<em>The list is long enough be assured, your patron is should be among them.</em>Sabisstra answered in sign before fetching a pair of elegant yet sexy, long silken gloves for the other girl, matching the color of her new dress.<br/>"I think you should wear these, they would look fabulous on you!" she said in elven before finishing the message in sign when the priestess took the gloves hesitantly.<em>Wear them at all times. If asked to remove them be hesitant, but once taken off do not hide your hands. Let them think you fancy such pieces of fashion.</em><br/><br/>Sabisstra told the other drow that she too visited the surface world on raids, three times in her life. She didn't learn much beyond what the cleric also discovered, but didn't mention the emerald yet, only that the tanar'ri were hiring mercenaries for raids. She didn't see a reason to be deceptive, but she did leave out a few key details that would have hinted towards her starting to pull strings behind the others backs, or of her true identity.<br/><br/>Being called back to the whorehouse, the assassin thought about the next steps of her plan... she'd have to do some more exploring in the palace soon, and talk to the other staff, make a few contacts. She would also have to befriend another of her cellmates - she just couldn't view the bedroom as anything but a place they were locked up in.<br/>At the end of the day, she felt filthy despite the baths she took. Her loins still felt the tingle of Tavin's lustful thrusting, and the loneliness he left between her legs. Her mouth tasted like semen and cock, even through the wine she used to wash the taste down after one of the patrons made her drink his healthy load she had to struggle with. She wished all of them dead, an opportunity to send all who have wronged her to their graves...<br/>She didn't expect what was coming during her resting hours. When she retrieved it, she actually puked up some cum along with the tiny little emerald, and the gem transported her from one location to the other.<br/><br/><div class="floatright">(http://x1.fjcdn.com/comments/too+bad+this+pic+supposed+to+be+Traxex+Drow+Ranger+from+_4dcd9d44ee94651ac98e7eee39b00a4a.jpg)</div>After reading the message left there - probably meant for Tavin, she wasted little time looting the chests and gearing up, reveling at her senses clearing out finally, and some actual, useful equipment to wear compared to the almost nonexistent silk robe of a pleasure slave she refused to identify with. She modified the robe a little to show off her generous cleavage - it wasn't like real armor that provided any protection after all, and if any males could be distracted by looking at her pillows, it was for her advantage. Her thoughts trailed back to earlier that day, the boobjobs or titfucks some patrons including the owner of this gem demanded. She suddenly felt the stench of a male's shaft coming from her chest again. She shook her head wildly, snapping out of the shameful memory. There was a lack of any significant weaponry left in the room, Sabisstra noted. She would have preferred a bow or crossbow in case she needed to snipe targets, but she was capable enough to defend herself if she had to, and had no plan of engaging in combat with anything she could avoid.<br/><br/>Trying not to waste any more time, she nimbly moved across the short corridor and through the secret door she carefully closed behind herself. She noted the bloody room and reminded herself that parley with Erythnul followers might not be her best idea, and should rely on it as a last effort before attacking... even so she would have preferred not to engage in small talk with crazed barbarians.<br/>She moved on to the room with the collapsed floor and sinkhole in the center. Gauging the distance and the draft from the wind she decided not to risk a jump. Thankfully she didn't have to - she was a proud member of a high-ranking noble house after all. To those of her birth, certain boons were granted. She concentrated and used her levitation ability to safely lower herself to the lower level near the wall, then up to the ledge with the new passage. She moved more silent than a cat, but even if she didn't the wind that sounded like a drawn-out tortured scream would have masked her steps. Spotting the gnolls, she pulled into the small alcove with the table.<br/><br/>Thinking quickly Sabisstra thought she would play a game with the beasts... sneaking past them just like this was risky, so instead she took an empty mug from the table and once again called on her noble-born bloodline to lift herself up, still in the alcove, and levitate to the ceiling, pressing her back flat against it to prevent her cloak from hanging down. A good distraction and they shouldn't even think of looking up... not that primitive beasts like these could think in the manner a drow could! The assassin studied them for a while, noting the weaknesses in their build and gear before she set her plan in motion. First, she dropped the empty mug, lightly tossing it in the direction she came from originally, then just as it fell to the floor in the dark and rolled across the hallway, she called on her ability to create dancing lights, producing a glowing, ghostly humanoid shape made of light near the end of the alcove that led to the collapsed room and making it look like it was the silhouette of a magically hiding intruder who just knocked something over! Then just as the gnolls would look at the source of the disturbance, she would use her ability to shroud their room in utter darkness that even darkvision couldn't penetrate, and willed the dancing lights construct to 'run' into the room then 'jump' down the sinkhole before dissipating, hopefully the gnolls giving chase and trying to figure out where it came from while she lifted the darkness and bypassed their room.<br/>If worst came to pass and she was discovered when the gnolls left the sphere of darkness, she was ready to send a throwing star into the eye of the beast closest to her position...<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Actions</div><div class="spoiler_body">Requested stealth check: 18+16=insanely high. Not rolling acrobatics since she'll use her spell-like ability to bypass the elevation obstacle.<br/>Moving into cover into alcove, then levitating and pressing up against the ceiling near the gnolls. Spend 3 rounds studying them (for death attack) then do a series of timed actions before its window expires:<br/>Round 1: drop the empty mug so it rolls across the hallway (free action) and use dancing lights with the humanoid shape option given in its description. Will it to move like it's surprised by knocking over something from the table then back away towards room 14. If not the mug, the light from dancing lights dude should draw the gnolls attention.<br/>Round 2: Cast deeper darkness (standard) into room 12 so Sabisstra is at the edge of it: she doesn't want to impair her own vision. Will dancing lights dude to move to room 14 and pretend jumping down the sinkhole then end the effect. Lack of sound shouldn't be too obvious due to the wind and the gnolls likely roaring and yelling their shit out.<br/>Round 3: If the stunt doesn't work and she is discovered, Sabisstra will attack, pulling off her death attack by trying to go before the gnolls in initiative. If the gnolls do move into room 14, she will drop back to the floor, dispel the darkness and move around the corner and through the North passage if it is obvious. She won't stop to fiddle with the west door, and if the orc has enough strength left to notice her, slap it in the face with an unarmed sneak attack (basically snap its neck - your description made it sound like he's pretty much helpless).</div></div>