[Alliance] Chapter Three: Session Nine

Appearing Characters: Elissa Cross, Esara Verrinde, Galadin Windrunner, Gilveradin Windrunner, Giramar Windrunner, Marin Noggenfogger, Mida, Nazmin Farram, Raluhi, Remnii, Rhonin Windrunner, Sanzi, Seria, Shimaa Farram, Talath Dawnsworn, Uther Menethil, Velameestra Windrunner, Victor Prestor

December 10th (Evening)

Rhonin had grabbed Vel, who had started to show signs of panic and seemed to be getting ready to run to the bank to answer the demands of her cousins’ kidnappers.

Vel immediately stops, jilted out of her response, and nods. She goes over to the lantern of revealing she had left in her study and promptly turns it on, flooding the area around them with the magical light. She pans it around the room, but there doesn’t seem to be anything invisible lurking in the study.

As she’s talking, Vel starts to summon glyphs with minor illusion, seemingly quickly arranging and rearranging them as some sort of means of focus or potentially a means to try and calm herself down.

Rhonin nods and uses his sending stone to try and contact Galadin. After a moment, he shakes his head.

Gil nods.

She gestures to Seria.

Raluhi raises a hand.

Rhonin looks at Uther and Elissa.

Rhonin had looked at Gil specifically, and Gil closes his mouth.

Talath, meanwhile, is just looking between Vel--who knew a lot about this--and Rhonin--who also knew a lot about this--now fully realizing there is a lot about this city and these people that he didn’t know.

Talath looks to Gil.

Talath grabs a cloak and looks to the rest of the group.

Vel looks to Elissa as Talath leaves.

She hurries after Talath.

Vel nods.

Raluhi pulls out his crystal and goes to start setting up some alarms around the manor just in case anyone does try to invade while they’re away.

Vel picks up the lantern of revealing to bring with them, and the group heads out. The night is fairly cold, and there is some heavier snowfall and stronger winds, but it’s not a full blizzard.

Rhonin leads them to the tunnels he mentioned, outside the city limits near a creek that runs from the mountains and wraps around to Lordamere lake. Seria had turned into a rat and was riding in Gil’s cloak.

Rhonin drops down to a pipe, and he pulls at a metal grate.

He turns to the rest, and he offers to look for some of the other pipelines, but he isn’t sure if they can find him. He opts to try and break in with thieves’ tools and Seria’s help, who started to chew on the lock, as well as Remnii’s guidance spell.

He is successful, and he holds a hand out to Seria for a high-five. Seria taps it with her tiny rat hand. Rhonin laughs and hands Seria back to Gil, and then Rhonin and Uther are able to pull the grate off.

They all start to squeeze into the pipe. Uther’s progression is a lot less graceful, and they hear the sound of his cloak tearing a bit.

Vel lights the lantern of revealing, and Remnii also conjures a light while Rhonin casts dancing lights. Multiple other pipes branch off. About 20 minutes later, the pipe widens, and the pipe dries out.

They see lights in the distance at the end of the pipeline.

Esara snaps her fingers, and her studded leather armor shifts and transforms itself into a more drab, discreet attire. She offers to head in first and keep watch, and she then starts to ritual cast telepathic bond.

Gil casts pass without trace, and Rhonin casts invisibility on Remnii and Uther.

Gil does a sweep for demons, and he senses three that are very, very close. He senses seven others that are much further away.

After Esara finishes the telepathic bond, she also looks to Gil and Victor and tells them to be careful who they make angry. She then prepares to cast jump on Gil and Victor before heading in first.

Gil, Victor, and Seria head up onto the roof to try and get in through the second floor. There aren’t many places to hide, but as long as they stick to the shadows they should be fine.

Vel and Rhonin then head inside as nonchalantly as they can. The tavern seems to be rather busy. There are an abundance of individuals of various creeds about. Vel does see Sanzi running about, as well as another goblin behind the bar laughing and pouring drinks.

