Into the Moral Darkness: IC

[Nonlethal Force]

Erianelle smiles. "Convincing, yes. Surprising? Not for me. Good luck."

Venial is able to find a time in the hallway when it seems empty - after two false starts. Both of the false starts went unnoticed, and eventually Venial finds himself at the bottom of the stairway outside the kitchen. Nobody inside the kitchen seems to care about his presence. In truth, nobody in the kitchen seems to even notice his presence.

This is not true, however, for the man standing beyond the kitchen. This is obviously a guard posted at the exit. He has a ransuer in hand and actually looks as though he knows how to use it. He gives Venial a mean look - interested to see which direction Venial is heading.

 

[Velmont]

The last thing to do, it is to do something unexpected. I have been given the mission to see the stableman for him to prepare a horse and then see the alchemist. Eranielle told me the stable are that way.

Staying in character as much as he can, he continue to his way to teh stable, ignoring the guard. He doesn't look directly at him, nor at anyone else. They are all doing there works, and thus, nothing unusual is happening, he must not fix anyone, or that would be suspect. As long as no one stop him, he will head toward the stable.

 

[Nonlethal Force]

As Venial heads toward the stable, the guard promptly sticks out the but end of his ranseur in the way of Venial. Of course, he seems to intentionally wait until Venial would have to collide with it. The force of the blow is sharp across his arms, but not damaging in any way.

"Where do you think you are going, boy? It's night out there. You might get hurt."

 

[Velmont]

"To the stable. I just have a quick request to carry. I'll be back in a few minutes. And how could I get hurt, it isn't the first time I go around." tells Venial, more looking at the guards weapons and armor than in the eyes and taking an innocent tone, and even a bit ashame, just as he would have been lazy today and would have wait too long to do his request.

 

[Nonlethal Force]

"Little brat. Don't get sassy with me! You could disappear at the pointy end of my ranseur and nobody would even ask where the puny errand boy went off to. Remember that, runt."

The guard lifts the butt end of his weapon and allows Venial access to the outside.

Beyond the door, Venial can see the stables about 30 feet away from the mansion. There is a solid wood fence that surreounds the mansion and the stable area. The fence is six feet high. There are a number of dark places behind the stables. There is also a gate leading from the stables to the main street, although this gate is much more visible.

 

[Velmont]

Venial head toward he stable, but without rushing, just as a decided boy who had a job to do, showing a but of fear to make the guard thinks his threat was successfull.

Once inside the stable, if there is no one, he will quickly search for something that could help him to climb the fence.

 

[Nonlethal Force]

The stablemaster looks up as Venial enters. There are two young stable boys working with him. The stable boys are busy raking out the stables and changing over the hay for bedding. The stable master is shifting horses around to the empty stalls while they work. One of the boys looks at Venial and then immediately puts his head down to start working. The other boy looks at Venial and nods in a friendly manner. As the stablehand looks toward the boy, he shouts in an all business manner, "What do you need, led? The master of the house send you out this late?"

Within the stables there are all kinds of ropes. Many of them have a lasso end permanently tied at one end - probably used for training and breaking new horses. There are several sets of bits and bridles along the wall. The majority of them look to be parts of matched sets but near where the stablemaster is working with his aides there is what seems to be a mishmash of leather harnesses and bridles.

 

[Velmont]

As he enter the stable, he smiles and nods at the kids who seems to know the errand boy. He appraoch the stablemaster.

I must not compromise Eranielle.

"Garang is asking to have an horse ready at the first light of the day." Venial tells the man.

Too much people, I won't be able to takea rope without attarcting useless attention. Maybe I can just climb the wall... or I could run throught the gate...

 

[Nonlethal Force]

The boy who had continued to look towards Venial smiles and puts his head down to go back to work shoveling straw and hay around.

The stablemaster looks a bit confused. "Garang plans to go out alone?" He stops and scratches his forehead as he thinks. "Odd, normally he doesn't leave without Taran at his side. Perhaps he meant horses ready for both?"

 

[Velmont]

"Maybe... he wasn't looking happy, so I didn't dare to make him repeat." replies Venial, looking thoughfull, as if he tried to remember teh details of Garang's order. As if he didn't found anything more to say, he shrugs, he turns heel as if he was about to go, but Venial sight quickly look around, to see if there is another exit than the one he had taken to enter the stable.