"You all will be the greatest heroes for the Tieflings soon." Zae tells. You'd see her blush, if she wasn't red already.
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"A strix? What's that? And what's a CCG?" Zea asks confused.
The group makes it back to Zea without incident. She is really excited to see you. "How did it go? What did you find? Were you able to free the town of this threat?" she bursts out.
Zea quickly searches through a wardrobe and produces something Fhingle's size. But you got the impression, even for a slave you'd need to do some sewing first, rather than tearing to make it look realistic.
"What do you mean? I don't know what the do in their lair. We didn't check that." Zea replies. "In town they're stealing from the people. They are a collective of thugs and thieves who specialize in muggings, theft, and bullying. And they are all tieflings, giving us a bad reputation."
"I don't know. At least they do nothing to fight them. But when you fight then, you might be seen by the clergy of Asmodeus." Zea tells.
"That is really close to the temple of Asmodeus." Zea warns.
Zea quickly waves you in, looks up and down the street and closes the door again. Without offering a seat the information bursts forth. "There is the former temple of Aroden on Temple Hill. That is where they have their lair."
As you near Zea's home you see her standing at the window, waiting impatiently.
At almost noon Zea makes he way to the Gumshoes office. She knocks, but as no one answers the door, she writes a note and pushes it under the door. Note: Got answers. Visit me at home. Zea.
The group leaves and goes to work immediately.
"Aye sir. On our way." The group is chipper with excitement about their first assignment. "Something else? Or shall we start immediately?" Zea inquires.
"Sure, we can keep an eye out, like you told us and see what we find out." Zea replies and the others agree. This is along their abilities.
"It's a group of thieves that wear red cloakes that steal from the commoners. Since Thrune is in Kintargo, they have become bolder." Zea elaborates.
As Saul opens his office, two more tielflings join to come in with him. They listen intently to the explanations. But with their first assignment they are not too happy. "You know, the tieflings are blamed with everything anyway. But if we get caught painting Jackdaw on a wall, I think it will cause repercussions for all tieflings." Zea tells "It's enough that these Red Jills give us a bad name."
The young man is startled by this bold approach. "I, eh..., have no, ... I mean I have but, ..." Out of some side alley comes anther cloaked figure, hood deep in the face, looking down to hide the face. She directly approaches Saul. Once she looks up it becomes clear it is Zea. "Hello. We want to ask you to show us, how you do your work of finding things and saving people. We want to join you."
"You can take them off now and take them with you if you want." Zea replies, as she wants to get rid of that grisly stuff rather now than later.
"Where can we find you?" Zea asks, as it becomes clear that the group won't stay forever.
"These are some of those who were stepping up for the rights of tieflings. Until two weeks ago, I would have brought Strea Vestori. Our head of the cloven hoof society. But she disappeared in the night of ashes. Like so many have." Zea explains to Fhingle. Zea leads the other tieflings inside to see the corpse of the infant and hear the story how it was found. And about the connection to the nightly murders. Once inside she introduces everyone and leaves it to the heros to tell the tale.
Fhingle takes the baby and together you return to Zea's home. Zea is shocked by the sight and the story you tell. Once she recovered from the shock she offers "If you like you can stay here, 'til the morning. Then I could invite some of the other tieflings to see if someone knows this baby or has seen something at that house you told about."
Zea shrugs. "No, I haven't heard of something like that. We cremate our dead. No one would bury a child."
"It started soon after the Thrune came to town." Zea answers. "And I know of no incident with teeth."
Zea is appalled by the ugly fey. S or S: You're sure the fairies appearing here is no coincidence.
"You want to come to my flat in the evening? So you don't have to come at night through better patrolled areas." Zea offers.
"A little red makeup to the face would be enough. Who will check closer at night, before it's too late? But no one here wears that fancy clothes." Zea comments.
Zea stand there with a vague smile "An actor! That's a good idea!"
"Thank you for stepping up for me." Zea replies to Salonious. "But the truth is, you'd have a hard time finding a tiefling who wouldn't agree with that." she points to Meliandri. "A lot of tieflings with small horns and pale skin will try to hide it away and pass as human." Taking a closer look at Meliandri she adds "But I would have expected more from a half elf." Returning to the topic at hand she continues "The only thing I heard, was that the faces of the victims were mutilated. But I don't know why or how. And no one got even a glimpse of the murderer. It cold be everyone."
"I haven't seen any dottari like ever here. Sure, if someone of the right people claims he got robbed by a tiefling, then they come. But to enforce the law? Like finding murderers at night? No way." Zea tells with resignation in her voice. "I haven't seen one of the victims and they get usually cremated the same day, so I don't know." |