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this? It was done by this thing. (whoosh)
MATT: As soon as you pull back and reveal the
face, its jaw is relaxed now, its muscles have sat
now that it’s been left in the dock, and it’s
pooled at its base. This old pumpkin look. Its
tongue’s lolling out and unraveled on the ground,
what remained within its salivary glands has
soaked the remaining wood around its base. One of
the eyes has rolled back, but it’s a horrible
display. The guards take a step back immediately
at the reveal, and Norda immediately gets
interested, gets close, takes a look at it, and
begins prodding a bit with her finger.
LIAM: It is as bad as it looks, and if you have
any holy people in this city, they will confirm
that this thing is fiendish.
MATT: (sighs) “You say it’s a fiend? Because what
this looks like is you just murdered one of our
"possible witnesses and/or other members of this
investigation, so I’m hoping this is a fiend. I
"don’t know fiends.”
LIAM: I hope you don’t believe that I slashed open
my own body and then went to the police.
MATT: “Honey, I’ve been doing this for a long
time. I’ve seen stranger. Hold on just a second.”
She calls one of the guards over, whispers to him
for a second. He rushes off. “Just so happens we have
"someone in town who might be able to confirm this
for us, might help your case.”
LAURA: Who is it?
MATT: “Oh, they will be here shortly.”
LIAM: I sit down on a crate and I stop talking.
MATT: Okay, and this awkward period of time with
the guards all just standing there, holding you
as you wait patiently. Some of them are tapping
their fingers. You start rattling your chains and
two guards pull the chains taut so you can’t do it
anymore. Mollymauk, as you begin to make your way
back into town, because you’re making your way
through the dock district along the lakeside and
you look up ahead, and you can see there’s a
couple of torches being held by crownsguard right
where the head was left, and you can see Caleb,
and then three of your allies in chains.
TALIESIN: Hmm. (sighs)
LAURA: Oh no! What are you going to do?
TALIESIN: I’m going to get a little closer.
MATT: All right, make a stealth check, please. You
do not have advantage anymore, that has passed.
It’s been more than a hour.
TALIESIN: Just to take a look at what is actually
going on.
LAURA: Not to get too close.
TALIESIN: Not too close.
MATT: Yeah, it’s not a high DC.
TALIESIN: 19!
MATT: You get a little closer, you are still maybe
a good 100 feet or so away from them, keeping to
the shadows along a building, keeping low.
Thankfully it’s nighttime, it’s pushing midnight
at this point. Because you’re ostentatiously
dressed, but there isn’t a lot of light in your