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Rhotinia: Well as much as I would like to sit around eating cookies and drinking tea, we should really get this book back to Volmalric, Sophie and Bridgit
Rhotinia: And Cilissa, assuming she survived
Tilpi: I dont understand this.
Tilpi: Wouldn't the shiny spectral woman in the other room more benefit from the book than two humble sisters and a crazy alchemist?
Tilpi: I don't know books, but I know who reads em.
Rhotinia: Well as useful as spectral Rhiveth is, I am hoping she will be able to do more if we can get it to her tomb
Rhotinia: And hopefully bring her back in a more tangible medium
Tilpi: Ok
Rhotinia: Like 8-Track, or Laserdisc
Tilpi: This place is warm and zombie free. Maybe we should get them to come to us?
Tilpi: Or better yet, leave the city?
Rhotinia: Woman up Tilpi, where's your sense of adventure?
Tilpi: Zombified, evidently.
Rhotinia: Rhotinia rolls a Persuade test:
Target: 15 Focus: 3 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 0 Momentum: 0 [1d20.16+1d20.17 = 33]
You did not succeed.
Tilpi: Very well, off we go!
Volmalric sips his tea as he takes care of the women under his charge, keeping an eye on them and making sure they're fed and patched up. He has a book open in one hand, enjoying the peace, solitude, and relative safety
Tilpi: Can't we ask one of these lovely spectral gentlemen to escort us?
Tilpi: Hey dead guy from important family; can you hold our hands through these icky streets?
Tilpi: Tilpi rolls a Counsel test:
Target: 13 Focus: 4 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 1 Momentum: 0 [1d20.16+1d20.8 = 24]
You did succeed!
Rhotinia: You can try, but they don't seem very talkative
Argala: I am sure they would love too... but they cannot leave this building.
Tilpi: That seems like the worst punishment ever.
Rhotinia: Asgrim, stick close to Tilpi and Democlese, try to keep them alive
Volmalric occasionally hears sounds of ferocious combat that is brutal and short-lived, but it seems to be away from him, over at barricades nearby. He might occasionally want to peek his head out the window though.
Rhotinia reaches her hand out to Argala
Asgrim: Right ma'am, I am happy to do that.
Volmalric: Volmalric rolls an Observation test:
Target: 9 Focus: 0 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 2 Momentum: 1 [2d20.3 = 6]
You succeeded and generated momentum!
Rhotinia: We will do what we can, although I cannot make any promises of our success or suvival
Tilpi follows
Dead Guy regards Tilpi with a saddened look, bids her safe travels.
Volmalric peeks his head out the window to help determine the state of things
Rhotinia waits for Argala to hand over the tome
Tilpi: Hey, at least they said goodbye. You had me believing them to be a totally dead crowd, Argala.
Argala retrieves the Tome from his uncle and hands it over to Rhotinia.
The spectral image of Rhiveth fades, the family members show relief they have done their part and go off in search of cookies and snacks after getting exhausted keeping her here this long.
Rhotinia: Thank you Argala, I'mm try to return it when we are finished
Argala: We will be safe here in the building. If you find others who need respite, direct them here. The guardians will keep us safe, but we can do no more for the rest of Messantia.
Argala bows to Rhotinia.
Rhotinia: No point standing around. Asgrim up front, Tilpi and Democlese stay right behind him
Rhotinia leads the party towards the window they came in
Asgrim: Right on ma'am, let's do this.
Rhotinia whistles for her horse from the window
Asgrim heads back out to the street and readies his sword and shield.
Rhotinia: Rhotinia rolls an Animal Handling test:
Target: 14 Focus: 2 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 1 Momentum: 0 [1d20.12+1d20.19 = 31]
You did succeed!
Rhotinia's horse runs up and looks happy to see her.
Tilpi: You call that horseriding?
Rhotinia slides down the rope and mounts her horse
Tilpi: Tilpi rolls an Animal Handling test:
Target: 12 Focus: 2 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 2 Momentum: 1 [1d20.10+1d20.9 = 19]
You succeeded and generated momentum!
