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April 19, 1236 (morning)

Sleeping in a little more than usual, the party wakes up to a partly cloudy day.
Nidranisan is in the office a little late, around "10 am"
Fi: [Nidri] On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your success last night?
Nidranisan: Uh...context?
Fi: Courtship. I'm trying to understand how it works in the society.
Nidranisan: Ah, I don't usually think of that on a quantitative scale. I also wouldn't reall consider it courtship.
Vegeta: I can't believe I'm listening to this
Fi: Oh?
Nidranisan: That usually means you're looking for someone to actually marry, or something.
Fi: Oh, so you are not?
Claire: Elves have no word for casual dating
Nidranisan: Noooot so much, no.

Meghan prepares for another rounds of "elves have no word for..."
Fi: Can I assume that it is not for reproductive purposes then?
Claire: Elves also have no word for "hooking up"
Nidranisan: Fi, there are very few people around here who would actually want to reproduce with a girl like me.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): (Elves have 30 words for "Happy Dance Full of Sunshine that Celebrates Life Though")

Hawk Hubertins wanders in, still straightening his doublet, looking like he just woke up.
Nidranisan is hanging out on the floor in her corner of the office.
Fi: Hmm... That is sad.
Nidranisan: It's only sad if I want kids.
Fi: Oh.

Fi looks confused.
Nidranisan: ...you look confused.
Fi: What other reason is there?

Hawk Hubertins yawns and stretches.
Nidranisan: Uh, try it some time.
Claire: oh god
Hawk Hubertins: Hmm?

Fi looks scared.
Claire: "Fidri" is starting up over here
Hawk Hubertins: What?
Do we have another team member already?
Nidranisan grins.
Claire: sounds like they're considering making one
Fi: Oh, hawk. On a scale of 1 to 10 how would your rate your success last night?
Hawk Hubertins: They? What? That doesn't make any sense.
Cat: how snarky a grin is it?
Nidranisan: Nidranisan's Intimidate check: 28
Hawk Hubertins: Success?
Cat: survey says, pretty daaaaamn snarky.
Hawk Hubertins: I guess I had a good time, so an 8?
Fi: At uhh... not courtship... uh. Dating... no... flirting?
Hawk Hubertins: Nidri? Could you please not grin like that? It's disconcerting.
Nidranisan turns to Hawk with the scary eye-twinkle.
Hawk Hubertins: What? I need a cup of coffee before I have a morning like ths.
I'll... be right back.
Bye!

Fi gives up.
Nidranisan: Like what?

Hawk Hubertins almost runs out of the office mumbling about needing coffee.
Nidranisan snickers.
Nidranisan: Incidentally, Marjorie said she'll have some real assignments for us soon.

Fi puts his notebook away.
Nidranisan: I wanted to check in here first for that, but we should also talk to Micel I assume.
Cat: or whatever the heck his name was.
naaaaaames....
Fi: Well, I needed to tell you guys what happened last night, but Hawk ran off.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Micel Verdantflame
Cat: woooo i got it right!
Nidranisan: I'm sure he'll be back.
Just, maybe skip the 'courtship' questions around him?
That's actually something most people only discuss with very close personal friends.
Fi: I shelved it.

Hawk Hubertins wanders back in a few minutes later with a large mug of coffee.
Nidranisan: and Hawk seems really shy about it.
Hannelore is dragged into by an invisible force. She curls up next to Fleir.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): p4 shelve BirdsAndBees.txt
George: Just don't git clone...
Cat: :P
Fi: Anyway. Vegeta discovered traces of gunpowder and other chemicals in a hole by the patio.
When we took a closer look we found that the hole was connected to the tunnel/cave system we've been exploring.

Hawk Hubertins sits down on the comfy couch.
Fi: I decided to inform Melodie of the discovery since people at the party could potentially be at risk.
Vegeta: after she stormed out and I followed, she mentioned she thought this could be an inside job... she was going to inform Dakan but wanted us to pretend it didn't happen
Fi: Pretend with whom? Dakan or others in the office?

Hawk Hubertins sips his coffee.
Hawk Hubertins: How did the three of you wind up so covered in soot?
Fi: We went down the hole to check it out.
It was rather difficult to get down there and the soot gone on us as a result.
Anyway, we found that it did in fact connect with the tunnels.
I think we found a landmark that I recognized.
As we went further we found an area that looks like the epicenter of an explosion.
Melodie became very disturbed because it was beneath their house.
Vegeta: it seemed like she was going to handle it... not sure
Fi: Ok. We'll talk about it only with Dakan and only if he asks.
Speaking of Dakan, we should probably see him today. I'm sure he will want to know a bit more about what happened.
What with us giving him all those people to take care of.
Hawk Hubertins: Did Melodie want to talk to us about it?
Yes, there is that too.
And we want to check in with the librarian as well, don't we?
Fi: I don't think so. She might come to us for assistance if she needs it. I can hope.
Vegeta: she didn't seem to...
Hawk Hubertins: Or do we have an appointment with him?
Vegeta: at least not at the time
Hawk Hubertins: ok
Fi: We will need to make another appointment with him.

Fi holds up the library pass.
Meghan: oh, lawful good quandry...
Claire: Ok, guys... So she's our employer and I don't want to be fired or anything, but what do we do if she .. . doesn't report it.
To Dakan.
?
Fi: She will.
Vegeta: she said she would
Fi: She seems to like him.
George: And on that note, I'm heading offline to deal with stuff and go to bed. G'nite guys!
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Night George.
Claire: yes, but this means that the explosion came from under the EFTC family headquarters
right?
Meghan: night George
Nidranisan: Uh, their personal home, not company anything.
Claire: Yes, because it's not like the company is intrinsically tied to the family.
Nidranisan: It seems to me it's very much up to her whether she thinks someone close to Dakan could be involved.
Fi: The old queen's palace.
Nidranisan: Personally, I trust their judgement.
Claire: Right. Ok. So let's see what happens.
Nidranisan: I mean, she's the head of security, no?
Fi: I think she suspects someone in the company, not Dakan.
Claire: That's what I thought
And she's head of security, so she'll want to root it out herself
Nidranisan: Sure, so, I'm just saying, I think she knows better than we probably do. :)
Claire: but it could imply a conspiracy to Dakan. 'Cause it could sure sound like one from here.
Nidranisan: I think telling her was the right move, and she'll come to us if she needs help.
Claire: Did she specifically say to forget it happened?
Nidranisan: in the meantime, we probably need to figure out what we are telling Dakan and Micel, and which one we want to talk to first.
Fi: Not to me. Vegeta is the one who spoke with her afterward.
Claire: And I wasn't there to poke him with a stick. Pity
Fi: Let's see if Micel will see us first. If we learn anything new we can bring that knowledge with us to Dakan so we don't need to visit him twice.
Nidranisan: Except Dakan usually explicitly doesn't want to know that stuff. Though I suppose we can just not tell him.
Vegeta: yes, she specifically said to forget it happened
so let's play it cool for now and go see Micel in the meantime
Fi: But what we learn may lead us to need to do something else that we should speak to Dakan about.
That's all I meant by that.
Nidranisan: Yeah, I think it makes sense.
And we should also ask Micel to look at that rod, and tell him about your little enchantment experience.
Fi: Oh... yeah, of course.
Nidranisan: Well, do we want to run errands today so we're prepared if assignments come in tomorrow, or wait around for assignments and hope they're not immediately urgent?
I would suggest we go talk to people now, so we're ready
Fi: We could always ask first?
Nidranisan: sure, we could swing by majorie's office before we go.
tell her we have some meetings.
and see when she expects our assignment to be ready.

Fi nods.
Vegeta: let's go then
(GM) Chad S. (GM): So, off to Marjorie's office?
Chris: yes.
who wants to talk?
well I guess people are bed timing. Should Fi handle it or wait for tomorrow?
Hernz: well, vegeta is not allowed to do the talking hahaha :)
I'm ok with Fi, but up to folks
Chris: Chad? shall we continue or wrap up for the night?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): I'm good with either. We can probably wrap up.
Chris: ok. Let's call it a night.
Hernz: very well, night then!
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Nighty night folks.
Hernz: sitting here doing taxes... yay!
Chris: I'm almost done. I have to wait until they give me the strike price for the options that I exercised.
Hernz: and done!
mmmmmm options... mmmmm
hey Chad, just had a deadly character idea... Casey Jones from TNMNT... make him a thief, give him Catch off-guard feat, and he can use any random stick he finds as an improvised weapon, dealing sneak attack damage with EVERY HIT regardless of flanking or any of htat crap... holy shit!
Chris: lol
Hernz: that's wicked!
(GM) Chad S. (GM): lulz

April 19, 1236 (morning)

Hernz: if vegeta dies, casey jones will emerge lol
The team debates on their business for the day. Perhaps talk to Marjorie?
Cat: check in with marjorie before heading out for some "appointments" (micel, then dakan.)
Chris: agreed.
Hernz: yes
Marjorie's office is full of accountants, moneylenders, and salesmen counting money and practicing their pitches.
Marjorie is at her desk, examining bookkeeping records. Abraxinal is there, attending her needs and gathering documentation.
Marjorie looks up at the team as they approach.
Marjorie Mel: May I help you this morning?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): (Whee, entering taxes for the first time.)
Cat: lolz. BofA didn't send me everything i need, my taxes are awaiting more paperwork. sigh
Nidranisan: Hello Miss Marjorie. I wanted to check in and see if you knew when our next assignment would be ready.
We have a few meetings to conduct that we'd like to schedule appropriately.
Hernz: I remember waiting for a couple months last year for the interest papers from citizens... and they never send when it's below like $50 from interest and didn't find that out till like april lol
Cat: this is from the old mortgage before we refinanced in April.
definitely more than $50 ;)
Marjorie Mel: As always, Miss Nidranisan, I appreciate your dedication. I will have three tasks ready within the next two days. I can only apologize that we aren't ready yet.
Nidranisan: That's fine -- we'll finish up our other business. I wanted to ensure we will be available when you need us.
Marjorie Mel: Thank you, Miss Nidranisan.
Nidranisan: We should be back in our office tomorrow morning.
Thank you!
Chris: I'm staring at a $2500 e-bike motor kit in my cart, and debating if I pull the trigger.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Meta Crap: You will get to choose between multiple quests soon!
As soon as I write them up!
Hernz: if I had any clue what that did, I could help you push or not push the button lol
Cat: lol awesome.
Chris: 500 watt power assistance for my commuting bicycle.
Nidranisan is pretty much turning to walk out. (if anyone else wants to talk, go for it, otherwise we leave. :) )
George: GOing to try to catch up now

Fi waves bye.
Cat: just for the record, today eric seems to be playing with every single toy chris and meghan gave him.
he's going to town on that italian animal noises thing right now.
also, the transformers, and the mega bloks table.
Chris: Yay!
Cat: it's pretty adorbs. :)
Chris: I guess we're off to see Micel.
Cat: that's the plan.
Hernz: let's dot it
George: Sounds like it.
The guards at the Arcane Library warn you once again to refrain from any hostile action inside the library. Fi shows the ticket, and the receptionist opens a path to a stairwell.
The stairs go down, then up into a hemispherical room. Micel Verdantflame is staring at the ceiling, not really acknowledging the party's presence.
Hernz: of course not
Fi: We have some things you will want to look at.
Nidranisan is opening up her bag and pulls out the bowling ball, wrapped in some extra cloth.
Cat: (you know what i mean by the bowling ball...)
(sometimes i wonder if i've been disconnected, or if it just got really quiet.)

Fi pulls out her rod...
Nidranisan: [Fi] Maybe...one at a time?

George chuckles.
Fi: I suppose. I just thought that somehow the rod and ball went together...
Chris: I'll stop being silly now.
Cat: i hope you're handling that rod a little more carefully than last time.
George: cough :)
Cat: well, last time shklee didn't use any kind of protection and bad things happened!
George: Yes dear.
Chris: I'm sure Latrop appreciates being compared to an STD.
Micel Verdantflame stands up immediately and makes a beeline to the bowling ball
Nidranisan: This the stuff you were looking for?
Cat: he's so gonna be the bad guy.
it'll be like the time we brought that shrunken head to the lich.
Micel Verdantflame: You found it...yes, yes, you found it. Incredible!
Nidranisan: By the way, are you familiar with the name 'Latrop'?
Hernz: I have a crappy Dell Latrop
Cat: lol.
gotta go brush teeth w/eric. back in a few.
Micel Verdantflame hands the party a bag
Hernz: 100 billion GP!
Micel Verdantflame: Per the deal, here are your 100 pieces of platinum.
Hernz: holy crap I was quasi right!
Chris: What's a few orders of magnitude between friends.
Hernz: lol
Cat: somehow, player doesn't remember this deal.
Hernz: me niether, but we'll take it!
Nidranisan: Thank you.
There was a quite interesting item stuck in it when we found it.
Related to my previous question, in fact.
Hernz: did we see him do anything with it other than look at it?
Micel Verdantflame: Latrop is an Axiomatic, a creature derived from the planes of Order.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): (Apologies, in the nitty gritty of tax forms)
Cat: heh.
Nidranisan: Mmm. Is he/she known to be somehow contained in a magical rod?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Latrop was a Cartographer who could access many planes throughout the many realms.
Fi: Cartographer? Cool.
Micel Verdantflame said that
Micel Verdantflame: It used a black and gold rod as a implement to travel between planes...before the Great War, anyway.
Nidranisan: Very interesting.
Chris: We've been showing all these things to this guy right?
Nidranisan: Makes more sense that it would have odd observations about the portal opening to Sthenos.
Cat: yeah.
Nidranisan: Did you want to take a look at the rod?
Micel Verdantflame: Do I?
Micel Verdantflame is beaming
Nidranisan: If you don't mind, Fi.

Fi shows him Latrop's rod.
Nidranisan: We have a few questions, when you've had a closer look.
Cat: ...you did that on purpose. :P
Hernz: lol
Micel takes Fi's rod and is wordless as he observes it, twirls it, pokes it and twirls it around.
Hernz: STOP IT CHAD!!
Cat: this plot is so awesome. it can do anything.
Micel Verdantflame: Incredible...where did you find this? I think this is what it uses.
Nidranisan: In that.
Nidranisan points at the ball.
Fi: COBRA was trying to use it to open a portal under the city.
Micel Verdantflame: To the realm of Stheno.
Nidranisan: Yup.
You know something more about COBRA, or were you paying more attention than I thought before? ;)
Nidranisan is smiling politely, this time.
Micel Verdantflame: Ever since the Great War, interplanar travel became extremely difficult.
Summoning creatures from another plane is quite difficult, in fact.
You need to focus, you need the right location, you need an enormous amount of energy, etcetera, etcetera.
COBRA...sounds like a children's story, honestly.
Nidranisan: Are you familiar with the...[shit, i'm gonna spell it wrong again]
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Vishkanya
Nidranisan: YES. THOSE.
The Vishkanya?
Cat: i was typing 'Vinkaya' and it was too short. i'm getting closer though.
Micel Verdantflame: (To GM) rolling 1d20+5
(
10
)+5
= 15
Micel Verdantflame: An entire race of viper-like humans, worship a snake god called Stheno but where banished to another plane?
Nidranisan: Either not all, or some have found a way back.
They are actually descended from humans, or you just mean humanoid?
Micel Verdantflame: Humanoids, I suppose. At some point it gets all muddled. Humans have gradually changed over the last several thousand years. They seem to be some kind of basis for all other races. Very odd.
Micel Verdantflame shrugs
Nidranisan: Fair enough.
Micel Verdantflame: But you said someone opened a plane to the Realm of Stheno?
Nidranisan: Hard to tell if it was actually opening when we stopped them, or not quite.
If not quite, it was very close.
There are a bunch of Vishankya under Harvest Wharf working on bringing their commander through
Cat: just...swap that k a few places left...
Fi: High pitched annoying voice.
Nidranisan: They had combined the rod and the ball of [unobtanium] in some way that was the focus for whatever they were doing.
Micel Verdantflame: Now planar entrance is difficult. Especially for so many creatures of varying power. Probably the weak ones got in first, then you gradually increase in strength until you have the rulers and divine entities coming through.
Nidranisan: Lovely.
Micel Verdantflame: Black Sendrine can be used to induce Otherworldly Entities back to existance.
Cat: sorry, it seems i'm having trouble with room in my brain for vocab lately. :(
Chris: I always assumed that the reason for the progressive strengthening of guys coming through a portal was they wanted to make sure that the portal was stable enough to survive going through. "We'll just test it with a few mooks."
Cat: lol.
Hernz: lol
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Ah, the Metroid Space Pirate Technique
Micel Verdantflame: So. Someone shows up, activates Lotrap, points it at the realm of Stheno and boom: invasion force.
Fi: Seems that way.
Nidranisan: Sounds about right.
Or rather, sounds quite a lot like what they were doing.
Micel Verdantflame: I wonder who would open that portal...
For those in the know, Black Sendrine is extremely valuable for reasons like this. I don't suppose Lotrap was active when you found it?
Nidranisan: Latrop possessed Fi when the rod came loose from the Black Sendrine.
And spoke to us for a few minutes.
It said something about an insane human mage who violated many arcane rules.
And also mentioned they must have "a sponsor"
There was a scroll to link to the realm of Stheno, and they had slaves building some kind of big statues.
Micel Verdantflame: Statues would make a good focus to open an interplanar gate for an extended period of time.
Nidranisan: It definitely sounds like someone had a very well-informed plan.
And some extremely rare items.
Micel Verdantflame: The insane human mage is probably Sendrine herself. Big into transmutation magic. She turned herself into some kind of material.
Nidranisan: Uh, not this stuff?
Micel Verdantflame: This is one of the variants, yes.
Nidranisan: That's creepy.
Micel Verdantflame: As Latrop said, she crossed many, many boundaries to transform herself.
Many.
Micel Verdantflame returns the rod to Fi
Micel Verdantflame: ...I haven't bought this yet.
Fi: So... What do Magmere, Vishkanya, Sendrine, and the Old Queen's palace have to do with each other? Somehow these all came together under this town...
Micel Verdantflame: Sendrine is international.
The Old Queens only conquered your continent.
Nidranisan: And what did Latrop mean about someone sponsoring the Vishkanya...what kind of someone?
Micel Verdantflame: I don't know those answers.
But that's the joy of research!
Nidranisan: Hmm. I'm not sure if we have real access to any resources that might have those answers.
Perhaps the company will have access.
Thank you again for your time, Mr. Verdantflame.
Micel Verdantflame: I wouldn't be surprised if the East Ferren Trading Company had access. They seem to have much more than a mere trading company would.
Nidranisan: Trading is an excellent way to get what you need. :)
Micel Verdantflame: Of course! Toodles.
Nidranisan: If you hear of any other...items...we might be on the look for, say anything you would want to examine, please feel free to send a runner.
Fi: Toodles.
Micel Verdantflame: A... Runner?
Nidranisan: You don't get out much do you.
Fi: A person you pay to run across town to deluver a message.
Micel Verdantflame giggles
Micel Verdantflame: Which town, again?
Cat: is this place really that far out of town?
Chris: no

Fi has the not sure if seious face.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): The entrance to the Arcane Library is in Traderstrip.
Nidranisan has the "this is really weird, is he actually OK" side-eye to Fi.
Micel Verdantflame: The East Ferren Trading Company is based in Harvest Wharf. We're...not in Harvest Wharf anymore.
Still, I will request a Harvest Wharf runner to contact you.
Fi: Of course...
Nidranisan: Sure, but the door gets you there. I mean, certainly if you have more interesting means of contacting us, that's fine I'm sure.
Micel Verdantflame reclines back in his chair
Nidranisan: If you have a lead, I doubt we'll nitpick the means of contact.
Micel Verdantflame: I will contact you when needed. If you find any more Sendrine, I will reward you handsomely.
Vegeta: thanks for the history lesson old man (no sarcasm)
Nidranisan: Excellent. I presume we can leave a note at the front desk if that happens.
Thank you again for the information you've shared.
Micel Verdantflame: Oh!
Micel Verdantflame hops up from the seat and hands Nidri another pass
Micel Verdantflame: You'll need this next time.
Nidranisan: Ah, OK. That makes more sense.
We'll let you get back to your work.
Nidranisan tucks the pass into her bag.
The party heads back down, then up into the lobby.
The receptionist is using Mage Hand to carefully remove pieces of wood from a wooden tower.
Cat: lol mage jenga.
Nidranisan: So, off to see Dakan next?
Cat: did the money go on the Loot handout?
Fi: Sure.
Vegeta: yes... still trying to absorb everything that old man just told us...
Cat: i mean i'm sure we're just going to split it, but that'll probably make it easier to track who has noted it on character sheets.
Chris: Hernz is all over the loot.
Nidranisan: Yeah, usually.
er
Cat: Yeah, usually.
i always give it a good rinse before i touch it ;)
Hernz: I can add it
Cat: cool.
Hernz: too late. someone did already
(GM) Chad S. (GM): I added it

April 19, 1236 (lunchtime)

Hernz: couldn't have been 102.... sigh... lol
Cat: haha math.
Chris: Chad takes out 4GP for taxes.
Hernz: HAHAHAHA
High noon is partially blocked by the clouds.
Hernz: did turbo tax say to do that?
Chris: Yeah. AMT.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Oh man, I'm so getting owned by Uncle Sam this year. Oh well, this just means I got a loan from the government.
Chris: Changing your W-4?
Cat: i might be too, depends a lot on that paperwork i don't have yet. :/
Chris: There was that year when out tax return was over $9000...
oops...
Cat: heh.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Hey Vegeta! What does Uncle Sam say about that Tax Return?
Hernz: uuuhhh.....
I feel like one of those con calls where I haven't paid any attention and suddenly they say "right Hernan?"
(GM) Chad S. (GM): lol
swing and a miss.
Chris: IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAND!
Hernz: hahahaha... oh man,...
(GM) Chad S. (GM): We'll call it here tonight, folks.
Cat: siiiiiigh.
Hernz: wow, how'd I miss that?
Cat: i'm gonna go with "not paying attention" ;)
Hernz: but I read the whole thing lol
just didnt click haha
Cat: hope the damage isn't too bad, chad.
Hernz: alright, night guys
Chris: Dragon Ball Z is going to be in IMAX 3D in Japan: http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2015/01/28/dragon-ball-z-resurrection-of-f-will-be-the-first-japanese-film-releasing-in-imax-3d
Cat: ...
Hernz: nice.....
George: So 16pp for everyone?
Hernz: 16pp, 6gp, 6sp, 6cp, and 1 cp for our together fund
George: K
Hernz: rather, 4 cp to our together fund... anyway
(GM) Chad S. (GM): A 7th Fast and Furious movie? OK, watching the Super Bowl was worth it.
Haven't laughed that hard in days.
Hernz: LOL
just saw that
terminator and jurassic park, good... F&F7.........
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Um. I mean.

