[pnpgm] Game Update #138 - File #994 - Demonsand Booty
Scott Adams
longshotgm at netzero.com
Mon Dec 20 21:19:02 CET 2010
HT Alias/Player Character Name Type Status/Notes Sex
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R1.John Haight...........Arawn.............Druid .Normal/Alfar Ma
??.Chris Wells...........Ben'dar...........Warrior.Normal/Human Ma
R4.Tom Corckett..........Caladan...........Wizard Normal/Human Ma
W2.Marcel Liberty........Chion.............Sailor..Normal/Human Ma
W3.Ryan Torres...........Farseeker.........Warrior.Normal/Human Ma
--.Tobie Bonahoom........Fremea............Sidh....Normal/Faerry Fe
R2.Mark Murtha...........Kell..............Trader..Normal/Human..Ma
Do.David Sanders.........Kiet.Sunan........Acrobat Normal/Human Ma
R4.J H Hooten............Raban.Usherwood...Bard....Normal/Human..Ma
W2.Robert Maxwell........Strie'bog.........Bard....Normal/Human..Ma
W4.Wout Broere...........Unali.............Ninja...Normal/Human Fe
R1 John.Stowman..........Will..............Hunter..Normal/Human..Ma
R4.Alex Koponen..........Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human Fe
R1 NPC...................Zhou Kiwat........Noble...Normal/Human..Ma
Animals: Corona [Eagle] Z'leyra, Tef'wo (Horse) Ben'dar,
Cover Story Info: [HD- House member, F-Foreigner, N-native non house]
Arawn aka Arawn as Teacher to daughter [F]
Ben'dar aka Bu Da as Horse expert [F]
Caladan aka Ca Lu as Guard/Archer [N]
Chion aka Capt. Chu Mai as Sailor Trustee [HD]
Farseeker aka Fu Sa as Guard [F]
Fremea aka Lin Mong as Noble child [HD] [Disguised]
Kell aka Swan as Trader [F]
Kiet aka Kiet Sunan as Zhou's servant [F]
Raban aka Toban Nu as Entertainer/Guard [F]
Strie'bog aka Sun Zhu as Entertainer [N]
Unali aka Tun Au as Zhou's wife [HD]
Will aka Sun Tzu as hunt master [F]
Z'leyra aka Kakita Junami as Healer [F]
Zhou aka Zhou Wa as Baron Noble [HD]
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Game Update #138 in sequence (file #994)
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[Recap]
From Will: [Re: Actions]
[Re: Kell's post deleted for space]
Three cheers for Kell... hip hip hooray... hip hip hooray....
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Will says to Kiet "watch him" as he quickly goes out the front
of the building so that he blocks the riders escape from the
alley. If Fremea does not finish him he will do his best to
help out.
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>OOC: Just to clarify is the man on the horse in the alley
behind Fremea?
If the rider is still facing Fremea Will throws two throwing
daggers at his back. Otherwise he will do whatever it takes to
stop him. If possible he will strike to subdue so that we don't
have to question his corpse.
GM: Ack. Kell our hero! (Swoon) Email sent over the week on that
clarification so based on reply got it figured out.
From Fremea: [Re: Actions]
Being the Fremea hears him yell demon, she will take flight
anyway to make sure he can not use his horse to trample her.
Then she will get her bow out and shoot the idiot on the horse.
GM: Ack.
From Kiet: [Re: Actions]
Kiet just looks at Will and says, dejectedly "By the gods, not
again!" Perhaps a few whacks of the warstaff on his clearly empty
head might drive some sense into him.
no, I don't mean to bean him...yet
GM: Ack.
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[New Stuff]
[Augado 5th, 1634TH]
[Location: Middle Katai Plains]
[ Pamau Province, Pamau City]
[Time: 10:45pm]
The night air was warm but sound still traveled a long way.
As the messenger-rider yelled, "Demon!" The sound echoed in
the artificial alley-ways around the area. If indeed there
were spotters in the dark they heard now. But the tavern
itself is loud enough likely it was only a faint noise heard
from inside. But Fremea couldn't take the chance.
From inside the furniture manufacturing building Kiet and Will
heard the voice echo through the open window. Both men looked
through the complete darkness to the outside. While inside it
was hard to see a foot in front of you for shapes the window
allowed some star light to penetrate the inky darkness of the
alley. But now as they both looked a flicker of orange light
shuddered on the far wall. Someone was out there with a light
likely a torch.
Thoughts raced through Will's brain as he considered who
it might be. A guard for this place? Military patrol? A
hapless fool riding this hour? Then he recalled the horse
that came to the tavern with that man. He was carrying a
torch then. Could it be the same person? Likely. Will then
considers the word demon. Either some actual demon has showed
up and that alone will make life difficult for them or the
Katai saw Fremea thinking she a demon for her strange body
and wings. It wouldn't be the first time that happened or
the last. Will nods as he figures Fremea must be in the alley
as well looking for them.
