[Game Thread] Unfortunate Implications

[Fragmaster01]

Dice SuperBluff:

1d20+10

(5)+10

Total = 15

The guard looks at you, very bored and not at all in the mood. "Right. You have fun with that." He jerks his head towards the market, and heads back to the post, to start looking Important in case his boss shows up behind you.

[Moridain]

Sadie moves forward with the others as they are waved past. She is pretty sure that Lying Is Bad but she still doesn't want to get blamed for the worse crime behind them. She keeps her head down as she moves past the guard, not wanting him to remember her face if people ask about them later on. Her father is an important man after all and she regularly attends his parties so her face isn't unknown.

Sammie meanwhile has scurried back up her arm and under her hair, settling down in its little nest once more. He is whispering, but she can't quite tell what he is saying. Perhaps something about runes and magic? It seems that she wasn't the only one who was changed, and perhaps his little rat mind is still processing all he learned.

Scrunching her hand tighter on the shirt she is still holding she follows along silently.

[dbaque]

Once they pass the guard post & make it into the market, Matthias lets out the nervous breath he didn't realize he was holding. While the hustle & bustle of the market ease his mind about any guards coming to catch them, something weird is going on, & they need to hash it out. He turns to ask Marros in a whisper: "That went well enough. You seem to know your way around town. Do you know any quiet places we can talk & figure this out?"

[Cash]

Yeah I can find a place Marros starts looking around dropping his disguise at the first possible moment it wouldn't attract attention. hmmmmm now where to go?

[Fragmaster01]

The crowds bustle and hustle around you, all busy buying things. Humans staring at goods, halflings underfoot, dwarves wondering where their beer is...
Erlast Citizens, keep calm and carry on. An unknown arcane attack has been reported in the west underhall plaza. Please report any suspicious activity to the nearest city guards. Thank you.

The sound amplification spell is awkward, turning much of the rooftop into a speaker for the random town crier to yell out his message. He'd be awed by modern intercom technology, but such things are beyond him. The crowd looks around, worried and muttering. Clearly someone should do something about these devilish miscreants! Oh wait, that's us, isn't it. Crud. Well, and that crazy guy, but he's gone now.

[Moridain]

The little girl sinks deeper into her comforting guide at the announcement, just knowing that they look suspitious and that guards will swarm out after them any moment and tell them off.

"C-can you take me home first? I-I think my parents must be worried. I-I promise I won't tell anyone what happened..." she says, suddenly worried they might not let her go...

[dbaque]

Matthias frowns as he thinks to himself: "This mess is not for a little girl. Well, not really for any of us, but for her least of all. No one really knows to be looking for us. She should be fine." Feeling a very gallant surge from somewhere, he says reassuringly: "Don't fret, Sadie; we'll be happy to escort you home, though if you cling any tighter Marros may start choking. Where do your parents live?"

[Moridain]

She gives Mattihias the address, a location in the well-to-do part of town. Her place there was fairly small, as far as estates go, being a town house her family used while her father was working at his Magistrates job. The true house they lived in was actually outside the city, a small estate that had been in the family for several generations.

"Father is a Magistrate." she says "I-I am sure he can help us out. Maybe he can tell them we didn't do anything?"

[dbaque]

"Well, let's not get ahead of ourselves," Matthias replies cautiously, "let's get you home safe first." Relying in small part (Ok, a really large part) on the other's greater familiarity with Erlast, Matthias 'leads' their merry band towards Sadie's town house. In an effort to make this silent trip less awkward (& less suspicious), as well as just getting to know these strange bedfellows of fate, he asks them what they were up to before they <ahem> met each other.

[Cash]

Marros had been lost in his own thought for awhile trying to find a spot they could hide out. He had notice his clothes getting progressively getting tighter. He snaps back into reality as he feels his clothes loosen. He picks back up on the conversation add Matthias confirms a new plan to take sadie home. That's probally for the best getting back that area is gonna be tough, we might even have to go back to the plaza where the....um you know he stops to think hard of a good discriptive word to discribe what happened there. He is unable to think of a word and decides to answer matthias and drop finding the word. I was doing what I usually enjoying a snack theres not much else to my mornings. he chuckles.

[Elucidus]

Threnody pipes up at this point. "It will be alright," She says to the girl not much younger herself. "It will be alright," She repeats to herself under her breath almost as if trying to convince herself.

what will we do, what if they find out we were there. She shakes her head as if to clear her thoughts as they walk.

[Moridain]

She releases the shirt a little, until she is just holding a fold of it rather than hugging his back. "I- we were just shopping. Its my birthday today, and they said they would let me pick my present from the shop. B-but I wondered off a bit and couldn't find them. They are going to be so mad at me..." she says with a shaky voice.

Obviously happy at the idea of heading to her house, she tries to make herself more courageous. But she is obviously quite a sheltered child in some ways and this is probably the first time in her life she has been out of the care of a governess or her parents and she is obviously not enjoying the experience so far...

[dbaque]

He remarks with a start at Marros' comment: "Are you sure that there's no way around? Wouldn't the guards have it roped off or something? Like a crime scene?"

"Oh then, happy birthday, Sadie; how old are you today?" Matthias replies, trying to ease the anxious girl. "I'm no good at this cheering up stuff," he muses frustratedly to himself.

[Cash]

Maybe as far as I remember

ooc is it the only way?

Upon hearing that its Sadie's birthday Marros feels like trying to obtain a gift "if nothing hopefully it will cheer her up alittle" Knowing he has no money and not wanting to throw the other into more trouble he decides to take a side trip. Hmmmm hey guys stay here real quick I'll be back in a few minutes

[Elucidus]

"I don't think we should split up right now, perhaps later." A bit of fear from her own voice as she tries to sound strong.