April 19, 1236 AD (lunchtime)

Chris: our TV is otherwise occupied.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Luckily you have a WiiU. I was gonna play some Fire Emblem if ya'll weren't on.
Hernz: 90% of the commercials suck, so it's ok, not missing anything
Cat: we tried to stream the puppy bowl and failed.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): I missed some context there
Chris: "Puppy Bowl" it's a show on Animal Planet during the Super Bowl.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Oh STREAM
Not STEAM
Chris: ...
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yeah, see?
Makes a big difference
Hernz: lol
Cat: i had to go check if i typed it wrong, or chad parsed it wrong.
Chris: Anyway. We're off to see the Dakan.
Hernz: yes
Back to the barracks. Norvi hails the team and escorts them to Captain Dakan's office.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): McD's new turn around strategy!
This'll earn some profits!
Hernz: lol
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Pay with Lovin'. You may be randomly selected to call a relative and say you love them. Then the meal is free!
Hernz: we got 18000 points of love... we invested that in new air freshners
chad, I'm going to go get amulet of mighty fists+4 for some love.... I'll pull an alucard if I have to
Captain Dakan is writing notes into his journal. He motions the party to sit down.
Fi: I hope all the releasees were okay.
Alexen Dakan: Besides the obvious trauma and exhaustion, most were fine after some rest.
Thank you for finding them so quickly.

Fi nods.
Fi: So where should we start?
Hmm... I guess I'll just jump to the weird part.
Alexen Dakan: Please do.
Fi: The Vishkanya were part of a group calling themselves COBRA. They were attempting to open a portal to allow more of their group through.
They had been using their prisoners to build these statues. One of which was some kind of focal point that they may have been using along with a relic and some magic material.
We may or may not have the relic. And the material may or may not be with Micel now.
Alexen Dakan: A relic. Was it a ring, or an orb perhaps?
Fi: rod.
Alexen Dakan: A rod...hmm. Good.
Fi: We did how ever stop them before too many came through.
Alexen Dakan: During the Fifty Years War, the Lucavan tended to use Rings and Orbs to use others.
As always, thank you.
The survivors from Magmere spoke a bit more to me, personally.
Apparently they were using the shelter to smuggle explosives and weapons into the city for several months.
Fi: Did they have a large stockpile under it?
Perhaps they set it off unintentionally?
Alexen Dakan: Yes, Fi. A very large stock and supply. I was concerned how they moved so much without detection. I also wondered what they were planning to do with it.
When you have so much explosive material, you need an expert to maintain it carefully.
It's easy to cause an accident, and also easy to lose the payload.
Fi: Hmm. I'm still not clear on how the altercation between The Vishkanya and Magmere started.
Were they just operating independently until one day their paths crossed underground?
Alexen Dakan: Hmm. Yes, that wasn't clear to me. Perhaps you would like to ask them personally? No point getting it second hand when you can get it from the source.
Nidranisan: Almost wish we'd been able to bring back one if the Vishkanya alive.
Who are the Lucavan?
Cat: ...unless i already know that...
Alexen Dakan: The Lucavan were the masterminds behind the Fifty Years War.
They left enough evidence to accuse the Mel family of being Devils.
George: Lovely.
Alexen Dakan: I had slain the Demonic Lucavan leader and brought his head back to diffuse tensions.
Hawk Hubertins: I guess the Mel family is lucky you were here.
Nidranisan: Interesting...so they're a group, a family, or a race?
Alexen Dakan: Yes, it turns out they were possessing people using rings and orbs to get people.
The Lucavan were... I suppose Cult is the correct word. Demon worshipers and demons all dedicated to revive their Lord Lucavan.
Nidranisan: Sounds...eerily comparable to this whole COBRA/Vishkanya thing.
Alexen Dakan: Apparently they needed great bloodshed to do this and began a war.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Lol Dads caring for Daughters = Toyota Camry?
Chris: Nothing says family car like a camry.
Cat: they have to beat out the accord somehow?
Chris: except maybe minivan.
Hernz: who cares guys?? katie perry's about to sing!!
Chris: who?
Cat: minivan says family minivan, not family car ;)\
Hernz: I dunno... I assume a chick... could be a dude
(GM) Chad S. (GM): No, Pepsi is teleporting...stuff...to a stadium...and I guess summoned Katy Perry?
Hernz: oh! it's voltron!
(GM) Chad S. (GM): OMG She is riding a robot lion. It's totally Voltron
Alexen Dakan: Ahem. No distractions!
Cat: lol.
Alexen Dakan: Yes, the Mel family has helped this city, and we have helped them.
I have vaguely heard of the Vishkanya. Well, Zeela talked my ear off once the captured members mentioned this.
Chris: We build this city on Love and Peace.
Nidranisan: Mm. Are you by any chance familiar with the name Latrop?
Alexen Dakan: Latrop? No, I'm not. My apologies.
Nidranisan: I see.
Were you suggesting we question the Magmere folks who had been captured by the Vishkanya, to see if we can find out anything else?
Fi: Seems that way.
Hernz: what happens if Katy perry pulls an Owen Heart right now?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): That was the first thing I thought of.
Hernz: lol
Chris: The same thing she does every night?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Try to take over the world?
...I was not prepared for this cross over.
Alexen Dakan: Come! I will take you to the most cooperative one of them.
Fi: Thanks.
Nidranisan: Hawk might want to wait outside.
He's not fond of my "bad cop" face.
Meghan: I don't understand that reference.
(it cut out my tags :( )
\
...
&lt
... nope
Hernz: owen heart was a wrestler who did an entrance on some clable, and it snapped or whatever, he fell and died...
Hawk Hubertins: I'll just wait here then?
Fi: If you won't feel left out.
Captain Dakan stands up and leads the team (sans Hawk, unless he changes his mind) to the sub basement.
Chris: You can tell how evil they are by how many "sub" prefixes there are.
Nidranisan: You're welcome to come along and step out if it gets to the squeamish part.
As the door to the subbasement is opened, the prisoners yell and scream, proclaiming innocence and swearing revenge.
As soon as Captain Dakan steps in, the prisoners fall silent. All you hear are his steps.
Fi: Fascinating.
Nidranisan snickers.
Meghan: Thanks, Hernz.

Vegeta is amused
Captain Dakan leads the team to a side room. In this room, are a series of chairs. Behind a divider lies one of the two Magmere affiliates you rescued from COBRA in the caverns.
Alphose: Ah yes, Captain. Thank you for the quite tasty meal. I trust my information have helped your investigations?
Alexen Dakan nods
Alexen Dakan: You may recognize these people. They are the reason you are alive today. They have additional questions for you.
Alphose: Of course, of course! I assume my sentence will be further adjusted?
Alexen Dakan laughs
Alexen Dakan: We'll see. Depends on my mood.
I will let them take over the questioning.
Fi: Thank You.
Alphose: Ah yes, yes! I remember seeing you run in right before my partner was cut down and I lost consciousness.
Fi: Yes, the Vishkanya were rather agressive.
Cat: are these the two crazy ones?
well, one of.
Chris: This is the non-druid that was happy about dying, I assume.
Cat: that's what i mean.
Chris: that was negative for both parts.
Alphose: Oh, also Earalan and her stupid ant, I guess.
Well, here I am, at your mercy.
Fi: The first thing we would like to understand is how you first encountered those creatures.
Alphose: Hmm. Maybe a week ago, was it?
Cat: afk a few
Alphose: Earalan was ranting about her ant and how today would be the big day. We moved with about fifty various agents through the tunnels.
Then Earalan accused Snaaku of hissing loudly! The nerve! Snaaku never makes noise unless he has to. He's well trained!

Fi nods.
Alphose: Hmpf. I've been banned from summoning Snaaku here. Most unfortunate.
I was getting somewhere.
Oh! Soon the hissing intensifies, and it's clear we've been ambushed by these snake people. They hit us hard and fast.
Earalan and I were cut off and had to flee deeper into the caves.
Vegeta: and they took the 40 of you? how many where there?
50*
Nidranisan: Nidranisan's Sense Motive check: 15
Alphose: I didn't really count, honestly. Fifty sounds about right...
Vegeta: sense motive 16
Cat: do i buy it?
Alphose: (To GM) rolling 1d20+4
(
17
)+4
= 21
Vegeta: go on
Alphose: So, overwhelmed by a contingent, we fought them off the best we could. Earalan threw caution to the wind, as usual.
...I think that's when you met us.
Fi: I see. So that was your first encounter with them?
No one had any knowledge of them being down there?
Alphose: No. None of us knew. As far as we knew the caves were empty. Besides, Team Magmere can handle anything!
...
Except for an ambush of snake men.
Nidranisan: Clearly.
How long had you personally been down there?
Alphose: Three months.
Fi: Could you point out on this map which tunnels you had been using?
Alphose: Sure, sure.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Toenail Fungus hates the Superbowl CONFIRMED
Alphose scribbles a few points on Fi's map. Most of it starts on the Cliffside entrance.
Some of the patrol paths go near the Mel residence
Chris: Does it seem to mostly avoid the areas where we encountered the Vishkanya.
Nidranisan mumbles.
Nidranisan: Still not clear on how 2 people get split off from a group of 50.
We should find out what happened to the rest.
Vegeta: cowards run.... fast

Fi sighs.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): The paths do avoid the part of the cavern where the Vishkanya were.
Nidranisan: I guess it sounds consistent with them rounding up slaves.
Alphose: Slaves? Hmpf. Team Magmere pays its employees well, thank you!
Nidranisan: Apparently not based on brains though.
Fi: Uh.. Not you guys.
Please don't insult him right now.
Vegeta: (whispers to himself) yeah yeah
Alphose shrugs
Fi: We found a room where there was a large explosion. Do you know what happened there?
Alphose: Well, what can I say? Here I am. Bargaining an early release.
Ah, the explosion. Well.
We had an "expert" who was supposed to keep the explosives there until we were actually ready to detonate them.
The idiot sets it off early for a big boom.
Oh well, roll with the punches, start the riot as planned.
Cat: "where 'x' is an unknown quantity, and 'spurt' is a drip under pressure..."
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Assume the explosives are a sphere...
Fi: I see. Who made the decision on where to store them?
Alphose: Let me think, let me think...
I don't suppose you could guarantee my safety after revealing this identity, could you?
I've heard the stories.
Nidranisan: That would be a great question for Captain Dakan.
Alexen Dakan: Hmm. A moment, Alphose.
Alexen Dakan whispers to the party
Alexen Dakan: Is this information worthwhile to you?
Fi: [Dakan] I am uncertain at this time. It may be of more use to you than us. I suspect that someone chose to use that location and intentionally blew it up early to cover something else up. Just a theory though.
Alexen Dakan: [Fi] Hmm. An interesting idea. More protection can be promised to him, and of course I would try to protect him some more.
Fi: [Dakan] Has Melodie spoken with you in the last day by chance?
Nidranisan is listening, but pretty much giving Alphose the stare.
Alexen Dakan: [Fi] Melodie did tell me about your discovery last night. She was quite embarrassed that she never noticed it. Poor woman.
[Fi] My men are investigating the breach right now.
Fi: [Dakan] Ok. I'm not sure if I should find the location suspicious due to the Mel's living there or due to the history of the place.
Alexen Dakan nods
Alexen Dakan: [Fi] I will offer him futther protection to get this answer. It may be useful futher on.
Fi: [Dakan] Very well.
Hernz: Mophie? wtf is a mophie?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): I have no idea, but the Loctite comercial required too much brain bleach to remember
Hernz: LOL
Alexen Dakan turns to Alphose
Alexen Dakan: Yes, you have my word and this town's finest protection. Now, speak up.
Alphose: Excellent!
Alphose mumbles "maybe I'll need protection from that one" while looking at Nidri
Alphose: It's a goblin, named Snock. Explosives expert who lives in the Docks District.
Well, the fringes of the Docks District.
Nidranisan: Employed by Magmere? Or just contracted for this one task?
Alexen Dakan: ...Snock?
Alphose: Never heard of him before. But probably a contractor. Magmere is very loose. Hard to find a single point of failure, you see.
Chris: I suspect there is one, the one orchestrating this. I have a feeling that someone is using Magmere for a purpose other than what you are told.

Fi said that.
Fi: What were you told that you were trying to do?
Nidranisan: Magmere is pretty good at that, now that you mention it.
Alphose: My mission was to protect the explosives until the designated hour, then cause a general riot once they go off. Wasn't told the exact reason. Revenge against the Mel Family?
Fi: I see... Out of curiosity, revenge for what?
Alphose: Not told, sorry.
Fi: So. Pretty much everyone is doing this for the money and not the ideology.
Alphose: I was doing this for the money, that's for sure. Gave Snaaku gold-plated fangs once.
...he didn't like it.
Nidranisan: Gold is soft, and not very delicious.
So you know, or at least have an inkling, that it was about revenge, but not exactly why.
Alphose: Yes, Snock mentioned there was a "Big Boom for revenge from da boss."
Nidranisan: And...you know who "da boss" would be, exactly?
Alphose: Then he handed me...my part of the pay. Quite lucrative.
Nope. Never told me.
If you don't know your boss's boss, it makes it harder to rat them out.
Nidranisan makes a face.
Nidranisan: Yup.
Fi: Who paid you?
Alphose: Snock seemed responsible.
For the payments.
Fi: Ok. I think that is everything I had. Anyone else?
Alphose: [Dakan] I'm a bit famished. Is it lunchtime yet?
Alexen Dakan: [Alphose] Depends on when they are finished.
Cat: crap i did have something else.
but i forgot.
Chris: Something on the Magmere side or the Vishkanya side?
Cat: pretty sure my brain lost it forever.
OH
Chris: Oh well.
Nidranisan: Yeah one other thing...
Chris: Light Bulb.
Nidranisan: Do you always squeal gleefully with your friends about how terribly you're going to die in battle?
Alphose: Ugh. I don't know what branch of the stupid tree she hit on the way down, but Earalan has always had a screw loose.
Chris: I still just remember that being the druid.
Cat: i didn't go back and read, but i remember it as a conversation.
Alphose: The only thing she cares about is her stupid ant. She spent an hour in the holding cell crying her ant's name.
Believe me, I was willing to give all sorts of information just to get this room. Thank you once again, Captain.
Alexen Dakan maintains a straight face
Nidranisan: Indeed. Well if we come up with more questions, you might see us again.
Alexen Dakan: Sometimes an annoying cellmate can open anyone's lips.
Nidranisan will keep that in mind.
Alphose frowns, realizing he's been had
NOW Captain Dakan smiles
Nidranisan snickers.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Alright, that's it for tonight, folks. I'm gonna give others a chance to interrogate. Plus I should go to rest earlier in the day.
Hernz: Ill be shoveling if anyone needs me... who am I kidding, no one will need me lol
Cat: if you wanna come shovel, we need you ;)
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Had enough walking through snow for one day.
Hernz: hahaha
I have to do mine and my parents cause they're on vaca in warm argentina
Cat: nice. Eric and George are both sick.
as far as I concerned, today can go pretty much the same place as yesterday and most of last week.

April 19, 1236 (Afternoon)

(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yeah it was a lot worse than everyone estimated
Cat: eh, we were slated for 1-2 overnight and like 7-11 during the day...not that far off from what we got.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): I guess. No one ran around declaring SNOWMAGEDDON though
Hernz: we were supposed to get a bit of snow and a bunch of rain.... there was no rain lol
Cat: right. i read the un-sensationalized NWS releases, so i don't get words like 'snowmageddon' ;)
Chris: I'm running out of room for snow. Plus I guess we should be getting more all month.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Note to self: Add SNOWMAGEDDON to the campaign
Chris: Another foot next week?
Cat: yeah, the pile next to the driveway is over my head now.
and the driveway is only like half done.
Hernz: yes! resist cold (Claire benefits), bad visibility (take that Fi and your arrows!), and difficult terrain!
Meghan: all fucking month?
uuuuuuggggghhhh...
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Welcome to February
At least January was left alone
Cat: btw this is actually a record for Boston in 'total snow over a 7 day period'
Meghan: I'm really hoping Locke doesn't get sick again because this last week was driving me crazy
Cat: between last tuesday and today.
Meghan: he was home all week, which meant I was home all week
getting precisely dick done
Cat: ugh.
Hernz: you got cheesecake done :)
Cat: I'm just hoping Eric isn't moving that direction.
Hernz: or so I see in your pics ;)
Cat: He had a stomach thing on saturday and now his whole face is running.
Meghan: it's not done yet
it needs to chill for 6+ hours
and that was today. last week I did close to nothing
Cat: sigh. Belmont schools are closed tomorrow. that means a high likelihood eric's school is closed too.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yeah, lots of surprise closings declared today.
Cat: i guess we'll have to see if i can shovel the plowdrift tomorrow morning.
Captain Dakan asks if anyone has any remaining questions to ask the remaining Magmere member.
Cat: nidri's done, i dunno if anyone else who didn't already participate is here.
Hernz: vegeta's good

Anne S. resurfaces
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Last call before we move on, while I grab laundry.
Anne S.: um, I'm good
Captain Dakan leads the team out of Alphose's holding cell. The hallway falls silent again as they behold his presence.
Vegeta: it's Anne!
Back in his office, Dakan motions everyone to sit back down.
Alexen Dakan: Another enlightening conversation.
This "Snock" person...I've never heard of this person before.
Vegeta: don't look at me... I... don't get out much
Alexen Dakan: I would like to find and interrogate this goblin, of course. But my patrols may make it too obvious.
Vegeta: I'm sure we can handle that... seems a simple enough task...
Alexen Dakan: Thank you all for your help.
sigh This all seems overly convoluted.
Nidranisan: And probably engineered to be that way.
Fi: Complicated plans tend to be harder to understand, but they also fall apart more easily.
Alexen Dakan: Yes, they do. That's the good news.
Please, keep me updated.
Hernz: anyone need anything else from Dakan before we leave?
Chris: I don't think so, but I'm kinda out of it atm.
Cat: i think i'm good.

