Leave in Silence

“Leave in Silence”
Rise of the Runelords episode
Episode no.	Episode 90
Date	2009
Game Master	Abbe
Characters	Honeypot Nathaniel Nell Velicia
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In this chapter the heroes find and steal Delvahine's equipment without alerting anyone.

Leave in Silence

The demon Delvahine.

Using our telepathy we discussed what we should do. Velicia suggested teleporting into the throne room in the pavilion and take whatever the equipment was that we needed from lust and run for it. If we did, we wouldn't get to loot the place. Nathaniel suggested killing them all and look through the place thoroughly. Honeypot had her mind on other things but didn't want to attack them. To be able to teleport in and take whatever it was we needed, we had to know what it was. I tried to describe everything for Velicia but I knew to little about what to look for that had any magical significance. Velicia had to come back in and look for herself. She and Nathaniel chained the freed victim out in the corridor and returned back to the room of lust. Velicia appeared and after a little while Nathaniel did too, together with another Velicia that was all over him. It turned out to be the demon trying to seduce him. I met up with Velicia and helped her to where you could get a good look of the throne room. I heard the demon ask Nathaniel some questions:
"Are you the slave of those women you came with?"
"No."
"Are they your slaves?"
"No."
"But you have sex with them?"
"No. I don't fancy them..."
As if we weren't good enough for him. I didn't hear the end of it but who cares. He didn't fancy us. Together Velicia and I looked into the throne room, trying to find what would be "Delvahine’s... equipment" as mentioned in Vraxeris notes. I guessed a dildo I saw, but Velicia said she knew what it was. It was the censer standing on the table. Then she hesitated at going through with her plan. That when I finally had agreed with it. Then I had the idea that we should try to make a fake one and replace it with so it wouldn't be noticed as quickly. The only problem was that Velicia who could teleport into the pavilion wasn't very good at not being noticed, but something she is good at is making magical things and she left for the center chamber to go make a copy of the censer using the rune well fountain to fuel an item creation ritual. Nathaniel followed her outside to make sure she wouldn't be interrupted. Asking Honeypot if she could keep the three demons occupied for at least an hour while Velicia cast her ritual I got the feeling from her rather agitated "Yes." that it wouldn't be any problem, but rather it could be getting her to stop.

Almost an hour later Velicia returned with a duplicate of the censer. Thinking that using stealth rather than brute magic would be better I decide that I should sneak into the pavilion alone and if everything went wrong Velicia could teleport in and help me. Sneaking past the giants was no hard match. They were bored and there were extra fabric near the ground that I could crawl through. I continued on to the throne room. I sneaked in and hid behind a bed just inside. I looked at Delvahine. She looked like she was having sex through magic. Using our telepathy Velicia suggested that Delvahine might have a telepathic bond with the other demons that was stronger than ours and she might share senses with them. I activated my armor and the shadows deepened around me. I sneaked past a doorway and hid behind the table. Stretching over it I exchanged the two censers, but not before placing some of the incense into the other to make sure it would continue to smoke and not give us away too soon. Quickly I returned to behind the bed, near the exit. Delvahine was still distracted and I left the throne room. With a sigh of relief I put the censer in my bag of holding making sure the smell wouldn't give me away if I came too close to one of the giants. I told the others that I was on the way out. I was answered by Nathaniel and Velicia that they were already outside of lust, but Honeypot didn't answer. I continued on out and only stopped near the exit, just behind a stone giant, to make sure that there wasn't any alarm stopping anyone from escaping. I couldn't find any so I got out and tried again to get Honeypot to answer. She told me she was a little tied up but would come as soon as she could. I got the feeling she was completely tied up and had no choice. I thought of hiding and keeping an eye on her, but decided against it. If the demon in the tent found out the censer was missing I wanted it to be outside in safety and if I went out with it, it would be hard to get back in without being noticed. I told her that the fake censor would disappear in about an hour according to Velicia and that she should try to get out before that. Otherwise we would have to go back and get her through force.

I went out feeling uneasy about leaving her. Outside we made plans for how to rescue her if we had to. While waiting I noted that my food had caught a strange sweet taste from the incense. Nathaniel asked to have a taste in exchange for some stuff he had and I agreed, but thinking of how little food I had left and that Kaven was still outside made me regret it. The man that Velicia had rescued from lust was there too. The only name we could get him to tell us was mr. Mutt. Eventually Honeypot came out and she even had a little time to spare. I had a strange feeling about the whole thing and at first we suspected that it was a demon in disguise and not Honeypot, but using the telepathy and questions only Honeypot would know we were convinced.