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Honor
"Your companions..." He nods to Sylcan again and then to Vilana. "have aided me dearly in my research here. First by helping me learn who built this place, and then by finding this trove of items. I will let you split the coins here among yourself if that will make you happy. After that though, unless one of your kind comes seeking an item of theirs, I will consider my debt to you repaid in full."
Honor sighs and rests her head against Vilana's for a moment before pulling away again to reply, also at a whisper. "I am trying, Vilana. And I trust you, but with every new memory I recover, I trust the necromancer less and less. He seems to have dealt with Mylene and her band and Tessa with ease, I know outright challenging him would be a poor choice. I was at first just curious about what the other items were, but now I can't help but wonder if one who practices such dark magics should have powerful items --" she stops herself. "But as I said, I don't think the odds would be on our side in a fight. Waiting and not making an outright enemy is best, though I hate it." She puts a hand on Vilana's shoulder, and then turns as the wizard speaks again.
"That would be acceptable to me, if it is for my companions as well,"Honor says, loud enough for all to hear. She nods deferentially to the others, and does not approach, trying not to seem eager or aggressive.
Letting out a low whistle at the coins, Sylcan looks back over to the others. "There's a lot of coin here - let me know how you would all like to divide it." Holding up the Bag of Holding, he offers to put them in his "coin pouch".
Turning to the wizard, Sylcan gestures back towards Tessa's body. "You mind if we take any equipment that little one may have had?"
Vilana nodded to Honor and turned back to the wizard. "You are incredibly generous. I wish you best of luck in uncovering history of this place and to stay safe, the surrounding lands seem to be unfriendly." She pointed at the dead bodies of bugbears and bandits. "Have a nice day." She turned around ready to leave and join Alden with "his" horses.
(Did the wizard indicated somehow he does not want to talk about banshee?)
Vilana nodded to Honor and turned back to the wizard. "You are incredibly generous. I wish you best of luck in uncovering history of this place and to stay safe, the surrounding lands seem to be unfriendly." She pointed at the dead bodies of bugbears and bandits. "Have a nice day." She turned around ready to leave and join Alden with "his" horses.
(Did the wizard indicated somehow he does not want to talk about banshee?)
Vilana
(No, just forgot it myself.)
"The Banshee is an undead who can access knowledge few others can." the mage says. "She is also from around the same time as this tower, maybe a little less ancient though as it comes to pass now that I know the true builder, but she knows many things."
"Feel free to look for anything else she might have on her." Hamun says with a shrug. "I removed the two junk daggers she was carrying, and took the hand crossbow, she took from your friend Mylene, and laid them next to her for when she wakes." He nods to the massive dead bugbear as well. "I did cast detect magic near them both, and they ahve nothing magical on them, but I didn't bother checking them for anything else. You can have whatever they have on them if you wish to do so."
You hear the sound of someone in armor approaching, and soon Kierro reaches the courtyard.
"Villana! Sylcan! Honor!"he waves to the other three erased. "Good to see you again." He looks around, seeing the charred grass from the fireball. "What happened?"
"Huh?" Naivara asks, not really sure what Honor means by that as she looms around for what she was looking for. "It's nice to catch up with you guys," she adds, a little more comfortable that she was around 2 people she remembers.
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The mage glances up as the sound of someone approaching is heard, and you all hear Kierro and Navara speak as they walk around the side of the tower and towards where you are all in the area between the tower and the well.
"More friends of yours?" The mage asks Vilana as he eyes the two newcomers.
Mylene, Naivara, and Kierro would all sense their items inside the tent.
"Mylene and her crew appear to be the first of us to arrive, but this wizard has been inspecting this tower for some time. We only arrived after the fact, but there was some disagreement between the lot of them, as Mylene is now unconscious, and Tessa dead -- and they're not the only ones. However, we were able to come to an agreement with him, and by providing him some information to aid his research, he agreed that we could each take the item that drew us here. We are splitting the coin as well, but in the interest of time we were going to do the dividing later."
(OOC: I was just about to post it when I saw Mylene was awake -- I thought she still was going to be unconscious for another hour, accounting for the 45-ish minutes the digging would take -- we'll just say Honor hasn't noticed yet.)
"Ah, yes, those three I was telling about - Kierro, Naivara and Latrius. Now you have seen us all." She gave a friendly nod to the group of newcomers. Honor's comment did not really need any explanation, so, instead she introduced the wizard: "And here is the owner of the place - a wizard Hamun Kost."
Kierro, not knowing of the wizard being a necromancer, bows. "A pleasure to meet you, sir."
His eyes go wide hearing of Mylene and Tessa. "That's... that's unfortunate. We should bring Tessa's body back once Mylene wakes up."
"The item that draws me is in the tent. Do we need to help him further, or did your assistance mean he's allowing all of us to retrieve that which calls to us?"
