CH. 9: Winter is Coming

[spyguy1503]

Ne-Chanz walks with Felran, searching through the seedy parts of the city for the girls.

[Chris1234]

"Thanks, Arulia," replies Shima. "I really do need some money to put food on the table in the days to come, so I'm going to search them. By it's fair shares all round, so if you want to come and witness anythihg I find, just to make sure none of your companions think I'm stealing from them." He smiles his best smile for this loveley lady and then sets about searching the fallen. {OOC: In order of #1, #4, #6, #SS, #B, #St, #Ha, #Hi. Not trying to hide anything from the party here; just the opposite in fact. Looking for valuables, money, keys, maps, documents, weapons.}

By the time that lot is done, if no one else has done them, the dwarf will part down the remainder of deceased in the dining room. {OOC: In order of #2, #3, #5, #7, #8. MMethod and what's being looked for are as before.}

If not already done by the time the second lot have been patted down, the dwarf will go to the east end of the room and examine the stonework there - specifically the stone snake that he heard someone express an interest in.

[JadedDM]

Haahqae, Gregeddin, Tulbas, Arulia, Gobax and Shima (Deserted Building)
Gobax and Arulia have evidently forgotten that Yvette and Xyleena carefully searched each body that the party killed, but apparently found nothing on any of them (hence their constant complaining about the lack of loot). Therefore, Shima also finds nothing on any of the bodies, nor does Gobax find anything on the snakeman he killed.

Likewise, peering down the hall Gobax does not see any traps (save for the untriggered one he saw before) or enemies. The doors to the storage room and shrine hang open. The door to the barracks lies on the ground, having been knocked off its hinges.

Gregeddin approaches the stone statue of the snake. He recalls that it was set up to spray glitterdust once a tripwire was tripped, which is what exposed the party's invisibility and led to the big fight in this room. The statue now simply stands there, six feet tall and likely weighing hundreds of pounds. There are no jeweled eyes or anything of value upon it. It isn't even carved very well; it looks like amateur work. Shima also examines it, but finds nothing unusual about it.

(OOC: The histachii did not use weapons, but the snakemen did. So their weapons are still there, but remember that buying and selling of weapons is illegal unless you work for the army, so they are valueless anyway. If you decide you want to take them anyway, though, they consist of a hand axe, a short sword, a quarterstaff, and a short bow. The snakeman that Gobax turned into pulp had no weapons, probably because his snake hands worked as weapons instead.)

Kendra Greylock (Outside the Ivy Inn)
Kendra looks up at the sun and guesses it is around Ninth Watch by now, so she has around three hours remaining.

Returning to her patrol, she later sees a woman being manhandled by two Baaz. She has scraggly, dirty blonde hair and looks a bit worn down, as if she's always had a very difficult life. She struggles against the two draconians, who laugh as they drag her down the street against her will.

Felran and Ne-Chanz (Harbor District)
Felran and Ne-Chanz head to the harbor district and wander the streets, keeping an eye out for either Yvette or Xyleena. As they are passing by a shop, they hear a young woman inside cry out in pain. Neither of them can read, so they can't decipher the shop's sign, but it bears an emblem of a sword over an anvil.

[TristenC]

[Ooc: is the untriggered trap from before visible to others like the rest? He will remind the others of it as they enter the hall]

Grubnick peeks into the storage room and shrine to make sure nothing has changed, then waits for the rest of the party to advance to Belzor's lair, keeping an eye in thay direction.

[Chris1234]

If Shima has effectively covered the dining room for moving/sliding stonework, he will look for Arulia, and say to her, "Anything I can help with? If not, should we go have have a look that way?" (He points to the north, where the hallway is.)
Unless she disagrees, Shima heads north, avoiding any visible (or pointed out) traps and looks around. (What is the pink circle in the SW corner of the hallway?)

[mgbevan]

The novelty of the Cobra Statue wearing off, Gregeddin suggests "Remember this thing had dust exposing our invisibility from before, so if there are more they could do the same if they haven't been triggered before, we should go looking deeper and find this Belzor."
The bard moves north with the group

[HorizonsDream]

Kendra follows after the two Baaz and the woman. "What's going on here, boys?" she asks.

[BishGada]

When hearing about the kinship of the archer that hit Haaque so roughly, twice, Tulbas stops and say, "Maybe his bow is enchanted? Did you consider it?" He then looks around and say, "Maybe we should go quickly to Belzor room and only then search theplace thoroughly?"

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(OOC: About Ne-Chanz and Ferlan: 1. Weird we left them behind. I don't know what did I think of and forget them.2. pity they didn't come anyway since they should have remembered there are weapons there, of the enemy.
Are the carpets valuable? What ebout the furniture? Is it someting we could take and sell?I understand the food is of badquality, but could it help the poor of the city if suchstill exist? and lastly,are there barrels ofwine by any chance?
)

[djhyland]

Arulia shakes her head. "Just be careful," she tells Shima. "The elf boy says that Belzor's chamber is that way. Don't go too far ahead."

[Haahque]

"Well the whole reason we came back was essentially to check out Belzor's chamber, so what are we waiting for?" Haahqae will listen at the door, and if he hears nothing carefully opens the door to see what's inside.

[Chris1234]

Hearing Arulkia's & Haahque's words, Shima leaves the <what actually was the pink circle in the SW corner of the hallway?> and heads across to the room where Haahque stands. He holds up his hand for a few seconds to delay Haahque opening the door until the dwarf has done a quick check for sliding stonework, falling ceiling blocks etc.
The dwarf steps to one side when the door is opened, pulling out his longsword as he does so, 'just in case'.

{OOC: Edit:}
Shima takes care to avoid the trap pointed out by Grubnik.

[TristenC]

Grubnick readies his mace and shield and hurries to follow Haahque so he isn't by himself as he opens the door to Belzor's lair. Mind the trap at the end of the hall. And I have my trap detection spell working. he says quietly to the Gnome.

[mgbevan]

"Huh I never thought of that Tulbas, maybe it's worth checking on our way out." Gregeddin replies as he takes up position at the rear of the group, composite bow ready

[JadedDM]

Haahqae, Gregeddin, Tulbas, Arulia, Gobax and Shima (Deserted Building)
The trap in the hallway is still only visible to Gobax's eyes and nobody else's. The goblin looks in the storage room and the shrine, but sees everything is exactly as it was last night.

Shima goes to investigate the large, pink vase sitting in the southwest corner of the hallway. It seems to be purely decorative in nature.

Tulbas looks at the rugs and furniture, but knows little about appraising such things. But nothing here looks particularly valuable. This was a secret, literally underground cult; they likely weren't able to afford the nicer things in life. The elf remembers a couple of barrels of water in the pantry, but no wine at all.

Haahqae walks toward the door to Belzor's sanctum, but it is hanging wide open and thus there is no need to try and listen through it or open it. It is quite silent and dark within and nobody can see anyone or anything from that viewpoint. This is the first real difference since last night; the door was closed last time the party was down here.

Kendra Greylock (Outside the Ivy Inn)
The two Baaz stop at Kendra's words, but they maintain their hold on the woman. "This one looks suspicious, so we're taking her in for 'interrogation,'" says one, grasping the woman's chin between his claws as she struggles against them.

"Looks like a vagrant, so nobody'll miss her," says the other. "Should make for a bit of fun."

[Chris1234]

Shima ventured, "So far this place seems to be devoid of value. Happy to help, but we're here for what, exactly?"
She peered into the darkened room, shielding her eyes if necessary.