Tree Lords V

[JadedDM]

The four move out, Babushka invisible, the elves cloaked. There's nobody around at this hour. There's no light except for the bright light of the red and white moon (both full) up above, but as everyone has infravision, light isn't needed.

They briskly approach the tower, where two elven guards stand. They snap to attention when they notice the kirath approaching.

One speaks out. Aleaha answers. It's all in Elvish, so incomprehensible to Babushka's ears.

The guard responds. Lareth speaks. Then, in a flash, the three kirath draw their blades and using the pommels, knock the two guards out quickly.

Dara quickly searches them, finding a key. "We must move quickly. They will be discovered sooner or later."

Once the door is unlocked, Dara goes first, peeking inside. She waves for the others to follow, and steps inside.

[Breila]

"Two of you could mock up for the guards, that might buy us time" Babushka whispers as she passes Dara.

[JadedDM]

"If we encounter the dragons, we'll need our full numbers," Dara responds. They enter the main hallway, moving quietly. To their right is an open doorway with a staircase descending down to the basement.

"Here," Aleaha whispers. "They are probably keeping them in the dungeon, and dungeons are always underground."

Lareth looks right at Babushka; evidently he's immune to his own illusions. "Sneak downstairs and scout around. We need to know how many guards there are, and if you can, try and make sure that your friends are actually down there."

[Breila]

Babushka nods at Lareth and quietly goes down the stairs.

Move silently check: 1d100=53

[Jenara]

(Was there time for Locky to rest to recover her used spells while the group 'argue' ?)

[JadedDM]

Babushka silently descends the stone steps, into the dungeon. Upon reaching the bottom, she finds herself in a dank, stone room. She is on the west side of the room. On the east side there's an opening that leads into a dark hallway--looks like there are some cells down there.

In the room itself, there is a small table and four draconians sitting at it, playing cards. These are the brassy looking ones that captured the party in the first place. Actually, they may even be among the exact same; Babushka spots one of them with a bandage over the area where Imani had wounded one in the fight.

==========

Babushka makes a move silently check [62] (1d100): 53, pass.

(OOC: Jenara, I'm afraid not enough time has passed for her to replace that spell.)

[Breila]

Keeping away from the draconians, Babushka continues on to the hallway, to scout where exactly the cells are and who is in them (if there are openings and she's tall enough to see through them).

[JadedDM]

Babushka sneaks into the hallway, where another bozak is pacing, looking very bored. There are three cell doors; one at the end of the hall, and two on either side. The openings in the stone doors are too high for her to peak in.

However, she does hear light talking coming from the cell at end of the hallway.

[Breila]

Avoiding the bozak, Babushka goes closer to the cell door at the end of the corridor, to recognise her friend's voices if possible, then she sneaks back to the elves to report on what she found (five guards, their placdes and the layout of the cellar)

[JadedDM]

After Babushka returns and explains things to the kirath, they look worried. "Bozaks? That's not good," Lareth says. "They explode when killed; that'll alert the whole tower something's up. We need a plan."

[Breila]

"So we must not kill, but incapacitate" Babushka muses. "Jerrard sometimes lets a web appear to trap people in it, can you do that, too?"

[JadedDM]

"No," Lareth admits. "I do have a few disabling spells, but draconians have a strong resistance to magic."

[Breila]

"I wish I knew how to quickly make a foul-smelling compound, and something that makes us immune to it" Babushka sighs softly. "That would make it easier to overpower them."
After a moment of thought, she adds: "Do we have something that could be used as trip wire? I could install it, unseen, at the foot of the stairs, and then we make some noise and when they come to investigate, they fall and we can overbear them?"

[Jenara]

"So what are we going to do?" Locky taps the door impatiently.

[Jerrard]

"Frankly, I have no idea." Jerrard shakes his head, "I wish I knew."