Zep hears the man as well and sits up. Kiet figures he is
about to yell something so places his hand to the man's mouth
and draws his dagger to the man's neck.
Will stands up and tells Kiet, "watch him." With hands out
forward he begins his dangerous blind man's walk to the front
door he has no clue where it may be.
Outside Fremea tosses her bag with the documents from the
office to the side of the wall of the alley. Then she leaps
to the air to prevent a horse trample.
Inside on the second floor, Kell finds himself yet again at the
mercy end of a blade. Anger begins to boil through his blood.
First he gets mugged in a market then knocked out briefly in
a alley recently and now this. He pledges if he gets out of this
to get with Farseeker to learn how to fight without weapons.
Though the large warrior might not be as good as Unali or
Arawn in that regard.
But then Kell realized the man hesitated. What was he up
to now? He thought he might have a friend but in this place
it looks like most can't be trusted. Kell finds himself kneeling
on his right knee and his left in a semi-kneeling position.
He knows if he tries to grab for something he could be killed
quickly. HE started to quickly form a way out or to talk his
way out of this situation.
Upstairs on the third floor Unali continued to examine the office.
She wasn't aware of anything going out one floor below about
a prisoner or the scene in the alley. She heard something yelled
but it wasn't so clear. She figured Fremea could handle that
situation. She quickly inspected the couch and walls for any
secret places and found nothing. Checking under the table and
chairs still nothing. Most gang bosses are simply to stupid to
be clever having a safe or hidden area. Her experience seems to
remind her that gang bosses tend to be idiots and have their good
stuff in plain view.
Unali begins to throw books and scrolls off the bookcase. AS
he does this she scans the titles and information. It seems
most books are on local history, herbs and medical oriented stuff.
She figures this must be for their drug operation. Some books
on the jungles in Teos including fauna and wildlife. Couple books
on military history which is common. Many in Katai who have books
like their military history as it has some fun battles over the
last thousand years.
Unali threw books to the floor knowing it would look like a simple
robbery. No use covering things up with the material taken from
the room already. But in the end no books revealed private holes
in them or hidden alcoves. Of course she isn't as good as Raban
finding places but the more obvious mundane areas she couldn't
find. She heads to the office door.
Inside the factory, Will grits his teeth and wills himself to
not scream as he stubs his knee on some low hung piece of table
saw or machine thing. He realizes this is madness but going
out the window could be just as dangerous.
Outside the terrified messenger whips the torch back and forth
watching Fremea hover then go this way and that. Fremea grins
at the stupid man for simply not fleeing. Fremea draws his bow
and an arrow with some calm breaths and aims.
On the second floor Kell tries to grab the man's arm to draw
the dagger away but the man has a good head lock. "Look this
isn't personal." Tor says as he whispers down to Kell. Kell
can feel the man's grip loosen just slightly and Tor brings
his dagger back out of view. Kell knows this is the knock
out blow for sure. Kell prepares to spring up and back doing
a simple attack but suddenly a door down the main hallway opens.
Both man turn to see a man exit from a room about 30 feet
away. The man looks at both and stares for a few seconds.
The man then turns to his left to speak back into the room.
"Kinky stuff you have here." The man only sees another
man holding some guy on the floor in a neck hug wondering
what happened just before or would've happened. Kell groans
in disgust at the thought of the man's words.
"What?" Another voice is heard. A man pokes his head out
of the door and Kell recognizes it as the main boss. The
main boss growls. "What is going on here?"
Tor leans down to Kell. "I didn't want you involved but it
looks like you are now." He releases Kell and stands up
tall and straight. Raising his voice, "just a bit of a disagreement.
He thought the girl back there wanted some forceful action with
his hand across her face."
The boss steps outside into the hallway. "Hurt my girls?"
He waves his hand. "Get the punk over here." With that the
first man begins to walk forward and another man comes out
of the room to join him.
"You'll need your dagger." Tor whispers to Kell as he smiles
at the men. Kell glares at Tor and wonders what this man has
gotten him into now.
Outside the messenger moves his horse back and forth to avoid
the first arrow. Fremea fires and the evasive maneuver works
as the arrow just hits the ground below the horse and is crushed
by the horses feet.
"Shoo! Go away you filthy demon!" the messenger yells as he
whips his torch back and forth.
This makes Fremea even more upset. She was called Demon back
in Donara by many. Even there close to the Wild Forest stories
of Faerries were common but folks are still ignorant of the facts.
Even though her heart was broken by children calling her demon
she still took it as a way to strengthen her own will. She
reloads and aims her bow again.
