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Tyranny of Dragons

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"Yes it is, young wizard." Thovan warmly said and gave a draconic smile at her false innocence. Asking nicely was innocent enough, but it turned sour when she talked about torture. "Surprisingly, I was expecting that last part from Nikolay or Alexander but not from you." He knocked on the door, and after a few seconds it opened up to see an armored Guard holding a spear.

"Whatcha want?" The Guard spat.

"By order of Gov. Nighthill. We were sent to interrogate any prisoners you've captured today." Thovan announced and sounded very professional.

"Uh... Okay. We've a kobold and a bandit in the last cell on the left." The guard stood aside and followed the two. The brig was simple room with six five by five cells with cross metal bars. four of the six cells had at least one person in them. As you walk by the others, you only see very worn and skinny men wearing ragged clothing with long beards. The last cell on the left had a human woman with he wrists chained to the wall and a kobold with his hands bound to a metal ball. Both were wearing similar outfights as their counterparts outside the keep.

"Go on missy, ask them nicely first." Thovan nudged Elizabeth forward and motioning the guard to unlock the door.



"In this keep we have the gate, the sally ports near the gate. One or two Sally ports other places along the wall that I'd rather not use unless we become properly beseiged; um and the tunnel below. Otherwise, we have rope and ladders that can get you safely on the other side." Gov. Nighthill informed the group.

"I'm glad that we are in agreement. However, what path should we take." Garret turned his back on the party and looked at the town one more time. Dozens of fires light up the darken town, the light from the moon barely reaching the ground from the smoke filled sky. Surprisingly, this raid on the town hasn't put much of the houses on fire. Garret assuming the bandits were just setting carts and other flamable objects on fire outside. "We can sneak by the river. I'm not sure why they're here, but if you look at the town you can see more them on this side of the river than the other. However, if we go by the river. We'll run into the least resistance, but we would be going straight for the church. But if we try sneaking through the town. We can save some villagers and kill more of the bandits." Garret spoke.

"I'm for going through the town. More wrong doers to slay and more people to save." Nikolay gave his answer.

"Almost half of us here will have a hard time hiding in chaos with our armor. So if we go through the town, we will be fighting more often then not. As most people here have said, we don't want to confront a large amount of bandits. I say we go through the river, come up from behind the church. We may not save as many people, but we will have less risk to ourselves and those we save." Alexander gave his vote towards the river.

"To go through the town or go through the river. Anyone else have a course of action we can vote on?" Garret asked the group.

(Just to make it clear. It's night out, close to 830 pm and I want you players to make the important decisions. Not my DMPC's)
 
"Yes it is, young wizard." Thovan warmly said and gave a draconic smile at her false innocence. Asking nicely was innocent enough, but it turned sour when she talked about torture. "Surprisingly, I was expecting that last part from Nikolay or Alexander but not from you." He knocked on the door, and after a few seconds it opened up to see an armored Guard holding a spear.

"Whatcha want?" The Guard spat.

"By order of Gov. Nighthill. We were sent to interrogate any prisoners you've captured today." Thovan announced and sounded very professional.

"Uh... Okay. We've a kobold and a bandit in the last cell on the left." The guard stood aside and followed the two. The brig was simple room with six five by five cells with cross metal bars. four of the six cells had at least one person in them. As you walk by the others, you only see very worn and skinny men wearing ragged clothing with long beards. The last cell on the left had a human woman with he wrists chained to the wall and a kobold with his hands bound to a metal ball. Both were wearing similar outfights as their counterparts outside the keep.

"Go on missy, ask them nicely first." Thovan nudged Elizabeth forward and motioning the guard to unlock the door.
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Elizabeth Tsin

Elizabeth tilted her head at the lizard man's coy smile, but remained silent. The gruff voice barking from the door confirmed her suspicions, that these people really were uncouth. The two ventured inside the drab and dusty room to find 6 cells, most of which were occupied by destitute people. She lingered on starving individuals, with beards that resembled bushes. "hmm", she said while they approached the perpetrators of the attack. She felt a slight push forward, making her trip over herself a bit.

Before her was a mean looking kobold and a stone faced woman. "Mister lizard man, my master always preached to me about a balance between order and control. Sometimes, despite having to do so with a heavy heart, one must do bad things to keep the cogs moving". She said, flashing him a faint smile.

She turned back to the kobold and knelt before him(about 7 feet away). She cleared her throat and began to speak in draconic, which involved making a bunch of growling noises, although kobolds tended to yip in between them. "Mister kobold, do you know why you're here", she asked, while turning to the woman. "To you as well, do you know why you're here"?
 
