CLOSED! Rhun's Greyhawk OMEGA Game (ToEE)

[Dire Lemming]

Shoon is about to answer Jinx but Aeron beats him to it. "I do not think I could have given a better answer. I will retrieve some manacles the for them."

OOC: Shoon brings the manacles.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Jinx shakes his head sorrowfully and tsks to himself. "Healing bandits. What's next, Bauble? Maybe we'll be inviting an ogre to supper." Pursing his lips at the retreating back of Aeron, Jinx puts his small booted foot on the torso of one of the nearby unconscious bandits and calls for rope. "Anybody got a length of twine? I haven't any. I'll hogtie them 'til the monk gets back with the handcuffs." If handed a bit of rope, Jinx will proceed to tie up the villainous curs.

Use rope +2.

 

[InVinoVeritas]

Ciaran looks around at the bandits. "Fine, tie them. The archers have proven useful."

He grins at Jinx. "Ogres can make good dinner guests. The particular patterns by which they discard the bones of their meals can tell you much about their caste."

He sniffs the air, looking carefully at the door the captain ran through. "If there is no way out through there, then he is waiting to entrap us. What else is in that room, archers? Have you ever been in there? What happens in there?" He stops, and his eyes glass over for a moment to make way for a passing thought. "And who of the four of you desire freedom the most? We could make it happen for performing a simple favor..."

 

[Voadam]

Sir Merrick turns to the bandits "Do not move. And know that though Pelorians may value redemption and mercy, I am no priest of Pelor nor subject to their commands. I have come here to put evil to the sword and care not whether any are redeemed so long as the evil is stopped. I have accepted your surrender, but any betrayal on your part will unleash my full wrath. Are there any others here besides your leader?"

 

[Rhun]

The talkative archer shakes his head. "No, just the Captain! That door leads to his room. Not much in there 'sides some furniture and such." After a few moments thought, the man continues. "There's some more of our group to the north, in the woods...but not many. We stable the horses there. And 'course, theres them that live in the Temple."

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Jinx looks up from his booted perch on one of the bandits. "'Them that live in the Temple'? Who're they?" At a low growl from Bauble, Jinx frowns. "Shhh! Mangy beast!" Raising his voice a notch in desperation, Jinx looks from Merrick to Ciaran to Deren. "Does no one have a bit of rope? Scandalous!"

 

[Dog Moon]

"Never had much need for rope," Deren admits. Grabbing the last dagger, he wipes it on the cloth of a fallen soldier before resheathing it. "Kill or be kill is how I lived. Not particularly enjoyable, but you get used to it after a while."

He pauses for a moment. "Wait, there's people to the north? Where?" he asks the archer. To the others: "I don't want to continue until I know that the exit is safe. Fleeing one group of denizens to encounter more at the exit is not something I wish to go through again." He winces as if he's said too much.

 

[Rhun]

The archer continues to answer your questions. "In the woods t' the north, yes. An old cottage, no more than a quarter mile away. Its got a barn that we use fer horses."

The man shifts his gaze to Jinx. "Them that live in the Temple are bad sorts. Priests of the elemental powers and their followers. The Temple leaders. I'd stay away from there. Nothin' but death awaits you there."

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Jinx snorts in derision to hide his fear. "Priests of elemental power, you say? And this tower here, what does it house? What is a veritable company of brigands doing in a ramshackle tower in the back woods? Haven't you a family, man? What of your wife, your child, your mother? For shame!"

Jinx casts a look around the tower, trying to place its age in comparison to the temple. Knowledge (architecture/engineering) +10. Which was built first, the tower or the temple? By the tower's exterior and interior design, what is its function? ie: does it or did it once house a wizard, or is more military in structure?

 

[Rhun]

The archers seems somewhat abashed by Jinx' scolding. "Well, I've got me a sister what lives near Greyhawk City. My mum and dad are long dead. And I never married." The man smiles at the gnome, showing his missing and blackened teeth. "This tower is just a place to stay 'tween raids. The priests pay us, and the best of the best go to serve them in the Temple."


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Jinx can tell that the tower was built about the same time as the Temple proper. It appears to be one of the four towers flanking a curtain wall that once provided the Temple compound its first layer of defense. The other three towers and the walls have since been completely torn down, and it is probably the rubble from those that is scattered across the area. Jinx is confident that the tower's function was one of defense...it most like never housed a wizard or such.

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