Warriors Of The Coast

[stonegod]

As the dwarf emerges, Ari disarms him immediately. The mace had a nice feel to it, and he adds it to his ever-growing collection of weapons. "Jango, Skarg, please bind him." Before beginning to question their new captive, Ari takes a look down the hole to ensure the other pirates are doing as he asked.

OOC: I'd have Jango do so (taking 10 gives him a +23 Use Rope check [+3 from Dex, +10 from binding]); Skarg assisting adds +2. Sorry I didn't disarm him sooner; I misread that the pirate was still climbing, not at the top.

 

[DEFCON 1]

The dwarf waits patiently as the ropes are spun around him, his arms tied behind his back, his legs tied together. He is sat down on the ground with his back up against one of the crates, and the dwarf's eyes dart back and forth between Ari, Taviss' bow, and the Watchman tabbard of Skarghash. When Ari looks down in the hole, he can see two pirates standing at the base waiting, but that is all the room available for anyone to stand. If the other two pirates are there as well, Ari cannot tell. However, no murmuring or mumbling can be heard, so it doesn't appear that any secret info is being passed about by the people down below.

"What's happened to Duggland and Zerr? You kill them both when you arrived here like you killed Kyle just now?" the dwarf asks matter-of-factly.

Both Skarghash and Khalia can tell that the dwarf doesn't appear overly concerned about the fates of either Duggland or Zerr (presumably the two guards you ran into outside), but it is worth noting that he did ask about them.

 

[Velmont]

Jango come with more rope for the other pirates as the other are tying the rope around teh dwarf hands. He puts the rope on the ground and turn around to go take some more. Just as he get out, he hear the dwarf question. He turns around and enter back teh tent."One died, the other is alive. But you don't care anyway. Just you don't care for all the people in those wrecked ship? I must say I am surprise you kept me alive... why?"

 

[stonegod]

Warily keeping his gaze split between the dwarf above, and the others below, Ari listens to the dwarf's question and the boy's response and similar question. "The boy's right, and his question is an important one too. But first things first. How many total of them are you, and how soon are they expecting the five of you back?"

OOC: To expedite things, I'll list other questions I think we all want answered. Everyone else can throw in others: 1) How many? 2) What are you doing here (Seawell)? 3) What are you doing in the tunnels? 4) Who (if any) hired you?

 

[DEFCON 1]

The dwarf shrugs his shoulders and takes a few seconds to compose his thoughts before responding. "I'm a dead man anyway, so I'll talk. There's the Cap'n, and myself, and nine others of us. You've killed two of us apparently, and you knocked out our third. Bandren, Sheela, Aida, and the Luttin kid are down below, while the Captain has taken the other two back further in."

As the dwarf's comments are made, Ari can hear a bit of mumbling from the pirates down below as they whisper about what is being said. A quick glance confirms that the two that are in sight are still down there, and they do seem to also be speaking to some out of sight. So perhaps the four that he just mentioned are still there.

"As far as why we're here... Captain Erqua hired us. She's the woman in charge. There were two locked chambers down below, and we were hired to get into 'em. Got some equipment that we needed off one of the ships that ran aground, and used it to get through the doors. First sealed chamber was empty, and we just unlocked the second one about 10 minutes ago. My guess is that the Captain is checkin' on what Luttin was able to open up."

He then takes a glance over at the young Jango and smirks. "Consider yerself lucky, lad. I was all for cuttin' ya, but the Cap'n saw that mark of yours and recognized it from what's chiseled down below. She thought you might've been useful. 'Course it turned out we were able to get through the doors we needed to even without ya, so we didn't concern ourselves when you took off."

The dwarf glances around the tent. "Anything else I can do ya for? Or ya just gonna slice me throat and be done with it?"

[sblock=Khalia: ]When the dwarf said that Captain Erqua had "hired" them all... the phrasing was stressed in such a way that you got a strong sense from him that this probably wasn't purely a monetary deal and that perhaps he might not have had much of a choice in the matter.[/sblock]

 

[Velmont]

Jango listen await the naswer, and stay and listen to the dwarf. Luttin is down there? He open the door? he continue to listen. When the dwarf talk about his mark, it seems to make him a bit nervous and have hard time to hide it. [Bluff check: 2 + 7 = 9]

 

[drothgery]

The dwarf glances around the tent. "Anything else I can do ya for? Or ya just gonna slice me throat and be done with it?"

"That's for the authorities in Seawall to decide." The archivist said. "I've never had occasion to study Q'barran law, but I imagine cooperation and complete honesty would be helpful, if you wish the maximum penalty to be confined to the truly guilty."

 

[stonegod]

At the mention of the Luttin boy, Ari's left hand tightens. What is that fool boy up to! He also notices Jango's discomfort, and looks at him briefly. Him too, eh? Doesn't look very happy about it. The hexer mentally shrugs, and focuses on the task at hand.

"Some sort of ancient treasure, or something? A little too far to dig all the way to Seawell." Looking down the hole, Ari calls down. "Okay. Next one. We'll do this nice and slow. After the next comes up, make sure I can always see two of you down there!"

As the next one comes up, Ari will whisper to the boy. "Don't worry about the mark. Nothing wrong with that. Lets just focus on business. Can you detect if they have any magic on them? If you can, wait 'till they're all up here."

OOC: Plan: Get them all up one at a time, disarm them, bind them, then gag them before we have to go down.

 

[DEFCON 1]

The next pirate (a female) comes climbing up the ladder. Her clothing look fairly clean and unmarked, and some of the affectations might indicate that she's only recently acquired some of it. Whether this was from one of the ship's passengers or perhaps even Mrs. Limran's from the lighthouse is anybody's guess. When she arrives at the top, she is immediately disarmed and then tied up and secured.

One by one, the remaining three pirates climb the ladder. The first two are immediately disarmed and tied up like the female was. However, when the third pirate reaches the top... who should it be but Nelson Luttin! When the dwarf mentioned "the Luttin kid", only a couple of you actually thought that Nelson somehow found his way here... but now it's proven he got here ahead of you (and somehow manged to open some sealed door down below.)

He stands in front of all of you with that same lopsided grin and his arms crossed over his chest.

 

[drothgery]

"Nelson! I'd like to let Skarg march you to jail with the rest of these people, but I suppose you have some sort of explanation." Khalia said.