Zilo sits in The Stumbling Giant, with his friends. Zilo reports to them about his new mission to find and loot the lair of the dragons that the group slew. If they failed then the Shadeville thieves guild, The Green Dragons would have Zilo's love, Aria, be put deep in the earth faster than the group could make their way home. Alaroc droops his head and says,
"Rough bit of news that. Guess we need to go and take care of that then."
Jin perks up and says, "Why would we do dat?"
Zilo looks to the vanara in shock and says, "Aria is going to die. We can't just-!"
"Why not!?" Asked Sparky spreading his arms wide in an exaggerated fashion.
Jin points to the little goblin and says, "Sparky's with me on dis. Do ya really tink dat dis Wisp will keep his word?"
Alaroc turns to their monk companion and says, "What are you saying?"
"I tink we gotta hit Wisp at home, and get him ta call off dis guy getting from getting Aria."
Meanwhile, in the other realm, the one known as Jones sits with a screen blocking off his notes. His notes detail out a new dungeon of a dragon's lair with many traps, kobold minions, and obstacles that would take a fair amount of time for the party to work their way through.
The one known as Jones chimes in, "You guys do know that Dragons have a lot of loot in lairs right?"
The man in the helmet controlling Alaroc says, " Oh I know, I want to see if they have another sword."
The one known as Jones perks up and says, "They might! Yeah, so-"
The man in the hat controlling Zilo says, "But Alaroc already has an artifact and a max enchanted sword. You can't just suddenly grow another arm."
The man in the helmet sulks and says, "Fair point."
The man in the hat looks over to the large bald man controlling Sparky, and the red-haired man controlling Jin and speaks, "This might work, If we can storm the place and threaten Wisp then he can call off his guy."
The one known as Jones speaks again, "Or maybe he might keep his word if you do the job you were given."
The man in the hat turns to the one known as Jones, and says, "Please Jones, you know I love playing Rogues. I'd lie about everything all the time. Hell, he might be lying about assassinating Aria too."
The one known as Jones looks over his notes before coming to a sudden understanding and says, "We'll it will come down to Zilo to see if you even can assault the Green Dragons. You'll need to roll Wisdom to recall the alleyway." The one known as Jones smiled, knowing the horrible Wisdom score of Zilo.
The man in the hat rolls his d20 and gets a 16 with a -4 from Zilo's wisdom. He smiles and says, "12 is solid, I should remember a place I was at less than an hour ago right?"
Jones sadly puts his dragon lair notes aside and gets out a blank sheet of paper before saying, "Yeah, that'll do it."
Zilo, and his allies march through the streets until they come across the poster of the killer Mathew Coleron had been hunting, the sign Zilo recalled as hiding the secret door. Zilo pulled away the poster and says, "Alright, I remember this, Vinny had a square looking dagger that was a key to this base. We should."
"I'd move if I was you Zilo."Says Jin followed by some heavy gulping. Zilo turns to see Jin gulping down a lot of his drink from the flask. Zilo moved out of the way, and a dark brown aura begins to manifest in Jin's fists. In a flash, the monk charged the wall.
With drunken strength and a flurry of punches and kicks, the wall is reduced to a shell of its former self. With dents and cracks all over the ramshackle wall, a small poke from the monk is enough to make the entire thing break-in on itself with a cloud of dust and the tappings of little brick pieces.
The bricks collapsed down the stairwell and from the bottom, some thuds of stone on skin followed by a few shouts of pain could be heard down the walkway. Zilo puts the monk aside as the sounds of footsteps were heard coming up the stairs. Zilo flicks out of his boot a thin wand before shouting out for a Lightning Bolt.
A streak of power blasted down the straight stairwell and all the thieves that believed they were under attack had their theory proven all too well. Zilo cocks his head toward the stairwell and his allies rush down the stairs with him behind them.
They skip past the first room that Zilo confronted Wisp in and kicked into a room full of bunks and footlockers. The group looked around the room, but the bunks were set up in rows making it difficult to scan for people.
In the other realm, the man with the red hair askes the one known as Jones, "I want to make a Perception check to try and suss out how many folks could be hiding in here." The one known as Jones scrambles a bit, having just moments ago figured out the sort of foe would be populating the hideout.
As usual, Jin demolishes the DC and Jones has to throw out a number right away, "Uh... twenty Guild Initiates hiding behind the bunks along the rows in the room"
The man in the hat chimes in, "Wait, but you said there are only like 10 bunks that doesn't-"
"And they are attacking Zilo now." Said the one known as Jones. Eager for combat to start so he can set up the rest of the hideout on some scrap.
Zilo is set upon by a volley of crossbow bolts as the rest of the men who had been hiding leap out from behind the bunks. Zilo dodges most of the bolts, but a fair number of them hit home and the bard is wounded pretty heavily.
Alaroc and Jin both take up a position to block off most of the attacks as Sparky began to fire Scorching Rays. Zilo breathed heavy and let loose a quick little Cure Moderate Wounds to put himself back into the fight ready to go.
The battle might have at first seemed too difficult, with the heroes being outnumbered, but Zilo and his friends proved far more capable than your average cutpurse. Alaroc and Zilo moved the group to the wall and made it so that they couldn't be flanked.
Without the option to flank and earn a sneak attack the thieves were not able to manage any significant damage. With the support from Zilo, potshots from Sparky, and fighting of Alaroc and Jin, the Guild Initiates were put right to bed, luckily they were in their bedroom already.
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