Dageron reads through the book and examines the pictures before landing on one page that keeps his attention for awhile. He squints as it appears he tries to read the tiny print below a specific picture.
The church is quiet for the rest of the day and leading into the night as the Dawn Guard find a quiet place to hide in the back and rest and regroup....
Dageron clears his throat loudly in an apparent bid to gain the attention of the others. He then turns the book around so that a picture on one of the pages is visible to everyone around. "Under this picture it says this building, the Nakatomi Plaza, was designed by Ivo Shandor. Perhaps we should learn more about this place?"
Shavaris takes the book from Dageron and looks at it, the appearances of the strange looking dog statues seen to give her the willies. “At least they aren’t worms.”
She leafs through the book and then gives it back. “Sounds like the best plan we have so far anyways. Though not sure what we’re looking for.”
A short while after travbot and his clones leave, one of the clones comes back to the group hurriedly. He approaches Shavaris and hugs her legs looking up at her with doey sad eyes, "shav remembers hmmm? Remembers the talks what we had yeh yeh, travin wants to do good hmmm to be accepteds yeh yeh?" It is clear that something else has upset the little junk creature other than his recent discovery if greif.
Shavaris raises her hands up a bit in surprise as one of the clones hugs her legs. She suppresses an urge to shake it off, but then listening to it, she pauses. "The talks we had? But I have never talked to you.. just the original Travin. I don't understand, do you also have his memories? Of course Travin is accepted. Travin is good." She smiles awkwardly and lightly pats him on the head unsure what to think of this conversation.
"buts I am travin hmmm?, we three is all travinses yeh yeh" he smiles at shavaris' words and points to the room he came from. Travbot strolls on in with his other clone and calls over, "Travin leave them alone. I know you're upset but we have things to do." Travbot sees the book being passed around, with his cold eyes and thinks for a moment before flatly asking "have we got a clue? Do we know where to go next? I've been thinking, we should all know what we all know of what we're doing here, I feel like we haven't progressed all that much since we got here, just caused a mess.
We're looking for Sarah and taking out Vigo who has her, right? That blob thing is spreading itself over the city and has insight into the vampire curse and some kind of link to Sarah, if I understand it correctly. What else do we know?"
Adam sits in the corner, resting his head against the wall, taking a cot if one is provided. He closes his eyes and holds his hands over his head. “Man, this place is nuts. I miss Ironsides. Are we ever gonna get out of here…..” he says to himself, then finally falls asleep for a bit. And snores. Bad. A Travin comes over and pokes him with a finger, getting him to turn on his side.
After a while, Adam sits up, does a deep stretch and stands, walking over to where Shavaris and Dageron are, and he starts to look through this book as well. “Do we know how to get to this Nakitomi Plaza place? Do we think we should go there? Maybe we should disguise ourselves again and find transportation.” Adam is playing with his Auryn device, twiddling it with his fingers, wishing that he could speak to Gandalf…
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Johnathan spells take root and Delphinium’s voice emits from the spectral Orrery that Johnathan conjures. Anyone nearby can hear what was said.
Contacting Delphinium proves easy enough. They seem shocked to hear from Johnathan after so long; apparently it's been months for them since they left. They chastise Johnathan for not reaching out sooner...
Johnathan: Glad to hear you’re ok. Tell me, how are you returning to us?
Delphinium: Uh… returning? Right now I’m hunting! I’m busy! It’ll be awhile!
Johnathan: Hunting, does that mean you are home in the feywild?
Delphinium: What? Johnathan, is that you? I haven’t been hunting in weeks! And of course I’m home! Where else would I go on the wild hunt?
Johnathan: That’s good to hear at least. Did your father confirm what is happening to the Alicorn and the dead mare? Don’t tell me it’s stuffed already.
Delphinium: Johnathan! It's great to hear from you! You should call more often! The dead mare? Oh, you mean stallion? He's got it in storage. Says there may be a deal that can be made to bring it back or something. I dunno! The Alicorn is here safe with me! I'll be holding on to it until someone can make me a deal to get it back!
