Frontier City of Nunkreet

Trimyrai: (to the kids) "Shoo, go cause trouble else where, i'm busy."

(OOC: so far Trimyrai is going to stick with the original plan. no reason to change it unless something happens or one of the party says they want to do something different.)

OoC - that is quite a motley crew

At the sound of smashing shelves and snarling wild men, Isk wheels around from the counter, conjuring his glaive in a wisp of purple smoke and driving it into the floor in front of him.

"Cease this destruction and calm your chained beasts!" he shouts.  Intimidation: 23

"Trimyai, do you recognize any of these people?"

(I need some clarifying about the "Plan". The characters would have worked this out ahead of time, but I'm not sure what you had in mind.

Is Trim staying across the street, to pick off innocent bystanders bad guys leaving the shop? Or will he and Jack follow them in?

Will Isk confront them right away, or wait until he sees Trim and Jack? They are currently across the street, and not in your line of sight.)

(I think it’s best to follow them in. Have them trapped and stuff, ya know? It’s easier to fight off bad guys with the whole group, instead of 2 people.)

Ha!  I'm glad I wasn't the only one unsure of the plan.  Isk would wait until Trim confronted his villagers before busting out the glaive and yelling.  

Froskan will also wait for Trim's lead.

(OOC: did i see the people go into the shop or am i distracted by the children?)

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(OOC: did i see the people go into the shop or am i distracted by the children?)

(Trimyrai was distracted enough to miss them approaching on the street, but notices as they are entering. So he sees what these 8 people are like, but couldn't react until they were already through the doorway.)

Trimyrai will carefully and hopefully quietly follow them into the shop.

(If possible/needed) Stealth: 19

(Will Jack also try to stealth behind?)

If Trim will try to sneak, Jack will try to sneak. What’s the harm?

15

With everyone's attention on the posturing Darvin, Trimyrai & Jack are able to slip in the front door (stealthily) and around the corner to the southeast. (The store map was in post 3534.)

Trim is tensed up, now that he can see Darvin and Warton from a closer range, but he holds back for now. The woman is covered up, but Trim wonders if she is also someone that he knows. The sickly blue-white skin on her hands has him worried about what happened to the woman.

(Iskander, Reverie, and Froskan would have seen Jack & Trim sneak in, as they were in good positions to see past the intruders to the front door. Everyone in your party is still disguised in dirty rags and cloaks, to look like commoners.)

The woman mutters in a gravelly voice. "There are already 5 people in this shop. We didn't have to bring 3 more. Let me get rid of the two trying to warm themselves by the fireplace. They've suffered enough to be tasty, and I haven't had a decent meal in some time."

Warton says in a soft monotone to her: "Remember what we want done. More people is better."

Darvin sees Iskander's hand flinch momentarily. (Isk did not summon his glaive or yell the challenge... yet.) "Just calm down, you peasant scum. You don't want the wrath of Bane to drop on your houses, do you? Piss your breeches if you are scared, but don't do anything stupid." (turning to the shopkeeper) "Warty, do you have the money?"

Mort responds: "I told you, I need more time to get that much gold."

"Too bad. Even if you had it, on the way here, we decided to double the amount. After we trash your store, break your bones, and take what you have, you'll have time to think about how to get the remaining money."

Reverie frowns even more as soon as what these followers of the Bane said to Mort. Her blue-green eyes narrow slightly as her hands clench into the fists slowly. Someone speaking badly at her friends? One thing that she won't ever forgive that. Slowly, she couldn't help but smirks at Darvin's word slightly and turns to look at the shopkeeper for a moment. "That's not a wise plan to make money out of," she whispers at Isk quietly, "unless they have another plan..." And yet, she decided to wait for Trim to confront those who once were his friends.

OoC - Isk does not like being talked to thus...lol

Trimyrai will walk up behind the people slowly with his rapier in hand. Trimyrai: (to the so called servants of bane) "I don't know if you all submitted to Bane willingly or not... Regardless i can't allow you to continue what you are doing. Surrender." Trimyrai will gentle poke one of them in the back with his rapier as he talks.

(I am guessing that Trimyrai would be curious who the woman is, and would use his rapier to pull back her hood as he starts his speech.)

• This is what the woman looks like: link to image
• (Short version: A lot like a White Walker from Game of Thrones.)
• (Long version: Her skin is blue-white, like that of a person who has frozen to death. Her hair is pale white, and she is emaciated, as if she were a person who had survived winter by eating bark and leather. Her eyes are pale and surrounded by dark, bruise-colored flesh.)

Trimyrai is appalled at the being before him. But deep inside, he is also relieved. It isn't someone he knows, and most important, it isn't Rose.

Startled by Trim's approach from hiding, the "woman" pulls back from him, holding her grey staff before her.

Warton looks silently and intensely at Trimyrai, his hand on the battle axe on his side.

Darvin looks confused. "That voice, where have I head that voice before..."

(Trimyrai is still covered up in the disguise rags. Same goes for the rest of your party.)

Trimyrai: (to the servants of bane) "Nevermind my voice, and choose your next moves carefully... drop any weapons, and then slowly raise your hands up."

At Trimyrai's words, Isk casts off his disguise letting his radiant celestial heritage show through.  He conjures his glaive in a wisp of purple smoke and drives it into the floor in front of him.

"Do as your old friend says and no harm will come to you." he says.  (New intimidation roll if needed: 17)

Darvin looks back and forth between the disguised Trimyrai and the revealed Iskander. He grits his teeth in anger, his chest swelling as he breathes heavier. Before he does anything, Warton speaks with the same emotionless words that he said to the woman: "Remember what we want done." At that, Darvin calms down a bit.

To Trimyrai (still puzzled and upset): "I will find out who you are." To Iskander (back to a giddy laughter): "Opposing servants of Bane is a bad life choice. When the church takes over this city, you will suffer."

The winter woman, leaning on her grey staff, speaks up. "You want us to drop any weapons? These two on my chains are my weapons, I will let them go." She opens her hand and drops the chains leading to the two wild men. They take the opportunity to tear at their own throats, ripping off the collars.

With the collars off, the two wild men start to swell in size, as the Disguise Self spells end. They look like 8' tall orangutans with gruesome visage and tusks jutting from their jawlines. Their shoulders are broad, twice the width of a human. Those 2 were not men, but actually Barlgura demons. (Link to image) They howl in fury, eyeing Iskander and the peasants on the ground near them.

Roll for initiative! (I will update the map when the initiative order is set.)

Initiative: 21

Trimyrai swears in Infernal as the two "human"s begin to transform.