Kartakass: Chapter Seven

[steveflam]

It seemingly starts out rather badly for you, as Jacob goes to get out of his chair. Instead he falls back, and into the thug with the short sword. They tumble out of harms way. In the scuffle, the short sword gets left behind. Thus one thug, by luck, or was it, is unarmed.

At Lucius' spoken words, the thug with the bag, drops it and unsheathes his short sword. The thug near the door, who was a bit hidden by a table, raises a crossbow and aims it at Lucius, saying "I don't think so". The crossbow fires not once, but twice! One bolt passes by Lucius' head, the other hitting Lucius in the arm!

Van and Cornelius cast their spells with success. Some thugs gasp when Van disappears.

Patrons now begin to panic, but with the armed thugs they do nothing. They actually begin to fork over their valuables.

William isn't sure, but he thinks his gun is hidden for now.

Results of Round 1

Lucius takes 6 points of bolt damage.
Van and Lucius get their spells off with no problem.
Jacob, whether he meant it or not, has disarmed a thug.
But now he is unavailable for the next round.

William is ready with his pistol. His foot ready to topple the table.

The effect of the armed thugs seems to have calmed the patrons enough
so they don't panic. Though Lucius and the party are brave to stand up to the thugs thus far, it's not enough to make the patrons revolt against the
thugs.

[Ail]

Lucius retreats, gasping, but not surprised, from the pain, and casts Haste on the whole party....

Or at least, he tries to. The bolt that had stuck him in the arm has penetrated deep, and made his movements jerkier and stiffer.

Lucius was disheartened as he waited for a couple of seconds and then perceived the spell had failed.

"Damn", he muttered for himself, hoping the enemies wouldn't understand what had just happened.

[steveflam]

Jacob remains tangled up with the thug, but gets in two solid punches and knocks the thug out. He stands and looks around.

Lucius attempts to cast his spell, but fails. The bolt that penetrated his skin, makes Lucius feel woozy for a moment, before he gets his bearings finally.

Van casts his spell off with succes. The are six patrons and four thugs in the area of his spell. THe six patrons fall unconscious. That is a good thing, given the circumstances. Three of the thugs shrug off the effect of the spell , while one crumbles to the floor, unconscious.

Cornelius gets his spell off without any trouble. The thugs Van's spell didn't harm, get affected by the dwarf's spell. Plus Cornelius' spell reaches farther so that it affects 9 more thugs! Of the 12 in his range, only 3 are fine. The rest are now on the ground, laughing uncontrollably.

William thinks quickly and successfully tuimbles the table on its side. HE fires wide, though. At least now there's a place to hide for two party members.

That leaves 4 thugs and the lead thug near the door. The four remaining thugs unsheath short swords and rush you. The lead thug casts a spell in the party's direction.


Results of Round 2

Lucius takes another 5 pts of dmg from the arrow bolt. He thinks maybe
that the bolt wasn't normal. Perhaps it was coated with something?
11 pts dmg thus far
Van casts his spell successfully, inhibiting 1 thug
Cornelius casts his spell successfully. Not only are 9 of tht e 12 thugshe targetted laughing on the ground like hyenas, but so are the patrons. Better that than they being dead.
William is successful in toppling the table to use as cover. His shot is wide, though, and misses.
Jacob knocks his thug out and stands.

4 thugs rush you and though Van was invisible moments ago, he now appears. The main thug cast Dispel magic and was successful!

End Round 2!

[Ail]

Lucius feels weaker due to the bolt. His bravado was meant as a bluff trying to scare the thugs off, but now he knew these were not common street thugs. He had heard of these before, an organized mob that seemed to evade all organizations who tried to aprehend them. He had even heard of a serious commotion they had caused years before that even had put one member of the Council of Brilliance (OOC: is this the right name?) in an embarrassing position...

But he had no doubts the group would survive them. But for that, he'd still have to contribute with his magical help. Trying the best to focus and forget the pain for long enough, he ducked behind the table William had turned and dedicated a prayer to Ezra, hoping to bring favour to his friends and harm to his foes.

[OOC: casting Prayer --> +1 on skills, saves, attacks and dmg to friends; -1 on equivalent rolls for foes]

[BigBadQDaddy]

"Never a dull moment, aye lad?!" William says to Lucius with a grin while he reloads his pistol.

[steveflam]

Jacob acts first. He moves towards the patrons, keeping an eye on the immobilised thugs. "Take care of the thugs and him" pointing to the man at the door, the apparent leader. He procedes to help the patrons, sure that his friends can take care of the remaining thugs.

Lucius gets his spell off with no problems. It also affects the patrons in the spells area, whom feel a surge of confidence.

Van feels his skin harden. And just in time. Though he gets the spell off, a thug reaches him in time and luckily, the sword bounces off Van's newly toughened skin. He obviously doesn't get to cover.

Cornelius fires off an Orb of Acid. It flies true and hits the leader at the door. The thug hisses, arm and torso affected by the acid. He disappears on the spot.

William reloads his pistol. Too bad William doesn't have rapid reload feat! and stays behind the cover of the table.

The three remaining thugs make it to the party. Luck is with you this time!
They clumsily attempt to attack Cornelius, Lucius and Van twice, but miss!


Results of Round 3

Jacob goes off to help the patrons as the party, he deems, is capable of taking care of the remaining thugs.

Cornelius' spell hits the leader and appears to do damage, but the thug vanishes or disappears.

Van gets his spell off and is attacked, but takes no damage.

William reloads his pistol with success.

Lucius gets his Prayer off without a hitch. It helps the patrons as well.

The four thugs attack but only one is successfull in attacking Van, doing no damage. The three others are unlucky.

End of Round 3

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......

