Whispering down, “Yes, I think we either stall in here for a bit, or sneak him back to our room somehow, or cause a distraction…”. She wrinkles up her face a little at the last one.

"Wrap him up in the bedding and toss him over my shoulder?" Maudath suggests. "As long as you look like you're supposed to be where you are you can get away with a lot. Works like a charm most of the time."

He looks down the stairs at Ryhunis.

"Or distraction." Maudath says with a smile. "Lots of ideas for that."

"I'd rather have him a willing participant than take him against his will..."

"Well, let's just all go in and have a chat with him inside," Maudath says. "We can figure out if he needs rescuing or if he's in this cult too then decide what to do."

“When he’s off the pot, maybe!… He’s okay with me for now. Give me a second and I’ll sound him out, and I’ll let him know you could be coming up…”, Eve whispers to the party.

Then she turns back to the room, to speak to the town speaker, while conspicuously averting her eyes, and perhaps glancing to check that the other guy is settling down to sleep. “Town Speaker, how do you like it here, Sir?… Is there anywhere you’d rather be?…”.

Maudath listens to Eve speak to the town speaker. There has to be places he'd rather be. This whole Ten Towns has gotten pretty bleak with the sun barely ever coming up. The cold hasn't bothered him too much but the dark is starting to get to him.

"Come in here for Ao sake girl, and bring those friends of yours too. The whole blasted cult'll hear you if you keep speaking like that" Glancing in you can see he is no longer "busy"

Breathing a sigh of relief that the speaker isn't a cultist too, the Professor steps quickly into the room, his eyes going to the sleeping guard.

Eve ushers everyone in quickly and quietly, and closes the door. And whispers to the town speaker, “We have rooms here, or we can make plans and rest right here. If I have a time to ‘catch my breath’…”, she glances at the sleeping cultist with some pride, “I could.. you know.. even.. turn you invisible. Do you want to…”. She only ‘mouths’ the word ‘escape’. “Are you okay? Are you well?!…”.

He eyes you all for a moment "I heard about you all but wasn't sure what you were. But seein how you put that idiot over there to sleep"  he jerks his thumb over his shoulder towards the bed "I figure maybe you could help. I bloody well don't want to escape I want my keep back! These cultists showed up here under false pretense claiming to be from the council of speakers and killed all my guards. They took all the staff somewhere except for my cook, thank god for that." 

Eve’s eyes go wide, “You want The Keep back?!… Oh my!!… How are we going to do that?! Do you have any ideas?…”.

”Surely that means.. ‘ousting’ all of the cultists, no?!… oh my..”

”Well, if you know the cook, maybe we can poison or drug all the food in this place?!”.

She glances at Maudath, “Or we could go on a room by room rampage?!…”

”Or, you say they took the staff? Do you know where they’re held? They could help reclaim the place if freed…”.

Eve is pacing gently around the room thinking on her feet and talking more to herself than anything and counting off her thoughts…

Maudath looks at the sleeping cultist.

"We could start with this one," Maudath says, patting his greatsword. "But before we make a mess, are these the type that need to be permanently ended or are they the kind that just need to be shown the door?"

Maudath looks back up at the others.

"Or, do we just cut off the head and watch the body disappear? Take out the boss and the rest may lose interest in a fight."

"I dont care how its done, I just want them out! If I were a betting man I would say these cowards would run without their leader." You can see his face is getting redder the more he talks about this. "There is a trap door in the northwestern tower that leads to the old cistern under the keep. Thats were I would assume my people are being kept. Get me my keep back and you can spend as much time here as you like." 

"Kadroth is the leader, right?" Maudath asks. "Does he have a second in charge or something like that? Might need to deal with that one too."

Maudath paces around the room for a moment.

"So, simple enough then," Maudath says. "Deal with Kadroth, rescue the keep staff from the tower, and then we can use our new digs as a base to venture out from."

He looks over at the others.

"Do this now, or do you need a bit of time to prepare?" he points the last question at Eve.

“Give me…”, Eve looks at the freckles on her wrist, and out the window at the perpetual gloom, “…just under an hour, now… … and I’ll be refreshed and raring to go again, I swear!”, she says, looking a little out of puff!

”But after that, I say, yes… we go straight to Kadroth and take him out of the equation, as you say! And anyone else that gets in our way!”.

”Spare the boy if we can, and recruit the chef if we see them, and free the others!”. She look like a little colour is coming back to her cheeks again already!…

She looks over to the Professor and the others.

While Eve, focuses and marshals her power, Maudath takes a seat, leaning back against the door so that no one can come in unannounced.

The Professor would want to quietly confer with the speaker, as old fellow to old fellow, getting caught up on that had transpired.

He's been cooped up in here for almost 2 weeks now. the only time he leaves is when Kadroth needs him to sign something or other. The only one he's been around is Yajath, and he point to the cultists snoring on the bed, and he's pretty useless for info. He's knows that Kadroth is in charge and takes his orders from someone called Levistus, whoever that guy is. 

"Levistus is the archdevil they are sworn to... there's some heavy stuff going on here. Kadroth has given us nothing but false charm, but refused to let us see you. You suffer no ailments then? Word around town is that you are sick, and that he and his are the ones who are saving your life. I am pleased to see you are well, otherwise."

((Do you think the Professor would have met the Town Speaker before?))

Eve mentions quietly, “I have, ‘spoken’ to this Levistus I think… When I touched that boy’s dark crystal. We… 'talked’… The creature is, charming indeed…  It took all my willpower not to be drawn in, or worse…”. She looks about a little sheepishly…