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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Telsar" data-source="post: 1600455" data-attributes="member: 18837">Gwyn kicks in the double doors, and the surrounding walls and ceiling seem to creak in protest, but stay stable for now.  Within, Gwyn finds a large dark room, filled with row after row of pews, with a raised platform and an altar at the far end.  Nearly every surface, the walls, the floor and ceiling, the seats and the stage up front were apparently on fire at one time, their surfaces scorched and covered in black ash.  One notable exception is a silhouette on the wall behind the altar, a vertical jagged shaped area, at least 8 feet high, where the wall isn’t burned.  Apparently something was hanging there and took the fire damage, sparing the wall behind it, but since the fire, the ‘something’ must have been removed.Gwyn notices what might have made the shuffling sound; two yellow-furred dogs sitting on the stage up front, who look up menacingly at the intrusion.  Gwyn looks around and notices another dog in the pews, and then another, then yet another entering the aisle between the seats.  Yet, when Gwyn looks back to the stage, those two dogs are gone now.  It’s hard to get an accurate count of how many of the beasts are in here.  And Gwyn also realizes that he saw no dog tracks outside, nor any way for the animals to have gotten in through closed doors.Outside, T’aria can see through the double doors from her vantage point, observing roughly the same thing as Gwyn, when she hears a voice about 50 feet behind her.  “Hey, what are you doing there?”  T’aria freezes, realizing that she is mostly concealed by one of the large bushes in the yard [Hide rolled 20+9=29].  Peering around the bush, she sees two women coming up the street, looking toward the broken doors, probably having heard them being kicked in.  The women match the description of the first two missing whores, Miri and Jeleneth, although they are dressed in much simpler and more rugged looking clothes than whores typically wear.[The girls' yell either refers to the doors being kicked in, or Alicia, since I'm not sure what she's doing]Back at Brie’s, Loni looks to Accalon as he makes his request.  She whispers “I… I can do it.  If you think the constables can help.”  She very quietly opens the door leading to the hallway, and whispers back, “You’ll be OK?  And Heliah?  Please help her.”  She looks pleadingly at the warrior, and after Accalon’s response, she quietly but quickly heads downstairs.In the bedroom, Ezuvial’s voice is firm. “I have sensed the level of evil in your two allies, and although there is danger, the strength of my faith will protect me.  Of course, I still don’t know who else I might be dealing with, as… you… won’t… tell… me.”  He still seems a bit upset, obviously expecting Aeweth’s cooperation.  He looks at her for a moment, while she bars his way from the room, then he resheaths his sword and puts his hands on Aeweth’s shoulders.  “But I do think it’s telling that you are so concerned with my safety.  I don’t want to have to forcibly move you out of my way, but I think you know I’m capable.  I suggest the following; since you don’t mind if I free the girls, I’ll go deal with Brie, and you can call your friends together and convince them that whatever she’s paying you isn’t enough to warrant saving her life.  Then, you can do the right thing and leave them.”“As far as black and white and grays go, there is only right and wrong.  But do you really perceive yourself as gray?  What a horribly drab color.”  He takes his hands away for a moment, and notices a bit of make up left on his hand.  Looking at Aeweth’s shoulder, where a tiny bit of her colored scales have become visible, he says “But only gray on the outside.  You wouldn’t have to hide your true colors, not to me.  I have been hiding mine through necessity, since the corruption in this city makes openly doing what’s right very dangerous, but I will help you accept what you are, when you come with me.[Note: Accalon can’t see the scales from his vantage point, and neither can Heliah if Aeweth avoids very close contact until she adjusts the make up]Near the Hearthgate Inn, Aligor, Alev and Sunedilar can see that the old whittling man hasn’t seemed to take any note of them, still just sitting there intent on his craft.  However, Aligor does hear the very faint sound of metal scraping metal somewhere behind the building they’re all standing next to. [Aligor rolled default Listen 15.  Alev rolled 7 and Sunedilar rolled 9, both failing.  Bane failed too.]</blockquote>

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