D&D 5E [IC] Creamsteak's Princes of Elemental Evil

[Creamsteak]

Dent kills the priest.

Maighan kills the witch.

The party is... probably out of combat.

The red hatted gnome speaks first, "Thank you, that's twice you've bailed me out of some uncouth situation."

 

[Steve Gorak]

Thaliss comes back to where Carradoc is and mutters a few arcane words, and seeing a seemingly friendly gnome, he bows his head in greeting and inquires "Greetings friend. I am Thaliss. When was this first time we helped you, assuming now is the second? And tell me were you the illusionist inside the inn?"

OOC: Persuasion [roll0] plus guidance [roll1]

 

[Creamsteak]

The gnome tips his hat, his skin seemingly flaking off in an authentic seeming way, "Ah, the performance. The 'grim guzzler'. Not my finest work, though at least in the past it has served as a meaningful distraction. The first time you helped me was just a short time ago in that pyramid over there. Poor Dara... lost her mind down here. Kept me around as her play-thing ever while she cavorted with that 'Prince' she was so fond of bringing up. I don't know what became of her, but I took the opportunity to flee. Sadly, seems I ran into some trouble that thought to coerce me further, but it doesn't seem they will be troubling me any more."

 

[Steve Gorak]

"Well, we are glad we could be of service" Thaliss bows with genuine noble decorum. "I am curious about this prince you mention, can you tell me more about him, Dara's involvement, and how you believe she lost her mind?"

OOC: I'll lay off the questions for a bit to allow the other players to interact with him

 

[Creamsteak]

He taps his feet on the ground as if to shake something off.

"When I met her, she seemed the innocent type. Isolated. Rich. Kept like a prize on her father's mantle. She loved her stories of faeries and knights. I thought I was the one leading her, but she turned things around on me. She started gathering followers... ascetics, knights, crows. Then we came here... to the ruins below. She pulled up that spear from some bloody alter on the level below this one and started calling herself a queen. Then we went deeper... the level below the temple. She opened some kind of portal, or maybe it was already there. The 'Prince of Air' she called the voice on the other side. She treated it like they were already lovers. Explains some of her affectations, always dreamy eyed and whispering in her sleep. I was just a puppet to get her away from her father, I think. I thought myself the performer, the deceiver, the ventriloquist... but I was the dummy."

 

[Steve Gorak]

Telepathically, to his companions only, Thaliss says It seems we have found Snowflake Dara Algwynenn Kalinoth as well as her half-elf lover Harald Grayspear. It might make sense to bring the body back to waterdeep and resurrect her, as 10,000 gold piece is a hefty sum!

OOC: I couldn't find it anywhere, and couldn't remember, but I'm assuming that the original contract is 1000 gold, right? Hence my 10K (10x) to bring her back

 

[Creamsteak]

OOC: I couldn't find it anywhere, and couldn't remember, but I'm assuming that the original contract is 1000 gold, right? Hence my 10K (10x) to bring her back

OOC: Yes.

 

[Shayuri]

Maighan listens to the gnome's story with a typically stony face, betraying little of what she thought and nothing of what she felt.

It was a nice story, but it felt a little...exculpatory, didn't it? Oh, it's all this 'princes's fault.

(insight! [roll0])

 

[Creamsteak]

[sblock=Maighan]You get that this particular character is quite the actor and would gladly sell his mother into slavery if it earned him a silver; arrogant, haughty, and enjoys the performance. That said, there's nothing specific that sounds absolutely untrue... he's just that smarmy, condescending, narcissistic kind of person that believes all of his own stories and they change shape like water filling a glass.[/sblock]

 

[Kobold Stew]

Carradoc heads back towards the gnome, and listens to the conversation.

When he has a chance, he points to the sleeping monk. "He'll be waking any second."

He goes over to him, and prepares a coup de grace. "Someone give me some help, here?" he asks gruffly.

OOC: Sorry-- I should have been clearer before. I have no particular interest in interviewing this monk, but if others do, then let's go for it. If not, then we should kill him, and the Wizard Carradoc can't do enough damage on a crit to come close. He can pin him though, and there's advantage, etc. if someone wants to help.