Rhotinia passes the tome to Tilpi
Rhotinia: If things get bad, run back to Volmalric as fast as your horse can carry you, Asgrim and I will cover your escape
Democles nervously follows along behind the group, trying very hard not to ruin his borrowed pair of pants.
Tilpi: Apparently you do have loyalty beyond the coin.
Tilpi looks impressed
Kazemi (Volmalric): You can only ruin so many pants in a single night xD
Rhotinia: I have fought many wars my dear, I was not always a seller of trinkets and kisser of asses
Rhotinia spurs on her horse and leads the party back towards the estate
Rhotinia: Rhotinia rolls an Observation test:
Target: 9 Focus: 0 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 0 Momentum: 0 [1d20.12+1d20.17 = 29]
You did not succeed.
Tilpi: Tilpi rolls an Observation test:
Target: 11 Focus: 1 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 1 Momentum: 0 [1d20.12+1d20.6 = 18]
You did succeed!
Rhotinia watches out for danger, but can't see much because of the darkness and smoke
As the group moves along the sounds of combat ebb and flow around you. It seems like the next phase of the battle has begun. you do not encounter any hardship immediately, but you get the sense combat is an every occuring thing around here.
You would estimate it is another 2-3 hours before sunrise. Although you are not sure how much of a difference that will make today.
Tilpi: Tilpi rolls a Stealth test:
Target: 7 Focus: 0 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 1 Momentum: 0 [1d20.1+1d20.12 = 13]
You did succeed!
Somehow the group makes it back to the barricades where Volmalric and the others are waiting. The noise of the armor, horses, and the group of people manages to get fantastically lucky by not attracting hostile attention.
Volmalric sees the group ride up to the barricades. The soldiers remember them from earlier and pull the barricades aside just as Volmalric finishes patching up the last of the wounded.
Tilpi: Hello friends!
Tilpi: Can we leave the city yet?
Volmalric: Perhaps
Volmalric: I was thinking, Cilissa is a head inquisitor
Volmalric: She reports directly to the king and the nobles council.
Tilpi appears unimpressed by such impeccable credentials
Volmalric: Whoever drugged her and began using her would undoubtedly love to get their hands on Sophie and Bridgit, so I do not want to leave any of them here.
Palantes: Well, given that I have heard rumors what walls are still held are being swarmed by monsters from the outside, I have the feeling the exterior lands are not any safer than here, good Hyrkanian woman.
Palantes looks at Rhotinia.
Tilpi: Perhaps, but I'd feel safer on horseback than penned up in a building.
Tilpi: Confined...constrained. Captive.
Palantes: Were you successful old friend? Things are getting vicious here, the enemy seems to have found new leadership and organization in the last hour or so.
Rhotinia: Yes, we have what we came for
Rhotinia: Now we just have to figure out how to get it where we need to go
Palantes, Rhotinia, Tilpi, Volmalric, Asgrim, and Democles walk back into Palantes converted shop, discussing current events. As Tilpi responds, she looks around the room as Volmalric stops to check on the injured women.
Tilpi smiles sardonically.
Tilpi: we still need to book it, yes.
Rhotinia: Rhotinia rolls an Observation test:
Target: 9 Focus: 0 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 0 Momentum: 0 [1d20.14+1d20.15 = 29]
You did not succeed.
Tilpi: Tilpi rolls an Observation test:
Target: 11 Focus: 1 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 1 Momentum: 0 [1d20.11+1d20.19 = 30]
You did succeed!
Volmalric: Volmalric rolls an Observation test:
Target: 9 Focus: 0 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 0 Momentum: 0 [1d20.11+1d20.16 = 27]
You did not succeed.
Tilpi: Where is that lovely girl Brigit?
Tilpi: I do not count her among our number
Tilpi: I brought enough cookies for everyone, and there is no Brigit here!
Volmalric moves over to check the Head Inquisitor as Tilpi asks where Bridgit is.
