GM TOP |
The gnome thinks about it for a bit, ”I like her suggestion the best. Why don’t I work off my crimes cleaning up the garden?”
The group discusses what to do.
The group feels it will take about twelve hours of work for the gnome to clear the garden. That is twelve hours total if no one helps. Each hour worked by a dwarf would reduce the total time. Anyone trained in K: Nature feel they could reduce that time by half with some good organization, if they wanted to.
Halali Skyseeker |
"Make a start with that undergrowth there" Halali gestures to the gnome, "warg weed unless I'm mistaken, chokes the life out of any other flora, gets everywhere."
Halali is trained in Knowledge (Nature).
Then addressing her fellows again in the dwarven tongue "The mission brief doesn't require us to rout this evil priest, but it seems it might be the best way to gain free access to the library and crypt. So, do we wait for the scheduled service in a couple of hours or rush him in his quarters now?"
Kaztor Firebeard |
”I vote we go confront them. I’d like to detect evil on the priest before we start thrashing him. This gnome could be making up fantastic stories, you know,” Kaz adds.
GM TOP |
The gnome begrudgingly grabs an old shovel and starts digging up weeds.
The pathfinders seem to agree that they should quickly address this evil they have found, but aren’t sure how or when to do it.
The GM still recommends the ‘burn it all down’ option. :D
Bilos Nizhnyy |
Bilos is willing to get his hands dirty, even if he doesn't usually.
(Vould the phantom also count toward time needed to weed?)
Grunigon Durinslag |
Grunigon smiles when the gnome grabs the shovel to start with the weeds. When he notices others starting to help him he frowns and says, "Are we going to 'speak' with the head cleric? Probably should do that before the service, right? We can return here after. If I remember right there's a task that we're to do here anyway."
GM TOP |
The phantom would, yes. The crow, no. It seems we have some dissenting opinions though as to what to do next. Anyone else want to weigh in?
GM TOP |
The dwarves seem content to sit in the garden and not decide things. The warm afternoon sun is very relaxing.
I'll give it another day and then just assume you all chip in to clear the garden, that's the prevailing vote at... two, with one opposing.
Halali Skyseeker |
Halali casually pulls up weeds whilst musing in Dwarven.
"If you all want to do the gardening before the (probable) bad guy shows up to give his sermon or whatever, that's fine. Maybe we'll have enough time to get this job done, I mean it's two hours to go, right?
But I think we're giving up a potential strategic advantage. We could probably bully or bluff our way into this Dakang's quarters and extract a confession. We don't know how much harder things might get after the sermon.
Or hey, maybe I'm wrong and the church service will give us an opening.
Or hey again, maybe we dodge the sermon and sneak into Dakang's quarters then, maybe he left some sort of bad-guy notebook we can find and reveal?"
Grunigon Durinslag |
Grunigon looks at Halali as she states her idea. "Sneaky. I like it. And if we don't find anything, we wait for him to return."
Kaztor Firebeard |
”Id rather run straight in and confront him asap, but I’d vote for the sneaky approach over sitting out her and pulling weeds all day! That wasn’t what I signed up for,” Kaz growls at the others.
GM TOP |
Even with Kaztor not helping and griping the whole time about manual labor not being in the official job description of pathfinder, the rest of the group and the gnome finish clearing out the garden with about fifty minutes until the sermon. It takes twenty more to map it out for their records.
They doooooo find something interesting. One of the plants seems a bit out of place for this location. It's a certain 'flayleaf', which when chewed provides a nice little relaxing narcotic. Gastidem seems to be juuuust a bit protective of it.
Thirty minutes until the sermon. What next?
Kaztor Firebeard |
”Doesnt shock me a bunch of evildoers are growing a drug in their garden! I say we shut this place down for good,” Kaz co tongues to complain to the others.
Bilos Nizhnyy |
"Before we break everything, we should at least find out if the people here are complicit or controlled."
Halali Skyseeker |
"So we've got three choices" Halali says to her fellow dwarves, still using their native tongue.
"Attend the sermon; rush Dakang now; or sneak into his quarters whilst he's preaching to the choir. What's it to be?"
Bilos Nizhnyy |
"If these are true believers, we might end up fighting the whole monastery. But I have the ultimate sneaking in tool."