Castle Amber: A D&D Adventure

Huzzah! Not abandoned after all! "Agreed. We see what we can see, we don't do anything stupid, and then we regroup. Figure out what Lynda did with that stuff I gave her."

As they walk, Harvey smiles at the topic of religion. "I wouldn't say I'm aligned with anyone per se.. like any traveller, I've left offerings and tributes at various shrines.. used to pray for a fruitful hunt, long time ago, things like that. Nothing like what you do.. what kind of deity encourages you to rip peoples hearts out?"

"Rip people's hearts out? Similar to what I did to Jehan? There are a few, but they tend to be rather secretive by nature. Their clergy grant great power, but seeing as how the rest of the world might not be so receptive to them, secrecy is a must if any further information, or initiation, is to be given."

Kalar leaves unsaid, but hinted at, that Harvey is to be sworn to secrecy should Kalar reveal anything further.

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Being from the third world, I reserve the right to speak in the third person.

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Harvey catches what Kalar is throwing, "Ahhh I see, I see... I'm already carrying plenty of secrets to the grave, what's one more? Heh! Though perhaps the middle of a city isn't the best place for such talk."

"Indeed. After this is over, I can certainly tell you more. Who knows, it might interest you. For now though, I agree, let's concentrate on the task at hand."

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Harvey nods and keeps his eyes peeled for kobolds, city destroying beasts, the inquisition and basements... and windows! Can't forget the window.

"Oh, don't be silly" says Rob to the Beast. "We have no reason to fight. Ring inspection is perfectly routine."

He offers his own signet ring "Here, you can take mine overnight as collateral. You'll get yours back tomorrow, I promise"

He doesn't advance while he says this, just stands there and smiles winningly... If this goes badly, he will run, and if it goes *REALLY* badly, he can always use the Cape of The Mountebank to get them out of range.

"Well ok," the monk said as he relaxed his fighting stance. As he removed the ring, he began to change. What was once a monk quickly became a kobold. The kobold was shirtless, but tattoo'd all over his scaley skin. He held the ring, still out of reach of Rob, and looked around in confusion.
"What happened? Where am I?" The other monks were equally, if not more confused than the kobold.
"The beast!" cried one of the monks. Shouts and screams filled the roads in almost no time at all. The monks, as well as everyone else, began to scatter away down the streets.

Kalar and Harvey heard people screaming about the beast.

"Hand me the Ring, and I can explain everything" Rob lies with calm hubris.

The kobold hands Rob the ring. The ring is very heavy.
Rob instantly gets a strong urge to drop the ring.

Rob resists the urge to discard the ring, and drops it in his pocket.

"Come, walk with us, my Kobold friend" says Rob, turning decisively and walking back to Stumpy. "I'll explain as we go. First, are you, or are you not already aware that you are the Beast of Averiogne?"

Rob has his Cape ready, and is trying to make "stay close to me" gestures to Lynda with his eyebrows as his back is facing the Kobold.

"Friend Harvey, I do believe that is our signal to move. I'll take to the skies and keep watch from there, if I see anything I will land and alert you."

With that, Kalar flies up, heading in the direction of the shouting. He makes sure to stay at least a couple hundred feet up, just in case.

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The townsfolk guided Harvey and Kalar quickly down the road. Kalar, up in the air, quickly spotted Rob and the Kobold.
He also quickly spotted a band of inquisitors already on their way to intercept Rob, Lynda, and the Kobold.
Rob slowly approached Stumpy, while motioning to Lynda. When he reached Stumpy in this way, he spotted the band of inquisitors heading down the road in his direction.
The kobold seemed dazed. It stopped following Rob suddenly, and looked up, motionless as a statue. The sky had grown to a blistering orange.

Now or never. Kalar flies higher, but not high enough to breach whatever boundary he had run into before. He then flies towards the inquisitors. He reaches into his pack and retrieves the rope with the dozens upon dozens of tankards and wooden spikes. He then flies over the inquisitors, and as he does so he lets the tankards and spikes slide off the rope, covering as wide an area around the inquisitors as possible. He will then fly off toward the hill, the only place he is sure the rest of the group knows to rendezvous. If need be, he'll land near Harvey and offer to fly him out of the city.


There should be at least sixty or so on there, probably a lot more because of the unseen crafter. Each weighs a pound, so from 300 feet up (not quite as high as I wanted, unfortunately) each should do 4d6 damage. Not much, and hard to aim, so going for carpet-bombing logic here.

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Lynda looks up too.

"What a lovely day for an apocalypse." Lynda muses absently. "I assume you have a plan to get us out of here, Rob? And what do we do about...him?"

Keeping one hand on Stumpy, he grabs Lynda's arm with the other hand.

"If you want to come with us, you have five seconds to touch me" Rob says to the Kobold. He isn't completely sure why he has this impulse to bring the Beast along, but he just has a feeling, as if the Kobold isn't so bad really.

If the Kobold touches him in the next 5 seconds, he will use the Cape of the Mountebank to move them all to its maximum range away from the Inquisitors (which should still be inside the city). He will save his teleport for if he needs to get himself and Lynda away from the Kobold.

If the Kobold refuses, or fails to act fast enough, he will teleport, taking himself, Lynda, and Stumpy all the way to his Mother's House in Vyones (he cant remember if Dan set a specific rendezvous point, and it is all he can think of on short notice)

(If Lynda resists his Cape or teleport, he will just leave her behind)