Success can be more of a state of mind than an actual goal
The party went to a tavern just up the road from the estate. The plan was for everyone to leave as soon as they heard the guards shouting that there was an intruder on the wall, Kem.
Kem had had enough with sneaking around these walls for one night. It's time to make sure these guys can't spot anything for a good week after we leave. He walked up to the western wall and called out to the guard up there. "Excuse me, I'm lost, have you seen a man named Thud around here?"
"Who are you, and state your business, you-" *THUD* the guard fell in mid sentence as Kem, who had jumped up the ten foot wall and nailed the guard with a quarterstaff between the eyes before the man could even react.
"Found him" said Kem to the now unconscious guard. "HEY MEATHEADS!" he called out "I'M BREAKING IN, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?" A group of men drew swords and started running across the walkways on the walls. Kem couldn't help but smile at the lack of planning. The wall walkway was so thin; no two of them could stand abreast of each other. It was like they were just lining up on both sides asking for injury and the archers couldn't fire for fear of hitting their own men in the cluster brawl that way sure to ensue. It was too perfect.
Kem felled each of them as they approached him. Guards so full of anger and eagerness were soon dropped in numbers to make their advancement impossible. Most of them were little more than thugs, hired muscle to look imposing but with no real training. Kem was slowly building a wall of fallen soldiers and the guards couldn't get past for fear of killing the merely unconscious men.
It was another couple of minutes the before he got the all clear signal from his party. With a flourish he jumped off the wall somersaulting off of it in mid-fall and launching himself 20 feet down the street. In his wake were a pile of some fifty guards and a host of angry swears.
Back on the ship Kem could immediately tell things hadn't gone as Solafien planned. Khalil was smiling and Omar and Sargazzo were biting their cheeks to keep themselves from doing the same. The half-drow looked very put out by something.
"Oh it was great" began Khalil when we got there there were a bunch of guards and this guy but we killed all them and Solafien got frozen in place by magic, and when I let the guy go he said he'd remember us and thank you and I thought Solafien would object but he didn't say anything 'cause he was still frozen and the guy picked up the two swords this other guy had and said he could get himself out and then we transported back and got you and we all met on the ship and here we are, do you think he'll rmemebr us, because it seems like it would be really good to have someone like him on our side and I think something's wrong because Solafien hasn't said anything the whole walk back and I think he mouth might be frozen but maybe not because I don't think you can do that with the spell, but wouldn't it be really neat if you could, so are you okay, did you get hurt making the distraction?"
At which point Khalil finally had to stop to take a breath again and Kem interjected to talk to Solafien. "So was the mission a success or a failure?"
"I don't know." he replied "I guess we'll find out when we see whether or not I wake up in the morning."
The party went to a tavern just up the road from the estate. The plan was for everyone to leave as soon as they heard the guards shouting that there was an intruder on the wall, Kem.
Kem had had enough with sneaking around these walls for one night. It's time to make sure these guys can't spot anything for a good week after we leave. He walked up to the western wall and called out to the guard up there. "Excuse me, I'm lost, have you seen a man named Thud around here?"
"Who are you, and state your business, you-" *THUD* the guard fell in mid sentence as Kem, who had jumped up the ten foot wall and nailed the guard with a quarterstaff between the eyes before the man could even react.
"Found him" said Kem to the now unconscious guard. "HEY MEATHEADS!" he called out "I'M BREAKING IN, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?" A group of men drew swords and started running across the walkways on the walls. Kem couldn't help but smile at the lack of planning. The wall walkway was so thin; no two of them could stand abreast of each other. It was like they were just lining up on both sides asking for injury and the archers couldn't fire for fear of hitting their own men in the cluster brawl that way sure to ensue. It was too perfect.
Kem felled each of them as they approached him. Guards so full of anger and eagerness were soon dropped in numbers to make their advancement impossible. Most of them were little more than thugs, hired muscle to look imposing but with no real training. Kem was slowly building a wall of fallen soldiers and the guards couldn't get past for fear of killing the merely unconscious men.
It was another couple of minutes the before he got the all clear signal from his party. With a flourish he jumped off the wall somersaulting off of it in mid-fall and launching himself 20 feet down the street. In his wake were a pile of some fifty guards and a host of angry swears.
Back on the ship Kem could immediately tell things hadn't gone as Solafien planned. Khalil was smiling and Omar and Sargazzo were biting their cheeks to keep themselves from doing the same. The half-drow looked very put out by something.
"Oh it was great" began Khalil when we got there there were a bunch of guards and this guy but we killed all them and Solafien got frozen in place by magic, and when I let the guy go he said he'd remember us and thank you and I thought Solafien would object but he didn't say anything 'cause he was still frozen and the guy picked up the two swords this other guy had and said he could get himself out and then we transported back and got you and we all met on the ship and here we are, do you think he'll rmemebr us, because it seems like it would be really good to have someone like him on our side and I think something's wrong because Solafien hasn't said anything the whole walk back and I think he mouth might be frozen but maybe not because I don't think you can do that with the spell, but wouldn't it be really neat if you could, so are you okay, did you get hurt making the distraction?"
At which point Khalil finally had to stop to take a breath again and Kem interjected to talk to Solafien. "So was the mission a success or a failure?"
"I don't know." he replied "I guess we'll find out when we see whether or not I wake up in the morning."