Whore of the Dragon Queen [Ocfos]

[devilbird]

Even if used in it's full force, burning hands couldn't quite reach the heat needed to bend metal. There is another spell that you could learn later that would be useful for that, but for now you are limited to what you've got. It was a blessing that you were even able to use the spell with low enough power to provide light, without expending you're last spell slot. That said, it did have a small effect on the metal. That spot is now a lot warmer and could burn you if you touch it before it cools down. That might be a useful trick if something ever tried to enter the gate once you got it open, but for now it doesn't really help you on its own.

[Ocfos]

Grunting lowly to herself, Liri keeps trying to see if any of the bars move at all for her. She does, however, remove her hand from the now hot area of the bar she tried to heat up.

[devilbird]

The bars seem a little loose, meaning you could force them off the hinges, but it would be loud. The gate itself is rooted firmly in place. It could be rusted in place, simply be locked, or both.

[Ocfos]

Liri ends up going for the route of trying to get the hinges off of the gate, mainly just trying to find them in the first place, before seeing if she can't work them off in relative silence.

[devilbird]

You find the hinges after some searching, and the rust looks pretty bad. The more you look at this gate, the more it dawns on you how long its been since anyone tried using this tunnel. Some squeaking behind you reminds you of your other problem. The rats are getting restless. If you get too focused on just the gate, you may pay the price. A problem that is worsened since you are right next to the outside. The bars of the gate do nothing to prevent the pink miasma from reaching you.

[Ocfos]

Not wanting to risk either thing, Liri throws herself against the hinges of the gate in an attempt to knock them off the wall. She has no time to waste, as she doesn't want to get attacked by rats, nor dazed by the incoming miasma.

This better work...I don't want to risk trying to find another way in here, with these pests staring me down like I'm their next meal...

[devilbird]

(DC 15 vs Strength Check 5)

You hurl yourself at the gate as hard as you can, but it's more firmly rooted then you expected. You painfully crash into the bars, and knock yourself to the ground. To add injury to injury, you manage to land on the keys Escobert lent you, reminding you of their existence. The rats see their chance, and swarm you while you're on your back. With the miasma stronger here than it was farther into the tunnel, it doesn't take a genius to figure out what it is they want.

Unfortunately, that seems to be the last of your worries. The sound you just made seems to have alerted a fairly sizable raiding party to the location of the tunnel. The shadows of a small mob of kobolds accompanied by a couple larger figures overtake you. The rats, far more afraid of them then they were of you, scurry off as the combined teamwork of the enemy breaks the gate down. They discovery you knocked to the ground, your clothes disheveled and torn by the vermin that abandoned you to larger predators.

[Ocfos]

As soon as Liri sees the bigger predators, she plots to scurry away from the kobolds before they can capture her. She knows well her magic capacity is relatively exhausted, for now, and feels like she could easily find another exit without risking the mob catching up to her - that is if she manages to even escape in the first place.
Clothes holding or not, she attempts to get on her feet in a crawling run, away from the incoming hostiles.

[devilbird]

(DC 10 vs Dexterity [with disadvantage for being prone] 13)
(DC 10 vs Athletics 3)

You manage to climb to your feet before they are able to grab you. You book it back down the tunnel, not wanting to fight with these odds. The mob follows you in, trying to keep up. You run as fast as you can, but your short legs and disheveled clothes don't do you any favors. It won't be long before they catch up with you. Furthermore, they now know about this secret way into the keep. You soon come across the swarm of rats again, but they avoid you this time. It seems they don't want to fight this many people at once. However, maybe you could provoke them into attacking the mob. You also have another advantage to fighting the group in the tunnel, should you choose to do so. While it isn't cramped, it also isn't a very large tunnel. They'll be forced to group up, being able to fit no more than two at a time. This means you can blast a bunch at once, or try to manage their numbers. However you choose.

[Ocfos]

Exhausted from running, Liri turns to face the kobolds, unable to see the bigger enemies for the time being. She isn't sure how she can fend them off, and she's clearly nervous about the fact that she's alone against this many.

