Re: Act 1, Scene 2: "Taking Care of Business" (Game Thread)

[Jenara]

Mira whispers something to Yasir then turns to look at the group.

"So, basically... If Yasir is affected it will happen tonight, and we won't know till the next Full Moon..? So locking us in is pretty pointless.." She tries to keep hwer voice impassive and emotionless, yet she fails.

"Yasir get those bars open, get Pyros through. Devon I don't want to hear it! We are not animals, we will NOT be locked in like ones." She glares at him.

[TristenC]

I don't care if you want to hear it or not, lady. Devon retorted, all semblance of deference gone. I know the rest of you aren't hurt, so you can go as soon as we find the secret door, but he stays. The guard punctuates the final pronoun by pointing his sword briefly at the warrior. The full moon is tomorrow, he goes on, He'd be changing right now if this had happened yesterday. he says with a dark gravity to his tone. If he hasn't changed by the morning after tomorrow, he's free to go then too. But! he forestalls any argument, If he starts bending bars now, it's going to be that much easier for the creature to get out.

Yasir and Mira speak quietly for a while, apparently arguing. Finally the warrior stops her by kissing her in a long and passionate embrace. Turning back to Devon he says, I'll stay. Two days, he holds up a pair of fingers, no more. After that I'm letting myself out. The guard nods solemnly, Then we're agreed. Now let's find that door.

Artanis checks another room to the west, which also has a window; leaving only one cell left to examine. As he is about to leave the cell area his half-elven ears catch the sounds of quiet conversation outside, though he cannot make out what is being said. The conversation ends and footsteps down the alley seem to be heading in his direction...

[Nocturno]

Pyros will be slack jawed... "We need to get out and find Rautant! I will pick a whole field of flowers if I have to!" Pyros will start to search with a new vigor.

[Jenara]

"If that's the way it has to be." Miras shoulders slump, her head resting on Yasir, "Pyros, the door must be in a cell, use those eyes, we'll fix this. Come with me."
With that she enters the cell next to her, the one adjacent to the street and starts looking.

[Nocturno]

Pyros will enter with Mira and start checking going around the room opposite of Mira.

[kerap]

Artanis opts to take a look out the window. But he does so while standing off to the side - hopefully concealing himself enough to not be seen from anyone on the outside looking in. He was surprised that he heard anyone talking outside with the commotion in the passage. Artanis notes with mild interest and amusement Devon's strong words and demands - coming from someone who just 10 minutes ago was basically curled up in a ball, sucking his thumb and wanting his mommy.

Artanis is also going to check around the window and surrounding wall - perhaps an exit may be located here as the acoustics are different.

[TristenC]

The Ranger waits patiently in silence, something he is well used to, and watches out the window. A slender young woman steps from a gap between two buildings and begins cautiously walking down the alley in his direction. She wears a hooded cloak that she keeps pulled up to hide her face. She seems frightened, for she constantly looks behind her. There is no sign of the other individual to which she had been speaking.

Suddenly, from out of the darkness, a harsh voice breaks the silence of the night. You have defied me for the last time, Akriel!" it snaps. The tone is so ominous and the voice so cruel that the hair on the back of his necks stands up, and every instinct screams at him to run. Evil seems to drift like mist into the alley and wash against the walls like the stagnant water of a forgotten swamp. Slowly, a man flanked by two horse-sized wolves steps into view. There is a gleam in his eye akin to hunger and the wolves begin to leer at the beautiful young woman. As he steps between Artanis' vantage point and the girl, and raises a cruel looking whip over his head. With each strike of the lash, she screams in pain and sobs for mercy. Throughout this ordeal, the dark man releases a stream of hissing words at Akriel. Although the majority of it is lost under her screams and protests, terms "your betrayal" and "their kind" are audible.

Mira and Pyros have hardly entered the NorthWest cell when they suddenly hear screaming and the sounds of a whip coming from the alleyway beyond the wall! The others in the hallway hear some odd commotion coming from outside as well.


[OOC: only Artanis heard the conversation, so unless he says something Mira would need a reason to be looking out the window, although now she has it with the new commotion. The Ranger heard the sounds because he was alone in a cell near the window during a lul in the shouting. people in the hallway would not have been able to hear, even if listening closely. Keep in mind the window is tiny (maybe 1 foot by 2 feet and barred) and set about 5-1/2 feet up the wall]

[Nocturno]

Pyros is going to try and climb the wall to get up into the window area.

If he does get up there, and he sees the person being whipped, he will start yelling and taunting the whipper.

Wall Climbin': [1d100] = 3

[kerap]

Artanis is going to search around the window and the wall for an opening. He will push on the wall at and around the window as well. He is not frantic but is motivated to see if the fabled secret door/passage exists at this very spot.

[Jenara]

"What in the Abyss was that?" Mira calls out, only able to hear the sounds of screaming and the whip she assists Pyros in getting up high enough to see.

[TristenC]

Pyros deftly climbs the wall and holds himself up on the bars, though Mira helps him maintain his hold, peering through the window with him. The pair see a man with straight, black, shoulder length hair and tan skin. He is flanked by a pair of horse-sized wolves and thrashing a whip at someone beyond that they cannot see, but it is clearly a woman. They can hear her screams for mercy and cries of pain, which echo hauntingly through the alley. A rolling fog has begun to fill the area. Pyros starts yelling and taunting the man, but the fellow either cannot hear him over her screams of protest, or doesn’t understand. Finally he ceases and catches part of the Kender’s last challenge, though apparently not enough to enrage him. He looks around the alley for a second or two, and stalks off out of view, clearly in anger not fear. The wolves turn and follow him, with two more silently padding out of the fog opposite the girl. She remains in the alley, half-seated and prostrate, her long raven hair scattered about her head as she sobs.

Rather than watch the ordeal, Artanis takes his attention back inside and begins checking the wall for any sign of the secret passage. Elsa comes into the cell with him when she hears the commotion. What is going on out there? She asks, hoarsely, as she moves over to help Artanis’ search. He has only barely begun when the commotion outside stops.

[Nocturno]

"WeNEEDtohelpthatpoorlady!WHEREISTHATDOOR!?!"

[kerap]

Artanis remains focused on his task of trying to find this legendary door. He looks closely and even lightly moves his hands over the area all around the window. The hands feeling for a crack, crevice or air movement. He calmly replies to Elsa: "Someone was being whipped outside. But as we are on the inside and they are on the outside, we cannot investigate. I am inclined to think that an exit may be nearby, as I could hear what was going on quite well. Would you like to assist me with trying to locate the supposed exit? Take your mace and start lightly tapping along the wall where the window is. We listen for differences."

Artanis remains calm and rather emotionless.

[Rivi]

cross listens to the screams of the poor retch out side and grinds his teeth pulling out gar he follows Artanis's lead taping the wall well talking to gar "if you see that exist you pipe up dame it"

[Jenara]

"Yet another... Damn it." Mira curses and looks away from the window. "On one hand she couldn't help Yasir... She wanted to help Yasir, but this girl..

Damn it was dark.. Savage beasts, those wolves.

"Right that door has to be here somewhere, do it slow and calmly, search the room."