Final words...

[ajanders]

James nods and details the two wounded watchmen to guard the skytruck.
They seem a little skeptical that anyone would try to steal it when it's ten feet in the air, but they accept his orders.

Kae decides to guard the entrance to the compound.
"I'm behind you boys all the way. Good luck storming the office!!"

James and the other three watchmen form up in a wedge behind Rethlin and Zook and wait for them to lead the charge into the building.

 

[Moggthegob]

Zook looks very nervously around. He looks up at Rethlin and says I am very frightened. This isn't what I signed up for. I am a librarian for Aureon's sake sake!! But, that poor warforged is counting on us. I never knew i was capable of such bravery. Zook, spent both physically and magically draws his light crossbow, cocks a bolt and gets behind Rethlin as they lead the way.

 

[ajanders]

James pats Zook on the back.
"'Just a librarian from Zhilargo'...that's good. I promise not to blow your cover."

He taps the side of his nose with his non-rapier holding hand.

 

[JRYoung]

"Can you sing us another song James, I really liked the last one?" Rethlin says to James as he prepares to cast his final ward.

"Stand aside everyone, in case bolts come flying through when I open the door. Sedar, do you want my final protective ward rather than it being placed on me? Which of us will take the point position?"

 

[ajanders]

James fingers his rapier lovingly.
"No promises on the singing, Rethlin. I want to tell Manticore a few things before I kill him."
The watch appears quite happy to stay behind the Rethlin and Zook the Terrible. For all his bloodthirsty talk, James is hardly eager to take point himself.

 

[Kaodi]

Sedar ponders for a moment. " I think you should use it to protect yourself, Rethlin. If it comes down to a shooting war, I am better able to attack from a distance, which means you will have to charge the enemy and possibly take the brunt of their attacks, " he says.

 

[JRYoung]

"Very well." responds Rethlin "Prepare yourselves then, this is it." Rethlin opens the door with arm fully extended and takes total cover to one side of the now-open door. He then waits a few counts.

If it is dark in there he wants to do something about lighting. He will reach into his pack and pulls out a sunrod, lights it, and tosses it in 30 feet. He then casts Protection From Evil on himself and leads the charge in (20 foot move straight in).

If the room is lit he just casts Protection From Evil on himself and leads the charge in (20 foot move straight in).

 

[ajanders]

It's dim, but not dark- you'd want a light to read, but you can see people.
Well, if there were any to see.

The 20 foot charge takes you through the outer door, down the hall, past a door on the left and a door on the right, through an open doorway, and into a room that looks like an office: writing desks, cabinets, a pair of armchairs for visitors, a stairway up in the back.
It looks like there was a short fight here: papers are scattered, the cabinet doors are hanging open, and there are some bloodstains. One of Manticore's triple-edged bolts in the wall indicates who one side of the fighting was.

A watchman steps back to investigate the doors you passed: one proves to lead to a coat closet, the other to a bathroom.
A man is bound, gagged, and sapped in the bathroom. He's wearing a security guard uniform.

 

[Kaodi]

" I am going to guess that since they have not killed him already, they are not likely to do so in the future, so though we may prefer otherwise, we must keep going, " says Sedar.

Pointing to the stairway, he says, " Let's go. "

 

[JRYoung]

Rethlin AC21 vs evil, 10 HP

Rethlin scoops up his sunrod. "Yes, let's go" Rethlin responds. We proceed rapidly up the stairs.

OOC: 9 round remaining on Protection From Evil