Six From Gate Pass - A War of the Burning Sky Campaign (3.5)

[Gregor]

[sblock="what Kirio sees"]Kirio, as you look at the woman you notice that her image begins to go translucent and you can see that it is merely an illusion. The woman is in fact Lars, but the outline of the illusion still hovers over him. [/sblock]

Kirio, rummaging through the corpses yields 8 of the following: Gate Pass guard uniforms (rather bloody and torn), scale mail, light wooden shields, saps, short swords and light crossbows. Additionally, you find 80 crossbow bolts and 40 pieces of gold among them. Lastly, you notice that under the uniforms, each impostor was wearing a Black Horse bounty hunter arm band.

 

[funkmamagoat]

Kirio relays what he finds to the others... "I've no use for any of this... but some of you may? The gold is however quite useful, but it is of course ours... I am willing to share it now or can hang on to it for us, up to you." He looks over at Rantle then knowingly at the matron with the deadly crossbow, smiles at the matron "any particular reason for keeping that up friend?"

He walks over to the prisoner, pulling out a dagger on the way, and casually holds it point first to his left eye "I can think of very few reasons why I should not end your sorry existence right here and now, but am willing to consider it in exchange for information. How is the Black Horse company keeping track of us? How did they know to attack us at the Inn last night? And finally, again to continue breathing, who is the large fellow on the war horse in a breast plate and the large sword that was at the ambush at the inn last night?"

OOC: intimidate

 

[Gregor]

"Whoa, WHOA, take it easy with that dagger man!" cries the thug, "Listen, no need to be hasty eh? I'll tell you everything I know. Everything!" He keeps his hands in the air, but tries to back up a bit from the blade near his eye. "We've been tracking the blonde over there for a couple of days. Some of our men followed her to the Inn last night. Hell we thought she would be alone. There is a bounty on spell casters and we are just trying to make a living! One of our guys caught up with us in the middle of the night, going on about how the witch and her friends burned the Inn down and killed a bunch of the crew. The guy on the horse is Kathor, one of my bosses. He's got this big ol' crow that spies for him and stuff. It's creepy man. Anyway, that crow must have seen you or followed you or somethin' because he woke us up real early and sent us out to find you. He rode out of the city this morning. I don't know anything else man. Please don't kill me!"

 

[funkmamagoat]

Kirio sighs

			to kill or not to kill, to kill or not to kill

He lowers the blade a couple of inches, but his expression makes it clear that the prisoner's life still hangs very much in the balance "That was wise and quite informative, well done friend, you may yet see another day. Now, remove all of your clothes, ALL of them mind, and step over to the wall there, facing it for the love of the gods." he nods his head towards the nearest wall.

He tries to recall any stories he may have heard of Kathor (knowledge check local).

"We should pay more heed to druids when they say they see a crow following us, apologies Hrimir."

 

[fromage67]

The "Matron" leaves quickly and turns right, down an alley. A few minutes later, coming from a different direction, Lars appears walking hurriedly.
"Sorry I missed the battle fellows, got caught up with amob of people fleeing. Hey Rantle, what's up?"

Lars winks at Kirio.

[sblock]When Lars ducks into the alley, he promptly dispels his matron disguise, and casts a second Disguise Self to appear as a ill-shaven labourer, he then walks down the street, dipels once more and walks back towards the group.[/sblock]

 

[digimattic]

Arnir steps in and glares at the captive "Who has hired Black Horse? The Ragesians? Why were you watching Torrent?"

turning to the group he says rather loudly "I say we just kill him. Last thing we need is him running off and telling his masters more of us...Hell, he's already proven a coward, so he'll likely have it coaxed out of him in any event."

Seeing Lars round corner he gives a wide smile and says "You missed all the fun!"