April 19, 1236 AD (afternoon)

The team heads out of the barracks, ready to find the next lead.
Hernz: K that might help on this? Local?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): K Local would help. Failing that, Diplomacy. You would want K Local because Diplomacy would tell more people who you're looking for.
Hernz: nope, dont got lol
Nidranisan: hawk can fake k.local.
Hawk Hubertins: Hawk Hubertins's Knowledge (Local) check: 5
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Assuming you are looking in the Docks...
Meghan: gj hawk
Cat: niiiiick.
er.
just pretend i can spell/type.
Meghan: :)
Hawk spends some time looking around the Docks, asking some of the workers about those of ill repute.
Unfortunately, he finds the wrong people of the wrong repute.
Nidranisan snickers.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): This takes about 2 hours.

April 19, 1236 (evening)

The sun starts to set after a relatively fruitless search.
On the plus side, Hawk has learned of many men and women who wouldn't mind his company for the right price.
Chris: But we already knew that. Heck we know people who would probably pay him...
Meghan: oh, Claire has a contact.
Chris: worse come to worse, Fi will take Fleir sniffing around for gunpowder.
Meghan: but not in the guards.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Going to visit your contact, Claire?
Meghan: sure, why not.
I don't have k-local but he might
(GM) Chad S. (GM): During the search through the Docks District, Claire breaks off to follow her own lead...
Nidranisan looks bored but doesn't have any bette ideas.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Well,she would but it looks like Meghan is offline right now. Or roll20 is messing up again and hid her name.
Hernz: chris, she around?
might be night night time for locke
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yeah, he is sick. Probably threw off his bedtime.
Citizen: Ill Repute? Never heard of them. OH! I heard of the Night Guardian.
Meghan: Sorry, I'm back
Chris is in the shower, so for once he's not constantly on line
Hernz: what is that in response to? from that citizen
Claire: dunno
Meghan: I've got tells
(GM) Chad S. (GM): The citizen talking to the team was discovered during Hawk's info gathering.
Meghan: How much was I paying this guy again? a couple of gp?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yeah, 1-2 gold.
Nidranisan: The...Night Guardian?
Citizen: Only appears at night. Fires arrows upon those who break the law and hurt the innocent. Only appears at night!

Claire returns
Nidranisan: That's uh, interesting.
Citizen: Saved my life once, with wings as wide as a building. Fired arrows from the sky, the thugs burst into flames.
I tried to offer my thanks, and it just...disappeared into the night.
That's who you wanted, right?
Vegeta: yeah..........
Nidranisan: Not as such. Sounds nice though.
Citizen: Oh. Well, I tried.
Bye!
Nidranisan: Yeah, thanks for your time.
Nidranisan doesn't sound as sarcastic as that sounded in text.
Meghan: I don't know how long it actually took Claire to go off on her fact-finding mission but let me know when she gets back.
As the sun sets, Claire catches up to the team.
Vegeta: [Claire] you missed out on some flying... god, I don't even know what that lunatic was talking about
Meghan: uuugh, roll20 is fucking up
brb
(GM) Chad S. (GM): They did go down for maintenance this morn
Claire: Oh, that sounds ... fascinating. I found out where the goblin is.
Nidranisan: sweet
Claire: That's what we were looking for, right?
err, who
Nidranisan: yeah.
Claire: He's lives in a garbage dump outside of town, likes to play with explosives
Vegeta: uh... of course...
Claire: Should we go there?
Vegeta: sure... better than any other lead we have
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Sounds like the party is off to the dumps.
We'll handle this tomorrow.
'Cause it's my bedtime.
Cat: sleep sounds nice.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Night folks!
Claire: night
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Get better soon, and enjoy SNOWMAGGEDDON
Cat: g'night.
that was last week, this one is snowpocalypse.
Vegeta: night
Chris: and next week is Snow Day: Return of the Shovelnator.

April 19, 1236 (evening)

Claire catches up to the group in the Docks District. Her informant has told her the whereabouts of their quarry. Snock the goblin lives in a garbage dump in the district.
Hernz: Easy to get there?
any description of what he might look like other than "goblin"?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): You're about half an hour's walk from the dump. Not too much more of a description than a goblin.
Hernz: well, I assume we go on the way there, yes?
Vegeta: perception to notice anyone who might be a little sketchy goblin: 26
(GM) Chad S. (GM): The garbage dump is near the edge of the Docks District. Here is where the scavengers of Harvest Wharf dwell, feeding on the offal of the town. No one lives here, of course.
Cat: except maybe a goblin, here and there.
Nidranisan: Nidranisan's Perception check: 4
Boy, sun sure is bright today. (yes, it says "evening". I know.)
Hernz: lol
As the party walks through the dump, they notice a thin trail of smoke rise up. The light produced suggests some sort of campfire...in the middle of a garbage dump.
Vegeta: think that might be him?
STOP
don't take another step....
Anyone know what those are? land mines?

Vegeta points at the ground
Hernz: I'm assuming this takes some sort of skill to maybe check out without blowing ourselves up?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Your sweet Perception check helped detect something on the ground. You can guess the spot is about 10x10.
Hernz: so it's avoidable
Vegeta: everyone don't step THERE
Nidranisan: Uh, sure whatever you say.
Nidranisan kinda shakes her head and goes around.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d4
(
2
)
= 2
The team walks past some planks of wood, shoddily used as a kind of fence. They also see planks of wood with similar scribbles on it...perhaps writing?
Soon, the team hears nothing else besides the sound of insects, their own footsteps, and some kind of chatter coming from a nearby hut.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): 1) Anyone reads Goblin?
2) Any attempts to be stealthy on the approach?
Chris: 1) Nope.
Fi: Should Vegeta and I check it out first?
Hernz: if there's traps like this, I think it would be a good idea to
Vegeta: yeah, let's... you never know if they had mines set, what else could be up
Fi: Ok. Let's sneak around and see if we can see anything interesting.
Vegeta: Stealth: 13
Hernz: ....yeah... my bad lol
Fi: Fi's Stealth check: 23
(GM) Chad S. (GM): You two are travelling together?
Chris: Probably a little ways apart.
I think one of us going around each side makes sense.
Hernz: that would be fine
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Alright, Fi approaches from 12 o'clock, while Vegeta comes from 12
..
Alright, Fi approaches from 3 o'clock, while Vegeta comes from 12
Thank you randomizer
Chris: lol
(GM) Chad S. (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d2
(
1
)
= 1
Vegeta: LOL
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Not sure which way the rest of the team is coming from.
(To GM) rolling 1d20+5
(
20
)+5
= 25
Fi and Vegeta quietly and carefully walk up past the innermost fence. They notice four goblins inside a makeshift hut, with a worn fireplace burning wood.
Cat: whatever direction is nice and blundery. basically up the middle.
Fi also notices one of the goblins riding a wolf...made of wood?
Vegeta: Sense motive to see if they're hostile 21
Wolf Blitzer: Mi ŝatas kokidon bilardbastonoj
Cat: so did you guys tell the rest of us not to go yet?

Vegeta has google translate handy... one sec
Chris: Fi said that we would check it out first. But you know how that goes.
They also notice three of the goblins have their bows ready. The goblin riding the wolf just drank... something.

Fi casts light on a stone, and throws it into the air.
As Vegeta steps forward to get a closer look, he hears something click at his feet.
Hernz: I think I wasn't fully healed? I forget
A loud pop is heard as Vegeta is blown off of his feet. The ground erupts, burning him for 3 fire damage and 3 piercing damage.
The goblins spring into action and quickly leave the hut, bows ready.
Vegeta: ugh.... looks like this might be an ugly one
(GM) Chad S. (GM): The wooden wolf makes a low humming noise as a blue field surrounds it and its rider.
Make initiative checks, folks.
Fi: Fi's Initiative result: 20.04
Hawk Hubertins: Hawk Hubertins's Initiative result: 16.02
Fi: Fleir's Initiative result: 5.02
George: I guess I missed a bit of plot.
Vegeta: Initiative 14
Nidranisan: Nidranisan's Initiative result: 6.02
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Also, tell me which side you're approaching from. I assume Fleir will be with Fi.
George: Diplomatic Immunity?
Wolf Blitzer: noti punktoj kaj gajni
(GM) Chad S. (GM): lol, Diplo Immunity
Make a DC 50 Diplomacy check
George: What are the options for approach?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Up or Right sides
Claire: Claire's Initiative result: 13.01
George: Hawk would come in behind Fi.
Meghan: ditto
Hannelore Tentoes: (GM) Initiative 20
Cat: i better stick with veg, he likes to fall down.
Hernz: lol
(GM) Chad S. (GM): I'll put Hannelore near Vegeta to even it out a bit.
Chris: For certain definitions of "even"
(GM) Chad S. (GM): You can make Knowledge (Engineering) and Knowledge (Local) checks to identify.
Hawk Hubertins: Hawk Hubertins's Knowledge (Engineering) check: 15
Hawk Hubertins's Knowledge (Local) check: 22
Chris: woot
Cat: nice.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Enemy's init 21
Hernz: you call Vegeta "enemy" btw :)
nm,
Cat: lovely.
Hawk Hubertins: Watch the one on the wolf, he just drank something.
Wolf Blitzer: lavango aktivigita
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Oh, does Hawk speak Goblin?
George: Nope
Hawk Hubertins: Also, if the wolf starts moving, it could be trouble. A construct of sorts.
Hernz: can we see that in the hut?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yes, you can see into it. The "walls" are made of very loose straw.
The goblin riding the wolf takes out another potion and drinks it. A shimmering field of energy in the shape of a shield hovers in front of it.
Snock!: Me am Snock! Me make big boom! Da boss told Snock you would come! Wolf Blitzer 1 and 0 is ready!
Vegeta: what the hell are you mumbling about?
Meghan: btw, you've got me for the next 4 minutes or so and then it's time for the next installment of season fanfiction.
ugh, stuck again
Cat: so which one is saying it's snock?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): ...did you guys prep as you approached?
Snock is the one riding the wooden wolf
Cat: cool.
Meghan: lol, we should have
who wanted mage armor?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Sorry, had to stack icons
Cat: i don't think we got the word that they had weapons readied until after fi/veg snuck off.
Meghan: probably vegeta
oh, well
Cat: so probably not me.
Hernz: I dont know if we did
Meghan: bye Vegeta.
Hernz: bye bye lol
Meghan: next time make a good character so I can heal you
son goku's probably CG
go for him
Chris: I think the only warning you guys had was Fi's thrown light stone.
Hernz: shoudl have been goku!
THAT's what that was??
I thought it was dark
lol
Chris: evening.
Hernz: oh I know, I just thought that's why you threw it lol
Chris: seems to be my only way to signal the party without making noise.
Fi decided to throw it the moment she saw they had readied bows.
Hernz: I rolled like 6 straight sub 6 rolls on everything I had to do lol
(GM) Chad S. (GM): I know, lol.
Roll to sneak up: nope (to be fair I rolled a 20 on their perception)
Roll to see the trap (nope)
Roll to make a Reflex Save (nope)
Hernz: roll for sense motive ruined the rolls
Cat: yeah, and i still got the patented nidri initiative of doom.
so, heal ya later.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Wolf Blitzer claws at Vegeta hitting AC 9 for 6 Damage
I guess that's AC 13 since Vegeta's prone
Hernz: I am? then 14
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yeah, the mine blew Vegeta off his feet
Hernz: gotcha
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Wolf Blitzer slashes at the prone Vegeta but he quickly rolls out of the way.
Goblin A attacks Fi hitting AC 10 for 1 damage
Chris: What in this scene provides cover?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Goblin B attacks Fi hitting AC 16 for 3 damage
Shooting through the hut or fences will provide cover.
Fi: Fi is AC18.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Goblin C attacks Vegeta hitting AC 19 for 5 damage
Hernz: bye bye
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Vegeta is hit by an arrow and is staggered by the blow.
Chris: play dead ;-)
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Enemies have moved, so its all your turn. People offscreen will need to double move to get on the field. Except for Fleir, because she's fast.
George: Will a single move this turn allow Hawk to start singing and get in frame next turn?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): yes
George: That's what Hawk will do, and draw his bow while moving.

Hawk Hubertins is activating his Bard ability, Inspire Courage +1
Hawk Hubertins: +1 to attack, damage, and save vs fear & charm
Inspire Courage +1 uses remaining: 12
Cat: yeah...can't do anything useful if i double in...

Fi is attacking Goblin B with Long Bow (Point Blank)!
Fi: Attack Result: 18
(Needs at least 27 to crit.)
Damage Result: 9
Crit: 20/x3
Crit Confirm: 21
Crit Damage: +17
Fi: Type: piercing
Notes: Within 30'
Cat: hanners could charge though, maybe? ;) then again, maybe we should try not to kill snock...
Chris: probably.
Nidranisan is activating her Oracle ability, Demonhide
Nidranisan: Uses remaining: -1
Cat: plus single move towards vegeta. so, next round I can get on screen i assume?
Vegeta: she's got only like 20 move no?
Cat: barbarian, gets her back to 30.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Who should Hannelore charge?
Hernz: dont we give her time to log on?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Also Chris, did that include the Inspire Courage bonus?
Chris: yes
Cat: yeah, we could resolve everyone else and see if anne shows up.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): OK. I'll walk her back offscreen for now.
Meghan said she was going to disappear and enter da zone soon
Hernz: so I'm at zero?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Vegeta is staggered at 0 HP
Chris: I'm sure she's watching supernatural. It started at 9.
Fleir will advance. Not sure if she can attack. Probably wouldn't charge.
Vegeta: ok, so what are options to get up... can I get up while fighting defensively for the round, or can I make acrobatics check or do I just try it and provoke?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): If Fleir isn't charging, then she can move into position.
Chris: ok. She'll move into threatening position.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Vegeta: You could stand up and provoke.
You could try an Acrobatics check vs Wolf Blitzer's CMD to roll 5 feet away without provoking (it's a full round action though)
Hernz: given I'm staggererd, that's not an option then, yes?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yeah, that's true
You're not a Rogue and you don't have a Ki Pool, so you don't have those other options I can think of
Hernz: can I stand up all out defense, no, right?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Total defense is a standard action.
Hernz: fight defensively?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): You'd still be prone but you can do it
Hernz: ok, then I get up fighting defensively! which gives a total AC.... 16 I think?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Problem is you need to attack to fight defensively
Hernz: I get up with 14 and hope they miss :)
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Alright.
Vegeta, weighing his options decides to stand up. Snock doesn't seem armed and thus doesn't react. Wolf Blitzer takes a swipe...
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Wolf Blitzer claws at Vegeta hitting AC 7 for 3 damage
Missing Vegeta. Vegeta still stands!
Hernz: had to hover over the roll to see if you put in a d4 lol
(GM) Chad S. (GM): lol
Vegeta: not... so... fast
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Alright, we're just waiting on Claire and Hannelore.
George: He's not quite dead yet...
Meghan: ok, I'm back.
... poor vegeta.
Hernz: poor neutral vegeta lol
Meghan: the fucking rule isn't working...
errrgh. nothing working. fuck
Should I mage armor Hawk and then move?
I assume I can't get in to attack if I have to double-move to get on screen?
Claire: Have a mage armor, Hawk

Claire is using their item Wand of Mage Armor
Claire:
Wand of Mage Armor uses remaining: 40
Cat: yeah, double move is an awkward spot...you can't do anything when you get there, so might as well do action/single move + single move/action.
that's what i decided anyway.
Hernz: yup
Claire: ok
Hernz: unless you got a killer full round action, like a really big full attack
Chris: Sounds like level 2...
Hernz: lol
Claire taps Hawk with a wand, and a sheet of magical armor forms around his torso.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yup, you need to double move to get on the map, since Vegeta + Fi went to scout ahead.
Hernz: Did anyone txt anne?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Haven't heard from Anne. Will auto move her at 8:30
And by 8:30 I mean 9:30. Anyone see Hannelore?
Hannelore flies into a rage and charges the Wooden Wolf.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Hannelore hits AC 15 for 13 damage
Snock uses Mounted Combat to negate AC 16
She swings, but Snock quickly pulls the wolf away.
Round 2
(GM) Chad S. (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d20+1
(
12
)+1
= 13
On of the goblins runs away.
Goblin B drops his bow and pulls out its dogslicer
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Goblin B attacks Fleir hitting AC 11 for 3 damage
Goblin A attacks Fleir hitting AC 7 for 4 damage
Snock! and Wolf Blitzer provoke as they retreat
Hannelore hits AC 24 for 10 damage
Vegeta hits AC 5 for 6 damage
Hannelore hits the Wooden Wolf, knocking off its blue hue. Vegeta is unable to follow up.
Cat: er, wouldn't veg faint if he attacks?
thought he's staggered?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Oh, good point. Well, he missed.
Cat: so yeah, scratch the swing anyway :)
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Snock mixes a couple of vials and throws it at Hannelore.
Cat: wow, mixing on the fly.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Snock! tries a ranged touch attack hitting touch AC 27
Snock! tries to confirm ranged touch attack hitting touch AC 22
Cat: lol.
George: Really? An alchemist?
:P
Cat: we already knew he likes to blow things up.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): The bomb hits Hannelore directly, dealing 11 damage as it explodes
Cat: well, that's a new color.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Vegeta's Reflex Save 12
...I tried.
Cat: i'm guessing 12 doesn't cut it.
see, if i had double moved in last round, i'd probably be rolling that save too ;)
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Vegeta is burned badly by the blast, and he collapses, taking 4 damage.
Alright, enemies are done.
Chris: wow. Bomb critical.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yeah, nasty.
Cat: otherwise knows as "expooooooo-sion!"
(GM) Chad S. (GM): And then Vegeta failed another Reflex save
Chris: I hope you are missing an 'L' there.
Cat: sure sure. some other letters. whatevs.
;)

Cat casts Cure Light on Vegeta!
Cat: heal 10 HPs.
wooooo
ok, nidri. you all know what i mean.

Cat shakes her fist at the dropdown menu. WHY CAN'T IT READ MY MIND.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Now try doing this with 30 alts on the dropdown
Cat: well, yes. that's why i don't bug you on it ;)
Nidri runs in and rescues Vegeta from the verge of death.
Cat: ......again.
George: So where does Hawk wind up after a single move?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Well not really but I'm being dramatic here
Cat: you forgot the "again". or maybe even "yet again"
George: Hehe.

Fleir is attacking Goblin B with Bite & Trip!
Fleir: Attack Result: 19
(Needs at least 24 to crit.)
Damage Result: 5
Crit: 20/x2
Crit Confirm: 15
Crit Damage: +8
Fleir: Trip Attempt: 22
Fleir finishes off what Fi started.
George: So if I can come in next to Fi, I'm gonna cast a spell.
Before Fi moves...
Or not. So single move to put me next to Fi?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yeah, single move to Fi

Hawk Hubertins casts Abundant Ammunition on Fi's quiver!
Hawk Hubertins: School: N/A; Level 1
Casting Time: 1 standard
Components: V, S, M/DF (a single piece of ammunition)
Range: One container, touched
Targets/Area: N/A
Duration: 1 min/level
Hawk Hubertins: Saving Throw: DC 15, N/A; Spell Resistance: No

Hawk Hubertins is activating his Bard ability, Inspire Courage +1
Hawk Hubertins: +1 to attack, damage, and save vs fear & charm
Inspire Courage +1 uses remaining: 11
George: Casting level 1 spell for free round of bard song. :)
Chris: using trip arrow.

