"E wants ta see da queen.  Maybe e's worf somefing?"  Bulldust scratches under his red bonnet which itches.  "Oi, Horny, whats ya name?  An whyd ya wanna see da queen?  Whats in it fer us?"

"Les' take dis one back too," Dregz continues to glare malevolently at the dead drow.

The prisoner scowls at Jurz's words but brightens up when Bulldust chips in.

"Present me to the Queen and I will make sure you are well rewarded, but the choice is yours. Someone will earn that reward but it doesn't have to be you! My name is Shelby, Shelby Wright and I have a dream! There is red spiked armour in that dream and a Queen who's very interested in what I have to tell her. That dream is gunna come true, I tell you!"

Jurz squints hard at Shelby Wright  "Hmm.  Slipperies." he  says softly.

Minmorcs eyes glaze over slightly and his words come out slurred. "Der Teifling knows der sacred number and has shared der Nuffle dream. E shall be unchained from dis place an taken ter der queen. Any who hurts im will be made ter scream." With renewed energy Minmorc will produce sacks from his back pack and will help gather and bundle any weapons, armour and items of worth, he'll even take down and bundle up the curtains. As he works he seems to notice that he's still hurt and will  use the wand of vigor on himself.

"Da Tiefling has charmed Minmorc." Jurz shouts out in alarm "He's bin doing der magics an he is inside der head of Minmorc!  I's can see der magic arounds his hed!" Jurz continues excitedly pointing at the teifling.  "He's sliperies ..."

Riza carefully opens the chest to inspect its contents, once having a look through she will help Minmorc stashing stuff away plus what she finds (depending on what it is of course)

"If Minmorc says let im outs do it, I'll be more than happy to skewer im if he tries to run"

"Dat's not Minmorc sayin, dats de teifling saying in  Minmorc's head." jurz replies shortly.

"Oh well let's just torture and kills him then" Riza grins evily "choppy, choppy"

"If der queen don't like im, she'll kill im, e tries ter run, I'll catch im, but I wants ter hear wot e has ter tell her."

"Anyone can put foughts in Minmorcs head, its mostly empty up dere.  Even da gods put in somefing about red costumes an all da gobbos an orcs workin togever an stuff."  Bulldust approaches the tiefling, dangling his manacles as he goes.  "Ive been wantin ta put dese on somefing, but da lil fings got roped up an da elf had no hands, only snakes, so now its gonna be you, till we get ya ta da Queen.  If ya tries anyfing tricky den Riza will choppy ya up.  Now lets av ya hands."

If the tiefling complies he will manacle his hands behind his back then set about loosening the wall chain, using a redcap pick to dig the bolt out of the wall - Bulldust is good at digging holes.  It does not occur to him to find a key.  If this all works he will give the ankle chain to Riza to terrorize the prisoner and help Minmorc carry curtains and weapons.

Shelby is equally excited by Minmorc's pronouncement and alarmed by Jurz's response.

"Yes, yes, the dream! We're gonna set up the greatest team ever! I'll be rich! We'll be rich! No, no, I don't do magic, I do deals! I swear it!"

He seizes on Bulldust's suggestion as a workable compromise and eagerly accepts the manacles and even points out the key hanging on a hook behind the prison cell door (too far away for him to reach) that will unlock the manacle on his leg.

Riza opens the chest and peeks inside.

Dregz eyes the Tiefling with suspicion, but it is the open chest that pulls his attention away from the unfolding drama. (Has Minmorc been possessed or is it merely a divine vision ?  Will the Tiefling behave himself or will Riza chop him up into tiny pieces ?)

"Der's sumfin' magical in der," he warns the Lizardwoman as she rifles through the chest.  "Strong magics."

In reply to Dregz (msg # 285):

"I really has an idea guys."

Moffdust continues to ogle the prisoner while the others discuss his fate. "Aw but e's such a beauty..." she says dreamily. As soon as Bully has him manacled she hops up on the bed to get closer. "Shelby Wright." she purrs, tasting the sound of the name. "Dats a lucky namses dat is. I spose wes can lets de Queen have youse, Shelby." She strokes his round belly then pulls him down to sit on the bed next to her. She traces a finger over his little black horns. "But youse looks so delicious." She whispers in his ear "I jus wants a little bitses..." She bites off his earlobe and hops off the bed looking back at the tiefling lustfully over her shoulder "De queens wont miff dis little bitses." 

"Was youse finkin what I was finking Oopses? " she wonders as she chews.

In reply to Moffdust (msg # 287):

"Whats if da Queen only wants uz dead, and if we goes back she treyz tah kill us while we hurt?"

Riza removes something from the chest and then locks it up again with the key. "Plenty of gold I this thing, let's take the chest back with us, or put it in one of the sacks if it will fit we can sort it out later"

Jurz quiets when it is clear that the tiefling is goung to be taken to the queen all chained up still, although he frowns somewhat at moffa's antics.  Then his eyes open wide as she bites off his ear.  "Oooooh."

Hearing Oopses comments Minmorc will scoff at the little Goblin "Her Queeniness izza Ogre wizzard wid lotsa Ogre guards, if she wants us dead wees dead." Hearing the commotion inside the cell Minmorc will drop what he was doing and storm into the cell to loom over Moffdust. "Bad Moffa, dats a bad, bad Moffa bitin Shelby. Spit it out!"

Gulp.

Moffdust swallows he mouthful, then smiles sweetly up at Minmorc.

"An wes gotta goes back to get Rog!" the goblin druid scowls at Oopses.

"Dats my sister."  Bulldust warns Wright in case he starts getting ideas about her.  He takes the key from the wall and puts it in his pocket then resumes hacking the chain bolt from the wall.  You can never have too many chains on a tiefling he thinks.  He keeps a close eye on the prisoner as he works, and he has a pick ...

"Ah you little b ... your sister? You gotta be kidding!" Shelby's reaction to Moffa's unexpected love bite changes from pain and anger to utter disbelief when Bully steps in and warns that Moffa is his sister.

Minmorc tells Moffa off and asks her to spit out the severed ear but Moffa swallows it instead.

Bully works away to break the manacle chain out of the cell wall and succeeds eventually, although there is still a six-inch lump of rock attached to the end of the chain like a crude ball-and-chain on the prisoner's leg. With the other manacles locked in place on Shelby's wrists he certainly does still look like a prisoner.

Riza lifts something black out of the chest and slips it into her pocket as she relocks the chest, announcing there is plenty of gold in the chest.

Everyone chooses to ignore Oopses conspiracy theory about the Queen intending to kill them all, except Minmorc who points out that the Queen is so powerful they couldn't stop her if she wanted them dead anyway.

Bulldust shoves the chained rock into Shelby's lap for him to carry.  "Dere ya go, all free!  Howd yer get locked up down ere anyhow?  An wheres dat stair go up past de locked iron gate?"

"I thought I told you already?" Shelby started to protest. "Never mind, it was like this. I was searching the sewers near the Queen's palace looking for a secret way in. I heard a rumour there is one, you see. I need to get in to see the Queen but she isn't seeing visitors at present. But I was caught by a band of redcaps and a drow who ordered them to keep me as a prisoner for sacrifice later tonight. I don't know about any stairs or locked iron gates. They brought me in here through a narrow passage from the sewers."