Phyrric Legacy - Shackled City IC Thread

[Legildur]

The young Whisper Gnome silently agrees to escort Ruphus back to the church. He hears words and discussion about intimidation, a thieves' guild, and an orphanage, but all he can focus on is the potential for a warm dry bed and maybe a decent meal.

 

[Jdvn1]

Dowlee catches her breath, as she was the last to join the other two. Her silver eyes peer into the masked man's, trying to comprehend something that's not actually there. "Let's take him back to the others. Maybe they know something."

 

[Question]

OOC : Do a local knowledge check for me please.

IC : Liracor tries to help Jon stop the thief's bleeding (aid another)

 

[Malvoisin]

Remen moves up to the man and says to Arak: COLOR=DimGray]"Hold him still, I'll make sure he doesn't have any other weapon..."[/COLOR]. Then he proceeds to examine the man's clothing, searching for any unusual items... including weapons.

Remen finds nothing on the thug's person except a coin pouch with a few copper and silver pieces in it.

"Search him, make sure he's truly disarmed," Arak says to Remen, still keeping his sword readied to strike down the thief. "You! Why were you attacking that priest?"

The thug looks at Arak with anger in his eyes. "I don't have to tell you nothin', murderer!"

After Remen finishes searching the bandit, and storing safely away anything suspicious, he finally catches on something... Orphanage?... He holds firmly the thug, moving him away from the menacing sword...Then he grabs the man by the neck of his clothing and suddely moves his face down to be only a pair of inches from his... And quietly -but firmly- asks "What do you have against the orphanage? ... Or the Last Laugh for that matter?" His green eyes fixed on the thug's orbs.

The thug holds his ground, refusing to cooperate. "It's none of your business, stranger! You and your gang better let me go before the watch shows up, killers. You'll go to trial for what you've done! Killed a man in cold blood!"

Dowlee catches her breath, as she was the last to join the other two. Her silver eyes peer into the masked man's, trying to comprehend something that's not actually there. "Let's take him back to the others. Maybe they know something."

(OOC: I'm assuming Arak and Remen are agreeable with Dowlee's suggestion.)

The group marches the third thug back to the alley at sword-point, where they see Jon, Liracor and Flannad speaking with the priest, and seemingly trying to stabilize the wounded thug.

At the priest's request, the well dressed man nods. "Of course, we will walk you back Initiate Laro. I think some of the others may be trying to apprehend your last attacker to shed some light on this attack." Turning, Jon sees the other, non-headless thief. Kneeling, he checks to see if he is still alive. Meanwhile, he asks. "Orphanage? What can you tell us about this orphanage that may interest them?"[OOC: Heal check to see if the other thief is alive/stable/etc., then a Heal check to stablize. Meanwhile, Gather Info check (combined w/ a Diplomacy check to make Laro helpful and ore
talkative).]

Ruphus answers, "Well, I was on my way back from the Lantern Street Orphanage, just to see how everyone was doing after the disappearances...you heard about those didn't you?" Seeing some blank looks, Ruphus clarifies, "Oh, no? Well, four children disappeared from the
orphanage just three nights ago. I was there tonight, just to offer my Church's aid...trying to keep spirits high, and so forth. Then, on my way back, these three jumped me, and pulled me into this alley! I thought I was being mugged, at first, but I guess they just were trying to intimidate me. But, like I said, I don't see why they'd care about the children or the orphanage."

While listening to Ruphus talk, Jon turns to the dying thug. With Liracor's aid, they tear some strips of cloth from the man's shirt, and bind his wounds. (Heal Check succeeds) It seems that their combined efforts are a success, as the thug's bleeding appears to have now abated. While still unconscious and seriously wounded, it now appears that he is likely to live.

[sblock=Liracor Knowledge: Local check]Ruphus' talk about the disappearances of the children from the Lantern Street Orphanage reminds Liracor about the recent string of disappearances that has been plaguing Cauldron. People have been taken from their homes in the middle of the night, and the town guard has been unable to identify the culprits, or locate the vanished citizens. Moreover, the victims' homes have been stripped of portable valuables. It seems that no place is secure, and people are becoming increasingly worried.[/sblock]
With the second thug stabilized, the occupants of the alley look up to see the pursuers return triumphantly, their quarry marching out in front with a surly look on his painted face.

(OOC: You'll need to decide what you're going to do with the thugs, whether conscious, unconscious, or dead. Also, I assume that everyone is willing to accompany Ruphus to the temple of St. Cuthbert, unless you post to the contrary. I will move the scene to the temple once the conversation has concluded in the alley, and a plan has been formed for the thugs' disposition.)

 

[Land Outcast]

The broad-chested man recovers the thug's blade and stores it, along with the pouch, in his backpack. (Positioned so that it doesn't rip it).

He points at the other fallen weapons "We should remove them" he points at the two fallen thugs "and them" .

Followup, the man looks at the headless thug, then at the unconscious one, and before hauling him up over his shoulders he looks at the motley group here reunited... his lips show a broken smile smiles and he proceeds to say "Well met in this dark night fellows... Remen's the name"

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Arak looks at the captured thug after hearing the cleric's tale.

"I think your suggestion is a great one. We can certainly go talk to the Watch about why you were assaulting a man of the cloth for daring to visit the orphanage. But let's let there be no confusion about who you are when we do."

He pulls up the hem of the man's garment and wipes the make-up off his face.

"If I were a man of violence like you, as you accuse me to be, you'd not be able to draw breath now to form the accusation.

"I am Arak of House York, called Oathsworn for my devotion to St. Cuthbert, and I do not go weak in the knees when threatened by a rabid sewer rat."

((And, oh yes, Intimidation roll against the thug.))

 

[Jdvn1]

"Well," Dowlee considers, "Should we take these guys to the watch or to St. Cuthbert's? I'm sure the priests would be interested in hearing the thugs' side of the story too." She has a slight smile on her face, but quickly wipes it away.

As the introductions are being made, Dowlee introduces herself, "Dowlee," and holds out a hand to anyone who'll take it (other than the thugs, of course).

Her statue is small, but her white skin and silver eyes make her presence quite obvious.

 

[Legildur]

"Flannad," the young whisper gnome says simply as introduction and he gives up on watching the alley mouth.

 

[stonegod]

Now that the thug has stablized, the well dressed man stands up and dusts off his clothes. Making sure the priest can stand on his own, he turns to the others, pressing a hand to his chest. "Jon Talnbalm. Scholar and traveller. Pleased to greet you."

"As for these criminals... I suggest we let the Watch deal with them, unless Initiate Laro has something to say about that?"

 

[Land Outcast]

Seeing noone takes heed on his comments about retrieving the weapons or the corpses, Remen ends picking them up himself and storing them back along the other shortsword.

"I'll have to pick this up then"

OOC: What did the pouch contain exactly?