Jul 29, 2025 12:06 pm
Winter warily sits in the other chair, letting Kade do the talking for now.
Not Today, Death!
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Jul 30, 2025 9:31 pm
There were some inquisitors who had honeyed tongues, and many more who simply barged this way and that as it suited them. Hermann went about the city confident in the power of his title, and so tended towards the latter.
Still, arcane types had proven to be prickly in the past. Proud, powerful and persnickety… Better to let the mage soothe them with her words.
Still, arcane types had proven to be prickly in the past. Proud, powerful and persnickety… Better to let the mage soothe them with her words.
Aug 1, 2025 12:31 pm
THE GUILDED LILY
The two-headed demon laughs.
"Oh I know every dark deed that goes on here. And I know who you are looking for. But that information isn't free. Bring me something rare, something magical, and I will tell you what you want."
THE STAR AND CRESCENT
The woman is quiet for a moment, eyes squinted at you. "So in other words, not an emergency. My shop opens after sunset. Be gone!" The woman slams the door in your faces.
The two-headed demon laughs.
"Oh I know every dark deed that goes on here. And I know who you are looking for. But that information isn't free. Bring me something rare, something magical, and I will tell you what you want."
THE STAR AND CRESCENT
The woman is quiet for a moment, eyes squinted at you. "So in other words, not an emergency. My shop opens after sunset. Be gone!" The woman slams the door in your faces.
Aug 1, 2025 2:12 pm
Salvia nods, unsurprised. She turns to Hermann and her look says it all -- I told you so. She raises her nose in the air and turns away, her hair swishing as she does so, and walks out of the alley back to the road. Arne chuckles.
Aug 1, 2025 5:38 pm
Hermann Drakner pounces. With a little magic, he reaches his fist through the door, and grabs the woman by the scruff of her shirt. He yanks hard, so that she bashes against the just-locked door.
"Oh no. This is quite the emergency… for you. I am not in the habit of asking twice." he says, forcing the point of his rapier through the hole, too.
"Oh no. This is quite the emergency… for you. I am not in the habit of asking twice." he says, forcing the point of his rapier through the hole, too.
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You can use an action to open two connected hand-sized portals, one on a point within reach, and the other on a point within 10 yards. Anything entering one portal emerges from the other, such that you could reach through one portal and pluck a ring of keys from a hook on the wall some distance away. The portals remain open for 1 minute. When the effect ends, the portals close and severs anything that’s not magical reaching through them. You can use this talent once, twice at level 3, and three times at level 7. You regain expended uses after you rest.OOC:
Not sure if this works!
Aug 1, 2025 7:17 pm
Kade massages the bridge of his nose. I thought that was what we were looking for, he thinks to himself. Will we now have to become burglars?
"Well, if that is your price I will have to confir with my companions," he finally tells the two-headed demon. "Is there any spesific item you have in mind?"
"Well, if that is your price I will have to confir with my companions," he finally tells the two-headed demon. "Is there any spesific item you have in mind?"
Aug 2, 2025 3:44 am
KCC says:
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Not sure if this works!OOC:
The portal is only hand-sized, so I will have to say you can't have both your arm and your rapier through the hole, unless you want to gamble slicing up your arm lol.The demon shakes both heads.
"Nothing specific. If you feel the task is too onerous I will accept one of your souls instead."
Both mouths grin.
THE STAR AND CRESCENT
Hermann reaches through the door in a magically created portal and grabs the woman's robes, pulling her and smashing her face against the inside of the door. You hear her muffled voice say, "That...was a mistake." The woman grabs onto Hermann's forearm with both of her hands and sends a magical blast through it. Fire and eldritch energy ripple through Hermann's arm, scorching the clothing and some skin.
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I was hoping to make it more dramatic like blowing an arm off, but the damage roll was pitiful! lolRolls
Mage Bolt - (3d6)
(212) = 5
Aug 2, 2025 9:09 am
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How to proceed, Salvia? Retreat and lick my wounds, or jump at this with two feet?Last edited August 2, 2025 9:09 am
Aug 3, 2025 2:24 am
Salvia had turned and begun walking away when Hermann attempts to grab the woman through the door. She turns, startled, and speaks in a disapproving tone, saying, "Hermann! Behave yourself! The lady has a right to deny us! Unhand her at once, lest I be forced to intervene!"
Arne moves one step ahead of Salvia, partially blocking her protectively, his hand resting on the pommel of his weapon.
Arne moves one step ahead of Salvia, partially blocking her protectively, his hand resting on the pommel of his weapon.
Aug 3, 2025 8:11 am
A coven of witches…
Hermann removes his hand from the front of the woman’s shirt, and then dusts himself off. His hand trembled with arcane pain. He could surely handle one or the other but not both.
The usual methods wouldn’t work at present.
"Forgive me! I assumed too much of our employer’s urgency." he says, creasing his face into a formal smile.
Hermann removes his hand from the front of the woman’s shirt, and then dusts himself off. His hand trembled with arcane pain. He could surely handle one or the other but not both.
The usual methods wouldn’t work at present.
"Forgive me! I assumed too much of our employer’s urgency." he says, creasing his face into a formal smile.
Aug 3, 2025 3:46 pm
Salvia nods in approval and Arne relaxes his stance, stepping back. Salvia faces the door, raises her voice to be heard through it, and says, "My lady, we shall take our leave, but I must offer my sincerest apologies. Our employer is most insistent. I shall return at dusk, if you'll allow it, and shall gladly offer payment or favor as compensation for your troubles. I assure you I am a woman of means, both material and arcane, and my offer is appropriately significant. Now, if you'll excuse us..."