Fi is attacking Goblin A with Long Bow (Point Blank)!
Fi: Attack Result: 21
(Needs at least 27 to crit.)
Damage Result: 11
Crit: 20/x3
Crit Confirm: 15
Crit Damage: +16
Fi: Type: piercing
Notes: Within 30'
Cat: niiiiice.
Fi: Trip attempt 9
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Your trip arrows are useless! HAHA!
George: Squish
Cat: i was gonna go with "Splat"
George: Didn't trip him, but somehow he still fell down...
Fi "trips" the Goblin. Across the dirt.
In pieces.
Nidranisan: Hey, we just want to talk, y'know.
I can go make sure these guys are OK if you want to put the bow down for a minute.
Snock!: Me Snock know what "talk" means. Grrr... Wolf Blitzer 1 and 0 will fight!
Nidranisan: Nidranisan's Sense Motive check: 11
Nidranisan sighs.
Nidranisan: No, I really just mean...talk...uuugh.
Snock!: "Da Boss" sent you here to quiet Snock, just like the others.
Nidranisan: Nope. Just looking for some info.
Nidranisan shakes her head.
Nidranisan mumbles, we'll have to try again after.
Snock!: Hmpf. You lower YOUR weapons and then Snock will talk for real.
Fi: You promise?
Snock!: Frrthhll. Snock promise. But if you attack, Snock will go boom again!
Fi: Down, Fleir.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Dropping out of initiative because people know how to converse.

Fi puts his bow away.

Fleir lies down, but growls in protest.
Chris: Who wants to diplomancy?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Vegeta!
Hannelore drops out of rage, panting and singed.
Claire: ... ok.
Nidranisan: Nidranisan's Heal check: 13
Cat: i forget the dc to stabilize...is it 10 or 15?
Fi: Fi's Heal check: 21
(GM) Chad S. (GM): 15
Fi provides first aid to one of the Goblins.
Nidri pokes the other goblin with a stick.
Claire: so... Hawk, are we going to go discuss things with the explosive goblin?
Fi: I'll assist you, Nidri.
Nidranisan: good plan. sigh
Wolf Blitzer: Eljxetu kuko...
Snock!: mi scias!

Hawk Hubertins casts Abundant Ammunition on Hawk's quiver!
Hawk Hubertins: School: N/A; Level 1
Casting Time: 1 standard
Components: V, S, M/DF (a single piece of ammunition)
Range: One container, touched
Targets/Area: N/A
Duration: 1 min/level
Hawk Hubertins: Saving Throw: DC 15, N/A; Spell Resistance: No
George: Wrong spell.

Hawk Hubertins casts Comprehend Languages!
Hawk Hubertins: School: N/A; Level 1
Casting Time: 1 standard
Components: V, S, M/D
Range: Personal
Targets/Area: You
Duration: 10min/level
Hawk Hubertins: Saving Throw: DC 15, N/A; Spell Resistance:
Fi: [Claire] We wanted to know about why the explosives were located there, and why they exploded.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Hawk guns down the defenseless Snock in a hail of arrows- oh wait.
George: DIE!DIE!DIE!DIE!DIE!DIE!DIE!DIE!DIE!DIE!DIE!
Meghan: nice
Fi: Fi's Heal check: 22
Wolf Blitzer: [Goblin] Energy field recharge will complete in 23.95 hours
Snock!: [Goblin] I know!
Nidranisan: OK, I think these two should be stable now.

Hawk Hubertins nods to Claire to take the lead.
Cat: we're gonna go for a third example on why she shouldn't? ;)
George: Otherwise it's not a proof. :P
Chris: we're not selling anything.
Cat: oooooh that was just for sales.
Nidranisan casts Cure Light on Hannelore!
Nidranisan: heal 8 HPs.
Chris: Yeah, when she helped me trade in my bow, she natural 20ed.
Cat: so she's a bimodal loose cannon, like someone ELSE we know.
new disorder for the RPG DSM: bimodal disorder.
Meghan: oh boy

Chris looks innocent.
Cat: hey, diplo is untrained, let's all pile on!
Meghan: I almost feel like you guys were talking about me behind my back because I was in another tab
Claire: Claire's Diplomacy check: 25
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Claire says something nice. Hawk says something nice. 4 people barf on Snock
Meghan: preeeetty much
Fi: Fi's Diplomacy check: 7
Meghan: I rolled mediocre.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): It's OK though, because Claire said something really, REALLY nice.
Cat: better than 10 on the die ;)
Nidranisan: Nidranisan's Diplomacy check: 8
Cat: LOL.

Fi picks her nose.
Nidranisan is busy healing her friends properly while the goblins sit in their little pools of their own blood.
Cat: i think george forgot to click before he went to do dishes.
Snock! points at Claire
Cat: i'm sure hawk is helping tho
Meghan: oops
Snock!: [Claire] What you want?
Meghan: I mean, he is right next to me. also he can actually understand goblin...
luckily snock! speaks common...
we wanted to know about explosives at the Mel house, right?
Chris: we wanted to know why they were stored where they were.
Claire: Well, we have heard you're the expert on explosives...
Cat: yeah, and why they went off early.
Meghan: early?
Chris: or just why they went off.
Snock!: Yeah. Me LOVE big boom.
Cat: yeah, thought they went at the wrong time.
Meghan: Big bada boom...
Chris: That's what some people claimed.
Cat: that's what the magmere guy said.
Snock!: People pay Snock! to make boom, research boom, look for boom and stop boom.
Claire: So if we found some evidence that someone had used explosives and wanted to know more about them, we'd have to come talk to you. Because you know everything about them.
See, exactly. You're the go-to goblin.
Snock!: Yah. And not hire Snock then try to "talk" to Snock when it over!
Meghan: did he use the finger quotes?
Cat: hah.
Snock! airquotes talk with his extra flexible fingers
Meghan: excellent
Claire: No, we're here to literally talk
Snock!: That good, because Snock go boom!
Claire: Things are just a bit ... volatile

Fi snorts.
Wolf Blitzer: [Goblin] Hostile intent detected. Plasma Blast at 100% charge
Snock!: [Goblin] I know!
Snock! kicks Wolf Blitzer's flank
Cat: been watching too much classic who, i hear this in K9's voice.
Meghan: only Hawk can understand this, right?
def
Cat: except it's K9 and romana.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Only Hawk hears it
Only Hawk understands Goblin
Snock!: Okay, so what lady want with Snock! Set up big boom? Snock taking break.
Claire: No, more like...
maybe someone has already set up a big boom? And we want to know why?
And, well, how.
Snock!: Ah. Um, where's big boom? ...maybe Snock set up big boom
Set big boom up already.
Meghan: Uhh... what's the name of the place?
Snock!: You really aren't here to "talk".
Claire: Deep in the tunnels?
Cat: it was in the caves under harvest wharf, yeah.
fi loves pointing it out on skler map.
Claire: there's a lot of crazy stuff going on in the caves under Harvest Wharf
Fi has a map
Snock! eyes the map

Fi pulls out the map, and points to it.
Claire: But we're investigating some explosions
Also, who's harassing you?
Chris: besides us...
Snock!: Oh yeah. Da Boss set Snock up. Da Boss say "Snock, guard big boom here." Snock say "Why here? This target?"
Da Boss say "Magmere will bring to tunnel entrance, you bring down here." Snock say "where's the gold?" Da Boss gives a BIG BAG of gold and shiny dogslicer!
Magmere dumb. Magmere think Big Boom will be revenge. Me know it wrong place for big boom.
Claire: Huh.
So... where was the right place for the big boom?

Claire gestures at Fi's map.
Snock!: Da Boss say "will move big boom tonight, just guard it for more gold."

Fi frowns at Claire.
Snock! points to a spot not too far from where it was. Fi recognizes it as closer to the Mel residence
Snock!: That good place for Biiig Boom.
Claire: and then the boss tried to blow you up with it?
Snock!: Yah! Da Boss say Magmere did it, but that dumb. Or maybe Magmere is that dumb.
Snock see flare thrown in with own eyes. Me take cover behind Wolf Blitzer 1.0
Fi: Wow.
Claire: So what's the boss's relationship with Magmere?
Wolf Blitzer: [Goblin] Wolf Blitzer mark 1.0. Now with Goblin OS 1.0! Installed in-
Snock!: Arggh
Claire: Does he work for them, or do they work for him, or do they just work together?
Snock! kicks Wolf Blitzer again
Snock!: Me not know. Me talk to Da Boss directly.
Claire: but not anymore because he wants to "talk"?

Claire uses the finger quotes
Snock!: Me come home and set up traps.
Assassins try to "talk" to me, they go boom!
Fi: Could you describe him? We would be interested in "talking" with him instead.
Snock!: ...Snock need better plan than staying home and setting traps.
Fi: We could speak with the Captain of the guard and offer you protection.
Snock!: You know somewhere safer?
Captain of Guard? Guards try to kill Snock because he is Goblin.
Fi: Ok. Do you prefer Orcs?
Snock!: Orcs think Goblins are balls and can be kicked around.
But Goblins show Orcs! Me know the fight will be soon!
Fi: Is there anything you could offer the East Ferren Trading Company?
Claire: oh dear...
probably explosives.
and knowhow
and wolf construct building instructions
Snock!: Yah, what she said.
Claire: Yeah, how'd you like to switch teams. so to speak.
?

Claire refrains from waggling her eyebrows suggestively but Hawk can probably tell she wants to.
Snock!: If people stop trying to "talk" to Snock, Snock will be happy.
Fi: If you would be willing to work for them and speak with them about this incident, their security team will take care of you.
Claire: well... it sounds like the people trying to "talk" to you were also trying to ... undermine our employers
yes, maybe they can help you out
Snock!: Hmpf. Snock know. Guards who were supposed to guard entrance all died. Led away by stinky lady.
Okay, we leave, now.
Claire: ... stinky lady?
Wolf Blitzer: [Goblin] Danger! Unattended fire should be extinguished
Fi: What shall we do with your friends?
Snock!: Um...Take them, I guess. Wolf Blitzer 1.0 only fits 1.

Fi picks up a goblin.
Snock!: Yeah, stinky lady lead guards away from site on day of big boom. Never come back.
Fi: Pheromones?
Claire: were the guards all human?
With Snock's guidance, the team avoids the mines and leaves the garbage yard.
Snock!: Some human. Some elf. One Dwarf.
Claire: Did they seem drugged or coerced?
or ... wait, they died?
Snock!: Uhhh....Me was a bit on happy juice. Hard to tell.
Claire: oh, good.
Snock!: But me see bodies next day in garbage dump. Then people try to "talk" to me.
Claire: oh. so maybe there's a third party involved...

April 19, 1236 AD (Nighttime)

(GM) Chad S. (GM): Alright, I'm gonna leave it here while you figure out where to take Snock! and Wolf Blitzer.
I have a company party to attend to tomorrow, so apologies if I start late tomorrow.
Meghan: yeah, I'm done
and tired
(GM) Chad S. (GM): ...great timing Hernz.
Hernz: did we teleport? everyone die??
(GM) Chad S. (GM): No, just you
Hernz: gimme the short of it lol
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Then there was a Diplomacy bomb
And now Snock is seeking protection
Hernz: doh! lol
(GM) Chad S. (GM): That's it for tonight.
...Vegeta failed another Reflex Save
Hernz: NOOOO!!!! lol
(GM) Chad S. (GM): lulz
Fi: [Party] Should I heal these guys, so they can walk on their own?
Nidranisan: Yeah...let me know if you want me to take one...but my healing is usually more useful in combat, if anything else comes up tonight.
Hernz: well, if you don't mind healing me close to full so next time we're in a battle I don't go down after 2 hits, much appreciated lol

Chris casts Cure Light Wounds on Vegeta.
Chris: Healing: 5
Saving Throw: DC 14, Will half; Spell Resistance: Yes

Fi did that
Vegeta: thanks...
Cat: i do think we should stand up the other two goblins.
good faith, and not having to carry them.
not sure how many healz/day Fi has.
Claire: Are either of them good?
Cat: the goblins? seems very unlikely.
you need to get 'detect good' ;)

Fi casts Cure Light. 3

Fi casts Cure Light. 3
Chris: awesome.
Fi: That's all I've got.
Cat: i suspect that stands up one of them.
because either one, i doubt 3 got them back to positives.
so let's say those both went on the first one.
Nidranisan casts cure light on the other one. 10
Cat: lol.

Fi shrugs.
Claire: I really do.
Nidranisan: Never hit the jackpot when you need it.
Nidranisan casts Cure Light on Vegeta!
Nidranisan: heal 5 HPs.
see?
Vegeta: lol
Hernz: well, the two goblins that are up can carry the other one if there's still one down
at least he'd be stable.
Chris: they were already stable.
Cat: absolute worst case, i have 1 more spell and it's basically nighttime anyway.
George: Uhm... What is the purple dog thing doing with the party?
Chris: Snock! & Wolf?
George: I kinda missed the diplobomb last night.

April 19, 1236 (nighttime)

The party emerges from the Docks District Garbage Yard along with three goblins and a wooden automated wolf-like construct.
Cat: so, did the 6 hp's stand up that one goblin?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yes.
Snock is pleased to get some protection from "Da Boss", who double crossed and tried to assassinate him.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): You mentioned bringing Snock into the East Ferren Trading Company.
Make sense motive checks.
Nidranisan: Nidranisan's Sense Motive check: 15
Fi: Fi's Sense Motive check: 5
Hawk Hubertins: Hawk Hubertins's Sense Motive check: 15
Cat: one of these things is not like the others.
Vegeta: sense motive 23
Cat: luckily, veg is on the job.
Claire: Claire's Sense Motive check: 17
Hernz: :)

Vegeta whispers to Nidri some stuff
Nidranisan: Is everything OK, Snock?
Snock!: Hmm? Um. Y-yes. Snock OK. We friends now, yes?
Nidranisan: Yeah.
You have any problems, you let us know.
We'll help out.
Nidranisan keeps walking and doesn't crowd him. y'know, kinda, let someone else be in between.
Snock!: Y-yes. You help bring friends back. You friend, yes...
When lady show up and lead guards away, she was stinky.
Fi: You smell it again?
Nidranisan: Do I smell like her or something?
Snock!: And uh...you are stinky. But only a little!
Snock! cowers
Nidranisan: Do you remember anything else about that lady?
Even just that connection might help us figure out who it is. But if you remember any more, that helps extra.
Snock!: Da boss smelled stinky, too...and some of the people who came to "talk" to me were stinky. But they blow up good!
Nidranisan: Interesting. I wonder what it is you're smelling.
The team (and Snock) arrive at the East Ferren Trading Company.
Nidranisan: Shall we see if Marjorie is here late this evening?
Snock, I'd like you to let me know if you notice anyone else who smells the same kind of stinky.
Snock!: O-okay...
Vegeta: good idea
Abraxinal is assisting Marjorie with her many dietary supplements. Marjorie is up once again, checking her books and adjusting records.
Snock deeply inhales and pauses as he enters the room.
Marjorie Mel: Good night, all of you. I'm a bit surprised to see you at this late hour.
Nidranisan: We've had an interesting day.
Marjorie Mel: Oh?
Nidranisan: This is Snock. He may have some valuable information for us, but will need some protection from retaliation by Magmere and/or their affiliates.
Marjorie Mel: I understand. Rest assured, mister Snock. My sister Melodie has a habit of protecting others.
[Abraxinal, Undercommon] Abraxinal, please contact Miss Melodie Mel.
Fi: Melodie would also probably be most interested in what he knows.
Nidranisan: As an aside, he may also have interests and talents of value to the company. A thought for future discussions.
Abraxinal bows, then excuses herself.
Nidranisan: But yes, I'm sure Melodie will be interested.
Snock...did you smell something in here?
Marjorie Mel: [Goblin] saluton, Snock. Vi estas sekura.
Cat: riiiight everyone else speaks like every language ;)
Snock!: Uuum...
Chris: I would assume Marjorie can speak 90% of languages.
Snock! looks at Marjorie for a moment, nervously
Snock!: N-no.
A few minutes later, Melodie arrives in the office. She glares at Snock, frightening the goblin.
Abraxinal returns to Marjorie's side.
Marjorie Mel: Melodie, this is Snock. We are to protect him.
Melodie Mel gets on her knees and takes a very close look at Snock's clothing.
Melodie Mel: You...smell like explosive powder.

Fi nods.
Fi: He is the one who can answer any questions you might have about what happened below.
Cat: i assume his two buddies are still trailing along too?
or did they decide to stay at the dump once they were awake?
Fi: They're after him for what he knows.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): They are here, keeping quiet.
Melodie Mel: He WILL answer.

Fi frowns.
in one quick motion, Melodie picks Snock up by the collar and pins him against the wall.
Nidranisan: Melodie, he has been very cooperative with us.
They treated him poorly, and he's been happy to share what information he has for better treatment from us.
Melodie Mel 's Intimidate Roll 38
Something has upset Melodie deeply, and she's focused her glare solely on the goblin she has pinned to the wall. Snock is white as a ghost.
Nidranisan sighs.
Nidranisan: This would probably have been more productive if we'd set expectations better.
Vegeta: (whispers under his breath) ...god she's scary
Melodie Mel: He needs to start sharing, now. So many people died from those riots. So many noblemen would have been hurt or killed.
Nidranisan: He already told us quite a bit.
Marjorie Mel stands up, concerned.
Nidranisan: He did not have a part in the rioting.
Magmere took advantage of him, really quite a bit like they did me.
Snock!: S-sn-Snock was told to guard boom! M-Magmere brought boom to hiding place!
Da Boss tried to kill Snock!
Snock want to talk! Snock want to talk!
Fi: I think the only way we will get productive information is to speak calmly.
Nidranisan: [Fi] He did a pretty good job there of making it clear he wants to cooperate.
Melodie seems to realize what she is doing, and very calmly lowers Snock. She takes a step back and takes a moment to breathe slowly and calm herself down.
Nidranisan: Thank you, Melodie.
Marjorie Mel: My apologies. Sister Melodie takes protection of her house and Harvest Wharf very seriously. Every life lost to her is a failure.
Melodie Mel: Okay. You have my word that you will be protected. But you work for me, Snock. No one else.
Snock!: Yes, yes! You not stink!
Snock! mutters, "you scary, though"
Fi: Don't worry about it.
Melodie Mel: Alright. If you're just a guard, who hired you? Who is your boss?
Cat: we are totally gonna get more xp for managing NOT to kill this goblin that probably anything we've killed so far ;)
Hernz: lol
Snock!: Da Boss never said his name. But Snock could smell him. And Snock smelled someone else just like him. Um, man's name is...um, Carfen.
Nidranisan: Same smelly like me?
Melodie Mel seems incredulous
Melodie Mel: Lord Argus Carfen?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Roll a K Nobility check if you have it
Chris: lol
Cat: lol hawk is unavailable.
Snock!: Well, he smell different.
Nidranisan: ok.
Snock!: But he smell just like Da Boss
Melodie Mel sighs
Melodie Mel: Tomorrow, we're going to take a look and you're going to tell me every single explosive that was stored there. Because if you're lying...
Marjorie Mel: Sister Melodie, please.
Snock!: Sn-Snock not lying! Snock bad liar, especially when on happy juice.

