Rascal Rescue - RPLOG
Participants
Date
20/5/477
Log
Cassidy peeks out around the rocks to eye the archers with a soft hum. "I would prefer to avoid water, but if we feel like that's the best option, then so be it. I rather like the idea of trying to find a window, but... I can fly with my math, just about, so I'm not sure how many of you would be able to follow."
Hartford looks around, shuffling his big feet. "I'm not really good at being quiet," he confesses, "maybe I should cause a diversion?"
Hartford looks around, shuffling his big feet. "I'm not really good at being quiet," he confesses, "maybe I should cause a diversion?" The big stag peers around the corner and sees the open door. "I might be able to get in through that door and make a lot of noise, if you like!" he offers.
"-I- can't fly, so we'd have to split up, and I'm not keen on that." He somehow manages to bob his head like he's nodding off, even as he's speaking clearly as being wide awake. "Not that I can't handle myself, but 'cuz Angus'd never let me hear the end of it if I let the rookie get injured on our first assignment together... even if it is coincidence we both picked up this gig from the Freeswords and not official Lightbringer business, heh." Rainer uncrosses his legs and sits up when Hartford lays out his idea. "Nothing against the plan, chief, but what if they start holding blades to the kids' necks soon as they hear a fuss, just to be safe? Y'gotta do better than running in screamin' and flailin' like the Old Ones've taken you over."
Siyu gives a gentle little suck of breath, "No I don't do mathmagic, I can't fly, I'd have to scale it with rope and hook if anything." he nods his head some as he looks up at the rock face, "Does seem like a clear enterance though, we'll have to take the archers down quietly though" He glances at Hartford, "No we don't want to raise any alarms. There's children at stake after all" He looks at Rainer, "You can't climb?" he inquires, "I mean with rope and claw?" he asks.
Cassidy raises her brow under her mask, looking at Rainer. "Me? This isn't my first assignment, and I'm still your superior, yes. So mind the 'rookie' stuff, eh?" she remarks with a little snickers. "And I hope you can climb. That would be an acceptable alternative. I just really do not like getting my bow and arrows wet. I have rope that I could lower down from a window if we found one for me to get into."
Hartford nods at Rainer and Siyu's assessments. "Oh, yeah," he says, wide ears flopping back in shame, "I didn't think of that." Making decisions for yourself was hard! "I could probably climb a wall with a rope," he says, flexing his bulky arms, "I'm pretty strong and stuff." The deer shakes himself a little, loosening up for a quick bout of physical action! "Just say the word and I'll be ready!" he grins.
Rainer murmurs a "sir yes sir" with eyebrows raised high as they may go, casting his gaze towards Siyu and Hartford with an amused smirk. He gets up to a crouch and scoots over to Cassidy's side to get a peek at the place for himself, finally indicating the recently abandoned tower. "We could get up right there, just have to slip up close while they're not looking. Long as you brought enough rope for the task, we're good to go, right?"
Siyu nods his head some, "Well I think going up the rope would be best. I can be as quiet as I can, and get up there along with the rest of you. I think that's our best play, up the side, silence the guards, find the kids..."
Hartford looks at the high wall, and at the thin climbing rope. The big deer's shoulders slump as he realizes that he will be more of a hindrance than help on this mission. "Listen," he says, "You get those poor kids outta there for me, alright?" He waves a meaty hand to indicate his enormous frame. "No way I'm getting in and out of there all quiet like," he says, "I'll be waiting for you here when you get back. Someone will have to carry you and the kids back to Firmament. Right?" He flexes his brawny arms for emphasis, then frowns, "You all be careful in there," he says, finding a spot to sit and wait where he can see the gate.
Moving at a decent, but careful pace, a cloaked and hooded figure is moving towards the location mentioned in the notice. He'd made sure his blade and pistol were loose but not falling out of their sheaths, talents and skills not overly lost from the change from urban to forest. Just less capable. Glein figured this would work towards earning him some respectable reputation, something to build off of in Firmament later. For now, it was a job, and something to be done.
Sliding around a tree, he spots the group near the front of the castle, one that definitely looks like it'd seen better days, he does a quick look over. He recognized some of those present, if only just, and figured it was safe to move up to them, without causing trouble for those ahead. Making sure to make enough noise that those waiting to move on teh castle could hear him, but not so loud as to be obvious to the guards above, Glein settles into place. "Seems I was almost late to the task."
Hoshek seems to appear from behind Glein his fangs glistening as he approached. His poisoned dagger was away, and his oiled leather armor barely whispered as he walked. "I trust you have already found a way in?" he asks, his more assassin-like tendancies showing in the form of his daggers and throwing knives loose in their holsters, and his pistol hidden away for when he needs to abandond stealth
Cassidy eyes one of the windows higher up on the castle and nods, checking to make sure she still has her rope. "I believe so, yes. Give me just a moment and wish me luck." Skirting out froma round the rock and making her way up close to the castle, the small masked fennec sets her sight on the open window and kicks off, using her airmath to take her up towards the window.
Cassidy finds a decently large, open window that the fennec has no problems just entering. It's the window to a pillaged storeroom too, only broken weapons and damaged armor lying around, with no bandit patrol anywhere nearby. One of the archers just happens to be facing Cassidy's direction during her short flight, though. He blinks, his guard raised a little bit now, nocking an arrow and keeping on high alert, pacing a little bit slower. His companions notice his alert and start watching the same area too. Seems they will need to be taken out.
Rainer turns his head with a bit of a start when a voice comes from behind, and he eyeballs Glein and Hoshek up and down like he's not certain about their intentions. Still, in the end, Cassidy's taking to the sky, so he only remarks, "A couple minutes more and you would've been stuck keepin' that guy company." A thumb jerked to the musclebound deer, accompanied by a playful wink, and when he turns back to watching the guard he notes their cautious postures. "Shoot, did they see her? ...They'd be raising all kinds of fuss if they were sure, I guess, but how do -we- get over there now?"
Siyu nods to the new arrivals, "All right. She's going to drop us down a rope when she finds one, and we'll all scale up. Remember this is a rescue mission primarly, the children are the first priority..." he looks up and waits, unaware of what's going on at the moment. The archers are moving? Oh dear...
Glein sighes. "Either we remove them, or distract them. One way or another, we'll need to deal with them before we can continue. My talents in distraction tent to rely more on, urban situations, I'm afraid I might not be of much help here." He says, looking between the two guards and the portion of the wall they're walking. Memorizing their routes, their patterns. Anything to give them an advantage in slipping by without setting off an alarm.
