[The Mythar Resistance] On The Trail

[Lazlow]

Osric pulls his lance up from the ready position and leans it against his shoulder. He then guides Seamus back behind the crowd, staying about two or three (horse) lengths away so as to keep a good watch on them.

He shouts, "Everyone remain calm, and please stay where you are." [OOC: Intimidate +9; not intimidating to scare them, just to convey a strong sense of authority so everyone stays put.]

"Kromgron, I'll take this side, you take that side."

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

"Right," the dwarf says, and goes where Osric directed, eyes open for anything unusual.

 

[The Rolling Man]

Olivia looks concerned. She approaches Uiim. “I can do more than just question them, given time. A murder shifts the patterns of Fate immensely. If this is where he was killed, I could try to reach out and see the murder. This would take at least an hour however. Does it look like he was dragged here for all to see or killed on the spot?” She ponders what she just said and asks another question to Uiim, speaking with a low voice. “But I’m not sure hanging here, acting like the authority figures, is the best idea. What do you plan to do with the culprit, should we capture him or her? Invite him into your group? And what about the rest of them? They are all in danger. Should we tell them to leave their village and join the resistance?”

DM -

Spoiler

Arrgghh, I've just noticed the 1 hour manifesting time for Sensitivity to Psychic Impressions. Also, Olivia asks Eye to try to spot Livius, if it can.

 

[Erekose13]

Tau continues to search the area, seeing that the others have begun to appraoch the crowd. He hopes that among the debris of the burnt building there might be more clues about what happened, particularly tracks.

 

[Keia]

Nassitch (Kobold)

"Dead Huom . . . that's the smell. Bleack," Nassitch commented.

". . . Nassitch, you and Kimble look around and see if you can see any clues to what happened here."

"Okay, Uiim," Nassitch replied. "C'mon Kimble, let's go look for clues. If we're good they may even give us a snack!"

Nassitch and Kimble strike out on a perimeter search, looking for clues.

 

[Ashy]

Olivia looks concerned. She approaches Uiim. “I can do more than just question them, given time. A murder shifts the patterns of Fate immensely. If this is where he was killed, I could try to reach out and see the murder. This would take at least an hour however. Does it look like he was dragged here for all to see or killed on the spot?” She ponders what she just said and asks another question to Uiim, speaking with a low voice. “But I’m not sure hanging here, acting like the authority figures, is the best idea. What do you plan to do with the culprit, should we capture him or her? Invite him into your group? And what about the rest of them? They are all in danger. Should we tell them to leave their village and join the resistance?”

The old gnome looks to Olivia, his face pinched with stress and worry. "We are protecting these folk, Olivia. What do you think that the Mythar will do when they arrive - the death of a Huom resonates across the entire race, I assure you. They will be here soon. It will be best if we can offer them a plausible explanation, or else they will begin by splitting open the minds of all these poor people in order to find the killer.

It will get worse from there.

But the Mythar are lazy, Olivia. If we can offer them an explanation of what happened here, they might only question us, and leave the others be."

Uiim sighs, trying to take the harsh edge from his voice. He speaks gently, apologetically, "Thank you, Olivia, for offering to look back and see what happened here. I may well take you up on that offer in a moment, but first we need to make sure that no one here is responsible as well as contain the crowd."

 

[Ferrix]

A restless hush falls amongst the crowd, bowing to the presence of an authority figure, like they have their entire lives. That is, except for one woman who has seen many years muscles her way through the crowd to the front, "who do ye all think you are?" Her tone accusing everyone present, "bringing this down upon us, you all know right well what will happen once the Mythar find out about this." She is cut short by a buxom girl who comes up behind her, placing an arm on her shoulder. "Cherai, it's okay, we don't need to be causing any more trouble than there already is. Come now, we shouldn't be standing around when these men are going to be dealing with it."

The girl begins to walk the woman away from the crowd when a ripple of murmers surge through the crowd, "has anyone seen Cantus?" "Haven't seen him." "Think he did this?" "Couldn't be." The murmers continue but the old woman turns back to the crowd, "it very surely could have been that boy, he was tainted I say!" Her voice shaking as her volume raises, however she is drowned out by the growing well of noise from the crowd, and she is pulled into one of the shacks by the girl. A lad runs off, apparently to check the house where Cantus lives, in a minute he's back, out of breath and noticeably paler, "he ain't there... and Madgie..." Seemingly traumatized he stops, shaking his head.

