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Orodreth returns below to the others and prepares to attack, rapier ready. [b]"Grumblejack should go first. "[/ooc]
Orodreth moves up behind the guard to flank and thrusts with his rapier.
Orodreth moves to the ladder at the other end of the room to try and come up behind the sentry and climbs silently to catch him off guard while the others attack from the front.
"Cmon. We don't have time to go back. Follow me." Orodreth sheaths his sword and runs over to the gatehouse wall. He pulls the veil out of his stolen guard coat pocket. "Ah here you are." Finding the right patch he rips it off and places it against the wall. A window grows from the patch and creates a hole in the wall. As soon as it stops growing he throws his pack through and dives into the hole, rolling to come up standing with his rapier ready again in case the room is inhabited.
Orodreth bursts from the shadows, rapier in hand and lunges towards the guard with the horn.
"They are returning, let's ambush them in here."
Orodreth nods to Lyrysa and waits for the guards lights to have passed on. When it seems safe he moves out in the darkness again towards the next tower/gatehouse.
"They will go around again. I don't think we need to go after them. Let's get Blackerly first."
"Well done." Orodreth says then moves towards the towers.
Orodreth makes his way towards the tower in the dark hoping they don't see him. He crouches as he moves, slower than normal, but the armor hinders him a little.
"We came this far. Let's wait till they pass. Better to surprise them if possible." Orodreth runs back inside and will wait a minute hoping the guards have moved on.
Wondering why everyone is just standing around, Orodreth heads towards the closest tower.
Orodreth silently creeps out into the night.
well of course :P
We want to go out the back door, climb a tower up to the walls, take out guards stealthily that are up on the walls on the way to the gatehouse. Then drop in and say hi to blackerly and give him an ogre sized surprise.
Im ready.
"Yes, back door is a better idea. They are more likely to keep an eye on the courtyard, we can get up to the walls by one of the towers, and we ambush any guards on the walls. Then over to Blackerly." Orodreth draws his finger over the map as he speaks, "Send Grumblejack in first, he should be eager enough." Orodreth looks around for the ogre.
"I don't think we shall be resorting to begging. I may have found a secret stash of Blackerly's. It must hold some sort of valuables and he will have the key I am sure. The lock on it is quite secure." He pats the chest. While listening to the plan he thinks to himself while the others discuss. "We should deal with Blackerly first, he is our main obstacle to getting out of here and will possible not be so distracted by the cards for much longer. The wizard will stay put. But the soldiers may search for us while we go for the warden."
Orodreth sets aside the whisky on the side table, it smelled horrible, not a fan of whisky. He preferred wine, the more expensive the better. "Now we're talking," he says with a smile, "what secrets do you keep here." He opens the toolkit and tries to open the chest.
"Hmm, don't have time for this. Perhaps Blackerly has the key on him." taking the chest out with him he left it on top of the desk in the office as the others returned. "I gathered a few things here from the storage room," he points to the closed storage room door, "the armory is the next door down, plenty of armour and weaponry if you need."
"Why are you just standing there?" Orodreth sighs and goes to unlock the door himself, mumbling something about what you do when you want something done. He is surprised to find it already unlocked. I guess no one is meant to enter the office.
"Are you hungry Grumblejack? Why don't you go raid the kitchen with the others," feeling safe here he adds, "make sure they aren't in trouble either."
I don't think we need to take everything. Just enough to equip and feed us for a few days. We are focused on escaping after all.
Sorry if I am posting too much and getting further ahead 'timewise' than everone else. My searching and acquiring probably has taken at least 10 mins so far. Perhaps if/when grumblejack breaks down the door is a good time to have everyone else catch up so to speak. As in I will wait for everyone to get back to me before posting further? Or I could just go through blackerly's room and then wait for you guys. Let me know, sometimes i over analyze, but i like to keep timelines flowing and as consistent as possible. Not have someone doing an hours worth of work when others have done ten minutes because of a fight, if you know what i mean.
