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The party has temporarily split up. Titus abandon’s the adventure temporarily; Grasshopper (G) and Lawrence (L) set off to visit the house where Hagar suggested the dubious cleric lived, while Braylec (B) with Jutiapa (J) meet Thanodel (T) in the garrison. T in the mean time has cought up with his careless pickpocket and after kicking 7 shades out of him get his money back.
G + L decide to proceed with a devastatingly subtle and devious plan: L stalks the back alley, while G under the pretence of blindness, knocks on the door and begs. G gets the door slammed into his face and L gets attacked! When G goes round the back to find just a trail of blood where L should have been he does not loose his calm. When two thugs also mysteriously surround him his cool head and catlike agility saves the day. He jumps over the one and runs like a bat out of hell! Heading towards the garrison he soon spots the rest of the party and laconically explain the dire situation.
After J’s familiar closely escapes a prowling cat, the party forms a subtle plan for getting back their fellow Misfit: B smashes the door and then together proceed to leave a trail of chaotic destruction all over the place! It works fine! B knocks on the door and then bashes it in. The rest of the party follows in and soon some more doors are bashed off their hinges! J summons a spectral hand and delightfully stabs in the throat all the unconscious people that B and T are leaving all over the place. G gets slightly lost (again) while looking for L. Missing all the action he explores the floors at his own meticulous pace, making sure nothing is left to chance.
B + J + T get a barrel of grease thrown at them but proceed upstairs un deterred. A weird cleric casts darkness and flees out of a window and on to a ledge. From there into the adjacent house, where L is kept captive. In the mean time, in a different house(!?), L is doing fine for himself. He manages to cast charm on one of his enemies and promptly proceeds to command him to free him. With his new "friend" he decides to pay the boss a visit and douses him in a magical grease and threatens to set him ablaze. At this point, the cleric enters closely pursued by B + J + T.
Back to the other house, the screams of anguish and door smashing have attracted the guards. The monk goes to meet them and explain the desperate situation since as far as he is aware all his friends are now missing!
In the other house, things are getting complicated. L attacks the thief boss, but the cleric stops the fight temporarily and calls for a discussion. That goes well for a few seconds when the thief boss tries to leg it. He gets chased by B and J that catch up with him. He hastily runs into a sewer and using a ring of lightning bolts sets the whole place ablaze almost killing himself. The cool magical artefact is swiftly removes from his finger. He no longer has any need for it! Some more henchmen arrive but eventually get cleaved up by L and T. The cleric however seizes the opportunity and legs it!
The Misfits are once more fine. They proceed to loot the house(s) for their troubles. Unfortunately the main chap they were after, manages briefly to elude them…
In brief
The cleric they were pointed to by Hagar only just manages to elude the well organised party. People only run though if they have something to hide and some progress seems to have been made, if only the destruction of a foul thieves guild that has been plaguing the good people of Wendar longer than the plague itself.