Ragnir spits (if they're outside, otherwise he scoffs), "Trolls. Heard enough o' them at home. Ye have any pointers about fightin' em?"
"Flood Trolls as their name indicates do better in or around water. But other than that they are a lesser kind of Troll. Can't help ye much beyond that," Katrezra responds to Ragnir's inquiry about Flood Trolls.
perhaps a paladin's blade? Lastwall is not that far. Anga mused. katreza why did you ask rodrik to stop his investigation?
Katrezra will pause then speak to Kaos, "The White Sword has plagued my dreams. The Sanctuary was marked. They must mean something! Unfortunately, the dreams are scrambled and unclear. I don't know anything more.
In response to Anga question, "Like I said, I feared for my friend. He wanted to get more information before bringing the matter to the council. He didn't want to raise concerns until he was sure there were concerns. Clearly there are concerns."
Anga's eyes glaze for a moment, as if she is reading from a book. Her voice takes on a more formal mode of Dwarvish as she speaks. Formal Dwarvish, more correctly called High Dwarvish is the language or scholars and literary works, such as histories, and of the courts of the dwarven kings.
She shakes her head, and says in common, ya, flood trolls are a wee menace, but no as bad as a proper troll.
Taking a bit from a fingernail and spitting it out Ulfgard smiles."Let us go and kill a troll. Even if it is a fake one."
let's get tha beastie in tha morn. It's not going away, I guess.
Shortly after the beginning of the Third Watch, coming in through the windows of the Ramblehouse....Assassins.
Surprise Round
Assassins come in through various windows of the Ramblehouse.
Anga hears a disturbance in Kaos' room, a strange crashing sound in Ragnir's room, and something else up the hall.
Haskyll hears the same things.
Kaos is asleep.
Ragnir is out cold.
Ulfgard begins to stir as he hears something from across the hall.
Not sure of the strange noises, he draws his warhammer and looks towards the disturbance in the hall.
Seeing the shadowy armed figure, he yells TO ARMS!!
Haskyll steps south to open Ragnir's door to see what the noise was and spotting the armed shadowy figure, yells TO ARMS!!
Round One
Anga casts mage armour and yells, drawing her pick.
Axes high laddies, we are under attack.
Ragnir wakes (hopefully), rolls out of bed and flips the whole thing over on the assasin.
May not be an axe, but it is hammering time.
Haskyll steps forward to drive his warhammer into the assassin in the hall.
The Assassin in Kaos' room attacks the big Human, striking him with her strange blade.
The Assassin in Ulfgard's room attacks the Dwarf Ranger, but badly misses her slash.
The third Assassin advances on Anga slashing away with her exotic weapon, but the Mage's Armor deflects the blow.
The fourth Assassin attacks the Dwarf Warpriest as he begins to stirm barely stiking the Dwarf.
Struggling with her injuries, the fifth Assassin makes a feeble attack toward the Dwarf Cleric. The strange blade shatters to pieces on Hadkyll's armor.
Grabbing his shield the dwarven tries to slam it into his attacker.
But sleepiness is hindering badly and he merely rolls to his feet.
Anga steps five feet towards haskyll, swinging her pick at the assasin, more to distract than harm.
Round One recap
Anga cast Mage Armor, readies her pick and swings it at an Assassin.
Kaos awakens grabs his axe but misses the intruder.
Haskyll steps up and hammers an Assassin.
The Assassin in Kaos' room slashes the big Human. The one in Ulfgard's room misses the Dwarf Ranger. Another attacks Anga, but her timely spell deflects the blow. Without his armor, Ragnir is sticken by yet another Assassin's exotic weapon. The fifth killer, injured by thr Cleric's blow shatters her Liquid sword against the Dwarf's armor.
After the Assassin's strike Ragnir awakens and flips the bed unto the killer.
Ulgard grabs his shield and slams at the Assassin, but misses.
Round Two
Oh just lie down and die already
Haskyll swings his hammer hard at the one in front of him.
Ragnir grabs his armor and axe and exits out the door, closing it behind him.
"Cleanin' staff came in and didn't even knock! Seems like somebody is no likin' us lookin' inta Rodrik's killin'
Ragnir looks at the wound and grumbles, "Blatherin' idiots....tryin' ta poison a DWARF?" and spits on the ground.
The one in Kaos' room attacks again the big Human, "The bigger they are..."
Attacking the Dwarf Ranger in his skivvies, the Assassin slashes again with his crystallized blade, this time striking Dwarf. The Assassin then moves toward the door.
One of the troop of female Assassins in the hall continues her attack on the female Dwarf, but also continues to miss her attack.
Throwing the mattress off of her, the female Assassin follows Ragnir opening the bedroom door to the hallway.
Assassin 5 is dying in the hallway.
Round Three
Haskyll steps between 2 of the assassins, and attacks to the north to help Ulfgard.
Oh just give it up you people
With a mighty heavy the ranger slams home his shield, doing impaling the would be assassin on his spike.
Spitting on the dead body and happy how the shield feels being twohanded he says:"Never come with a knife to a real fight. And trying to poison a dwarf. STUPID mistake!"
Moving to the next room Ulfgard slashes with his waraxe.