Humans, elves, and several dwarves are all partaking in the merrymaking to the live band inside.

One man, who is wearing a cowl, looks in their direction as they enter.

To their immediate right, there is a stage, and there are young humans on it. One of them is wearing heavy, draping clothing with beads and small jingling baubles and a shawl on her head. She’s very tan, and she’s plucking the strings of her instrument. She has a small, elegant piercing that connects from her nose to her ear. She has a scar under the piercing.

The other woman, who is a bit lighter tan, is wearing very decorated (and revealing) dancer’s attire. She also has a red covering on her head, and she has small clicking instruments in her hands as she twirls around the stage to the music of her partner. The song they are playing is a common tavern song.

In the far left side of the tavern, at a table closest to the hearth, is an elf. He has long robes, and Vel recognizes him as one of the students from Duskwither that Vel had helped imprison.

There is another cowled human that is looking in their direction periodically.

Vel transmits the information to the others.

The elf has dark-brown hair that is shorter on one side.

He gestures to another elven woman who is lounging on a sofa, and she makes her way over. She has short black hair draped in a small ponytail. She looks at Vel with a smirk as she takes a seat. This woman is likely the succubus in disguise.

Sanzi walks over and asks what they want, and Vel requests water, but then she recognizes Rhonin.

Rhonin pretends that exchange didn’t just happen.

The elf warlock asks Vel if they brought what they asked for, and Vel confirms that she brought some, but she wants to see her cousins.

Uther and Remnii are waiting outside, still invisible. Esara is also on the other side of the tavern, watching.

However, as Remnii and Uther step onto the wood they can also feel the wood give. Some of the patrons outside squints, looking around. They ask if the others hear anything, and the others say they hear the music. They get the sense that one of them, at least, knows someone is around.

Uther and Remnii opt to stay close to the building.

Up on the roof, the other group sees three windows on one side, and three windows on another. One window is open, and they see smoke periodically coming from it. They can get the scent of some sort of substance, one that Gil may or may not be familiar with.

Gil pushes Ara’shel to go look, and he turns into a cute alley cat. As he peeks his eye in, Gil seeing through his eyes, they see three people. One half-elf and two elves. One is on the bed, one cross-legged on the floor, and the other laying down looking at the ceiling.

Ara’shel does not like the smell of the substance. They don’t seem to have seen the cat.

Continuing prowling along the other windows, the second one is unoccupied though has stuff in it, and the third one has an elf inside. There is a candle lit, and the elf appears to be writing.

The middle room latch appears to be locked on the inside.

Seria, still as a rat, goes into the stoner room. She inches along the wall and squeezes beneath the door. She goes into the next room, and opens the latch for Gil and Victor.

Uther and Remnii are watching through the windows quietly, but they can only hear what Vel is transmitting for them.

Rhonin nods to Vel, and she slides 500 gold pieces over.

The warlock leads Rhonin upstairs.

Upstairs, Gil and his gang hear footsteps coming up the stairs. Gil grabs Victor.

He immediately kisses Victor, and Seria slips away. There is a growl from Victor, but he goes with it out of necessity. He then grabs Gil by the shoulders and slams him against the wall.

And he kisses Gil again. Ara’shel, still a cat, just watches.

Seria, as she goes down the hall, hears some quiet mumbling. She smells sulphur and brimstone. There is a tiny, high pitched voice trying to shoo her away. Seria telepathically informs everyone of what she’s hearing, and she ducks under the nearest door. The room appears to be empty.

However, Rhonin and the warlock appear to be going into the room next door. Seria communicates that information.

Meanwhile, Vel is still downstairs sitting with the disguised succubus.

Vel raises an eyebrow at her.

Vel takes a sip of her water, her touch frosting over the glass. The succubus watches and smiles as she sips her own drink.

The succubus smiles and takes another sip.

Upstairs, as Rhonin and the warlock leave, Gil and Victor break away.

