Adventures in Hallohon

[Dr.Epic]

do i detect evil?

From the two elf guards? Nope.

[halfdragon62]

Do i detect evil from down the stairs? That we've just come up from to escape the monster? The ones that we've blocked off. i'm trying to find out whether our foe is still alive. If its dead, then there should be no aura, if its alive, then i will detect something from the direction of the basement that we just escaped from.

[Silverking]

Hooray for logic!

[Dr.Epic]

You gaze downward at the basement. You do not detect anything, although, you don't see the creature, you only have a vague idea where it is in proximity to yourself, and it's far below you so it's difficult to say.

[Silverking]

Jace shrugs, handing them the short swords before turning to his party. "Think we should check on our little friend now?" He asks.

[arrowhen]

Gemma rolls her eyes at the nearest guard as she hands over her tiny dagger and her stick.

"There, feel safer? Ready to go do your job now?"

[halfdragon62]

'I hope I don't regret this...' Alex thinks to himself as he carefully hands over his weapons to the guards, unable to hide a look of obvious contempt.

[Dr.Epic]

The guards take your weapons and ask "So what's this about a giant spider and the kidnapper?"

[Silverking]

Jace groans to himself, not wanting to reexplain. "Someone else tell him..." He sighs.

[halfdragon62]

"Sir, my companions and i took it upon ourselves to investigate the disappearance of the elven children... I regret to say that we found them dead. The orc tailor appears to have been luring them away with candy before killing them in his home. However, we do not believe that he did this of his own free will. That's where the spider comes in. It's an abberation of some kind, and we think that it compelled the orc tailor to murder the children with some kind of magical compulsion or enchantment. We encountered the creature within the orc's basement, and it chased after us when we fled. For the time being, it is trying to burst through those doors leading downwards, but those doors are not going to last long if my hunch is correct... So..."
Alex slowly advances on the guards, gathering as much power and authority in his voice as he possibly can:"...If the two of you take your role as guardians of this town and of its civilians seriously, you will evacuate this street and call for reinforcements" Alex closes with the guards until his face is mere inches from theirs "Do i make myself perfectly clear?"

ooc:Come on dice gods...
diplomacy:
(1d20+7)[12]

[Silverking]

Not sure you needed the intimidate there, man, I think the logic would have been enough.

[halfdragon62]

ooc: got carried away rping the character i guess

[Silverking]

Definatly though, it was pretty cool how you did that.

[Dr.Epic]

The two guards look at each other. "Alright, here's what's going to happen: you're going to remove that barrier covering that door. Then, we're all going to go down to the basement and see this giant spider. You all will go first to make sure this isn't a trap."

[arrowhen]

Gemma folds her arms defiantly.

"Like HELL we will!"

[Dr.Epic]

"And just how are we supposed to know there's a giant spider down in a tailor's shop?"

[Silverking]

Jace sighed. "Just give my my weapons, and I'll do it!"

[Dr.Epic]

One of the guards says to Jace "No one is doing anything until we see what's down there."

[arrowhen]

Gemma loses it.

"What's down there!? What's down there is blood and horror and death! What's down there are the ripped apart bodies of your children! Children that you failed to protect! What's down there is the horrible monster responsible for their deaths!

"And while you worthless bastards stand around up here polishing your badges like stock characters in a third-rate theatrical performance, casting your baseless suspicions on the innocent and fretting like old women about imaginary ambushes, that very real and very dangerous monster could be getting away! Or getting ready to burst through the door and slaughter us all in the street! (Or, ideally, just lying there dead.) But my point is, we'll never know as long as you're standing around up here with your elegantly manicured elven thumbs up your tight elven arses!"

[Dr.Epic]

"Well if what you say is really down there you'll open the door. I've had it with all these stories and no proof. You can either either show us this giant spider and the corpses or we'll bring you all down to the station for suspicious claims."

[Silverking]

"One more thing." Jace mumbles, as he puts his ear to an uncovered part of the door.

Listen: (1d20+2)[21]

[Dr.Epic]

Jace, you hear nothing coming from the basement.

[Silverking]

Jace shrugs once again, indicating that the coast is clear, and begins moving the smaller objects that he placed on top of the chest, occasionally grabbing a treat.

[halfdragon62]

Alex watches Jace remove the barriers in tense anticipation, experimentally flexing the muscles in his arms and jaws.

He makes one final scan of detect evil.

Let that bastard be dead... He prays silently.

[Silverking]

"Thank you all so much for helping." Jace told them, voice dripping with sarcasm, as he moved the chest and turned to open the door. "Moment of truth!" He said, gasping slightly early as he opened it, because, lets face it, it will be a shocker no matter what happens.

(after about a week): Oh come on! Someone must be on!

[Dr.Epic]

Jace and Alex move the chest aside. You all move downstairs. When you reach the basement, the two guards' face go to stunned. One utters something in elvish:

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"What the ****?!?!?"

You see a large smoldering pile of flesh at the mouth of the tunnel. It's not moving and is badly burned. Smoke and flames still cover the thing's body. One of the guard says "Okay, we're all going to the guard headquarters where I will send a crew here to gather information and so you can all explain this in more detail. If any of you refuse we will use force." Both of them move their hand to their hilt showing they are ready to strike should any of you refuse.

[Silverking]

Jace looked confused, but tried his best not to look like he was resisting. "Why are we in trouble? We were telling the truth!" He whined like a child. "Can we atleast have our weapons back when we get back upstairs? We obviously arn't going to ambush you, especialy in a public place."

Diplomacy: (1d20+6)[14]

Do we get experiance for killing the spider?

[halfdragon62]

"Ah! Finally acting responsibly! Bravo! Well in that case I shall gladly go with you and answer your questions" Alex turns to Jace.
"We need not be afraid of their ignorance, a logical explanation and a truthful account will clear our names, however..."
Turning back to the guards
"If we are going to leave here, I would recommend that you alert any guards in the current vicinity of the situation and set them to guard the shop. The last thing the town needs is an uproar because a curious civilian stumbled in and began gabbing all over town about a massive spider corpse"

[arrowhen]

"I don't imagine the parents of the victims would much appreciate curiosity-seekers gawking at their dead childrens' body parts either," Gemma grumbles.

[Silverking]

"One thing before we go. I wonder if it had a hoard down there..." Jace mumbled, starting down the stairs with his money sense tingling.