"Shield meet lowlife... lowlife meet shield!"
He is unconcious. Quite fine with me.
Anga looks around.
Any more? as she casts magic weapon on her pick.
Round Two Recap
Anga just misses with her Military Pick.
Kaos strike the Assassin invading his room.
Haskyll drops an Assassin in the hallway with his Hammer.
The Assassin feeling the pain of Kaos' big Axe, manages to strike back at the big Human.
The Assassin in Ulfgard's room slashes into the Dwarf Ranger with her Liquid Sword.
Another Assassin attacks Anga, but does not seem particularly proficient with her weapon.
The fourth Assassin throws off the mattress toss upon her.
Ragnir grabs his stuff and exits the room.
The fourth Assassin follows behind Ragnir and opens the just shut door. She glances at the action in the hallway.
The fifth Assassin is dying.
Ulfgard slashes deeply with his Axe into the Assassin dropping the invader unconscious.
Round Three Recap
Anga cast Magic Weapon on her Military Pick.
Haskyll bounds up the hall and strikes a devastating blow on the Assassin that was attacking Anga, killing the intruder.
Kaos drops the Assassin in his room and heads up the hallway.
The last standing Assassin, seeing her comrades fall one by one, turns and heads for the window she climbed into.
Ulfgard chases in pursuit and manages to get his Axe blade into the female murderer.
The final Assassin drops her odd weapon and raises her hands to surrender to the party.
Victory!
"Come closer, pig, you can help stacking your friends bodies. And you will talk, or I will happily show you my great displeasure of being woken without some ale." Looking down on his free hanging memberthe dwarf shrugs and looks around for his loincloth.
Ragnir pokes a finger through the hole in his skivvies, "Bloody wench ruined a good set o' skivvies." He holds a hand over the wound and states "Maker mends all"
Bind them, and then stand near me.
While waiting the round to ensure they are bound he places his hand on Ulfgards shoulder.
Torag, give us the strength to carry on
Once they are bound.
I think the sheriff may want these people.
The fourth Assassin will look at Ulfgard, "I know nothing. Mordea made the deals. I was just looking for my cut."
The second Assassin that fell in Ulfgard's room begins to come around.
Cham comes up the hall, "More trouble! More trouble! My my! Look at the blood on my runners. This will not do. You need to leave the Ramblehouse. It is clearly not safe with you here." The exasperated Halfling looks at the party as a whole.
The Ramblehouse begins to stir as guest after guest begins to look out their rooms to see what all the commotion is about.
Kurst arrives a few minutes later, "What is going on here? Is everyone alright? And who are these?" The Watch Captain looks at the group of similarly dressed females.
After getting healed Ulfgard clasps Haskylls forearm in an warrior thanks, turning round seeing the newcommers
Still standing naked, with only a shield by his side the ranger remarks:"By Asmodeus bleeding bottom, something ain´t right here. We got those scorpions trying to disturb our sleep with some fancy blades. I am half inclined getting my steel boots on and stepping on a few toes, but I think I will get something else to dress first. The others can tell you more." With those words Ulfgard returns to his room and dresses in his kilt and tunic
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Cham this is not the first attack to happen in your establishment is it.So is there anything thing you would like to tell us before we start thinking that this place may just be to unsafe for anyone Kaos will look to Haskyll and indicating his wounds will ask him Is there anything you can do about this?
Kurst, when women are in our rooms univited with bared blades, I think it falls under self defence what happened here.
However, survivors you are free to take away, as they are right here.
Shaking his head at the oversized human. Aye Torag and I can be doing something about that.
Cham will look at Kaos, "No. This is not the first time I have had problems with thuggish Tall-folk. I had the Town Guard make them leave. And I had nothing to do with this. It is all you Tall-folk that fight and kill each other." Cham will look at the dead woman bleeding out on her runners.
Kurst will look at Cham, "Let's first get to the bottom of this before you start kicking people out of their rooms."
He turns toward Haskyll, "If there were only one, I would think you may have had a disgruntled lover, but these women are clearly something different."
Longsword in hand, Kurst will then turn his attention to the Human Females similarly dressed. The exotic blades, one by one, begins to vanish, leaving only a hollow hilt. "If you answer our questions you will live. If you don't before the end of this week, you will swing on the gallows." He will look at the two conscious women. "We will start easy. I have never seen any of you before. So, where are you from?"
The two women will look at each other. Then the one that was in Ulfgard's room, clearly still in pain from her wounds, will respond, "We are from Freedom Town."
"B$%*@*~s to that. Ye were targettin' our group, why is tha? Tryin' ta cover up yer murder?"
The second Assassin will look at Ragnir, "We were being paid to do a job. 250 in Beryls to start and another 500 upon completion. It is what we do. We did not know that the target were Warriors though. The bound Assassin shakes her head and looks down.
Anga rests her hand on ragnir's arm. calmly, ragnir. she looks at the captives. mah friend here is upset, as ye can see. We dwarves dislike sneak killers. Reminds us of goblins. And we tend to deal one way with goblins. If you don't answer quickly and well, mah friend will do nasty things to ye. And...I'll let him. So let's start with the basics. Who is this mordea you speak of?