Selvin looked a little surprised at Quicklime, both her appearance and her speech. He refrained, barely, from making a joke about Licklime. Especially after she said..."Wait...do you NORMALLY eat people?"

He stepped forward and glanced at Lucky. "Can you open them, or do I need t'try?" He lowered his voice. "Maybe let Quicklime out last, just t'be safe..."

In reply to Selvin Larst (msg # 36):

Quicklime giggles.  "He's red. I'm green.  Skalk down there is blue and the quiet fellow in the last cell is silver.  We're parts of the rainbow.

"Just kidding.  We're dragons silly. Quicklime is just what I liked to be called."

She waggles her eyebrows.  "Let us out and we'll make it worth your while..."

Thanks Lucky.

Those rolls will be good enough, but I will hold off assuming you opened the doors until you tell me.  Figured you may have second thoughts knowing they're dragons.

But if you are okay with it, the doors will come open.

Thanks

"Hmmmm Dragons you say?  You want to help us with the Bitch Queen?  I will get you all out if you do!"  Lucky said as he listened to Quicklime.  Of course, Lucky knew that Chromatic Dragons were evil but the weren't stupid either.

"How did you all get put in the cells anyways?"  Lucky asked a second later.

In reply to Lucky Six-Fingers (msg # 38):

Nzzx snorts.  Quicklime leans against the bars of her cell.  "I guess you could say we're all atheists.  Bitch-Queen summoned us and expected us to bow down since she's part of Zal-what's-his-name.  Some of the others she summoned were impressed.  Us...not so much.

"And...just speaking for myself...I would simply love a chance to cause Bitchy some headache yes."  She taps the bars.  "But there's an enchantment on these cells which forces us to stay here.  Opening the doors is a good start.  But we need to be told we can leave by someone Bitchy has recognized as a servant.  If there's one wandering around, could you be a love and bring them by?  You'll know them because their eyes should be tinted red."

"Huh...dragons...so you must be the ones that the Queen was looking to undeadify and control."  Zuni said out loud.  "Barbarian Princess Zuni riding into battle atop her dragon mount.  Has a nice ring to it and Selvin would be sooo jealous."

Zuni crept back to the others, giving Selvin a playful little punch as she passed him.  "Okay, Dragons causing trouble for the Queen is great and all, but how do we keep them from causing us trouble.  Hard to celebrate liberating Korvosa when your head had been bitten off by a dragon."

Chandanar cocks his head.  "I can bind 'em with an oath.  They'd probably have to be willing to be bound.  But we can try that."

He means a lesser geas spell

"If they are willing to accept, I'd be willing to help them get out of there,"  Lucky said as he looked at Chandanar.

The thought of riding one of the dragons put a slight grin on his face.

Selvin tossed Zuni a smirk when she punched him/Zac and talked about riding a dragon. He opened his mouth but then immediately shut it, almost saying something inappropriate and not sure why. He shook his head.

"I'm good, thanks. I already got a flyin' partner, don't need a dragon."

He looked at the dragons. "I mean, if they're against the queen, or at least aren't gonna get in our way, I'm good. But if ya'll wanna do a vow thing, an' they agree, sure."

In reply to Selvin Larst (msg # 43):

Chandanar nods.

"So, we just need to find a jailer.  That sounds like a job for you three.  I'll start setting up the ritual.  Izzy?  Can you stand guard over me?"

"If they agree, bind them.  Zuni wants her dragon." Zuni said.  Her tone was joking but The idea of having Dragons on their side was too good of an opportunity to pass up.  No matter what they had heard about the Queen, she was sure that was going to be much worse.  So having something 'Worse' on their side could not be a bad idea.

"Now we need to find us a jailer.  Where should we start?"

"Zuni, why don't you and I see if we can find someone.  Shouldn't be too difficult, right?"  Lucky had no idea where to start looking but outside of this jail would be a good idea.  Course they could just wait for someone to come to them as well and just sit and chat with the dragons to find out more information.

"Or we wait for someone to come to us."  Lucky asked the dragons then, "how often does someone come check on you and when was the last time if they do?"

Selvin watched Chandanar for a moment and then looked at each of the 'dragons'. Finally, he let out a small noise and shrugged. "Alright. Fine. I guess." He looked at Izzick and the cleric, smiling widely. "Use the prearranged signal if trouble comes knockin'. Scream."