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"I've heard something like that before. I believe the saying was, 'People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.'" Thovan quoted before she asked questions to the kobold and the woman. Thovan looked at the little dragon-kin sternly.

Leek's attempt to escape tired out the kobold. The claws on his feet and teeth were not sharp enough to frey the thick rope that bound him to an iron ball heavier than he was. If he wanted to move he had to drag the ball, but his attention was turned towards the door when a blue dragonborn followed. At first he hope came to his face but quickly diminished when he realized the clothing the dragonborn wore was wrong. It's brown eyes stared at the two that came in, then the little human talked to him in his own tongue. "I'm here because you people put me here! Get this thing off me!"

'The coin now was not worth the consequence.' Debra dwelled on being caught. These annoying kobolds ran away or died to quickly to keep a small group of militia from capturing her. When the two interrogators walked in, she sat with her back to the wall and hands above her head. The woman asked the kobold a question in their language and then asked her one. "I'm here because these kobolds suck." She then spat at the kobold. Leek in turn, turned towards her and hissed.
 
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Elizabeth Tsin

The little wizard pondered the situation at hand, her lips quivering in response to their banter. She started to fiddle with a twig she found on the ground and some string she pulled from a loose end of her clothing. After twisting the string around the twig she dropped it and snapped her fingers lightly, as the kobold finished hissing at the woman. Unless you had true sight, you could not see the amorphous blob that began to coalesce near the twig. Perhaps the only sign of something happening was a gust of wind that was actually arcane power taking shape into the form of her unseen servant.

She stood once more, casting her shadow over the kobold. Once again in its language she said, "Now now little one, we wouldn't want anything to happen to you...right"? Before the Kobold could answer she held her arm out toward the woman and whispered, " Hug her face", to her servant. With a look of stern disappointment, she said to the kobold, "I might be able to help you, but it's only if you can tell me the truth", she said, as the unseen servant wrapped itself around the chained up woman's face. Elizabeth wouldn't kill her with this attack, but she would linger a moment to allow the woman to gasp for air. "If you want me to help you mister kobold, you must first cooperate with me. We can start with, why is it that you are here".

Intimidation: hoping to scare the kobold into cooperating by making it seem like she can choke the woman without doing anything physically.
 
Debra saw what the woman did. She casted a spell, which spell, she knew not. "What di... mfff" She felt something hug her face, like they were trying to squeeze her head until it popped. She struggled against the invisible assailant but with her hands chained to the wall she only managed to kick and squirm and only manage a breathe here and there.

Leek looked up at the tall woman speaking draconic, and listened to her sweet words that he knew would turn sour. These words always turned sour for kobolds, no one likes kobolds except other kobolds. "Liar!" He spat out in defiance, but jumped in fear when the bandit woman started to squirm. Leek looked at the draconic speaking woman and knew she was up to something and she wasn't afraid of hurting them. Fear started to creep into the back of the kobolds mind and when she asked him a second time why he was here. He spat out the first thing that came to mind, "They put me in here because I was in the village! I don't want to be here, they put me in here! Please don't hurt Leek!" Leek was a little surprised that she didn't understand he was in this cage because the guards put him in here.

"Kobold's are not that smart, you need to be more specific." Thovan whispered to Elizabeth. "But keep it up." Thovan kept back and let Elizebeth have her chance at gleaning information from them. He did ponder when he would step in if she decided to stabby, bashy or cutty with them.
 
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She snapped her fingers, causing the unseen servant to relent ever so slightly, so the woman could breathe. " Talk, where is your hideout", she said glaring darts at woman. Before turning her gaze back at the kobold. Elizabeth held her hand up for the kobold to see and channeled the arcane energy for ray of frost, but stopped half way. It would be just enough to leave a chilling effect emanating from her hand. "If you lead me to your master, I will personally break you out of here. But if you don't, I'll punish you."

**intimidation check on both prisoners.**
 
Mor'du looks to the others there and suggests, "I would say that the best way for us to go is either through one of the sally ports or back down the way we came in. Whichever way we can go to avoid detection for as long as possible."

OOC What time of day/night is it?
 
Andarra looks at the assembled beings and says, "We have the cover of darkness to move through, so once Elizabeth is finished with her interrogations, we should move out through the sally port as quickly as possible. That way, it cuts the odds of being spotted by the bandits."
 
Debra beathed heavily after the unseen servant allowed her to. "Holy shit... You could have just.... Asked that from the beginning." She composed herself, "About seven miles south, near the plateaus."