A miner by the name of Livius steps forward from the crowd, "if'n he killed the Huom he's done us a service. But what is it you say of his mother?" The boy turns towards Livius, "she's dead... her...stomach, it's all ripped apart."

Tau:

Spoiler

Despite your lack of experience dealing with charred embers of houses, you do notice an odd filmy residue on some of the less destroyed beams. Examining it closer, it's not oil or anything along those lines but you have no idea what it could be. Otherwise though you do not make out any footprints, the floorboards having been reduced to ash, and no one was seemingly moving around within the remains.

Log-a-Log:

Spoiler

Scouting around town you basically come to the conclusion that most of the townsfolk are gathered near the burnt house. You don't really encounter anything out of the ordinary.

Nassitch:

Spoiler

As you begin circumnavigating the crowd of people, you can make out that most of the people are restless and ill-at-ease with the authoritarian presence of Osric, Uiim and the rest of the troupe. On the ground though it seems like any sort of tracks were obscured by the mass movement of the crowd.

 

[Erekose13]

After he has finished a thurough investigation, Tau returns to Uiim to make his report, "Not much let in there, no signs that point to anyone have been left after such an intense fire. There was something on the wooden beams, but I have no idea what it is." He stops as everyone in the crowd is now speaking. When the boy lets out what he has seen, Tau asks the young man to show him to the house, outside of which Tau will start looking for tracks.

 

[Keia]

Nassitch (Kobold)

Nassitch meandered through the perimeter of the small village, calling to Kimble on occasion. At other times Kimble would sniff at something and Nassitch would come running to see if he had found anything.

Disheartened, Nassitch came with Kimble to report to Uiim. "No tracks-es can be found that weren't all messied up with the people's walking here and about. Too much commotion for finding clues . . . did find a rabbit hole though," Nassitch explained.

After a growl from Kimble, Nassitch explained further, "Well, Kimble found it first he did, I made sures that's what it was."

 

[Ashy]

A restless hush falls amongst the crowd, bowing to the presence of an authority figure, like they have their entire lives. That is, except for one woman who has seen many years muscles her way through the crowd to the front, "who do ye all think you are?" Her tone accusing everyone present, "bringing this down upon us, you all know right well what will happen once the Mythar find out about this." She is cut short by a buxom girl who comes up behind her, placing an arm on her shoulder. "Cherai, it's okay, we don't need to be causing any more trouble than there already is. Come now, we shouldn't be standing around when these men are going to be dealing with it."

The girl begins to walk the woman away from the crowd when a ripple of murmers surge through the crowd, "has anyone seen Cantus?" "Haven't seen him." "Think he did this?" "Couldn't be." The murmers continue but the old woman turns back to the crowd, "it very surely could have been that boy, he was tainted I say!" Her voice shaking as her volume raises, however she is drowned out by the growing well of noise from the crowd, and she is pulled into one of the shacks by the girl. A lad runs off, apparently to check the house where Cantus lives, in a minute he's back, out of breath and noticeably paler, "he ain't there... and Madgie..." Seemingly traumatized he stops, shaking his head.

A miner by the name of Livius steps forward from the crowd, "if'n he killed the Huom he's done us a service. But what is it you say of his mother?" The boy turns towards Livius, "she's dead... her...stomach, it's all ripped apart."

Uiim runs his hand over his bald head and tries to be nice, but those of you that know him know that he truly dislikes repeating himself, particullarly when there is not much time to explain in the first place. Nevertheless, the old gnome turns and addresses the gathered throng.

"One and all. We not do presume to hold any authority in this scenario, but by acting with some decisiveness, we are hopefully shielding all of you from any form of backlash from the Mythar. We know well the way they work and the way they think; we know that once they arrive they will want an explanation. If a plausible one is not given, they will begin breaking into your minds, digging out the information they desire in a most...unpleasant manner."

"We hope to provide this answer to them for you, thus absolving you of any responsibility."

"However, we need to know what you know to make this happen, so please help us help you and tell us what you feel we should know. Please, tell us more about this Cantus and his mother; please tell us why you thought he might be involved in the death of this Huom."

The old gnome can only hope that his words do not fall on deaf ears.