Slice of Glaive

Gnorm the Gnome appears to be in shock. Perrol slaps him. He starts to talk about how they have his apprentice captive and the’re watching him. Ghoral comes over and recognizes that our opponent was actually a Dark Dwarf, a deep-dweller. Then we hear a person chinking, in the manner of Ghoral, outside and some murmuring. Ghoral calls out that we have trouble.

Segment 12
I use my full move to get next to Ghoral who is facing off against a very armored dwarf. There is something about him that scares me, but I’m not certain what it is. I see a red talon tattooed on him. I ask Ghoral if he knows what it is, but he doesn’t even recognize it. Perrol pipes up that he is a slaver and it clicks for me that he belongs to the Red Talons who are slavers that prey on street kids. The dwarf strikes Ghoral and the resulting concussive flash dazes all of us.

Segment 3
I recover. The Dwarf strikes out at Ghoral who manages to dodge.

Segment 4
Perrol waits to do anything at the moment. Kross looks out a window upstairs and says that there are two crossbow archers across the street. Jarlyn moves up to the otherside of the counter from the Dwarf anad tosses down a measure of his Dust of Imprisonment. This manages to freeze/imprison the Dwarf.

Segment 6
We see his eyes move around as if to say, “I’ll be back.” And then he disappears. “Well, *explitive*.”
I see that at least one of the two archers across the street is still there. This combat is not over until those who tell me where their leader poofed to so that I can finally get in my strike. I make a half move and then use my Thasori dodge. It is fortunate that I did that dodge as two crossbow bolts are released across the expanse toward me but both miss. Ghoral steps forward and speaks to them in Ghoralzad.

Segment 8
They appear to be hesitant and/or ready to give up. Kross comes out of his upstairs window and scrambles up to the roof. He is ready to fire on them if they make a wrong move. Ghoral translates for them that they are surrendering. He and I each disarm and escort one of them and take them inside.

End Combat

When interrogating the suspects, Perrol learns that Kelgar who we just dealt with was the main leader and is related to the mountainsd. There is also a Valmar…something-or-other. This strikes a chord in Perrol who remembers a Valmarrellian who is an Elvish sorceror who left the main body of Elvish society. Jarlyn and Perrol go searching in the upstairs. Ghoral and I stay below to watch the two archers, Gnorm, and the dark hole. They finish their search and return to the main room, along with Gnorm who they’d come to fetch at one point to open a chest in his room. He is glad that this appears to be over and that we are planning to report all of this. Gnorm also gives us a leather map of what was an apparent ancient gnome city under the city of Tietha. That is what lies at the end of the dark hole into the ground.

We decide to take the two archers and Gnorm to the palace where we know the guard. Partway there, one of the deep-dwellers starts to freak out because of the open sky. We all take refuge in a tavern and have an ale to calm down. Once everyone has calmed down, we head back out until we hit a guard station in the hoity-toity area of town.