The deception Act ONE - RPLOG
From Rusted Promises
Participants
Date
7/3/476
Log
The Noble district is in an uproar as dozens of personal guards stand around the various shops and manors that dot the destrict and in the center of the chaos is a single Doberman small folk taking notes and asking questions. He growls and nods, "Not a single crown was taken? All you lost were your wares?" The doberman asked to a water folk frog woman dressed in ornate jewelry. "Those fiends dare to cross the mistress of poison?! I'll kill them with some of the best poison I can procure on short notice and I'll show them!" The hestrical frog scream before stomping off as the small doberman shakes his head. "When are those volunteers from the freeswords going to show up? I really rather deal with some folks that aren't screaming at me." He adjusted his large black hat and sighs. Around him dozens of places are as prestine as they normally are in the Noble district not a single sign of robber exist besides frantic Nobles and Merchants shouting and trying to push thier noble status around.
Selena walks over to the noble's district with an irritated look about her. A quick scan of the crowd later, and she moves into the gathering of beings to the Doberman to adress him; "Selena, taskmage for the Ironsoul's defenders. You asked for some volunteers; what do you need?" She asks a little bluntly, voice lowering somewhat. "This is a mess though, that's for sure..."
Travis also is making his way towards the Nobles's district, having heard that something has happend. He takes a curious look around, checking for any familiar people, at least familiar to him, and when he spots Selena, he makes his way over toward the wolf, coming to a stop a small distance away, so not to interupt the conversation.
Ictus is already on the scene as he heard the manor was robbed and glares at all the confusion, "Idiots are making things harder..." he looks at the doberman and steps up, "I'll help, I am Ictus Solacious." it wouldn't be right not to help
"A pleasure I'm Cosgrove but you can call me Cos for short. I'm lead investigator for this case. To put it simply I need help, Taskmage." He gives a curt nod and guestures to the building. "How does someone break into a building with smashing a door, picking a lock, opening a window and damaging a single thing inside and escape at broad daylight without someone noticing. The only lead we have right now is that they don't seem to have an interest in crowns, They stole all the weapons and armors from the Ironsouls and Solacious they could get there." He nods as Ictus intoduces himself. "Sir Solacious. You the first solacious not to insult me before greeting me and the first to help me out." The canine chuckles and tips his hat. "Please follow me." He begins to lead them through the poison shop and lets each of them enter. The place is clean as a whistle with a fine grey powder over the floor, "The Frog left a trap that caused ash to coat the whole place. We were hoping to get foot prints to atleast guess the size or species of our criminal but they thought ahead." The only foot prints are in the shape of perfer squares instead of shoes. "I assume they are very short but that doesn't help me." He grumbles and reaches into his tunic, "The poisons prevent me from even getting a good scent. I'm hoping you have a better ideal than I do because honestly we have nothing and the folk who keep appearing just come around to curse and tell me to fix it."
Selena nods. "It's a pleasure, Cosgrove. Depending on who you're asking? You could head around and remove some bricks, go through an open window, tunnel if you had a lot of time. Or, disguise yourself as a noble and use a copied key." She suggests, following him back to the house and surveying the area. En-route, the wolfess greets Travis properly; "Hello again, Travis."
Travis follows Cosgrove as well, giving Selena a light smile and a nod. "Hello Lady Selena. I am here to help if I can." He gives a curious look around as they are led into the building. "Is there a way to tell where the prints started? We may be able to get a better idea of how they cam in if we knew from which part of the building they first stepped."
Ictus hmms at Cosgrove and nods in greeting as he looks around the shop, he nods to Selena in agreement, "That's true..." he ponders and looks around, "You think it was a small folk? If they were small enough... Maybe they hid inside a delivery...?" at Travis' comment he nods as he looks to see if he can spot the beginning of the prints
"Hmmm. I guess they could have removed bricks or tunnled. Delivery is out the question because the owner finds her own poison." He walks in and follows the tracks to a display care. "Unless they can turn into wood and glass I don't think..." He pauses and pushes the case revealing a much lighter colored wood than the rest of the area. "Hmmmmm." The Doberman sighes, "Well I'll be Creator Crused." The planks solid and does a simple guesture and burns the new wood away. " I'm not much in a fight in a fight and I'm even less of an explorer. I'll take the rear." He offers while looking at Selena with an expression of pure bliss, "Atleaset we have a clue now."
Selena shrugs. "And now we know there's a decent mage on them. Moving that much rock isn't exactly easy to do, muhc less quietly." She comments. "I can hold my own if we have to fight, but I would prefer not to be on the front lines." the wolfess replies, moving over to the hole. "If there are no takers, I'll head in."
Travis tilts his head a bit, moving over towards the hole as well. He crouches down to peek inside, his nose wiggling a bit as he carefully tries to sniff the air, a light hmmm coming from him. "I think the smallest of us may want to go check it out, see how big the hole is, and if it wide enough for all of us. We also will want to bring a torch or something to provide light down there most likely."
Ictus blinks as the case moves and chuckles as he looks into the hole, "Well... I'd go first but I'm not the smallest here..." he still switches his soul gem so he can fight if needed
Strange scent reach Travis' nose as the rest of the group. Travis passing him a torch as the fox drops into the tunnel the tunnel is roomy enough that anyone shorter than a heavy folk can easily stand. Further up the tunnel is a figure walking further down he appear to not have noticed the group as he walk deep into the darkness. The creatures steps make no noise as he walks, he doesn't appear to be any taller than five feet and is carrying something above his head.
Selena quietly slinks into the tunnel after the rest, quietly dropping to the floor of the tunnels, staying a safe distance behind the group to avoid easy detection, but keeps the group in her sight.
Travis carefully makes his way into the tunnel after Ictus, and tilts his head as he sees a figure up ahead of them. He blinks a bit, looking in puzzlement, and then looks behind, whispering to Cosgrove. "Are there supose to be tunnels down here? Is this some sort of underground way to move goods? Or are these tunnels illegal?"
Ictus hmms quietly as he spots the figure and motions to the others to be quiet as he tries to creep after the folk trying to get away. he looks to the others and whispers, "We should follow, see if they can lead us to others."
