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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 6086251" data-attributes="member: 63">Spoilers for Adventure Four.Tonight one PC followed Elanor Yanette through Cherage, eager to rescue the veiled figure she was handcuffed to. He hired a carriage to follow her discreetly, and then waited for her to finish her dinner and emerge from the house she had visited. At that point he had his monkey animal companion scamper over with a stone rope (which can become as hard as stone with a command word). Before her guards could react, the monkey wrapped the rope around her leg, and the PC shouted the command word.He had also, conveniently, told the carriage driver that same word, as a signal to "flee in a hurry, to make sure any trouble I cause doesn't follow you." So the carriage driver spurs his horses, and bolts.The carriage driver was not aware that the PC had tied the other end of the rope to the back of the carriage. Cue Elanor getting yanked off her feet by a stone rope, then being dragged down the street screaming. Of course the veiled figure cuffed to her gets yanked too, but that's okay. The PC, hiding down a side street, runs out and grabs her hand, so now there are three people getting dragged down the street. But it keeps him close enough so he can swing his sword and chop through the links on the handcuffs.The PC, who had already cast expeditious retreat, gets to his feet, scoops up the veiled figure, and runs, shouting the command word again over his shoulder so that Elanor won't be dragged away forever. (He wanted the guards to run to her aid, rather than chase him.)He flees through Cherage, evading checkpoints and outrunning guards, until finally he loses pursuit. Then he sneaks to the grounds of the Sovereign's mansion and has his monkey run across the way and fetch him some of those nice anti-magic stones, since he expects he'll be getting scryed on soon.An hour later he's back at the rail enclave, bragging to the rest of the party how he rescued a beautiful eladrin woman. The next morning another PC (the wizard) uses invisibility and knock to smuggle Isobel onto the train, and he happens to pick the car that Mister Mapple is sleeping in. Having seen Mapple fleeing with a grin the night before from the hotel, the wizard assumes he's a charming rake, and introduces them, trusting the hobo to keep the stowaway eladrin safe.Before the train departs, though, Elanor shows up with a bunch of cops and tries to form a checkpoint so she can look for the guy who stole Isobel. She even mind controls a PC to get info out of him, but the PC's able to pull off some 'letter of the law' answers to fool her. With the crowd getting angry, and no proof that the 'kidnapper' would have decided to go to the train instead of fleeing elsewhere, Elanor curses and decides not to keep on riding.Right before the train departs, the first PC hands a note to the desk clerk at the hotel and tells him to deliver it to the police that afternoon. It's a letter, with information gleaned from Isobel about Elanor's plans, and with bragging details of how the PC rescued the damsel in distress. Signed, "The Monkey Bandit."</blockquote>

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