Imps and The Adventurer(JennyDK and AirAllie14)

[AirAllie14]

Alia looked at them and said, “sorry about that guys, but anyways this would be fun enough for you. “ she then frowned and uttered, “that necklace is what scares me… I just hope that they haven’t figured out what it can do… if they did, this will be an extremely dangerous and challenging task…”

[JennyDK]

The imps and Alia are currently out of sight from most people as they have picked a small alleyway that leads towards the part of town where this is happening. Of course, this area is not known to be very safe, but that also makes it less likely to attract unwanted attention to the visible imps."Yeah, it could be...but being big, doesn't make you any less susceptible to phantasms...", Lynn proclaims with a smug grin."...or my runes...", Nalda quickly chimes in as well.

After some more walking, they get near an older, but well kept building. This was the place they had to travel to and they need to hide for a bit, as there is a guard outside keeping a look out for any trouble.

Edited April 17, 2022 by JennyDK

[AirAllie14]

Alia looked at the imps as they turned visible once again and nodded and smiled at them, “oh yeah, I forgot about that. Well then, that could make things a lot easier to handle.” she said referring to their powers. 

As they got closer, Alia chose to lay low with them and asked, “ok, so what’s our plan…? We could take out that guard out front and sneak in or we can see if there is another way we can enter that avoids the guard.”

[JennyDK]

Spoiler

Imp powers:

Nalda:

• Restoration - heals wounds, cures curses, removes diseases
• Magical runes

Haru:

• Ice storm
• Charm

Lynn:

• Long chain lightning
• Master illusion

"Did you forget about our phenomomenal powers, Mistress? We ought to...punish for that later on", Haru says with a mischievous smirk plastered from ear to ear. The imps, being basically immortal, does need to remind themselves that Alia is not like that and could actually perish and then who would they be having fun with? The trio gives it some thought, even if they are usually go-to is "Charge and let consequences be damned"."How about we look for another way inside first? I doubt the guard is going anywhere soon anyway...", Lynn suggests.

[AirAllie14]

“oh right… no I didn’t forget but, I’m so use to planning out things so that I don’t get hurt..” Alia knew that the imps could just take out the guard no problem and storm the mansion but then she looked at Lynn as she heard what she said and smiled, “yeah, I agree Lynn. It will give us the element of surprise. Yeah, let’s find another way in.”

[JennyDK]

The four of them would then try and circle around the smaller mansion which is their target. It is not a fully linear path, but overall they can still keep an eye on the building most of the time to some extent. After some looking around, they see no other doors, but rather a slanted door-like thing leading into the basement of the place. It does seem like a potential other way inside."Look over there Mistress...how about there?", Nalda asks.

[AirAllie14]

Alia looked around with them and then spotted the door with Nalda. She went over and inspected it and nodded it a smile, “yeah, this could work. We’ll be in the basement though meaning we’ll have to work our way up but this is a great quick and easy way in.” She then opened up the door and got in with them.

[JennyDK]

The imps nod towards her statement as that very much seems to be the case here and hopefully will take any possible enemies by surprise. However, Alia is stopped from going much further as the door appears to be locked firmly and thus cannot open as it is."Hmmmm, do you know how to get such things open, Mistress?", Lynn asks curiously."Oohhhh...maybe an explosive rune?", Nalda eagerly chimes in.

[AirAllie14]

Alia frowns as she is faced with the challenge of Poe I got the door. She looks at the lock, thinking that they may need a key of something but then she hears what Nalda says and turned to her, “actually, that sounds like a brilliant idea, yeah! Cast an explosion rune on the lock and then we’ll be in!”

[JennyDK]

Of course, the imp does not really consider the commotion and noise that may follow such an act, so when the summoner gives her okay to it, she does not hesitate to make a rune upon the lock of the small basement hatch. The imps make Alia aware that standing right near it could be dangerous, so they suggest they go back to where they were hiding. Once there, Nalda activates the rune and loud, but not overly so, explosion is heard and the hatch downwards is blown to pieces, surely alerting anyone. The guard from the front side quickly rush over to check things out. However, he does end up with his back turned to the summoner.

[AirAllie14]

Alia nodded at them and hid in a bush and watched as Nalda placed her runes onto the lock and it exploded. She was about to jump out when she heard quick footsteps approaching and knew it was the guard. She continued to watch and wondered how she wanted to take him out. She didn’t want to kill him to instead, she leaped out of the bush from behind and wrapped her arms around his neck and her legs around his gut in a sleeper and began to tighten her grip, soon making him fall and pass out from lack of air. She panted and wiped some sweat of her brow and uttered, “alright… let’s go…” she then opened the door and entered with the imps and closed it behind her.

[JennyDK]

The man faints fairly fast and easy since he was not prepared for the sudden assault. He falls to the ground, unconscious, but still breathing. The imps wonder if they should "deal with him", but figure that if Alia want that done, she will let them know. For now, pressing on seems more important. There was no door to really open as it was blasted to a million pieces, making it pretty easy to get inside. The four of them soon find themselves within a small basement room with one door ahead of them and one more to their right. The current room they are in seems to be some sort of planning room as it has a large table with various maps, other documents and other stuff needed for bigger heists.

[AirAllie14]

Alia entered with the imps and began to look around. She looked at the various documents and maps and frowned, “Damn… these guys are seriously bad news… we have to take care of them here and then have them arrested.” She told the imps. She then looked over at the door on the right and said, come on, let’s go.” She opened up the door slowly and peeked her head out and looked around, making sure it was safe before exiting the room with the imps.