"Excellent," Orodreth says to himself when he finds replacement weapons. With a quick flourish to test them he tucks the daggers into his belt and the swords around his waist. The longsword the guards favoured was so not his type. He smiles, finally feeling comfortable again, though not out of this prison yet. He hears muffled noises, perhaps the others, and hopes they are accomplishing their goals as well as he. There would be plenty of armour and weapons here for all of them. He frowns as he is unable to acquire a shortbow, but decides against keeping a longbow. He would miss far too often to be bothered with it, best to stick to the shadows and not let his enemy see him. The disguise didn't seem to work as well as he hoped, everyone here knew each other. Leaving the room and closing the door her goes back to the office and unlocks the door there. This room seems to be a storage room and is full of miscellaneous items of use. They might have use of this travelling to the house from the prison. He sets aside several items, stacking them to one side back in the office. "Just a storage room, but over there through that door, seems to be a bedroom from what I saw on the map. Not the warden's, he is in the tower. So it must be Blackerly's. What do you say we break in and destroy a few things. He might have valuables stashed away." He tried to give the Ogre something to do before he stormed off to find his own fun. Orodreth wanted Grumblejack to stay with just long enough for the others to get back, then the ogre could provide a distraction for them.
Prepared for road trip:
200ft of rope.
4 lanterns full of oil. 10 torches. With nothing further in the storage room to interest him, he turned to leave. Regarding the brands with a frown he nevertheless left them and closed the door again, turning back to see how Grumblejack was coming with the last door.
Warden in the kitchen. I bet they never saw that one coming. :p Remember he never leaves his tower? And his name is Richter I think. From the first post. And overheard from the guards. “Almost three and since then the place has been straight down the s!%@ter. That old wizard never leaves his tower. He stays up there reading his books and petting his owl!” “Petting his owl? Is that what they call it these days?”
He searches the room and equips himself, putting the longbow and and longsword down he searches the pile after Grumblejack to see if his weapons had been confiscated here.
Orodreth hopes to find his weapons in the stack:
Rapier Belt pouch Dagger x2 Short sword Short bow 20 more arrows "Patience good ogre. Come help me search these other rooms first. There may be someone inside the main quarters. Them you can fight." Orodreth searches the other room before going into the main chamber. He opens the door and looks around.
Disable Device Checks first door.:
Disable Device Checks next door.:
Disable Device Checks personal quarters:
Orodreth tries to open all doors to rooms 12, 13 and 15 and takes a look around.
"Do what you must. I merely meant you could knock them out easily enough before they even woke, then lock them with the others, gagged and chained to stop them making unwanted noise." He decides not to bother himself with the fate of a few guards. Orodreth looked at the others, that left Randu to go with Lyrysa. "Are we ready then? Meet in the great hall here when we are all done."
"What is the purpose of killing the guards? Why not neutralize them a more peaceful way?" Orodreth asks to try and get an understanding of Drogan's ways.
Orodreth offers the 50ft of rope from the veil for tying up the other three guards if they decide not to kill them as an option.
"The sack we had full of clothes should hold a good amount of food. Ok shall we split up then to get this all done quickly?" Orodreth looks around at everyone. Drogan at least agrees with making the most of their time while uncontested here. If everyone else agrees he suggests another plan. Two of them take the swords they have and take care of the three guards.
"What do you guys think? We could stick together but then everything takes more time and half of us will be standing around." If the others accept the plan Orodreth volunteers for the break in since he has the tools for it and he doesn't feel like slaying guards in their sleep.
After taking a quick look at the map and feeling good about himself for such a find he folds it up and rejoins Tykk, now with Randu in the hall. He tells them what he found in the office among the many formal documents and heads back upstairs to show the others. "I have found..." his voice falters at the mess in the cell, perhaps the meeting room outside would be better for planning the rest of their escape. "I have found a map. Perhaps we should discuss this away from the guards ears. There is a table in the other room I can spread the map out on aswell." Orodreth goes to the room where the first thought of escape had been implanted in his head. Thanks to Tiadora they now had a very good chance at getting out of here alive. Spreading the map out on the table he shows them the likely positions of the rest of the guard and where he assumes the three sleeping guards are, directly below the cells. "I think we should take several days worth of food from the kitchen downstairs. Anything that is locked I can open given a couple minutes so we should also visit the armoury and get fully armed, perhaps find anything personal items they may have kept. Have the new prisoners told us anything new?" Orodreth also asks Grumblejack if he knows anything about Branderscar that will aid their escape.
Thinking the double doors most likely led to the outside Orodreth picked the left door closest to him instead. Looking to see if Tykk was nearby, he then inspected the door before opening.
If it is locked his curiosity is alerted and he pulls out his lockpick tools and unlocks the door as quietly as possible.
