Episode 4: Stop! You Violated the Law!

We return to the party to find them being led by Taka’s friend Jory to the Sheriff’s Office where the City Guards’ office is, with him suggesting taking the back and alleys and streets for speed while Nythis keeps the air patrol going.

Meanwhile back at The Bottled Current, Silfrey finally rises for the day and goes to seek out his friends. He first went to RID Supply and after a brief chat with Cortland, finding out that his friends had left to try to find Clover but he didn’t know where to he made his way to The Nest where Iona was waiting with Clover’s people.

After a brief chat with Iona and less than informative discussion with Lady Vinia, Silfrey was dispatched by Iona to ensure that Sheriff Oziver was on his way to The Nest to help with the search. So he headed towards the Sheriff’s Office.

The rest of the party was successfully making their way along through the alleys of Lightning Valley when a large amount of stacked barrels fell behind them and they found their way blocked by a party of six black clad, hooded, and masked bandits. A fight broke out between the party and the bandits with Nythis swooping down to help his friends.

The bandits took the worst of it with five of them perishing at the hands of the party, but Jory- Taka’s friend and they party’s guide- was slain. Finding themselves a touch lost they ventured from the alley into the nearest main thoroughfare which happened to be in one of the richer neighborhoods of the city. Their bruised and blood covered appearance drew immediate attention from the few people in the street and the guard patrol.

After a brief chat with the guards, telling them they were jumped and that they solved the problem but had killed some folks and one of their number had died. The guards informed them that they would need to come down to the station to make statements and have information collected while an investigation was conducted. The party (after a bit of side chatter) decided to willingly go with the guards and so while not officially in custody, were surrounded and ushered to the Sheriff’s Office for questioning.

It was as they were being ushered through the plaza in front of the Sheriff’s Office that Silfrey caught sight of his friends and seeing their predicament he made sure to keep out of their line of sight so as not to be immediately associated with them, unsure of what happened with them. Going inside he finds the gnome receptionist and asks to speak to the Sheriff. They inform him that the Sheriff is about to depart for an important errand, which Silfrey assumes is for Iona and Lady Vinia and urges that he needs to go now. The While he is urging them to hurry the Sheriff along, a guard opens a door and tells them that the Sheriff is needed for some possible murderers. The Sheriff emerges into the lobby as this is being said and hears the guard, turning his attention to them as Silfrey speaks up and says: “About those murderers…”

And that’s where we’ve left our adventurers. Will they go to jail? Will they go free? Will they find Zell and Mo? Will they find Clover? We shall wait and see…