To the guards barracks it was, and she set Tinde down right out front, petting her momentarily on her head before composing herself.  Wouldn't look as good to meet the guard captain.  The man they met was older, covered in scars.  Seemed decent enough too... she nodded her assent and then listened to the exchange with Elrich, whom this man apparently had wanted to arrest... and really, blow up the town?  Petra decided to forgo mentioning her own tinkering with combustible components then...<br/><br/>"Well, I can't speak for what this man here was doing before I met him..." she said, gesturing to the rogue-alchemist with a shrug too "But after I took the mission and the one to find Kairi - the human woman who came here with me and to which I've received payment - I headed out in the direction the orcs had been seen.  I found smoke in the sky from the area of the lake, and so I headed that way.  Heading up through the bushes, I found this man - tortured and tied to a poll helplessly - Kairi who was strung up too, and this woman here who was being made to drown by the ogre whose head I brought back.  Using my weapon..."<br/><br/>She thumbed the pistol at her hip, something she knew was rare to find in this world.  Hell, she was probably one of five who knew how to make these things (and she liked to think she was the damn best at it too!).<br/><br/>"...to take out the three orcs I saw at the camp without being found, apparently.  Then the ogre, who finally spotted me, but I ripped through an artery in it's leg and dropped it quickly.  Released the prisoners and Kairi briefly mentioned that the orcs had been torturing this man for... well... fun." she said, figuring that the wounds would assist in that particular statement "But Elrich here mentioned that he overheard what the orcs had planned, and why they were here.  Stated there were five more that would be back soon.  Hid the orc bodies in the lake, cleared up the blood, used the ogre as cover, we waited for the five to show up, and until one was stupid enough to come to the seemingly sleeping ogre.  The four of us slayed them, making sure none got away, and I removed their heads - for proof of the job done - and we checked the wagon that had been brought, found the deceased man, and used it to get back to the city."<br/><br/>She paused then, thinking... no, no that was everything that needed to be known for sure.  The sex and the fact this man<em>would</em>have been a traitor - combined with the fact that Petra still had the orcish copy of the plans and weakpoints - did not need mentioning... yet.<br/><br/>"I believe that is it." she stated then, nodding " Anything else you need to know?  Or can we discuss payment?"<br/><br/>(Bluffing to lie at the appropriate points! 12 + At 2011-11-26 12:53:47, Keelan (uid: 15533) rolls: 1d20 Result: 16 (http://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=33275) = 28)