Six Nights to Yearsend (Ptolus Group B)

[Lorthanoth]

Verosh hmms, "Well, it's very likely they would have enough funds but laying our hands on it will be a problem. Is there enough between us to pay for it? If he was first stabbed from the back, then he may not have seen his assailant, but I still think we should at least try to contact his spirit somehow. Even if we have to consult some 'priest' or other." he says with distaste.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

"You may be able to hire a priest in the Temple District, unless you know of one yourselves. We are still waiting for a wagon to come and claim the body, although we can wait if you wish."

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Several members of the Watch arrive with a small wagon and mule and proceed to carefully move the body into the back of the vehicle. "We'll be taking the body to the Church to be properly interred. Good day to you."

 

[Tychus]

"I'll go with the body and see if I can find a priest who can speak with the dead. Do the rest of you want to come, or shall I meet up with you later?"

[sblock=OOC]Does it look like Quaelin was robbed, or is he still wearing wizardly gear? I'll cast Detect Magic and inspect the body.

Glau will accompany the wagon to the Temple District.[/sblock]

 

[Deuce Traveler]

The party continues on towards the Temple District, following the City Watch on their journey through the woken Ptolus streets. The Temple District is as much of a boisterous mosaic of anything that exists in the city. Although the Lothian Temple is by far the most magnificient, and is your destination, there seems to be large temples to gods of technology, luck, the sun, and more. There are even small chapels to lesser known and popular gods, such as those to slime, insects, and even a new one to two intersecting circles forming an infinity-type symbol.

It's Skrymer that alerts the group to a different sort of observation, however. There is a pale-skinned warrior in chain that seems to have been following you from a distance since the South Market.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

The pale-skinned warrior sees that he is noticed and sighs, then walks forth towards the procession. As the white-skinned man nears the party you can see that he is studying you, as if judging your measure. He comes next to Skrymer, the one that noticed him first and asks, "You're not part of the Watch, are you? And yet you are involved in this case I see. What is your business with these murders? Do you have any leads on the killers?"

 

[bedford]

"let's just say we have been hired to find the killers. Now why have you been following us?"

 

[Lorthanoth]

"Yes, why - out with it!" barks Verosh. his brows are knit in annoyance, both at being tailed and at the group's impotence in the face of this mystery.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

The warrior answers, "Forgive me, for I did not mean to insult. I am Sheen, Third of the Five Cuts. Myself and my brothers have been contacted about claiming the award when we kill the murderers of the Knights of the Golden Cross. I was sent to find information on the murderers and help in the hunt, but instead saw you at one of the scenes of the crime. That, and examine any future competition in the case that such competition must be removed in order to gain the prize. Will you offer information freely and allow the Five Cuts to become closer to their prey or will you instead resist and offer challenge?" The man folds his hands and watches as some of the group tense at his words. "Tsk. We are in the streets of the city, my friends. And the Watch is watching..."

 

[Tychus]

OOC - What are the Five Cuts? Is this a group Glau has heard about before?