Mylene stirs, wincing with pain, and groans at the sight of her burnt clothes, not to mention flesh. She looks around, trying to get a grasp on the current scenario. "What...ugh, ouch, everything hurts." She stands, her wobbling legs visible through her mostly shredded dress and scorched hosiery. She walks, staggering, taking it all in mutely. She sees other Erased present, Walter ambulatory, and the still forms of, among them, Brun, the bugbears, and Tessa, as well as Leto, separate from those others. "Tessa. Of course. That's the only thing that makes sense." Her voice is raspy sounding, and she coughs, doubled over, clutching her midsection. She then speaks, less groggy but sounding vacant and monotone, seeming to be speaking to herself out loud more than to anyone else in the vicinity.
"The only thing that makes sense," she repeats, her tone mocking her own words as she pushes a hand against her forehead as if warding off a terrible headache. "Nothing makes sense with someone like Tessa involved. I was having a perfectly civil parlay with the necromancer gentleman, Hamun Kost, regarding my memory-containing item, and Leto's. Then... a flash. Pain. And now all this. Of course. We were in the middle of our parlay. Tessa sneaks it. Attacks Kost. He conflates that rabid halfling with myself and my people, thinks he is the victim of some treachery, and strikes out. Chaos ensues, always chaos where Tessa goes. And now, so much waste. So much death and pain. Walter, I am so glad you are alright. Leto... Leto! Is he... does he live? And what of Brun? The rest of my soldiers?"
She moves as best as she can, stumbling as she goes, checking the still forms for pulse and breath. "Thank the gods, if the gods aren't entirely mad as well. Leto still lives. Small mercy, that. But, Brun... my noble and strong lieutenant... So many of my soldiers, slain. This is horrible." She falls to her knees with a thud, feet skewed in opposite directions, and stares blankly. Her lip quivers, and if it were anyone else it would appear she is about to burst into tears. She seems on the cusp of doing so, but seems to notice the moisture in her eyes, and the presence of Kost and the other Erased, and tries to reign in the impulse and maintain some composure, wiping her hand across her eyes briefly. "Walter, will you... please... will you help me stand? I'm having some... difficulty. I need a moment to collect myself. Then I will see what I can do to aid Leto, and any others of our numbers who still live. I am afraid Brun is... beyond my abilities."
Kierro, hearing Mylene's despair, wordlessly moves to Leto, and kneels beside him. He lays a hand on his chest, and a glowing light shines around his hand momentarily.
(Aasimar healing hands - 2 hp to Leto.)
When he awakens, Kierro extends a hand to help him up.
Honor
"Your companions..." He nods to Sylcan again and then to Vilana. "have aided me dearly in my research here. First by helping me learn who built this place, and then by finding this trove of items. I will let you split the coins here among yourself if that will make you happy. After that though, unless one of your kind comes seeking an item of theirs, I will consider my debt to you repaid in full."
There are 467 GP and 1685 SP in the cache.
Honor
Honor sighs and rests her head against Vilana's for a moment before pulling away again to reply, also at a whisper. "I am trying, Vilana. And I trust you, but with every new memory I recover, I trust the necromancer less and less. He seems to have dealt with Mylene and her band and Tessa with ease, I know outright challenging him would be a poor choice. I was at first just curious about what the other items were, but now I can't help but wonder if one who practices such dark magics should have powerful items --" she stops herself. "But as I said, I don't think the odds would be on our side in a fight. Waiting and not making an outright enemy is best, though I hate it." She puts a hand on Vilana's shoulder, and then turns as the wizard speaks again.
"That would be acceptable to me, if it is for my companions as well," Honor says, loud enough for all to hear. She nods deferentially to the others, and does not approach, trying not to seem eager or aggressive.
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Sylcan Naïlo:
Letting out a low whistle at the coins, Sylcan looks back over to the others. "There's a lot of coin here - let me know how you would all like to divide it." Holding up the Bag of Holding, he offers to put them in his "coin pouch".
Turning to the wizard, Sylcan gestures back towards Tessa's body. "You mind if we take any equipment that little one may have had?"
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Vilana nodded to Honor and turned back to the wizard. "You are incredibly generous. I wish you best of luck in uncovering history of this place and to stay safe, the surrounding lands seem to be unfriendly." She pointed at the dead bodies of bugbears and bandits. "Have a nice day." She turned around ready to leave and join Alden with "his" horses.
(Did the wizard indicated somehow he does not want to talk about banshee?)
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Vilana
(No, just forgot it myself.)
"The Banshee is an undead who can access knowledge few others can." the mage says. "She is also from around the same time as this tower, maybe a little less ancient though as it comes to pass now that I know the true builder, but she knows many things."
Sylcan
"Feel free to look for anything else she might have on her." Hamun says with a shrug. "I removed the two junk daggers she was carrying, and took the hand crossbow, she took from your friend Mylene, and laid them next to her for when she wakes." He nods to the massive dead bugbear as well. "I did cast detect magic near them both, and they ahve nothing magical on them, but I didn't bother checking them for anything else. You can have whatever they have on them if you wish to do so."
You hear the sound of someone in armor approaching, and soon Kierro reaches the courtyard.
"Villana! Sylcan! Honor!" he waves to the other three erased. "Good to see you again." He looks around, seeing the charred grass from the fireball. "What happened?"
He also looks around for the object pulling him.