Inside the factory for the fourth time Will bumps up against
some item or machine. Will grumbles and almost yells in
frustration this time when a set of wood shaving prongs just
happened to be at the same level as his groin. As he recovers
from the pain he finally spots some faint gray starlight from
a forward window. He marches that way in hopes to finally get
out of this death trap.
Behind him Kiet considers what to do with Zep. He can't just
hold his mouth closed forever. He could knock him out but
the guy would be out for some time and hopefully they'd be gone
by then. Personally he wouldn't mind killing the sick fool
for some of the things he has said here tonight.
Back upstairs Tor grins, "I think he even didn't want to pay
for her services."
Kell instinctively goes to his belt to grab a dagger but knows
that something is up here. He waits for Tor to act and feigns
disbelief and a bit of frustration as if being caught.
One of the two men reaches Kell and get sot his left just
in front of Tor while the other goes to Kell's right and both
begin to grasp the half-elf's arms.
"Never can trust these sick people. Never turn your back
on them." With that Tor raises his own dagger and bashes the
back of the man's head as hard as he can. the man falls to
the ground knocked out by the hard metal hilt. Tor then takes
off running toward the boss.
Kell with full control of his body, except his right arm,
and in a better position than before sees his chance. He
does a wide leg sweep to the man and the man stumbles backwards
as he tries to regain his balance. The man recovers quickly
and moves forward. But by now Kell has his dagger out and
drawing it up. The other man swings his arm toward Kell but
Kell blocks it with his own arm. Then with his free hand,
Kell punches the man in the stomach but it is a light blow.
The man recovers and lunges forward grasping the Ba'ru merchant's
shoulder with one hand. Closing the gap he forces Kell's
dagger hand back to his chest and comes close for a head
butt. But Kell recoils as the man's bad breath almost
makes him sick. Kell uses his free left hand and swings at
the man's head but fails to strike.
Tor gets to the Boss who now also has his own dagger out.
Both men begin to engage in a street gang style knife fight.
Kiet looks up to hear a door open and close. As he does
hie hand loses some of its weight. Zep uses this chance
to clamp down on Kiet's hand with his teeth. Kiet yelps
in pain and draws back just a foot. Zep rolls to his side
and tries to stumble away but realizes he still has Kiet's
loose rope on his neck. Kiet pulls the rope and the lasso
tightens on the man's neck. Zep tries to struggle but gets
to his feet. Zep may be a perverted cheat but he seems to be
street wise. Standing he rushes not forward but backwards.
Kiet find himself suddenly thrown back feet away from his
last position being back tackled by Zep.
Unali creeps down the hall and is calm as she can be. With
one dagger away she finds this stroll in enemy territory
calming. Sure she just killed a man but at least she doesn't
have some dangerous thing like a fight to deal with.
Unali goes to the metal door the guard was standing in front
of and tries the key. A click is heard and it works. She
slowly opens the metal door to find a single lantern lit
room full of boxes, crates, shelves and containers. She
grins as she realizes she found the gang's treasure room but
no other people. She shakes her head as she finds only one
guard here for this rich stuff. She enters the room and
closes the door.
Fremea fires her bow again and this time the arrow penetrates
into the man's upper left shoulder. The man cries out in
slight pain. She was aiming for the head but the stupid
man squirms too much. The stupid man proves his proud parents
right by drawing his right hand down to his shoulder. The only
problem is that is where the torch is. Suddenly a bit of his
shirt is on fire and the man yelps again in fright as he drops
the torch to the ground.
Scared for his life he kicks the horse forward. If he
was smart he'd go to the tavern to hole up, not deeper into the
darkness. Fremea figures this man won't be chief scholar anytime
soon. As the horse strides forward she aims and fires a 3rd
time. This time the arrow hits the man in the
back and goes in deep.
Elsewhere Kell tries to do a quick lower to upper stab
with his dagger. He is reluctant to kill the man for doing
only his job. Who is he to do this now. But then he realizes
the man has a tattoo and is a clear brigader. That means
he helps the Vong to kill Katai and the world. his anger gets
the better of him and he dodges the man's wild fist swing with
a quick duck.
Kell then twirls and does a elbow strike with his free
arm and the man plods back against the wall. Kell then
drives the dagger into the man's chest drawing blood and
the man falls to the ground. Turning Kell sees Tor with
some blood on his shirt from some cut but the Boss also has
a nice gash in his face.
Kiet is forced up against a table with a bunch of nails.
He is pushed down onto his back on the nails which are quite
painful and draw drops of blood. Kiet pulls tight on the
rope to get a grip on Zep but at this close range and angle
it is not working. Kiet draws a knee up into the man's
stomach and Zep draws back.
