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Post by Lady Kamille Verlithax on Feb 24, 2023 10:21:18 GMT -5
The Midnight Sun was one of the most luxurious inn in the Crescent Isle, where only the upper class of society gathered to get wasted. Kamille choose her seating spot not only because it was moderately away from the center of the inn, where the nobles gathered were loudly playing cards and gambling and being obnoxious - but also because the lord seated on the table next to hers held an interesting conversation....
"....speak no more, Adrius! This will be easy, I tell you! The old man left no will! That bastard has no right over his lands."
"My Lord Thalien, I beg you caution.... You know how your half brother is.... huh..... more popular among the common folk....... Some even say.... He would handle your father's business bett-" "Whose side you are, Adrius?"
The young Lord clearly had a few more to drink than usual, his face reddening up with anger and poorly processed alcohol. Kamille had only to keep to herself and the man would divert any attention from her table, their own petty machinations and poorly contained conspiracies drawing attention of whoever was passing by.
The Black Quills would accompany Minore back to the inn. Edgar, carrying a sleeping child drooling over his shoulder, would not enter through the front door, instead allowing Minora and Allan to walk inside alone. Still back at the warehouse, Minora has witnessed the kicking child being tricked by Allan to drink a Sleep Poison, that took effect immediately and made for them to bring their small guest much easier. Allan went over to the counter to ask for a room, and Minora knew they would sneak the child in, as to not raise suspicion, and wait for Kamille to try and get some information out of him. The Black Quills had explained everything they would do to Minora, reinforcing she should be the one to go up to Kamille to explain what happened.
Kamille was clearly waiting for Minora, and though she didn’t look thrilled by what she said, all she gave her was a tired sigh.
"Don’t worry, Minora. We'll handle this. I... Got something from one of the man that went for the Lord's state. He is not telling us the whole story, so he can't complain much. The thing is.... He's got enemies that are using the Red Rogue Heist to pull the rug under him and get their hands on some sensitive informati-"
"DAMN IT ADRIUS! IF YOU WON'T HELP ME THEN I'LL DO IT MYSELF!"
".....and I am certain this is the main reason he hired me. Not some trinkets. Allan tells me they got a child? What’s that all about?"
For someone who seemed to be listening to at least three different conversations - Minora's, the Lord at the table right next to hers and Allan mind messaging her - she seemed rather composed and focused. Possibly she was used to doing this.
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Post by Minora on Feb 24, 2023 10:48:33 GMT -5
“The child is safe and unharmed, what happened was I engaged the mage knowing he was the more important threat to the warehouse. Edgar and Aleen defended much of the inventory, while fighting during the battle Edgar noticed that those we knocked out were much younger than the others. Something else the mage was looking for you, I'm getting the slight feeling that the lord wasn’t the actual target this time. I think they might be looking for you, could be that maybe someone talked and they knew you were coming. I think I threw them off by being in the warehouse.
As Minora continued the lord’s conversation kept cutting into her own stopping every few moments til the lord stopped his screaming so she could continue, before that a young waitress came by their table asking if they had an order ready.
“Uhh yes do you have any Firewater?”
“Yes we do, would you like half a pint?”
“No, give me a whole one as you can see I didn't have the best day at work thank you.”
The whole conversation with the waitress Minora had a smile on her face but heat raided from her it was easy to tell under the smile she was emotional having many thoughts and feelings about the recent events. Once the waitress was finished with their order she ran back to the counter to prepare the other orders she had obviously in full night rush mode preparing for the chaos of a dinner rush or just getting off the work high of being in a rush, either way the woman looked almost as winded as Minora was. Minora turned her eyes towards Kamllie and continued her debrief.
"Don’t suppose you know of a Tiefling mage named Avaloch? Kinda showy and blue with orange eyes like a cat, uses wind magic, possibly lightning too. I have the feeling he was holding back, i blasted him out of the warehouse window but he was gone when i left out. That blast wasn’t nearly enough to take someone like that out, plus the way he used his magic must have been from years of training. I was wondering if you knew him, he was looking for you and I don't think he wants to have a friendly chat with you."
The woman came back with the order and Minora began drinking her firewater which usually is only supposed to come in a shot glass, though after her evening she was much more interested in what Kamille had to report did she face a mage as well?