Fi shrugs.
Melodie Mel: Fine. I'll escort you to your room.
You and your friends should come along.
Nidranisan: Melodie, let us know if you have some time to discuss things later.
Melodie Mel: Of course. I'll be back in an hour, if you're willing to stay up.
I'm...not very sleepy right now.
Nidranisan: Sure.
Check our office if you don't mind?
Melodie escorts Snock, the wooden wolf and the two extra goblins away.
Cat: lol extras. hey, are they wearing red shirts?
Nidranisan: Well, that was fun.
Poor Melodie.
Marjorie Mel: She was especially distraught after Miss Melodie's party. Normally she's more disappointed in the morals of the party goers.
Nidranisan: Yeah, she took Fi's revelations very hard.
Marjorie Mel sits back down and instructs Abraxinal to get more drinks for her
Nidranisan: I think once we get past that, I'm hoping the info from Snock will help.
On the up side, he's enough of a nut he probably does know every single explosive that was in there.
He seems to have a good bit of alchemical skill and knowledge.
Marjorie Mel: I hope so, for his sake. Melodie may seem flighty, but once she is focused...
Nidranisan: Not much flighty about the incident on the wall over there.
And Hawk is scare of me. Geez.
About an hour later, Melodie returns.
Melodie Mel: Snock's asleep and under guard.
Cat: i was assuming marjorie doesn't necessarily want to stay around, and that we'd meet up in our office...
but whichever seemed reasonable at the time i'm sure is fine :)
Oh right. Melodie arrives at your office.
Cat:
waaaaaah
denied.
heart chad
Nidranisan: Thanks for coming back by, Melodie.
Melodie Mel: Of course.
Nidranisan: Fi, can you show her what Snock pointed out on the map?
Chris: yeah. I've been denied the heart emoticon too.
Cat: it's a sad, sad moment. i don't use it often. but every now and then it's just the right thing.
Fi: Sure. But at the time we were just discussing the locations of where the bombs were stored and why he thought it was a stupid location.
Nidranisan: But didn't he mention he'd heard them talking about where they planned to move it.
Melodie Mel: They were going to move it? Where?
They had dug a tunnel straight to Melanie's patio, and no one saw it.
Melodie Mel fist clenches
Fi: Snock didn't make it to that part. The boss told him they would be moving it.
I didn't get the where out of him yet.
Melodie Mel: Why did it blow up, then?
Snock said his boss set it off?
Fi: He said that he saw someone throw a flare in.
His boss blamed Magmere. Not sure if that is implying the boss is not Magmere.
Cat: apparently player brain fail, then :)
Melodie Mel: Where were the guards? How did those Magmere idiots smuggle so many explosives in there?
Maybe I should ask Lord Dakan. Was someone bribed?
Nidranisan: Magmere apparently brought them to the tunnel entrance.
Somehow.
Snock was tasked with bringing them to that room where they were all kept.
Melodie Mel: And then they were to be moved at some point, but someone blew them all up.
Nidranisan: Sounds about right.
Melodie Mel: And the city paid for it.
Nidranisan: I assume that was a holding area, they had to stockpile a little at a time maybe?
He could probably tell us how long they spent accumulating them.
Melodie Mel: Yes, that makes sense.
Nidranisan: We got Snock's name from one of the Magmere guys Dakan has in custody.
If you'd like, we can report back to Dakan about Snock in the morning.
Fi: Apparently, they were using the area near the cliffside entrance.
Nidranisan: So you're freed up to be here.
Melodie Mel: Y-yes. I suppose this is more of his responsibility. I'm just here to guard the company grounds.
Melodie Mel sighs and calms down
Nidranisan: I know this is deeply intense and personal for you. We'd like to help if we can.
Melodie Mel: Lord Dakan protects the entire town, you know? And he doesn't ask for anything in return.
Nidranisan: We did specifically offer company protection to Snock, which at least gives you access to question him as needed -- though I do think he's pretty happy to be here and respond freely to questions.
Melodie Mel: Hmm? Oh yes, he will respond to many of my questions.
Nidranisan: I'm curious to figure out what's up with his smells.
Melodie Mel: His smells? He smells like gunpowder.
Nidranisan: He definitely seems to identify people that way, and mentioned something else about a lady who was involved with this.
I mean, him smelling other people.
Fi: Yeah, there was something about a stinky woman luring the guards away.
Nidranisan: He seems to think I am the same kind of "stinky" and is a little afraid of me.
Melodie Mel: Hmmm... I'll ask him more about that.
Nidranisan: He also paused when he walked into Marjorie's office.
I wonder about that.
Fi: Do you think could be Magmere residue on you somehow?
Nidranisan: I suppose.
Melodie Mel: (To GM) rolling 1d20+20
(
14
)+20
= 34
Nidranisan: Filthy fucking Magmere. Never washes off.
Sorry, I have a particular sympathy for victims of the Magmere bait-and-switch.
Melodie Mel: You should try fire...
I mean, they are the worst.

Fi snorts.
Melodie Mel: Magmere is the worst and deserve to be imprisoned.
Nidranisan doesn't look entirely thrilled with the idea of lighting herself on fire.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): What? You have Fire Resist 5 you'll be fiiiine
Cat: hah yeah.
as long as i do like, one limb at a time or something.
that's why it's "not entirely thrilled" rather than "totally appalled"
Nidranisan: They absolutely deserve to be exposed for what they are and what they're doing.
Melodie Mel: And not set aflame, but imprisoned after tried for their crimes...I'm hiding my contempt a little too much here.
It is late. If you can talk to Lord Dakan for me that would be great.
Nidranisan: Yeah, we'll check in with him in the morning.
he'll want the followup on Snock anyway, he was there when the other guy mentioned the name.
Let us know if we can be of further assistance.
Melodie Mel: You've been so helpful already. Thank you!
Nidranisan sorta awkwardly tries to do the comforting hand on the shoulder.
Nidranisan: Hang in there Melodie. I know you're going to figure this one out.
Melodie Mel smiles
Nidranisan is awkward...but cute.
Melodie Mel: I just need to...release some stress.
Nidranisan: Good plan.
Melodie Mel: Very good plan.
Good night, all.
Nidranisan: Drop by or leave us a note whenever.
Good night.
Fi: Good night.
Melodie Mel stands up and leaves the office, determined and full of energy.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Alright, one more day of work this week. Bedtime for me.
We'll fast forward to tomorrow morning unless people have stuff they want to do tonight.
Fun fact: I statted out Melodie last week. She has +22 Intimidate.
Chris: 'Fun' he says.
Hernz: lol i noticed
Cat: someday.
in...a lot more levels. and maybe with a skill focus, when i have a spare feat to burn?
Vegeta: lol
Cat: WHAT. gotta have a dream.
i'm at 14 ;)
I could totally do this in like 5 more levels ;)
in other news, i totally have 2 more days of work this week. i'm at like 25 hours and need to get to 40.
i may not be around a ton on saturday :/
Hernz: doh
Cat: yeah, half a day monday and half a day tuesday will do that.
Hernz: btw, was there any loot from the goblins? doesn't look like it, right?
Cat: no, we didn;t steal their stuff :P
Hernz: lol
Chris: Hernz does not approve of this sparing lives thing.
Hernz: hey, if it's what the boss wants... you do what the boss says...
Cat: i think we get less tangible reputation for it ;)
maybe we'l get a raise from EFTC ;)
Hernz: hahaha
Chris: referral bonus?
Cat: more jobs from dakan too maybe
Hernz: we'll e starting side questing I think he said too... mmm... side questing
Cat: we're getting a choice of quests soon i think.
Hernz: yeah, let's just save Frieza for a little later lol
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Anyone doing anything this evening?
Or should I fast forward to the next day?
Hernz: nothing from my side
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Alright, advancing

April 20, 1236 AD

Cat: "prepare to fast-forward."
A light rain covers Harvest Wharf.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Alright, what's next?

April 20, 1236 AD (morning)

Cat: awww rain. how cute. and...non frozen.
going to see dakan.
probably bright and early.
before we head in to check for assignments.
As the team walks past an open courtyard, they see Captain Dakan sparring with a young man. Both combatants are carrying large wooden shields, but no other weapon.
Chris: So, they're hitting each other with shields or unarmed?
Oh! Are they double wielding shields?
Cat: lol.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Each fighter carries a single shield and seem to be using it as their primary weapon.
Vegeta: now that's a proper way to start the day!
Fi: You wanna join?
Vegeta: bah... weapon fighting is not what a true warrior does
Fi: I think you just insulted the entirety of history.
Vegeta: that's because history doesn't know much about the sayans!
Fi: You keep saying that word. What's a sayan?
Vegeta: my race... the blood running through our veins are not the same as you... we have true warrior blood, and our ancestors were some of the most powerful warriors to ever exist
Fi: Ok. Is there a reason that we don't know about them... err you all?
Vegeta: how am I supposed to explain your ignorance?
The younger fighter deflects Dakan's shield and sees an opening, but Dakan quickly sweeps him off his feet.
Fi: Mine or everyone else's?
Vegeta: (ignoring your followup question) ... still, the old man is good
Nods to to his opponent. "Excellent form, but you got a bit too hasty. Again."
Noting the party approaching, Captain Dakan nods to his opponent. "Later today, my boy."
Alexen Dakan walks up to the party
Alexen Dakan: My apologies. A little morning spar with my own flesh and blood...
What can I do for you this morning?
Nidranisan: We were hoping you might have a moment for an update on Snock.
Alexen Dakan: Ah, yes. Let's speak in my quarters.
The team follows the Captain to his room. He offers them seats and drinks some water from a cup.
Alexen Dakan: Now then. Snock.
Nidranisan: Yeah, we found him.
Alexen Dakan: Interesting. Where was he?
Nidranisan: In the dump.
It seems Magmere pulled a double cross on him, and then tried to have him killed.
The Company is currently offering him protection. He was very cooperative with sharing what information he has.
Alexen Dakan: A double cross. Honor among thieves, I suppose.
Nidranisan: I wouldn't use that word for anything Magmere does.
Even among thieves.
At any rate, he was not responsible for the explosion nor the rioting.
He was just hired to move the explosives from the entrance into that room, and guard them there.
Melodie will be questioning him further about some other details he noticed.
Alexen Dakan: Melodie is involved. I am not too surprised by that. Good girl, wears her heart on her sleeve.
Did he happen to mention an employer?
I wonder who hired him?
Fi: He just keeps saying "Da Boss" But we're working on a getting a description out of him.
Nidranisan: There was also apparently a lady who lured off other guards.
Who had a particular smell. He calls her "stinky".
Fi: He also said a name that shocked Melodie. I think it was "Carfen." Sounded like the boss was involved with him as well.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Carfen? Argus Carfen?
Alexen Dakan coughs
Alexen Dakan: Carfen? Argus Carfen?
Fi: That was the same thought Melodie had.
Alexen Dakan: Argus and I go back to the days of the war. He controlled many blacksmiths and helped forge many weapons to help our cause.
He was never a fighter, but I always thanked him and the family for their aid.
A few weeks ago, he bought a warehouse in Traderstrip and began inspecting it personally. That's the last I've heard of him.
Fi: Interesting timing.
Alexen Dakan: If- and this is a big if- he were responsible for the explosion, it would be a useful place to smuggle explosives.
Nidranisan makes a face.
Fi: Don't know. Just know there might be a connection.
Worth investigating probably.
Nidranisan: Sounds like maybe another inspection is due.
Alexen Dakan: Several of the guards patrolling the Palace of the Old Queens suffered from terrible diseases not soon after the explosion. Many of them were exposed directly to the fumes.
But now you're saying a woman led them away?
Alexen Dakan sighs
Alexen Dakan: You have all been an invaluable resource to this city. And I know many of you have barely been here for a month.
Nidranisan: The only info we have on the woman is Snock calling her "stinky"...and that he said I'm also "stinky"
Fi: "slightly stinky"
Nidranisan: I suppose I'm lucky I have an alibi.
Alexen Dakan: I wonder what Snock's nose knows.
Nidranisan: Yeah, I'm betting it's smarter than his grasp of the common language would indicate.
Alexen Dakan nods
Nidranisan: I have a sneaking suspicion that means something demonic was involved.
It's always hard to tell if someone is "normal" amount unsettled by me, or more than that.
Alexen Dakan: There is always some kind of summoner running around, trying to wake up some eternal evil.
Nidranisan: Yeah, that was like, 2 days ago.
Alexen Dakan: Never works, but they cause a great amount of damage along the way.
I will take another look at the fallen guards today. Maybe there is something we overlooked.
If Argus Carfen is smuggling weapons through that warehouse, it may be better to catch him by surprise. An official search would give him ample time to hide evidence.
I need someone more...discreet to take a look.
Vegeta: but of course
Nidranisan: Uh. Yeah, maybe we should just send FI.
Nidranisan is not what you would call "discreet"

Vegeta gives Nidri the eye
Alexen Dakan: Thank you for your help. Please, report to me when you are done. Even if there is nothing of alarm.
Nidranisan: Of course.
We may decide to undertake this effort, say, after dark some evening.
Alexen Dakan nods
Nidranisan: So I guess, what I mean is, you may not hear back on that for a day or two, while we figure out the right time and approach.
Alexen Dakan: Yes, I understand.
...and here I hoped for a quiet day.
Nidranisan: Sorry.
We seem to always be the harbringers of...complicated news.
Alexen Dakan: Haha. Not your fault.
The missus will be in town this evening.
Fi: Enjoy your evening then. We'll try not to disturb it.
Alexen Dakan: If the city is under attack, Fi, you have my permission.
Alexen Dakan laughs
Alexen Dakan: Good luck, all of you.
Nidranisan: Thank you.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Alright, I'm about to fall asleep. You guys have most of the day to plan your approach and any other stuff you want to do.
Cat: g'night chad :)
Nidranisan always checks by the office...i feel like the boring responsible one.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): The note in the office says "Tomorrow, I will have tasks ready for you. -Marjorie Mel"
Vegeta: So how do we want to handle this Argus guy?
Fi: Well, we could try to track down where the warehouse is and see what our options for infiltration are. We could then sneak in tonight.
It might also be worth getting what the word on the street is for what what's been going on there.
Hernz: all of these things sounds like stuff vegeta's not good at lol... other than the sneaking later

Fi just pretends.
Hernz: well I sucked at sneaking last time, so yeah, I pretend too lol
(GM) Chad S. (GM): So, are people going to Traderstrip District?
Hernz: I say so, but we'd need Claire/Hawk likely, no?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Probably.
Unless someone has K Local/Diplomacy.
Hernz: .... yes................ not
Meghan: ...
why are we going there again? I've been cookie busy
Chad, do you remember that time in the Batman v Superman episode where the Joker blew up and Harley said "Puddin'!" and Batman said "by this point he probably is"?
did you ever think "too soon, batman."
?
Traderstrip's warehouse district is busy, as usual. Merchants and dock workers run around, moving various goods to and from their destinations.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): I thought that was too funny. Batman's all "I'm tired of this Joker Shit."
Meghan: also, it's what Joker would have wanted
Joker would've laughed
(GM) Chad S. (GM): 'Cause it's hilarious!
Meghan: right, so Claire is required?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yeah, people need to gather info...hey Fi!
Claire: I just buy my info
(GM) Chad S. (GM): But your contact is usually in the Docks...
Meghan: true
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Fi mentioned that he wanted to know about anything that recently happened to the warehouse Lord Carfen acquired.
Meghan: I clearly need a network
Hernz: On a side note Chris, I just read that you could have had a T-rex for a companion... why couldn't you select the trex??? why???
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Cause it doesn't breathe fire, duh
Fleir can bark lazers tho
...right?
Hernz: well then, lazers win
Claire: Chris is playing Mario
Hernz: although a TRex could bite a guy of a toilet seat... Fleir can't do that
(GM) Chad S. (GM): nods sagely
Meghan: He's playing as Peach on all stages
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Excellent...unless he unlocked Rosalina.
Meghan: he has but she doesn't float
Chris abuses the floating option
(GM) Chad S. (GM): She could rewrite the universe if she wanted to, but that's cheating
Chris: Wait Fi is supposed to follow through on her own ideas? What good would that do?
Hernz: AHA! It's a SHE!!
Fi: Where?
Meghan: sometimes
Fi seems to be genderfluid
There's a 62% probability of using female pronouns today, Master.
Chris: lol.

Chris challenges you to tally up the different pronouns use for Fi.
Hernz: I don't have THAT much free time!
Chris: lol
(GM) Chad S. (GM): lulz.
So, what's the plan?
Chris: Unless someone has a way to find out about the warehouse secretly, We'll need to gather info.
Lets at least find the place.
Cat: This is why George and I ripped off futurama and started using shklee/shklim/shkler for Fi.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Alright. It's trivial to find the part of the district that belongs to Carfen.
Chris: Carfen district?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): CAH FEN district
Traderstrip = Boston
Chris: Is that next to the Hammock District?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): That's the one!
Cat: I...read that as the "Hammond" district at first.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Alright, make your gather info (Diplomacy) checks to learn more about this area.
Cat: nidri is gonna sit this one out...last time did not go well.
Chris: Am I leading? Or someone who is actually good at it?

Fi assists whomever leads.
Cat: george is bottling beer.
Fi: Fi's Diplomacy check: 16
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Beer would help gather info
Fi: Fleir's Diplomacy check: 3
Meghan: are we risking claire leading again?
Cat: fleir pees on carfen's leg.

Fleir sniffs their butts.
Claire: Claire's Diplomacy check: 31
Cat: see, every now and then, it works out.
bimodal.
Meghan: probably.
Claire: that isn't even my final form
(GM) Chad S. (GM): lulz
Really happy that's a meme now
No one understood it back in high school...

April 20, 1236 (lunchtime)

Claire asks around for information on Carfen's various warehouses. Most of them hold various weapons and tools, sold to various merchants and loaded onto ships in the Docks.
There is one warehouse, though that's been closed for days, apparently due to a health risk. Lord Carfen himself closed it down, apparently.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): (OMG statting level 18 fighters is crazy)
(I'm writing out his various attack blocks, it's nutz)
Chris: :-/
(GM) Chad S. (GM): (Suddenly a level 18 Fighter jumps through a wall!)
Hernz: just get us to 18 so we can be even ;)
Cat: hah.
we don't even have 18 levels between us, and it doesn't work that way ;)
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Will try!
Hernz: lol
Claire gets a particularly juicy rumor: One worker says he saw Carfen enter the warehouse one night and apparently never left that entire night.
Cat: ooooh which night.
(and was there a stinky lady around? HAH)
(GM) Chad S. (GM): About 3 nights ago.
Cat: so, well after the explosion business.
so, yesterday was snock, the day before was...the party? day before that was our first run in the tunnels??
just trying to line up timing.
because, brain.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): April 18th you returned to the tunnels smashed a wooden statue and drove off the Cult of COBRA
The party was also on the 18th.
On April 19, you interrogated a Magmere member and found Snock!
On the 17th, you went to the Arcane Library and spoke to Micel Verdantflame.
Chris: Anyone got an ocarina? I think this calls for the Song of Time.
Hernz: lol
Meghan: yup
Hernz: Ok, Chris, your challenge was accepted and completed: You call Fi a he 24 times, a she 42; Chad calls Fi a he 27 times and a she 12.... I dont care for the rest of the party who are all confused. And in 2 sentences Fi is mentioned as a his and her.... and one sentence as a "hir"....
Meghan: oh my god
How bored are you, Hernz?
Hernz: It was a challenge!
Meghan: it was facetious
Hernz: how can I not take it?
Meghan: You could have just ... swum around.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): "facetious"? Is that something I eat?
Mmmm... facetious
Chris: awesome!
Hernz: lol
Meghan: I'm still going with genderfluid
Chris: I'm not sure I wanna drink that.
Hernz: lol
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Alright, I'm going to bed. Good night folks.
(Finally finished this guys's attacks...I think I'm done with this fighter)
Meghan: good night
Hernz: night
Ah.... just finished Fullmetal Brotherhood... binged the last season this morning lol

April 20, 1236 (lunchtime)

The team's investigation continues, and Claire has heard of a few interesting pieces of info about a certain warehouse.
Hernz: Btw, watching "new" simpsons episodes... they reuse all the same jokes from past episodes... sad
(GM) Chad S. (GM): lulz. Still alive, somehow
Playing Fire Emblem...healing targets for 1 HP to xp grind
Cat: hah.
Hernz: Ok, so we know which warehouse... do we know any other details?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): The warehouse is relatively small, around 100 x 100 feet. There are multiple entrances, but all of them are closed. There are a couple of windows on top.
Hernz: is there any way to climb to those windows? I doubt any of us have a good enough jump at this point
(GM) Chad S. (GM): You can climb up about 10 feet to look through the windows and try to look in.
Fi: Should we take a peak?
Have get a preview of what we might need for tonight?
Vegeta: I say we do it
Fi: Let's take the least obvious window.
Hernz: we stealthing? who's going for this?
Chris: stealth climb.
Fi: Fi's Stealth check: 9
Fi's Climb check: 24
Vegeta: alright, we'll be back guys
Chris: lol
Vegeta: stealth 18
Chris: A 2 and a 20.
Vegeta: climb 12
12 and 12 lol
Cat: nidri is going along, but staying far enough back from the warehouse to be out of easy hearing distance.
Hernz: vegeta will never complain to have Nidri along :)
Cat: yeah, no shit ;)
i'm like, close enough she can see if there's trouble, but far enough back that stepping on a twig isn't going to alert people.
Fi and Vegeta climb up the western wall.
Hernz: Chad, thsi place looks like a badass MGS hideout
Cat: Nidranisan's Stealth check: 10
hiding behind a shrub.
not terribly well.
Taking a look inside, they notice all sorts of boxes and goods inside.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d20+9
(
7
)+9
= 16
Hernz: INFINITE LOOOOOOOOOTTT!! lol
(GM) Chad S. (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d20+8
(
17
)+8
= 25
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Make a Perception check, you two.
Vegeta: perception 25
Cat: niiiice.
George: I nock an arrow, does it do anything?
Cat: you hanging out in the bushes with nidri while they break in? ;)
"nocking an arrow" at the warehouse?
George: I was assuming.
Fi: Fi's Perception check: 26
George: Unless we sent squishy 1 and squishy 2 up to the warehouse alone
Chris: we're not going in yet.
Cat: veg isn't squishy, he's dodgy.
and i wasn't sure if hawk wanted to actually go climb up to a window with them.
Chris: Fi is more twiggy than squishy.
Hernz: lol
Vegeta: yeah, we're just scouting now
Chris: snaps easily, but puts up a fight until then.
Cat: fi is elfy ;)
George: Nah, he's too weak to climb.
Cat: heh.
Chris: minus the singing and dancing.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): All dancing! All singing!
Fi and Vegeta climb up the walls and take a look inside. Some men do wonder what the heck Fi is doing.
Fi: Nope. No hornets nest here!
Cat: How many other people are around?
i didn't realize there were random people heh.
Citizen: ...what would hornets do here?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Mostly passers by and dock workers heading to their destinations.
Fi: Oh you know. Buzz around. Sting people. Cause horrible inflammation.

