Café de Nuit

Norzak grins evilly at Bennedict. "Maybe, I collect them." He laughs maniacally and looks at Renault.

Renault looks dejected.

''Blast! I've said too much already. Well, I'll answer you, since it seems I've got no choice but to talk. ''

Renault wipes his sweat soaked face before continuing-

''I know Evageline and her family through my trading business. I've always wanted her, I won't deny it. Her father rejected any talk of a union. Ha! He never scrupled to do business with me when there was a profit to be had- but his daughter was too good for my sort.

I lost a shipment of tobacco in a boat fire several days ago. I was contracted to bring it to Clement Malreux. He is very angry that I'd lost the tobacco, and wants the advance money back. I am not in a good financial situation, and am unable to pay him back out of my own pocket.

My plan was to have Evangeline kidnapped, and then demand a fat ransom for her safe return. I'd heard that her father had recently come into quite a lot of money. I figured I could pay off Malreux and get back at the Sancerres for their ill treatment of me.''

Bennedict sighs. "It would appear Evangeline's father was more correct in his assesment of you than you give him credit. You may wish to give your illicit plans a bit more effort in the future, sir. Or at least be more discriminate in who you hire to perpetrate them."

Renault slowly rises to his feet. He pulls a bejeweled ring from a finger and sets it atop the chest to his right.

''There is my ransom, such as I can pay. I've answered all your questions. Now, I must leave. I need to have a chirugeon look at this cut.''

"We cannot let him go", Cirdan muses to himself. "He would sell us on our enemies when he first got the chance. - Dwarf, can you remove a human's tongue without inflicting too much unnecessary pain?"

Dwarf, can you remove a human's tongue without inflicting too much unnecessary pain?"

''AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!''

Renault shrieks like a madman and rushes to the window. He's trying to open the shutters!



[initiative checks, please]

Norzak bolts nto action as fast as his legs can carry him, he unsheathes his short sword and runs after Renault.

OOC: 1st action backstab if I am before him, then I will really cut his tongue out.
19 to hit Renault from behind with short sword.
4 dmg.

Cirdan won't try to go after the miserable criminal, just quietly grin to himself.

"Now see here," Bennedict shouts, rising to his feet. "You have no more right to harm this man than he had to endanger Evangeline."

With that he tries to step betwen the dwarf and Renault to intervene on the man's behalf.

Bennedict is able to move quickly enough to interpose himself between Norzak and Renault- foiling the dwarf's attempt to stab the man.

Renault smashes open the shutters with his fists and leaps out the window! You all hear his terrified shriek as he plummets towards the ground- ending a few seconds later with a sickening CRUNCH.

Anyone who looks down out of the window will see Renault, the tatters of his blue cloak wrapped around his head and shoulders, lying motionless at the base of the tower.

SCRATCH....SCRATCH....

A little noise can be heard coming from inside the chest on which Renault had lately been seated.

Bennedict looks in slack jawed horror for a moment at the crumpled form of the man lying at the base of the tower. Coming to his senses, however, he quickly ducks out of sight from the street-facing window, jabbing an accusatory finger toward the dwarf.

"I hope you are pleased with yourself. You seem to have made us into murderers now."

He is so preoccupied that he pays little notice to the scratching sound, given that the sound of rats crawling in woodwork is an everyday occurence in this place.

"I am pleased with myself. He deserved that and more. And moreover..." Norzak pauses as he hears th scratch scratch from inside the chest. "What the...?" He approaches the chest and with his short sword in his hand, he prods the chest almost as if testing to see if it was alive, senses alert.

The scratching noise inside the chest stops abruptly.

Bennedict peers around a corner of the window, looking closer at Renault. "It's just a rat. They're everywhere in this city. What are we going to do about this man."