[A G Thing]

Deari looks around at the chaos that has unfolded before her... She was stunned at the bad luck or good luck of the situation but now she springs from her table as these "Heroes" begin to complete her job... She draws her bow falling back and ducking into a table, calling Hobert from reacting to guard her front...

"You boys seem to be doing me a favor, so if ya can... Try not to kill all of them would you?"

She lets go and fires at the nearest of the bandits, trying to avoid the crowd and her seeming allies...

[steveflam]

Lucius is behind the table. It's adequate cover to remove the bolt. Unfortunately he does remove it, but can't do anything more. He does see a foreign substance coating the tip of the bolt.

Amidst the patrons near the door, a woman stands, manoeuvering back to cock her bow at one of the remaing thugs. Beside her is a large dog!

"Try to keep one of them alive, at least," she calls out to the others. Jacob is close by her, but merely nods, saying nothing. He is glad for the help. This will make his job easier of helping the patrons out of the scene.

Cornelius grabs a nearby chair and swings it at a thug. At the same time the thug was bringing his sword to bear on the dwarf. The chair breaks in a few pieces as the thug hits the chair instead of Cornelius. He drops the blade and yells out in pain.

William fires off a round at a thug, making him drop his blade. The bandit
clutches his chest, even as the spot grows on his garb. He collapses on the floor. Soon he is unconscious in a pool of his own blood.

Van casts his spell and on the remaining thugs, the breath passes. Their eyes roll up in their heads and they tumble to the floor, asleep like babies!

The danger has now passed.




Results of Round 4

Lucius is able to remove the bolt but nothing more.
Cornelius disarms the thug about to attack him with a chair.
William shoots a thug.
Van's spell is successful on the two remaining thugs.
A woman [Deari] stands amid the patrons with a huge dog to help
the party.
Jacob is helping the patrons, butonce the threat is over, begins tying up the thugs.
The threat is now over.

End of Round 4


The door to the dining room bursts open. 10 gendarmes burst in, led by a large man. "What's goin on here?," he asks to those of you remaining standing.

[A G Thing]

Deari begins walking to the fore trying to get the gendarmes attention.
Reaching for her belt pouch she produces a rather official looking peice of paper and presents it!

Attempting to sound boldly she speaks. "I can answer! I was hear at the request of the town guard captian to investigate and prevent the next robbery... I was to prevent a small group from extorting this fine establishment... And if possible attempt to capture the leader. He escaped but, I along with... My friends here managed to stop the thugs here in their tracks. If you would take these rather tired men to the captian he will have some questions for them. Also please tell him I will be by shortly. I and he have much to discuss!"

[A G Thing]

Deari is human and has shoulder length curly Dark Brown hair, and Violet-Gray eyes though her features are very delecate. There is also some scarring on her fore head and left eye brow. Her accent seems to be Falkovian and while she appears somewhat confused, and to be calming down, she is smiling fairly earnestly. Her bow is strapped back onto her shoulder and she is dressed in leathers and traveling attire. She drops her pack next to her leg and secures her weapons.

Coming up next to her a mutt boar hound with shaggy brown fur leans against her hip getting slight petting from her hand.

"Hello! Uh unless I have met you before and have forgotten my name is Deari!" She looks expectantly for any sign of recognition...

[BigBadQDaddy]

William, looks up from his busy hands as they reload and holster his trusty pistol. The middle aged sailor looks up and squints at the woman who is calling herself Deari. He then looks at the others and gives a slight nonchalant shrug and looking back at the woman.
"Sure, Deari. How could we f'rget ya and yer mutt." His words starting slowly and unsure and eventually picking up the pace in a low born Paradoner's accent.

William looks to be a middle aged man despite the fact he is merely 30 years old. His face is weathered, his beard stubble and curly dark hair are flecked with grey and lines emphasize the corners of his mouth and eyes. He has the bearing of a man used to a hard life, and when the weather is cold, tends to limp from an old sailing wound in his left leg.

[ewancummins]

Conrelius, dusting off his hand and walking away from the defeated thugs, makes his way acrossthe floor to Daeri and her dog. He crouches in front of the dog and holds out his hand, so that the animal may sniff it.

''Good dog, good dog. I'm Cornelius.''

After a moment, the dwarf looks up at the tall [relative to him, anyway] human woman.

''Deari, is it? Thank you for helping us. ''


Cornelius is a easily the shortest person in the room, apart from any children present. His body is compact and solid- built like a tree stump. The plain traveller's garb he wears looks travel-stained and much-repaired. His iron gray beard hangs down to midchest, without any of the braiding or ornamentation some dwarves favor.

[VAN]

Van looks the 2 sleeping thugs at his feet and getting their fallen blades he smiles. When Daeri speaks up he goes closer and says:

"Thank you for your help Daeri. I'm Van. These thugs over there are just sleeping but will be wake soon. Here, take their blades."

Handing the blades to her he continues:

"I guess the leader isn't far away, if you describe him to me my hawk can try to spot him."

With that he pets slightly the hawk's head, Ithan seems to like it.


Van is 23 years old, medium hieght, with short black hair, grey-blue eyes and a well treated goatee. He wears black good quality travel cloak and has a staff. At his back there is also a cross bow.

[Ail]

Lucius takes his time to readjust himself. He casts a healing spell and then tries to detect poison in the tip of the bold he just removed. Luckily, he had just the right spell memorized.

He takes a look at the newcomer, blessing Ezra for her arrival, and tries to stand up and greet her.

It isn't easy to guess at his age. He is probably in the late twenties, but the travel of the last few months has certainly degraded his looks. He is now dishevelled, his clothes are torn and patched, and he has lost that professoral look he had before.

Certainly, it is time to get a new wardrobe he thought to himself as he looked to his figure. Having a woman in the group who, for once, was not in need of help, made him self-conscious. He suddenly blushed.