Johnathan: I’m sure that can be arranged. We are looking to deal with the vampires in Travin’s realm. This will be the last time I can make contact for a while. Do you know of any way to bring Gavin and Ward back from the dead with fey magic?
No, I don't. Delph replies, sounding sad.That's been so long ago. Maybe when you get here someday we can ask around. Until then, I hope you have a good time and that things have gotten better in Travin's realm! I didn't really like that place. Those people are no fun!
With that the spell gives way as the spectral Orrery disintegrate into the air. Johnathan gives a heavy sigh as he feels the weight of the spell lift from him. Johnathan turns to the Dawn Guard. Well good news, Delph is alive. Somehow the little fairy made their way to the Feywild again. I don’t think they will return for a while. I asked about the Alicorn and they still have it. The dead stallion is still intact as well. Johnathan pauses as he looks towards Travin. I tried asking for Gavin and Ward and if anything in the feywild could help. There wasn’t anything that they could think of. Sorry. Johnathan will continue to sit for a moment and have a moment to catch his breath. He listens in on where they need to go next.
So this plaza is where we need to go. I agree with Adam, we will need a way to sneak in. I can make some invisible, I also have ways of scaling the building if we want to try that approach. How do we want to approach this? I can ask the ghostbusters if they know the building as well, Echo is still with them and can talk if we want.
The travin who was hugging Shavaris earlier slumps his shoulders at the news that the feywild cannot help, "that's sad news hmm, but thank yous for asking yeh yeh!"
The other travin clone huffs and angrily mutters "typical, useless fey!"
Travbot simply gets on with the planning, ignoring the topic of Gavin and Ward. "This body can disguise itself or become invisible, along with others, but if we knew exactly what this Nakatomi plaza's purpose is, then maybe we can take advantage of that purpose to just walk in the front door, no magic required. We're all rested up now right? I'll call the priest in."
Shavaris looks sternly at Travbot when he admonishes the one that is hugging her legs. She doesn't mind, she actually misses Travin in this state and if these two have minds of their own, maybe it'll be nice to have them around. Then... she starts thinking about the monkey doctor and wonders if she is crazy for wanting them around.
"Agreed, what all do we know so far? Other than the Strahd issue, I agree with Travin, just that we need to find Sarah and rid the world of Vigo. Heading to this Nakatomi plaza seems like a good place to start. Want me to scout it out first?"
Johnathan gives a nod as Shavaris suggests scouting out the place. As long as you feel up to it. Let’s start getting a move on at least. Maybe once we see the building we will have a better idea. Johnathan spends a few moments collecting his belongings. He seems somewhat shocked to find the plant still sleeping in the backpack still. Seeing the plant reminds him of the local flora of his home and just how far he really is from it.
After a bit Johnathan connects to Echo and makes contact with the ghostbusters.
Echo senses becomes one with Johnathan as he takes control of his familiar. Echo flys down to where the ghostbusters are resting and speaks in Johnathan’s voice. Do not be alarmed ghostbusters. This is Johnathan from the dawn guard speaking through my Hawk. We have found a building that Vigo seems to be connected to that we are going to inspect. The place is called the Nakatomi Plaza. Are you still planning on dealing with Vigo with us?
After a pretty heavy sleep, Ralik gets up in the middle of the conversation. He listens in and stretches, popping a few joints in the process.
Once satisfied, he moves to the group, waiting for an decent opportunity to interject.
"Ah-ho, apologies for interrupting, but I recon I can get rid of the curse on sister Shavaris. I have ended the bastard Strahd's curse upon me, and I believes I can do the same for her." He says with a confident smile.
He turns to Shavaris and holds out an upturned hand.
If/when she takes it, he casts Dispel Magic (at 3rd lvl) and then Remove Curse, (at 3rd lvl). He conducts the spell exactly as he did the night before, and with the same conviction. Channeling is total focus on the task.
