Session 7

Unaware of Valar deed early that morning, Yuldra and Alistair tried to wake him up to join them for breakfast. But Valar did not answer the call, he might even be in too deep sleep that he could not hear it at all. The two had no choice but to go on with the breakfast. However, Kai joined them. They exchange news and clues to review the plan one more time. Although there were many unexpected incidents, the plan did not need changing. According to the plan, Kai went to the Guild to recruit more men and women to fill in the rank as helpers, and the others went scouting for entry and escape route for later infiltration.

Kai split up once again and went to the guild. He put on a recruit note and spent the rest of the day waiting until someone turns up or something. Yuldra and Alistair returned to their room to pack up and prepare for the trip. They call for Valar once more time just in case, still no answer. When Yuldra proposed his worry of getting seen as the brothel's owner knew his face and may got them in trouble. While the clumsy goliath's having trouble to find something at hand to disguise Yuldra, Valar throw a cloak onto him. Turned out, the noise they made proved to be more effective than their words in waking Valar up. Clearly disturbed, Valar slowly sit up, his hands rubbing his eyes. He told the couple to put on the cloak and wrap a headscarf he found to cover up the boy's face. The gang then hit the road. Valar lead the gang straight to the house in the Royal District. He told them of the place with certainty. Yuldra and Alistaired was so confused by their companion's words as how could he know this kind of information without their knowledge. Valar's confused as well. Had he not told them that he followed the man here at all. Well, apparently, he had not. But now, it's not the problem as city guard were coming. Luckily, they just warned the team not to hang out around here for this is limited to outsider and they're pretty much fit the description of outsider. So they took another quick tour around the house to gather more information before getting out of the district. Now, it's time to pay a visit to the brothel.

When the team got there, it's still closed down as it has always do during the day. Valar found a way to climb in on the rear of the building. Yuldra decided to stay on the ground an be the look out. Valar took no effort to climb up, after all it's what he do for a living, a bounty hunter. Valar tried to sneak in by the window but all of them were locked carefully. He took out a dagger and try to pry open the latch but to no avail. So changed the tactic he did. He peeked inside and saw a room with ladies sleeping on many beds stacked inside. Valar use the pommel of his dagger to knock on the door to wake one of them up to help him open the door. His knocks were too quiet to reach them, so he knocked again. A little louder this time. Maybe to loud. the girls heard this, so did the building guards. They rushed up and pushed open the window. Taking advantage of this, Valar tried to pull the man out but got outmatched by him. Valar was pulled inside instead. It seemed that the steady ground really give an advantage on the pulling. Lucky for him, Alistair did paid a notice. With his quick reaction and vast body size, Alistair jumped and snatched the feet of Valar and pulled him back out. Valar landed on his butt but quickly recover and they two made a run out of there. The security ran back down stair and told others to chase after them. Yuldra however saw his chance in the middle of the chaos and climbed inside using the opened window. Unlike Valar, Yuldra was small and did not wear armor, he can blend in the surrounding very well. Another guard came to closed the window but could not spot him. Having waited for the guard to go downstairs, Yulra got out of his hiding and tried to told the ladies of their plan. When he get closer to the ladies, he was overwhelmed by the scene. He has never seen so many lady sleeping nor the room of a brothel. While he's standing blankly being so confused, a lady put her elbows on his shoulder and leaned on him. She asked him of his intention but he just stammered:" We...plan...you...out". The ladies laughed at his cute awkwardness. Yuldra blushed in shy. He cleared his throat and said the sentence straight:"We planned to bail you all out of here in a couple of days, like, well, tomorrow. Thanks for...wait...um...thanks.". And ran really quick out of the room. Valar and Alistair lost their tail also. The Gang regrouped at The Bitter Chestnut.

When they got their, Kai was in the middle of the meeting with the new recruit. They was a group of two human, a tiefling and an angry hafling with an greatsword on his back. Kai joined the whole gang afterward when they were enjoying their beverage. They told Kai of their good news and an ease of mind enter Kai's thought. They also told Kai of their plan to raid the house that night, very late that night. Kai agreed to take part in but he would not use any magic. Well, because he just can't. So they took their rest, readied for the late night.

