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<blockquote data-quote="Hairy Minotaur" data-source="post: 3174237" data-attributes="member: 11574"><p><strong>God of watery eyes?</strong></p><p></p><p>The rest of the day flies by with each person doing a little sightseeing and supply shopping. Kessen spends most of his time on the north side of the city and locates a bard's college that he makes a mental note to tell Haimish about. </p><p></p><p>The eleventh hour soon arrives and the party, minus Menthos, arrive just outside the Horned Devil. </p><p></p><p>"Looks like they did a blue herring of a clean-up job." Haimish notes</p><p></p><p>The others agree and note that other than the color of the new stain on the bar, you really couldn't tell it wasn't there yesterday. </p><p></p><p>"Appears Menthos heeded your suggestion." Xanthos comments</p><p></p><p>"Yeah, well he'd only slow us down or spend the whole night making sarcastic wise-cracks while the rest of us did all the work." Kessen answers</p><p></p><p>The group walks away to the east, towards Shady Street. Under a watchful eye, two stories above them.</p><p></p><p>"Come back to bed, I have to start my shift in an hour." a sleepy female voice calls out</p><p></p><p> Menthos looks up at the moon and then back down at the party as they reach the intersection with Shady Street a mere forty feet east of the Horned Devil, "Yeah, I got time." </p><p></p><p>Kessen goes over the positions of the players in their scripted parts for the evening. Doopa and Haimish will walk up and down the street together while Turgar walks alone in the opposite direction, so that the three man will cross paths just south of the Temple of Shalimyr. Xanthos shifts into the form of a tabby and runs off to the hiding spot he found earlier, across the street from the temple. Kessen finds the abandoned house he'd marked earlier with a few leaves positioned to point at the house.</p><p></p><p>As midnight approaches, Doopa begins to walk to the south from the north end of the street, while Turgar and Haimish walk from the south end and go north. The whole of the street is two-hundred and forty feet long. Kessen reaches the top of the abandoned building and crouches below the roof's edge trying to stay in the most shadow while still being able to view the front of the temple. </p><p></p><p>As midnight arrives, four robed and armed priests exit the temple of Shalimyr and appear to loiter on the front steps of the temple. Doopa and Haimish slow down as they see the acolytes exit and move their cloaks away from their weapons for easy access. Turgar's view is blocked by the temple itself and so not seeing the acolytes, he maintains his pace. </p><p></p><p>Kessen draws his bow out quietly and creeps along the front of the building, his shoulder brushes against a brick and the sound of stone moving against stone, brings the highlander to a halt. Feeling with his hands in the dark Kessen finds the loose brick along with a small handle with which to pull it out of the wall. Kessen removes the brick and three others around it all with this handle. Peering out of the newly created opening, Kessen can clearly see the whole of the temple along with the guards. He lays nearly prone, raising his body just enough to get the arrowhead centered on a guard, and he waits for their move.</p><p></p><p>Turgar passes the temple and movement catches his eye as he is startled to see the four priests milling about in front of the temple. Turgar keeps his pace though as his body goes on high alert, waiting for the attack from behind as he passes the temple. The attack never comes, and Turgar moves along and passes Doopa and Haimish further south than Kessen wanted. The three men pass in complete darkness forty feet south of the temple. Kessen cursed his luck wondering why Haimish and Doopa had slowed, but being human all he could see clearly was near the temple and the light that it's burning candles gave off. He could see all four priests, but no one else until they pass in front of the temple. Only the sound of footsteps gave him the comfort of knowing the trio still walked the street.</p><p></p><p>Xanthos too braced himself to charge when he saw Turgar pass the temple, the delay in the attack was curious to the centaur. Turgar appeared to not care about the priests and yet they did not attack him. Xanthos wished for a better view of the area and made a mental note to study an owl before next sunset. An animal such as that would be a great benefit at night.</p><p></p><p>The sound of grunting and someone climbing up the back wall of the building alerted Kessen to the approach of someone else. Thinking it to be Menthos and wanting to teach him a lesson, Kessen backs away from the murder hole and crouches in the far corner of the front of the building. He takes aim at the slowly rising figure, a smile crosses his lips as he imagines Menthos' reaction to the warning shot. The face of the intruder appears in the moonlight and Kessen hesitates as it is not Menthos. Soon a holy symbols emerges as well, and Kessen realizes it's a priest of Shalimyr that has joined him. </p><p></p><p>The priest pushes his way to the roof and quickly advances to the murder hole. The priest appears confused with why the murder hole is uncovered, but shrugs his shoulders and sits down to look out over the same area Kessen was watching. The situation had not gotten dire for Kessen, with no way to quietly tell the others about what was going on, and no way to see what was transpiring down below.