Chapter Four: The Manifest of the Harikan Squall

Domarc heads for the west storeroom.

Shamush follows Mordred's lead, putting away his club for the moment.

Zangua follows Domarc, carrying his prisoner for future interrogation.

"I saw one of them watching us," begins Zangua, raising an eyebrow at the appearance of yet another new person. "He left and brought this fellow back in, and they started wrecking the place. This guy is a magic user; I figure he's probably smart enough to know what's going on, so figure out what questions you want to ask before he wakes up."

"Beyond the pointy hat crew, we're going to have city guards here soon enough," Domarc says. "They are going to have lots of questions, and I don't think we have satisfactory answers. Whatever we are going to do, we need to do it fast."

Zangua takes the spell component pouch, knife, and ring.

"Our need now is speed. And if we can, to create some confusion amongst the pointy hats about where we went from here."

Domarc smiles at Martjan. "I warned you I would get bored at some point. But I didn't expect trouble to come find me."

"Martjan, how effectively could we hide from the guards here in your building? Are there other secret passages or hiding places? A storeroom that even the tax bureau doesn't know about? Everyone will assume we are going to run, but if we could hide here long enough for the heat to die down we could throw them off the trail considerably."

Zangua looks about the group for their vote. He has the smiling man's slender blade in his hand, ready to dispatch the decision.

Leth is immediately reminded of the time they questioned their would-be assassin at the grave of Edvers, what seems like an eternity ago. Tzipporah had just outright killed the man when he couldn't provide them with the information they wanted.

I wonder where the others are now? Is the crown cult after them too? Were they captured and questioned by the authorities in Sthombo? Leth wonders briefly before his attention comes back to the task at hand. There had been so much bloodshed since the start of their journey together, and all at the hand of this cult. When they set out, Leth had been vehemently against killing their first captive, but now... now he's seen what this group is capable of doing, and the lengths they would go to in order to accomplish their terrible goal. He was surprised to find that he found himself not caring whether this blue-robed man lived or died. So much has changed since we first left sthombo... I wonder if that's for the better?

Leth finally speaks up. "I say we ditch him. We don't have time to question him, and he could potentially be a problem when he wakes up."

Zangua shrugs, and lowers the man to the floor. He then plunges the knife into the wizard's throat.

Zangua does as ordered, dropping the body into the alley.