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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jon Potter" data-source="post: 2543265" data-attributes="member: 2323">[PLAIN][Realms #319] Search and Destroy[/PLAIN]Huair was the only one in a position to do anything about the fleeing man. He reached into the scroll organizer at his hip and produced a piece of particular piece of parchment. "Lubrico!" he intoned, pointing at a spot just in front of the door at the end of the hall. The floorboards there instantly glistened with Grease in the lamplight.The running man's front foot contacted the area and immediately went out from underneath him. He landed hard on his back and his own momentum carried him unceremoniously into the door, where he lay for a moment, gasping for breath.Still invisible, Huzair grinned widely as his scroll crumpled to dust."There's trouble," Morier said upon hearing the commotion in the hallway. Karak reacted quickly, moving toward the door with his axe ready.Ledare, however, surveyed the carnage they had wrought in the room and grimaced. Certainly, during the course of performing her duties, she'd righteously dispatched many enemies, but something about this assault rubbed her wrong. These folk had been taken completely unawares and were without armor or weapons. It felt more like murder than warfare.She was startled out of her own thoughts by a rush of air as Feln slipped passed her invisibly.Feln reached the doorway two paces before Karak and darted silently passed him. He couldn't see Huzair, of course, but he was easily able to dodge around Hildegunna and barrel down the corridor toward the stunned man. He'd just hoisted him into the air  - becoming visible in the process - and was about to snap his pathetic neck when Feln heard Ledare holler, "Stop!"Morier moved toward the half-ogre and his intended victim with one hand held out in a warding gesture. "Feln, let's not be too hasty to assume the intentions of those we encounter here... It would be a shame to come this far to rescue the girl and have her fall victim to a misunderstanding.""What?" Feln asked, crestfallen. The man in his hand was very pale and very still and his eyes were wild with panic."I think he means we might be able to learn something from a live captive," Huzair's disembodied voice said from somewhere nearby. Under his breath, the mage snidely added, "I guess he forgot how well that went last time.""I am maintaining the upper hand, these people will not stop to interogate us," the martial artist said sheepishly."We're here to find Shamalin, not to kill everyone in our path," Ledare said as she walked down the corridor. "We're not murderers!""Yeah!" Lela said as she landed on Feln's shoulder. "We're heroes.""Perhaps we should take this man into one of these rooms and leave the ladies outside to stand watch," Huzair's voice hissed into Feln's other ear - loud enough for the man in Feln's grasp to hear. "If he talks, he'll not be killed. If he doesn't... well let's hope he talks."That started the man squirming in fear and Feln cast him heavily to the ground between himself and Ledare. "Bah!" he growled. "I don't see interogation happening until we have secured this manor. We've no time for this."Just then - as if to lend credence to the martial artist's assessment - the sound of many feet approaching the door at the end of the corridor at a brisk pace was heard."It's a bit late to say this," Hildegunna remarked to Ledare, "but you do realize that having a goal is not the same as having a plan, don't you?"</blockquote>

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