</p><p></p><p>Doopa and Haimish reached the temple and one of the priests calls out to them.</p><p></p><p>"Ho there! Tis good to see travelers in pairs, this area be quite dangerous after the moon rises."</p><p></p><p>Haimish runs though responses in his head and throws out the only one that he practiced regularly, "Shary, me an me buddee are go'in hoom. Tanks doe." </p><p></p><p>Doopa stops and looks around, disturbed by Haimish's response, he grabs his weapon ready to strike down the caster that turned Haimish into a drunk, because Doopa had not seen the human drink all night.</p><p></p><p>"Whoa there fella. You best be putting that away. I wouldn't want you to not make it home."</p><p></p><p>"Human not know where Doopa live, Doopa can go home whenever Doopa wants." Doopa argues</p><p></p><p>"Well, your actions speak as a man who wants to fight, and we're normally a peace sailing people, but we're more than capable of defending our sacred ground."</p><p></p><p>"Nah, he's juss jumpee. We donna mean no harm. Weel be on our way." Haimish says trying to calm Doopa down</p><p></p><p>"Why human talk funny? Where wizard that did this at? Doopa will smash!" Doopa shouts as he crashes his massive club on the sidewalk next to the temple.</p><p></p><p>Both Kessen and Turgar heard Doopa's shouting. Turgar turned back and began to run towards the temple. Kessen waited and decided to see what the priest with him was going to do.</p><p></p><p>"Your friend there is drunk, there is no sorcery afoot. Perhaps you'd like to sleep it off inside the temple? It would be much safer than trying to get home. You're in no condition to defend yourself meaning your ogre pal would be solo trying to fight off any attackers."</p><p></p><p>Haimish thought it over and wondered what the rest of the party was doing. Concerned that once he gets inside he'd be bum rushed, yet they really had no proof as of yet. Besides Turgar and Kessen were still watching for trouble. Haimish relented and allowed the priests to take him inside the temple followed by an ever vigil Doopa who smashed a candle after backing into it and it burned his back.</p><p></p><p>Turgar raced back to the temple to find Doopa and Haimish gone and only two priests outside the temple.</p><p></p><p>"Looking for someone ogre?"</p><p></p><p>"Um, no. Just getting in some exercise." Turgar replied</p><p></p><p>"Really? 'Cause it looked to me like you were chasing down a mark. Thought you could get an easy score with a drunk human and his concerned friend." a cat's meow echoed over the street as a tabby came out from under a porch while the priest spoke</p><p></p><p>"No, I was merely walking." Turgar answered</p><p></p><p>"I don't think so pal, you walked by here earlier, then after the drunk guy and his buddy pass, you come running back. You look guilty in my eyes, perhaps there is something you wish to confess?" The priest accuses and whistles, bringing six other priests out from the temple. The slowly advancing cat quickly turns and runs back to it's hiding spot</p><p></p><p>"I think I'll be on my way thank you." Turgar responds and quickly heads north</p><p></p><p>"Yeah, you do that, and I don't want to see you around this street again ogre!" The priest yells </p><p></p><p>Xanthos breathes a sigh of relief as Turgar escapes, he considers shifting back to his true form but decides on trying to get a better view of inside the temple and what if anything was going on with Haimish. Xanthos creeps up to the temple steps and peers inside to see Haimish lying down on a cot with Doopa standing over him. Footsteps coming up behind him however, causes Xanthos to skitter away back underneath the porch again.</p><p></p><p>Kessen watches as the priest in front of him shifts and raises his hands as if to cast a spell. Unsure of what was transpiring down below, Kessen decides to act now and rushes the priest. The startled man loses his spell as Kessen grabs his feet and lifts him over the edge of the roof. The priest falls twenty feet to the ground below, and staggers to his feet. He limps across the street as two of the acolytes laugh at the fallen man's apparent lack of coordination.</p><p></p><p>Two constables smirk as well as they pass by the temple, as they watch the injured priest be carried into the temple. The constables and remaining priests eye each other suspiciously until the constables move out of sight. </p><p></p><p>Down the street cloaked in shadow Menthos too is intrigued by the events, he quietly approaches the temple and quickly gets the full attention of the four priests standing there.</p><p></p><p>"Hail stranger, what brings you out on this fine evening?" </p><p></p><p>"I was making sure my friend made it home, he was really drunk and left while I was paying the tab." Menthos replies</p><p></p><p>"Describe this friend of yours."</p><p></p><p>Menthos gives an exact description of Haimish to the priest.</p><p></p><p>"Yes, we met such an individual. He is sleeping off his inebriation, would you like to take him home, he arrived with an ogre friend."</p><p></p><p>"He's sleeping? Well, then I'll let him rest. Keep an eye on that ogre though, he's had trouble with kleptomania before." Menthos replies and heads off to the north.</p><p></p><p>Doopa suddenly becomes aware of a few more eyes staring at him, "Doopa not like this place." He whispers to Haimish </p><p></p><p>"Good, then you'll keep a good eye about you while I inflate the dream cloud." Haimish answers and drifts off to sleep.