"I have come to ask a few questions, I am part of the defense of the Beast of Lepidstadt, during our investigation we discovered a bottle that belonged to your company, the contents already used up. We are just wondering if you delivered supplies to the Old asylum that burnt down?"
Kendra whispers, "I was going to suggest something less overt."
"I don't discuss business. We deliver to many places." the gnome replies and slams the door shut.
Meanwhile Jominda unpacks her alchemist stuff to prepare an extract of spider climb while her companions talk to Mr. Less Than Cooperative.
"Ring the bell again." Kendra says to Herm.
Herm rings the bell again, "Good Ser you are hindering justice, I realize it is late and you deliver to many places. Might I have a word with your boss?"
The ringing of the bell is ignored.
Kendra buries her palm in her hand for a moment, but lets it pass without comment.
"We can check around back to see if they have similar containers laying around that we can inspect what is inside of." Herm leads the way around the back.
All around the house you look at brick wall. Everything about the factory is inside.
As they come around Jominda asks "Wanna go in now? I can climb the walls and tie the rope to something up there. Or do you have better suggestions about how to proceed here?"
Herm follows Jominda to the wall, helping her get higher before she has to climb up. Then taking the rope and climbing himself.
Jominda downs the potion. As Herm helps Jominda up it feels like her feet are glued to him. And she continues to simply crawl up the wall on all four as if it were nothing. Once she is up there she ties the rope to the lightning rod.
The rope is too short. It dangles 10 feet above the ground.
On top of the tower is a trapdoor that leads in.
[b}"Will you be coming too, Herm? Or is this too ,uch against your code?"[/b] Kendra asks sincerely
"I feel right now compelled to see this through, that man was obstructing justice and it is by Iomadae's will that Justice be seen done."
Herms attempt is not exactly elegant and jumping in full armor is not really stealthy. And he is far from grabbing the rope.
Kendra looks about. Is there anything they could shove up to the wall to climb upon?
She also asks "Does anyone have an extra length of rope, so we can tie the ends together?"
It is not the best neighbourhood and there is garbage lying around that could be piled up to help with the climbing. Or as an alternative 'borrow' something more useful from a backyard? Like a ladder.
"Give me a moment." Harrold says as he digs through his pack and pulls out a 50ft length of rope.
Herm grabs the rope hoping it will hold his weight.
Kendra supports Harrold as he climbs up to secure the rope, though the strain is obvious on her face.
"Are you two really going to make the old man climb to the top?" Harrold says with a chuckle.
His comment belies the agility which which he climbs into position and ties the end of his rope to the dangling one
You build a Pyramid and Harrold is able to tie the second rope to the first, allowing the easier climb to start right from the ground.
After a few attempts Herm gets up the rope to the second floor, "Well now that we are in are we looking for something specific?"
HP 48/48
LoH 4/4 (2d6)
Channel 2/2 (2d6)
Smite 2/2 (+2 Hit, +4 dmg)
Divine Bond (Angelic, 1/day) +3 (Su) As a standard action, halo sheds light and grants enhanced protection from evil to allies in 20 ft.
Shared Defense (2 rounds, adjacent, +1 AC) (Su) Lay on hands use: Aura provides AC and other bonuses to allies.
Harrold easily scampers up the rope
You're on top of the tower, which is like 4th floor or such. You get a nice view over town from up there. In the floor is a trap door that probably leads inside.
Jominda checks the door. "You think it is secured in some way? Doesn't look like it has a lock."
Kendra fumbles with the rope on her first try, but then gets the hang of it and goes up the tower. Having gotten up there, she says "I wouldn't lock a trap door this high up either. But let's see if I can get a hint of what awaits us down there." nodding towards the trap door. "There might be golems or guardians walking about."
Herm will move over to the door and get ready to lift it, setting his hammer down to be with in quick reach Herm will draw his hand axe.
"My. That complicates things." Kendra says. "I think the trap door is exactly that. A trap. There's a spell linked to it.... it'll create a huge burst of sound, no doubt warning everyone of our arrival, and will stun anyone within ten feet. So that would be all of us here on top of the tower."
"We could climb down into the courtyard. Or onto the roof. Or we could make a hole."
"That all sound like better options than going through the door." Kendra comments.
She takes a look at the courtyard, to see if she spots any movement there, and the roof, to see if there's any discernable entrance - and whether or not it's rigged with magic too.
Jominda climbs down the tower onto the roof and to the edge taking a look into the yard.
An iron-wheeled cart sits in the courtyard, ready for deliveries. A door to the north leads into the workshop, while double doors to the east open into a sidebuilding. Above these, a large set of doors opens onto a loading bay as the moveable boom with reel, rope and hook suggests.
There is also kennel with something doglike lying in front of it.
Jominda climbs back up onto the tower to tell her companions. "There are a lot of doors there where one could try to break in. But our best bet would be the doors on the 2nd floor. They have a dog of the same make as Thomas. I don't think we want to meet that one."
"Lets tie a rope off since my Climbing skills are lacking and Harrold will need the assistance."
Herm gets to working trying a rope off while Jominda scouts out a platform for them to get down too.
"Ok." Jominda replies and grab the rope. Climbing over the roof again she brings the end to the yard and ties it to the boom over the door. Then she takes a seat on the boom to be prepared when her spell will run out.
"I'll try it out first" Kendra says, and climbs onto the rope to slide down towards the boom.
With Kendra there Jominda dares to try to open the door. "There won't be room for all of us on that boom."
The sliding door to this room overlooking the courtyard and has a retractable timber is not locked. Presently the room has only a few wooden cases in it. But as the door noisily opens, the dog like golem jumps up and barks at the intruders.
Jominda lets herself down and hanging at the boom with her hands she swings back and forth two times before jumping into the room.
Once in she listens carefully if the intrusion causes some reaction from inside the building.
Everything that might be heard is drowned out by the barking of the golem dog and a constant low grumbling of the production taking place inside.
Herm pulls out some trail rations and throws it down to the dog.
Kendra waits with following Jominda in, ready to help the next one to come down to reach the boom safely. She looks around the courtyard to see if anyone reacts to the dog golem, while keeping an eye on the tower to see if the next person is coming in.
"Are you alright Jominda? Any threats there?"
Jominda starts building a defense wall out of crates, just in case. And takes a look into them. She doesn't want to hide behind explosives or such. "So far everything looks fine." she replies.
The golem dog ignores the trail ration.