Victor punches Gil in the gut.

They discuss some details of a potential plan.

At that moment, Rhonin and the warlock arrive back downstairs where Vel and the succubus are sitting.

Vel glances at the succubus, and she smiles.

The warlock writes down a location and directions on how to find him. It’s a small abandoned warehouse some short distance from Dalaran just outside the city limits.

Seria squeezes into the hostage room, and she sees the two half-elven boys with their arms tied. The two cowled people don’t notice the rat, but the boys do.

Giramar’s eyes widen, and the two boys look back and forth to each other. They both appear to be real.

Rhonin furrows his brow and scowls.

Vel and Rhonin leave the tavern.

Upstairs, Victor looks at Gil.

Outside, Remnii and Uther stay where they are. Down below, Esara also notes that several people are gathering at one table.

Seria hears the door unlatch, and two figures enter.

The warlock looks at the figures in the room.

His eyes begin to glow green.

Galadin and Giramar back further away, and Seria hears the warlock speaking a harsh, crude language she doesn’t understand. A ripple manifests, and a massive, armored fiend steps through it.

She shows her demonic form, and starts to look around.

Meanwhile, in the pipe, Rhonin looks at Vel. Seria has been telepathically communicating what's going on.

Inside, the succubus starts to search. Seria hides, and sees her hooved feet stop in front of the bed. She drops down, and two bright blue, glowing eyes stare right at her.

He’s looking at Vel.

Rhonin nods, and grabs Vel.

Victor kicks open the door and takes his full action to run screaming down the hall, banging his sword on the wall. Galadin tries to start slipping off his restraints.

Down on the first floor, the group of people stand up, and the performers glance at each other with a smile. They start to play a very different tune, one that's higher energy and more fitting for the excitement that suddenly seems to be breaking out.

Esara immediately launches a firebolt at one of the warlocks, and it smacks into her chest. The warlock looks at Esara, who is smirking, one hand on her sword.

The imp in the hallway attempts to take a shot at Victor, but it misses.

The minstrel down below smirks at Esara and casts heroism on her.

In that moment, Rhonin dimension doors himself and Vel in. As soon as she appears, a massive fist grabs around Vel’s midsection, grappling her.

The nearby assailant tries to stab Vel, but she is wiggling enough that he fails to do so.

In that moment, Gil fires an arrow at the imp, revealing himself. The arrow goes straight through the imp’s skull, and Gil follows up to back up Victor.

Giramar tries to break his bonds, and he manages to do so.

Down below, Esara starts her bladesong, and she triggers steel wind strike. She flips over the table and disappears. She teleports around, striking them with unseen speed, and all four of the warlocks drop with gaping wounds.

Esara then bows, and the crowd in the tavern goes wild.

Ara’shel catches up to Gil, and Rhonin holds his hand out. A ball of fire appears and he lifts into the air, and he spikes it down. The room is caught on fire, and the door is blasted off its hinges. Vel takes the brunt of the blast, but the fire washes over the warlock, the felguard, and the succubus without harm.

Rhonin then looks at Vel with a blank stare.

Seria tries to use banishment on the felguard, but it fails. She then transforms into a gigantic constrictor snake, and she smashes through the wall.

Down below, a bar brawl has broken out. An imp goes flying, caught up in the brawl, and disappears in a puff of fel fire as it is slammed against a wall.

Vel blinks out of the grasp of the felguard, and she manages to stabilize Giramar. The warlock then goes to use blight on Victor, and Vel tries to counterspell it, but Rhonin reaches out and grabs her hand, counterspelling her counterspell.

The warlock grabs Victor’s arm.

The felguard spins on Vel and punches her. He then whips around with his greatsword, and the weapon bites into her flesh, leaving a vicious wound.

Uther and Remnii start running up the stairs, along with Esara. Esara blinks to the top of the stairs. She stabs her sword into the former Duskwither student, twisting it. He gasps, and the concentration on his summon greater demon spell drops.

