You spent a day among the varies parts of the city. The city seems unstable with parts barely held in check and other parts lawless. Riots while mostly put down have caused hardship throughout the city with some merchants not coming in for fear of being over come by mobs, thugs and beggars.
Among all this you have found out a few things. Vancaskerkin has holed up in an old butcher shop called All world's meat. It seems him and his men have been giving out meat for free to the people of that district. As such They think of the man as a saint and grow hostile toward anyone they think means him harm. This caused a little bit of an issue but nothing you where unable to talk your way out of.
"On the one side he's pandering to the locals to prevent himself being attacked without warning on the other hand it could be construed that he's not beyond redemption depending on whether he actually cares at all for the predicament he's causing," Reg openly and very quietly notes.
"Still I can't help wondering what caused him to do this or rather who is behind this since I've yet to hear anything that explains why he's done this," Reg asks Euphengina.
"What happened to the butcher of All world's Meat market? I would think he would protest his goods being given away for free." Bean asks.
"What happened to the butcher of All world's Meat market? I would think he would protest his goods being given away for free." Bean asks.
"Assuming they're still alive to say anything about it?" Reg quietly adds.
You find out that The previous owner of All the World’s Meat was arrested
for tax evasion and soon thereafter died in prison. His shop has remained in escrow with the government for nearly a year, boarded over and empty until Vancaskerkin moved into the shop
"He seems like a decent boyo," Euphegenia comments, confused as to why he would be giving away the meat for free. "something doesn't add up, maybe it is time to go and visit him in person."
"What we don't want to deal with is a bunch of charity cases lined up at their door waiting for their hand-outs. We'd get lynched if we tried to raise a hand against them."
"Morning is best but if there is a line out the front door we should wait. Somehow I don't think they are going to come nicely, they know what's in store for them as deserters."
"What we don't want to deal with is a bunch of charity cases lined up at their door waiting for their hand-outs. We'd get lynched if we tried to raise a hand against them."
"Morning is best but if there is a line out the front door we should wait. Somehow I don't think they are going to come nicely, they know what's in store for them as deserters."
"Only problem is that the more time we wait the more time they have to be forewarned, the sooner we act the better," Reg quietly notes.
"So I'll go talk to them in the morning, see if I can't get them to see reason, if that doesn't work we come back later to, ahem, force the issue," Bean offers.
"So I'll go talk to them in the morning, see if I can't get them to see reason, if that doesn't work we come back later to, ahem, force the issue," Bean offers.
A sign bearing the image of a fat, smiling cow hangs above the entrance to this shop. Dozens of locles some who look very down on there luck await there turn at the shop. Bean has to wait in line and it does take him a while to get inside. Once Inside he gets a good look at the place, a long counter runs over half the room’s width, beyond which a door stands ajar. A low bench sits against the east wall, while to the north a marble-topped table displays cuts of meat before a wide, grimy window. A few flies crawl and circle in the air above the meat. Two mean stand here giving out meat to the people in line. One is a tall man with bushy eyebrows that merge into one just above his large flat nose and the other is a wheezy man whose chainmail doesn’t quite fit his ample frame. The Large man takes one look at Bean and snears [b]"Kick off ya snake breeder'[/]
A sign bearing the image of a fat, smiling cow hangs above the entrance to this shop. Dozens of locles some who look very down on there luck await there turn at the shop. Bean has to wait in line and it does take him a while to get inside. Once Inside he gets a good look at the place, a long counter runs over half the room’s width, beyond which a door stands ajar. A low bench sits against the east wall, while to the north a marble-topped table displays cuts of meat before a wide, grimy window. A few flies crawl and circle in the air above the meat. Two mean stand here giving out meat to the people in line. One is a tall man with bushy eyebrows that merge into one just above his large flat nose and the other is a wheezy man whose chainmail doesn’t quite fit his ample frame. The Large man takes one look at Bean and snears [b]"Kick off ya snake breeder'[/]
Euphengenia is very insistent that you do not go on your own or in small numbers, all or none of us!
"Look what happened to the last wee ben that went off on his own, drown in a tub of chum!"
"Snake breeder, well that's a new one to me, however just like when I was called a whore it is inaccurate, I've never bred with snakes before, however I've never met one I would want to with yet," Bean starts in, "However I am authorized to negotiate with you about a charge of dereliction of duty. I'm not here to threaten you, lets be clear on that. I simply want to get this mess clean up so everyone can go about living their lives in a pleasurable and joyful manner."
Diplomacy check to get him non-hostile/friendlier, using both the guidance and the perfumes effect: 1d20+10=18
Reg gauges their prospective opponents since their attitude makes it unlikely they'll respond peacefully.
The man looks at bean with a cold star "dereliction of duty! yes we left the corrupt guard, who but us would feed the hungry? The guard set among the rich as the poor starve!" The crowd seems to mumbler in agreement, more people seem to be looking in from the street. "Kick off lackey, crawl back to your warm bed and your ready meal. We will not see the people starve." He seems to be talking to the crowd Ya hear this snake breeder! he wants us to stop to let you stave!" Dangerous and angry mudders seem to drift though the crowd, movement can be heard behind the counter as if people come from the back of the building
Reg
The mean come off as compartment with fighting if you can guess by movement, they move as men used to weapons and the trade of war. You can also tell the man does not believe a word he says, but the crowd sure seems to!
