Once on the roof Sitting Bull went to the front to watch the exterior guards while Little Reggie dropped William down on a rope through a skylight while Sarah kept a lookout the other way. Â Tomboktu was scouting the town trying to find the Gunnery Seargent or a possible ship to go after.
William dropped down into the auction house storage area which took up easily half the space of the large building. His excellent night vision made him the most obvious choice to scout around. Inside he spotted a humanoid creature with layers and folds of skin, long arms that ended in some serious talons and a face only a blind mother could love. He snuck around and eluded the creature’s sight. As far as he knew.
William, with discretion and valor and all that tied to escape back up the rope and signaled Reggie to hoist him up. That’s when a massive weight slammed into him and started ripping him up with those serious talons aforementioned. Â Reggie, although surprised at the greatly increased weight kept hauling and pulled William upwards. The creature dropped down with a thud. Things went from bad to worse as the creature opened a portal and it’s twin brother stepped through into the warehouse.
At this point Sitting Bull shot the guard out front after taking careful aim from above and blew the guards head off.
Oddly enough this woked everyone up.
Our brave crew ran for it and it was only after they heard sounds of combat from below as the they were about to jump off the building that they pulled up short. Â They crept back to look through the skylight to see warehouse guards fighting with the two creatures. They decided to sit and watch and see who won.
The guards lost one, then another, then a creature went down. Another guard and a dwarf guard tossed something to the floor which flashed with a brilliant purple flash of light. As the fight continued our crew continued to watch.
Reggie saw a pillar of blue energy sparkles from the front of the auction house and Sitting Bull went to investigate.
William and Reggied dropped down below with a rope tied to Reggie’s boarding pike. Sadly William managed to break the pike as he descended leaving them stranded below.
A man came running down the front hall toward the storage space covered in a glowing nimbus of light.
Willaim and Reggied dove behind pallets of goods waiting for auction. Â
Reggie decided that wasn’t good and dove after the mage, grappling with him and bringing him down to the ground. Â William was hot on his heels and tried to kebab the mage but missed narrowly avoiding giving Reggie an impromptu surgery.
The mage’s eyes narrowed and a ripple blasted through the air around him and everyone nearby except the dwarf dropped unconcious. As the dwarf kept the creature occupied the mage stood and then clapped his hands together with a thunderclap of noise and bands of white light sprang into being around the creature and bound it to the floor.
Meanwhile during all this Sitting Bull has clambered down and has been searching the front room looking for the chest.
Sarah decided to shoot the mage only to fall back as her musket ball reflected from the mage’s shielding and put a crease through her shoulder.
The mage grimaced up at her through the skylight and even as she dove out of the way the entire sklight was blasted to pieces as a blast of energy blazed up at her. She sprinted toward the front of the auction house and climbed down and inside to meet Sitting Bull as he was sneaking around inside.
Spotted by the mage they retreated back outside and yet one more time up the wall and over the roof. Assuming that they’d side tracked the mage Bull lowered Sarah on a rope to go try and wake up Reggie and William. She’d just gotten to Reggie when she heard the mage speak, “Nighty night.” and she slumped to the ground unconcious with the rest.
Up above Sitting Bull spotted torches and lights and the sounds of many men in armour moving toward the auction house and he slithered down and over the back wall as a large contingent of the Watch showed up.
Sitting Bull went back to the tavern and starting working on gathering information on how to get people out of jail while the three sleeping beauties woke up deep in the dungeons of the city.
With Reggie’s bulk and intimidating manner he was able to carve out a space for the three of them that left them unbothered. Guards eventually came for them and seperated them where they were questioned by a man in white with his own glowing shields. they gave their story for the most part about what they were doing and the man in white told them that he too was after the case and that he’d give them a choice, find the case or die. They chose to find the case.
The party went out and began their search. Over the course of the day they gained a lot of information, that the person who hired them was named Beedle, that he was a backstabbing drug addict who flunked out of wizard school and tried to kill his aunt. They found that the case held a dagger that everyone wanted for some reason. After a trip to a race supremist bar they found out where Beedle stayed and Reggie was hired to help teach some of the ‘lesser folk’ a lesson, a mortal one.
They searched his aunts house and a busybody neighbor and found a case sized cavity beneath the flooring, already opened and empty, and that Beedle had tried to steal something from the wagons that was hauling off his aunt’s goods. A case it was.
They went to Beedle’s flophouse where they bought his goods from the proprietor and discovered a drug dealer’s token. Â They learned who Beedle’s dealer was and then caught the guy after a chase through the streets. Slick told them he’d actually had the case, having stolen it from the wagon that was hauling off Beedle’s aunt’s goods who’d died a few weeks earlier to the auction house. Â
But then he was hit with a fireball and knocked out and when he came to the dagger was gone. He described it as worthless.
With Reggie intimdating him they forced him to take them back to the site of the attack where they found evidence that his story was true. They took his gold and more importantly his drugs and told him to find Beedle for them and he’d get his goods back and even a little something more.
They split up to canvas the area and found someone who’d seen the attack and described the attacker as rat faced which is how most people describe Beedle.
They went back to the tavern where Slick showed up after some time and sold them news they were wanted for murder. They assumed as first it was the auction house guard.
They split since they were fairly distinctive and went back to the flophouse where they were told to get lost because the owner didn’t want them bringing their troubles down on him. In talking with him they found out they’d supposdely killed a prostitute, a member of the Watch and an adventureer newly come to the city. All three had been stabbed many many times.
Staying one step ahead of the Watch they worked on gathering more information and eventually found someone who’d heard one of the attacks and mentioned that they’d heard a voice mutter something about “Now tasovar is the last and vengenace for my children shall be done.”
After a little checking they discovered that Tasovar had turned out to be the nosy neighbor they’d talked to earlier.
They headed back that way and were ambushed by a group of the Watch. A bit of what are we doing and then the fight was on. It took all their remaining Conviction but they defeated the Watch and then escaped into the night and made it back to the aunt’s house to rest and keep an eye on the neighbor.
At this point they all gained their third level with everyone sticking with their orignal roles except for William who after having been exposed to so much magic has discovered a talent for it himself and can now Shape Fire after taking a level of Adept.
And that’s where we left off.
March 5th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Where’s the freaking update Dennis? We had another session you know? Ya big slacker bastard!