Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doc Donuts" data-source="post: 7798129" data-attributes="member: 6999815">Session 5: Part 1Boris is more than a little bored. He doesn't understand the boss's obsession with her garden, but puts up with it because she gives him interesting things to do and working for her gives him access to this plane. He is upstairs looking for something to play with when suddenly he feels a sharp pain over the link with the boss. He flies down the steps, startling the butler and winks out of existence before he can come to her rescue.The butler immediately rushes to the window and is smart enough not to try to interfere, but instead runs to a closet and pulls out a small gong on a metal frame and strikes it once. Now all he can do is wait.An hour later and a few miles away, the woman wakes up with a splitting headache. She can't move, see or speak and feels a dagger pressed to her throat. She pretends she is still asleep and tries to activate her ring, but realizes it is no longer there. They must  realize she is awake, because the dagger presses down harder and someone starts asking her questions. Playing for time she tries to give an answer, and finds out that she can't lie.  A voice tells her that if she does not answer every question accurately she will be killed, and she hears another voice chanting softly in the background. She keeps her mouth shut and feels the knife press down harder, and decides to answer the questions. Hopefully whoever these fools are they wasted enough time that her rescuers arrive soon. "Yes, I was hired to kill a man........I can't tell you that.....No, I can't........A week ago....I can't tell you that either....A lot of money. I would be willing to share if you let me go....Yes, I had other instructions....To turn over his possessions....I don't know...." While this is all going on Ryll is outside on the roof of a building across the street, keeping watch in case anyone approaches. She wishes they would hurry up inside, but is glad she is out here. She had looked at that woman's aura, and it was dark, very dark once they pulled off her magic items.The streets are really narrow, which is likely what saved her. A teamster is driving a wagon down the alley. He is traveling pretty fast, and when a bystander tries to get out of the way by stepping into a doorway, he runs into someone invisible who apparently had the same idea. They collide and the wagon stikes both of them. Ryll sees the accident and sees something get to its feet. She can’t see it well, but it is covered with enough dirt from the road to partially spoil the invisibility. Inside they heard the crash. Mel goes to the window to check what was going on, while Figorna opens the door into the hall, surprising the two men creeping towards the door with swords drawn. She slams the door shut. "We got company"As everyone moves the woman decides that it is time to make her move. She concentrates and suddenly an emaciated figure appeared. It leaps at Figorna and tried to claw her eyes out. Vanal reacts without thought and takes the dagger from the woman's throat and stabs the Babau. Ryll hears the commotion inside and looks up to see someone on the roof across the street, right above the room her friends are in. He sees her and brings his bow up to fire. She is faster, and her bolt hits him in the face, killing him instantly.Mel hastes Figorna and Vanal just as a second Babau appears. Marq realizes where they were coming from and pulls out a knife made of bone and slits her throat.Seeing the second demon Vanal drops the dagger and draws his flail as it approaches. The door crashes open and the two men try to force their way in, but Mel webs them in place before they can get in. Outside, the invisible attacker gestures at Ryll and three missiles shoot from his fingers. She ducks but can't evade them. She shoots back three times, hitting him all with three, and he slumps to the ground. She doesn't see the cleric standing in the alley coming from the opposite direction, but she hears him chant. Before she can turn around she is paralyzed. Mel glances outside to asses what is happening there and sees Ryll struggling. He sticks his head out of the window and, sees a man staring at her holding a holy symbol of the death god Raggok in front of him. So he blasts him with a lightning bolt.  The man turns his gaze towards Mel and waves something at him, and appears shocked when the spell doesn't affect him. Mel blasts him again, which really seems to piss the man off. He gets ready to try again, but Ryll, having shaken off the Hold Person spell, drives multiple crossbow bolts through him, and he slumps to the ground too. By the time Mel sticks his head back into the room it is over. Figorna and Marq are both down, and near death, but quick work by Vanal saves them, and soon they are conscious.The woman is dead, but one of the men who attacked them is still alive. He looks scared, but he's willing to talk. He and the others who came with him work for the dead cleric outside. He has no idea who the woman is. He tells them that they had better leave town immediately, the cleric is connected with the Brotherhood, the local thieves guild. He promises them he will leave town too.Since he is speaking in the Zone of truth spell they had active, they believe him. They wrap up the woman's body in a blanket, take it with them, haul it down to the small wagon in the barn next door, hitch it to Marq's mule, and leave. They also take the cleric's body too.</blockquote>

Verification