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Cultist Fernando Meets Justice
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She shoots at the one who's still standing.

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If she focuses on dropping the last cultist she can heal the man who's down once she's dead, he can last a few more moments — no, that's not true, the cultist seems like the sort of person who might go out of her way to kill him even if it guarantees she'll die too. She reaches for one of her spare Bless spells and pulls the energy out of it, channeling her hope that the man won't have to die for fighting back against an Evil wizard, then steps forward and lets the spell complete itself.

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She moves into the webbing, putting her feet in just the right places so that it doesn't impair her, and goes for the woman with her daggers.

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You're damn right she'll spend her dying breath punishing traitors.  She twists her glaive as she pulls it out to try to do more damage and goes for one last strike, but an arrow gets her in the shoulder, the summoned wolf bites her leg enough to put her off balance, and with the woman with the daggers is at her side also she trips and falls.

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He briefly passes out from blood loss before the cleric heals him.  He nearly passes out again when the glaive is pulled out of him, but he holds on.  It looks like he might survive this.

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It looks like they've just about won.  He is ready to cast another spell if they need it, but unless someone pulls out some dramatic tricks it would be best to save it.

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Once the woman drops she leans down and slits her throat. 

(...And then she checks the corpses to see if they've got anything valuable on them. She is an adventurer.)

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She looks at the injured man. "Do you know if that was their only teleporter, or is there a chance more'll come after us?" Pause. "—It's okay if you aren't sure."

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Fernando is also eyeing the loot.  Of course, they saved them, they’ve got priority (if not a claim to all of it), but hopefully that will make them more favorably inclined to him.

It looks like the wizard (and demoniac if he’s guessing what the mark on his arm if correctly) had a nicer intelligence headband.  Not the most expensive type, but better than the standard.  He also had a Ring of Sustenance, a ring of some kind he doesn’t recognize, a cloak of resistance (stronger than the basic sort, Fernando can’t judge the exact strength), a standard belt of constitution, and his amulet was a bonded object with 3 separate enchantments at once.  Fernando isn’t sure if they will all work for someone other than their original user… but it looks like an armillary amulet, combined with natural armor, combined with something else?  He also has a bag of holding, one of the smaller sizes, but still very useful.  They will need to be careful with opening it, it’s the sort of thing that could easily be trapped.

The… cleric or inquisitor (Fernando’s not sure which) had a standard wisdom headband and a cloak of resistance, and her (Fernando can see she is a tiefling woman, underneath the armor) glaive appears to be silvered (for use against devils probably).

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“Oh, uh, the leader was the only one who went between groups, so I think we should be safe?  I guess someone might have a teleport scroll stockpiled away, but I doubt they can afford to waste it on taking revenge?”

He needs to show he is with this group and committed to whatever they are committed to…

“I’m Mateo by the way.”

He takes off his mask.

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He sees they have a halfling with them.  So maybe they are Bellflowers?  Or maybe Andoran pirates?  He’s not sure how they got inland, but his gut is saying Andoran pirates.  He’s not sure if they openly praise Besmara, he’s sure there was another pro-piracy woman God who is Chaotic Good… the name escapes him, but he can think of another Chaotic Good adventurer God.

“Hail Cayden Cailean!??”

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Oh man, that came out like more of a question than he meant it to.  Well, he’s pretty sure Cayden is pro-freedom if they are actually Bellflowers and not pirates.  He hopes they are pirates, he could make a great pirate.

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Back at the cultist’s base…the scry actually had a few minutes left in it, and one cultist had happened to linger to watch.  It was confusing with the sensor rushing around to follow Fernando, but he is pretty sure their leader is betrayed and dead.

He should tell someone… their now dead leader took swift delivery of news without attempt to deflect blame as a reason to heavily mitigate any punishment and even to dole out favors and rewards.  The two strongest candidates for next in line to be leader, a 4th circle cleric, and a 4th circle wizard (who might be 5th circle soon if they succeed at the demoniac ritual), do not share this philosophy.  The wizard is very much of the Chelish school of thought on punishments, and the cleric is simply prone to violently lashing out.  He might well be blamed for not mentioning the haste he thought he saw cast.  Or this ambush might be internal intrigue and knowing too much about it might be bad for his odds of continued survival.

