(OOC: @drumdigby - I'm not sure how I triggered the re-roll there⤴, but the original damage roll was 7. Also, if Regrak is still in the bonfire's AoE at the end of his turn, he must make another DC 17 DEX save or take additional damage: 9 (fire).)
Xanrym, Theldrin, and Khessa’s attacks hit, with Regrak looking somewhat hurt from the assault. Only one of Coriana’s attacks hit, while Avery backs her up with the knock out, clubbing a confused Regrak over the head. He falls to the ground unconscious.
”My goodness.” Es Sarch whispers at the speed you took out an Assassin’s Guild hit squad. The fight is over, you have an unconscious Regrak on the ground surrounded by dead duergar.
"He was ready to kill us without a second thought..." Khessa comments, unconvinced, looking the unconscious assassin up and down unmercifully. "I'm not sure how much we can trust what he tells us, regardless of how the 'negotiations' go".
"Especially since, if Fadheela paid the Guild to assassinate us," the blonde arcane warrior goes on, majestic in her shining armor which, together with her magic, allowed her to emerge from the tough battle practically without a scratch "I believe the Guild really has no choice but to obey, if they don't want to lose their credibility. I fear the only permanent solution is for us to hurry up and kill Fadheela. Regrak here... I fear he'll try to kill us again at the first opportunity, unless we kill Fadheela, effectively canceling the order to eliminate us".
Syllen looks at Khessa a little confused as he continues to search for people he can save.
“So why are we keeping him alive? It did sound like he was apologetic to kill us at the start. Given how much he overestimated his own strength it might take some time for the guild to get a group together to fight us. Hopefully we will be long gone before they can attack us again."
"Oh, I tried to take him alive because I heard Xanrym asking him to surrender..." Khessa shrugs "Anyway, I have no idea of the true strength of the Assassins' Guild, but I'll be happy if you're right, Syllen!"
"I don't have much compassion for assassins," Theldrin says with a hard look in his eye. "They do this for coin, and have their reputation to uphold once they've taken a job, so will be a liability for us..." But his tone softens as he shrugs and continues, "Then again, perhaps that's too harsh... and something could be arranged."
With all of the Duergar assassins dead or unconscious, Xanrym hurries back over. He hears the tail-end of the conversation, and he doesn't have anything encouraging to say: "No, Regrak is not our friend. He's a 'professional,' but he works a nasty profession. I mostly encouraged Regrak to surrender so that he wouldn't have a chance to hurt anyone else. It seems that even I underestimated The Company of the Grey Chain! I thought that we might have some trouble bringing down such a large, heavily-armored opponent."
"We can certainly try questioning him, but I don't know whether there's time before Es Sarch's meeting," Xanrym says, looking to EsSarch to see whether their interrogation will have to wait until later."There are a couple of things that I'd very much like to know....First, they seem to have set up the ambush here, like they knew that we'd be coming this way. But how did they know that? We only decided to escort Es Sarch to this meeting a couple of hours ago. Did Bruthwol Coalhauler tell them? He is a fellow Duergar dwarf. Or did the Inheritors send word back to Fadheela that we'd be attending this meeting? After the fights at the South Gate and at our hideout in The Riddle, I'm sure that they'd be willing to betray us to Fadheela if they have a way to contact her."
Xanrym continues,"Speaking of Fadheela, we're nearly ready to go after her, but it would be best to know as much about her before we do that as possible. I thought that perhaps higher ranking members of The Guild, like Regrak, might be able to tell us a little more about Fadheela or about what makes her such an effective member of The Assassin's Guild."
Xanrym grimly suggests that if Regrak is not willing to talk, he's inclined to hand the Duergar over to Irrenaste. "House Dusklorn is still up in arms over Ellesarwa's 'assassination.' A prisoner from The Guild could elevate his reputation among the other drow, and I feel that we may yet need Irrenaste's favor for the sake of Khessa's family."
(OOC: Depending on the timing, we can question Regrak now or just tie him up and take him to the warehouse with us. In the latter case, we'd have to wait until after the Es Sarch's meeting to talk to Regrak.)
Coriana uses psychic damage and will go for the knock out is she brings him below 0.
Scim 1: AC 15(12+bardic), 8 psychic.
Scim 2: AC 22, 9 psychic.
Scim 3: AC 9, not bothering with damage.
Coriana - Company of the Grey Chain
Wagner - Dragon Heist: Bards.
