Meet Havda the Snow Sorceress, cursed by her ex (also a spellcaster) and sold as a songbird. After a game of twenty questions which is frustrating for both sides, they realise that what they have here is a human turned into a bird by a curse, and if they take off its collar, they will break the curse, which they do. The bird is clearly intelligent and keen to communicate, so they ask it to raise one wing for yes, and the other for no. Jadora has a healing potion too, and they use this on the bird. But, as more and more guards pour out, they decide they are not going to win this one, and fade away into the night, meeting up with M’lud and the bird at a prearranged spot. Meanwhile, at the gate, the Amazon has switched from stabbing to intimidation, and has convinced the guards that there are numerous Amazon warriors and evil sorcerers intent on sacrificing them to their dark gods. M’lud drops into the atrium and engages the guard while freeing the bird from its cage he in his turn is shanked, but the bird leads him up and away over the roof. The bird is watching M’lud with bright, intelligent eyes, and is surprised when it is shanked from behind. This rapidly devolves into a fight for control of the gate, with archers on the roof firing blindly into the gathering darkness while the tiefling picks them off with eldritch blast, and Jadora stabs through the rapidly-closing gate, first with her pike, and once that gets jammed in the gate, with her longsword.Īfter a few rounds of this, M’lud (healed thanks to the tiefling’s potion) sneaks up to the top of the wall, realises no-one can see him, and slides around the side of the compound and up over the villa roof, where he beholds the golden bird they seek – and a mailed guard sneaking up on it, weapons drawn. The eldritch blast from the tiefling and a pike thrust from the Amazon persuade that worthy to retreat inside the gate, calling for help from the other six guards currently on shift. Now this has some promise as an approach, but when all you have is a drow assassin, everyone looks like a murder victim, and M’lud kills the guard as he comes back out, striking from the shadows by the gate, before being cut down by the shift leader. Do you perchance have any vacancies?” As it turns out, they do, and the guard asks them to wait outside while he escorts the maid back in and gets the shift leader.
“I am Jadora of the Amazons,” says the Amazon to the guard. (They sort of went with this, as you’ll see.)ĭiscovering that a maidservant with one guard takes rubbish to the midden at dusk, the party rocks up at the back gate of the compound, having decided that the safest route is to murder their way in, grab the bird, and run for it before anyone can react but right away someone goes off-script.
Poison the bird and pose as a dead bird disposal service.(Voted down two to one after extensive discussion.) Build a mangonel to hurl flaming munitions at the mansion, driving the inhabitants out to face the city watch, previously bribed to do their bidding.(Ruled out because the party has two drow (Tricarnians) and a tiefling.)
Disguise themselves as cooks and waiters brought in to serve the guests at the next party.They discuss several options for approaching the problem: Of course, it’s four feet high, so the job may be a bit tricky. The party is hired by a Tricarnian noblewoman visiting Jalizar to steal a songbird from a local nobleman who refuses to sell it to her.
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