He’ll pretend like he didn’t see anything for at least a few hours while he calculates what and who best serves his chances of coming out ahead.  …There is a second-circle antiPaladin, not as well connected across cells, but very popular within his own group and known for rewarding his followers well.  Perhaps with some earlier news of this untimely death he could leverage his place in the cult well.

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"—You don't have to worship anyone in particular."

...If she says she's a priestess of Calistria there's a decent chance he'll decide he needs to worship Calistria, but if she doesn't say anything he might decide he needs to keep guessing who he's supposed to worship, and that doesn't really seem better.

"I'm a priestess of Calistria but I also like Milani and Desna and Ragathiel. And my friend here" (she gestures to the other human woman) "likes Desna best, and my other friend here" (she gestures to the halfling) "mostly prays to Chaldira, and my other friend here" (she gestures to the human man) "likes this one really minor good god that I'd never even heard of before I met him. But if your favorite's Cayden or one of the others, or none of them at all, that's also fine. Uh, and we can tell you more about them if you want to know." She pauses. "Uh, and if you want to cross the border you should know that the law says you've got to give up on serving Evil gods and other powers of the lower planes, but it seems like you're doing that already. Thank you, by the way."

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"We should get back into the Rope Trick — that wasn't exactly a quiet fight. We can have this conversation and split up their stuff just as well in there."

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Nods all around. They get to work hauling the bodies inside.

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Is he supposed figure out which of those Gods is best?  Or is it an invitation to say his (new) favorite God?  She's Calistrian, and that means Chaotic Neutral, so maybe Besmara is okay?  He'll stick with Cayden for now, he likes alcohol and they didn't react badly to his half-assed declaration.  He nods at the Avenger.

He gets to work helping move the bodies.

He wonders if they will let him keep any of the loot.  He was almost afraid they would have to leave the loot behind out of some pathetic Good principal about respecting bodies or something but that seems like a no?  So even if they don't let him keep any of this loot, it bodes well for his future as an Andoran pirate.

He's still bleeding from where the glaive was pulled out, but he's not going to ask for healing just yet, this seems like a good opportunity to show off how tough he has (it normally takes a couple of cure light wounds to get him fully recovered from near death).

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He's alive and free!  There is still the whole problem of his afterlife and eternity, but he has some room to maneuver in the near future at least.  He'll also help with the bodies.  He continues to inspect them with detect magic.  He wonders how hard attuning a new bonded item to himself would be, the wizard they just killed also had an amulet for a bonded item, like his own, except heavily enchanted, maybe he could switch it to himself?

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Once they've gotten everything into the Rope Trick she can do a couple of channels.

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"Can I get a Guidance?"

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"Sure, here you go." Guidance.

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She will attempt to very carefully inspect the Bag of Holding without setting off any traps that might be present.

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While Elettra is looking at the bag, Justice turns to Mateo. "So, thinking about our plans for the next few days — what sorts of things can you do? Uh, and then, what are your plans, like, are you hoping to cross the border, are you hoping to stay here and just not be working for Baphomet...?"

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(He is perfectly happy to let the other wizard keep the amulet if he gets an uncontested claim on the nicer headband, but he's waiting to propose anything specific until they know what, if anything, is in the bag.)

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"The cleric, in, uh, my old group, had a bag of holding, which I think was trapped with a symbol spell of some kind that would activate if the bag was opened wrong.  I don't know what the trick to opening it right was.  I think the symbol will be inside the bag and rigged to be the first that comes out and triggered at the same time?  Or something like that.  The symbol my the cleric used was some obscure or at least nonstandard one that needed bloodstone and garnet, I have no idea if a fifth circle wizard has better options for a symbol.  I think most symbol spells have similar limitations, so one strategy would be to open it and attempt to pull things out with an unseen servant from over 60 feet away?"

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