pneumatik's WotBS 1 - The Scouring of Gate Pass

[Rhun]

"You won't be leaving with us?"

 

[Thanee]

Lytha

“Well, if we are going to try that, I can probably help. I have similar... powers... at my disposal,” Lytha offers.

 

[pneumatik]

"No, I'm staying," Diogenes says. "That's about all I can say about that, really."

"Any help would be great, Lytha. I'm using the wand because it's easier than casting spells lying down under a tarp, though. Well, and the wand won't run out of spells."

 

[Rhun]

Hollister nods at his friend's words. "Well then, it seems that we now have a way out of the city then." He looks around at the faces of his companions. "We should probably make haste. Unless anyone has anything else they must do before we leave?"

 

[Theroc]

"I'm confused, weren't you planning on leaving before? Now you're not?" Rae asked, confused. He was happy for a way out, but it seems somewhat strange that the man's plans changed. Then again, he was rather out of his natural element, so most everything seemed a bit strange.

 

[renau1g]

"Well... I can't think of anything else, so sure, why not?" Korrin adds, the affects of the lack of sleep beginning to cloud his mind and he's fairly agreeable at this point.

 

[Rhun]

Hollister smiles at Rae's confusion. "Don't worry. Diogenes is a cunning one..." He offers his fellow wizard a wink. "If I read my friend here correctly, he has some tasks that remain to be done yet. So let's not worry about him, and instead worry about getting ourselves out of the frying pan."

 

[Arkhandus]

Liiros brings up the concern "How do we know the guards will all fall for your magic tricks....? Although the city's council were weak-willed enough to cave in under the threat of violence, we cannot be certain that the gate-guards are so weak-willed as to succumb to your magic. If they become suspicious, we might be attacked or detained. Certainly it is a better plan than no plan, but not quite what I had expected...."

He will go along with the plan if the others think it is worth trying, but has his doubts. And lack of rest is making him a bit irritable. His hands are cramped, he cannot feel his hindquarters, his feet fell asleep earlier and are still kind of numb, and he hasn't had a bath since this whole mess started. Even elves sweat when they march all over the place in heavy armor like his.

 

[pneumatik]

"When people get charmed you can usually see it in their faces," Diogenes says. "They're basically making a new friend. So I can tell if it works. And if it doesn't, well, that's why I've been saving this wand. It's pretty much full. I'll just zap them again."

"Well, we're not getting any sleep sitting in here. Let's try to get you out of the city before the sun rises and everyone wakes up. Everyone else, anyway." Diogenes leads the group back outside and into the school's surviving tower. He opens the secret passageway and you once again sneak out of the school.

At the end of the block from where you exit the secret passage, Diogenes has hidden a wagon. It's roughly three or four feet square with three foot-high sides and an open back. He pulls out a tarp and fastens it to the top of the three sides, leaving it to hang down in the back. "I'll hide back there, and one of you will pull the cart to whatever gate you plan on leaving by," he says.

He hugs himself and shivers in the pre-dawn cold. "So is everything cool? Lytha, you see any way to help?"


OOC: If people want to take their places, we'll move to a gate.

 

[Theroc]

"Where do the rest of us go? We just wander along beside it?" Rae asked. While he was bright, he was obviously a bit thrown off by all the social interaction and magic involved. Most of his life involved simple loner or pair tasks.