Shackled City - Chapter I

[kirinke]

Alinis waits for Elyas to translate the creature's words. "Please ask him about the missing children," she said quietly.

 

[Dhes]

(In undercommon)
“My friends here want to know if you know anything about the missing orphans.”
“Orphans are uhh… how would you put it, children without kin or close brothers?”

 

[Majin]

The thing shudders and shakes under everyones scrutiny, looking miserably at the floor as it speaks,

(In Undercommon)"The offspring with no family? They told us to take them. They told us to take them! They needed them they said!" the skulk shivers, looking up at Dunstand, then scanning the others watching it.

 

[Dhes]

“He says that they took the orphans, but they were told to by someone. I think that those people scare him even more than we do.”

(in Undercommon)
“Don’t worry, you’re just as much a victim as those orphans. I won't let anyone hurt you or your brothers, just tell me who these people are and wher we can find them.”

 

[kirinke]

"Can he describe who took them? Are they human, elf? Something else? What clothes or symbols did they carry?" Alinis asked

 

[hippocrachus]

Rather than bother trying to help in the process of questioning the skulk, made more difficult by the fact that he can't speak its language, Orpheus busies himself forming the sounds of Undercommon in his mind.
It lacks all manner of elegance...
"You must teach me this language," he says to Elyas in passing.

 

[Dhes]

Elyas smilles at Orpheus.
“Oh sure, I don’t know how good I’ll be at it, I hope I can do my father proud. I’ll make a list of simple words and their pronunciation when I have time. Just don’t try to sing in it, it’s uuuhh… a bit primitive.”

Turning to the skulk.
(in undercommon)
“Can you tell me what the people looked like?”

 

[hippocrachus]

Orpheus nods his head slowly in thanks.
"I'm not much for singing..." he says to his half-elven companion, letting him get back to his interrogation.

 

[Majin]

(In Undercommon)
"They are many.. different from you, and the same as you. They are cagers, shackled ones! They take the... children, for selling. Servants and slaves they will be!" the skulk goes on in almost incoherent rambling.

 

[Manzanita]

Raven

Raven, realizing she can't understand the conversation, proceeds to check out the room. Any doors? items of interest?