Forgotten Heroes: Anger Management

  •    As Valierus sets fire to the Hives, Elwyn infiltrates Goldenglow manor through the sewer tunnels. She fights off multiple Skeever attacks, as she makes her way to the manors sewer entrance.

     

     

       I finish putting down the last of the Skeevers with an arrow shot through its skull from halfway down the tunnel. The Ethereal bow dispels leaving the tunnels lite only by torch light. I follow the tunnel to its end stepping over the bodies of the skeevers, watching caerfully for any sign of movement. At the far end of the tunnel I look up and spot a small opening right where Vex said it would be. I jump and grab onto the ledge, and I heave myself up through the hole wincing at the slight rasp of metal on stone. The soft supple leather of the Thieves armor moves easily with me as I creep through another tunnel.

     

       At the end of this one a small ladder leads up to an opened trap door. I slowly lift myself through the hole stopping when my eyes clear the toplevel of the ledge. I glance around the room it opens into, quickly taking note of the guard propped up in the chair. I drop back down from the hole and curse quietly as I wait for him to investigate. After a few moments of continued silence I peek through the hole again and realize he's fallen asleep in his chair. I grin mischeviously, and scale the ladder. I creep over to the guard and I liberate his coin pouch. 

     

       After my thievery I follow a stone corridor into another room. At the center of the room, a locked vault sits challengingly. Another glance around the room shows that there's no one guarding the vault. I quickly cross the room, and slip a set of lock picks out of their hiding spot in my guantlets. Smiling at my good luck, I set to work breaking into the vault. A few moments later, I begin to curse as I break pick, after pick, trying to find the lock's sweet spot. I finally manage to break into the vault. A quick search however turns up some gold, a bee statue, and a single glowing gem, but no Deed, or bill of sale.

     

       "Crap," I mutter quietly keenly aware of time dwindling away till I'm to meet Valierus at Riften's gate. "Well, theres nothing else to it." I'll have to go search Aringoth's rooms. I cross to the other side of the room and use another tunnel to bypass a small group of mercenaries all sitting around a table. I scale a set of stairs and find myself behind a locked cell door. I glance around the bars and spot a nord mercenary leaning against the wall next to the door. I watch him for a few moments hoping he'll move and sure enough he pushes off the wall and walks down the hallway and out of sight. I quickly disarm the lock and slip through the door and cross the hall to another flight of stairs leading up to the second floor. At the top of the stairs two more hallways branch off on my left and right.

     

        "Hmmmm," I turn left and follow it for a few seconds. The hall quickly dead ends, with a door on my left. I slowly push open the door, and peek into a barrack-like room, with multiple Nord and Orc mercenaries sleeping in beds around the room. Across the room one of the mercenaries reclines in a chair, while idly staring at a torch. He suddenly slams the chair legs onto the floor and quickly rises and moves towards the door. I slip away from the door, and into a wardrobe. I pull the door to just as the mercenary flings open the door. He quickly scans the hallway searchingly. After a few tense moments, he steps back into the room, closing the door as he goes.

     

       I slip out of the cupboard and slip down the hall, towards the hallway I bypassed earlier. After a few moments, I reach another turn but at the far end a merecenary sits at a table in front of a window. Just behind him a door closes off the Aringoth's bedroom. I slowly creep past the guard and slip into the room, silently closing the door behind me.

     

      "No point in hiding, I know your there." A voice raises up from behind, its tone mournful and sad. "And i know why you've come. I knew the guild wouldn't let me get away with it."

     

       "Then why did you do it?" I ask, straightening up and turning to face Aringoth. I'm surprised to find that he's a Wood Elf, his eyes watch me gloomly and he sits on the foot of his bed. "Why did you do something that you knew would end like this?"

     

       "I didn't have a choice. She forced me to." He clenches his hands until blood drips down his hands.

     

       "Who's she?" I move towards him until I tower over him.

     

       "It's more than my life's worth to tell you." He answers cowering away from me. "Besides, she never told me her name."

     

       "Aringoth! What did you do." I grab, his arm and squeeze it threateningly.

     

       "I sold the estate, okay!" He cries. I quickly move back over to the door and shove a chair under the door handle to prevent any guests. "She came here and strongarmed me into it." He pulls a piece of paper from his night stand, and holds it out to me. I snatch it from his hands, and I quickly unfold the paper ignoring the calls and the crashes coming from the other side of the door. I read through it and quickly realize what it is. Its the bill of sale.

     

       "I'll spare you this time Aringoth, but I want you to reincorparte Maven into the farm, got it?"

     

       "Yes, yes, loud and clear!"

     

       I jump through the window just as the guards break through the door. I run along the outside roof of the house, and dive towards the lake waters.

     

     

                       

     

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  • Sotek
    Sotek   ·  March 21, 2017
    Sounds like  Elwyn has a plan. I wonder what she is upto... Aringoth got off lucky.