The felguard seems to lose his focus, and he goes into a rage.

Gil gets into the room and attempts to use protection from evil and good on Rhonin. However, as he grabs onto his arm and tries to banish the influence, Rhonin casts it away. Gil then stabilizes Galadin, who starts to come to.

Vel reaches out to the boys, and she grabs them, enhancing the spell so she could drag both the boys out. She dimension doors out with them, very wounded, and standing over them, blood dripping heavily from the wound in her side.

Remnii reaches out to Vel with telepathy, asking her to hold on, she’s coming.

Seria goes for the succubus, and manages to constrict her. She then tries to drag her out of the room, and the Duskwither student attempts to smack her with his staff, and he succeeds.

The succubus disappears into the ethereal plane, and the grip on her slackens.

Seria informs the others (sans Rhonin) that the succubus vanished.

Uther nods, and Remnii opens the window near them, still invisible. Vel hears her voice as Remnii uses her channel divinity to heal Vel and the two boys. Both Giramar and Galadin come to consciousness, and Vel tells them to stay down, standing protectively over them.

Remnii asks the others if they need help, and Gil says that any help would be appreciated.

Uther had reached the top of the stairs, and he cracks into the Duskwither student with his maul as he steps out of invisibility. He then uses green-flame blade and swipes in, slamming the student in a bloody mess into the wall, and splashing some of the damage onto Rhonin.

However, he remains charmed.

Victor then enters past the corpse of the warlock and runs to Rhonin, trying to smack some sense into him.

He smacks Rhonin again.

He seems to be snapped out of it fully.

The felguard lets out a roar and decks Rhonin. Then he swings around with his greatsword, slicing into Gil. Ara’shel runs up and uses virtue on Uther.

Galadin asks Vel what happened, and she says that he was knocked out and tells him, again, to stay down. Giramar also starts to get stock of the situation.

Rhonin, now coherent, uses mirror image, and he attempts to back away from the fiend. As the felguard lashes out, it shatters one of the duplicates.

Gil zephyr strikes away from the felguard, and then launches a barrage of arrows at the felguard.

Rhonin launches a frostfire bolt at the felguard, but it doesn’t seem to do much. The felguard chooses to charge at him in retaliation, attempting to ram him through the wall. He fails in that, but Rhonin is pinned against the wall.

Remnii uses her second channel divinity, dropping most of the healing on Rhonin.

Outside, Vel hears a voice ring out, and the succubus appears 10 feet in front of her.

The succubus smiles, uncurling her whip.

Seria attacks the felguard, but her fangs clash off his armor. Uther follows up, slamming his maul into the felguard. The felguard roars, whirling around on Uther, knocking him 10 feet back and onto the ground.

Uther gets back to his feet and Esara darts by, whirling in on the felguard. Glowing green blood begins to seep from the wounds.

Giramar stands up, looking around.

The two twins back behind her, and Giramar mentions to Galadin that he hopes he grabbed something. Galadin nods, producing two daggers he had managed to snag from their assailants.

Vel steps forward to get into melee with the succubus, unsheathing her sword. Blood is still dripping from her side.

The succubus grins eagerly.

Vel snaps her fingers, icy armor materializing as she allows her cold snap to release and enrapture them both. The succubus’s eyes widen, not expecting as much, and then Vel manifests a glyph beneath her, exploding a frost nova.

The succubus screams in pain, and the crowd that has gathered, not sure what’s going on, starts to cheer.

Gil stands up, takes a deep breath, and fires off two arrows, impaling the felguard. He slumps to the ground and begins to dissipate.

Esara jumps out the window to help Vel, casting feather fall to catch herself and anyone else. She also casts a firebolt at the succubus.

Galadin holds his dagger, avoiding the icy storm, and hurls it at the succubus. It cuts the succubus right in the leg. She glances at him in rage.