“So how was your night Lady Kamille? Hopefully you were able to find out a bit more than me about these Red Rogues.”
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Post by Lady Kamille Verlithax on Feb 24, 2023 16:35:24 GMT -5
Kamille didn't interfere as Minora asked for her drink. She already had a glass of wine before her, just a sip left by the time she sat down. It did please her to see how she seemed to be controling herself better, specially in front of someone who didn't deserve her wrath. The story Minora told her didn't seem to surprise her, except....... " A blue tiefling? The name is not familiar to me, but.... People can always assume aliases and such.... Avaloch.... Avaloch........ I'll try and figure it out... And if we find him again, well. I'll be able to know it first ha-" "...Don't be brash, my Lord! There must be another way!-" Kamille shot a discrete glance towards table next to them, touching lightly the black feather of her necklace. Minora didn't actually had a full disclosure, but just by observing she could notice that Kamille would always touch the feather and remain silent for a while, as well as all of the other Black Quills. Clearly they could communicate through that. Keep an eye on this table, Poe. I'll go upstairs with Minora.Then, Kamille turned to Minora. " A small group of assassins made their way into the Lord's manor. I'm not sure what they were looking for yet, but I got a few papers from one of them that I hope will help us figure it out. Since it's coded, it might take us a while to crack the code and learn the contents on its entirety. But this is for a later time. For the moment, we need to try and dismantle this group before the night of the Red Rogue. I was hoping our friend upstairs will know something of use. Come." Kamille stood up, guiding Minora to the room Allan rented upstairs. Somehow, Edgar had managed to sneak in with the sleeping child. It was a small boy, not bigger than seven or eight years old, scrawny and with old, dirty clothes. Edgar himself was removing his upper body gear to try and tend to his wounds when Kamille and Minora entered the room. Kamille herself didn't seem phased, just handing to the Black Quill her medical kit and a healing potion and then promptly heading to the sleeping child on the bed. The Witch carefully sat by the bed, gently laying a hand on his forehead [1] and closing her eyes for a moment. Edgar was already gearing back up when Kamille raised again, after a few moments of silence. "Not much, but he saw one of the man talking about a passageway just outside of town, near an abandoned mill or something. To the west. We should probably go check it out."
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Post by Minora on Feb 24, 2023 19:15:18 GMT -5
Minora took two drinks of her firewater and sighed, placing the mug back on the table. She closed her eyes and sat back for a few moments, no words being spoken just silence, this continued for a few moments when she opened her eyes.
“I have an idea… Let’s get ourselves captured, we know where at least they are posted up so i say we pretend to sneak inside get ourselves captured and with the black quills following behind us they can release us and we can do what we do best.”
It wasn’t a very good idea but every other idea she had was either just as back or impossible to actually do at her current level. She was guessing that Kamille maybe had the same idea as her, Without any more words between the two Minora went off and told the quills of her idea. Though they also thought it was a terrible idea and poked fun of Minora’s plan but agreed along with it. Paying the bar maid to watch over the kid for the night they went off to the old mill outside of town. It certainly was old and a mill, nothing too impressive and certainly not too impressive for a group of rogues, Minora and kamille approached the old mill. After a few moments of looking around from behind darkness as clothes were thrown over the heads of both Kamille and Minora and swift punches and kicks as anti magic shackles were placed around their wrists and they were led inside of the mill.
Minora felt weaker as the shackles dug into her skin the heels of her and Kamille’s boots filled the obviously circular staircase, then finally when they reached the bottom the sound of iron bars behind them slammed as the men continued asking questions but not getting any type of answer from the two. Though finally the clothes came off their face to see the inner workings of the Red Rogues mounds of jewels, gold and art stacked high as men ran around back and forth moving piles and weapons, in front of the cell stood Avaloch he smiled big and clapped his hands together.
“Lovely not only did you come back for our fight but you brought Kamille too?! Saved me all the trouble of hunting her down and killing her. Now here you are served up on a silver platter, how lucky am i today?”
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Post by Lady Kamille Verlithax on Feb 25, 2023 4:52:11 GMT -5
They didn't have much options for the moment. Specially since Kamille wanted fast results, before they would confer with the Lord once again, at the break of day. They could have found the hideout with a day or two of spying, but the situation asked for quicker results, so everyone agreed to Minora's plan. Kamille was also positive they would be able to pull it off.
