Jun 30, 2013 20:30
Chapter 10
Iggnatious is shown to the Emporium, a room full of exotic and rare goods. There are two doors leading off of the room and his discussion with the bartender reveals that one leads to the room of the "Master" and the other to the room where you can "try out the goods" as he put it gesturing at the female slave nearby. Iggnatious declines after glancing around the room for a short while.
The crew decides that they intend to cause a large ruckus and distract the guards so that a few of them can run off with the slave that carried the keys. In talking with her they find that she is fully broken and with the keys to her salvation literally in her hands she refuses to use them to set herself free. With much drinks for the house, gambling, singing, carousing, accusations of cheating, rafter-climbing and table-driving, there is a large distraction made. A table ends up in the well and Despite more guards being called, the group manages to get the key-bearing slave away. Although during the distraction one of the slave women was beaten, with Amari helping her up holding back rage at the guard who struck her.
She refuses to talk to the group and will not hand over the keys, so Iggy drugs her and takes the keys. Amari delivers some money to the innkeeper and claims that Iggy has bought the girl for the night. Iggy then proceeds to make copies of the keys while Phineas explores the Emporium. Some of the group down in the yard talk to a couple guards and they seem to like Guillermo, despite all come off as a bit nervous while talking to him.
Phineas discovers a peculiarity about the stairs and finds a large heavy oil-candelabra to break it open. While he dragging this towards the stairs, Droreg hears some strange noises coming from the stairs and tells Amari about hearing some whispering under the stairs they bump into Fin at the top of the stairs and decide to help him break through the step, only to find that it had been opened in their absence and was now only superficially closed.
Amari and Fin make their way inside the small door to find a tunnel beneath the stairs. Amari, being a bit too large accidentally breaks the secret door while forcing his way through. Gui and Droreg run interference on a few guards during this and accidentally stumble on several Hadozee, who were not any slaves seen around the inn, smuggling the woman who had been beaten earlier out of the inn through the secret tunnel. Droreg and Guillermo cover the tunnel with firewood and after seeking Iggnatious' and Cassandra's help repair the step to look superficially well, although it is obviously cracked and would not hold up long, they hope it gets overlooked as they make an escape, bringing along a reluctant key-bearer.
Travelling down the tunnel Droreg and Guillermo stumble through some darkness into a mammoth cavern in which they find Amari and Fin eating fish with some 100 or so Hadozee guerrillas. After regaling the remainder of the crew with teh story of how the Hadozee rebels caught them in nets and may have harmed them had not the woman Amari helped earlier appears at just the right time and convinced Guwad the Hunter to spare them. Finding a place to finally rest and recoup after being awake the entire night, they settle in to rest through the day in the safe keeping of these slave fishermen turned to secret rebellion soldiers.