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<blockquote data-quote="Tickleberry" data-source="post: 108878" data-attributes="member: 1565"><p><strong>Continued travails of Tickleberry and Co.</strong></p><p></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"> <span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">Well, we have the hobbit army following us, but we do not have a plan for getting back in the city. We discuss it along the way, and decide that we need to get across the river first. We sure don't want to do that under the watchful eyes of the city.</span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">We decide to angle some rope across the river, and slide across. Floppy and the halforc monk that we picked up teleport across. I personally think that the monk and the paladin belong to some secret order, and when one gets tired, he swaps out with another.</span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">I shoot an end across to them after we had tied off the other high up in a strong tree. We send the dogs across. No problem. We start sending the hobbit horde across, and this silver dragon swoops down and carries off one. Floppy has Daryl ask her why, and she "politely" responds "None of your business." Forgive me for thinking that having a Companion carried off is my business.</span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">We again set up, and continue crossing, without interference from silly dragons.</span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">We STILL don't have a plan for getting in. We debate forever until that blasted dragon shows back up. For a price, she'll deposit us in the city. Oh joy, trust a dragon that carried off one of ours? Well, I didn't have a better plan. Not with hellhounds prowling the base and watchers on the walls.</span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">We have to go in shifts, and somehow, the rope that carries Floppy and company breaks. They fall. Floppy survives. We then see that the rope didn't break, it was cut. There is some speculation that Daryl is responsible. Remind me that I Never want to rely on that thing for my safety.</span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">Now, we are back in the one place none of us really want to be, and we need a place to hide. Enter shady character. Lana talks to shady character. Shady character calls for guards. We dogpile him, and knock him unconscious. We split. Celwyn stays behind to confound the guards. I later hear the story he tells him, here it is: "I was minding my own business, pouring some water out the back door of the Happy Hobbit, and these guys yank me out, and pull me kicking and fighting down the street. I finally get them to let me go, and this is one of them."</span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">They tell him to show up tomorrow with a fine, and they are going to escort him back.</span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">Flash to us. We get to the Happy Hobbit, and take over. Billen has a few words with the proprietor, money changes hands, and Billen is the proprietor for the night. Lana, pretending to be a innworker, answers the door with "What happened to you?"</span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">Celwyn again goes into his story, and repeats it when Billen, as worried innkeeper, shows up. They leave him with us, reminding him about his day in court on the morrow.</span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">Celwyn finds an awful surprise awaiting him at court. He is taken into custody. He asks to know why. It turns out the guy we beat up is a close, personal friend of Lurch. When they finally do show him his accuser, his answer is ready. "That's not him!"</span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">Since the guy never laid eyes on him, and the guards found us waiting to claim him at the Happy Hobbit, all they can do is take the rest of his money, and send him on his way. Wait, there's more.</span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">Remember that empty wharehouse we left Amber's remains in? It wasn't empty, or abandoned. It belonged to the Thieves Guild, and they want lots of money for the stinkbomb we left them. Lana bails him out. Wait, there's more.</span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">Celwyn and Lana want to find out what is going on at the mansion. Lana dresses as a peasant maid, while Celwyn wears a butler's uniform. You'd think after his numerous close calls he'd know better, but NOOO!</span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">No one is interested in Lana, more fools them, but Celwyn is another matter. The head honcho wants to see him. It ain't Lurch. Somebody starts playing around in his head. Daryl, that aggrevating sword, finally does something right. It seems he can go in people's heads, too. He tells the rest of us that he's in trouble. Now, the party really starts.</span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">By hook and crook, Celwyn gets out by going through a window, on the second story, after seeing what we're really up against. Panic sets in among all the other aspirants to domestic service due Celwyn's efforts to get free, and head for the gates out. Lana is mixed in with them. Floppy has Daryl change his form to a miniature Lurch, 'cause he can't do a full sized Lurch. He then teleports with me, Billen, the gnome, and the monk. The hobbit horde has to come the long way. More on them, later.</span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">Guards are everywhere, and they are firing crossbows. Celwyn is invisible, and featherfalling down. He makes a phantom of himself (I later learn) that draws his sword to back up against the wall. Lana is firing where she may, and is making for the porticullis wench. I follow suit once there. Lana almost skewers Floppy in disguise. Fighting is going on everywhere.</span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">Enter the glowing lions (hellcats). One starts chomping on Billen, and the other takes after the gnome. There are still guards up and firing. Floppy wins to Billen's side, just as he goes down. He puts a freeze on the thing, and the monk rips its throat out. I am firing on the one that is chomping on the gnome, but it doesn't seem to be doing any good. The monk grapples the thing, and between Lana and myself, we kill it. Somewhere in all this, we take out the rest of the guards. We do some healing, just in time to find Lurch, and what is left of the hobbit horde, ONE.</span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">Well, the monk grapples Lurch, and we kill him like we killed the blooming hellcat. Rather anticlimatic, isn't it. However, we now know he isn't the head honcho. Celwyn doesn't tell us until we are "safely" back at the Happy Hobbit.