DM - The Old Keep
(OOC: @drumdigby - I'm not sure how I triggered the re-roll there⤴, but the original damage roll was 7. Also, if Regrak is still in the bonfire's AoE at the end of his turn, he must make another DC 17 DEX save or take additional damage: 9 (fire).)
Regrak DEX Save: 4
Xanrym, Theldrin, and Khessa’s attacks hit, with Regrak looking somewhat hurt from the assault. Only one of Coriana’s attacks hit, while Avery backs her up with the knock out, clubbing a confused Regrak over the head. He falls to the ground unconscious.
”My goodness.” Es Sarch whispers at the speed you took out an Assassin’s Guild hit squad. The fight is over, you have an unconscious Regrak on the ground surrounded by dead duergar.
When Avery knocks him out, does Regrak shrink back to Medium size, or is he still Large?
Seeing the group decide to keep Regrak alive, Syllen will quickly scan for any others that are still alive and cast Spare the Dying.
"Negotiations might be easier if we can save some of his men."
Medicine Check: 12
Perception Check: 14
"He was ready to kill us without a second thought..." Khessa comments, unconvinced, looking the unconscious assassin up and down unmercifully. "I'm not sure how much we can trust what he tells us, regardless of how the 'negotiations' go".
"Especially since, if Fadheela paid the Guild to assassinate us," the blonde arcane warrior goes on, majestic in her shining armor which, together with her magic, allowed her to emerge from the tough battle practically without a scratch "I believe the Guild really has no choice but to obey, if they don't want to lose their credibility. I fear the only permanent solution is for us to hurry up and kill Fadheela. Regrak here... I fear he'll try to kill us again at the first opportunity, unless we kill Fadheela, effectively canceling the order to eliminate us".
Syllen looks at Khessa a little confused as he continues to search for people he can save.
“So why are we keeping him alive? It did sound like he was apologetic to kill us at the start. Given how much he overestimated his own strength it might take some time for the guild to get a group together to fight us. Hopefully we will be long gone before they can attack us again."
"Oh, I tried to take him alive because I heard Xanrym asking him to surrender..." Khessa shrugs "Anyway, I have no idea of the true strength of the Assassins' Guild, but I'll be happy if you're right, Syllen!"
"I don't have much compassion for assassins," Theldrin says with a hard look in his eye. "They do this for coin, and have their reputation to uphold once they've taken a job, so will be a liability for us..." But his tone softens as he shrugs and continues, "Then again, perhaps that's too harsh... and something could be arranged."
With all of the Duergar assassins dead or unconscious, Xanrym hurries back over. He hears the tail-end of the conversation, and he doesn't have anything encouraging to say: "No, Regrak is not our friend. He's a 'professional,' but he works a nasty profession. I mostly encouraged Regrak to surrender so that he wouldn't have a chance to hurt anyone else. It seems that even I underestimated The Company of the Grey Chain! I thought that we might have some trouble bringing down such a large, heavily-armored opponent."
"We can certainly try questioning him, but I don't know whether there's time before Es Sarch's meeting," Xanrym says, looking to EsSarch to see whether their interrogation will have to wait until later. "There are a couple of things that I'd very much like to know....First, they seem to have set up the ambush here, like they knew that we'd be coming this way. But how did they know that? We only decided to escort Es Sarch to this meeting a couple of hours ago. Did Bruthwol Coalhauler tell them? He is a fellow Duergar dwarf. Or did the Inheritors send word back to Fadheela that we'd be attending this meeting? After the fights at the South Gate and at our hideout in The Riddle, I'm sure that they'd be willing to betray us to Fadheela if they have a way to contact her."
Xanrym continues, "Speaking of Fadheela, we're nearly ready to go after her, but it would be best to know as much about her before we do that as possible. I thought that perhaps higher ranking members of The Guild, like Regrak, might be able to tell us a little more about Fadheela or about what makes her such an effective member of The Assassin's Guild."
Xanrym grimly suggests that if Regrak is not willing to talk, he's inclined to hand the Duergar over to Irrenaste. "House Dusklorn is still up in arms over Ellesarwa's 'assassination.' A prisoner from The Guild could elevate his reputation among the other drow, and I feel that we may yet need Irrenaste's favor for the sake of Khessa's family."
(OOC: Depending on the timing, we can question Regrak now or just tie him up and take him to the warehouse with us. In the latter case, we'd have to wait until after the Es Sarch's meeting to talk to Regrak.)