North by Northwest, Chapter 2.5: Caster and Mouse

[Thanee]

Zeegra

“Ok, but let us not lose too much time, otherwise we will never catch the ones we are after.”

 

[Old Fezziwig]

Through a bizarre stroke of luck, the creature manages to parry both of the blows from Cole. Exhausted, it drops to its knees.

Ghur: It gives no indication of understanding Common or Dwarven.[sblock]OOC: Do you intend to bind it? If so, go ahead and make a Use Rope check and detail any other precautions that you intend to take as you transport it back to the settlement. If no one responds before tonight (when I come back and start my Warhammer FRP game), I'll move things along with the assumption of the party heading back to the village to report the attack.[/sblock]

 

[Old Fezziwig]

The party herds the lone goat-man back towards the village. With Herev and Cole on either side of him, he doesn't even attempt to make a break for it. As the party reaches the settlement, two warriors [Scotley:

Spoiler

Cian recognizes them as two of Deniel's men

] approach them. One of them coughs. "And what do we have here? You lot have a new pet?"

 

[Scotley]

Cian

Cian tries to sound confident wishing they had run into someone more sympathtic, "A prisoner, we were taking him to the (I don't know the village head man's title.) He attacked this band. He and three of his fellows rose up from the stream and asualted us without provocation. Three of them paid for their folly with their lives. This one surrendered."

 

[Old Fezziwig]

"Well, if he's a prisoner, then how come he's not tied up? Is he so scared of those two?" The warrior mockingly refers to Herev and Cole. His counterpart snickers.[sblock]Finding any of the older elves should be fine -- the village has a pretty loose organization. Most of the major decisions that don't have to be made by Deniel, in his capacity as leader of the war bands, are made by the oldest elves. This would include Culann, but also includes Brigid, who is the oldest of the elves in this settlement.[/sblock]

 

[Starman]

These two aren't very friendly. Are they so afraid of outsiders that they must mock them? Or is it just insecurity? Cellan wonders to himself. He leans toward Zeegra and whispers, "I, uh, hope we don't have to come back here after this. I don't like it here."

 

[Thanee]

Zeegra

“Yes, I hope we are on our way again soon. They don't like foreigners here...”

 

[Scotley]

Cian Dark Elf Bard

Cian moves on quickly to find Culann or another of the elders, pretty much anyone, but Deniel.

 

[Old Fezziwig]

Cian quickly brings you through the village to a small house in the back. The building itself is shaped like an "L" with a nice open patio filling out the empty part of the L to make a square. Small chairs and piles of wood are the only adornments on the patio aside from a small cast iron wood stove. As he knocks on the door, Cian explains to the group that this is the house of his mentor, Culann.

Entering, you find that the house is neat, almost compulsively so, and most of the flat surfaces are covered with books, scrolls, and pieces of parchment. Two dark elves sit in conference in the back of the common room; one of them is old and slight, sitting in a saucer-shaped chair, and the other, markedly younger with knotted muscles. Blue tattoos cover the bare arms of the younger man. The former looks up and smiles. "Ah, Cian. Deniel and I were just speaking of you. He says that you've made some new friends." He raises an ancient eyebrow curiously when he sees the goat-man between the two warriors.

 

[Scotley]

Cian Dark Elf

Thinking quickly, Cian adds pointing at the goat man, "and some new enemies."