</span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue">That's why I'm laying here now, teeth chattering, in my bunk. It was gray, and had tentacles on its face. Oh lord, save me from an entrenched mindflayer. I can't help thinking what else it might have learned from Celwyn's mind. I think I'd rather take my chances with a whole church full of Lurches.</span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span></span></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span style="color: skyblue"></span> </span></span> </em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tickleberry, post: 108878, member: 1565"] [b]Continued travails of Tickleberry and Co.[/b] [I][SIZE=4][FONT=times new roman] [COLOR=skyblue] Well, we have the hobbit army following us, but we do not have a plan for getting back in the city. We discuss it along the way, and decide that we need to get across the river first. We sure don't want to do that under the watchful eyes of the city. We decide to angle some rope across the river, and slide across. Floppy and the halforc monk that we picked up teleport across. I personally think that the monk and the paladin belong to some secret order, and when one gets tired, he swaps out with another. I shoot an end across to them after we had tied off the other high up in a strong tree. We send the dogs across. No problem. We start sending the hobbit horde across, and this silver dragon swoops down and carries off one. Floppy has Daryl ask her why, and she "politely" responds "None of your business." Forgive me for thinking that having a Companion carried off is my business. We again set up, and continue crossing, without interference from silly dragons. We STILL don't have a plan for getting in. We debate forever until that blasted dragon shows back up. For a price, she'll deposit us in the city. Oh joy, trust a dragon that carried off one of ours? Well, I didn't have a better plan. Not with hellhounds prowling the base and watchers on the walls. We have to go in shifts, and somehow, the rope that carries Floppy and company breaks. They fall. Floppy survives. We then see that the rope didn't break, it was cut. There is some speculation that Daryl is responsible. Remind me that I Never want to rely on that thing for my safety. Now, we are back in the one place none of us really want to be, and we need a place to hide. Enter shady character. Lana talks to shady character. Shady character calls for guards. We dogpile him, and knock him unconscious. We split. Celwyn stays behind to confound the guards. I later hear the story he tells him, here it is: "I was minding my own business, pouring some water out the back door of the Happy Hobbit, and these guys yank me out, and pull me kicking and fighting down the street. I finally get them to let me go, and this is one of them." They tell him to show up tomorrow with a fine, and they are going to escort him back. Flash to us. We get to the Happy Hobbit, and take over. Billen has a few words with the proprietor, money changes hands, and Billen is the proprietor for the night. Lana, pretending to be a innworker, answers the door with "What happened to you?" Celwyn again goes into his story, and repeats it when Billen, as worried innkeeper, shows up. They leave him with us, reminding him about his day in court on the morrow. Celwyn finds an awful surprise awaiting him at court. He is taken into custody. He asks to know why. It turns out the guy we beat up is a close, personal friend of Lurch. When they finally do show him his accuser, his answer is ready. "That's not him!" Since the guy never laid eyes on him, and the guards found us waiting to claim him at the Happy Hobbit, all they can do is take the rest of his money, and send him on his way. Wait, there's more. Remember that empty wharehouse we left Amber's remains in? It wasn't empty, or abandoned. It belonged to the Thieves Guild, and they want lots of money for the stinkbomb we left them. Lana bails him out. Wait, there's more. Celwyn and Lana want to find out what is going on at the mansion. Lana dresses as a peasant maid, while Celwyn wears a butler's uniform. You'd think after his numerous close calls he'd know better, but NOOO! No one is interested in Lana, more fools them, but Celwyn is another matter. The head honcho wants to see him. It ain't Lurch. Somebody starts playing around in his head. Daryl, that aggrevating sword, finally does something right. It seems he can go in people's heads, too. He tells the rest of us that he's in trouble. Now, the party really starts. By hook and crook, Celwyn gets out by going through a window, on the second story, after seeing what we're really up against. Panic sets in among all the other aspirants to domestic service due Celwyn's efforts to get free, and head for the gates out. Lana is mixed in with them. Floppy has Daryl change his form to a miniature Lurch, 'cause he can't do a full sized Lurch. He then teleports with me, Billen, the gnome, and the monk. The hobbit horde has to come the long way. More on them, later. Guards are everywhere, and they are firing crossbows. Celwyn is invisible, and featherfalling down. He makes a phantom of himself (I later learn) that draws his sword to back up against the wall. Lana is firing where she may, and is making for the porticullis wench. I follow suit once there. Lana almost skewers Floppy in disguise. Fighting is going on everywhere. Enter the glowing lions (hellcats). One starts chomping on Billen, and the other takes after the gnome. There are still guards up and firing. Floppy wins to Billen's side, just as he goes down. He puts a freeze on the thing, and the monk rips its throat out. I am firing on the one that is chomping on the gnome, but it doesn't seem to be doing any good. The monk grapples the thing, and between Lana and myself, we kill it. Somewhere in all this, we take out the rest of the guards. We do some healing, just in time to find Lurch, and what is left of the hobbit horde, ONE. Well, the monk grapples Lurch, and we kill him like we killed the blooming hellcat. Rather anticlimatic, isn't it. However, we now know he isn't the head honcho. Celwyn doesn't tell us until we are "safely" back at the Happy Hobbit. That's why I'm laying here now, teeth chattering, in my bunk. It was gray, and had tentacles on its face. Oh lord, save me from an entrenched mindflayer. I can't help thinking what else it might have learned from Celwyn's mind. I think I'd rather take my chances with a whole church full of Lurches. [/COLOR] [/FONT][/SIZE][FONT=times new roman] [/font][/I][FONT=times new roman] [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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