</p><p></p><p>Menthos wastes no time however in heading off to the Temple of Kador the god of fire, he figures if the temple of the water god is up to something, maybe the temple of the fire god would want to know about it. Even though he had no proof of anything, a little chaos never hurt anyone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hairy Minotaur, post: 3174237, member: 11574"] [b]God of watery eyes?[/b] The rest of the day flies by with each person doing a little sightseeing and supply shopping. Kessen spends most of his time on the north side of the city and locates a bard's college that he makes a mental note to tell Haimish about. The eleventh hour soon arrives and the party, minus Menthos, arrive just outside the Horned Devil. "Looks like they did a blue herring of a clean-up job." Haimish notes The others agree and note that other than the color of the new stain on the bar, you really couldn't tell it wasn't there yesterday. "Appears Menthos heeded your suggestion." Xanthos comments "Yeah, well he'd only slow us down or spend the whole night making sarcastic wise-cracks while the rest of us did all the work." Kessen answers The group walks away to the east, towards Shady Street. Under a watchful eye, two stories above them. "Come back to bed, I have to start my shift in an hour." a sleepy female voice calls out Menthos looks up at the moon and then back down at the party as they reach the intersection with Shady Street a mere forty feet east of the Horned Devil, "Yeah, I got time." Kessen goes over the positions of the players in their scripted parts for the evening. Doopa and Haimish will walk up and down the street together while Turgar walks alone in the opposite direction, so that the three man will cross paths just south of the Temple of Shalimyr. Xanthos shifts into the form of a tabby and runs off to the hiding spot he found earlier, across the street from the temple. Kessen finds the abandoned house he'd marked earlier with a few leaves positioned to point at the house. As midnight approaches, Doopa begins to walk to the south from the north end of the street, while Turgar and Haimish walk from the south end and go north. The whole of the street is two-hundred and forty feet long. Kessen reaches the top of the abandoned building and crouches below the roof's edge trying to stay in the most shadow while still being able to view the front of the temple. As midnight arrives, four robed and armed priests exit the temple of Shalimyr and appear to loiter on the front steps of the temple. Doopa and Haimish slow down as they see the acolytes exit and move their cloaks away from their weapons for easy access. Turgar's view is blocked by the temple itself and so not seeing the acolytes, he maintains his pace. Kessen draws his bow out quietly and creeps along the front of the building, his shoulder brushes against a brick and the sound of stone moving against stone, brings the highlander to a halt. Feeling with his hands in the dark Kessen finds the loose brick along with a small handle with which to pull it out of the wall. Kessen removes the brick and three others around it all with this handle. Peering out of the newly created opening, Kessen can clearly see the whole of the temple along with the guards. He lays nearly prone, raising his body just enough to get the arrowhead centered on a guard, and he waits for their move. Turgar passes the temple and movement catches his eye as he is startled to see the four priests milling about in front of the temple. Turgar keeps his pace though as his body goes on high alert, waiting for the attack from behind as he passes the temple. The attack never comes, and Turgar moves along and passes Doopa and Haimish further south than Kessen wanted. The three men pass in complete darkness forty feet south of the temple. Kessen cursed his luck wondering why Haimish and Doopa had slowed, but being human all he could see clearly was near the temple and the light that it's burning candles gave off. He could see all four priests, but no one else until they pass in front of the temple. Only the sound of footsteps gave him the comfort of knowing the trio still walked the street. Xanthos too braced himself to charge when he saw Turgar pass the temple, the delay in the attack was curious to the centaur. Turgar appeared to not care about the priests and yet they did not attack him. Xanthos wished for a better view of the area and made a mental note to study an owl before next sunset. An animal such as that would be a great benefit at night. The sound of grunting and someone climbing up the back wall of the building alerted Kessen to the approach of someone else. Thinking it to be Menthos and wanting to teach him a lesson, Kessen backs away from the murder hole and crouches in the far corner of the front of the building. He takes aim at the slowly rising figure, a smile crosses his lips as he imagines Menthos' reaction to the warning shot. The face of the intruder appears in the moonlight and Kessen hesitates as it is not Menthos. Soon a holy symbols emerges as well, and Kessen realizes it's a priest of Shalimyr that has joined him. The priest pushes his way to the roof and quickly advances to the murder hole. The priest appears confused with why the murder hole is uncovered, but shrugs his shoulders and sits down to look out over the same area Kessen was watching. The situation had not gotten dire for Kessen, with no way to quietly tell the