He chuckled and headed out to find what could be found.

Quicklime thinks on Lucky's question.

"We get slops twice a days.  I think the next time should be in a couple of hours."

The closest area is that large room to the west with the gauzy curtain covering the archway into it.  You think...think...you can see some movement inside the room.  That curtain makes it hard to see exactly.

Selvin looked at Quicklime for a moment longer and then grinned, shaking his head. She seemed...'quirky' was a good word for it. But also likely very dangerous and liking to eat sentient humanoids.

He looked to Zuni and Lucky. "Alright, well...one o'you two should peek right, 'fore we go in? I could make one o'you invisible but...that with that curtain..." He made a wishy-washy gesture and shrugged, "Not sure it'd help all the much havin' t'push past the curtain."

In reply to Selvin Larst (msg # 49):

Whoever goes, need a stealth check and a perception check please.

Thanks

"Nothing that I love more than sneaking around dangerous places.  Just make sure that you keep an eye on my backside."  Zuni said.  "It might not be much but I'd like it intact."  She crept up to the curtained area, keeping an eye out for defenses and peered through it.

OOC:
Stealth -> 32
Perception -> 20

Lucky was going to move but Zuni beat him to the go.  He almost laughed aloud when she said something about her backside.  Lucky of course had noticed her backside many times and had also seen how well she fought and didn't want to take his chances with trying to say anything about her backside until now, "I will keep a good eye on your backside."

As Zuni moved forward and to the curtain, Lucky had both his blades in his hands ready to pounce on anything that may try to hurt Zuni or Selvin.

Selvin let out a snort and rolled his eyes at the two of them. Zuni was a bit of a flirt. Who knew when she was completely kidding or just partially joking around. Lucky might be too, or might be really in to her.

"Stay alert, Lucky."

But he focused on the task at hand. He was ready to fly in at top speed if Zuni ran in to trouble, if he heard sounds that indicated that. He trusted in her abilities, though, and figured she'd probably be fine.

In reply to Selvin Larst (msg # 53):

<puprle>Zuni</purple>, you skulk like the skulker you are.  Not the monsters called Skulkers.  But some normal person who is good at skulking.  That's you.  The second one.

As you approach the curtain, you can make out some movement beyond it.  It looks like at least four people sitting around a table, maybe playing cards.

You also notice the curtain is moving slightly in the breeze.  Except there is no breeze.

Zuni looked back at the group and held up 4 fingers.  That should let the others know how many she had found.  The curtain moving in the non-existent breeze she did not like.  That smelled like magic, and not the nice pokeable magic like Selvin used.  This might be something else, and she was uncomfortable with something else magic.

Peering through the curtain, Zuni tried to see who these four people might be.  Were they all dressed like guards?  Did one stand out more than the others?  What was it Quicklime had said?  They have red eyes?

In reply to Zuni Runesong (msg # 55):

They all wear uniforms Zuni.  You can't make out the details, but you can make out that they all are wearing uniforms.

One of them does seem to have a different uniform than the others.  She's also wearing a puffy kind of hat.

But without moving the curtain, you can't make out many more details.

Zuni slipped out one of her daggers and cautiously tried to move the curtain aside to get a better look inside.

In reply to Zuni Runesong (msg # 57):

The curtain moves...since it's alive and all.

It becomes less gauzy and more oozy, splashing down into the archway...

It's an ooze of sorts is all you know at the moment.

We are in init folks.  Ooze is going on a 22.  Guys inside on a 12.

Thanks

Selvin looked surprised, genuinely, when the curtain moved on its own - it wasn't an invisible being behind the curtain...the curtain wasn't a curtain. He let out a small groan and shook his head. He disliked those kinds of creatures.

He flew forward at the creature, charging it at and ripping at it with Zac's magically-enhanced appendages, trying to pave the way for Zuni and Lucky to go after the beings beyond.

OOC: Haha, oh, if I had a nickel for every time I've had a character surprised by an ooze of some sort...

Zuni skidded backwards out of the splash range, not expecting curtains to turn into a monster.  She didn't curse....this time, instead gritting her teeth.

Zuni quickly changed direction, charging into the room while using the walls and door frame to flip her way around the Ooze.

OOC:
Initiative -> 21
Acrobatics -> 18
Total Defense.  AC +4