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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Amaroq" data-source="post: 1269607" data-attributes="member: 15470">Issue #2: The Tower. Episode 8While the five of us are searching the underground area, Chuck starts interrogating the prisoners. He removes the gag from one of the uninjured captives. “Who are you?” he demands aggressively, but the prisoner just glares at him. There is no response.“Why are you here?” Chuck asks, but the prisoner turns his head away and refuses to answer.“Look at me!” Chuck demands, using his right hand to force the outlaw to comply. “Who is the woman?” he asks. The bandit spits in his face, and Chuck angrily jams the gag back into his mouth.“Let me try,” Saraya suggests, laying one hand calmingly on Chuck’s shoulder. Shaking his head, Chuck turns the interrogation of the prisoners over to Saraya, stalking away to watch out the front door of the tower.Saraya leaves the angry bandit, and removes the gag from the mouth of the wounded one. She treats his injuries, removing the arrow from his shoulder, and then starts bandaging him. While she works, she asks, “Why are you here, what are you up to?” There is a trusting curiosity in her soft voice, as though she were talking to a long-time friend. He looks at her, and nods to himself, as though deciding that she is worthy of answers in a way which Chuck wasn’t. “That woman, Delonia, she hired us to smuggle these goods,” he tells her. “What kind of stuff are you smuggling?” she asks. “We go down to the marshes,” he says, “We take some iron and goods and weapons and trade them to a rat man, who gives us chests to bring back. We don’t have any idea what’s in the chests, we just got paid to bring 'em back.” Saraya has a pretty face, and she seems to be having more success with her soft singer’s voice than Chuck had. “How long have you been doing this?” she asks. “A couple of months,” he says, with a shrug. “The pay’s good.” He turns his most earnest smile on her “You can let us go now,” he assures her.Saraya has finished bandaging his wounds. She looks around their environs doubtfully. “What can you tell us about this tower?” she asks, as though frightened of it.“I dunno,” he says. “It’s been here a long time. Let us go!”“What’s behind the big stone door down there?” she asks. “There's a bunch of ghouls back...” One of his fellow prisoners elbows him in the ribs, and he trails off abruptly. When he next speaks, he says with feigned nonchalance, “Oh, that's where our treasure is.” He tries imploring her with his eyes. “If we tell you where the treasure is, will you let us go? We promise we won’t hurt you anymore, if you let us go. We were just getting paid to do a job – whatever she and the boss, that half-orc, said.” Saraya asks, “How much longer were you going to work for her?”“As long as she paid us,” he says.“Were you supposed to go down to the swamp soon?” she asks.“No,” he responds, “We just got back from the swamp a couple of weeks ago. We were waiting for someone to pick up the chest.”“Who picks up the chest?” Saraya asks.“A guy in a boat picks up the chest and brings another chest of weapons and stuff. We take that chest to the swamp, trade it for another chest, bring the new chest to the tower, give it to the guy in the boat, get another chest from him, take that to the swamp, bring another chest back, give it to the guy in the boat...”He sounds like he would continue that run-on sentence indefinitely, until she interrupts him. “When does the guy in the boat come?”“He comes on the new moon,” he tells her, and then asks, “You could let us go now, right?”Saraya turns away with disgust only half-concealed in her eyes, and says, “Gag them,” in a cold, hard voice, utterly unlike the soft-spoken compassion with which she had spoken to him. Chuck gags the prisoner, and then ties all four of them in a circle. He and Saraya wait for the rest of the party to find them.</blockquote>

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