[Vile] Puppy-Kicking PCs at Work, part 2

[Serpenteye]

Current, In the forest north of Taeirn, heading deeper within

Girdra puts her relatively small hand over Alicia’s own when she touches her shoulder, apparently happy with the bond they’re forming. She says “Well, we should be careful of the ‘pretty’ ones. It’s the prettiest berries with the deadliest poison in them, you know. And my Brie is a goblin, too. Unless ‘Brie’ is very common in goblin society, it’s probably the same one. Once a month I sell her a few potions, and perform some other services. I normally detest goblins, but she’s more civil than most. Richer than most, too. But you don’t have to come with me there, if you don’t want to see her. I know she can be mean to her girls, so I guess she was mean to you as well?”

"No, no, Brie was good and nice, but maybe I should not see her again yet. She said to stay away, unless I had to." She's visibly thinking. "I have some other things to do that maybe I should do instead. I need some potions."

After a short walk, the two come upon a clearing, with a large grass and weed-covered mound in the center. Girdra says “I didn’t expect any visitors quite your size when I made my home, so you’d probably be more comfortable waiting right here. I shan’t be long.” The dwarf moves to some particular tall weeds, spreads them apart, and disappears through them, apparently going through an entrance into the mound. Alicia looks around and sees something she recognizes; at the other end of the clearing stands the ‘wicked’ man. The ‘stick puppet’ is standing next to a large bush, with a tree with hanging vines next to them. For a moment, Alicia thinks she sees the creature move again, but in fact, it’s the vines hanging down that are moving, acting like very slow moving tentacles, breaking off pieces of the bush to add to the stick puppet, apparently replacing the branches torn off by Alicia’s sword the previous day.

Alicia stays behind, deciding against trying to squeeze her way in trough that narrow passage. She peeks in curiously, but spotting the stick puppet in the corner of her eye she turns towards it suspiciously. She begins to walk towards it, but detecting no sign of hostility she stops and just looks in fascination as it's being slowly rebuilt.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Accalon Darcanda: Human/Male (Unholy Warrior)

Flashback, Madame Brie’s whorehouse

Accalon gives a reassuring smile as he tries to address the two young whores concerns, “Loni is basically correct Bea, I simply cannot wait for you to lose your ever so charming looks, I’m sure I’ll find my last battle long before that happens.” Accalon pauses for a second as he waits for his compliment to affect the young lady, “but dreams are precious so Loni has also misspoken, we must wait and move cautiously forward, Brie has often work to me that will bring me quite a sum, I doubt it will be enough to satisfy Brie when it comes to the both of you, but hopefully it will be a reasonable start as I imagine it would take are combined efforts to gather that amount of coins.”

Hugging each girl tenderly Accalon watches them with adoring eyes, “That is how I would like to make both of your dreams come true…" Accalon gives a dismissing sigh as he finishes his words, "So maybe it is silly.”

OOC: Diplomacy maybe? Pulling at their heartstrings to try to draw them in deeper to his web…

 

[Telsar]

Flashback, Madame Brie’s whorehouse

A look of relief falls over Beatrice’s face. “You wish to buy us from Brie! That’s so much better than what I thought you meant.” She kisses Accalon’s cheek, “That is so sweet. But still, a silly thing. She’d charge you an arm and leg for two of her best… um, I mean, for two healthy girls. She’s sold girls who weren’t working out before, and usually for a large sum. No, no… don’t spend your hard earned money on us. Well, not that much money, anyway.” She lays her head against Accalon’s shoulder.

On his lap, Loni looks at him, smiling. But the smile seems to mask something; Accalon gets the feeling the whore is mulling over his words in her head. After a few seconds, she seems to realize she’s staring at him, and puts her head on his other shoulder, saying “Silly dreams are fun sometimes, aren’t they? Bea’s right, that would be too much for anyone to spend. But, in this dream, I guess we’d slowly pay you back. That’s what you meant by her being madame, and me working for her, right?”

