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Selaim

"My experiences with his boss HAVE affected my thinking. Ask Zak about Villiam. Zak will tell you how Villiam was in orphanage. How he manipulated me and quite possibly others. And yes my views are skewed. How did we meet, again? You might have authority. But I'm still just the waif that Villiam brought in to THEIR fold."

She looks furtively around as if expecting to see the leader of the group of thugs to miraculously appear.

Aendell

He nods. "Yes, you are right. You should not remain in view if you believe you are in danger. I can remain here and wait for Cat or we can send someone to fetch other of the constabulary. In the meantime, lets not let this one escape." Bending down he takes out a leather strap and binds the mans hands behind his back.

Speaking of getting off the street, Cat comes into view walking up the street. She is dressed for work and spots the 'theft' going on.

And no they haven't moved the warrant bearer yet.

Catalena

Cat would have preferred a night in her comfy room at the Dragon, soap and warm water, a hearty breakfast, and a nip of the hair of the dogs that bit her but so it goes. Hungover and yawning, her dark hair tousled, she ambled up the street to see Coral first, and wondered why the girl was standing across from Risa's.

Then she saw Zachergillan, Aendell, and Selaim around a fallen figure, Aendell binding the unconscious man's arms. In the doorway, Varisian lookiloos peered out of the ciderhouse.

She felt a sigh rising up from the soles of her feet.

"Good morning," she yawned, to no one in particular, once she'd arrived. "How was the boar?"

(OOC - Curious if any reaction from Risa, or has she not come outside?)

Aendell

He looks over to see Cat approaching and nods simply. "Boar was excellent. It is timely you have come. May I speak with you privately?" He indicates simply taking a step or two to one side.

Risa is watching, a small grin on her face. The grin widens when she spots Cat approaching. Yet she and the lookiloos remain quiet. Remarkably quiet for a group of this size, most public groups have some level of background noise as people talk amongst themselves. Yet not this group, they are all intent on watching the proceedings, almost like spectators.

Catalena

Cat took a few steps towards the middle of the road and stood with her arms crossed, looking up at him, ready to hear what he had to say.

Aendell

He steps down and closer to Cat then says softly. "Selaim and I noticed 4 armed men riding into town to the Sherriff's Office and overheard them saying they were here to arrest you. Selaim recognized their leader as a man named Villiam, of the thieves guild in Magnimar. She did not have any good things to say about him. In any case, we came here to warn you. Selaim went inside to find Risa and I waited here. That one", he tosses a finger back over his shoulder at the bound man, "tried to enter Risa's place. I asked him his business inside and he attacked me with a blade, unprovoked. I stopped him from entering."

He sighs. "Afterwards I looked thru his things and he does have a warrant. It is badly written, and could be a forgery, but it has the correct seal on it. He also carried what looks like poison. As a member of the Magnimar judiciary, I would like to press charges for attempted murder and have the man arrested. Would you care to do it, or I can send for someone?"

He waits for her response, not sure if she expected him to continue their confrontation from last night, but for him there is no point to that.

Catalena

"Must be a slow time for bounties," Cat sighed. "Or maybe I just seem like easy pickins."

She shrugged. "OK, sure, I'll take him in. I will need his effects, including that warrant. It's probably legit. Any connected person can go to the right judge and get a warrant for anything so long as there's people willing to carry them out."

She walked back over to the body, to haul him up, and continued, "You'll need to come and swear out a statement too and when he wakes up, he'll get his say in the matter."

She looked the unsavory man over. "I could wake him up myself but I'd rather wait until he's behind bars. Probably best for his sake too. Steel gauntlets will leave a real shiner. No one else was hurt?"

Aendell

"No. He has a glass jaw." He said with a chuckle. "Selaim has the poison vial, if you need that. Here is the warrant", he hands it over. "His weapons are over there and his coin is in his pouch." He reaches over to hoist the man over his shoulder. Raising his voice to a normal level so others can hear he says, "I can carry him to the Sherriff if someone else can bring his weapons?" He glances at Zak and Coral with a nod they should come along too.

He turns to look at where Selaim stood near the entrance to Risa's place. "Selaim is worried about Villiam. He and two more of his men are still around somewhere."