Once done, Ralik leans against a wall and looks expectingly at Shavaris with a shit eating grin.
"I hope it worked. Can I get an hour before we go to this Nakataki. I am a little spent after that." He says with a huff.
Shavaris stares at Ralik and her mouth drops open. "The curse from Strahd?! How did you..." but she takes Ralik's upturned hand and grips it tight. Closing her eyes, she lets the warrior's magic wash over her, feeling the weight of the curse leave her, the shock behind it all lingering behind. "I..I hope it worked too. I feel better at least. Thank you,"
The positive Travin clone gives a happy little clap and a jig, congratulating Ralik for his skilful use of magic in outwitting Strahd's blood pact. Travbot, on the other hand, gives a knowing glance to his more negative clone and the turns back to Ralik, "that's great news, of course rest... But are you absolutely sure? It's gone now, there's no longer a time limit on your life? We need to know that it's one hundred percent gone"
"The deadline will represent a threat to Strahd's reputation if it passes with no effect. At the very least, he will unleash all his forces to uphold the bargain." Dageron suggests.
Adam nods toward Dageron, jutting his jaw out. “Right again, dammit.” He turns toward him, saying “Is there ever a time that you’re not right? Sheesh!” He turns back to Shavaris and Ralik, saying “Well, it will be wonderful if it is the case, but I’m not counting on it. No offense Ralik, but Strahd seemed to be made from pretty strong stuff, a high level spell caster. I would think that rudimentary spells wouldn’t work on this…”.
He turns to the crew, saying “Ok, to Nakitomi plaza, how do we find our way to it? Anyone know? Anyone?” He looks over with a side eye at Dageron, then says “Not you. I’m calling on someone else next.”
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Johnathan orders Echo to fly back to him as his senses return to him. He gives a concerned glance to the others. Bad news. Looks like the ghostbusters were arrested by the law enforcement. I don’t have much information on their situation besides that, looks to be a building of sorts but Echo couldn’t get in. I have a feeling they would snitch on us. Johnathan pauses as he gathers the rest of his supplies. I don’t know if this location is compromised either. Strahd could give up our locations like last time. If we are going to rest here for Ralik then we need to set up watch and be ready to move as soon as possible. Johnathan looks over to Dageron. Did the book give a picture of the Plaza? I can send Echo to find it while we get ready to move.
"we should move now, have we all got disguises again? Don't forget we're already wanted. We should look for places marked 'high street' or 'downtown' good places for information gathering, also if anyone sees a building marked 'pawn shop' I might be able to get a hold of some of this planes currency, that'll make things easier for us." Travbot says apathetically as he shifts to the same gothic disguise he had used the day before.
The two train clones seem to be busting themselves fighting eachother, one seems to be a lot more aggressive and frustrated, the other just attempting to cow away but failing.
There comes a knock on the door of the room that the Dawn Guard are hiding in, and then someone in a uniform with a badge and a gun steps into the room and shines a maglight around in the semi-dark, letting it fall on the faces of the Band members.
"Waddya wha...who the **** are you?" He says, then makes a little 'oh!' face and makes the sign of the cross over himself. "Pardon me, fatha. Pardon me!"
He steps into the room, looks around, and just looks genuinely confused.
"Ah, yous must be the guys that Fatha said would be here hidin' out, huh? Yous behavin'? Yeah? Well, yous been here all day. Time for yous guys to get out there on the shoeplace express, capisce? Let's go, come on."
He starts making circling motions with his flashlight, motioning the Dawn Guard out of the room.
"****in' OOP!" He covers his mouth, then keeps talking. "Bunch a weirdos man whoowee..."
"we are on our way officer, hey could you possibly tell us which part of the city Nakatomi Plaza is located? I'm afraid we are out of towners" Travbot asks as he follows the security or cop out, gesturing the group to follow him out on to the streets.
Once out, he does indeed look around for any street signs telling him their location and figuring out the directions given by the officer if any.