The mill was right outside of town, a 20 minute walk and easy to spot. No wonder they chose it as their hideout, since it was fairly inconspicuous and the location was also very practical for their needs. It didn't take much time of wandering around the mill for them to be captured, and although Kamille looked like she she tried to fight for a moment, they were both quickly subdued. They relieved them both of their possesions and forced them down the path. Kamille didn't waste anytime trying to understand where they were going, since the Black Quills were following them.
When the piece of cloth was removed from their heads and Kamille finally had to take a good look at Avaloch, her eyes widened in surprise, and curiously enough.... She grinned widely at him.
"Good morning, Marvin. How you've been doing?"
His other companions shot some side glances at Avaloch for a moment. Minora could see a vein starting to throb at his forehead.
"Is this supposed to be your secret identity? Yes, 'Avaloch' is much better than Marvin, I must say....... But let me ask: How you've been doing since you were expeled from the Arcane Academy and the Court? I suppose not everyone's destiny is on the academic life, but...... The criminal life? You're not smart enough for it.........."
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Post by Minora on Feb 25, 2023 14:02:15 GMT -5
Avaloch’s anger grew as he stared at the two, his composure loosening as spoke back to Kamille.
“You’ve got a funny way of coping with your own death Kamille, Look at you big bad witch of Moonglade and here you are… Criminal life suits me well. Stole a bunch of stuff and I saw what your teachings are like and i’m not very impressed…”
Even though he spoke of not being impressed around his chest and face burned skin was patched around obviously Minora gave him a run for his money, he looked hurt more than he was letting on the fall through the window took a lot from him. He had more trouble with Minora than he wanted to let on.
“Once we finished moving the stuff, kill them oh and don’t be kind…”
Avaloch turned his back to them and walked away limping slightly as the three men he spoke to nodded their heads and walked next to the cell, once Avaloch was from sight they opened the door and rose their red hoods showing Edger,allen and poe they bent down and unshackled both Kamille and Minora, once unshackled Minora had a look in her eyes pure anger she took her overcoat off showing a tattoo of twisting flames ran along her upper back and to her arms. Her hair hovered a bit as steam rose from her body her eyes glowing bright orange as the temperature inside the cell began rising steadily.
“My lady permission to turn up the heat?”
The look in her eyes and the expression on her face was vastly different than before her anger was turned all the way up the only thing containing her was her respect for Lady Kamille she will not go all out if the lady should say otherwise she would do her best to contain herself.
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Post by Lady Kamille Verlithax on Feb 25, 2023 15:43:54 GMT -5
With the identity of the mage revealed, Kamille looked more confident than ever - the only one truly worth of her worrying was the assassin she met at the manor, the one who gave Poe a hard time and eventually managed to escape her. If he was around there too, they would have some trouble.
"I'm gonna find Marvin. He may be more powerful than I remember him to be, but he's not a mastermind. Perhaps I can understand more if I get to face him..."
Kamille rose calmly as she rubbed her wrists. It was often said the Witch was slow to anger, but surely she would have something more than harsh words for Marvin. Despite regarding Avaloch with disdain, she wouldn’t underestimate his skills. She chuckled lightly at Minora.
"Don’t get too carried away...... Allow them to flee if so. Don’t lash out at those who don't raise in arms to-"
"OY! WHATCHA DOIN' ON THE LOSE?!"
As they stood up, other bandits came rushing into the room, imediately feeling something was off. Allan quickly gave Kamille her satchel, and she pulled off of it what looked like... a piece of chess? A rook?
Whispering a few words of power, she threw the piece on the ground, and instead of softly clacking against the stone floor, it landed with a heavy thud: a large, 6ft tall gargoyle rose from the spot the rook fell. Emotionless stone, its presence imediately made the group of newcommers halt.
"I'll try to find Marvin. Sir Prize! Would you please open the way? To the left. Poe, with me."
The gargoyle imediatelly barreled towards the group, moving whoever and whatever was on the way, including the doorframe. In an explosion of dust and splinters and broken stone, the gargoyle kept barreling down the corridor to the left side, simply trampling over whoever wasn’t so quick to avoid it. Both Kamille and Poe followed it, while Edgar and Allan remained with Minora.
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