Rhonin, from the window, launches a frostfire bolt at the succubus with a cry of “I’M TAKEN”

The succubus had turned to run, but the bolt hits her in the back.

The succubus slumps down, her body starting to be eaten away by green flames, and the crowd is silent, and then bursts into cheers. But then they start to split as the underbelly guard approaches.

Rhonin, up from the window, starts cursing upon seeing the guard and starts helping to put the fires out.

The underbelly guard asks what happened as Vel quickly slices the wings off the succubus's body to use as regents.

The guard runs a hand through his hair, looking at the mess.

A well-dressed goblin with spectacles appears, flanked by two guards. Vel recognizes her, as she had seen her during her last trip to the Underbelly.

The goblin stops and crosses her arms.

Gil calls down from the window.

The goblin adjusts her spectacles and sighs.

The name is familiar to Vel. He’s not only one of the most gifted alchemists in the world, but he’s also a high ranking member of the Steamwheedle Cartel--one of the most powerful goblin cartels.

At that moment, another goblin appears.

This goblin has a nice coat, top hat, and monocle. It seems likely that this man is Marin Noggenfogger.

The rest of the party heads down from upstairs, dragging the bodies down with them and the two warlocks they had managed to keep alive.

Vel shoots a glare in the direction of the unconscious warlocks.

He points at Remnii, and Remnii smiles.

He looks to the Underbelly guards.

He looks at Rhonin, who raises a hand.

Vel nods, and Gil quickly checks for demons, but he senses none in the immediate area. Vel, holding her injured side, goes to hug Giramar and Galadin, and they both immediately embrace her, both shaking from the experience they just went through.

Galadin nods.

Rhonin looks at Vel, Galadin, and Giramar.

He seems to be processing that he had, moments ago, dropped a fireball on his two children and his niece.

Vel shakes her head.

Galadin and Giramar go and give Rhonin a hug as well, and tears are welling in his eyes as he hugs them.

Marin and Mida were speaking for a moment, and Marin then looks at Vel as she is getting a few things cleaned up and dealt with before leaving.

Marin turns back to Mida. Seria transforms out of her giant constrictor snake form and they go to leave. The dancer and minstrel watch the group leave, and Marin congratulates the women on their performance. They have a bit of an accent.

Vel sends Talath that they go to enter the tunnel.

The group makes it back to Vel’s manor without any issue, and there is a sigh of relief from Raluhi after he counts heads to ensure everyone was there.

Remnii casts prayer of healing over the party to help ease the wounds that were sustained.

Rhonin has a somewhat haunted look on his face, and his hair is messy and askew.

Galadin goes to Vel, looking fairly nervous and uncomfortable.

Vel shakes her head and hugs him again.

Galadin nods, and he and Giramar go to head up to their rooms. After they leave, Gil holds Galadin’s knife out to Vel, which he had recovered off the body of the warlock along with their other belongings and Vel’s money.

Gil then heads upstairs to find Rhonin, who had retreated up to his room as well. Gil knocks on Rhonin’s room, and Rhonin tells him to come in. He enters, and he sees his uncle sitting on the bed, his head in his hands.

Across the way is a table, and on the table is an unopened flask of whiskey.

Gil nods and sits next to him.

Gil half-smiles.

Rhonin half-laughs.

He stands up.

He gestures at the whiskey and weighs it in his hand. He tosses the flask of whiskey at Gil, and he catches it.

Gil smiles and stands up to hug Rhonin. Rhonin hugs back.

He shakes the sending stone and sees Gil out.

Gil goes to apologize to Victor for kissing him, but Victor holds up a hand and tells him not to mention any of it ever again.

Victor shakes his head with a sigh.

Gil flashes him a smile.

Raluhi checks on Remnii, and Remnii shares her concern that every demon they see is one more that can track her.

The house falls into silence as everyone goes to sleep.

This page was last edited on November 29, 2020, at 01:47 AM

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