Accalon looks around the foyer, and sees no sign of Loni. Also missing is the doorman, who typically stands inside, to open the doors when people knock. Through the curtain, however, he senses the same powerfully good aura, while Ezuvial’s voice is heard. “A simple warrior, passing through town. You think I can’t see the evil that runs through you?” A muscular red hand pokes through the curtain, and pulls it aside, revealing a creature that, although dressed as the bodyguard was, with long sword in hand, looks not human at all. His head is that of a large dog, with his entire body a dark red hue, with rippling muscles that the bodyguard never had as a human. Both Accalon and Lydia, in their religious studies, have heard of such creatures. Archons, Hound Archons specifically, angelic beings usually reserved for higher planes of existence than this mundane world.
[A picture of a typical one, not necessarily this one, can be found here:
Archon Picture
He’s the one on the left]
Ezuvial looks at Accalon with blazing red eyes, continuing his previous thought, saying “I can see you perfectly.” He steps into the foyer, saying “But you do have a point. Perhaps I’ll take up residence here, when I’m done, to look after the girls. Whatever I decide, it clearly is no concern of yours.” While he speaks, Lydia notices, but Accalon doesn’t see, the curtain move slightly, and the short, slinking Madame Brie trying to quietly make her way to the showing room unseen.
Oblivious that his quarry is moving behind him, Ezuvial says to Accalon “Now that you know you’re in over your head, and that I’m terminating your employment, and your employer, I suggest you both leave. Your apathy is of no more value to me than your presence.” Accalon still has that unnatural shaky feeling, and now that Ezuvial is close to Lydia, she feels it to, but her calm and resolve allow her to face the archon unhindered.
[Diplomacy rolled 9+11=20, Accalon rolled Knowledge(religion) 20+3=23 and Lydia rolled 14+6=20, to identify what he is. Accalon rolled 3+0=3 to notice Brie, Lydia rolled 17+2=19. Lydia rolled Will 11+5=16, succeeded, to resist Ezuvial’s fear effect]
While the discourse continues at Bries, Aligor, Alev and Sunedilar are investigating the alley. Bane is much more interested in going after the cat than looking for the girl, and Aligor can’t really convince him otherwise as the dog leaps at the creature. The cat jumps on a barrel, over the dog’s head, then runs back down the alley, in the direction that leads to the Hearthgate, with Bane giving chase. While Aligor is watching all this, a dagger just whizzes past his ear from above. The girl from before can now be seen perched on the edge of a rooftop, the building across the alley from the one they all went around. She curses her missed shot “Damn it! That blade could have slit your throat, dwarf, so you better mind your own business.” She starts to head over the top of the slanted roof to gain cover, but Sunedilar’s swings his spiked chain at the poor girl’s leg. The girl just manages to avoid it, but in so doing slips, preventing her making any progess over the roof.
[Aligor rolled Handle Animal 6+2=8. Girl’s shot missed and failed Climb roll, Sunedilar rolled 5+8=13, missed. The girl can be attacked only by a reach weapon, a ranged weapon, or someone successfully making a climb roll.
Characters by Initiative, damage:
Aligor, HPs:22/37
Cat, unhurt
Bane, unhurt
Sunedilar, unhurt
Alev, unhurt
Girl, hurt]
Diplomacy check +11, or +13, depending how you feel about my last OOC post. Detect Good and Detect Disease, mainly upon, and hopefully through, the curtain.
