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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kid Charlemagne" data-source="post: 113407" data-attributes="member: 93">Ulfang, June 3rd, AE 420No one has seen Jalea since he left to do some information gathering earlier this afternoon.  It’s now about nine o’clock, and the team is concerned.  They decide to split up in order to try and track down Jalea as well as recover Kentfield’s bodyguard and use speak with dead on him.  Corwin and Gavin stay in the Inn in case Jalea comes back while the rest of the group is out.  Aris and Reana will look for Jalea.Sir Brennen and Jovah head down towards the east side docks (along the Norden River) to look for a rowboat they can rent.  The plan is to rent the rowboat, paddle up to the grate where the bodyguard’s body is stashed, grab the body, paddle somewhere incongruous, and use speak with dead.  Then they will dump the body.The Sword of Kelanen and the Luckbringer of Bes arrive at the docks and find them quite deserted.  It’s very late, and there are only a few people out and about, mostly several blocks down near a waterfront tavern.  Jovah hears a noise behind him, and turns to see a cloaked figure about thirty feet behind him and Brennen, and a half-orc fighter-type looking straight at him.  The half-orc realizes he’s been spotted, and immediately starts whistling a tune, and looking off in the distance as if nothing is happening.  Not very convincingly, I might add.Jovah taps Brennen on the arm, and he turns as well.  The cloaked figure curses under his breath, and begins casting a spell, at which point the half-orc pulls his great axe from his belt.  Brennen draws his swords, and Jovah casts chaos ward.The cloaked wizard fires off two bolts of flame at the pair, one at Brennen, and the other at Jovah.  Both are seriously singed, and are seriously surprised when he follows this up by doing it again, and then retreating!Brennen, Jovah, meet 3rd Edition Haste.  3rd Edition Haste, meet Brennen and Jovah.Brennen charges the half orc, but can’t quite reach him before the wizard zaps him with a ray of enfeeblement.  Jovah casts fly, and moves around to where he can get a swing in on the wizard.  The wizard is surprised, but laughs at the gnome when his mace glances off his stoneskinned ribs.“This isn’t going well, Brennen!”  Jovah yells out.And it’s getting worse.  From the shadows comes Tuck, the half orc assassin.  He manouevers behind Brennen, and sneak attacks him.  The Sword is taking hits right and left, but is able to get in a couple big hits on the first half orc, who staggers back from the fight.  Brennen slips out of the way, and gets his back up against the wall in order to prevent any more sneak attacks, and faces down Tuck.The wizard calls out for the first half orc, and the burly fighter starts heading towards him to help him out.   He sees Jovah dueling with his master, and standing right on the edge of the docks, and makes a huge tactical blunder.  He decides to try and bull rush the gnome off the dock.The half-orc had only 4 HP left, but the gnome was too inviting a target, and his intelligence was too low.  Attack of Opportunity be damned!Jovah sidesteps the half orc, and whacks him with his heavy mace.  The half orc falls into the river, unconscious.  The wizard, having seen enough, decides to beat feet towards the alleyway.Tuck’s expression goes from confident to concerned, as he stumbles over his own feet, and loses his grip on his cutlass.  Brennen faces the half orc down, but can’t finish him off; the Swords of Kelanen’s code of conduct precludes attacking an unarmed opponent!“Surrender!” he tells the assassin.Tuck is relatively unhurt, and dares the attack of opportunity from the weakened Brennen.  He grabs his cutlass and makes a run for it, running down the same alley as the wizard.  Brennen draws blood, from the attack of opportunity, and from his readied action.Jovah flies up to the roof over the alley, and sees Tuck running away.“Tuck!”  he yells.  “Hit the ground!”  The Ring is proving damned useful.Tuck hits the ground as if a bomb were about to go off.  The wizard, running further down the alley, turns and dispels the charm, but Brennen gets another chance to cut the half orc down to size.  Then Tuck takes a step back, and casts a spell, obscuring mist.“He’s casting a spell?” Brennen yells out to Jovah.The mist allows Tuck to charge off unseen.  The wizard decides to run for it, figuring on his haste to help him make his getaway.  Unfortunately, Jovah can fly, and the gnome tracks him down quickly, finally dispelling the haste.  He’s been rendered useless in his last two fights, and isn’t about to let this guy get away.The wizard looks at the three foot tall gnome, and then remembers he has stoneskin.“Alright, little buddy, come and get it,” he says and whips a dagger at the gnome.The priest of Bes smiles, casts divine power, and pulls his heavy mace back out.  He then closes on the wizard, and proceeds to beat the snot out of him until his stoneskins are all gone!  “Alright!” the wizard yells out, dropping his daggers.  “I surrender!”At about this point, Brennen catches up with them.The wizard smiles at them.“Here’s the deal,” he says.  “You can sit here and try to interrogate me, or turn me in, or you can maybe save some of your friends.  The Inn is being hit right now; the girl and the elf will be hit pretty soon.  Your choice:  Me or them.”Brennen is fuming, and grabs the wizard by the collar.  He punches him hard, and the wizard crumples, unconscious.  The Sword and the priest turns to head back to the Inn, and then Brennen turns back and looks at the wizard again.  He goes over to him, and pulls him back up to his feet.“You’re not a very good faker,” he says, and slugs him again.  The possum-playing wizard goes out like a light, this time for real.</blockquote>

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