Before the guards arrive, Roswyn again takes Harkin by the arm and pulls him to the side, not entirely gently. "Harkin, the Watch will be here any second," she says. She forces him to look in her eyes. "Is there anything else about your father, or this gang? Anything you suspect, even if you're not sure? If he's mixed up with them, I need to know now, before I talk to them. I can't protect him if you don't tell me the whole truth now."
"Umm...." the halfling whispers, "You know the businesses around my Pa's shop? They were boarded up and closed. I don't think they were just shut down. I went inside one and it was ransacked, there was blood too. I think the kobolds were behind it."
"Thank goodness!" she calls out. "Where were you? I mean, I'm glad you're here now!" She wrings her hands, appearing quite flustered and upset.
One of the guards, orders, "Get over here, against the wagon. What happened. We've got dead kobolds, and you guys are covered in blood. I'm no fool, and I can make conclusions, but I wanna hear your story first."
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The half-orc claps again a the older halfling wakes. As Talky Gnome takes away the younger one, Tondrek says, Hello, Kidnapped Man! I'm Tondrek! And those are Talky Gnome and Little Big Girl and Marky 'Forged and Scary Dark Man., pointy to Roswyn, Rohna, Cleaver and Tamarand in turn. He then pauses a moment and points to Harkin. And... uh... Tondrek not sure who he is. Job Guy? Tells us you his son or father. But could be a changmaling. Or in disguise. Once, I knew one of those brain people that pretended to be a person. She was nice. Hey! Do you like my staff? Made it myself. Tondrek smiles widely without a care for the world, or the oncoming guardsmen.
"Thank you," the older halfing says. "Thats my boy, likens himself an adventurer. Like me in my younger days. I've got a reward for you guys, but that can wait until this mess gets sorted out."
Recruitment
I'd like to get another PC, it gives you guys a little more breathing room, plus I think there are still others waiting. Thoughts?
Tamarand bares his teeth again and hisses in anger, but knows full well that a battle with the guardsmen of Sharn would not be wise.
Wheeling his lizard towards the wagon, Tamarand sheathes his blades, doing his best to appear non-hostile. "Good Sir, we were saving a man from these kobolds, they attacked him, and us, then tried to steal him. We caught them and saved this man from them. We were just trying to help out Sharn, that's all" the drow says innocently.
I'm open to recruitment, especially with king needing to drop out/hiatus.
I know Mal's in the tavern with a dwarf invoker, not sure if we need 2 controllers, especially losing the one of the highest pure-damage strikers, but he's the only PC sitting around right now. My PC can be up close with some of his encounter powers, but functions better at range.
One of the guards, orders, "Get over here, against the wagon. What happened. We've got dead kobolds, and you guys are covered in blood. I'm no fool, and I can make conclusions, but I wanna hear your story first."
OOC: For whatever it's worth, Roswyn used prestidigitation to clean up, so she doesn't have blood on her...
Roswyn nods and moves over to the wagon, but stays facing the guards. She gets out her identification papers and hands them to the guard who spoke as she passes.
"Yes. I was hired by this young halfling " - she indicates Harkin - "on behalf of his father, a shopkeeper " - she indicates Ronald - "to undertake a negotiation. But since there were indications that the other party " - she indicates the dead kobolds - "might not be prepared to negotiate in good faith, we also engaged some security, hoping that their intimidating presence " - she indicates the other adventurers, with an emphasis on Tamarand - "would keep the other party from doing anything foolish."
She stops and takes a deep breath. "But apparently, it wasn't enough to dissuade them. Before we could even set the terms of the discussion, these individuals set about ransacking our employer's shop, attacked us, and bodily kidnapped our employer. We defended ourselves and tried to get him back. Luckily, we succeeded, and no bystanders were injured."