Later that night, about three o'clock in the morning, the Entourage made their way to the Royal District. Valar brought a branch of tree with him for he thought it would help to be stealthy with the surrounding. It turned out to be the only thing that was spotted. Luckily, the guards was sleepy as this time of the shift, so they made it in without any guard noticing. The team spent almost half an hour to carefully check for trap and such before they sneaked in by the backdoor. The reason was that the place was so scarcely guarded. Nothing was out of place at all. The gang broke in via the unlocked back door. It was a storage room. On their left, the kitchen. Its door was locked however and the right one was a corridor lead to a fountain, not locked. With only one option to go, they went to the right. There were more doors on this corridor: two on the left and one on the right. The first one they checked through the key hold was the kitchen. This door strangely was not locked. So they open this one and the others to create another escape path through the kitchen.

When they tried to checked on the second door on the left of the corridor, Kai was snatched by a water tentacle. In front of them, a living liquid raise in the fountain an attacked them with its watery tentacle. Yuldra quickly pulled out his rope dart and whipped at the creature where it stretched itself to grab Kai and disposed of that part. Kai dropped down on the floor. And he ran back out to safety. Alistair growled and use the flat of his greatsword to bat this water elemental. His sword disposed a part of it but seemed not to harm it much. Valar knew they would not get rid of that creature as they failed to really killed anything like it (the wraith they had encountered). So he used his axe to open the door on the right. A clashing of metal, a chip of his axe flew right across his face. If not for his mask, it would have cut him at the nose. As Valar was about to make another swing at the door, the creature launched its tentacle at Alistair, and pulled him inside of it body trying to drown him in its content. Yuldra swung his rope dart around Alistair leg, tried to pull him out off there. Valar too throw his freshly made Molotov cocktail-like at the creature. The creature was set on fire. The water started to boil on the outside but pretty much not changed where Alistar was held. Seeing all the struggle of his teammate, something in Kai kicked in. He heard a familiar voice in his head:"Family means no one left behind". Kai could hear his heart beating. He ran toward the creature, and dipped his fingers in the creature. His eyes glowed light blue and lightning discharged from his fingertips. The creature was shocked into pieces and pushed out of its pool (the fountain). Valar and the other was pushed to the opposite side as well. And a loud bang came afterward, deafen all their ears. Alistair fell right in the fountains, soaked in water. He started to cough the water out of his lungs. When ears stopped ringing, Kai yelled at the other to run. Then he run through the metal door now blown open. Yuldra followed him as Alistair tried to get up on his feet. Valar threw at the creature with a dagger imbued with the earlier lightning to buy them a few seconds. But the lightning went out before it touched the creature. Alistair took his chance and rush through the door. With everybody get out safely, Valar ran after as well.

The door was lead to a stairs up a level. As they rushed through the very last steps, the stair started to flat out and leaning one-sided, opening a pit. Soaking wet at his feet, Alistair lost his balance and fell to the pit. Trap holes opened in the wall, acid began to pour on the goliath. Yuldra, Kai and Valar grabbed him in chains, tried to pull him out but he was to slippery. Alistair drawn out his hand axes and use it to climbed out of it while other still holding on to him. With a few seconds, he made it out, losing his axes to the acid during process. Yet the acid still melt a piece of his bald head. There was many room on the second floor. The team split out to find what they came for, the illegal slave purchase receipts. Yuldra and Kai went in the first room, finding nothing but a steel table welded into the wall. Alistair found a silver tea pot set in the other room. Valar found things much more interesting. He found all the papers and some kind of leverage to open a secret holdings. When others joined him to identify the papers, they found the said leverage opening something on the other side, Yuldra and Kai room. They ran over there, to find new discoveries. Three box with different weights. Kai told his team to open the box while he finished his writing in the other room to see if they were missing on anythings at all. They tried to pried open the biggest one first. A bang went off as the lid cracked open. A small lightning traps stroke them, knocking Yuldra and Alistair out. Valar was left standing because he was the furthest to the chest when they open it. Hearing that bang, Kai went back to check on them. He saw Valar tried to open a second one while others lie still on the floor. Valar explained to him what happened while cracked the chest open. Inside the chest, many clockwork components stacked on each others. The biggest of them all was a metal hand, still ticking with all the gears still spinning. Kai told him to carry on and help the fallen to be on their feet and made his way to the third level via the stairs nearby. In order to brought everything with them, Valar use his piece of rope to tied the heavy metal hand onto Alistiar and put other into Yuldra bag with a few into his own. He then tied the third chest to another piece of longer rope from Alistair belongings and carefully dropping it out of the window down to the ground level unscathed. Valar took a deep breath and put his hands each on his companion chest. His eyes and palm glowed bright a little and consciousness returned to his friends. He asked them of their wellness and told them to prepare for their escape as he saw many people including the city guards had already started to swarming in. Then he went after Kai.