[Diplomacy rolled 3+13=16. So, went by their personalities instead of Accalon's diplomacy. ]


Current, In a clearing in the forest north of Taeirn

After about fifteen minutes, Alicia sees the grass start to move where Girdra had entered her home, and within seconds she sees the dwarf emerge, wearing a large backpack. She sees where Alicia is looking and says “You cut him pretty bad, didn’t you? But don’t worry, he doesn’t hold much of a grudge.” Girdra also has a small bag she throws the half-ogre. She says “Nuts. The ones I mentioned. Try not to eat them all at once, just a few at a time until you feel up to full health. Now, you said you wanted to buy potions in town? Town potions aren’t as good as mine. I have quite a few on me, I’d happily sell you. There’s a lot of people in town, prominent, powerful people, who prefer mine over what they sell there. I can’t sell too many to you, since I have to save the ones my customers expect, but what were you looking for? And should we head straight to town, or see if your clawed friend wants to join us?”

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Accalon Darcanda: Human/Male (Unholy Warrior)

Laying back some more to make it more comfortable for the two girls resting upon his shoulders, and also for his own comfort, Accalon slowly and tenderly brushes each girl’s soft silky hair.

“Dearest you have no idea how much I like the idea of you two slowly paying me back as you so seductively hint at, but sadly my dreams are not all noble as they have a selfish twist to them too… I wouldn’t mind retiring to something simpler than adventuring, but my talents lay only with the blade. I would need something to invest in for a simple source of income, and I think a boardinghouse with the two of you in charge could be just the thing. Bea would be the madame, I would be the silent partner and you Loni would be the companion we both seek, their would be no more johns, well at least after we found some other lovely ladies.”

He looks slightly worried as he continues to brush their tresses, “I’ve seen boardinghouses where the owner was kind and compassionate, the girls where respected as individuals and not as property… I would like to try and mimic that but only if you two want to share this dream.”

OOC: and I thank you for it..

 

[Cepter]

Sunedilar al Hazir, Human/Male Fighter

Sunedilar clenches his teeth in frustration at his inability to hit anything, but pursues the fleeing wizard, his chain flying out to pull his legs out from under him.

(move and trip, or full attack again if I can't get close enough for a trip)

 

[Serpenteye]

Current, In a clearing in the forest north of Taeirn

After about fifteen minutes, Alicia sees the grass start to move where Girdra had entered her home, and within seconds she sees the dwarf emerge, wearing a large backpack. She sees where Alicia is looking and says “You cut him pretty bad, didn’t you? But don’t worry, he doesn’t hold much of a grudge.” Girdra also has a small bag she throws the half-ogre. She says “Nuts. The ones I mentioned. Try not to eat them all at once, just a few at a time until you feel up to full health. Now, you said you wanted to buy potions in town? Town potions aren’t as good as mine. I have quite a few on me, I’d happily sell you. There’s a lot of people in town, prominent, powerful people, who prefer mine over what they sell there. I can’t sell too many to you, since I have to save the ones my customers expect, but what were you looking for? And should we head straight to town, or see if your clawed friend wants to join us?”

Alicia keeps looking at the construct thoughtfully, "That's strong magic. Powerful. Dead branches and reeds given life and strength. Wizards are fragile, but their work is strong." She looks at Girdra, continuing her rambling musings "Powerful magic stuff makes powerful people more powerful. I need... power."
"Claw-man stays in camp, this must be quick and easy. Do you know any place where much magic and money is to be stolen? Some shop or mansion that's not guarded too good? You have many customsers... I know Brie has some money and no protection that counts, but Brie is good-goblin..."
She stares blindly into the distance for a moment, then she opens the bag of nuts and starts eating. "I have some silvers..." She puts the bag of nuts in one of her pockets and begins rummaging around in her backpack after her money. Eventually, she pulls out the pouch Brie gave her (ooc: iIrc 500sp), hands it over to Girdra and asks, "How many good potions can I get for this?"

