to already be "kicked in." Horgus pushes the door open fully and the smell of rot and death come out to assault Lynn and Horgus. Taking a deep breath off to the side, Horgus steps into his house, a few bodies mutilated like those outside lay in the front entrance hall.
Horgus points to a sizable mansion that has been relatively unaffected by the destruction of the rich quarter. He falls back to stand with Aravashnial and Aniva.
"Seara, it is fine, I don't expect a cook to battle demons." Horgus approaches the woman but does not touch her.
"It is most like just past that area, I live closer to middle of this district." Horgus looks nervous about being in the open.
"My home is not, across that giant gash we saw in the ground, although I don't know if we could traverse that." Horgus looks for anything to eat.
"This store is to open, can we all fit in the back? I wish I was home in my vault, I need my things then I can help organize. The Eagle Watch are at Defender's heart you say? That is where we must truly get to too retake the city." Horgus keeps an eye out the window.
Sense Motive DC 10:
Horgus is surprised to find out that Nyserian Manor is a safe haven for the cultists "Interesting, all these places are known to me but nothing that seems out of the ordinary"
"who are you going to leave to protect us if you just wander off?" Horgus looks nervously through the door.
Horgus again looks around nervously, he and Don move forward just a head of the group and stop just as they enter the cave where the traitor Mongrels are. "Um hello there, gentlemen? Gentle sers. I am Horgus Gwerm of the surface and I would like to talk to who is in charge here so I can get past and back to the surface."
Horgus looks up at the large man in armor, nodding. "We did give him a promise, well you did yes, I just want to make it through this alive."
"I am a bit of a diplomat if I do say so myself, I just don't want to be stabbed, so if someone else stood in front of me I could try to talk." Horgus looks a little hesitant at his words.
Horgus looks at Tink then back at the tunnel. "You still want to take this with you? I can just give you one once we are up on the surface and I am safe."
"Is it safe to come in?" You can hear Horgus and the rest of those in toe coming up the tunnel passage, you can also see the torches that are being carried.
"That is not good, I have heard of the Cultists being around here but never had proof." Horgus turns to Aravashnial and Aniva, "I assume you two know about the rumors?"
"What does it look like? Horgus yells from well down the corridor
"Lets hope, I am done with this underground, you Mongrels can keep it to yourselves." Horgus ducks down a little behind the cart.
Horgus throws his hands up in frustration
"Bunch of mutants, probably the ones who are responsible for the missing stuff from the city." Horgus says with disgust in his voice.
"Lets just hope that Lord Hulrun is dead other wise bringing this ... Dwarf back to the surface might bring us some ire."
"The Lord was looking for him and did call him a witch but then the Lord was a bit of a witch hater and anyone he didn't like and didn't want around was a "witch." Lets get moving then if we are taking him along, he might know a quick way out of this demon hole."
"Some oily black could came out of no where, and apparently they are being attacked." Horgus shouts over the others.
Horgus drops to the floor in the shock of Lynn back handing him across the face, he stares daggers up at the woman not saying a word. Getting up with dignity and grace, Horgus dusts himself off and goes back to sit on the cart.
"Then we need to leave the dead weight behind and move faster."
"The little thief will not lecture me, I am the reason your wife survived as she did. Don't prattle on to me woman." Horgus' eyes narrow more at Aniva, baiting her.
Horgus stops short of Aniva, looking about the room while holding a torch. "She is just going to slow us down once we cannot use the wagon, lets leave her here and the Gods will protect this thief if they are real."
"Just bring it with ya if you want, lets get moving." Sense Motive DC 15: Horgus looks nervous and is genuinely scared of being down here.
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