On the third level, Kai found a chapel of Baphomet and a barred door next to it. When he tend to walk downstairs, he heard a lot of begging of release but he could not see anything due to the darkness surrounding him. Not long after his arrival, Kai hear Valar coming to him. He told Valar of what he felt and him to take a look over the barred door. With the darkvision of a hobgoblin, Valar saw what Kai could not. On the other side of the door, many prison cells locking up many deformed women figures. Valar and Kai dragged open the door and venture inside the room. Valar found an empty cell with straw and some kind of bones and make a fire out of the cell contents. Or so he thought, the very moment the bone caught fire, the bone resembled themselves into a women figure. She screamed out in pain. To their surprises, she still lived in spite of having so least of flesh and tendon, just some organs attached to the ribcage. But the answer must wait, saving her from the suffering by his own hands was more to the matter. Valar and Kai pulled her cell door open and use what they can get to put out the fire. With the fire out, the darkness once again embrace the whole cell block. Valar took out a torch to reignite the place. He asked them of what they are. "Women", they whimpered. Among them, there was only two seemed to be less deformed than the rest. After a quick few words, they found out that they was taken here to be experimented on. They were tortured, yet somehow they could not die, even being dried to the bone. The two asked them that anyone of them could run will come with them, the others would be offer a mercy release. Some accept the mercy act while other still hang on to what was left of them, only the new two could run with them. Valar swing his axe and those accepted the fate was release. Dismembering proved to be working to release them.

They made it downstairs with the lady. Yuldra and Alistair had already made an escape route for them. They made a zip line across the alley toward the city walls. Yuldra was the first to slide across and secure the line when he got to the other side. Kai was next, then the ladies, Valar and lastly Alistair. When they pulling the chest from the feet of the wall that Valar has dropped earlier, the guard caught up to them but the line has been cut. They pull the chest all the way up and made it out into the wood. With the shroud of night, they ran away successfully. With nowhere to go, they just ran till the sun began to rise. The light shined through the leaves of the trees. When it touches the lady, their skin started to dried out and crumple away. Yuldra and Valar quickly put their coat and cloak over them. Those experiment seemed to left them vulnerable to the sunlight. While they arguing where to take them to, Kai suggested to bring them to Ursula. Perhaps she could protect them under her wing. So they did. They brought the ladies there. Many sister ran away when they saw such horror. Except for Valar, the team and two ladies went inside to find mother Ursula. She, on the contrary to other sisters could hold herself quite well. She took them to a private room. After a lot of talks from Kai and Yuldra, they managed to persuade Ursula to take the ladies in. But she could not promise their long live their as she knew not of their condition and could not heal them or shelter them for long, only a few days. A few days was enough for them. The team left so as for Highmother Ursula to arrange for those poor victims of the evil brothel owner.

Back out at the church yards, Valar was trying to crack the chest open. Yuldra proposed a more delicate alternative in order not to damage its content. He took out a hammer and a chisel and started to make his way through the lock. Unfortunately, the chisel broke half way through. Kai offer the dagger Valar gave him earlier in the chisel place. Another quarter through and the dagger snapped. Frustrated, Valar peeked in to see whether any things stacked above the lid level. And he stood up, make a stance, mimicking the man from Jinjustsu shop. A fluid chain of spinning, Valar spun his axe and slice the lid clean off. Inside the chest, there was all there treasure that evil man had stocked up over the years. Now, it's belong to the Entourage.

(end of session)

Stay tuned to find out the rest of the plan to break the slave free from the brothel.