Vengeance in Mornonas

[doghead]

Xavier Roces, Servant of Heironeous.

ooc: Whoops. So it was. I'll edit it.

At Oculus's words, for they were obviously intended to be heard, Xavier daws a long slow breath. He entertains visions of running the irritating man through with his sword, and for that he will have to do penance tonight. A price worth paying. And he smiles wryly to himself as he heads away from the church.

But darker thoughts follow. Xavier has doubts. The warrior servants of Hieroneous are not some wind up toy, to be set upon anyone with the simple cry of "Look, evil!" Too often it has been tried, and too often, for even once is too often, it has been successful. And Xavier is well aware that there are those in the city that would dearly love to see the Church tied to some butchery of some city official and a few guards and the embroilled in scandle. Xavier does not think Jasper is one of those, but he cannot help but wonder if someone is working Jasper.

And if there is some dark forces at work here, then Xavier will personnally give Jasper and his petulant companion a good beating for being so stupid as to have squandered this opportunity to have gained an ally.

 

[silentspace]

"Well... at least we know where that Xavier character stands. Anyone can proclaim their devotion to Heironeous, or any other deity, for that matter. But actions speak louder than words."

Without giving it another thought, Oculus heads below to join the others.

 

[Ferrix]

Dai nods in agreement to Karn, he has come to like the old soldier and would find it quite hard to see him perish. He will follow Solomon, he doesn't care about Xavier, he's focused on what is at hand and the nobleman seems as bad as those who would buy up his people at the auctions.

 

[silentspace]

After heading down the stairs and crossing the bridge, Oculus joins up with the others. Seeing Solomon's wounds, he offers up a prayer to Fharlanghn, and heals his wounds.

"Before we continue onward, I must let you know that I don't have much healing power left. Just a few minor orisons, and that's it. If today is the day that we gain our vengeance for the people of Prumen, then we must strike quickly, and strike hard.

"If this area is what we expect it to be, I suspect there will be a guard somewhere up ahead. I doubt there will be more than one. Solomon, Dai, though I know it will be hard, I want to ask you not to kill the guard outright. If there is a guard, just one guard or maybe two, try to act like you are friends, and don't attack, just defend. That will give Jasper and I a chance to charm the guard, and we will gain knowledge of this place and its inhabitants. Of course, if there are more than two guards, then we'll all attack to kill. But maybe Dai can strike to subdue, and maybe we can capture one and learn something from him."

Dropping command and obscuring mist to cast 2 cure light wounds.

Cleric Spells (DC 11 +spell level)
0 (3) : Create Water, Detect Magic, Resistance
1 (1+1+d): Command, Obscuring Mist, Entropic Shield (d)

Wizard Spells (DC 14 +spell level)
0 (4+d) : Daze, Dancing Lights, Prestidigitation, Ghost Sound, Mage Hand (d)
1 (2+1+d): Charm Person, Magic Missile, Ray of Enfeeblement,
Expeditious Retreat (d)

 

[Manzanita]

Solomon Kreel

"Thank you Oculon. I will bear you suggestion in mind. It looked to me, though, that the tracks were a full day old. I suspect the orcs and priest fled the building soon after killing Tellic. They may well be miles from here. I will scout ahead, and you trail behind, with the light source. It is difficult for me to strike w/o killing. I'll see how it goes."

Solomon then heads out to scout in front of the party. He periodically drops to check the tracks.

 

[silentspace]

Oculus nods.

"I understand how you feel. But if we have the opportunity, try refrain from taking your vengeance right away. Our charms have a much greater chance of working if the targets aren't attacked.

"And if we can learn more of the enemy, we can learn how and where to strike to hurt them the most, while avoiding traps such as the one we've already seen."