The man looks at bean with a cold star "dereliction of duty! yes we left the corrupt guard, who but us would feed the hungry? The guard set among the rich as the poor starve!" The crowd seems to mumbler in agreement, more people seem to be looking in from the street. "Kick off lackey, crawl back to your warm bed and your ready meal. We will not see the people starve." He seems to be talking to the crowd Ya hear this snake breeder! he wants us to stop to let you stave!" Dangerous and angry mudders seem to drift though the crowd, movement can be heard behind the counter as if people come from the back of the building
Reg looks back at him with sadness in his eyes.
"Its a shame that however honourable the reasoning you gave, its clear you do not believe in your own pronouncements. Tell me do you really despise these people so much that you would willingly expend their lives for your lies and deceit?" Reg tells him pulling out his hidden holy symbol so it rests quite clearly in view.
"Ah yes, because everyone in this room would be more than glad for you to move into their home or business and start handing out their food and livelihood to anyone that walks by." Bean answers, "You sir" He points to a man in line, "Should I just walk into your house and start passing out your stuff to anyone that happens through? Or what if I join the town guard, see you getting mugged by three men, and decide that I'm going to quit this day instead of coming to your aid? Would you thank me for that?"
"All in all your arguments are false -- This food would have ended up being passed out anyways -- sooner if it where not for your meddling, they were planning to start the day you left your post, you coward. However you got in the way because you where too afraid to defend the people when they needed you -- To afraid to do the duty that their money paid you to do. I am here to help without pay, I do not make a copper from doing this, it is civic duty that brings me here -- Not the desire to save my own skin with other peoples goods and lives."
The man seems to bristles at being called a lier " So I am a lier am I, we who while the people were starving , with our own money made sure they were feed!" The crowd seem to mumer in agreement as the send man rings a bell that echos though the building "The food would have been passed out! " He yells "Sure it would, yeah I see the city buying the food right now. The city does not feed the homeless and the poor!"
The crowd seems to be nodding in agreement, and casting subscious looks at the party "So snake breeder would you have the people starve while the city protects the wealthy! How many guards where in this district I ask you good people? how many stopped the looting here? did any?
Muders of "None, no, and never" seem the come from the crowd and a cry of "The black knights killed my husband" rings though the room like a hammer.
Euphegenia looks round at the crowd, eyeing up if any of them are likely to aid these men if it comes to a fight.
Sense motive on the crowd. (1d20+6=14)
She has her shield strapped to her arm, but no weapon drawn, she looks around for a nice leg of lamb or ham hock to use as an improvised weapon if it comes to a fight.
The man seems to bristles at being called a lier " So I am a lier am I, we who while the people were starving , with our own money made sure they were feed!" The crowd seem to mumer in agreement as the send man rings a bell that echos though the building "The food would have been passed out! " He yells "Sure it would, yeah I see the city buying the food right now. The city does not feed the homeless and the poor!"
"Actually he said that you were merely abusing your position of power for your own ends, but if you want to call yourself a liar well thats really up to you," Reg points out.
"So snake breeder would you have the people starve while the city protects the wealthy! How many guards where in this district I ask you good people? how many stopped the looting here? did any? [/b]
"Well we were busy fighting off a group of fiends targetting children, what were you doing when the populace were being threatened?" Reg asks.
"Okay, I'll want to have a word with whoever lost their husband, you're not the only one with misgivings on those banites," Reg calls over.
Keen is completely dumbstruck by the complete predictability of coming to the front door while a ready mob is brewing.
Quietly to Reg "If we don't leave now the streets will run red with the blood of innocents, and probably ours. We either need to kill this man and bar the door or get out of here, NOW"
Keen is completely dumbstruck by the complete predictability of coming to the front door while a ready mob is brewing.
Quietly to Reg "If we don't leave now the streets will run red with the blood of innocents, and probably ours. We either need to kill this man and bar the door or get out of here, NOW"
Reg concentrates on the man brewing all of this furor.
"Stand down," Reg tells him simply.
The man seems taken back by Regs tone and seems speechless, however the 2nd guard now has his crossbow leaved at the party, with a 3rd guard coming thought the door crossbow ready
"Pose' yous gonna turn us over, close us down, have the 'ole place swamped with em black nights.' The 2nd man yells. seeming more talking to the crowd then you.
the crowd seems to explore with noise "the black knight!, no more food, My children will starve! we have to stop em!" seem to build with the crowd as they look at you with angry eyes
Euphegenia
The crowd is hostile now. they look upon you like you will kill them at a moments notice. some outside seem to be picking rocks up
Bean stands there looking at the ceiling at the unbelievable stupidity being exhibited then shouts, "Because you know, you can trust the guy that took your money and ran away instead of protecting you. This man is city guard -- And what did he do? His Job? No -- He is a coward that ran away. He didn't even try. I've already told you this food is to be handed out. Why trust me? Because what he wouldn't do I did. I was out in the streets helping people, for free, because that is what's good and right. But go ahead, trust the coward and thief that took you money as his pay then ran away. After all he has proven himself trustworthy so far. He complains of the guard? HE IS THE GUARD! of course he is afraid -- you should be tearing him apart for betraying you."