She stops and takes a deep breath. "But apparently, it wasn't enough to dissuade them. Before we could even set the terms of the discussion, these individuals set about ransacking our employer's shop, attacked us, and bodily kidnapped our employer. We defended ourselves and tried to get him back. Luckily, we succeeded, and no bystanders were injured."
I made BOOM! Tondrek interjects, pointing the the flour residue left over from his arcane shenanigans.
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The guards listen the stories of Tamarand and Roswyn. "Well, I don't like you doing my job for me. What is done is done though. We ain't gonna just let you off though. When word gets around that this happened in our area, if ain't gonna be pretty. You got more than words to persuade us?"
Rohna leans over to the ear of their negotiator whispering. "Hows about we split the salvaged armor, weapons, cart and horses here of these ex gang members. Could be a tidy little side profit to a guardsmen salary with the proper fence?"
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Dr. Simons B5 Outrageous Fortunne - Croft Callo lvl 2 ICOOC
Dragonwriter's Music Inspired Insanity - Platinus lvl 3 OOCRGIC
I made BOOM! Tondrek interjects, pointing the the flour residue left over from his arcane shenanigans.
Roswyn briefly shoots a disapproving glare at Tondrek. But when she takes in his simple half-orc face, free of any guile, her glare melts. She gives him a quick smile and a small nod before turning back to the guards.
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The guards listen the stories of Tamarand and Roswyn. "Well, I don't like you doing my job for me. What is done is done though. We ain't gonna just let you off though. When word gets around that this happened in our area, if ain't gonna be pretty. You got more than words to persuade us?"
Roswyn nods. "Oh yes, sergeant, I understand completely. When word gets around... of course you can clarify things in your official report. Your response time here was excellent, this all happened so fast, but you still got here very quickly and gained control over the situation immediately, we'd all vouch for that! But making that clear in your report could be tricky..."
OOC: Bluff (1d20+11=31) ("Critical"! Woot!) Roswyn's eyes widen, and she puts a knuckle to her mouth, as if she's just realized something. "Oh! Yes, you're probably thinking about what happened to that guard captain in Stormhold last month, aren't you? From what I heard his squad did a fine job breaking up that burglary ring, a fine job, but the captain didn't pay too much attention to the reports he filed, his records of informant contacts were sloppy and out of date, and someone in the Watch HQ who had it out for him made it seem like he'd been letting the ring operate freely for months, and only cracked down when they cut back his take? And then when the complete audit turned up that he'd been padding his duty rosters, with a cousin who actually lives in Aundair drawing pay... It's really hard to slip that kind of thing by these days, ever since the HQ started taking on Sivis consultants..." The gnome's cheeks flush slightly, and she looks down at the ground. "Well, I'm sure they could have done worse to that captain than assign him to night patrol in Malleon's Gate - right?"
She looks up and coughs. "So I can sympathize with your concerns... without properly written and filed reports, people could easily get the wrong idea about what happened here. That could be unfortunate... for all of us. But you know, I'm really good with paperwork - it's my job! Maybe I could help you out with that, make sure everything is tidied up good and proper? Save you a little time too, so you can stay out on the street and concentrate on real police work..."
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Rohna leans over to the ear of their negotiator whispering. "Hows about we split the salvaged armor, weapons, cart and horses here of these ex gang members. Could be a tidy little side profit to a guardsmen salary with the proper fence?"
Roswyn winks at the goliath, thinking, Hmmm, not bad... maybe she's not as much of a hick as she seems?
She continues addressing the guardsman. "In fact, I can see you're going to have your hands full cleaning up here, and making sure that these criminals... and their armor... and weapons... and horses... and cart are properly... disposed of. I'd be happy to help you with all the accounting paperwork for that, as well. In fact, I'd be happy to stop by your station house a couple of nights this week and finish up all your paperwork - on an informal basis, completely free of charge, of course!"
Her spiel delivered, the gnome looks up at the guard sergeant hopefully, waiting for his response.
