Oly takes it back, but doesn't open it...

(ooc: Do we still have any rational cultists left, or are they all dead/traumatized/fled?)

In reply to Mancini (msg # 339):

There are a few wounded ones that are not reduced to being imbeciles, about four.

Oly, make a search roll.

Oly finishes search bodies and things



[Private to GM:  11:06, Today: Oly rolled 13 using 3d6.  Searching. Made by 1]

In reply to Oly (msg # 341):

you find a number of pouches, with a handful of copper each, totalling $39.
You also note that the wooden crosses worn by the cultists contain  cheap crescent shaped small knives.
The three leader types have silver ones, and one is wearing an unusual robe.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 342):

Aoife, ever fashion conscious, inspects the robe more closely...

In reply to Aoife (msg # 343):

The robe appears to be made of exotic material and is very sturdy!

In reply to Narrator (msg # 342):

Oly will take the silver knives and $39 ... he'll leave the cheap knives.
He'll watch Aoife,    Dyu wand da robe?

In reply to Oly (msg # 345):

"I am interested in the robe, and would like to find out more about it. Later. Can you carry it for me now?"

Zure   He puts things down and removes the robe from the body, checking for any coin or other things of value as he does it. He folds it up and picks everything back up.

Mancini takes a couple of the wooden crosses/ cheap knives for later study.  He makes his way over to the remaining prisoners.

He walks around the group, quietly studying their reactions and trying to figure out the best way to get them to talk.

(Ooc: Rolled a 12 on Psychology skill 13. Roll passes.)

In reply to Mancini (msg # 348):

The wounded ones look like some information might be got from them with magic compulsion, but the babblers look completely fried, although they are probably at risk for possession.

Ardenas follows Mancini's gaze.  "I'd bet the Hadereum can get anything out of them that can be gotten.  I wouldn't turn a friend over to them, if I had a choice, but whatever these guys were summoning needed a demon sacrifice, and that can't be good."

In reply to Narrator (msg # 349):

"If we cannot get any information from them, I suggest we hand them over to the Hadereum. These guys are not friends of any good citizens, to be sure."

Mancini, having apprised the situation, walks over to Ardenas and Aoife. He lowers his voice so that it barely is above a whisper. "Whatever that tentacled thing was sure did a number on these creeps. The ones who are disturbed are in risk of possession, and I fear the ones who were unscathed will probably not talk without the aid of a magical compulsion."

He turns to Aoife. "Your little leprechaun bag of tricks doesn't include a truth telling spell does it? Personally, I would not hand these vermin over to the Haeredeum blind. Plus, anything we could learn would be useful in stopping the  spread of this cult and add income into our pockets and the Guild's."

Mancini paused for a second before continuing. "If we need to turn them over, we will be sitting ducks for the escaped cultists and that escaped demon. It may be prudent just to put the disturbed ones out of their miseries and only take the ones not turn to mush. Also, we should get someone to consecrate this ground, just to ensure that nothing else demonic can use this hideout as a staging ground."

In reply to Mancini (msg # 352):

"Nothing like that, sorry. Maybe my anaconda could start swallowing them though. Might that compel them to talk?

Not sure he would spit them out again though..."

Ardenas shakes his head.

"I don't know that I like the idea of torturing injured people, though for these I might make an exception.  I'd still like to know what they thought they were accomplishing.

"Sacrifices usually exchange a life for a favor, if I've understood correctly.  What sort of favor would you get for the life of a demon?  And what would these folks have done with such a favor?"

In reply to Ardenas Barehand (msg # 354):

"I hear of some summonings where sacrifices predispose the summonee toward an improved reaction to the summoner. I cannot think but the kind of entity that would like that behavior must be something that needs to be made gone from this world."

"Well, if that, uh, thing was the being they intended to summon, we've at least made it gone from this world.  Hopefully killed it, but that may be too much to hope."

In reply to Ardenas Barehand (msg # 356):

"I could do with finding the escaped demon, I need sustanance to heal. I could use the cultists, but they are beyond good and evil  in their madness; my code requires that those I drain be demonic, my entire bloodline has always doe it that way."
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In reply to Kalima (msg # 357):

"I assume you got something to eat then, but if I could find that demon, I would. How can we find it?"

"I'm no expert on demons; it's not something I was trained specifically to fight.  Master Rethki spoke of them only a little; he claimed it was dangerous even to speak of them in detail, that in some cases doing so could summon them.

"As far as I recall, that didn't include anything about their vanishing act."

[Private to GM: 05:02, Today: Ardenas Barehand rolled 11 using 3d6.  Occultism (10) to know where demons go when they vanish.]

In reply to Ardenas Barehand (msg # 359):

"These petty demons can assume a spirit form, the process is very tiring, and they can only hold the form for a sixth part of an hour. Doubtless their return to the physical realm is accompanied by the same puff of brimstone that they exude when they leave it. In any case, they can only move as fast as they can walk, but can pass through walls"

In reply to Kalima (msg # 360):

"Can you track him in that form?"

"I'll second that question.  He might be almost to the street by now!  Or, he could be right there in that corner, hoping we'll clear out before he solidifies again."