 

[DarkMaster]

The elven lady warmly smiles at Xavier when he opens the main door of the temple and leaves it. The sun is now straight above their heads, and the street in front of them is crowded with worker taking a break to go to lunch. As they get out of the old temple a few commoner looks at the couple with suspicsious look, but continue their ways without really saying or doing anything. The elven lady now pressing a bit against Xavier add "Sir, what about going back to the castle. All these adventure really opened up my appetite" Her beautiful eyes are sparkling with joy and admiration for Xavier.

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Solomon feels the usual tingeling of healing magic as Oculus operates his magic on Solomon (OOC 2+1, 5+1). Solomon feels the wound in his legs partly closing and cleaning up and his broken ribs suddenly stop hurting.

Karn listen carefully to Solomon's order. Then holding with his right hand the half-orc shoulder,"You can count on me, but promise me that when your blade thrust Gror heart, you tell him that this is for all the inocent that he killed." The old men looks at Solomon like if it was the last time he sees him. Solomon can discern water in the old men eyes. Whiping the "dust" ( ) from his eyes he turns and heads back as fast as his old legs allow him towards Uncle Joe's house.

Solomon silently climbs down the stairs to the sewer. There is a small sidewalk on the left side of the sewer allowing him to walk without getting wet. On his right the sewer ends with a grate. (listen 5+7 DC 10) He can hear the dirty water falling from this orrifice. From his location he estimates that the sewer drops in the King's river, and by the sound he estimates that the drop is at least 40'feet. On the right the sewers end with a T intersection. The sound of the nearby falling water makes it difficult to hear anything coming from within the sewer and the various manhole leading up to the street are also affecting his Darkvision. He kneeled down to look at the traces. (survival roll 17+7) He notices hundreds of foot steps and other clue indicating that this area is frequently used. Most of the track were made by medium humanoid, a very few by large humanoid. He also noticed that horses recently passed by this area. The foot steps seems to go in all the directions(In and out of the sewer).

 

[Manzanita]

Solomon Kreel

Solomon will head right, to the T intersection, and look both directions. He'll try to see which direction was used most recently.

 

[DarkMaster]

Solomon follows the path for about 40 feet before reaching the intersection. The light coming from the man hole are preventing his darkvision to work effectively (OOC I know it's a "house" rule, or like I prefer to say a more refine rule on Darkvision).

As he gets to the intersection, he peaks on both sides. (hide roll 5+8, mov sil 14+8, spot 4+7, listen 18+7 ) On the left the corridor continues straight for at least 50', on his right he notices what seems to be a heavy bolted wooden door about 70' away. Two torch burning with a greenish fire are placed on both sides of the door. Through the sound of the falling water behind him, he discerns the sounds of people shouting and metalic object hitting each other. Solomon can barely hears it, so he can't discerns how many peoples are talking or what they say.

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The rest of the group is still waiting for Solomon ontop of the rope ladder, outside the sewer.

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OOC waiting to see what Xavier will do to continue the part outside the temple.

 

[doghead]

Xavier Roces, Servant of Heironeous.

OOC: sorry, couldn't connect for a while for some reason.

The elven lady warmly smiles at Xavier when he opens the main door of the temple and leaves it. The sun is now straight above their heads, and the street in front of them is crowded with worker taking a break to go to lunch. As they get out of the old temple a few commoner looks at the couple with suspicsious look, but continue their ways without really saying or doing anything. The elven lady now pressing a bit against Xavier add "Sir, what about going back to the castle. All these adventure really opened up my appetite" Her beautiful eyes are sparkling with joy and admiration for Xavier.

"Then the castle it is. Shall we."

But Xavier doesn't intend to spend any time there. Once back at the castle he will excuse himself in order to change, then head back here. He plans to get on with his original plan, and do some asking around in the area around the church. From what he can make out, there seemed to have been some sort of fight around here somewhere yesterday. If there is any truth in what Master Conrad told him, then it shouldn't be hard to get some sort of confirmation.

So Xavier is relieved that Jt'trialiala wishes to return to the castle. He is uncomfortable with her willingness to jump to conclusions and pass judgement. He decides to keep his intentions to himself, and to finish this alone.