Fi climbs down. Leaving Vegeta hidden by the window.
Fi: You haven't heard about anyone who works around here's hand getting swollen up from some kind of insect have you?
Fi's Bluff check: 12
Cat: hah.
Hernz: lol
Fi: Fi's Knowledge (Nature) check: 26
Chris: I bluff with bug facts.
Claire: I heard they were an infestation that came in on one of the ships
Claire's Bluff check: 24
Citizen: Eh, what's he saying?
Oh, in a shipment? Must've been that ship with the honey
Claire: Peruvian beaver hornets.
Nasty things
Citizen: Oh no, Peruvian beaver hornets! They're the worst
Fi: Hmm... Perhaps. I'll look into it.
Citizen: Keep going, inspector! I'll leave you alone
Cat: ...ask if any was delivered to this warehouse?
or if he knows what was? ;)
Meghan: we're going to ruin someone's import
Fi: Thanks.
Cat: i mean, while you have someone there.
Claire: We really should get to inspecting any new cargo
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Hey Fi, what's your Perception bonus?
Claire: since I think we've finished clearing out any new colonies
Chris: 11
Meghan: the smart thing to do now is to let the peruvian beaver hornet infestation news spread and come back with fake fbi^H^H^H inspector badges tomorrow

Vegeta comes back down after a little while looking around

Vegeta meets back with Fi and the rest
Meghan: "Hi, I'm agent Cartwright, this is agent Azaria. We're here to inspect your latest shipment for hornets."
Vegeta: so that smashed box we saw... I noticed a human hand
Claire: ..

Fi nods.
Claire: ...
Fi: Lovely.
Vegeta: couldn't see anything else from that angle
Claire: are we talking bodies, or just parts?
Fi: Perhaps we should change plans and head in now.
Hmm. then we might cause a ruckus bringing out dead body parts...
Vegeta: w gm just saw the hand... could have been crushed underneath?
oops lol
Claire: lol
Fi: What will we need to get inside? lockpicks? crowbar? battering ram?
Or just a ladder to get everyone in and out?
Claire: bluff check on the guards?
tightly controlled fire and some panic?
Cat: ...is it still morning?
and...is the big red dot on the map something we should know about? ;)
Chris: I think Chad said lunch.
broken box.
Fi: Apparently with a hand visible.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): It's lunchtime.
Cat: ah ok.
you guys really want to try busting into this warehouse in the middle of lunch break?
or come back at night?
Fi: I'm concerned with what we might find in there being problematic to reveal publicly.
Like dead people.
Vegeta: chad, was the hand "dead" looking? or moving?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): The hand was moving very weakly.
Fi: Nevermind. Let's do this now.
Vegeta: yeah, not sure waiting is the best of ideas
based on what I saw
Cat: ok. in we go then.
Chris: Are the doors going to be difficult?
Cat: only one way to find out.
so there was no one else in there other than the hand that you could see?
Fi: From where we were.
Vegeta: right
(GM) Chad S. (GM): The doors are locked.
Fi: I could drop a rope from up there if we just want to do the window for everyone.
But it will be obvious to all these people.
Someone could stay outside and run interference. Perhaps about these "Peruvian beaver hornets"
Claire: sometimes I wish I had illusions...
if you saw someone injured, shouldn't we call the town guard?
I mean, break in, of course
but also call the guard to add some legitmacy?
Vegeta: we dont want to give them time to hide whatever they might be doing in there
(GM) Chad S. (GM): There is a relatively simple lock on the doors.
Claire: we're relatively rogue-less though
Fi: Too many unknowns.
Vegeta: I can smash the lock on the doors
Cat: i can only deal with traps i think...not locks.
Hernz: (that is assuming I get fangs cast and hawk sings)
Cat: hah.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Which door will you approach from?
Hernz: is there one further away from the public view?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yeah, Nidri's Curse says traps, not locks...
George: The hidden one that opens in a convenient but unlikely location.
Chris: Can you do greater than 10 damage reliably?
Cat: yeah, that's why we never run into any traps ;)
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Unfortunately, the left entrance seems to be the least public one.
Vegeta: 2d6+4 if you cast and sing
Cat: could we get in through the window?
Fi: So a few rounds to make is through 5 to 10 hp.
Hernz: I guess Hanne could do more lol
Chris: Let's just do the window. It's easier. It will be obvious either way.
Vegeta: either could get us detected... the window might be harder to get out of if things get hairy
(GM) Chad S. (GM): You'll need to climb up to the window.
Cat: not like we ever actually cheese it when things get hairy...
Fi: Fi's Climb check: 13
Chris: does that make it up?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yes, Fi climbs up

Fi ties off a rope and drops the other end.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): It's really hard to make an encounter where the solution is to flee
Claire: do we have rope?
Nidranisan: Fi always has rope.
Hernz: can we take 10 and if so will that make it? Just trying to avoid the rope tricks lol
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Fi, did you drop the rope into or out of the warehouse?
Chris: out to start with.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): You can't take 10 due to penalty of failure
Hernz: k
Chris: I've got another. I'll lower another one inside.
Nidranisan: line up if you want a guidance.
Hawk Hubertins: I'll just wait out here until someone can unlock the door.
George: -1 climb check, so unless the rope drops the diff down below 10, it's pretty likely I'll be here for a while.
Nidranisan: well, have one anyway in case you change your mind in the next minute.
Chris: I suspect it can only open from the outside.
Nidranisan casts Guidance on Hawk.
Vegeta: hawk do your thing, I'll smash the lock
or try
Chris: he has limited per day.
Hernz: oh wait, yeah, was just gonan say that lol
(GM) Chad S. (GM): With the rope it's DC 5 to climb up.
Vegeta: climb 6
Nidranisan: Claire? I mean, I can do this all day.
George: Just means someone has to kick Hawk a bit to make him go.
Hernz: WOOOO!
Fi and Vegeta climb up
Nidranisan just goes ahead and taps everyone who hasn't climbed up yet.
Nidranisan: Hawk. Get up the rope.
Claire: Claire's Climb check: 19
easy breezy
Hawk Hubertins: Hawk Hubertins's Climb check: 12
eep!
Nidranisan casts guidance on herself too. (watch, now that i was a butt to hawk, i'll roll a 2.)
Nidranisan: Nidranisan's Climb check: 8
Cat: (that was including the guidance.)
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Hannelore's Climb check 14
Nidranisan: so we need another one to climb down inside, right?
Everyone except Fleir climbs up to the ledge in the warehouse.
Cat: awwww fleir :(
Vegeta: have your dog bite on that... we'll pull her up
Chris: Are there rules for animals climbing?
Obviously hold the rope is out.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yeah, no rope for Fleir
Cat: can't she just jump? ;)
Chris: DC40.
Only have +15.
Cat: haha.
fine.
MATH.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): It's a DC 25 climb check to do it without a rope
Cat: chad just wanted a fight where fleir doesn't just run around chomping everyone ;)
Chris: just checking.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Oh, Fleir's fiiine
Fi: Ok. let's go down.
Fi's Climb check: 7
Cat: fleir can guard the window.
Fi: 1 Barks if they're coming by door. 2 if by window.
Vegeta: climb 1
Nidranisan: baaaahahaha.
Hernz: LOL
Nidranisan: sorry
Cat: baaaahahaha.
Fi: Fi's Reflex save: 8
Save notes: +2 vs enchantment
Hernz: THUMP
Cat: SPLAT
Chris: do I get out of the way?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Luckily if you fail by 4, you just fail to make progress, so Vegeta didn't fall.
Hmm, with that I think I can just move everyone down
Unless you think you'd get a 0 on this check
Hernz: yeah
Nidranisan: technically, i could.
unless i cast guidance again every time i try.
Chris: better guidance Hawk and Nidri again ;-)
Nidranisan: same for hawk.
but it's lvl 0 so it's free, as long as i can cast up here, we can abstract that away.
Fi climbs down into the warehouse.
Claire: Claire's Climb check: 18
I don't know why everyone's having such trouble. It's easy.
Hawk Hubertins: Hawk Hubertins's Climb check: 0
Claire: and I haven't climbed since I was a kid.
...
Oh, Hawk.
Cat: if he wasn't afraid of heights before...HE IS NOW!
Vegeta: this rope is bad quality
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Gonna assume Nidri cast guidance
Nidranisan so did.
George: Ok, so that's a 1
Fi: It won't hurt that much if you fall.
Hernz: yay we both crit missed lol
Nidranisan: Nidranisan's Climb check: 19
Nidranisan will be over here, checking out the hand.
George: Second try with no bonus?
Nidranisan: Vegeta, which crate?
Nidranisan cast again before leaving, hawk.

Fi watches Nidri tarzan across the room.
Hawk Hubertins: Hawk Hubertins's Climb check: 12+1
Cat: yeah, that was not counting the guidance btw, it's a 20 ;)
Vegeta: here, follow me... keep your eyes open
perception 18 to keep our eyes open
try to be quiet
Nidranisan: Nidranisan's Perception check: 17
Vegeta: stealth 7
Nidranisan: Nidranisan's Stealth check: 10
Claire: Claire's Perception check: 2
Claire's Stealth check: 7
Chris: PROTIP: DON'T ROLL 1!
Nidranisan is mostly looking for traps, honestly.
Claire: I am just as quiet as vegeta
Hernz: LOL
Cat: i assume veg knows where the hand is. i can cast cure light as long as i can touch the hand, yeah? :)
The group blunders their way in. They see the smashed, relatively hollow crate and a hand sticking out.
Fi: Fi's Perception check: 29
Fi's Stealth check: 8
(GM) Chad S. (GM): The red dot on the map is where the hand is
Hernz: LOL
Chris: WTF?!?
Cat: Nidri is suddenly convinced she's super sneaky.
Hernz: haha
Meghan: sneak ... Sneak... SNEAK
Nidranisan: (To GM) rolling 1d20+6
(
14
)+6
= 20
A voice mumbles... "help me..."
Meghan: it's the fly
(GM) Chad S. (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d20+8
(
13
)+8
= 21
Cat: hah.
Meghan: well, that was super creepy
Chris: Hope it doesn't say "Too Late"
Vegeta: sense motif 28
Cat: lol motif.
almost as good as diplomancy.
Hernz: at least one good roll lol
Nidranisan peers into the crate.
Nidranisan: Hi there mister. Like to come out and talk?
Meghan: so there isn't someone who's been crushed?
Vegeta: wait!
it's a trap!
Chris: It's a tarp?
Fi: I see some dude in there? what do you see?
Nidranisan: show of hands, who's surprised?
Yeah, some totally fine dude.
Claire: like "fine" or like "unhurt"?
Nidranisan: Well, I meant the latter.
Claire: 'cause that changes my level of interest
Nidranisan: Maybe we should let him finish typing before we have like a whole conversation about it though?
Claire: fiiiiine

Claire rolls her eyes
Nidranisan: There you go with that word again.
Claire: talking is a free action, ok
Argus Carfen: Your souls are forfeit to me!
Claire: oh for fucks sake
Nidranisan: Aw shit.
Claire: Claire's Initiative result: 4.01
Nidranisan sighs.
Meghan: too soon?
Cat: so, he wearing anything interesting? like a robe or a headdress?
Meghan: maybe a magic ring?
Argus Carfen: Claire and Hawk, you can make Sense Motive checks
Claire: Claire's Sense Motive check: 19
Fi: Fuck You, Argus. Fuck You.
Meghan: I'm super good at this.
Hawk Hubertins: Hawk Hubertins's Sense Motive check: 27
Meghan: wait, did he lock himself in his warehouse in the hopes that someone would break in ?
Chris: doubtful.
Hawk also realizes something is amiss and is not surprised!
(GM) Chad S. (GM): I need Hawk and Vegeta to make initiative checks
Hawk Hubertins: Hawk Hubertins's Initiative result: 11.02
Vegeta: initiative 11
Hernz: same as hawk .02
(GM) Chad S. (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d20+2
(
20
)+2
= 22
Chris: I hope all the other bad guys in boxes have to actually damage their way out of the box first.
Cat: lol.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): But some of the boxes may have treasure!
Chris: Roll attack!
Meghan: they're all mimics
The visage of a male human fades away, leaving a goat-like creature in rags. His face is featureless, except for a single large eye, surrounded by fangs. He seems to be wearing an onyx ring.
Meghan: or better yet, if we leave and come back all the boxes reset.
wait, an eye surrounded by fangs?
this is super creepy
Fi: Eww... What did you eat?
Claire: Claire's Knowledge (Planes) check: 18
Cat: will kplanes help?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): "A large eye, ringed by fangs"...that's what the beastiary says
Meghan: that's what I thought
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yes, K Planes to identify
Nidranisan: Nidranisan's Knowledge (Planes) check: 17
Two featureless heads also appear, apparently invisible until now.
Nidranisan: Lovely.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Claire and Nidri recognize Carfen? As a type of Div called an Aghash. Each of you can ask one question.
You should also use k planes to identify the floating heads
Cat: do i get a bit of a boost for having studied up on divs? ;)
Vegeta: what the hell are these things/
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yes, I secretly factored it in
Cat: heh sweet.
Nidranisan: thinking. in the mean time, for the floating heads.....
Nidranisan's Knowledge (Planes) check: 20
As he stands up, Carfen's single eye glares at the party, seemingly staring straight into their souls.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Nidri recognizes the floating heads as Doru, a weaker kind of Div.
You get 2 questions
Hawk Hubertins: Hawk Hubertins's Knowledge (Planes) check: 8
George: Hey, I get k/*... Not to say I'm any good at it. ;)
Cat: heh.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): In the meantime, everyone except Hannelore needs to make a Fort Save, DC 14.
Hawk Hubertins: Hawk Hubertins's Fortitude save: 6
Save notes:
Fi: Fi's Fortitude save: 5
Save notes: +2 vs enchantment
Vegeta: Fort 6
George: Nope. Hawk now has brown trousers...
Hernz: nice rolls Fi
Chris: everyone dies.
Cat: when you say we get to ask questions, is there anything we already know about these or you mean basically we can pick one sort of feature as what we know?
Hernz: and hawk lol
(GM) Chad S. (GM): You can ask for a set of features like Attacks, Special Abilities, Resistances or Movement.
Cat: ...do we do enough cool stuff that we care about resistances?
mostly we just hit things...
Nidranisan: Nidranisan's Fortitude save: 14
Save notes: +2 to save vs curses or magic spells that cause curses (Born Damned trait)
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Claire, a Fort Save?
Claire: Claire's Fortitude save: 14
Save notes: +2 circumstance bonus on saving throws against becoming blinded or dazzled while Halo is up.
Inspire Courage does +1 save vs fear & charm
Chris: So we're bleeding from our eyes?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Hawk, Vegeta and Fi are shaken to their core for 1 round.
George: I think this is before the bard song starts.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): ...which I guess doesn't matter since this is the surprise round.
lolz
Cat: i'm gonna ask about special attacks for both.
Claire: ok, uhm... resistances
Cat: and about resistances for the dorus.
Meghan: for the main guy
Cat: so i think that covers our bases.
George: It is a -2 to attack.
Meghan: do I still need to kplanes the dorus?
Cat: wouldn't hurt?
Claire: Claire's Knowledge (Planes) check: 17
Meghan: movement and attacks for the dorus if I have two qs on them.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Carfen is an Aghash. He has DR 5/Cold Iron or Good. Its gaze attack is very worrying, because it can affect anyone who is within 30 feet.
Meghan: since cat got special attacks and resistances for them.
so you're saying "go for the eyes, boo" ?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Aghash also like to curse their foes, using stuff like Bestow Curse.
The Dorus are flying and usually invisible. It's odd that these are visible. They look like flying, bestial heads with lots of hair about them.
Meghan: all of them evil?
they look evil
(GM) Chad S. (GM): They can fly (duh), and have DR 5/cold iron or good. They are immune to fire, poison.
Yes, all are evil
Dorus like to bite and use suggestions to move people into traps.
Cat: immune to fire huh. i guess go for "Carfen?" with the lighting on fire thing.
Meghan: but are they immune to heavenly fire? Probably not
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Does that deal divine or fire damage?
Meghan: good question!
Chris: I would assume it doesn't do fire damage since it heals good people.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): In the meantime, Hawk and Vegeta get a partial action.
Vegeta: divine
Cat: point.
Vegeta: http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/core-classes/sorcerer/bloodlines/bloodlines-from-paizo/celestial-bloodline
Meghan: "This damage is divine and not subject to energy resistance or immunity"
Cat: yaaaay :)
Vegeta: Can we climb onto the crates?
Meghan: does that mean it bypasses DR or no?
Vegeta: yes
Cat: well folks, i'm not gonna bother with bane, i'll just save up 5 healz.
Meghan: 'cause it's a d4+1. It ain't doing that much
Cat: but if you want me to drop a resistance on ya for save purposes, squeal.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yes, you can climb up the crates. The small ones are 5 ft cubes
Hernz: any check for that?
Cat: what are you doing, death from above? :)
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Not the 5 ft ones, I don't think you can fail them
Hernz: half move while climbing?
i.e. difficult terrain?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yeah, that sounds right
Vegeta quickly climbs up some of the boxes.
Vegeta: snap out of it vegeta!
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Hawk, what are you doing with your standard action?
George: 5' back and start singin'!

