Eyes Of The Lich Queen

[jkason]

Brother Donovan, human cleric

"Injured throat would work, but we need to get moving up the path now if we are doing this." Ari looks expectant of trouble.

Donovan looks to the setting sun.

"Problem: Aern can take a lizardfolk's form, but not its darkvision. If we fall back on our 'prisoner' ruse, he could carry a light source pretending it's so we won't keep tripping over ourselves. It also helps mark the trail for those sneaking along."

The cleric pulls out a sunrod and bangs it on his armored chest to light it.

"Now or never, folks. Let's get moving.

 

[DEFCON 1]

The two lizardfolk prisoners are quickly knocked out and left tied up in the bushes as the group prepares to get moving.

There are many ways bluffing their way to the temple is not really going to work... but the hope is that the group confuses any potential arrivals just long enough to take them by surprise. As a result, with Aern disguised as the poison dusk lizardfolk and carrying the sunrod, he leads Ari and Horatio who are playing the part of "prisoners". Their hands are "tied" in front of them to add to the illusion, but they keep their weapons on them (albeit behind their backs as much as possible). The other four (Rogan, Jina, Jango, & Khalia) follow along behind in the underbrush as quietly as possible, slightly out of the main circle of light, but close enough to not trip over themselves as they move.

The party moves forward up the trail... and it turns out that Jango's fears are unfounded, they do not run into any other patrols along the way. When they near the place where he saw the huts, Rogan lets out a low whistle to signal everyone, and the group stops. The glowing end of the sunrod is quickly put underneath a helm to lessen it's light, and the group quietly decides what to do next.

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Rogan moves forward silently to scout up ahead and returns with this information. The temple area does seem to be on alert... he's seen many pairs of lizardfolk walking patrols around the temple grounds. Five sets of the 9' blackscales, and two sets of the smaller poison dusks (however, as the poison dusks are more scouts that guards, there might be more in the area actually hiding and ready to go for surprise attacks). Rogan also sees a large wooden cage, wherein is housed a four-armed, white-furred ape like creature (which Khalia identifies as a girallon). The girallon does not seem to be very happy to be caged up.

If anyone inside the temple building itself is on alert, they are not making it obvious from anyone on the outside.

Party is located at the P, girallon cage is next to furthest-left hut in the left side bunch. The patrols are all walking in various circles around the huts and the temple itself. A more in-depth map with gridlines will be given once it's decided what/where the group is doing first.

 

[jkason]

Brother Donovan, human cleric

When they near the place where he saw the huts, Rogan lets out a low whistle to signal everyone, and the group stops. The glowing end of the sunrod is quickly put underneath a helm to lessen it's light, and the group quietly decides what to do next.

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Rogan moves forward silently to scout up ahead and returns with this information. The temple area does seem to be on alert... he's seen many pairs of lizardfolk walking patrols around the temple grounds. Five sets of the 9' blackscales, and two sets of the smaller poison dusks (however, as the poison dusks are more scouts that guards, there might be more in the area actually hiding and ready to go for surprise attacks). Rogan also sees a large wooden cage, wherein is housed a four-armed, white-furred ape like creature (which Khalia identifies as a girallon). The girallon does not seem to be very happy to be caged up.

"If we're looking for a distraction, that beast seems a good chance. If we let it loose and put ourselves in another aura of silence, we might be able to sneak past while the guards are busy with the hopefully ongoing chaos," Donovan suggest.

 

[Velmont]

"Not a bad idea, but how could we open the cage without being detected?" asks Jango. "Also, it would be bad if he ends against us."

 

[Mista Collins]

"Not a bad idea, but how could we open the cage without being detected?" asks Jango. "Also, it would be bad if he ends against us."

"I may be able to sneak my way to the cage and open it up without being detected," Rogan say in response. "It should buy us sometime and a considerable distraction."

 

[drothgery]

"Not a bad idea, but how could we open the cage without being detected?" asks Jango. "Also, it would be bad if he ends against us."

"I know a few things about the girallon that could prove useful should it turn hostile." Khalia said.

 

[stonegod]

"Anything to distract and turn their attention from us would be a good thing. If we can concentrate them in an area, does anyone have a means of taking out a group and once?"

 

[Velmont]

"Rogan, if you open the cage, you'll be the first one in the Girallon's path of carnage if he decide to go berserk as we hope. What if I fire a magic missile from some cover at the lock of the cage. Less subtle, but they will probably split there force between us and teh Girallon, which mean the Girallon will be free more time and we will have less on us." suggests Jango

 

[stonegod]

Ari rubs his temples. "None of you have means of opening it from afar magically?"

 

[Velmont]

"I don't think anyone of us is powerfull enough to open a lock from distance with subtility. Some wizard of my power could open the lock with magic, but the caster need to touch the lock to affect it. But a magic missile might damage it" explains Jango "And I have no spell that could wipe out a whole group, but I can blind them with a cloud of glimmering dust. It is not subtle, but invisible target are highligthed and it become almost impossible for them to hide. It could be intersting against poison dusk lizardfolks."