Naivara:
Naivara is behind Kierro, "Um hi..."
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Honor
Honor, who was helping Sylcan gather the coin, turns to the others and waves. "Apparently Mylene tried to make more friends," she says dryly.
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Naivara:
"Huh?" Naivara asks, not really sure what Honor means by that as she looms around for what she was looking for. "It's nice to catch up with you guys," she adds, a little more comfortable that she was around 2 people she remembers.
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Latrius:
‘Another figure materializes out of the forest.
"That your tent? It’s got something of mine in it."
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Everyone except for Leto...
Mylene you wake up now as well.
The mage glances up as the sound of someone approaching is heard, and you all hear Kierro and Navara speak as they walk around the side of the tower and towards where you are all in the area between the tower and the well.
"More friends of yours?" The mage asks Vilana as he eyes the two newcomers.
Mylene, Naivara, and Kierro would all sense their items inside the tent.
Kierro's eyes go wide. Looking over, he spots Mylene. "Is she still alive?"(Does he see Leto/Tessa?)
Honor
"Mylene and her crew appear to be the first of us to arrive, but this wizard has been inspecting this tower for some time. We only arrived after the fact, but there was some disagreement between the lot of them, as Mylene is now unconscious, and Tessa dead -- and they're not the only ones. However, we were able to come to an agreement with him, and by providing him some information to aid his research, he agreed that we could each take the item that drew us here. We are splitting the coin as well, but in the interest of time we were going to do the dividing later."
(OOC: I was just about to post it when I saw Mylene was awake -- I thought she still was going to be unconscious for another hour, accounting for the 45-ish minutes the digging would take -- we'll just say Honor hasn't noticed yet.)
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"Ah, yes, those three I was telling about - Kierro, Naivara and Latrius. Now you have seen us all." She gave a friendly nod to the group of newcomers. Honor's comment did not really need any explanation, so, instead she introduced the wizard: "And here is the owner of the place - a wizard Hamun Kost."
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"Oh... oh dear," Naivara says, "that's horrible. I'm sorry Sir," she says. "It's nice to meet you..."
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Kierro, not knowing of the wizard being a necromancer, bows. "A pleasure to meet you, sir."
His eyes go wide hearing of Mylene and Tessa. "That's... that's unfortunate. We should bring Tessa's body back once Mylene wakes up."
"The item that draws me is in the tent. Do we need to help him further, or did your assistance mean he's allowing all of us to retrieve that which calls to us?"
Mylene stirs, wincing with pain, and groans at the sight of her burnt clothes, not to mention flesh. She looks around, trying to get a grasp on the current scenario. "What...ugh, ouch, everything hurts." She stands, her wobbling legs visible through her mostly shredded dress and scorched hosiery. She walks, staggering, taking it all in mutely. She sees other Erased present, Walter ambulatory, and the still forms of, among them, Brun, the bugbears, and Tessa, as well as Leto, separate from those others. "Tessa. Of course. That's the only thing that makes sense." Her voice is raspy sounding, and she coughs, doubled over, clutching her midsection. She then speaks, less groggy but sounding vacant and monotone, seeming to be speaking to herself out loud more than to anyone else in the vicinity.
"The only thing that makes sense," she repeats, her tone mocking her own words as she pushes a hand against her forehead as if warding off a terrible headache. "Nothing makes sense with someone like Tessa involved. I was having a perfectly civil parlay with the necromancer gentleman, Hamun Kost, regarding my memory-containing item, and Leto's. Then... a flash. Pain. And now all this. Of course. We were in the middle of our parlay. Tessa sneaks it. Attacks Kost. He conflates that rabid halfling with myself and my people, thinks he is the victim of some treachery, and strikes out. Chaos ensues, always chaos where Tessa goes. And now, so much waste. So much death and pain. Walter, I am so glad you are alright. Leto... Leto! Is he... does he live? And what of Brun? The rest of my soldiers?"
She moves as best as she can, stumbling as she goes, checking the still forms for pulse and breath. "Thank the gods, if the gods aren't entirely mad as well. Leto still lives. Small mercy, that. But, Brun... my noble and strong lieutenant... So many of my soldiers, slain. This is horrible." She falls to her knees with a thud, feet skewed in opposite directions, and stares blankly. Her lip quivers, and if it were anyone else it would appear she is about to burst into tears. She seems on the cusp of doing so, but seems to notice the moisture in her eyes, and the presence of Kost and the other Erased, and tries to reign in the impulse and maintain some composure, wiping her hand across her eyes briefly. "Walter, will you... please... will you help me stand? I'm having some... difficulty. I need a moment to collect myself. Then I will see what I can do to aid Leto, and any others of our numbers who still live. I am afraid Brun is... beyond my abilities."
Naivara:
"Ya..." Naivara says, "mines in the tent too... but if he needs more help we can do that first..."
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Kierro, hearing Mylene's despair, wordlessly moves to Leto, and kneels beside him. He lays a hand on his chest, and a glowing light shines around his hand momentarily.
(Aasimar healing hands - 2 hp to Leto.)
When he awakens, Kierro extends a hand to help him up.