After the Yard of Vines closed there was a good hour or so of staff moving from place to place, getting things sorted for the next day. Eventually, everyone departed the place and locked it up tight.
The streets in this area of town were quiet at the time of night, but the echoes from the rest of the city made it seem a little haunted.
Using the key to enter (and locking it behind her), Arl looks around for a good place to hide for the ambush. Cee looks for a place for a bird to hide that is safer, but can still see what is going on inside. Both note any potential light sources.
The Yard of Vines was built with style in mind, to that end, there were numerous overhead beams and alcoves for Arl's avian sibling to nestle into.
As for the rest of the place... The dining area on the right seemed to have been tidied away quite nicely, with chairs overturned onto tables very neatly. On the other end of the dining area were stairs that presumably led down to the cellar. The bar area on the left was also tidied nicely, wine glasses hung behind the counter without a water spot to be found. Two doors behind the bar, Arl assumed must lead to corridors or storage of some kind. The more central doors to the kitchen were latched but not locked, probably to prevent pests more than anything else.
Cee gets on one of the overhead beams near a wall, keeping watch on the room below. Arl enters the kitchen, closing the doors behind her as she looks around for a place to hide. Her foe would likely be taking one of the other doors. Hopefully the stairs.
The kitchen was a relatively normal affair, on one end of the room was a large oven and roasting spit. Strewn across the rest of the room were various small stoves and several apparatus that Arl didn't recognise as anything more than machinist contraptions.
Cee spotted someone entering through the front door, and making a quick turn for the bar area. He made no sound as he moved, wearing black leathers that looked a little too tight.
Cee projects his voice, causing a sound to come from the closed front door.
Teh voice - "Hey! What are you doing with that door you rat? What..."
A bloodcurdling scream comes from the other side of the front door. Maybe someone else decided to rob this place tonight.
Arl uses the scream to cover the sounds of her leaving the hiding place to move to an attacking position off to the side of the kitchen door (still in the kitchen).
The figure paused for a moment but seemed unphased by the scream for some reason, hopping over the bar in one fluid movement and opening the door to a corridor behind it.
The voice now comes from behind/to the side of the man
The Voice - "The correct choice. But can you capture the brat, I wonder? Or have your skills rusted?"
Arl burst through the door at the note of "skills". Her swords are drawn as she approaches the bounty. The probably dark corridor is not where she wants to fight this man.
Arl tosses a whistle to Cee, who clutches it in one foot before flying outside the building. Once outside, Cee flies around to see if there is another way into/out of this place.
Arl keeps her weapons at the ready as she kicks the door to the corridor shut. Chasing someone that specializes in shadowy combat into the dark corridors of his <former> workplace would at best lead to him escaping.
Cee's aerial surveillance revealed that the very back of the building, where the wine was presumably made, there was a large pair of doors that opened out into a wide alley. The alley led to one of the Old City's more major roads, it was presumably the path by which the Yard received its grape deliveries. The other surrounding buildings didn't seem in anyway special or important.
The door slammed closed with a loud bang, a moment later Arl heard a soft click.
Cee swoops back around and projects a coughing from the front door. At this, Arl leaves the building as Cee quickly project-whispers the quickest path he saw to reach the street near the back of the building. Cee then continues his surveillance in the air, waiting to see which side of the building Tomas exits. He also notes any interesting folk in the area that might be of use.
There didn't seem to be anyone about in any direction around the Yard of Vines, Cee found. From outside the building there was no sign of Tomas at all, who was presumably still inside the building.
Arl looks around to see if there is a way to climb above the doors, a ladder in the area, anything she could jump on, etc.
While looking she motions for Cee to deal with the front door. He does so by landing near it and projecting the occasional noise into the room. Just enough to sound like a kid and a bird doing a fairly good job at being quiet but failing to fool someone very good at listening.
The doors were set firmly into the wall of the building, no way over them unless Arl also had a way to smash through solid stone. Inside the sound of movement was accompanied by stifled curse.
Arl tries to silently position herself in front of twin doors, to the right of the crack. She gets ready to stab through the crack if the doors open with the intent to make a cut. Even nicking a hand would be sufficient for her purposes.
Arl stays at the back door, hoping this is a feint. If it sounds/looks like Tomas is opening the inner door in the front Cee will clutch the whistle in his beak and blow really hard (projecting the sound away from him).
Tomas walked out the front door of the building, immediately turning in the opposite direction to the way Arl was and began sprinting away, a bottle of wine in hand.
The streets in this area of town were quiet at the time of night, but the echoes from the rest of the city made it seem a little haunted.
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As for the rest of the place... The dining area on the right seemed to have been tidied away quite nicely, with chairs overturned onto tables very neatly. On the other end of the dining area were stairs that presumably led down to the cellar. The bar area on the left was also tidied nicely, wine glasses hung behind the counter without a water spot to be found. Two doors behind the bar, Arl assumed must lead to corridors or storage of some kind. The more central doors to the kitchen were latched but not locked, probably to prevent pests more than anything else.
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Teh voice - "Hey! What are you doing with that door you rat? What..."
A bloodcurdling scream comes from the other side of the front door. Maybe someone else decided to rob this place tonight.
Arl uses the scream to cover the sounds of her leaving the hiding place to move to an attacking position off to the side of the kitchen door (still in the kitchen).
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The Voice - "The correct choice. But can you capture the brat, I wonder? Or have your skills rusted?"
Arl burst through the door at the note of "skills". Her swords are drawn as she approaches the bounty. The probably dark corridor is not where she wants to fight this man.
Arl - "BOTH OF YOU ARE UNDER ARREST!"
Laughter echos from the corridor. Let her try.
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Tomas laughed softly as he swung the door to the corridor open and disappeared behind it.
Arl keeps her weapons at the ready as she kicks the door to the corridor shut. Chasing someone that specializes in shadowy combat into the dark corridors of his <former> workplace would at best lead to him escaping.
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The door slammed closed with a loud bang, a moment later Arl heard a soft click.
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Cee maintains surveillance of the building.
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While looking she motions for Cee to deal with the front door. He does so by landing near it and projecting the occasional noise into the room. Just enough to sound like a kid and a bird doing a fairly good job at being quiet but failing to fool someone very good at listening.
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The large doors remained shut and Arl could swear she heard Tomas heading back towards the front of the building.
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