Insight's "The Isle of Dread" - Chapter One

[Leif]

Questor, Halfling Chaos Sorcerer 6

"Let me see now...." Questor cups his hand around his chin and his brow furrows deeply as he thinks as hard as he can about the problem.

OOC: Questor has been living here for a couple of years now. Does he have an idea about a good safe place to go? Perhaps a (Good) Wizard's Guild, or a big library, or maybe even someplace better than either of those?

 

[Scotley]

"Let's slip away. That's too many for a frontal assault. Maybe we can get them to break up into smaller groups to look for us. Sir Gnome, I would hear more of your travels, but the streets are not safe just now. Did you learn anything of stealth?"

 

[Rhun]

"No place in the city is safe from the Veiled Society," says Vrashek. "They have operatives everywhere. We may be able to evade them temporarily, but out best chance to to get out of the city as quickly as possible."

 

[stonegod]

The mage suggests we leave from the back of the Mead. Return there; I shall see what I can do here.

Skaros then goes to a nearby clutch of passerby's while pulling something from his cloak. He 'accidently' bumps into on of the.

Oh! Sorry! Those that new Skaros would hardly recognize he tone of voice, less slick and refined and more common. Almost dropped my free potion. Some healers from the Temples are given them away, must be a holy day of something. Can't believe it! Luckily I was at the bookstore today! Seemingly beaming at his prize, he pushes his way through, making for the Mead (and hopefully a rear exit) before he can see if his handiwork bore fruit.

OOC: Use Bluff to cause a distraction in front of the store. Bluff: 26

 

[Insight]

OOC: Sorry, maybe I misunderstood you, but it sounded like the half of us is going through a secret passage to a location unknown to the others and the others (the Adam-group) isn't able to enter the book store because of the minions (and don't know of the secret escape tunnel). Also the distance that can be between the wizard and her familiar isn't infinite.

OOC: Right. All the "outside group" knows (now, see JustKim's post) is that there is a secret passage within the book shop.

OOC: Any clue how we can get the group together without having to fight? The entrance size was important for the possibility to enter the building mounted.

OOC: OK I LOL'd at this a bit. No, Adam cannot get his giant tiger through the door to the book shop. In terms of getting both groups together again, getting through 30-40 Veiled Society thugs is probably NOT the best way to handle this. It's probably best to try something else first.

OOC: Any possibility for the bookstore-group to contact the others later? It would be a bit uncharacteristic for Adam to just leave the others behind in a 'sieged building'.

OOC: See above. It is possible to reunite everyone without fighting all those guys. It's up to the players to figure out how.

 

[Insight]

"Let me see now...." Questor cups his hand around his chin and his brow furrows deeply as he thinks as hard as he can about the problem.

OOC: Questor has been living here for a couple of years now. Does he have an idea about a good safe place to go? Perhaps a (Good) Wizard's Guild, or a big library, or maybe even someplace better than either of those?

OOC: Have Questor make a Streetwise check with a +2 circumstance bonus (for having lived in Specularum for a while).

 

[Insight]

The mage suggests we leave from the back of the Mead. Return there; I shall see what I can do here.

Skaros then goes to a nearby clutch of passerby's while pulling something from his cloak. He 'accidently' bumps into on of the.

Oh! Sorry! Those that new Skaros would hardly recognize he tone of voice, less slick and refined and more common. Almost dropped my free potion. Some healers from the Temples are given them away, must be a holy day of something. Can't believe it! Luckily I was at the bookstore today! Seemingly beaming at his prize, he pushes his way through, making for the Mead (and hopefully a rear exit) before he can see if his handiwork bore fruit.

OOC: Use Bluff to cause a distraction in front of the store. Bluff: 26

OOC: I am pretty confused by this. Where is Skaros? What is this Mead place? Are you talking about the Hog's Breath Inn? Is this just another place you made up (which is fine, I just want to clarify)? I am going to assume that Skaros is trying to bluff the men in front of Boloum's Books.

The man Skaros bumps, a surly half-orc with an eyepatch, barely notices the mage. "Begone! I've work to do!"

The half-orc brandishes a halberd and points it generally at Skaros. The mage gets the sense that continuing towards Boloum's Books would be a bad idea.

 

[stonegod]

[sblock=OOC]Yes, I confused the Breath w/ the Mead.

The goal of the check was to get some of those passerby's I asked about to try to horde around the bookshop for "Free Potion Day" in an effort to provide a distraction for the rest of us to slip away unnoticed (and delay them entering the bookstore). This does not seem to happening due to the confusion, so Skaros will just reenter to Tavern to ask about a back exit.[/sblock]

 

[Insight]

[sblock=OOC]Yes, I confused the Breath w/ the Mead.

The goal of the check was to get some of those passerby's I asked about to try to horde around the bookshop for "Free Potion Day" in an effort to provide a distraction for the rest of us to slip away unnoticed (and delay them entering the bookstore). This does not seem to happening due to the confusion, so Skaros will just reenter to Tavern to ask about a back exit.[/sblock]

[sblock=stonegod]That seems the wiser course of action [/sblock]

 

[Insight]

Inside Boloum's Books: Cassi, Nafije, Astra, Questor, and Vrashek

The secret door closed behind you, you hear swift footsteps entering the bookstore.

After some muffled shouting, Raef Boloum's voice is heard above the din. "Gentlemen, gentlemen. As I told your master earlier, the people you seek are simply not here. There's no sense tearing up my shop. You won't find them here. I heard one of them say they were headed for Alban's Park. Perhaps you should try there!"

More muffled shouting.

A high-pitched voice says, "How do we know you haven't been paid off? How do we know you're not lying?"

More shouting.

"I'm sure you can plainly see that I am a fairly well-to-do merchant. I have no need for payoffs and skullduggery."

There is more shouting. It seems that the situation may be close to getting out of hand.

The secret passage leads down into darkness.