Hawk Hubertins is activating his Bard ability, Inspire Courage +1
Hawk Hubertins: +1 to attack, damage, and save vs fear & charm
Inspire Courage +1 uses remaining: 11
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Okay. Everyone else, roll for initiative
(To GM) rolling 1d20+4
(
10
)+4
= 14
Fi: Fi's Initiative result: 19.04
Nidranisan: Nidranisan's Initiative result: 19.02
Cat: whoa! finally got initiative that doesn't totally blow chunks!
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Alright, that leaves Claire
Chris: Doesn't really matter when the enemy has a 22.
Hernz: lol
Chris: Claire rolled hers way early.
Cat: don't rain on my parade :)
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Oh right
Okay, that's it for tonight.
Cat: yeah, we all need to rest up for the big shovel tomorrow.
Vegeta: yeah, you guys are gonna get screwed
Chris: She got a 4.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): If Fi, Nidri, Hawk and Claire want to make Fort Saves go for it
SNOWMAGGEDDON 2: SNOW HARDER
Fi: Fi's Fortitude save: 15
Save notes: +2 vs enchantment
Claire: Claire's Initiative result: 17.01
Claire's Fortitude save: 13
Save notes: +2 circumstance bonus on saving throws against becoming blinded or dazzled while Halo is up.
Inspire Courage does +1 save vs fear & charm
Meghan: hah. I rolled a better one this time.
except for fort save, that one kinda sucked
I should probably cast resistance
George: Want is such a strong word.
Hawk Hubertins: Hawk Hubertins's Fortitude save: 3
Save notes:
Hernz: this is gonna be a fun saves fight lol
Cat: chad, this is snowma-something 3.0 at this point.
unless you figure that first one was still in beta?
Nidranisan: Nidranisan's Fortitude save: 18
Save notes: +2 to save vs curses or magic spells that cause curses (Born Damned trait)
Cat: totally should've armored up before we came in here.
braaaaaains.
Hernz: yeah
Cat: mine lasts an hour.
and technically i get two per day.
Meghan: whoops
yeah, we shoulda prepped
like, "there's always time for lubrication" prepped
Cat: i'm thinking i'd rather cast resistance first though heh.
Meghan: they'd seem to go together
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Looks like everyone except Hawk made their Saves. Vegeta didn't need to because his view of Carfen was blocked by the crate. Hannelore's out of range.
As Carfen peers into Hawk's soul, his judgement becomes clouded and confused.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Hawk is confused for 1 round, as per confusion spell.
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/c/confusion
Lord Carfen leaves the crate, walking past the unarmed Nidri and Fi. He mumbles something incoherent, then tries to touch Fi with his glowing hand.
Lord Carfen tries to BAD TOUCH Fi hitting touch AC 23
Fi will have to make a Will Save
One of the headless fiends flies up to Vegeta, trying to bite him.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Doru A tries to bite Vegeta hitting AC 20 for 3 damage
The other floating head tries to bite Hannelore.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Doru B tries to bite Hannelore hitting AC 20 for 3 damage
Fi: Fi's Will save: 9
Save notes: +2 vs enchantment
As Lord Carfen touches Fi, the elf is assaulted with visions of Harvest Wharf crumbling, its citizens buried forever underneath the earth, and the remains burned to oblivion.
Cat: yeaaaah, time for some resistance spells. :/
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Feel free to make a Spellcraft check to determine the spell.
Nidranisan: Nidranisan's Spellcraft check: 22
Cat: i'm thinking i'll be putting on my own oxygen mask before assisting others.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Carfen cast Bestow Curse
Meanwhile the floating heads will provoke AoOs
Cat: lovely.
queue me to cast resistance on myself unless someone is dying. if i'm not checking this tab and you want to continue :)
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Will do Cat. Waiting on AoOs from people, so I won't be jumping ahead until tonight, probably.
Cat: yuuup.
Fi: Gah! What the fuck?
Argus Carfen: Interrupting my feast...you will all pay!
Meghan: Claire will be putting resistance on Hannalore as her action.

Hernz strikes Doru A!
Hernz: Attack Result: 9
(Needs 21 to crit.)
Damage Result: 1
Crit: 20/x2
Crit Confirm: 23
Crit Damage: +5
Hernz: that was my most not outstanding AoO
Vegeta: Fort Save: 6
Hernz: god... these rolls
was hanne hit by that AC20?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): I'm guessing yes, but I haven't really looked at Hannelore's AC yet.
AC 20 hits you, right Hernz?
As the floating head bites into Vegeta's arm, he can feel the poison seeping into his arm, and with it, his memories start to fade away...
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Vegeta takes 1 Wisdom Damage
Cat: at least it rolled shitty too?
y'know, on a scale of 1 to 2...
Chris: No T service tomorrow, btw.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): First they took our skies. Then they took our roads. Then they took our buses.
SNOWMAGGEDDON 3: SNOW WITH A VENGEANCE
...This time, it's personal!
explosion...of snow
Chris: The busses are technically still sorta running.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): I see the 70 blaze down Main Street, sometimes .

Fleir howls. (It probably can be faintly heard inside)
Vegeta: ...ugh....
Hernz: damn wis dam.... AC down to 17
FYI
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Waiting for Anne to resolve the AoO and Fort Save
Hernz: am back
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Sup
Hernz: no Anne yet, huh?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Nope, giving her half an hour before I resolve
Chris: Does anyone message her? I don't think she remembers to check yet.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): I have emailed her a couple of times a few weeks ago.
Just sent her another email.
Hernz: she got a cell to txt?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Don't know.
Actually, she's still flatfooted, so she can't make AoOs
Hernz: lol
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Hannelore's Fort Save DC 15
Hernz: ROLL FOR ME!!!!
I'm gonna pretend I'm not here lol
(GM) Chad S. (GM): I know, look at my first few rounds, wow
Hannelore is bit, but resists the poison.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Players can go now. Hawk is confused, but I'll say you all get Inspire Courage bonus until he acts.

Hernz Pummels Doru A, concentrating all his attacks in one area.
Hernz:
Attack Results: 11 || 20
(Needs 21 on either hit to crit.)
Damage(blunt): 2 || 5
Crit: 20/x2; Crit Confirm: 17
Crit Dmg (blunt): +3 || +4
Hernz: Special 1: Total damage from all attacks before applying DR
Special 2: If hit by first hit, Fort save DC 16 or be stunned for 1 round
so one hit only I assume... that do any damage?
and of course, that was vegeta... oops
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Unfortunately no, the second one doesn't overcome its DR.
Vegeta: hm... tough son of a bitch

Fi draws his sword, activates Animal Focus Bull, and attacks Carfen.

Fi is attacking Carfen? with Long Sword!
Fi: Attack Result: 11
(Needs at least 19 to crit.)
Damage Result: 8
Crit: 19/x2
Crit Confirm: 15
Crit Damage: +10
Fi: Type: slashing
Notes:
Chris: Curse penalty included.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Fi's blade bounces off of Carfen's tough skin.
Meghan: I'm sticking with my resistance to cast on Hanna

Meghan casts Resistance!
Meghan: School: Abjuration; Level 0
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Components: V, S, M/DF (a miniature cloak)
Range: touch
Targets/Area: Creature touched
Duration: 1 minute
Meghan: Saving Throw: DC 14, Will negates (harmless); Spell Resistance: Yes
You imbue the subject with magical energy that protects it from harm, granting it a +1 resistance bonus on saves.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Moving, Claire?
Hernz: so are you going to wait for Anne or you'll be moving her?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): I will if everyone else moves, otherwise I'll wait.
Meghan: sure why not.
Vegeta: hawk is confused, right?
Meghan: actually, if I go there, I"m out of line of sight of carfen
Claire imbues Hannelore with some divine protection, then moves.
Hernz: that was ooc
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Claire is out of range of Carfen's 30 ft glare and has broken sight.
Hawk is confused for 1 round
Nidranisan casts Resistance!
Nidranisan: Duration: 1 minute
Nidri - +1 bonus on saving throws
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Moving anywhere?
Nidranisan: thinking.
is there room between the boxes where the little ones overhang?
like if i went left and down.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): No, unfortunately.
Just getting different tiles for crates.
Cat: k, are those 5x10 or they only take up part of the space, but there just isn't enough room to sneak between?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): The crates are either 5x5 or 10x10
Yeah, not enough room to really sneak between them.
Cat: eh, i guess i could back off.
k, i was just confused by the ones that look like two crates taking up 1.3 squares wide :)
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yeah, I know.
The other crates look too flat, you know?
Cat: heh.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): George, roll for confusion.
George: catching up on logs. brb.
Anne has been falling asleep super early lately, so she may already be asleep. I'll txt her real quick to see if she's up for popping on to take Hanner's action.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Alright.
George: rolling 1d100
(
72
)
= 72
So Hawk punches himself in the face.
Chris: doh
George: He's not currently holding anything, since he hasn't had an action yet, but I believe this also means that bardsong ends.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Luckily he has a str penalty
I guess that's unarmed damage, then
George: Yeah, so it's subdual, since he doesn't have any feats in unarmed?
Cat: hah nice.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yeah, nonlethal.
George: rolling 1d8-1
(
7
)-1
= 6
Chris: Confusion explicitly states 1d8 + str mod for some reason... how bizarre.
Hawk punches himself in the face and snaps out of it.
George: Well, it's "With an item in hand"
Chris: bash your head against the crate next to you.
George: Chad, your call whether it's subdual or not, given that the spell specifies the damage.
Hernz: he sticks himself with a fork!
(GM) Chad S. (GM): I see, it says if you can't do the action, then you just babble incoherently.
Since you aren't holding anything, I guess you just babble.
Cat: sweet. empty-handed ftw.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Gonna give Anne a few minutes before I auto control (hint: Rage + Attack)
George: Cool.
And yeah, that's probably the right action for her.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Hannelore attacks Doru B, hitting AC 23 for 13 damage
Hernz: ROLL FOR US!!!!!
Hannelore doesn't like floating bestial heads biting her, so she flies into a bloody rage and hacks into one of the heads.
Round 2
Cat: the map looks so bare without fleir. :/
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Doru B attacks Hannelore, hitting AC 17 for 0 damage
Hernz: minimun is 1, right?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Hannelore's Fort Save DC 18
Yes, 1 is min damage
Adding her rage hp
Doru A attacks Vegeta, hitting AC 20 for 0 damage
Cat: chomp chomp.
Vegeta: fort 5
Cat: that crate he's on, it's like 5' tall or 10' tall?
Hernz: god, these rolls....
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Vegeta is on a 10 ft crate
Luckily for Vegeta, getting bit just resets the poison timer
Chris: Chad forgot to turn off the roll tweaker in the GM options.
Cat: and the doru is on the same crate, yeah?
Vegeta: no need for a save?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): You still need to save because otherwise the poison timer resets.
Vegeta: k
The Dorus nibble on Vegeta and Hannelore.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Fi, Vegeta, Nidri and Hawk need to make Fort Saves.
Vegeta: Fort 19
Hernz: WOOOOOO!!!
lol
Fi: Fi's Fortitude save: 18
Save notes: +2 vs enchantment
Hawk Hubertins: Hawk Hubertins's Fortitude save: 7
Save notes:
George: Hawk's just going to fail all of his saves now.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): lolz
Chris: I guess that's a 14 for Fi, Chad.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Good enough!
Waiting for Nidri's Save
Hernz: 14? the curse?
Nidranisan: Nidranisan's Fortitude save: 13
Save notes: +2 to save vs curses or magic spells that cause curses (Born Damned trait)
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Is that with Resistance?
Chris: yeah. I'm at -4 to tons of stuff.
Hernz: ugh
Nidranisan: sadly yes.
George: So hawk is now a porcupine?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Nidri and Hawk are stunned for 1 round.
George: You really don't want me to say what I think the icon next to Hanners is.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Luckily you two aren't holding anything.
...a crate?
Chris: Ok I've applied the penalty to saves as well.
Cat: ...i think he meant the status icon.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Carfen unleashes his claws against Fi, hitting AC 19 for 8 damage
Nidranisan should've counted better when exiting the region.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Carfen unleashes his claws against Fi, hitting AC 26 for 6 damage
Cat: greaaaaat.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Carfen confirms his claws against Fi, hitting AC 24 for 5 damage
Hernz: oh boy
Chris: bye bye
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Jeez
Vegeta: ouch......
Cat: pro tip, y'all probably know Fi has a potion, if anyone wants to dig it out and pour it down his throat.
Hernz: did both hit?
Cat: at least, i'm pretty sure shklee still has the potion.
Chris: AC 18 currently
(GM) Chad S. (GM): AC 19 hits, right?
Cat: aaaaah yeah, that might be a problem.
that bar looks really negative.
Vegeta: Claire! get that wand cranking on me before we all end up like that!
Chris: Chad just killed me.
Lord Carfen digs his claws into Fi, taking him down in two swift strokes.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): My first kill!
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED
Cat: so is Fi like, in two pieces?
Hernz: GM gets XP!
(GM) Chad S. (GM): 1 XP! Next level is 6 trillion away
Hernz: 1 rd rule?
Cat: doesn't look like it with a big red X...
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Sadly, Fi is out.
(PS ...you guys are in town.)
Cat: yeah, i think we're pretty officially screwed on this one.
Meghan: welp
Hernz: lesson learnt, no hand to hand for frail elves lol
Cat: that crit was pretty much it.
Hernz: yeah, that too
Meghan: ouch.
you mean the armor wand?
Cat: yeah, that's kinda my bad.
sorry chris, i made the wrong call :(
Hernz: our move?
Meghan: what was the right call?
Hernz: ghostbusters
Cat: remembering to armor up before going in, and then running up next to fi instead of leaving.
Meghan: yeah. whoops
Cat: really, given that i didn't leave far enough, running up was the better choice anyway.
i just have no brain left and didn't really think it through enough.
but nidri will pretty much have a guilt complex forever now, because she would've survived that attack.
Vegeta: wand me up Claire!
Nidranisan: Run back, we need to regroup anyway.
A bunch of one-on-one fights is ridiculous.

Vegeta goes all out defensive
Cat: oh fleir. one round late.
Vegeta: wand me up!
woman!
The leftside door opens, as a Dwarven male and Fleir step in.
Hernz: (sounds like something veggie would say hahaha)
Fleir growls angrily.
Adrias Stonebottom: W-what?
Nidranisan is stunned, i guess i shouldn't be talking?
Adrias Stonebottom: W-what are those things?
Cat: am i too stunned to explain?
Vegeta: I have no idea but they're tricky to fight...
be careful... some sort of demons
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Talking's a free action
Nidranisan: Dorus. And an Agash.
THEY'RE DIVS, NOT DEMONS. sheesh.
The one with the eye has an awful stare.
Adrias Stonebottom: Whatever! Cold Iron, Silver, Adamantine? What cuts through them?
Nidranisan: Try cold iron?
Try something, they killed Fi...

Hawk Hubertins blinks a couple times.
Adrias Stonebottom: Hmpf. Who's got a weapon?
I didn't...really expect Divs.
Nidranisan: You can have my knife if you want.
Or use Fi's sword...cut the bastard down with the same weapon.
Adrias Stonebottom: Well, I can get someone's weapon to cut through like it's cold iron. I'll try to get close to ya.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Okay, what are you guys doing?
Cat: standing there like an idiot. :)
(GM) Chad S. (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d20+2
(
1
)+2
= 3
George: Yeah, Hawk is stunned, right? So does he get an action this turn?
Hernz: vegeta is hoping Claire comes and wands him up
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Oh right, you two are stunned.
Stand there like idjits.
Meghan: I don't remember if the range is touch or not

Meghan is using their item Wand of Mage Armor
Meghan:
Wand of Mage Armor uses remaining: 39
Hernz: I think so
(GM) Chad S. (GM): That leaves Hannelore. I'll give her a day.
Vegeta: I'm at AC 25 now, no AoOs... in case I'm not around
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Vegeta, make a fort save to deal with the poison.
Vegeta: fort 9
...ugh...
Hernz: how much more of my very needed wiz do I lose?
Vegeta hears the whispers growing louder...
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Vegeta loses 1 Wisdom
Hernz: wooo! good, same wis mod!
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Alright, good night folks.
Hernz: that stupid curse really hurt Fi
Meghan: so who should I be fighting when the time comes?
I've got 7 uses
Hernz: I'm sure Doru A will likely go down a lot faster... last thing we want to give them is flanks
Cat: well, since we learned about the 'resistances' of both with k.planes, maybe chad will tell which has better SR.
Hernz: something tells me Hanne can take that other one down next move
Cat: and you can hit the weaker one.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Doru has SR 13
Hernz: oh, SR applies? great...
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Oh, they both have SR 13
George: Hanners is likely to take down b pretty fast. We'll see if Hawk gets to act next round. ;)
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Everybody's got SR 13!
Does SR apply to your heavenly fire, Claire?
Meghan: I don't know.
I don't think so.
it says it's not subject to energy resistance
Hernz: energy resistance is like "cold res 5"... it says its a spell like ability (Sp)... but not all spells allow SR... your call GM
Meghan: ok, then probably it does would be my guess
George: According to the srd, all sp's are explicitly subject to SR.
Cat: tho at 13, you've got a decent chance of overcoming it.
Hernz: 50/50
Meghan: This is going to be fun
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Hannelore will try to kill Doru B at 7:30 unless I hear from Anne.
Hernz: ok
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Alright, movin'
Hannelore attacks Doru B hitting AC 18 for 5 damage
Hernz: doh!
Hannelore swings! But the Doru's tough hide resists the swing.
Round 3
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Fleir's here.
Cat: go go fleir!
Chris: Hmm.. Not sure what she would attack. She probably would go strait to Fi's side without Fi's direction.
Cat: sounds reasonable.
Chris: Ugh. 55 feet.

Fleir growls at Carfen.
Vegeta: careful dog!
Nidranisan: Bite him!
Chris: Can't bite him 5 feet too far.
Cat: thought you could attack on the diagonal.
Chris: move 50
that was 55.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Doru A provokes as it enters Fleir's threatened range
Cat: aaah you mean fleir double moved to get there.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Doru B attacks Hannelore hitting AC 21 for 3 damage
Chris: is bard song up or down?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Jeez, dice are still hot
Bard song is down
Hawk was unable to take actions last round
Hernz: damn!
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Hannelore's Fort Save DC 6

Chris is attacking Doru A with Powerful Bite!
Chris: Attack Result: 5
(Needs at least 22 to crit.)
Damage Result: 7
Crit: 20/x2
Crit Confirm: 6
Crit Damage: +7

Fleir did that.
Hernz: we need a paladin in the party lol
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Doru A bites Fleir hitting AC 10 for 0 damage
Yaaaay I missed
Cat: lol.
George: You finally missed.
Hernz: lol
One of the floating heads bites Hannelore, poisoning her. The other one misses Fleir.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Time to make some Fort Saves, folks. Everyone but Hannelore.
Vegeta: fort 23
Hernz: FUCK YEAH!
Nidranisan: Nidranisan's Fortitude save: 8
Save notes: +2 to save vs curses or magic spells that cause curses (Born Damned trait)
Cat: yuuuup good thing my save is a 2. y'know, instead of a 1.
Vegeta: lol
Fleir: Fleir's Fortitude save: 23
Save notes:

Fi 's ghost says: Finally!
Hernz: lol
Hawk Hubertins: Hawk Hubertins's Fortitude save: 11
Save notes:
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Hawk's Fort Save is so bad it won't let him roll
Ah, there we go
George: Only let me roll when I typed in the macro, not when I clicked it.
Meghan: Claire's Fortitude save: 22
Save notes: +2 circumstance bonus on saving throws against becoming blinded or dazzled while Halo is up.
Inspire Courage does +1 save vs fear & charm
Hernz: please say you can still sing!!
Everyone who failed (Hawk and Nidri) take 3 damage from Lord Carfen's death stare.
George: Wait! Wait! Wait wait wait...
Does that mean Hawk gets an action this round?
Argus Carfen: Such repulsive creatures...Interrupting my feeding.
Vegeta: you're going to have to do a whole lot better than that
Argus Carfen: Carfen casts defensively DC 21 19
Argus tries to enchant his claws, but the magic fizzles out.
Argus Carfen: Vegeta make a Fort Save
Hernz: that a touch attack?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): No this is the poison
Carfen tried to cast, but failed
Vegeta: fort 16
Hernz: good??
Vegeta feels his body fighting off the poison. His proud Saiyan memories stay intact!
(GM) Chad S. (GM): People go (except Fi and Fleir)

Hawk Hubertins is activating his Bard ability, Inspire Courage +1
Hawk Hubertins: +1 to attack, damage, and save vs fear & charm
Inspire Courage +1 uses remaining: 11

Hawk Hubertins draws his bow.
Hernz: I assume I can't 5ft to get flank, right?
Cat: anyone else want a resistance?
Hernz: I'd rather a heal
Cat: yeah, actually, i can do that.
Nidranisan casts Cure Light on Vegeta!
Nidranisan: heal 6 HPs.
Hernz: sweet

Vegeta Pummels Carfen?, concentrating all his attacks in one area.
Vegeta:
Attack Results: 2 || 9
(Needs 21 on either hit to crit.)
Damage(blunt): 3 || 4
Crit: 20/x2; Crit Confirm: 5
Crit Dmg (blunt): +3 || +5
Vegeta: Special 1: Total damage from all attacks before applying DR
Special 2: If hit by first hit, Fort save DC 16 or be stunned for 1 round
Nidranisan draws her knife too.
Cat: nice 1.
Hernz: of course.....
a 1, an 8, and a 2 to confirm... I'll hit dirt soon!
(GM) Chad S. (GM): That just leaves Claire and Hannelore
Hernz: Supernatural tonight I think... no Claire for a while :)
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Black guy nooooo!
Watching Rifftrax, Black Guy finally died
Hernz: lol
Meghan: thanks herns
hernz
my fire is a ray. is vegeta in the way?
I can't, like, shoot between his legs?
Chris says I can just walk on boxes so that's what I'm doing.
minus 4 melee penalty ... this is gonna suck. well, let's see if I hit.

