Damn. DAMN. The guards were in on it. He had expected there to be trouble, but for it to be the guards meant that there was definitely no trusting anyone but the society's representative in this village then. Gritting his teeth together, Valen forced himself to listen to the talk going on. Damnable guards. If he had learned the magic to do so, he would have wanted to bombard the whole room with fireballs.<br/><br/>Then the voice of another man rose up, and gritting his teeth together as he listened, Valen paid careful attention to the voice and appearance of the voice and the appearance of the larger man. He certainly seemed to have things in check, and he seemed to be connected, and a man with influence. The talk about murdering the captain under the appearances of her falling to bandits made him want to turn around the corner and shoot the man on the spot, but he held still. He would be of no use to anyone dead.<br/><br/>Bloodlord. Ascent. That all sounded dangerous, and he wondered passingly what to expect, but certainly he'd have to put a stop on this somehow. Moving back as soon as he saw some goblins heading for the room he had been at before, Valen tried to get out of the way. The feeling from the talisman was alarming, but despite it he had to hurry. Moving to turn around a corner, he had to prepare, pull out a magiced finger. Do this right and he could carry on. Do this wrong, and well, it was better to not worry yet on that. He waited for the goblins to arrive to the room and towards the table.<br/><br/>The heat was getting worse, what was it doing, he wondered. Gripping the spellscroll in a metal finger in his hand, the spellbomb ready, he prepared his mind to 'arm' the bomb and throw it at the group of goblins when they came to a good spot, hoping it'd look like a finger malfunctioned and killed them all.<br/><br/>He had no way of knowing it would work, but at least he knew he could -not- stay there and let them look around for their missing companions, and alarm the others. Besides, he was not sure if he could take all the goblins himself, or if he should report in to Sharille first.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">I am starting to think that the character has bitten off more than he can chew on 1st level but playing it as the character doing what he thinks he can and moving to Sharille with the news after that, though backing out seems like the 'Plan B' still. Going to have to wait and see what the talisman does at night, first, and then what can be done about the goblins there.</div></div>