Forgotten Realms Tales

Satisified that woman is in fact who she says she is, Dr A hands over the scroll. In response to her question about having read the document he says "ahbut yes I have. It is a bit worrying that it predicts the dragons will return and reclaim what they consider to be theirs. In fact we have been attacked by scoundrels wearing some sort of wing type apparatus so it is possible that the dragons have some sort of underground support network in society?"

The half-elven woman takes the scroll case with a nod of gratitude and appreciation. 

" I am so sorry for that. I guess that we weren't as discrete as we thought... or maybe they have been using magical methods to look for it. " she looks around, as if she feared to see anemies lurking in the shadows. Karvian notices that she has talked in plural for a second. 

" You are not wrong Dr. " she keeps talking " There is indeed an organization that worship the dragons. Undead dragons to be more precisely. The Cult of the Dragon. Why they are interested in my studies, I do not know, but what I've discovered is of extremely importance. I need to learn more. If I am right there will be another event soon, and I fear that will bring death and turmoil to the kingdom, maybe the entire continent. We are talking about hundreds of raving dragons here... " she is obviously distressed by that idea, that terrifies her. " I need to know more..." 

     Gorm half listens to the exchange but is much more focused on their surrounding, her aim is to spot any danger well before it gets to them.  In doing that she is also open to noticing if anyone is paying the group undue attention.  

     "Undead Dragons?" Gorm does spurt in a loud whisper.  "Cause the live kind aren't bad enough??"

(Gorm please give me a Perception check.

I will leave a roll here just for... reasons

20 )

Logan:

”Undead dragons must be fearsome foes indeed, and I fell just last night before the ambush of their cultists.  I know not what help I can provide against such powerful evil, but I will do my part as best I can,” says Logan quietly, though these affairs seem far beyond his ability to affect.

Gorm Perception: 15

"Right" replies Chiara to Gorm "I am not sure why they are after me and my research but I can assure " she replies to Logan " that we all way above our heads here. I need more answers and I've put you in too much danger, albeit we tried not to, but I was desperate. Please accept my apologies. I should be going now."

Gorm sees them before they leave the shadows. They come from the two different alleys that lead to the place they were talking. 

Acknowledging that they had been discovered they step out of the shadows. Two men, dressed with large grey tunics and a strange mask covering their faces, resembling some kind of reptilian creature. They had curved, menacing knives on their hands. 

 "Well you are not going anywhere." says one of them "You are coming with us."

"It is better for you" says the other talking to Logan, Gorm, Karvian and Dr. A "If you stay out of this. We have no quarrel with you" 

Gorm notices two things. 

First, the last one who has spoken has a bandage on his forearm. She thinks it's the same one that she hurt yesterday at the back alley of the bookshop. 

Second, there is another one still hiding in the shadows of the alley at their right. 

     And the dance begins...

     "There!" Gorm calls out, drawing one blade and pointing it to the shadows which still hide one of these maniacs off to the alley on the right.  The drawing of the blade creates a momentum which carries her forward, swinging her cloak away and over her shoulder and allow the drawing of her other blade.  She moves quickly and gracefully and niceties of the Al-Hadhar (city dwellers) be damned, she aims to spill their blood as quickly and decisively as possible!

((Bonus action Dance (rage) and attack the nearest of these intruders...  Or I'll just roll initiative, let me know!)) 

(Let's all roll initiative!

I'll roll for them as a group:

Dragonclaws: 10

) 

Gorm initiative: 12

Our map is here!

Logan:

Initiative:  16

Logan says, "These cultists are persistent--I'll give them that. At least this time I have my armor on."  The young noble pulls his peace-bonded sword free and stands in front of their guest, exclaiming to their attackers, "This lady is our guest and under our protection.  Proceed at your peril!"

Dr A's initiative = 9

The masked figures only replied with a grin and get ready to fight as the nomad tiefling launches herself towards them. The unorthodox way of fighting of the tielfing caught him off-guard thought and he isn't able to connect any of the strikes with his long dagger. 

Logan does not have such luck. The cultist feints and make him open his guard, getting him on the shoulder. Logan feels the pain and freezes long enough for his enemy to spin and kneel, stabbing Logan at the interior part of his left thigh, near the groin. He twist it and pull it out. Blood immediately start to run free down Logan's leg and he feels how his leg fails and a general weakness that make him drop to one knee.  Fortunately the armor helps him soak some of the damage, preventing the dagger to cut deeper, otherwise those two wounds could have been fatal.

The third figure, despite knowing that he has been spotted remains back in the alley, in the shadows... ready for anything. 

Logan:

Again falling prey to the cultist attack, Logan is preserved in part by his sturdy armor.  He returns the attack, swinging his peace-bound sword like a club at the foe’s head before taking a deep breath to steady himself.

Peace-bonded “club” attack:  Attack: 14 Damage: 10 of

Second wind hp:  2

Logan's strke caughts the cultist in his low stomach and takes the air out of him. He takes a step back to keep fighting, surprised that his enemy is still capable of movement. 

Meanwhile, Gorm is ready to show this weird man how real fight is done. 

      Gorm's movement towards the dragon cultist is like flow of water.  She more or less took the most direct path but there were ebbs and flows to her movement which was more fluid and beautiful than it had any right to be.  Even while one was just taking in the flow of movement she was already there and her blades flashing about as if part of the spectacle rather than deadly attacks.

Bonus Action: Rage (Round 1 of 10 of Rage...)

Scimitar Attack: 9 Damage: 7

"Ahbut let's see how well they fly with holes in the wings?" Dr A comments as he casts Magic Missile targeting each cultist as follows - Cultist #1 4 of force damage, Cultist #2 5 of force damage & Cultist #3 4 of force damage. As the bolts of force hit, he finishes with "now run along you rodents as your betters have important matters to discuss!"