On the prowl (Ithea)

[Anastasia]

The valeoloth appears - by the floor splitting apart and a platform raising up. It's bound in chains that glimmer with purple light and covered in sheets of paper. The paper have glowing green writing on them.

[Merc]

Ithea uses Detect Magic to check over the containment. "How did you capture it, out of curiosity?"

[Anastasia]

It's quite strong magic.

Spellcraft to study if you want, then I'll reply in the same post to your question.

[Merc]

[14:37] <Merc> roll d20+40 spellcraft
[14:37] <Rei-chan> Merc rolled : d20+40 spellcraft --> [ 1d20=9 ]{49}

[Anastasia]

It's a complicated array of wards. It prevents teleportation, escape or any of the creature's spell-like abilities. Fairly potent and also keeps it fairly docile.

"The beast is not smart, the proper enticement ensnared it," the voice says.

Going to pay him? If so, post the expense in loot.

[Merc]

"How long will the containment last?" Ithea asks. Given it's magic, it could fall once they are out of the building, and wouldn't that be terrible?

[Anastasia]

"24 hours from the point of leaving," The voice announces. "The payment?"

[Merc]

Ithea pulls out the money. "Where do I leave it?"

[Anastasia]

"On the floor. Take it and leave."

Hanna keeps her axe at the ready, and in a quiet voice, "I loathe paying for another soul, even if to free it from slavery or to bring it to justice. Nonetheless, avoiding a greater conflict is wise."

The valeoloth doesn't react, deeply and thickly warded and bound.

[Merc]

Ithea leaves the money on the floor and tries to figure best way to transport the captive valeoloth. "Drag it out and casting a gate back to Aurora sound good? We can drop it off and reinforce everything while we figure if we can get an audience with Lady Sunnis to see if she wants anything in particular done or if we just have free reign to handle it?"

[Anastasia]

"Yeah, one problem with that," Balyss says, "It's bound, remember? So it can't teleport away?"

[Merc]

I will note that how it was worded, it only sounded like the bindings were on the creature, not that they outright prevented transportation from the outside. But whatever.

"Not sure why that would prevent it unless it's the same principle as a bag of holding inside another bag? Ugh, magical exceptions are retarded. The only other thing I can think of is knocking it completely unconscious and as soon as the wards expire, move it then while it's still unconscious. Or I guess most of us could wait here and watch over it while someone heads to Earth directly since there's still plenty of time for that."

[Anastasia]

Hanna hefts her axe, "You say that like it's a problem, Ithea. How about I knock it silly now and then you dispel the wards once it's done?"

[Merc]

"My dispel magic is woefully outdated, unfortunately. I might have a scroll of greater dispel though...hang on," Ithea says as she digs around.

And here's where my sheet being out of date hurts. I'm certain I bought scrolls of greater dispel after Muirfinn became a lawn gnome, but frankly, not up to digging through Loot thread for it at the moment. Maybe this weekend, though with how I've been doing with this, who knows.

[Anastasia]

http://www.soulriders.net/forum/index.php/topic,101784.msg1066407/topicseen.html#msg1066407

There.

As Ithea finds the scrolls, Hanna gets to it. One helpless valeoloth is battered, beaten and broken down by her fists, slams eventually knocking it out.