Dageron reads through the book and examines the pictures before landing on one page that keeps his attention for awhile. He squints as it appears he tries to read the tiny print below a specific picture.
The church is quiet for the rest of the day and leading into the night as the Dawn Guard find a quiet place to hide in the back and rest and regroup....
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Dageron clears his throat loudly in an apparent bid to gain the attention of the others. He then turns the book around so that a picture on one of the pages is visible to everyone around. "Under this picture it says this building, the Nakatomi Plaza, was designed by Ivo Shandor. Perhaps we should learn more about this place?"
Shavaris takes the book from Dageron and looks at it, the appearances of the strange looking dog statues seen to give her the willies. “At least they aren’t worms.”
She leafs through the book and then gives it back. “Sounds like the best plan we have so far anyways. Though not sure what we’re looking for.”
A short while after travbot and his clones leave, one of the clones comes back to the group hurriedly. He approaches Shavaris and hugs her legs looking up at her with doey sad eyes, "shav remembers hmmm? Remembers the talks what we had yeh yeh, travin wants to do good hmmm to be accepteds yeh yeh?" It is clear that something else has upset the little junk creature other than his recent discovery if greif.
Shavaris raises her hands up a bit in surprise as one of the clones hugs her legs. She suppresses an urge to shake it off, but then listening to it, she pauses. "The talks we had? But I have never talked to you.. just the original Travin. I don't understand, do you also have his memories? Of course Travin is accepted. Travin is good." She smiles awkwardly and lightly pats him on the head unsure what to think of this conversation.
"buts I am travin hmmm?, we three is all travinses yeh yeh" he smiles at shavaris' words and points to the room he came from. Travbot strolls on in with his other clone and calls over, "Travin leave them alone. I know you're upset but we have things to do." Travbot sees the book being passed around, with his cold eyes and thinks for a moment before flatly asking "have we got a clue? Do we know where to go next? I've been thinking, we should all know what we all know of what we're doing here, I feel like we haven't progressed all that much since we got here, just caused a mess.
We're looking for Sarah and taking out Vigo who has her, right? That blob thing is spreading itself over the city and has insight into the vampire curse and some kind of link to Sarah, if I understand it correctly. What else do we know?"
Adam sits in the corner, resting his head against the wall, taking a cot if one is provided. He closes his eyes and holds his hands over his head. “Man, this place is nuts. I miss Ironsides. Are we ever gonna get out of here…..” he says to himself, then finally falls asleep for a bit. And snores. Bad. A Travin comes over and pokes him with a finger, getting him to turn on his side.
After a while, Adam sits up, does a deep stretch and stands, walking over to where Shavaris and Dageron are, and he starts to look through this book as well. “Do we know how to get to this Nakitomi Plaza place? Do we think we should go there? Maybe we should disguise ourselves again and find transportation.” Adam is playing with his Auryn device, twiddling it with his fingers, wishing that he could speak to Gandalf…
A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
Johnathan spells take root and Delphinium’s voice emits from the spectral Orrery that Johnathan conjures. Anyone nearby can hear what was said.
Contacting Delphinium proves easy enough. They seem shocked to hear from Johnathan after so long; apparently it's been months for them since they left. They chastise Johnathan for not reaching out sooner...
Johnathan: Glad to hear you’re ok. Tell me, how are you returning to us?
Delphinium: Uh… returning? Right now I’m hunting! I’m busy! It’ll be awhile!
Johnathan: Hunting, does that mean you are home in the feywild?
Delphinium: What? Johnathan, is that you? I haven’t been hunting in weeks! And of course I’m home! Where else would I go on the wild hunt?
Johnathan: That’s good to hear at least. Did your father confirm what is happening to the Alicorn and the dead mare? Don’t tell me it’s stuffed already.
Delphinium: Johnathan! It's great to hear from you! You should call more often! The dead mare? Oh, you mean stallion? He's got it in storage. Says there may be a deal that can be made to bring it back or something. I dunno! The Alicorn is here safe with me! I'll be holding on to it until someone can make me a deal to get it back!
