The assault on Salty Pier

[Anastasia]

It does.

[Nephrite]

Well then! I will use one of my shots of it and take 10 for 94. BOO!

[Anastasia]

You see the carpet bombers above starting to disperse - by your words or simply by ineffectiveness, you don't know. For the moment, the efreet seem to be retreating.

[Nephrite]

"Well!" Moore shouts, his arms on his hips. "Since I hear no objections from the so-called leader of Salty Pier himself, I will make this decree! If you are a slave, if you are poor, destitute and need a new life, we will save you. Any and all who wish to accept this kindness will be saved today -- I will even allow those of you efreet and those natives who no longer wish to be part of this brutality that same chance."

His words carry across only a few hundred feet, yet he hopes the message will spread just as quickly through the rest of the town. "We will save you today if you wish to be saved. We will take care of the remaining forces within this abode and return to the gates of this city, where we will await you." Moore shouts, but he holds up one small hand and gestures around the ruins of the building.

"Know this! If even one slave comes to any further harm after you hear this message, whosoever commits that crime will be brought to the very highest of the heavens to face judgement. I will not repeat myself on this." Moore shouts, before he turns to the others and nods.


"Let's go see what the other two have been up to. We probably don't have much time before they send something else, but we should have time enough to collect valuables and other information." Moore says.

[Anastasia]

Cresiel nods as Jetina gets herself together, rubbing her arm with a wince. "Let us. We defeated one threat, but more will be mobilized. The speed at which the efreet fled and refused to engage us suggests this is not the first time they have dealt with it, and they prefer crushing us with powerful opponents rather than true attrition.""

[Nephrite]

"It's not worth the time to call in help from Celestia to try and hold this place." Moore agrees. "An excellent job, both of you. I know it was touch-and-go there for a little bit."

[Anastasia]

"Yeah, that giant was brutal," Jetina says, "Let's get this going fast. We don't have much time."

Plan here?

[Nephrite]

Find the others, Take 10 on Appraise for 67 for valuable things, keep an eye out for magic nonsense. Their target will be Azam's office chiefly, but anything of any value over like 1,000 gold goes into Moore's portable hole or other carrying containers that anyone else has.

Relevant checks:

Spellcraft: 84
Perception: 79
Appraise: 67

He'll keep recasting Haste if it wears out to keep everyone going quickly.

[Anastasia]

You have to fly down and around, but you get in. The lower floors are damanged but intact, bloodstains on the wall. You soon come on Kaja coming down a hall, blood splattered and still going. "Moore," his face is savagely smiling, "We found the coward had already escaped, ran off down a tunnel that lead past the bounds of the teleportation interdictions. Xandra's found that and taken it for her own use when we leave. The slaves are gathering, he had a lot here."

[Nephrite]

"You missed us killing two giants, I want you to know." Moore says. "All right. I'm not too worried about their reprisal right now, so I think we have time to make this worth it for ourselves as well as the slaves. Can you show me where his office is? We don't actually need him to find out the information he had."

He claps his hands together once. "Jetina, Cresiel, can you two go outside and make sure any slaves can get in here? Then we can set up a gate in the tunnel so they'll be protected in case we get attacked in the process."

[Anastasia]

Easily enough done. As you're lead back, the halls empty save for blood, "I'd expect we have a half hour or so," Kaja says, "Maybe more on the outside. Those giants must have been their problem solvers and now they're getting bigger sticks to hit us with."

[Nephrite]

"The anti-teleportation here is actually more helpful to us than to them." Moore agrees. "It's rather funny. We could make another showing, but that wasn't really the goal of today's operation anyway. There's always tomorrow, and everyone in this town knows not to trouble us if we come back, so we've made several statements today."

Moore will give Azam's room a onceover and just stuff everything in there in his bag. He's also going to Hindsight twice -- once for 31 days and once for 31 months for any and all important information that transpired in the room. Specifically, he's looking for the following:

Names, locations of slave traders
Names, locations of other slavers
Anything else useful (locations of weapons, treasuries that the efreet have, important news, etc).

[Anastasia]

Okay, do you want all this information right now? I don't have much more in me before weekend, so it's mostly a question if I start this and get it done over the weekend, or if we do wrapup first. Assuming the efreet aren't playing any more cards, anyway.

[Nephrite]

I don't need any specifics right now. I'm fine with looting, scooting, saving slaves and we can handle all the information later.

EDIT: I can outline a general plan of action if you'd like.

[Anastasia]

Go ahead and do that.