“Haha! Just the big ‘un left!” Seeing that everyone was still standing and we only had Dead Eye left, Fran finally lifts her loaded light crossbow. With a smirk, she taps a vial Of acid to her crossbow bolt then she’ll take her aim on DE and fire.

 Dead Eye was alone and severely wounded, but as cliche as it sounds - the man was a beast! He managed to brash off another fire-bolt from Polly, ignored a bolt from Fran, and managed to counter-fight both tired fighters. But Tarina's hatred and fear steadied her hand and little Choir's hammer slammed the man where it hurt - he roared like a wounded animal (the sound had to be heard at every corner of the Tavern) and unleashed another wall of steel on Ordrag and Adray.  

 Even beasts get tired - Dead Eye spentall the energy in one hit, bringing down one of his opponent. But Ordrag proved to be too quick for him now - both attacks missed. 

Swearing under her breath, Fran will move around behind Choir and place herself directly behind Ordrag (G4). She will reach out to touch Adray. “Not yet! I got ye!”

Polly is getting exhausted now, she has never cast this many spells in such short duration of time before. She can feel sweat beads forming on her forehead. Again she raises her hands, weaving the necessary pattern and say the arcane wordings and cast a fire bolt. 

Tired or not, but Polly did it! Tarina sent her next bolt into the dead body already (not regretting it a bit). Dead Eye, the Terror of the Sea, captain of Uncivil Serpent, and just a really bad man was dead.

Choir looks around to make sure all her new friends are conscious.  Then she goes through the pirates' pockets."You will pay for that!!!" she repeats the words of Dead Eye as she searches the corpse.

Bad people were bad, but they often carried shinies and sparklies.

Adray, slowly gets up.  His body sore all over and he brings a hand to the sword wound.  Hes surprised that all that's there is a slight scab after the healing magic.  He puts his hand through the hole and says, "This was my favorite shirt." 

He then looks at each and says, "Well fought l, and well survived.  You all did great, and while not everything was the picture of perfection we cant be disappointed we lived and they died."  He turns to Tarina and says, "Now that that's done, you owe us some info and a favor."

And indeed they did. Tarina grinned and spat at the body - "Not so tough now, ye lard brained screechy gobshyte!" She kicked the body one last time, then bent above his head and yanked out of his earlobe a crude metal blackened earring. "Worthless piece of junk, but show it to those two seapigs below - they will run til their see their flee-house they call ship."

Tarina looked at each of you. "Thanks. I owe you. Truly. When you are done looting - that ring, by the way, only looks cheep, I say more than 100 golds worth" (she pointed at the blackened gold ring with a white pearl set in it on the sausage like finger of Dead Eye) "come, we will talk".

She went to the room behind the tables, let Lanny get out and send him to fetch drinks.

Choir, in addition to the mentioned ring, found a pouch containing 32 gp and 15 sp, tucked in Dead-Eye's vest. Around thick neck of the bandit were two gold necklaces.  Pirates, though, were poor as church mice - all together they carried just 30 silver.

Choir makes a strange sound, like the slam of a drawer and the ringing of a bell all at once.  "Ka-ching!"

Fran would be in the process of pulling out her med kit, “Aye don’t go to far you. I’d like to check you next.” She says to Choir as she looks through bandits pockets. She’d place a hand on the back of Odrag’s shoulder to let him know she’s there, “I’m just gunna patch you up here...” and then you could see Fran’s arms reach around the half-orcs torso with some bandages, beginning to patch him up. She’d give him a double pat on his back to let him know she was done and he was good to carry on. “Choir, if I may.” Fran would approach the Kenku and wait for her to finish searching for her shinies before she’d use her healer kit to patch her up.

Choir gives Fran a feathery hug in thanks.

Polly joins Fran and Choir by Dead Eyes corps. It was the first time she’d killed a man, but he almost killed them so it was in self defense. She hunkers down by his head and inspect his eye patch. She lift it up to see what is underneath. Then she pockets the eyepatch. You never know when you need a disguise these days.

”He was tougher then he looked. I wonder if he was aided by some sort of magic?”  However, she had spent all her magic in the fight and had no way of knowing without it. She stands back up and looks at what Choir has found and gives off a long whistle. 

Fran would be a little surprised by the sudden hug, but it'd make her smile and she'd give Choir a pat on the back to return the hug.

"He definitely was a beast." She'd nod to Polly then look down to take her own closer look at Dead Eye.

"Alright." Fran would head over to where Tarina was calling them over, "And how are your wounds?"

Adray waits until Fran is done checking over her wounds and gathers the others around.  "Now, before more trouble comes our way, what's this news you have on the Dead Three?  Additionally,  do you know where this Deadeye's ship is? "

Fran will tend to Tarina's wounds then take a spot on the outside of the group. She'd position herself in a way she could keep an eye on 'her patients' and the stairs while Adray and any of the others did the talking.

"In the port, I presume. There is no punishment for supposed piracy in Baldur's Gate and it's not like any of Dead Eye's victims petitioned to the Dukes." She smirked and nodded to Fran "thank you, honey, I am fine, this is just a scratch, had much worse in my life." Clean cut promised to leave a thin scar but was in no way life threatening wound.

"By the way, do you plan to do something about those two in the doors? If they are smart - they are gon by now already, but Dead Eye did not like smart that much".

"If you make this quick, then yes I do plan on doing something.  Sorry to say, but we just met you and I'd rather not you accidentally walk away while we tend to that matter."  Adray says, his impatience clearly showing upon his face.

Hoping it will help convince Tarina to give them the information they are after, Choir speaks in Captain Zodge's voice.  "She owes me a favour, so tell her you work for me. Ask her what she knows about the Dead Three.These dirty bastards are taking advantage of the current crisis to commit murder sprees throughout the city.  Find their lair, and wipe it out. Eliminate anyone who gets in your way."

She points at dead Dead Eye meaningfully.

(Persuasion? 2)

(OOC: Nobody listens to little flightless birdies! :O  )

"Nice bird you got here," commented Tarina, waited for everyone to get their drinks and began her story. "A few blocks of here there is a public bathhouse. The fancy one - you know, with a walled garden, frolicking nymphs carvings on the front gates, nice services and so on. I was there a week ago." She checked your reaction: "What? A girl needs to relax sometimes." "So, I was about to leave when I saw a couple of those black robes - they did not care even to cover their holy - or is it unholy for them? - symbols." "I followed just out of curiosity - it's not the place for religious fanatics, you know. They went to that never used old servants room. At least it was servants room. I peeked - just a little. It was a room, all right, but with stairs leading deep down. Like drop a stone - wait for answer deep. It's a dungeon there. I saw them robes bringing a body down there - dead or unconscious know not. Did not followed, of course, but asked around a bit. That's where your killers are hiding."

"Can show you the place or draw the map, but you better talk to your Captain first. He might know something about the place."

 Fran would listen intently to what Tarina has to say. She'd be more suspect to why Tarina stopped to check their reactions to her being there, than question why she'd be there. Hells, Fran would love to go if she had the coin... It's a bathhouse! She'd smirk to Tarina and allow her to continue.

Insight check: 12 Is she telling the truth, the WHOLE truth?