Then, to Hermann, she adds, "Now then! Do we have any other leads worthy of pursuit? The alchemical agents we discovered? Do we know anyone else who might be in the market for the stolen magical items?"
Then, to Hermann, she adds, "Now then! Do we have any other leads worthy of pursuit? The alchemical agents we discovered? Do we know anyone else who might be in the market for the stolen magical items?"
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Aug 4, 2025 10:04 am
"I'm quite attached to my soul, thank you very much," Winter says. She glances to Kade. "Perhaps we ought to go and return once we have something to bargain with."
Aug 4, 2025 10:45 am
THE STAR AND CRESCENT
Through the door the woman says, "Then come alone, miss. That man is not welcome in my shop." There's a slight pause, as if she's listening to your conversation. After you finish speaking the woman says, "If you're in that much of a hurry, try Crenus Crumble. I hear he's new in town so I don't know much about him other than that he dabbles in matters arcane and alchemical. If he doesn't have any answers I'll see you tonight." You hear her footsteps retreating.
Through the door the woman says, "Then come alone, miss. That man is not welcome in my shop." There's a slight pause, as if she's listening to your conversation. After you finish speaking the woman says, "If you're in that much of a hurry, try Crenus Crumble. I hear he's new in town so I don't know much about him other than that he dabbles in matters arcane and alchemical. If he doesn't have any answers I'll see you tonight." You hear her footsteps retreating.
Aug 4, 2025 2:12 pm
Salvia smirks and replies back through the door, "Thank you, ma'am! You've made a friend this day. I am in your debt."
She turns away from the door and walks back down the alley. She looks over at Hermann and says, "Lovely! I think that went well, don't you? Now how might we find this Crumble fellow?" Arne cocks an eyebrow and shakes his head, falling into step beside her.
She turns away from the door and walks back down the alley. She looks over at Hermann and says, "Lovely! I think that went well, don't you? Now how might we find this Crumble fellow?" Arne cocks an eyebrow and shakes his head, falling into step beside her.
Aug 4, 2025 4:19 pm
Hermann would revisit the store at some point later on also. Though maybe not alone. A fellow inquisitor would be ample company.
"I can’t say I know the man. But a new man in town trying to make a name for himself… well, I suppose it won’t be too long until we hear tell of him!"
"I can’t say I know the man. But a new man in town trying to make a name for himself… well, I suppose it won’t be too long until we hear tell of him!"
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How could we go about that?Aug 5, 2025 7:48 am
"I don't think that would be much worth these days," Kade replies darkly. But he quickly changes demeanor. "But, as said I will confer with my companions."
He stands. "Thank you for your time, we will no doubt be back."
Now to find the rest, they didn't set up a place to meet, so finding them would be a task of itself. Hopefully they had had better luck.
He stands. "Thank you for your time, we will no doubt be back."
Now to find the rest, they didn't set up a place to meet, so finding them would be a task of itself. Hopefully they had had better luck.
Aug 5, 2025 10:21 am
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The same way you would in real life! Ask around, check out a tavern or business district or apothecary, something like that. You can have 1 contact in the city relevant to your profession. Aug 5, 2025 2:45 pm
Salvia nods and says, "I know a bookseller, a master of finding and collecting tomes of arcane, occult, and alchemical lore. She might know of this fellow. Her name is Razitha al-Hazred; she is the proprietress of the Quizzical Quill. And it will open at this time of day! Shall we?"
Aug 5, 2025 6:27 pm
"Let’s." Hermann agrees, following the mage through the streets. He had his own contacts, though they were less wholesome than a bookseller, and he was already on thin ice with this Salvia!
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Opportunity!Aug 8, 2025 12:32 pm
THE GUILDED LILY
The demon takes a puff of a nearby hookah pipe with the mouth of one head and somehow blows it out the mouth of his other head.
"No doubt. I look forward to seeing you soon." He nods to the guards that escorted you to their boss and now escort you back to the entrance.
Outside, just a few buildings down the street, you see an agitated shopkeeper talking to a pair of guards, gesturing to a neatly cut whole in his shop's wall in a crude circle with the diameter of a human hand.
THE QUIZZICAL QUILL
The bookshop is indeed open and almost entirely empty at this time of day. The shop is meticulously organized and cleaned. Anyone visiting for the first time is surprised, and perhaps a bit disappointed, not to walk into a dusty shop with piles of books on floor, tables, and chairs, no waterfall of scrolls spilling from scroll shelves. It was clean, orderly, and somewhat pleasant smelling. A woman behind a large desk is, maybe blasphemously, not reading at all, but instead knitting something with blue and white yarn. She looks up as you enter. "May I help you? Oh, Miss Evensong, welcome back."
The demon takes a puff of a nearby hookah pipe with the mouth of one head and somehow blows it out the mouth of his other head.
"No doubt. I look forward to seeing you soon." He nods to the guards that escorted you to their boss and now escort you back to the entrance.
Outside, just a few buildings down the street, you see an agitated shopkeeper talking to a pair of guards, gesturing to a neatly cut whole in his shop's wall in a crude circle with the diameter of a human hand.
THE QUIZZICAL QUILL
The bookshop is indeed open and almost entirely empty at this time of day. The shop is meticulously organized and cleaned. Anyone visiting for the first time is surprised, and perhaps a bit disappointed, not to walk into a dusty shop with piles of books on floor, tables, and chairs, no waterfall of scrolls spilling from scroll shelves. It was clean, orderly, and somewhat pleasant smelling. A woman behind a large desk is, maybe blasphemously, not reading at all, but instead knitting something with blue and white yarn. She looks up as you enter. "May I help you? Oh, Miss Evensong, welcome back."
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