Johnathan: I’m sure that can be arranged. We are looking to deal with the vampires in Travin’s realm. This will be the last time I can make contact for a while. Do you know of any way to bring Gavin and Ward back from the dead with fey magic?
No, I don't. Delph replies, sounding sad. That's been so long ago. Maybe when you get here someday we can ask around. Until then, I hope you have a good time and that things have gotten better in Travin's realm! I didn't really like that place. Those people are no fun!
With that the spell gives way as the spectral Orrery disintegrate into the air. Johnathan gives a heavy sigh as he feels the weight of the spell lift from him. Johnathan turns to the Dawn Guard. Well good news, Delph is alive. Somehow the little fairy made their way to the Feywild again. I don’t think they will return for a while. I asked about the Alicorn and they still have it. The dead stallion is still intact as well. Johnathan pauses as he looks towards Travin. I tried asking for Gavin and Ward and if anything in the feywild could help. There wasn’t anything that they could think of. Sorry. Johnathan will continue to sit for a moment and have a moment to catch his breath. He listens in on where they need to go next.
So this plaza is where we need to go. I agree with Adam, we will need a way to sneak in. I can make some invisible, I also have ways of scaling the building if we want to try that approach. How do we want to approach this? I can ask the ghostbusters if they know the building as well, Echo is still with them and can talk if we want.
The travin who was hugging Shavaris earlier slumps his shoulders at the news that the feywild cannot help, "that's sad news hmm, but thank yous for asking yeh yeh!"
The other travin clone huffs and angrily mutters "typical, useless fey!"
Travbot simply gets on with the planning, ignoring the topic of Gavin and Ward. "This body can disguise itself or become invisible, along with others, but if we knew exactly what this Nakatomi plaza's purpose is, then maybe we can take advantage of that purpose to just walk in the front door, no magic required. We're all rested up now right? I'll call the priest in."
Shavaris looks sternly at Travbot when he admonishes the one that is hugging her legs. She doesn't mind, she actually misses Travin in this state and if these two have minds of their own, maybe it'll be nice to have them around. Then... she starts thinking about the monkey doctor and wonders if she is crazy for wanting them around.
"Agreed, what all do we know so far? Other than the Strahd issue, I agree with Travin, just that we need to find Sarah and rid the world of Vigo. Heading to this Nakatomi plaza seems like a good place to start. Want me to scout it out first?"
Johnathan gives a nod as Shavaris suggests scouting out the place. As long as you feel up to it. Let’s start getting a move on at least. Maybe once we see the building we will have a better idea. Johnathan spends a few moments collecting his belongings. He seems somewhat shocked to find the plant still sleeping in the backpack still. Seeing the plant reminds him of the local flora of his home and just how far he really is from it.
After a bit Johnathan connects to Echo and makes contact with the ghostbusters.
Echo senses becomes one with Johnathan as he takes control of his familiar. Echo flys down to where the ghostbusters are resting and speaks in Johnathan’s voice. Do not be alarmed ghostbusters. This is Johnathan from the dawn guard speaking through my Hawk. We have found a building that Vigo seems to be connected to that we are going to inspect. The place is called the Nakatomi Plaza. Are you still planning on dealing with Vigo with us?
After a pretty heavy sleep, Ralik gets up in the middle of the conversation. He listens in and stretches, popping a few joints in the process.
Once satisfied, he moves to the group, waiting for an decent opportunity to interject.
"Ah-ho, apologies for interrupting, but I recon I can get rid of the curse on sister Shavaris. I have ended the bastard Strahd's curse upon me, and I believes I can do the same for her." He says with a confident smile.
He turns to Shavaris and holds out an upturned hand.
If/when she takes it, he casts Dispel Magic (at 3rd lvl) and then Remove Curse, (at 3rd lvl). He conducts the spell exactly as he did the night before, and with the same conviction. Channeling is total focus on the task.