 

[Telsar]

Flashback, Madame Brie’s whorehouse

Beatrice chuckles a bit. “No more johns? Ah, I get it now. You don’t like sharing the two of us with other men.” In a very seductive, playful tone she says to Accalon, “You’d really pay so much to keep us all to yourself?” Apparently, Bea doesn’t expect an answer, as she kisses Accalon for quite some time, a long passionate kiss. Finally, she removes her lips from his to say “Mmmm…. I do like this dream.”

Meanwhile, Loni runs her soft hands over both of her bathtub companions. Accalon looks to her, perhaps expecting a return of her hesitancy, especially when Beatrice kisses him, but there seems to be none. Her hands and body caress both with the skill of years of experience, but Accalon realizes that Loni never takes her eyes away from his. In fact, just going by her eyes, she doesn’t even care that Beatrice is there, only caring about reading Accalon’s thoughts through his facial expressions. After Bea says what she does, Loni adds “I like it, too. But it would take a lot of planning, we wouldn’t want to do anything hasty.” Accalon gets the impression her words have some sort of hidden meaning, but then she smiles and says “Now’s not a good time to do anything hasty.” She continues with her slow, gentle, and expert caressing.

[OOC We don’t need to go blow-by-blow on your lovemaking, of course. When you have nothing else to say or ask the girls, let me know, and we’ll advance to something else]


Current, In a clearing in the forest north of Taeirn

[Alicia’s bag has 300 gp and 500 sp]

Girdra looks into Alicia’s pouch and says, “Oh, a few for that, if they aren’t too powerful.” She stops for a moment, apparently thinking, then a big wide grin crosses her face. “Oh, but I just remembered the perfect place for you to get potions and gold, both! You’d have to be able to fight a half dozen men or more. Think you can do that?” She looks up at the sun, and adds “Oooh! But we will have to hurry.” She starts trekking back through the forest, still holding Alicia’s bag of coins, first saying to her Wicker Man “Make sure no one gets in my mound until I return.”

The dwarf is walking quickly through the forest, and assuming Alicia follows, Girdra says to her “I know where some stupid men are buying some stupid potions from,” she spits on the ground “a really stupid man. Should be plenty for you, if you’re strong enough to take it.”



Current, Outside Boone’s Antiques

T’aria continues following the two sneaking men, still fifteen feet to their rear, and has yet to be noticed by them.

[OOC Hope she didn’t mind, that’s the simplest decision to NPC for her. Rolled Move Silently 10+9=19.]

Sunedilar sees the wizard disappear behind a crystal shop, but since he is out of sight, he has no way to judge where he is. Moving around a wagon that’s unfortunately in his path, he eventually sees the wizard cowering at the side of the building, and begins to swing his chain to make an attack.

[Unfortunately, if you look at the map, you can see it takes more than a single move to reach him, and you can’t charge since there’s both a wagon and the crystal shop between you, so Sunedilar just did a double move to within 10 feet of the wizard.]

Lydia draws her weapon and waits for the wizard to answer her challenge.

[Isida’s post only mentioned drawing her weapon, not doing anything with the other half of her action (unless stepping back meant moving more than 5 feet), so I’m assuming she’s delaying. She can do a standard action whenever she wants]

The wizard, Azallin, seems to shake off the fear induced by Lydia’s spell, saying “That cursed witch will suffer for that!” He looks to Sunedilar and says “And you will get to stand and watch it!”. He takes a few steps back, then pulls out a bag of some kind and hurls it at the warrior. It hits him and bursts, covering him in a sticky gunk that makes movement difficult, although Sunedilar manages to pull his feet free as the stuff almost sticks him to the ground.

[Sunedilar is effectively entangled (-2 to attack, -4 Dex) but is not stuck to the ground (he rolled Reflex save 19+2=21) and may move at half speed.]

