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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 4076379" data-attributes="member: 3285">Madness in Freeport - Part 20: The Hall of Columns“I sure hope this plan works,” said Vlad.“This is the best time to strike,” whispered Ilmarė.  “There is no moon tonight; we should not have been spotted.”“It doesn’t matter,” said Kham.  “There’s a warrant out for our arrest.  We’re enemies of Freeport now, according to Drac.”  He spat on the ground in disgust.  The lighthouse was guarded by a roving patrol of four fast-moving ships full of marines, circling the island.  The lookouts that watched from within the lighthouse by day were not on duty at night. They approached in total darkness. “Does anyone else find it strange that there are no guards at night?” asked Beldin.“Whatever Drac’s doing up there, he doesn’t want any witnesses,” said Ilmarė.  “We can use that to our advantage.“Yes, we can,” said Kham, “but that involves everyone keeping their mouths shut.”  He craned his neck against a set of stone double doors.  Two great iron pull rings were fastened to the center of each door. “Those doors will make a lot of noise when you open them,” said Beldin.  Through the darkness he could make out an intricate relief on their surface, depicting the lighthouse shining streaks of light over the harbor.“That’s why we brought the elf along,” said Kham.  He nodded to her.Ilmarė whispered one word: “Dîn.”Even the crashing of the waves on the reef became silent.  Vlad and Beldin battered the door until the wood that barred the doors from the inside splintered apart.  It fell noiselessly to the ground.Kham made a gesture that the others should wait for him.  Then he slipped in and pressed himself to the wall. The second set of doors was not barred.  He peeked around the corner. Kham returned and pointed at his eyes with two fingers. Then he lifted four fingers.  He drew Fleshripper.  The others drew their weapons and followed behind him.To their right, four cultists stood around the foot of a staircase.  They were huddled around a crate, playing cards. Some imperials were scattered on the makeshift table.Kham stepped out of the cone of silence, only to plunge Fleshripper through the back of one of the cultists.  The cultist adjacent to him rose to retaliate, but a crossbow bolt shivered from his chest and he fell down. The third cultist stumbled backwards with a yelp, but an arrow in his throat cut off any further cries.The last cultist ran for the stairs, only to fell back down, a throwing axe in his back.Kham pointed up the steps and waved them on.  He followed up after them.A few seconds later, he came back and swept the imperials off of the crate.  Then he went back up the steps.</blockquote>

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