others about what was going on, and no way to see what was transpiring down below. Doopa and Haimish reached the temple and one of the priests calls out to them. "Ho there! Tis good to see travelers in pairs, this area be quite dangerous after the moon rises." Haimish runs though responses in his head and throws out the only one that he practiced regularly, "Shary, me an me buddee are go'in hoom. Tanks doe." Doopa stops and looks around, disturbed by Haimish's response, he grabs his weapon ready to strike down the caster that turned Haimish into a drunk, because Doopa had not seen the human drink all night. "Whoa there fella. You best be putting that away. I wouldn't want you to not make it home." "Human not know where Doopa live, Doopa can go home whenever Doopa wants." Doopa argues "Well, your actions speak as a man who wants to fight, and we're normally a peace sailing people, but we're more than capable of defending our sacred ground." "Nah, he's juss jumpee. We donna mean no harm. Weel be on our way." Haimish says trying to calm Doopa down "Why human talk funny? Where wizard that did this at? Doopa will smash!" Doopa shouts as he crashes his massive club on the sidewalk next to the temple. Both Kessen and Turgar heard Doopa's shouting. Turgar turned back and began to run towards the temple. Kessen waited and decided to see what the priest with him was going to do. "Your friend there is drunk, there is no sorcery afoot. Perhaps you'd like to sleep it off inside the temple? It would be much safer than trying to get home. You're in no condition to defend yourself meaning your ogre pal would be solo trying to fight off any attackers." Haimish thought it over and wondered what the rest of the party was doing. Concerned that once he gets inside he'd be bum rushed, yet they really had no proof as of yet. Besides Turgar and Kessen were still watching for trouble. Haimish relented and allowed the priests to take him inside the temple followed by an ever vigil Doopa who smashed a candle after backing into it and it burned his back. Turgar raced back to the temple to find Doopa and Haimish gone and only two priests outside the temple. "Looking for someone ogre?" "Um, no. Just getting in some exercise." Turgar replied "Really? 'Cause it looked to me like you were chasing down a mark. Thought you could get an easy score with a drunk human and his concerned friend." a cat's meow echoed over the street as a tabby came out from under a porch while the priest spoke "No, I was merely walking." Turgar answered "I don't think so pal, you walked by here earlier, then after the drunk guy and his buddy pass, you come running back. You look guilty in my eyes, perhaps there is something you wish to confess?" The priest accuses and whistles, bringing six other priests out from the temple. The slowly advancing cat quickly turns and runs back to it's hiding spot "I think I'll be on my way thank you." Turgar responds and quickly heads north "Yeah, you do that, and I don't want to see you around this street again ogre!" The priest yells Xanthos breathes a sigh of relief as Turgar escapes, he considers shifting back to his true form but decides on trying to get a better view of inside the temple and what if anything was going on with Haimish. Xanthos creeps up to the temple steps and peers inside to see Haimish lying down on a cot with Doopa standing over him. Footsteps coming up behind him however, causes Xanthos to skitter away back underneath the porch again. Kessen watches as the priest in front of him shifts and raises his hands as if to cast a spell. Unsure of what was transpiring down below, Kessen decides to act now and rushes the priest. The startled man loses his spell as Kessen grabs his feet and lifts him over the edge of the roof. The priest falls twenty feet to the ground below, and staggers to his feet. He limps across the street as two of the acolytes laugh at the fallen man's apparent lack of coordination. Two constables smirk as well as they pass by the temple, as they watch the injured priest be carried into the temple. The constables and remaining priests eye each other suspiciously until the constables move out of sight. Down the street cloaked in shadow Menthos too is intrigued by the events, he quietly approaches the temple and quickly gets the full attention of the four priests standing there. "Hail stranger, what brings you out on this fine evening?" "I was making sure my friend made it home, he was really drunk and left while I was paying the tab." Menthos replies "Describe this friend of yours." Menthos gives an exact description of Haimish to the priest. "Yes, we met such an individual. He is sleeping off his inebriation, would you like to take him home, he arrived with an ogre friend." "He's sleeping? Well, then I'll let him rest. Keep an eye on that ogre though, he's had trouble with kleptomania before." Menthos replies and heads off to the north. Doopa suddenly becomes aware of a few more eyes staring at him, "Doopa not like this place." He whispers to Haimish "Good, then you'll keep a good eye about you while I inflate the dream cloud." Haimish answers and drifts off to sleep. Menthos wastes no time however in heading off to the Temple of Kador the god of fire, he figures if the temple of the water god is up to something, maybe the temple of the fire god would want to know about it. Even though he had no proof of anything, a little chaos never hurt anyone. [/QUOTE]
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