Roswyn briefly shoots a disapproving glare at Tondrek. But when she takes in his simple half-orc face, free of any guile, her glare melts. She gives him a quick smile and a small nod before turning back to the guards.
Tondrek doesn't have a deceitful bone in his body. Its caused him trouble previously.
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Tondrek doesn't have a deceitful bone in his body. Its caused him trouble previously.
OOC
Yeah I realize that... Roswyn just forgot it for a moment and thought he was making fun of her or trying to undermine her efforts, until she remembered that he's "special".
The guard nods. "We benefit each other then. We'll split the money we gain from the selling of these thugs loot and you'll file our paperwork for us. Don't come the the headquarters though, they might get suspicious. Where can we find you when we make the trade?"
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We can use this point to recruit another if you guys wish and return to the tavern for a moment. It shouldn't take too long. Plus, Ronald has a couple things to pass out.
Ummm... where should we tell the guard to meet us? I'm not sure... the tavern?
As far as recruiting... adding another controller is not ideal from class balance perspective, but I don't care much about that. I'm a little more concerned about our lack of melee characters. It pretty much leaves Rohna as the only melee'er... I guess Tordek is maybe an "off melee"? But, it's not like we have a plethora of choices.
Anyway, I'd be happy to have Mal's character join us and see how it goes.
Yeah you could say that, it'd be very convenient considering we need to recruit. Two controllers could be interesting, especially in the next encounter I have planned. Later tonight, unless people have objections, I'll move the "game thread" to there for now, for rp, planning and such.
The guard nods. "We benefit each other then. We'll split the money we gain from the selling of these thugs loot and you'll file our paperwork for us. Don't come the the headquarters though, they might get suspicious. Where can we find you when we make the trade?"
Roswyn smiles. "As you wish, sergeant. You can find us at the Tower's Shard later tonight."
Too bad he didn't bite on the offer to do all their paperwork at headquarters, that would have been a nice opportunity to learn some things... probably nothing too juicy for the reports on a crappy district like this one, but you never know. Plus there might have been some information about Ronald and this kobold gang... Well, I'll try to keep the channel open, maybe there will be another opportunity later.
Going to tavern
That's fine, but we also have a kobold prisoner, do we not? Are we bringing him to the tavern too?
Rohna seems pleased with her suggestion being liked and accepted. Mitra bares her teeth at the city guard but a coarse few words from Rohna in a grinding, gravelly language and the baby dire bear is cowed. She turns from the guards and trots off a few squares where she vanishes mid stride.
When the meeting place is established at the shard grins before dismounting and starting to pack the kobold bodies onto the cart. Mitra fades back into being and wrangles the horses back towards the front of the cart. While working she leans over to Roswyn and whispers something else.
@ Roswyn
"Should we even tell them about the slew of other bodies back at the shop or just reclaim the gear of those for ourselves? Scale armor fetches a hefty price on the open market, and we have several suits of it just lying there waiting to be cleaned and resold."
__________________ Its so hard to have a good time, even smiling makes my face ache. - Dr. Frank N. Fuhrter, Rocky Horror Picture Show
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Living Eberron Rohna lvl 4 OOC RGIC
Scotley's ToH - Ballista lvl 9 IC
HellrazorIII's Death of the Dragons - Grabhar Goldenwing lvl 5 (Gestalt) RGIC
Dr. Simons B5 Outrageous Fortunne - Croft Callo lvl 2 ICOOC
Dragonwriter's Music Inspired Insanity - Platinus lvl 3 OOCRGIC
"Should we even tell them about the slew of other bodies back at the shop or just reclaim the gear of those for ourselves? Scale armor fetches a hefty price on the open market, and we have several suits of it just lying there waiting to be cleaned and resold."
@ Rohna
Good point... no need to mention any of that to these guardsmen, I think, but some other patrol may have already arrived at that scene. Perhaps we should stop by there on the way back to the Tower's Shard and see. Ronald's shop might make a convenient spot to speak with our prisoner, too.
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