Rhotinia: That is probably not good
Volmalric: OH NO
Democles: Oh no! Where could she be? I hope she is not in danger! Maybe she went to use the chamberpot!
Volmalric notes that the blanket Bridgit was nestled under is neatly folded on the chair and the dishes are all washed.
Also, someone has changed all the bandages on Sophie and Cilissa.
Sophie (groggily): Did someone mention cookies?
Tilpi: Yes, but cookies can wait until we find your sister.
Volmalric: Oh, Mitra's blessing
Cilissa (grunts): They better not be oatmeal raisin.
Volmalric: I think she may have woke up? Which would be good
Cilissa rolls over on her side and looks at the group with a pained expression.
Cilissa: Lemon bars?
Volmalric: Someone rebandaged them. Palatine, do you have any other strangers or a doctor here?
Palantes: Strangers> Who knows, the city is kind of in chaos. Leeches? Not really.
Sophie looks at Cilissa.
Tilpi: You'll have to find out. But first you must tell me where Brigit is.
Sophie: I seem to remember you driving a sword through my chest.
Tilpi: Tilpi rolls a Counsel test:
Target: 13 Focus: 4 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 3 Momentum: 2 [1d20.11+1d20.3 = 14]
You succeeded and generated momentum!
Cilissa: I seem to remember someone throwing an explosive concoction at me while trying to negotiate, but I'm in too much pain to hold a grudge. I'm just hoping there are lemon bars around here.
Rhotinia: Play nice ladies, you're both victims of the same circumstances
Tilpi: Tilpi rolls an Insight test:
Target: 12 Focus: 1 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 3 Momentum: 2 [1d20.1+1d20.8 = 9]
You succeeded and generated momentum!
Rhotinia: As for lemon bars, that is probably more Tilpi's area of expertise
Volmalric looks around for a note of some sort
Democles: Enough of this! We have to find Bridgit!
Democles heads outside to look for the missing woman.
Rhotinia follows democlese
Rhotinia: Rhotinia rolls an Observation test:
Target: 9 Focus: 0 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 2 Momentum: 1 [1d20.3+1d20.8 = 11]
You succeeded and generated momentum!
Volmalric: Palatine, can you check with your guards to see if anyone left with a woman recently? The quarantine should at least make it obvious if she's left
Rhotinia: Rhotinia rolls a Survival test:
Target: 9 Focus: 1 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 1 Momentum: 0 [1d20.18+1d20.9 = 27]
You did succeed!
Palantes: Got it.
Palantes heads back outside.
Volmalric: Lovely, just lovely
Rhotinia leaves Democlese and heads out the back
Rhotinia: Rhotinia rolls a Survival test:
Target: 9 Focus: 1 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 2 Momentum: 1 [1d20.6+1d20.7 = 13]
You succeeded and generated momentum!
Asgrim goes after Democles to make sure the scholar is not getting himself killed doing something more stupid than other things that have happened tonight.
Rhotinia (shouting): She seems to have gone this way
Tilpi: Tilpi rolls an Insight test:
Target: 12 Focus: 1 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 1 Momentum: 0 [1d20.12+1d20.19 = 31]
You did succeed!
Rhotinia points at the bloody blue handprints on the fence
Volmalric used a Fortune point to add a Natural 1 to their dice pool
Volmalric: Volmalric rolls an Observation test:
Target: 9 Focus: 0 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 1 Momentum: 0 [1d20.15+1d20.16 = 31]
You did succeed!
Tilpi: Huh. I thought she was a commoner like everyone else.
Tilpi: But why would she run away?
Tilpi: Oh. That's right. The drugs.
Tilpi approaches Cilissa
Tilpi: Lemon bars eh? You get them if you tell me where the rest of the lotus is. Brigit is in danger and I suspect she is after that.
Tilpi: Tilpi rolls a Counsel test:
Target: 13 Focus: 4 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 2 Momentum: 1 [1d20.13+1d20.9 = 22]
You succeeded and generated momentum!