"You don't want meet dragon lady!" Leet dragged the ball a step away from the wizard. "Dragon lady is strong! So strong, she'll kill you!" He paused for a moment, "Wait, no I'll take you to the dragon lady! She'll kill you and I'll be free!" He stood up as tall as he could with his hands bound to a ball heavier than him.

( Zotar Zotar Post!)
 
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Elizabeth turned to the woman, shooting daggers at her before turning to the kobold with a smile. "What a good little lizard, I'll be sure to talk to the leader of this castle, to see about you leading the way. Alright"? She didn't wait for an answer, turning her attention to the woman. "Interesting, my master told me about criminals and said they'd be a pain. Alright then tell me one more thing", she said, before pausing to collect her thoughts. " Did you traitors set up a separate hideout, or is that the flying lizard's lair"? She asked, while casting a shadow over the woman.
 
"That flying lizard is a Dragon! Respect him!" Leet shouted at the woman, his feet dancing excitedly at the prospect to lead these people to their dooms.

"I wouldn't be caught dead near a dragon den. You know they eat anything?" Debra spoke.

Thovan looked at Elizabeth "Criminals with loyalty or smart are hard to deal with. Not children or people paid with coin."
 
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Elizabeth paused for a moment and considered all the possibilities. " I wonder...how..it tastes..what it looks like on the inside", she said under her breath, eyes glazed over ever so slightly. Before snapping out of it. She lightly slapped her cheeks and shook her head to avoid daydreaming. "Well mister blue lizard and guard, I suppose I-- we got what we came for. Who do I speak to about possibly recruiting this dog lizard to our party"?
 
"Either the Gov. Or the Master of the Keep." The guard answered.

"You're serious about letting a kobold lead you to its master?" Thovan asked. "Even if it's the dragon flying above?"
 
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Elizabeth Tsin

She paused for a moment and nodded to the guard as she snapped her fingers under her cloak. She pointed to thonovan and whispered(using message), "I trust that dog lizard as much as I trust seahag's bargain, but we may be able to use the little fella if we had a competent ranger or a wizard capable of scrying". In the next instance she looked to the guard and asked, " Would I be able to speak to either and if so, how"?
 
Xinnia nodded, anxious for action. She felt quite secure with these people. Mor'du seemed to be leadership material for the moment, and Andarra seemed a very practical sort to Xinnia. "That sounds like the best plan. I will follow."

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"Uh... They're in the keep somewhere... I don't know where." The guard answered.

"I know where they're at. Also good luck with that. If it's master isn't the dragon, we have a problem. Imagine a human, elf or dwarf telling a dragon what to do." Thovan answered through her message spell. "Follow, if we're lucky we can catch up with everyone else." Thovan walks out of the brig and back towards the tower. "Last time I checked, they're on the balcony of the tower discussing how to rescue people in the church."

The gold scaled hand of Garret stroked his chin. He hid his slight frustration well. "Very well, let's head out the sally port when the other two come back." He repeated the majorities decision. "So, when we get out of the keep. Then what?" Do we go through the town or head towards the river? or make a bee line towards the church?"
 
"Let's take the river." Xinnia said. "The trees there will provide better cover. Though I guess the area may be watched, we may have a better chance with the cover of night."
 
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Elizabeth reluctantly looked back at the prisoners, before heading for the exit. She nodded to the guard and moved on. "Lead the way mister lizard", she said under her breath.
 
Elizabeth and Thovan walked up a few stairs to the mid level of the keep where the other adventurers are. They entered the large room with a long table meant for dining and bureaucracy. A bandaged man and a red haired armored dwarf stood in the hallway from the room and balcony watching the others decide on which path to go. "The dwarf is Escobert, the man is Gov. Nighthill."

"That's two for the river."
Alexander commented after Xinnia put her vote forward.
 
Mor'du says, "The river path sounds good to me. Once we get closer to our objective, we can then reassess our path."
 
Andarra nods in agreement. "Yes, lets take the river. I am good with being hidden in the trees. When shall we start out?"
 
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Elizabeth Tsin

Elizabeth crept into the room beside Thonovan and gazed at the short stalky fellow with blazing red hair. She scratched her head after processing what the two idiots she interrogated had to say. " S'cuse me govner Nighthill, but it has come to attention that the bandits have their own separate hideout south of 'ere", she said while pointing down at the table symbolically. "while at the same time, it seems there's a dragon, whatever that is, and a dragon lady".
 

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