Paths of Legend: The Journey

[crazy_monkey1956]

OOC: Let's see how you do on a Sense Motive check.

 

[ethandrew]

I've never been more proud of Estelle than at this moment. And you should say the same when you hear she has a Sense Motives check of 0. 'Atta girl!

 

[crazy_monkey1956]

OOC: Wow. Hehe. Alrighty, moving on...

One of the other acrobats, a lithe and lean half-elven man, follows Estelle, trotting to catch up, "Wait! Please, wait just a moment."

Once he catches up to her, he continues, concern in his voice, "Anareesa is spooked. She's usually very good natured and fun, but she left last night and when she came back, she was different. I tried talking to her, but she won't talk to anyone."

 

[ethandrew]

"Where'd she go last night? And what happened to Rungner? He's who I need to find," Estelle looks at the half-elf and is briefly revisited by memories she does not want conjured. She knows she's being too flippant with names and information, but she's on a wild-goose chase it seems, and she never knows when one person might lead her to the dagger. Supposedly this half-ogre had it and if she could find him, well, then the fun really begins.

A -1 Wisdom modifier, no Ranks, and a Natural 1? Yeah, you know how that goes.

 

[crazy_monkey1956]

The half-elf responds, "I don't know. Like I said she won't talk about it. But Rungner went to sleep yesterday afternoon and, well, he never woke up. No one knows why...except maybe Anareesa."

 

[ethandrew]

She bites her lip hard and winces at the news. She was too late. Always too late.

"Do you know where his body is?" she asks flatly.

 

[crazy_monkey1956]

"The ringmaster, Grobnobble, turned it over to the city for cremation, I think." Music begins playing inside the tent and half-elven man turns to leave, "I can try and get Anareesa to come talk to you, if you want."

 

[ethandrew]

Estelle nods hurriedly, "If you could. I don't work for whoever she accused me of working for, I actually came to save Rungner's life, but apparently I was too late..." she trailed off at the end, hoping to inspire pity of some sort.

 

[crazy_monkey1956]

Estelle ends up waiting about twenty minutes, more than the duration of the rapiers' disguise self spell, when Anareesa comes out of the performer's entrance to the tent in the back.

 

[ethandrew]

Estelle slides along next to her but not terribly close, "Hey Anareesa, thanks for coming out." She pauses just a second, not enough for the girl to get a word in. "Hear me out, I'm not working for whoever you think I am, but what I am doing was trying to save Rungner's life, apparently I'm too late. That's where you come in. I need help finding his killer, before it happens again, before other people's lives are lost and ruined. So, can you help?"