Tilpi: Also shame on you Volmalric for letting an innocent girl get into danger
Tilpi: You were supposed to be watching them!
Feneril (Rhotinia): He was tricked into looking outside
Volmalric used a Fortune point to add a Natural 1 to their dice pool
Volmalric: Volmalric rolls an Alchemy test:
Target: 14 Focus: 4 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 4 Momentum: 3 [1d20.13+1d20.6 = 19]
You succeeded and generated momentum!
Cilissa: Well, we are in the warehouse district, there are plenty of places where drugs are being run around here. Most of them are small time operators. If you mean the Grey Lotus importers, those would not be around here.
Sophie: Keeping it all for yourself?
Tilpi: Where would Brigit think they are?
Cilissa: Hell no. I know what that does to us, I'm not the psychotic lunatic here.
Volmalric: Did you two know you were kin?
Sophie: You aren't? You would have fooled everyone else in the city.
Volmalric is staring absentmindedly at some of the medical supplies, examining the ones that weren't where he left them
Cilissa: Kin?
Volmalric: Sophie, if Bridigt vanished without a trace, where would she have gone?
Cilissa looks at Sophie.
Cilissa: I remember something... from a long time ago.
Rhotinia: Without a trace?
Volmalric: Well, I suppose technically she did leave some traces
Rhotinia gesticulates wildly at the glowing blue handprints going over the fence
Volmalric gestures the medicine bowls in front of him
Volmalric: When did those get there?!
Sophie: Out into the wilds. She doesn't like the city but we call it home because... we need to be here. Something keeps us here... keeps us from leaving.
Rhotinia: Presumably when she climbed the fence
Cilissa: Perhaps because this is a nice place to live.
Rhotinia: Asgrim, come with me. Let's see where these lead. Volmalric and Tilpi can try to get something out of Cilissa and Sophie
Cilissa grunts and tries to pull herself to a sitting position, seems to have no capacity to do so.
Cilissa: Wow, that attempt hurt way more than I was expecting.
Sophie: Wimp.
Tilpi: Can you tell me more Sophie? We can't help you if you are all cryptic.
Tilpi: Tilpi rolls a Counsel test:
Target: 13 Focus: 4 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 1 Momentum: 0 [1d20.18+1d20.5 = 23]
You did succeed!
Rhotinia: Rhotinia rolls a Survival test:
Target: 9 Focus: 1 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 0 Successes: 0 Momentum: 0 [1d20.12+1d20.13 = 25]
You did not succeed.
Sophie flops around like a fish for a few seconds before realizing she is unable to stand.
Volmalric: Yeah, neither of you will be able to move for a good while
Sophie: There is something that keeps Bridgit and I in Messantia. When we try to leave, we only get so far before we feel incredible homesickness and have to come back.
Cilissa glares at Volmalric.
Volmalric: Wasn't me
Volmalric: Bridgit mixed something in with the pain killers she gave you. I don't know what it was, but I poked it and can't feel my finger now, so it was apparently pretty potent
Cilissa: I am not inclined to trust the words of a man who threw an explosive bomb at my head.
Volmalric: Are you inclined to treat the words of the man who patched you up and saved your life?
Tilpi: Everyone here is crazy.
Rhotinia comes back empty handed
Tilpi: Well, what happened?
Rhotinia: Turns out I'm not a very good tracker
Tilpi: Okay, I will find her and return her.
Tilpi leaves in haste
Cilissa: Well, that and the fact that I seem to be unable to move my arms is a big indication I should avoid doing too much to anger you.
Rhotinia: If he wanted to kill you, he would have had plenty of opportunity. He was watching over your unconcious body for hours and I don't even see any sign that he groped you
Rhotinia: Rhotinia rolls a Persuade test:
Target: 15 Focus: 3 Difficulty: 1 Complications: 1 Successes: 1 Momentum: 0 [1d20.20+1d20.5 = 25]
You did succeed!
Cilissa: Maybe he didn't... but I'm pretty sure YOU did!