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<blockquote data-quote="Tormyr" data-source="post: 7408198" data-attributes="member: 6776887"><p>Zed charged down the stairs. He had a score to settle with the lantern archon. His axe sliced through the archon, but it reformed, the floating ball of light only partially affected by the ax blade. The others started to attack Shealis and her familiar with limited success, and Shealis' component pouch lay unnoticed on the floor. Shealis grabbed the pouch and began to cast a <em>fireball</em>, but Diogenes, having dissipated his <em>fog cloud</em> ran up the stairs and stopped her just in time with a <em>counterspell</em>, exhorting Shealis to stand down. Shealis barked back to Diogenes to stay out of this as the combat continued. The heroes were landing blows, but the elven war mage was skilled in surviving close quarter combat. As she tried to fire off another <em>fireball</em>, Diogenes once again managed to stop her with <em>counterspell</em> before warning the party, "I can't do that again, guys!"</p><p></p><p>Finally, the heroes were wearing Shealis down, but she dropped a fireball at her feet, wrapping herself and her familiar in pockets of clean air. The effect was devastating, and Zed and D'buld fell unconscious. Byron's Tiefling heritage saved him from a similar fate, while Torrent and Dro'Marri ducked behind the railing of the stairways. Trinja, having searched the dorm room, had clambered out the window, fell on her face, got up, ran across the quad, and sprinted up the stairs. She arrived in time to <em>hex</em>, Shealis, making her clumsy. Shealis sent her familiar to go warn "the others" and made to escape herself, but she was surrounded. She held of attacks from all sides and cast <em>invisibility</em> on herself. A solid snap from D'bulds whip connected and broke Shealis' concentration on <em>invisibility</em>. She drank a potion of <em>fly</em> rose above the heroes' heads to escape through the same window her familiar exited. As she flew over Zed, he grabbed her ankle and held on. Dro'Marri followed, jumping up and grabbing on the other ankle. Shealis was unable to escape and blasted Zed and Dro'Marri with <em>magic missile</em>, nearly knocking them both out. However the held on, and Byron leapt up and knocked her out with the pommel of his sword.</p><p></p><p>D'buld quickly tied Shealis up which was good as she quickly awoke again. They removed her valuables including her spellbook, componenet pouch, 8 healing potions, and 10pp in Shahalesti coinage before starting to interrogate her. The interrogation go nowhere with Shealis as she would not deign "the base races" as her equals for talking, and she was getting annoyed at Diogenes' repeated failed attempts to use <em>charm person</em> on her. It was not until Trinja started talking to her in Elvish and asked everyone else to give them space that she was able to make headway with Shealis. Eventually Shealis agreed to take the party to her hideout and view the contents of the case, but the intel would still head back to the Shahalesti empire. However, her familiar was already heading to the hideout, and Shealis imagined that her compatriots would soon try to leave the city.</p><p></p><p>Trinja walked over to tell the rest of the party the deal and then had the idea to search Shealis, dorm room one more time. She had been looking for the case and Shealis, spellbook originally, but maybe there was more to find. She said she needed to grab something from her room before bolting down the stairs, sprinting across the quad, and falling through the window again. A more thorough search of the room found some notes showing the location of the Shahalesti safe house as well as a code word of some sort. She fell through the window, sprinted across the quad, and bolted up the stairs, arriving out of breath. After briefing the party, they decided that they had enough info to go directly as a backup plan, but they should try to go with Shealis as an attempt to avoid future issues with the Shahalesti empire.</p><p></p><p>Shealis asks for her equipment back but allows those who need it to drink a healing potion and leaves her component pouch with Byron as a gesture of goodwill. A crowd of people had gathered around the gates of the school to protest the presence of the wizards. So Diogenes showed let the party out through an underground tunnel that led into a nearby alley. Shealis leads the party through two inter-district gates and, after ensuring no passerby is watching, opens a secret door into the Elvish ghetto in this district. Everything matches the pilfered notes as she leads them to a side door on a carpentry shop, but Dro'Marri notices a raven following the party.</p><p></p><p>Before proceeding she reiterates the terms that everyone can see the intelligence, but they cannot take it, and she asks for their agreement. Everyone agrees, but D'buld is hiding the fact that he is more than willing to double-cross her and take the intelligence. In the end, Zed and D'buld fail to convince her that their intentions are true, and she asks them to stay outside. Dro'Marri asks Shealis about the raven, and she expresses worry that someone is following them, but the raven is no longer visible. After manipulating the figures in a carving on the wall, a door opens, and everyone except Zed and D'buld enters the shop. They walk past a group of 5 celestial badgers, their coats shining with metallic hues of silver and gold. Trinja plays with them and tries to get them to follow her, and one follows her as the party is led upstairs. A trio of Shahalesti soldiers scrambles to their feet, anticipating a fight, but Shealis tells them to stand down.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, a rat approaches Zed and D'buld outside. They are surprised when it speaks, "Hey, I know your friends are going in there to get a case filled with Ragesian intelligence. The Ragesians summoned me to retrieve the case, but the letter of my contract only means that I have to retrieve the case, not the intelligence. We can help each other get what we want. What do you say?" After confirming that he was also the raven that Dro'Marri had seen, D'buld agrees. He memorized the movements required to open the secret door, and he lets the rat inside.</p><p></p><p>Almost instantly, the badgers notice the rat's presence and start hissing. The rat says, "Oh boy," and everyone upstairs hears the noise, the Shahalesti going for their weapons. A look of contempt crosses Shealis' face as she regards the members of the party who are upstairs with her...