:: Diplomacy Check 1d20+9=28 ::
"This man is a fraud people, trying to use you to harm those that came to protect this city. He gives you nothing but what you would have gotten anyways, then says that it comes from him. He ran leaving the Black Knights to do his job. He now tries to scare you to avoid his responsibility."
"Enuff of this!' Someone yells as twin "THWACKS" echo though the room. Two crossbow bolts slam into bean and the cleric crumbles
The room is silent for a moment then a yell of "The knight's ell kill us all!" And madness fallows
One guard drawls his sword steeping over the now limp Bean to slice at Reg, who barely blocks the blow. But a tray thrown by the crowd as well as the man behind min hit reg
Rocks and stones pelt Keen and Euphegenia With shouts of "murder and thieves" coming from the crowd
Init
Guards 16[went]
crowd 11[went]
Reg=9
Hakeem+5
Bean=+4
Elric=+0
Euphegenina=+0
Reg ducks and drawing his blades he cuts loose on his attacker trying to draw him away from Bean so Euphengina can get to the fallen cleric.
Keen tries to blend into the crowd (Disguise check rolled 23), and moves towards the back of the crowd.
"Lookout, it's the black guard they're going to kill us all!"
Ah well can't fool them all.
If the crowd doesn't buy the black guard is coming Keen will try and blend in and look for an alternate way in.
Euphegenia is still unarmed, but does have her shield out, she will do her best to get to Bean and spontaneously cast a cure light wounds, trading in magic weapon.
While ducking and diving she just manages to get her spell off, but the power is weak and does little apart from stop the bleeding.
[She looks up to the guard with the cross bow, anger in her eyes, "You might want to start running laddie!"
Reg drawls his weapons and slashes toward the Guard with the long sword only to have his blows deflected by the man's blades. Hakeen fads into the crowd and ties to turn them with fear of the knights but they do not hear him in the frenzy they are in. He looks for another way in but cant see past the frenzied mob. Euphegenia calls upon the power of her goddess and stops beans wounds.
The two ex-guards at behind the counter start to reload as the tall man with the longsword advances on Reg , who takes a solid blow across the chest rocks and stones once again pelt Euphegenia , her shield stops most but one gets though and hits her face
Init
Guards 16[went]
crowd 11[went]
Reg=9
Hakeem+5
Bean=+4
Euphegenina=3
Reg drawls his weapons and slashes toward the Guard with the long sword only to have his blows deflected by the man's blades. Hakeen fads into the crowd and ties to turn them with fear of the knights but they do not hear him in the frenzy they are in. He looks for another way in but cant see past the frenzied mob. Euphegenia calls upon the power of her goddess and stops beans wounds.
The two ex-guards at behind the counter start to reload as the tall man with the longsword advances on Reg , who takes a solid blow across the chest rocks and stones once again pelt Euphegenia , her shield stops most but one gets though and hits her face
Reg continues his fight with the guard but can't find a way through his guard.
"Blood an Thunder! Euphegenia yells, a small trickle of blood coming from the nick in her forehead from the last rock.
She weighs up the odds of killing the guards or Bean and decides to get try and get Bean back up.
Spell Craft +1(rank) +3(class) +1(int) = +5 (1d20+5=15, 1d8+1=6)
SHe succesfully casts the spell defensively, but the spell, just fails to bring Bean round.
Also would like to point out Euphegenia can channel too :)[/ooc]
Still trying to act like one of the crowd Keen is going to try and get into the building and use his scroll of sleep without the crowd noticing he's one of them.
Bluff 1d20+3=20
Sleep should be centered on the three guards in the room.
Round delayed till Elric acts
Reg attacks the longsword men but is unable to get though the man's defenses. Keen well hidden within the crowd gathers up his arcane will and looses it though the door, the two men with the crossbows seem to just collapse to the floor.Euphegenia pours more of her divan healing into the bleeding bean.
The swordman not knowing his two comrades lay on the floor behind him advances on Reg , but is unable to land a blow. Rocks still fall upon Euphegenia as a pan slams into Regs head
Reg attacks the longsword men but is unable to get though the man's defenses. Keen well hidden within the crowd gathers up his arcane will and looses it though the door, the two men with the crossbows seem to just collapse to the floor.Euphegenia pours more of her divan healing into the bleeding bean.
The swordman not knowing his two comrades lay on the floor behind him advances on Reg , but is unable to land a blow. Rocks still fall upon Euphegenia as a pan slams into Regs head
Your map
Reg back pedals slightly and then goes on the offensive.
"Let me show you how thats done properly!" he tells his opponent as he steps forward and starts fighting back.
Map link is not working for me either.
Euphengenia will channel energy from her holy symbol, praying this time that it wakes up Bean. This has the side effect of getting every one in a 30' radius, including the people who are attacking us and the wounded guards men.