Fly: Kiaba has a pair of black fairy-like wings on his back, which allow him to fly at high speeds.
Note: Sharia's thrall prevents him from going too far from her.
Sharia walked through the gates into the Docks District in search for clues. She figured that it was best to start there because it was the district to find thieves, thugs, pirates, burned out cases of various like… in translation: most of the scum of in Neverwinter. She thought about hiring rogue but decide that it was unnecessary. After all, she spends most of her time with an archdevil. How bad could this place be?
Sharia had to admit Kiaba was helpful at times, even if he was an initiating child when they were at the Halls of Justice. The again, he like to be initiating everywhere in everyway.
Aribeth seemed to understand him better that she could, which kind of scared her. However, she also had a way of understanding everyone. She looked well, but Sharia knew Aribeth good enough to know that she thought of Fenthick almost every free moment she had. That was the reason that Aribeth didn't have many of them: so she could avoid it.
Sharia's thoughts were suddenly interrupted by a conversation between a 'sailor' and one of the dock whores. "I hear that there is an auction for the cure to the plague at the Seedy Tavern. Man, does Vengual have guts! He is going to get all of Neverwinter's City Watch after him!"
Sharia looked him over. He was about 5'6" with a clean blood red sailor's uniform on. He had a cutlass at his right side and with yellow teeth and long black hair tied back. He was a pirate, a profession that she found rather disgusting, but he had information that she needed. "Excuse me." Sharia said to the pirate, "What do you mean an auction at the Seedy Tavern?"
The pirate turned… and smiled. "I mean at there is an auction that goes the highest bidder. The gods are good to me." The pirate said.
"I'm afraid to ask. How are the gods good to you?" Sharia asked. The pirate reached for his sword, "Well such a beautiful woman has come, and I can sell her at the auction in exchange for the cure!" That was pretty much what Sharia had expected. "I hope that you not referring to me." She said, irritated. "But I am." The pirate went to draw his sword, but he never made it.
Sharia fist went straight into his stomach. The pirate fell to his knees which caused Sharia to hit him again, right in the face. The pirate fell, unconscious. Sharia started to strip the pirate. She had an idea.
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Kiaba flew quickly over the wall and flew down, landing right onto on of the rioting inmates. His excitement about the battle only grew as he got here. Kiaba heard the war cries of a dozen more charging him. Kiaba smiled as the Shadow Reaper claws extended and jumped at them in a spinning motion. Kiaba and several of the inmates hit the ground at the same time, with only two differences. Kiaba was on his feet and alive. The inmates were in pieces and were dead before they ever hit. Kiaba counted about 6 of them. That was half to the original number.
The remaining inmates started to surround him, 3 armed with swords, 2 with bows, and the last didn't have any weapons at all. However, from the way he had his hands in place; Kiaba suspected that he was a mage.
"A demon. What an unexpected surprised." The mage said, "Looking to take advantage of the chaos here? Sorry, but we have control of this part of the city. I can't let you take the rest."
"Kiaba gave the mage a lethal glare of anger. "I am not a demon. That is very insulting. I am a devil. Get you facts straight; then attack me." Before the mage could reply, the archers fired their arrows. The both archer's aim was true… they were just out of their league.
Kiaba was a blur. First he was standing in one spot then suddenly in he was nothing but movement. Both arrows miss the devil completely. The first one hit his one of the men surrounding him by mistake. The second has his arrow removed form that air, as Kiaba grabbed it.
Kiaba then jumped onto the archer that first the arrow he held landed on him. As he was landing, Kiaba jabbed the arrow into the archer's neck. The second archer attempted to try again as the remaining two inmates charged him. The mage was staying out of it, trying his best to come up with a spell that would serve this horrible occasion. He was never trained to fight such a powerful creature.
Kiaba moved again, with speed that was faster then lightning and strength which rivaled the strongest giant. He went past the chargers, grabbing the one on the right. The devil threw the inmate with all his strength, turning the man into a weapon. The inmate slammed into the archer at full velocity, breaking a great deal of bones in both bodies.
The devil quickly spun around and charged the last inmate left alive. The inmate turned around just in time to see the devil before the creature took hold of the wrist of his sword arm… and squeezed. Kiaba had quickly transformed the wrist into jelly, causing the inmate to scream. Kiaba stabbed his claws into the belly of the screaming inmate, who could no longer feel the pain in his stomach from the agony for his wrist. Kiaba let go of the wrist as the inmate fell to the ground, his lifeblood draining from his body.
The mage, realizing that he was alone went into action, just casting any spell that could defend him from the dark creature before him. He never even got a word off. The devil was upon him before he could say anything. The devil's hand was suddenly around his throat, as he slowly picked him up, an evil smile on the creature's face, his red eyes glowed with excitement.
Kiaba realized that Aribeth would probably want to know how the riot started in the first place, and he figured that this mage would probably know. "Okay, novice. Let's play a game…"
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Sharia walked into the tavern, kind of relived that her plan worked. The biggest problem was believability, that perhaps that the only members of these blood pirates were men. However, the doorman believed the uniform was hers and has let her inside without much question.
Once inside, she had to fight the waves of degust about the people inside. There had to be every slimeball in Neverwinter in this place. She almost wished that Kiaba was here, to intimidate several of the finer people, but she knew that none of the Blood Pirates would be clerics. There would be force involve in getting in and while Kiaba would have enjoyed it, she would not have.
Sharia talked to all of the 'people' in the tavern, but all she could get out of anyone was that the leader of the Blood Pirates, Venguel, was oddly absent. Sharia went into the back to look. One off the doors was being guarded by a man that didn't look all the intimating… even if it was a half-orc. She walked over to him. Maybe charm would be effective.
"Hi." Sharia said, "So what is special about this door you're guarding?"
The half-orc looked at her, "Lady, my just a chief. I am just watching it while the moron who is supposed to be guarding it is getting drunk."
"I was asking what was special about the door." Sharia explained, "I what to know that I'm not being scammed out of my money."
The chief looked at her for a second, "I can't…" He looked her over, "No… Okay. But I want to be confiscated for it."
"What kind." Sharia asked sweetly, with a hidden amount of dread.
"50 gold coins." The chief said, "and maybe something extra later…"
Sharia was relieved as she reached for her pouch, "50 coins. Don't tell anyone." Sharia said, as she opened to door and stepped through. "Don't you worry…" the chief said to himself.
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The integration of the mage was underway, several things just didn't add up. "So you telling me the warden, Gaoler, went out of his way to set all the prisoner's free?" the mage answered quickly, "Yes! He kept saying that he didn't care about the plague and wasn't going to be killed for it." Kiaba then asked a question, getting a funny feeling in his gut. "His eyes never blinked and they glittered like marbles, right?" the mage turned to the devil, "How did you know that?" the mage asked.
"The thought devourer." Kiaba said, suddenly understanding what happened. The thought devourer took over the mind of the warden and started this riot to protect himself from recapture. When he thought about it, the plan had a pretty good sense of irony. Kiaba's fist smashed into the mage, quickly knocking him unconscious.
Kiaba left the ground and started to make his flight plan to the prison. He could have his fun and get the ingredient at the same time. When he thought about it more he could also kill 4 birds with only to stones. Maybe even five.