Zep staggers back but recovers a moment later and tries to
grip the dagger from Kiet's other hand. Kiet swings wildly
with the dagger and hears fabric tore as he makes contact with
Zep's shirt. Zep winces in pain and finally Kiet twirls and
gets behind Zep yanking the rope. Zep jerks his head back
and gasps for air. Kiet didn't have time to tie the man's
hands so he realizes in the future this will be his top
priority. Kiet shoves the man forward making the throat
noose tighten even further.
As the messenger guides the horse down the street he reaches
mid alley and suddenly sees a form emerge from the side.
The horse startled suddenly neighs and stops. Will throws
both of his throwing daggers at the dark form. One dagger
goes wild but at this range of only 12 feet the other dagger
hits the man in the chest. This causes the man to fall
from the horse. Both Fremea and Will approach slowly and
find the man jerk as if in some state of system shock then
gasp one last time and die. Fremea hopes the man is a member
of the gang and not some poor hapless city messenger.
Kell begins to move toward Tor but suddenly sees the man
has a good set of fighting skills. It is almost as if he
is a well defined street thug. While the boss seems to miss
by inches Tor makes his blows true and accurate as if timed
and well plotted. Finally Tor strikes the boss in the chest
so deeply it slices through between ribs and cuts the boss's
lung just a bit. But the blow is enough to make the lung begin
to fail and lose air. The boss drops his dagger and staggers
down the hall just as Kell gets there.
Across the hall a door opens and a man in a well dressed
silk tunic emerges. Both Kell and Tor can see into the room
which has a half dozen men sitting at a card game. This
must be the high stakes room. Inside scantly clad females are
standing to the side or rear of some of the men. The man
raises an eyebrow.
"Drunks they can't seem to stay up. Want to help us?"
Tor says as if doing a bored job.
The man just shrugs as if annoyed to be away from the game.
He turns to close the door just as the Boss hits the ground
down the hallway. Tor twirls around and enters the room.
Kell can see a man tied to a chair with bruises and cuts to
his face with some blood on his shirt.
Will and Fremea begin to search the messenger for items
but in this darkness reading would be impossible.
Zep takes this time to force his head back to head butt
Kiet's forehead. The blow is very painful and Kiet shoves
the man forward. Zep falls onto the table of nails or
whatever they are and he grunts in pain. Kiet pulls the
rope tight and chokes the man. Kiet places the dagger to
his back and tells him to stop moving. The man does this
and Kiet finds himself glad he is compliant. But then he
hears a strange noise. He looks around as if it was a dog
or a monster. But then he realizes Zep made the noise. Reaching
forward he inspects the man's neck and finds a long nail just
falling out of his neck which had punctured his front. Kiet
sighs and draws Zep to the ground to see if he can help. But
the neck damage is severe along with the choking the blood
flow to the neck was rushed and trapped. So massive amounts
of blood quickly came out. Kiet finds Zep's life drains out
fast before he can yell for help from outside.
Unali begins to investigate the room. There are weapons
and armor typical of a small army. One crate has various
personal items from pieces of jewelry, wallets to even
small hand held jeweled statues. Guess the gang takes
property away or as collateral. But there is no documents
of any kind here. Spending only moments here she realizes
it would need all four to raid the room unless Chion was
here then he could just take it all in one spell. Before
she leaves she opens a chest and finds stacks of coins in
disarrayed order. She grins and knows her pockets can't
take it all but this nice hefty bag she can certainly take.
She quickly ties the heavy bag of coins to her belt when
she realizes it has gold coins inside. She then exits the
room.
Will and Fremea take the documents and figure they can be
read later. They hear a fight inside and head for the open
window. Calling out they find Kiet over a dying Zep. Even
if they could help it might not be well enough to save the man.
to the factory people it will be a botched break in. Kiet heads
for the window.
inside the second floor room, Tor rushes to his friend and
begins to cut his restraints. The man is groggy but seem sot
be alive. Blood drips from his broken nose and at least one
tooth is seen on the floor below. The man is a mess of beat
up flesh. Tor glances up at Kell. "Thanks. He is a friend.
We got into a mess. Can you help me?"
Kell decides that if he stops now it might not be the right
thing. He hefts the man upwards to his feet. Both men begin
to move toward the door and out into the hallway.
"I feel I can trust you." Tor glances over at Kell. "I
can't explain it. I'm Katai Military Command, Local Garrison
under Commander Gu Nay. We were investigating this place for
issues we found. He got caught and likely was or has already
blown our cover."
Kell smiles inwardly. So the military might have some wind of
this place and who they might be. Do they know of the Vong
influence? Kell helps the man toward the door and wonders how
they'll even get this man out of the place.
Actions? Comments?
Next Update...Friday...
GM: Ran out of time yet again. So smaller than planned. I
may do another update tomorrow night to finish this off.
If not 100% by Friday to finish this off and leave the
area. Still having fun with the scenes. :) Stay tuned.
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