To Con the Con-man

[HolyMan]

The servant looks unhurt just a little shaken by the blast. "The master he was working and something went wrong. I think... I think his magical device exploded. Please help him! Find him!" the man says before someone comes to take him a way and see to him.

Alex, Alden, Tio, and Hera stand before the tower as smoke bellows from it's upper floor. The door to the lower area stands open at the top of the stone stairs and free of smoke.

OOC: Whose is first?

 

[Zerith]

OoC: Alexander pritty much speed himself up and then started up towards the explosion before anyone else made up their minds about what to do.

 

[HolyMan]

OOC: Need to let me know what spell you casted. And those are intended actions not completed (i.e. searching) but if no one else posts up he will be first in.

 

[Axel]

Puffing slightly from his dash to the tower, Alden faced Tio and returned the smile. "Ahm no wizard, but I'd like't know'f ma house was 'bout ta burn down. Even 'f I couldn'ae see't."

Turning to the servant, he gave him a gentle push toward the outside. "Git out'ta here man. Jus' wait for's at th'pub eh. Don' s'pose y'ave any blankets 'r similar round 'bouts?"

Alden glanced with trepidation at the front door to the tower. I don't fancy the elf's chances in there... Still, Lord high-and-mighty has decided to go in. Stupid git...hope he gets himself stuck. Then I can "save" him and retire with eight thousand gold!

 

[Zerith]

OoC: Expeditious retreat, although he is using it like "expeditious charge"

 

[Herobizkit]

Tio raised an eyebrow, first looking at the expression on Alden's face, then at the door itself. "Do you... do you see the tower there? The one that's all smoky and... um... tall?"

"Ummm... Are we just gong to stand here, then...?" He said after a brief pause. "Not very heroic, if you ask me, but I'm sure things will work out in the end."

"How about you, Hera? Fancy a round of stand-about while His Lordship saves the day?"

OOC: I completely forgot this until I looked at my character sheet and saw the picture I chose for the portrait. I was originally going to emulate the character of Miguel from The Road to El Dorado. I need to play Tio more fast and loose with a bit of a sense of humour, not this tight-arsed Solider-boy I've been making him out to be so far.

 

[HolyMan]

Alex is followed by the others into the stone tower and they quickly (though not as fast as Alex) run up the stone steps to the top floor.

Inside the room Alex sees a strange device that looks like two hollow rings set one inside the other. Bothe rings spin sowly in opposite directions and in the center is only darkness as smoke pours from the center, as if coming from some otherworldly area. An odd weather vane sits atop the device spinning wildly to and fro.

A desks and bookshelves line the outer walls as the odd device is in the center of the room. Most of the books and papers lie scattered on the floor tossed about by the explosion. But nowwhere in the room does Alex see the half-elf wizard.

OCC: Spot and Listen checks from everyone as you enter the room please.

 

[Megan Voss]

: "Well, I'd hate to see him do all the work."

Sarcastic and passive. Hera was more than happy to let Alexander do most of the 'footwork'. She was more interested in her surroundings.

"What is this place?"

She held in awe and moved not an inch. Curiosity was a tease indeed. Today was a day of spectacle. A a spectacle was brewing quickly.

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ooc: if unopposed, assume 'take 10'. if opposed...

 

[Herobizkit]

"Well, now, that's more like it," Tio smiled as the group ventured carefully into elf magic territory. He glanced all about, looking for potions and musty tomes and rat skulls and other wizardly accoutrements.

OOC: And so curious was he, that he forgot to look forward or listen up! *lol*

 

[Axel]

Alden raised one eyebrow and looked at Tio in an amused way, with a big smile on his face. " 'eroic, eh? D'no what yer talkin' 'bout. I is quite 'appy for th'git to get 'iself burned and proper buggered up. Still, we gotta job t'do..."

With a small, resigned sigh he stepped across the threshold and took in the, well, unusual scene before him. To Hera, he responds, "It be jus' a room. I be wond'rin' what all tha' crap is though. 'specially th'spinny things. Them be weird."