CLOSED! Rhun's Greyhawk OMEGA Game (ToEE)

[CanadienneBacon]

Jinx pales at the thoughts of slow dissection planted by Ciaran. The gnome's head begins to whirr and Jinx's ears ring. Feeling faint, Jinx replies to Ciaran. "Tie 'em up? I'm only doing it because Aeron suggested it." Jinx removes his foot from its perch on the chest of a dead bandit and steps backward away from the corpse. "I'd just as soon stick a dagger in each of 'em's heart and not waste the rope or the healing, were it me. This kindness stuff is extra work. But Aeron wished it so and I'm willing to entertain his whimsy."

At the sound of footsteps outside the tower, Jinx runs and hides behind the low wall. Only once Shoon enters and speaks to identify himself does the small gnome pop up from behind the wall, cackling madly with fear. "Demons, bandits, dire flails. Oh my, Bauble, what have we gotten ourselves into this time?" Out loud, Jinx stops tittering and helps Shoon with the manacles. The gnome is a veritable expert in the devices' function and application. "Thank the Maker you're back, Shoon. We were all starting to wonder."

 

[Rhun]

Ciaran snorts. "That is just a children's fable. Once the demons rend and digest your soul, you cease to exist and stop suffering."

The archer doesn't seem taken aback much by Ciaran's comments. "Well, be that as it may...I'd rather not have my soul sucked out by a demon from the Pits." The archer shrugs his shoulders. "And who knows what other horrors await you in the darkness of the Temple. You may have beaten the lot o' us, but we are just a bunch of nogoodnicks with little training. Continue on your path, and you WILL die."

 

[Strahd_Von_Zarovich]

Zirat

Silence you Son of a Dretch!
Say Zirat and gives the bandit a loud painful slap to the nape.
We could here you babbling as far as the captain's room
The Champion turns to the others.
We found a hidden shaft, descending down into the earth, I blocked the trap door with a bed and a desk.
What are we going to do now?

 

[Voadam]

Ciaran then turns to Jinx. "Do we need anything more from these people? I begin to think that binding them is superfluous. Undoubtedly the priests know to expect us, and if there is nothing more to gain with their incapacitation, we should simply carry on. Of course, I would not want these cowards to become nuisances later on. Unfortunately, I must ask: is there some compelling reason not to kill them? Where is Shoon, in any case? Is that all we miss right now?"

"Compelling reason? I offered them surrender, they submitted. Besides, lord Krane can draw secrets they didn't know they had when he gets his hands on them."

 

[Dichotomy]

Aeron follows Zirat back to the others. The cleric looks sullen and he darts Jinx a glance of reproval upon hearing his comments. He nods in response to Merrick's assertion.

"He is, of course, correct. But let us decide our next move. Blocking that man into his trapdoor will only help if it does not lead to some other exit. There are several paths we could take. Which one is the question."

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Jinx point at the doors in the tower. "Through them doors, these here archers say, is what leads to 'priest of elemental nature,' clerics powerful enough to summon and entrance a demon to do their bidding. That's what gets my choice as to where to head next, but I'm for following after you if it's down the hidden shaft. Six of one, half dozen of another." Jinx shrugs, his beady eyes darting from face to face. Or home to the Wench and a warm pillow and a cold cider. Maybe if I just put in with that, they'll agr-- One look at the fury in both Merrick and Zirat's eyes and Jinx gives up all hope of meeting with a warm pillow this day.

 

[Dire Lemming]

When Jinx pops out from behind the wall, there's a loud chorus of clanging sounds as Shoon drops the manacles and goes into a defensive stance, only to calm down a second later when he realizes who it is. "Goodness little one, don't hide as if waiting to ambush me like that!" As he and the gnome go about restraining the bandits he listens with no small amount of confusion the the continuation of the conversation started after he left. "Well why don't we ask him then?" he asks Aeron, nodding at the talkative archer.

OOC: By the way, they're masterwork manacles

 

[InVinoVeritas]

"Compelling reason? I offered them surrender, they submitted. Besides, lord Krane can draw secrets they didn't know they had when he gets his hands on them."

Ciaran nods to Sir Merrick. "That is a good reason. How do you plan on getting them back to Lord Krane, and how long will we need to monitor them in the meantime?"

 

[Dire Lemming]

Shoon frowns "Well assuming that the shaft leads into the temple, which would make sense, then the priests likely already know of our presence. They probably expect us to take that shaft and immediately pursue the one that escaped. If that is so then they would probably be lying in wait for us. What else have you been able to learn while I was away?"

 

[Rhun]

The archer shakes his head as Jinx speaks. "No, not the doors in the tower. Those just lead to bedrooms. The side doors of the Temple, that's what I'm talking about. You can't get in the main door...nobody can approach it. It is warded, or some such thing."