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tormyr, post: 7408198, member: 6776887"] Zed charged down the stairs. He had a score to settle with the lantern archon. His axe sliced through the archon, but it reformed, the floating ball of light only partially affected by the ax blade. The others started to attack Shealis and her familiar with limited success, and Shealis' component pouch lay unnoticed on the floor. Shealis grabbed the pouch and began to cast a [I]fireball[/I], but Diogenes, having dissipated his [I]fog cloud[/I] ran up the stairs and stopped her just in time with a [I]counterspell[/I], exhorting Shealis to stand down. Shealis barked back to Diogenes to stay out of this as the combat continued. The heroes were landing blows, but the elven war mage was skilled in surviving close quarter combat. As she tried to fire off another [I]fireball[/I], Diogenes once again managed to stop her with [I]counterspell[/I] before warning the party, "I can't do that again, guys!" Finally, the heroes were wearing Shealis down, but she dropped a fireball at her feet, wrapping herself and her familiar in pockets of clean air. The effect was devastating, and Zed and D'buld fell unconscious. Byron's Tiefling heritage saved him from a similar fate, while Torrent and Dro'Marri ducked behind the railing of the stairways. Trinja, having searched the dorm room, had clambered out the window, fell on her face, got up, ran across the quad, and sprinted up the stairs. She arrived in time to [I]hex[/I], Shealis, making her clumsy. Shealis sent her familiar to go warn "the others" and made to escape herself, but she was surrounded. She held of attacks from all sides and cast [I]invisibility[/I] on herself. A solid snap from D'bulds whip connected and broke Shealis' concentration on [I]invisibility[/I]. She drank a potion of [I]fly[/I] rose above the heroes' heads to escape through the same window her familiar exited. As she flew over Zed, he grabbed her ankle and held on. Dro'Marri followed, jumping up and grabbing on the other ankle. Shealis was unable to escape and blasted Zed and Dro'Marri with [I]magic missile[/I], nearly knocking them both out. However the held on, and Byron leapt up and knocked her out with the pommel of his sword. D'buld quickly tied Shealis up which was good as she quickly awoke again. They removed her valuables including her spellbook, componenet pouch, 8 healing potions, and 10pp in Shahalesti coinage before starting to interrogate her. The interrogation go nowhere with Shealis as she would not deign "the base races" as her equals for talking, and she was getting annoyed at Diogenes' repeated failed attempts to use [I]charm person[/I] on her. It was not until Trinja started talking to her in Elvish and asked everyone else to give them space that she was able to make headway with Shealis. Eventually Shealis agreed to take the party to her hideout and view the contents of the case, but the intel would still head back to the Shahalesti empire. However, her familiar was already heading to the hideout, and Shealis imagined that her compatriots would soon try to leave the city. Trinja walked over to tell the rest of the party the deal and then had the idea to search Shealis, dorm room one more time. She had been looking for the case and Shealis, spellbook originally, but maybe there was more to find. She said she needed to grab something from her room before bolting down the stairs, sprinting across the quad, and falling through the window again. A more thorough search of the room found some notes showing the location of the Shahalesti safe house as well as a code word of some sort. She fell through the window, sprinted across the quad, and bolted up the stairs, arriving out of breath. After briefing the party, they decided that they had enough info to go directly as a backup plan, but they should try to go with Shealis as an attempt to avoid future issues with the Shahalesti empire. Shealis asks for her equipment back but allows those who need it to drink a healing potion and leaves her component pouch with Byron as a gesture of goodwill. A crowd of people had gathered around the gates of the school to protest the presence of the wizards. So Diogenes showed let the party out through an underground tunnel that led into a nearby alley. Shealis leads the party through two inter-district gates and, after ensuring no passerby is watching, opens a secret door into the Elvish ghetto in this district. Everything matches the pilfered notes as she leads them to a side door on a carpentry shop, but Dro'Marri notices a raven following the party. Before proceeding she reiterates the terms that everyone can see the intelligence, but they cannot take it, and she asks for their agreement. Everyone agrees, but D'buld is hiding the fact that he is more than willing to double-cross her and take the intelligence. In the end, Zed and D'buld fail to convince her that their intentions are true, and she asks them to stay outside. Dro'Marri asks Shealis about the raven, and she expresses worry that someone is following them, but the raven is no longer visible. After manipulating the figures in a carving on the wall, a door opens, and everyone except Zed and D'buld enters the shop. They walk past a group of 5 celestial badgers, their coats shining with metallic hues of silver and gold. Trinja plays with them and tries to get them to follow her, and one follows her as the party is led upstairs. A trio of Shahalesti soldiers scrambles to their feet, anticipating a fight, but Shealis tells them to stand down. Meanwhile, a rat approaches Zed and D'buld outside. They are surprised when it speaks, "Hey, I know your friends are going in there to get a case filled with Ragesian intelligence. The Ragesians summoned me to retrieve the case, but the letter of my contract only means that I have to retrieve the case, not the intelligence. We can help each other get what we want. What do you say?" After confirming that he was also the raven that Dro'Marri had seen, D'buld agrees. He memorized the movements required to open the secret door, and he lets the rat inside. Almost instantly, the badgers notice the rat's presence and start hissing. The rat says, "Oh boy," and everyone upstairs hears the noise, the Shahalesti going for their weapons. A look of contempt crosses Shealis' face as she regards the members of the party who are upstairs with her... [/QUOTE]
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