[devilbird]

Your fear, hesitation, and exhaustion work against you. While you can't think of how to fight them, the two kobolds in front take advantage of your pause.

(Kobold 1 attack Crit!)
(Damage 8)
(Kobold 2 attack 21 vs AC 11)
(Damage 5)

The first kobold rushes at you with dagger in hand. It plunges into your shoulder, causing you extreme pain! The next one just tackles into you, knocking you to the ground. Upon landing, your head bumps on a rock. Blackness quickly overtakes you as you are knocked out.

~~~~~

You come to a some time later. At first, you don't know what's going on, then the pain in your shoulder and on your head come rushing back to you. You recall the streak of bad luck that lead up to you blacking out. In a panic, you look about and feel your heart sink. It seems you are locked in a cage on a cart, nowhere near the city. There are a couple of people also in your cage. You seem to entering a camp of the raiders, and this is probably where they've been taking the people they were capturing. It's broad daylight out, and you have no idea what happened to the people in the keep. You can taste a salty flavor in your mouth, and can feel warmth between your legs. Looking down, you can see cum dripping down your thigh. They must have taken advantage of you while you were out. Even your ass is sore, those bastards. Your clothes have been taken, and who knows what they did the the amulet with your family's crest.

(Constitution 13 vs DC 10)

Around the camp, you can see that more of the pink mist has permeated the area. You manage to resist the effects, but it seems that most were not so lucky. The camp is a practical orgy. Most of the prisoners have succumbed to the effects, and are fucking like rabbits in their cages. Many other have been let out, and are willingly boning the enemy. You see some of the people that were captured when you and Linan made a break for the keep, and they are all wearing purple robes like that of the cultists.

They unload the cages off the cart, and leave a couple kobolds to guard you. Their plan is probably to let the mist take it's tole on you until you willingly submit like the others. From cages on either side of you, there are prisoners begging you to help them cum. They grind up against the bars, and present themselves to you. They kobolds themselves don't seem entirely focused, taking every bit of their willpower to resist temptation and do their jobs.

(Perception 20 vs DC 15)

While looking about, you manage to see something that everyone else seems to have missed. In some bushes, about 40 ft away, you see a familiar face. Linan seems to be sneaking around. Luck hasn't all turned against you. It seems your friend has escaped what ever fate befell those in the keep. What's more, she isn't alone. She seems to be led by the cloaked figure that you saw before. It looks like they've spotted you, and are trying to make their way to you.

(OOC: I wasn't expecting things to go south that quickly with the rolls. Anyways, instead of killing you, I had them capture you like everyone else. Its now the next day. Your gear is gone, but you are fully rested. Full health and all of your spell slots. I was going to originally have these characters be reoccurring characters, but I think I'm gonna turn them into possible party members that you can use to help you fight. I'll control them for roleplay, and you have full access to them for combat. Sound fair?

Once they officially join your party, I'll post the character sheets for them on the front page for you to see.)

[Ocfos]

Liri grunts a little as she realises she's stark naked, covering herself up a little by crossing her legs and putting an arm over her chest.

The mere sight of the camp causes a clump to form in her throat, as she nervously looks over at the other people she shares a cage with. Seeing the others in different cages, she doesn't trust anyone right now. That is until she spots Linan from a distance, trying not to make it too obvious she's seen her at all, as to not cause suspicion.
She's not sure what she can do to try and break out, so for now she's just sitting in anxious anticipation for what comes next.

((I'd actually prefer a little that you control the characters in combat, because I'm not really good at running more than one character at a time. I was actually hoping it'd end up causing her to be captured, one way or the other, so this is just fine!))

[devilbird]

The two rescuers got close, but then had to figure out a way to contend with the kobold guards. Linen seemed to say something to the cloaked stranger, and they nodded in agreement. The figure removed their cloak, and you are shocked to find that you recognize this person. That's the female kobold from before that tried to dominate you! Without her disguise, she blends in perfectly with the other raiders. She walks over to the guards that are distracted by the display.

"Sia sees that you two want to join fun," she says as she casually saunters up, "Feeling generous. Maybe Sia watch cages for you so you can play."

