Zynros

D&D Fifth Edition: Land of the Old Curse

Morgan Droud

"This should work, right?"

Morgan stood a short ways away from one of the manor windows, the only one which looked into the Wizard's office. She was currently working on some documents, her back to the window. It had taken her quite a while to find the room, but since most of the guards were busy cleaning the square, she didn't have to make up an excuse for snooping around the manor perimeter. At least she hoped so, seeing as no guards had come up asking why she was there.

She had run around the town for a bit to pick up some less conspicuous clothes, but judging by the surroundings, her white hair was going to stand out no matter how good her disguise was. She hadn't let that stop her plan though, and with a quiet whisper, she released a {Charm Person} spell. Praying inwardly that it worked, she followed up with a {Message}.

[Hey, Lillith? It's Morgan, I just heard about what happened earlier.]

Spells

Charm Person
Message

D&D Fifth Edition: Land of the Old Curse

Morgan Droud

As Morgan stared at the corpses, she continued having second thoughts. and third thoughts. and fourth.

She changed her mind. Messing with these people would be dangerous, and she didn't like her chances of success. As such, she was thankful for the conversation she had overheard, even if she only got the end. The witch (Court Wizard) was still holding on to the ring, and would pay the group later that day, or the next. That meant, at some point, she would be in a position where Morgan would be able to (discretely) procure the ring.

Now she just had to wait. Again.

D&D Fifth Edition: Land of the Old Curse

Morgan Droud

Morgan was having second thoughts on her original plans. The zombies the group had been fighting, despite their lack of tactics in the battle, weren't weak, and she doubted that she would have been able to deal with one of them under similar circumstances. These people knew how to fight, in comparison to her, a spellcaster with no real combat capability beyond the few tricks she had been taught with a staff and a few other weapons.

How am I supposed to do this...

D&D Fifth Edition: Land of the Old Curse

And now, we wait...

D&D Fifth Edition: Land of the Old Curse

Morgan Droud

The street beside the manor was quiet, and empty of people, perfect for her plan. Or, it would have been, if not for the minor issue of the wizard running away.

DAMN IT!

She had the perfect plan as well. By relying the mental effects of Charm Person, it should have been easy to convince the wizard that she could gave her the location of the spellcaster if they let her inspect the ring. She would communicate with them via Message, then pick up the ring with an Invisible Servant marked with Prestidigitation. Even if something had managed to go wrong, none of it would have been able to be traced back to her.

And now it had gone wrong, in the one way that she couldn't fix.

She has to come back eventually, right? She was talking with those people before...

She paused, looking back toward the plaza in front of the manor. The crowd had mostly disappeared back into safer parts of town, but the six who had been talking with the wizard remained, apparently to deal with the... Zombies? They looked similar enough, so she decided to call them that.

She took a moment to throw together a new plan, then found someplace to sit. There wasn't really anything she could do but wait for the wizard to get back.

D&D Fifth Edition: Land of the Old Curse

Morgan Droud

As she watched, a small crowd had gathered before the hanging corpse. Well, it was only five or so people, but still.

Is that really so interesting?

The ring was still in the hands of the important looking woman, but Morgan had given some thought to it and put together what she felt was a decent plan on how to get the ring into her hands.

As she backed away, searching for a nearby place she could use to focus on her spells, she heard the sounds of glass shattering, and people screaming. She sped up a little, whatever was now happening was a perfect distraction to help her get the ring.

D&D Fifth Edition: Land of the Old Curse

Morgan Droud

Well, this is interesting.

It wasn't her intention to watch an execution, her Journey was only on its second day, but the sheer lack of what she thought was standard protocol was enlightening, not to mention their, methods, of preventing spellcasting.

I should probably get more infomation on where I am right now...

In every book on the subject she read, there was a general agreement that prior to doing ANYTHING to a spellcaster, you needed to check them for magic items. The woman who reveled the illusion was likely a spellcaster herself, and this unintended proxy murder could have easily been prevented by a slight change in the order of events.

That ring looks interesting though... I wonder if I could switch the illusion to someone else?

After thinking for a moment, she slipped though the crowd, moving forward, towards where a masked doctor was studying the deceased.

D&D Fifth Edition: Land of the Old Curse

I’d join... No promises of talking though.

D&D Fifth Edition: Land of the Old Curse

Morgan Droud

D&D Fifth Edition: Land of the Old Curse

@Ciaran

Ok, I think I'm finished...

Character Sheet

Let me know if there's something I need to change.