"Hmm, they will be helpless while they sleep, I could easily make them stay unconscious, they would wake knowing nothing of what occurred." Orodreth hoped for as little blood spill as possible before facing Blackerly. But then the others might wake from the noise. Best to stay silent as Tykk had advised. He removed the shield from his arm, it was hindering his usual movement. A blade to the throat would have to do. Leaving the shield against the wall where the guard had stood at his post and unsheathing his longsword, Orodreth took a good look at the room he was in.
Orodreth nods and hands the captured guard over to Randu to take upstairs, keeping a sword to his back until they reached the stairs, then returns and whispers to Tykk, "There is bound to be a kitchen somewhere in here, perhaps we should have a couple days food prepared for the journey to the house, also there are the sleeping guards, maybe I should check on them."
Orodreth takes the guard back upstairs to be chained and gagged. He sees the dead guard but says nothing about it, only softly shaking his head, A waste. "We should have free reign of this building now. What should we do about the three sleepers? I think all those who don't fight us should be chained up here. There is plenty of room. Except for Blackerly and the warden."
Realising the guard had seen through his ruse Orodreth curses silently in his mind. He charges at the guard, attempting to grapple him and stop him from alerting anyone.
If grapple works:
"Be quiet and I will let you live, anything else and we will kill you with the rest of them. if it doesn't:
Orodreth draws his longsword.
Orodreth nods and walks downstairs. If there was only one more guard awake in this building they would have plenty of time to prepare. [/i]First the armory.[/i] When he finds the other guard he asks, "Hey, can you hold my post for a few minutes. I need to make a pit stop and Blackerly wanted two of us up there at all times. I'll owe you a beer later." Orodreth smiles when he mentions beer.
"Ok fine. You think he is going to sound natural and not give it away just by his voice? He can't control how scared he is right now. I say let me." Orodreth clearly thinks thecaptured guard will give it away by his voice and that his own disguise will work nicely, but he waits.
"Likely the barracks will house the armoury. Only 1 down stairs and ten in total? This is the feared Branderscar? We only have to worry about running into Blackerly and the Warden I think." He walks towards the door intending on testing his disguise now downstairs and turns around at the door and says, "Let them live, they earned their lives by aiding us. They may even be useful as hostages if things go bad. Let's not waste lives." "Grumblejack. Come, I have a job for you." He walks into the other room forming a plan to neutralise the guard downstairs without sounding alarms. He tells Lyrysa and Grumblejack of his plan to disarm the guards signaling horn and send him to take his spot momentarily with the excuse of needing a bathroom break giving them the chance to surprise the guard at the top or on the stairs. "You can kill him Grumblejack but if he surrenders, chaining him up with the others is what I suggest. What do you think?" he asks Lyrysa.
"I suggest we leave killing things till we no longer care about them finding us. Let's not be so quick to take lives just yet. They may be still useful." Orodreth tries to avoid letting the ogre rip apart the guard, unsure if Drogan is serious. "Plenty of fights to be had yet."
"Hesterfield? Is that a place?"
I'm not proficient with shields either. If the disguise fails or I dont need it anymore, those I will ditch for something better.
avatar change for pretending to be a guard :P
Remaining Items on Veil: • Bullseye lantern (full, lit and shuttered) • Hempen rope (50-foot coil) • Window (2 ft. by 4 ft., up to 2 ft. deep) • Potion of cure light wounds • 100 gold pieces
When he heards the bodies thump to the floor Orodreth opened his eyes and looked into the room. The guards had been taken out in less than a second but a small amount of mind screwing sorcery. He walked upto the guards and nudged one. He made a mental note to never get on the wrong side of Lyrysa. "Glad you are here," he says to her truthfully, trying to hide how he felt at that moment. Fear? No. Respect? Maybe a bit of both. "You'll get a chance soon. We need these ones to tell us how to get out of here. Any others we fight you can join in." he adresses Grumblejack, "Could you help us scare them? When we interrogate them, if they don't cooperate I'll tell them you can have them. So just look big and scary so they tell us everything. Please don't amash everything just yet."
"Let's drag them back into the cell and chain them up before they wake up," he pauses and asks Lyrysa, "how long will they be out?" When the guards are stripped of their weapons, armour and uniforms then chained in the very cell they had stood guard over, Orodreth pulls off another patch from the veil. A sack that just happened to have common clothes for each of them in their size. He dumps it on the ground after taking a set for himself. He strips off the disgusting rags he had been forced to wear and got changed into something more comfortable (using the rags to gag the guards in case they yelled out when they woke up), then put one of the guards uniforms on over the top, longsword at his side and chainshirt protecting him. Almost like he had his old job back. His smile left as quickly as it formed.
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