The assault on Salty Pier

[Nephrite]

Okay.

Relevant checks:

Spellcraft: 84
Perception: 79
Appraise: 67

Moore's going to grab anything and everything he can. Notes, documents, whatever. He will fill his bag as much as he can with as much as he can. He will look for hidden safes and whatever. He's basically playing the role of the party thief.

While he's doing that, Kaja and Jetina are tasked with getting the slaves out and into the office to start leading everyone to the secret passageway. Once they get a few people going they won't need to guide anyone since it'll be a steady stream. Cresiel stays there and maintains a Gate, or Legion's Gates if there get to be too many slaves. Xandra stays with him in the tunnel in case any bad folks show up. We'll know if there are any problems via the Status spell.

[Anastasia]

As you search...the slaves come. The office is rich, big, luxurious. Yet they come. Clad in worn but well kept clothes, shambling along. Gaunt, wide eyed. Creatures of all kinds, humans, goblins, dwarves, a satyr, a wolf of all things, a shambling earth elemental. More and more and more, all going out, hurrying to all of you, more and more, no sign of them stopping.

[Nephrite]

They can't save every single slave in every single world, but this will be a good start.

Will there be a single efreet who's changed today? Maybe not. But in time, there will be.


Every so often, Moore checks in on the wave.

It won't be long before there's a reprisal, but he can meet it head on to buy time if needed.

[Anastasia]

Dozens and dozens. More. No, a hundred. More than a hundred. All fleeing, all hurrying through, some carrying treasure or goods looted. As you work, , more and more taken -

Roll 1d100.

[Nephrite]

[20:43] <Nephrite> roll 1d100
[20:43] <Serith> Nephrite roll for Serith < 67 > [d100=67]

One of these days, I will get a 77.

[Anastasia]

As everyone gets in, Kaja returns, "They're mustering around the place, a few slaves and escapees made it before that," he reports, "We need to get out of here, fast."

You're about halfway with searching the room, finding things and passing it on through. You need more time for certain, unless you want to leave some of the things unexplored here.

[Nephrite]

You said trashing, I assume you mean searching?

"I hate to leave things undone." Moore says with a frown as he taps his chin. "But I've overextended myself too many times and... I have others to think about now." He offers a grin. "What kind of leader would I be to make some sort of heroic last stand to keep looking for things? Come on, let's go." he agrees.

[Anastasia]

Thus the party hurries out through the portal and...

Where precisely did you aim the portal?

[Nephrite]

I figured Lunia made the most sense. Around Moore's base more specifically, it's the best place to try and sort everything out.

[Anastasia]

Thus you have a rather large gathering on Lunia, people all about as...

What are you going to do with them here?

[Nephrite]

"Everyone!" Moore calls out to get their attention.

"It is going to take some time to return you all to where you came from. Rest assured, we will provide for you here and give you all time to rest before we ask anything of you." He says, a smile on his face. "I will talk to all of you and find out where you're from and what we can do for you. You're welcome to stay here as long as you like. For right now, don't worry about anything except relaxing."

Intent will be to let them rest, heal anyone who needs it and slowly but surely get information out of them. I.e. do they have a home to go back to, if they don't what do they want to do, how exactly they ended up being captured, that sort of stuff. We don't want to just dump people back off in a hovel somewhere if they're just going to get kidnapped again.

It will be time-consuming but it's important to do. If there's issues with food, Moore will cast both Heroes' Feast as well as Mage's Magnificent Mansion to feed them.

This doesn't have to be done on-camera, as it were, just a general explanation of the goal.

[Anastasia]

Very good. Anything else beyond that like sorting treasure and that manner of thing?

[Nephrite]

We'll go through all the treasure and information as we can with the rest of the business of sorting these folks out, yes.

[Anastasia]

It is going to take time, no doubt about it. Time and effort, effort and time. That evening you've begun to make a dent in it, but only barely, as celebrations occur.

Food isn't a problem - for celestials bring it for all, the liberated slaves celebrating. During this...

Go ahead and set up what you'd be doing during this, it'll impact the scene you get.

[Nephrite]

Moore will leave the slaves to a night of celebration -- there's time enough for questioning all of them further if information is an issue.

Ah... yes, information.

Moore starts to go through the papers he took as well as the information he gathered via magic from Azam's room. The treasures and valuables won't be going anywhere, but the information's value may be decreasing over time, so it's important to spend time to review all of it.