 

[Gregor]

[sblock="what Kirio knows"]Kirio, you canot recall anything about a man named Kathor.[/sblock]

Kirio holds the thug at dagger point as he slowly takes off his uniform and then unstraps his armor. "Its colder than a kiss from Auril herself out here! Why are you making me do this? I've surrendered ... told you what I know ... let me outta here. I swear I won't say anything. Come on man, this is cold blooded murder!" He starts to unbutton his shirt and you can see his hands shaking with fear. "The Ragesians hired us. They're offering 100 gold a head for spell casters. I don't know why your witch is so special, we were just told she was a priest or something and worth her weight in gold. Come on fellas, you don't need to do this to me." His shirt hits the ground and he starts dropping his pants. You can now hear him begin to sob.

"This is cruel," says Torrent, "I'm not in favour of this Kirio. Plus, we should probably get out of here before the real guards arrive. Yesterday you coulden't find the time to help some citizens, but suddenly we're awash with time to sadistically murder someone?"

Rantle walks over, arms still crossed, and speaks: "This is a touch twisted gentlemen. It's one thing to kill a man in combat, but this is something else all together. Also..." his voice trails off as he sees Lars arrive and he walks over to shake hands with the young rogue.

"Lars my man, there you are. I've been looking for you and Torrent all night. I thought you'd already made it out of the city. Listen, I need you to do me a huge favour. My sister, Katrina, disappeared a little over a week ago, just before news of the approaching Ragesian army arrived. Usually I don't worry about her as she is a pretty competent sorceress ... though she did manage to burn a few of our homes down over the years. Anyways, she's never gone missing and I'm a touch concerned that she might be in trouble. The last I heard of her, she was planning to head to Lyceum to get to safety, and I heard from ... my network ... that this is your likely destination. If you find her," he pauses to take a scroll case out of his pack and place it in Lars' hands, "I need you to give this to her. Its a letter. Look, you won't be able to miss her, she’s about five and a half feet tall, with long red hair, and she looks too good for her own good. Can I trust you with this Lars?"

Hrimr, you hear a muted 'caw' from somewhere above and when you look up, you see a crow about 50 feet above you on the window sill of a sky bridge. It stares at you with black eyes, caws again, and then flies off behind some chimneys and out of sight.

 

[funkmamagoat]

Kirio laughs and drops his dagger "alright scum... you've been very cooperative and for that I thank you" His voice drops low and he gives the thug a terrible look "now run away, before I think better of it."

He turns to Torrent and smiles "Do not mistake efficiency for cruelty. An undamaged uniform will serve us better than these piles of rags with gore all over them, and a naked man running through a town under siege will have less time to cause us trouble; more practical concerns to preoccupy his mind, no? Quite right though, time is wasting, let's get going."

			"long red hair, and she looks too good for her own good." Lyceum just became muuuuch more interesting!

He wistles a soft tune as he makes the dagger dissapear and scans the surroundings for signs of further trouble.

 

[The Bashar]

Hrimr is not to pleased to see this sadistic display. Moments ago he was trying to kill this man, but that was in the hear of battle. This, like the weather, is quite cold and unnecessary. He is glad to see Kirio eventually lets him go.

"Kirio, I didn't even know the full gravity of the crows presence myself, so no apology is needed. However, speaking of that crow it was here watching us and has just flown away. The poor naked man will likely be in some great trouble when his boss finds him. We, however, should tarry here for too long, the crow knows where we are. I will keep an eye on the skies."

OOC: Next time I see the crow if it is possible can we switch to initiative time? I would like to try something.

 

[Bannock]

Bannock, who had stood idly while Kirio interrogated the survivor, shifts his weight from foot to foot, somewhat nervously. He has just cut a man down in battle, and it gave him an exhilarating rush, but that has passed, and watching Kirio calmly toy with the hapless criminal made him uncomfortable. He wonders what else the psychopathic Elf is capable of.

He mutters, quietly,

"Gods. Elves!"

"Let's leave the idleness to the dead and get out of this stinking street."