Once done, Ralik leans against a wall and looks expectingly at Shavaris with a shit eating grin.
"I hope it worked. Can I get an hour before we go to this Nakataki. I am a little spent after that." He says with a huff.
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Shavaris stares at Ralik and her mouth drops open. "The curse from Strahd?! How did you..." but she takes Ralik's upturned hand and grips it tight. Closing her eyes, she lets the warrior's magic wash over her, feeling the weight of the curse leave her, the shock behind it all lingering behind. "I..I hope it worked too. I feel better at least. Thank you,"
The positive Travin clone gives a happy little clap and a jig, congratulating Ralik for his skilful use of magic in outwitting Strahd's blood pact. Travbot, on the other hand, gives a knowing glance to his more negative clone and the turns back to Ralik, "that's great news, of course rest... But are you absolutely sure? It's gone now, there's no longer a time limit on your life? We need to know that it's one hundred percent gone"
"The deadline will represent a threat to Strahd's reputation if it passes with no effect. At the very least, he will unleash all his forces to uphold the bargain." Dageron suggests.
Adam nods toward Dageron, jutting his jaw out. “Right again, dammit.” He turns toward him, saying “Is there ever a time that you’re not right? Sheesh!” He turns back to Shavaris and Ralik, saying “Well, it will be wonderful if it is the case, but I’m not counting on it. No offense Ralik, but Strahd seemed to be made from pretty strong stuff, a high level spell caster. I would think that rudimentary spells wouldn’t work on this…”.
He turns to the crew, saying “Ok, to Nakitomi plaza, how do we find our way to it? Anyone know? Anyone?” He looks over with a side eye at Dageron, then says “Not you. I’m calling on someone else next.”
A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
Johnathan orders Echo to fly back to him as his senses return to him. He gives a concerned glance to the others. Bad news. Looks like the ghostbusters were arrested by the law enforcement. I don’t have much information on their situation besides that, looks to be a building of sorts but Echo couldn’t get in. I have a feeling they would snitch on us. Johnathan pauses as he gathers the rest of his supplies. I don’t know if this location is compromised either. Strahd could give up our locations like last time. If we are going to rest here for Ralik then we need to set up watch and be ready to move as soon as possible. Johnathan looks over to Dageron. Did the book give a picture of the Plaza? I can send Echo to find it while we get ready to move.
"we should move now, have we all got disguises again? Don't forget we're already wanted. We should look for places marked 'high street' or 'downtown' good places for information gathering, also if anyone sees a building marked 'pawn shop' I might be able to get a hold of some of this planes currency, that'll make things easier for us." Travbot says apathetically as he shifts to the same gothic disguise he had used the day before.
The two train clones seem to be busting themselves fighting eachother, one seems to be a lot more aggressive and frustrated, the other just attempting to cow away but failing.
There comes a knock on the door of the room that the Dawn Guard are hiding in, and then someone in a uniform with a badge and a gun steps into the room and shines a maglight around in the semi-dark, letting it fall on the faces of the Band members.
"Waddya wha...who the **** are you?" He says, then makes a little 'oh!' face and makes the sign of the cross over himself. "Pardon me, fatha. Pardon me!"
He steps into the room, looks around, and just looks genuinely confused.
"Ah, yous must be the guys that Fatha said would be here hidin' out, huh? Yous behavin'? Yeah? Well, yous been here all day. Time for yous guys to get out there on the shoeplace express, capisce? Let's go, come on."
He starts making circling motions with his flashlight, motioning the Dawn Guard out of the room.
"****in' OOP!" He covers his mouth, then keeps talking. "Bunch a weirdos man whoowee..."
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"we are on our way officer, hey could you possibly tell us which part of the city Nakatomi Plaza is located? I'm afraid we are out of towners" Travbot asks as he follows the security or cop out, gesturing the group to follow him out on to the streets.
Once out, he does indeed look around for any street signs telling him their location and figuring out the directions given by the officer if any.
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