The two kobolds look at each other and then nod eagerly at Sia, not even questioning her presence. It didn't take much persuasion at all. Seeing them from the front now, you can tel that they are hard enough that it's probably painful. They start to take off into the crowd, but Sia stops them before they can run off.

"Ah! Maybe you should leave keys with Sia. That way prisoners can join when ready to convert," she says. The kobolds comply as quickly as possible so as to not be delayed any longer. The little kobold girl waits long enough for them to dissappear, then uses the keys on your cage. Once it's unlocked, she opens the door for you, but can't seem to look you in the eyes while you walk out.

(OOC: Alright, I'll control them. But I'll make them lvl 1 since you are lvl 2. That way they won't outshine you as the main character.)

[Ocfos]

"We can talk further about this once we're safe, they took all my things." Liri whispers.

She jumps out of the cage, trying to be silent in doing so - it's not like she has robes that can make noise.

[devilbird]

Fortunately, it didn't require much effort to go unnoticed at the moment. Most everyone that could care were a little too distracted. Sia escorts you to the bushes where can hide from view. Now that you have a moment to really size them up, you can see that the two of them are different from the day before. Where once they barely had any clothing, now they are armed to the teeth. Linan now sported a full suit of chain mail, and had replaced her broken spear with a large halberd. Sia too seemed to have found some new gear. On top of the daggers and sling she had before, now she has suit of dark leather armor that almost looks custom made for her. Emblazoned on it is a blue drawing of a woman with the head of a cat. You feel practically naked next to them. Oh, wait...

[Ocfos]

Still covering herself up her her hands and arms, Liri looks between the two. She seems rather stunned at the sight before her, considering she didn't at all expect to see these two in full gear.

"How did you find me?" She asks the two, seeming somewhat in disbelief that Sia actually came to her aid.

[devilbird]

"Well, after you fell," Linan explains, "The enemy took advantage of the tunnel to launch a surprise attack on us. We were so preoccupied with the siege at the front gate, that we never saw it coming. With the aid of the dragon, the keep fell in minutes. We were captured, but this one helped free me and we made a run for it. I didn't know why she was helping, but she said she knew you."

Linan doesn't seem to remember the first time you met Sia. To be fair, she was fairly drunk at the time. Sia, on the other hand, seems to flinch when Linan brings it up.

"We managed to ambush some raiders in our escape and I stole their armor and weapons," Linan continues while showing off her gear, "After that we fought our way to the outskirts, helping anyone that we could. We made it, but my family was missing from where you told them to hide. I wasn't sure what to do next, but Sia told me that she had defected from the cult. She knew where the closest camp was, and said that was where everyone was likely being taken to."

Linan finishes detailing the events leading up to your rescue, but it doesn't explain why Sia is helping in the first place.

[Ocfos]

"Your family is... Oh, that's.. I wonder if they're all here somewhere?" She pauses, feeling pretty responsible for them all things considered.

"I think I got knocked out, but I can't remember, and I've barely just woken up.. Uh, like this." She still doesn't remove her hands from herself.

"The fuckers took my heirloom medallion too, so I guess we all have something we want from them." She catches herself in nearly revealing her actual self.
"I- I mean, an old medallion my great great grandmother once made. It's a pretty important one for my mom's side of the family."

She can't help but look over at Sia with an odd feeling of misplaced distrust.
"I would hug you to apologise, but I have to say I prefer being clothed before hugging others."

[devilbird]

Sia makes a strange expression on her reptilian face. It's hard to know what she's actually thinking, but you decide it's probably best not to completely trust her. Even if you somehow forgot that she was your enemy not more than a day ago, she was also still a kobold. All those things know are greed and treachery. Still, it's hard to think why she wouldn't just leave you captured. She can't possibly be smart enough to have some other plan for you, can she? Something strange is definitely afoot. Either way, they seem ready to follow your lead.

(I'm gonna add Sia's and Linan's character sheets to the first post.)

[Ocfos]

"You don't have any clothes, do you? I... Feel a little bare?"
Liri looks between Sia and Linan, smiling nervously between the two. She doesn't really pay attention to the other kobolds, too distracted by her own flustered state.