(OOC - Once they move away from the other prying eyes he will relate to Coral and Zak what happened and see what Zak knows about Villiam.)

Catalena

Catalena shrugged as Aendell picked the man up before she did. He looked like he didn't smell great anyway. Then she collected the weapons.

"Three more like him? I'm sure it won't be a problem."

Risa

Looking at Seliam, she said, "See, little one, I told you. All will be well, it has been foretold." She offered a wink to Cat before turning back to the crowd. "Show's over for now, everyone back inside your food is getting cold!"

Selaim

Selaim was quiet during the interchange between Cat and Aendell. Not wanting to interfere but hoping the two work things out. On seeing their icy but friendly exchange she breathes a sigh of relief. Moving only to hand Cat the vial of poison that Aendell found on the thug.

She casts a sidelong quizzical look at Risa at her comment. "Foretold? What do you mean?"

Risa

"If you listen to the wind and other things, you learn. You have to put the effort into listening. Something is coming. The Heroes of Sandpoint will be right in the middle of things when it does."

She laughed lightly. "If you believe an old superstitious woman's ramblings."

Coral

Coral listened to Risa intently. she didn't treat 'superstitions' as 'ramblings'.

"How soon?" she asked Risa.

Risa

"The portents weren't terribly clear," the old woman said. She continued, "As near as we can tell in these things, soon, within a few weeks, maybe a season." Her answers were clear, matter-of-fact. She felt Coral's belief and reacted to it.

Coral


She nodded, accepting Risa's response.

"We'll try to be ready."

Ooc: I’ll bite. What do I know about Vil?

OOC: PM

Zak:

He looks over at Aendell as they walk, and talks quietly.

“Villiam. Now there was a nasty piece of work. He used to sneak in to watch many of the girls at the home bathing. Several times I had to emphatically disabuse him of the wisdom of his chosen course of action with direct applied persuasion. Arrogant prick, always causing trouble and shifting the blame when someone found out. He once or twice tried picking on me back when. Had to disabuse him of the wisdom notion as well. He’d be eh, older than Coral and Selaim, and of course younger than me. If anyone would be involved in this sort of thing, it would be him. I imagine he doesn’t like me much either.”

Aendell

He nods. "Much like what Selaim said, although I think she had even more of a bad experience with him than that." He adjusts the dead weight on his shoulder. "Let's get this one dropped off and see what the Sherriff makes of people assaulting folks in the street with deadly weapons. From what Selaim overheard, the Sherriff was none too pleased with them to begin with."

Catalena

"Selaim," Cat asked. "You had mentioned that Bonto Feste, the son of the nobles who seem to have it out for me, was associated with the Thieves Guild in Magnimar? Was he himself in this group you saw?"

She had accepted the vial of poison with a scrunch of her nose as she placed the foul substance in a pouch.

"I can't imagine the monetary reward would be that high for this particular Varisian Harrower and adorable entertainer. Aendell himself had been offered no reward, I believe you'd said?" she added as an aside to the armored man. "So perhaps they're here as a favor or for some kind of access or knowledge nobles might have to share with thieves."

It was not a long walk to the High Street and then to Tower to cross town to the Garrison, but Cat kept her eyes open. It was not a large town and if these thugs were roaming the streets, they would not be hard to find. Especially if they'd been in earshot of the whistle.

"This Villiam sounds like a coward at heart," Cat commented in general. "Seems like the sort that might be waiting to ambush from an alley now that he's outnumbered?"

Aendell

He nods in answer to Cat while waiting for Selaim to answer the questions. "No reward, but then my calling would preclude my asking for one. Can't say whether they knew that and took advantage of free manpower or were currently cash poor from their investments."

Selaim

She'd barely heard the question as they walked. Her mind preoccupied with what Risa said. That something was coming and most likely it wasn't Villiam and his lynch party. Something bigger? More?

"As soon as I saw Villiam I stopped looking so I didn't get a good look at the others with him. So not sure if Bonto was with him. But we are forgetting something. Not sure the point came across. He still has more men outside of town. Or did because he sent a message to them to start looking for you. And who knows Bonto may be with them." She said staying with the group.

[OOC: The four of them can make Notice rolls as they wander to The Garrison.]