Meanwhile, Accalon sees all of this going on, and moves cautiously towards Azallin. The wizard says to him “Ah! Good! Someone to witness my power. These fools dared defy me, and now I’ll show them the cost of their temerity.”

[Accalon made a double move, rolled Bluff 17+7=24, Azallin doesn’t seem to consider him a threat.]

At Boone’s, Aligor, looking around the building, still sees no sign of Hex, but he does see a pony-drawn wagon moving behind a used armor shop, which isn’t all that significant until he notices two people moving stealthily behind it.

[Aligor rolled Spot 19]


[Characters by initiative, damage:
Aligor, HPs:27/37
Bane, unhurt
Men with short swords, unhurt
T’aria, unhurt (probably; she’s at HPs: 5/13 with no healing)
Sundilar, unhurt
Lydia, HPs:10/20
Hectaras, unhurt
Azallin, hurt
Accalon, HPs:29/32]

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Accalon Darcanda: Human/Male (Unholy Warrior)

Flashback

With a lusty smile of agreement at Bea’s words Accalon turns to Loni, a small touch of reassurance in his otherwise lusty smile, “Oh I grow to distracted by you ladies continued nakedness to think of any plans…”

His words end quickly, disappear into the deep passionate kisses he bestows upon Loni. Finally he breaks from her lips, his dark green eyes maintaining their focus on Loni’s blue eyes as he address the other whore, “Bea, how does this cuddling that you spoke so fondly between you and Loni go? And is their room for a third in this cuddling?”

OOC: Quite right, after Loni’s reaction to the knowledge that Accalon knows of the cuddling you can cut to afterwards. Accalon needs to shop, herbs and such, and also find someone of his own faith… I’m sure there is a dark unspoken element in the city and that Accalon would know how to contact them. Finding the knowledge is more important at the moment. Of course the girls might need to say something afterwards also so take your time.

Current, Outside Boone’s Antique Shop

Accalon remains quite as he approaches closer still, not sure how to answer the wizard’s bold claim, his green eyes light up in surprise at the bag burst at Sunedilar’s feet and he quickly moves in the other direction, but still in a round about way to the wizard. At the last moment Accalon draws his Spatha and tries to stick the pointy end in the wizard.

OOC: Accalon continues towards Azallin, but with a round about path to hopefully not to make himself such a threat. He has 10 feet to kill and he draws the Spatha as part of that movement. He’ll use his other half action to attack Azallin.

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

*Seeing the wizard too affected by the fear of Wee Jas to come to her, Lydia comes to him, her mace raised high to crash down upon his feeble skull.*

[OOC - Going after the wizard, attempting to bash his skull in.]

 

[Serpenteye]

Current, In a clearing in the forest north of Taeirn

[Alicia’s bag has 300 gp and 500 sp]

Girdra looks into Alicia’s pouch and says, “Oh, a few for that, if they aren’t too powerful.” She stops for a moment, apparently thinking, then a big wide grin crosses her face. “Oh, but I just remembered the perfect place for you to get potions and gold, both! You’d have to be able to fight a half dozen men or more. Think you can do that?” She looks up at the sun, and adds “Oooh! But we will have to hurry.” She starts trekking back through the forest, still holding Alicia’s bag of coins, first saying to her Wicker Man “Make sure no one gets in my mound until I return.”

The dwarf is walking quickly through the forest, and assuming Alicia follows, Girdra says to her “I know where some stupid men are buying some stupid potions from,” she spits on the ground “a really stupid man. Should be plenty for you, if you’re strong enough to take it.”

Alicia grins, excited by the prospect of all that easy wealth, and speeds up her step to match Girdra's pace. "I can fight a dozen men, if they don't know how to fight. Half a dozen should be easy. Who is the stupid man? Where is his place? Is it easy to get out of town after?"
"I need some potions first. Some strenth potion, some small healing potion, a bigger healing potion to heal in the fight... I don't know, maybe something for protection?
What do you have? [and how much do they cost?]"