[JennyDK]

Luckily, no attackers are coming to rush them, meaning that either they have fled, they were not really there or, finally, that they were not alerted by the noises from the explosion. The latter of those seems like the least likely though as it was still loud, making the other options much more plausible. In any case, Alia is uninterrupted as she moves towards one of the two doors within the room. As it creaks open, she is met with a pitch black room and silence.

[AirAllie14]

Alia was relieved as they seemed to be in the clear from anyone else in the building. She then blinked as she was presented with the pitch black room and uttered, “well… that’s ominous…” she then sighed and brought her finger up, using her fire ability to cast a a small flame in her palm and entered the room and began to look around with the imps.

Edited May 1, 2022 by AirAllie14

[JennyDK]

The small flame appears in her hand and provides a small area of visibility for her and the imps. As soon as vision is established, the summoner is able to see that this is more of a small storage room. It has a few weapons in it, as well as some armours and miscellaneous items like torches, quivers for arrows and whatever other tools and supplies some thieves might need, like burglar tools."Well, I suppose it was just not needed to keep the storage room lit? Still...perhaps there could be something you would find useful here?", Haru comments.

[AirAllie14]

Alia blinked as she looked around and nodded at Haru’s comments as she looked at the various equipment, “Yeah, I could probably use some of this stuff against them.” She walked over to the armors and began to look around them, soon she found one that she liked and looked durable and dawned it’s chest and shoulder plates, gauntlet and armored boots. She then looked at the weapons and equipped herself with a sword that she attached to her hip, now having that and her bow. She snagged some of the arrows and actually managed to swap her quiver for another that was there. She also took the torches as well as some other equipment they had lying around and sighed, “alright. I think I’m done.”

[JennyDK]

On 17/04/2022 at 13:12, JennyDK said:

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Imp powers:

Nalda:

• Restoration - heals wounds, cures curses, removes diseases
• Magical runes

Haru:

• Ice storm
• Charm

Lynn:

• Long chain lightning
• Master illusion

 

"Those are all nice and well to have, but do you have training with any of that stuff? I could give you a temporary "boost" for it with a rune, I think...at least as a start", Nalda says once she sees how the summoner dons all of this stuff, which probably also weighs quite a bit combined."In any case...we have your back, of course!", Haru says with a vigorous tone. The last of the imps seems eager to venture on as she drifts out of the room."We better hurry or they might escape...if they have not already...", she says, wanting Alia to indeed succeed as well as her being able to maybe get a nice nap and some yummy food!

 

[AirAllie14]

Alia nodded and said, “yeah… a boost rune  would be good… I thought that some of this stuff could help and keep me protected. Oh, could you also please cast a rune to make this armor a little lighter also…?” After that, Alia joined the other imps and nodded, “yeah let’s go. We have to find the exit and find those guys before they can steal anything else.”

[JennyDK]

Nalda gives her a weird look."You do know my runes are just temporary or instant effects, right Mistress? Maybe it is better to leave the heaviest stuff behind? Just a thought of mine, but I leave it up to you", she says, reminding Alia that she would have to continuously cast this to make it possible. Haru soon senses something within the house and looks at the young human female."I can feel something...powerful magic being used nearby...we better move closer", she says and keeps herself ready. The last door at the end of the room they came in from leads to a staircase going up the ground floor of building. This room seems to be a small hallway. Haru is eager to lead them into a specific from the looks of it.

[AirAllie14]

Alia nodded at Nalda. She was right. She looked at all of the stuff she had picked up. She was really overstocked. She decided to leave back some of the equipment she had picked up as well as the sword, she kept the armor as well as the new quiver and arrows. She then looked at Haru as she spoke and nodded, “yeah, we should get going.” She  left through the door with the imps and ran up the stairs quickly, following Haru.

[JennyDK]

The sensation of magical energies brought the small team to a single door on the upper floor. Just as they all enter into what looks like a small study room, they can see the last moment when some sort of swirling blue portal ends up closing before them. Lynn tries to blast some lightning towards the backs of the trio of people that the thing pulls away from this location, but to no avail."Aghhhh...shit! Cowards!", she growls as she wanted to blast some bad guys badly."That was a teleportation spell if I remember correctly...there must be a clue in here to where they may have gone...or some other clues", Haru comments.

[AirAllie14]

Alia started in shock as she saw the people disappearing along with the blue portal. Alia tried to shoot an arrow at the same time as Lynn tried her lightning and sighed and groaned in anger, “Damn it! They got away…!” Alia felt extremely angrily, but then she looked at Haru, her words coming her down a bit as she nodded, “right… all we have to know is where they went.” Alia begins to search the room with her imps, looking through documents and even looking to see if she could spit a marvel up map.

[JennyDK]

The study room is mostly filled with books that has no real connection to this whole operation, but it does show that the leader of this gang seems to be of some influence and wealth already, with him being fairly successful fence. Among the papers and books, there is a parchment mentioning some kind of other base of operations, but it doesn't say exactly where that is, but it does give the name "Lancaster Manor"."Hopefully that can be found somehow...", Nalda says as the piece of paper is found and read."I hear something...", Lynn says suddenly and indeed several footsteps are heard rapidly approach the room from somewhere below.

[AirAllie14]

Alia nodded and read the paper as well, “Lancaster  Manor… yeah, no doubt that’s probable where we need to go next. We have to find it.” Alia then looked up at Lynn in shock and uttered, “What?! Footsteps?! Oh no!” She then began to desperately look around and then turned back towards the imps, “can you guys turn me invisible like you, or can you teleport us out of here?! Either of those works!”