Claire is attacking Carfen? with Heavenly Fire!
Claire: Attack Result: 5
Damage Result: 4
Type: divine
Heavenly Fire uses remaining: 6
Notes: Only hurts evil creatures. Ray. Use up to 7 per day.
Meghan: Nope
Hernz: no Anne yet? Anne!?!?!?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Hannelore will continue clobbering Doru B at 7:30 unless I hear otherwise.
Hernz: good thing she didnt decide to be a mage.... that wouldnt be nearly as easy to predict her moves lol
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yeah, Rage + Attack nearest enemy is easy to put on Auto
Hernz: time for Adrias to kick ass lol
although I'm sure Hanne can take him out
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Hannelore attacks Doru B hitting AC 25 for 10 damage
Hernz: BOOM!
a 19... not bad
Hannelore bats the Doru across the room. It crumbles like dust, spraying across the room.
Hernz: now spare me any Carfen crits :)
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Hannelore's Fort Save 11
Hannelore takes 1 Wisdom damage from the poison.
...oh wait, resistance
Hannelore's imbued resistance holds the poison off.
Adrias's Dwarven legs carry him up towards the group as he pulls out a wand.
Adrias's UMD check 31
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Adrias uses the wand to cast bless...which doesn't stack with bardsong.
Hernz: lol
Vegeta: get behind darfen dog! Don't let them flank you! Handle Animal -1

Vegeta clearly has no idea how to direct animals around
Hernz: not that I could have actually rolled the skill
Adrias Stonebottom: Um...isn't he a wolf?
Round 4
Adrias Stonebottom: Fleir is up next.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): ...says the dm
Cat: heh splat.
Chris: Fleir's WIS Check: 2
Cat: niiiiiice.
Chris: Are we at +1 attack & damage currently?
Fleir: rolling d4
(
3
)
= 3
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yes, +1 attack / damag
Chris: Sorry. Finding all kinds of bugs in the mobile interface on my tablet. Laptop is at work since I'm doing the Cookie ride tomorrow.

Chris is attacking Carfen? with Powerful Bite & Trip!
Chris: Attack Result: 6
(Needs at least 23 to crit.)
Damage Result: 6
Crit: 20/x2
Crit Confirm: 11
Crit Damage: +9
Chris: Trip Attempt: 20
(GM) Chad S. (GM): ...

Fleir did that
Argus Carfen: Hmm, such beauty...I will tear it down, and let your blood flow free.
Fi: ...
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Fleir, Vegeta, Nidri and Hawk need to make Fort Saves
Fleir: Fleir's Fortitude save: 22
Save notes:
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Carfen attacks Nidri hitting AC 25 for 5 damage
Carfen attacks Nidri hitting AC 23 for 6 damage
...whyyyy
Carfen sneers as he tears into Nidri.
Cat: hey veg, i have my knife out, you can get flanking ;)
assuming the doru doesn't eat me.
and hey, it wouldn't have mattered if i had my armour up!
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Need Fort Saves from Hawk, Nidri and Vegeta.
Cat: Nidranisan's Fortitude save: 18
Save notes: +2 to save vs curses or magic spells that cause curses (Born Damned trait)
George: Seriously? I log on and immediately need to make another save?
Cat: they're every round.
Hawk Hubertins: Hawk Hubertins's Fortitude save: 5
Save notes:
(GM) Chad S. (GM): The joy of Gazes
George: Another one bites the dust...
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Hernz said he would be gone, so I'll just roll in his place.
Vegeta's Fort Save 16
Cat: he totally planned that.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): ROLLED FOR HIM
Claire needs to make a Fort Save, too
Cat: did doru A go yet?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Nope
Cat: k.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Doru A provokes against Fleir for moving into her threatened range
Cat: lolz.
it's a head...didn't say it had a brain!
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Need to reset router...brb

Fleir is attacking Doru A with Powerful Bite!
Fleir: Attack Result: 17
(Needs at least 23 to crit.)
Damage Result: 9
Crit: 20/x2
Crit Confirm: 22
Crit Damage: +9
Fleir bites into the Doru as it approaches...
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Claire's Fort Save 7
So, Claire and Hawk are confused for one round (see lesser confusion spell)
Doru A attacks Fleir hitting AC 8 for 1 damage
Yaaay I missed again
Meghan: what can I do while confused?
Cat: nidri is gonna wait for vegeta or fleir to 5' in and take the attack w/flanking.
oh wait, fleir went already.
so, veg.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Alright, Vegeta and Nidri are good to go. Hernz told me Vegeta will pummel
Cat: ok, veg can go first and i can 5' back after to cast, yeah?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Meghan, see the lesser confusion spell.
Hawk Hubertins: (To GM) rolling 1d100
(
55
)
= 55
Hawk Hubertins: (To GM) rolling 1d8-1
(
1
)-1
= 0
Hawk slaps himself across the face with his bow.
George: And he stops singing. Again.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Good thing Bless is up!
Cat: OH HEY I COULD FIX THAT! oh wait. ;)
c'mon veg, don't fail us.
Vegeta: (GM) Vegeta pummels Carfen hitting AC 5 for 6 damage
Cat: chad's rolling it. :)
awwwww.
Vegeta: (GM) Vegeta pummels Carfen hitting AC 13 for 4 damage
Cat: lol fail.
i put my ass on the line for that?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Vegeta tries to surround Carfen and punch through him, but fails to breach his tough skin.
Meghan: rolling d100
(
77
)
= 77
(sorry hanna)
Cat: in fact, that first one wasn't even in the right direction....
Meghan: though I was going to do the heavenly fire thing...
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Still need to hit her touch AC

Cat casts Cure Light on Nidri!
Cat: heal 6 HPs.
hey look....not a 1.

Meghan is attacking Hannelore with Heavenly Fire!
Meghan: Attack Result: 12
Damage Result: 4
Type: divine
Heavenly Fire uses remaining: 5
Notes: Only hurts evil creatures. Ray. Use up to 7 per day.
Meghan: though if it hits her, it actually heals her, so...
Cat: can you like...choose not to apply dex to AC in a case like that? :)
Claire fires a ray of heavenly fire at the div shaped liked Hannelore. She dodges!
Claire: damn!
Cat: is she still raging?
Hannelore Tentoes: (GM) Curious Eyebrow
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yup, still enraged
Cat: heh.
Vegeta: (GM) Fort Save 19
Cat: ...is stonebottom move 20?
is that why it's taking him like a week to get here?
Vegeta feels the poison wear off.
Adrias Stonebottom: Stay away from that div, and get over here so I can help you cut through his skin!
I'm a dwarf, our legs don't carry us quick!
Cat: talk is cheap, rockbutt.
Nidranisan: If you can help someone, fix Hawk's bow.
Adrias Stonebottom: Yeah, yeah.
Cat: sorry...i'm gonna call him rockbug from now on.
er, rockbutt.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Alright, waiting for Hannelore.
Meghan: she's gonna attack me, isn't she? I'm dead.
Hernz: CHAD! you were supposed to roll good shit for vegeta! I guess I made the fort saves
Cat: hang on...fleir isn't really staggered is she? the bar is empty.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Dammit Fleir's default icon
Revealed HP
She's at full HP
Hannelore moves into position, ready to charge!
Adrias Stonebottom drops the wand and pulls out another wand as he approaches Hawk
Adrias Stonebottom: Calm down, Hawk. It's Stonebottom.
Adrias Stonebottom 's UMD check 29
Adrias Stonebottom: Alright, how's this work again? Oh yeah!
There we go! This should cut right through his armor.
Now back up and start shooting!
Round 5
Fleir is up next
Nidranisan: Go for the kill, Fleir!

Fleir is attacking Doru A with Bite!
Fleir: Attack Result: 16
(Needs at least 24 to crit.)
Damage Result: 6
Crit: 20/x2
Crit Confirm: 7
Crit Damage: +7
Fleir bites down hard on the head, scattering it across the warehouse like sand.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Moving, Fleir?
Fleir: Fleir's WIS Check: 16
Fleir's Perception check: 16
Fleir's INT Check: 16
Nidranisan: hah.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yeah yeah yeah yeah Animal Int woo
Cat: trifecta :)
Chris: wow..
Nidranisan: NICE WORK FLEIR!
Chris: Ok. Does it look like Hannelore is planning to go for a charging attack on Carfen?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yes, she's planning to charge
Chris: Well, with those rolls, Fleir might do something useful.
It's an extra 5' to get onto and off of the small boxes?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yes. The big ones are 10 ft high.
Chris: I meant of move. It uses an extra 5' of move.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yes.
Chris: ok
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Oh cool. Lookit that movement
Chris: That's 45' then. Shouldn't provoke.
Cat: shazam.
that might save nidri's hide next round.
Fleir draws upon his animal wisdom to run around the boxes and surround Lord Carfen.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): And now that everyone is in gaze range...everyone make Fort Saves.
Meghan: Claire's Fortitude save: 4
Save notes: +2 circumstance bonus on saving throws against becoming blinded or dazzled while Halo is up.
Inspire Courage does +1 save vs fear & charm
lulz
Fleir: Fleir's Fortitude save: 21
Save notes:
Adrias Stonebottom Fort Save 9

Hannelore Tentoes (GM) Fort Save 24
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Waiting for Fort Saves from Hawk, Nidri and Vegeta.
Nidranisan: Nidranisan's Fortitude save: 5
Save notes: +2 to save vs curses or magic spells that cause curses (Born Damned trait)
awwwww yeah.
Cat: it's just because george said "I'll be back to roll my 3 in a second."

Hannelore Tentoes (GM) Fort Save 18
Hannelore feels the poison's burn die down.
Hawk Hubertins: Hawk Hubertins's Fortitude save: 20
Save notes:
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Go Hawk Go!
You're winner!
George: I told Cat "I'll be back in a sec to roll my 3"... she rolled it instead.

Vegeta (GM) Fort Save 23

Vegeta (GM) Fort Save 8
...meanwhile Vegeta's poison flares up.
Argus Carfen: Hmpf!
Argus casts defensively DC 21 28
Chris: jerk.
Argus Carfen: Carfen tries BAD TOUCH against Vegeta hitting Touch AC 17
Vegeta: Vegeta's Will Save DC 15
As Lord Carfen touches Vegeta, the mighty warrior shudders.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Hawk, Nidri, Vegeta and Claire should go
Cat: so do i notice anything happening from my totally laughable fort save?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Oh right! Everyone who failed is shaken for 1 round.
Cat: so i get penalties to some stuff?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): So that's Claire, Adrias and Nidri
Cat: but can still act?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): –2 penalty on attack rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks.
You can act
Cat: k.
hmmmm armor up, heal self, or drop a resistance on fleir...
Meghan: not stirred
I'm still confused, right?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Confusion is over. You have full control.
Meghan: wait, no lesser confused was just for one round. ok
ok, firing into melee is -4?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): yes
Meghan: excellent. total of -6
this is gonna be great.

Claire is attacking Carfen? with Heavenly Fire!
Claire: Attack Result: 15
Damage Result: 5
Type: divine
Heavenly Fire uses remaining: 4
Notes: Only hurts evil creatures. Ray. Use up to 7 per day.
Claire: Hah!
Cat: was gonna ask if you could use it to heal hanners instead. too late :)
Claire: if this doesn't hit then sure.
Meghan: sorry, ooc
though she'll probably charge next round... so it'll be firing into melle anyway
Cat: yeah, that's why i was thinking this round. :)
George: Can I setp onto the green boxes as a 5' step?
Claire's ray burns through Lord Carfen's skin.
Cat: wooooo :)
Meghan: am I the first one to do damage to him?
Cat: i didn't realize at first that had the - already baked in.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): No, the small ones are 5 feet high.
Cat: i thought it was hitting 9 ;)
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Hawk could take a 5ft Up Left
Meghan: no, that was me rolling a 19.
Cat: yeah. saw when i moused.
George: Trying to figure out where he has the cleanest line of fire, and I think it's up and to the right of him. Will a normal move get him there?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Near Claire, George?
George: That direction.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Also, you have a move action, Claire.
The big boxes are about 10 ft high...yeah you can get there by hopping up
Hernz: BACK
let me catch up
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Right there, right George? That's 15 ft of movement
Cat: you've got flanking hernz, time for some smackdown. :)
George: Yup, that's where he wants to end up.
Hawk Hubertins: Here goes nothing...

Hawk Hubertins is attacking Carfen? with his Composite Short Bow!
Hawk Hubertins: Attack Result: 10
(Needs at least 23 to crit.)
Damage Result: 2
Crit: 20/x3
Crit Confirm: 9
Crit Damage: +5
Hawk Hubertins: Type: P
Hawk's arrow flies wide.
Meghan: I think I'm good where I am
Cat: i think i need to keep the healer standing.

Cat casts Cure Light on Nidri!
Cat: heal 4 HPs.
lol.
sort of.
at least a little
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Moving?
Cat: thinking about it.
if i'm standing on the boxes, can i heal someone in the next square over on the ground?
or can i not reach to touch them because these are 10' boxes?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): You can reach down, but not on diagonals
Cat: k. that also mean carfen? can't take an AOO on a diagonal onto the boxes?

Hernz Pummels Carfen?, concentrating all his attacks in one area.
Hernz:
Attack Results: 9 || 0
(Needs 19 on either hit to crit.)
Damage(blunt): 5 || 6
Crit: 20/x2; Crit Confirm: 17
Crit Dmg (blunt): +5 || +3
Hernz: Special: Total damage from all attacks before applying DR
Cat: waaaaah.
Hernz: I got cursed..... doh
Cat: hernz, your dice are fired.
Hernz: and even then, another 1 does nothing lol
Vegeta: ugh!! get out of my head!
Vegeta misses Carfen.
Cat: i think i can get there.
and then i'm in range to cast on either fleir or veg next round (if they don't move)
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Looks good, Nidri.
Hannelore will charge tomorrow, unless Anne has other ideas.
Cat: and claire is in position to heal Hanners in case of emergency.
with hawk's heal stick as backup.
yeah, i think our collective ass is about as covered as it's going to get. :/
i hope rockbutt has something cool up his sleeve.
Meghan: Chris, we'll miss you but you can continue on as Fleir, right?
You probably wanted to play the wolf anyway.
Chris: Fleir would be a lot less spiffy if not a companion.
Meghan: so we should just drag your corpse around?
Chris: Stop draggin my corpse around.
Cat: you might botch with it?
(you know we're gonna get Fi back just so we can keep fleir.)
(you also know nidri's gonna try to go cry on fleir when this stupid div is finally dead.)
Meghan: you know Vegeta's gonna pat Fi's corpse down so he can't finally figure out your biological gender, right?
Cat: NO GROPING DEAD FI.
for one thing, fleir will probably eat your hand.
Hernz: LOL
"Fi was a great warrior... may he or she be remembered for long time"
(GM) Chad S. (GM): lol
Hernz: Btw, didn't see Hanne there... assuming lining up for a charge... if not too late, I'd move out of the way, above Carfen, so she gets a nice flank on top...
Hannelore screams and charges at Lord Carfen, axe raised high!
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Hannelore attacks Carfen hitting AC 22 for 14 damage
Hannelore cleaves through Lord Carfen's shoulder and he screams in pain.
Meghan: nice
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yaaay for rolling
Adrias ponders what to do...
Meghan: Adrias smash
Adrias Stonebottom: I guess I could, um. sigh Hannelore's the only one left this will work on. Time to do something stupid. I can't believe I'm getting this close.
Adrias Stonebottom uses his wand on Hannelore
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Carfen uses an AoO against Adrias hitting AC 22 for 8 damage
Adrias Stonebottom: Argh! Stupid div! I'll toss your ashes across the bay for that!
Adrias Stonebottom UMD check 22
Adrias taps Hannelore's axe, and it glows with radiant energy.
Round 6
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Fleir is up.
Cat: go fleir! BITE HIS ASS!
actually, that would probably taste bad. I'd go for a leg...probably kinda like goat.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Fleir's mouth is full of sand.
Cat: lol.
Meghan: Chris just got home
Cat: haha real life.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): lousy real life
always getting in the way of game life
Hernz: lol

Fleir is attacking Carfen? with Powerful Bite & Trip!
Fleir: Attack Result: 5
(Needs at least 23 to crit.)
Damage Result: 7
Crit: 20/x2
Crit Confirm: 6
Crit Damage: +5
Fleir: Trip Attempt: 12
Hernz: ...yay 2......
Chris: Isn't that what I rolled last time I attacked him?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Is that with flanking and bless?
Not that it's enough even with that...
Hernz: like it matters? lol
Chris: bless yes, flanking no.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Keeping it legit.
Is Fleir moving?
Chris: I can't think of any reason she would.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): I agree, but you control her.
Hernz: ok, time to fail miserably on saves cause of the beautiful curse!
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Alright, make a Fort Save. The shaken condition does NOT apply.
Chris: Yes, just trying to treat her as an animal. Keep her there.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): An animal...or a MILLITARY GENIUS?
Vegeta: Fort 11
Chris: with those 16s last time for what she would do...
Cat: lol.
Fleir: Fleir's Fortitude save: 12
Save notes:
Cat: we're all making saves, yes?
Chris: Gaze time I assume.
Cat: Nidranisan's Fortitude save: 20
Save notes: +2 to save vs curses or magic spells that cause curses (Born Damned trait)
ooooooh not total crap!

Chris claps.
Hernz: wooooo!
Cat: george is wrangling eric.
he'll probably be a while.
tho bedtime is theoretically in like 10 minutes.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Hannelore's Fort Save 14
Adrias's Fort Save 10
Everyone who failed a DC 14 Fort Save is stunned for 1 round
A stunned creature drops everything held, can't take actions, takes a –2 penalty to AC, and loses its Dexterity bonus to AC (if any)
Chris: Lovely.
Cat: well, that's special.
Chris: Meghan is buying food for tomorrow.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Just waiting for Hawk and Claire's saves. They won't matter for Carfen's attack, though.
Hernz: mother fucker!
have enough icons on us Chad? lol
Cat: not MY mother.
(says Nidri, out of character.)
Argus Carfen: Both of you disgust me! I can't decide!
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Carfen attacks Hannelore hitting AC 18 for 3 damage
Carfen attacks Adrias hitting AC 17 for 3 damage
Hernz: Does Claire try to kill him or heal hanne... hm....
Carfen stuns several people, then scratches Hannelore and Adrias.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Vegeta, make a Fort Save
Vegeta: Fort 5
Vegeta's poison flares up, dealing 1 Wisdom damage as his memories are overwhelmed with the fall of his kingdom.
Hernz: I've been getting lucky with all 4 of those rolling 1s lol
(GM) Chad S. (GM): lol
Hernz: everything else has paid for it though lol
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Gonna auto roll Fort Saves
Hernz: DO IT
come on 20s!
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Claire's Fort Save 19
Hawk's Fort Save 4
Hernz: doh... there goes singing
or does it persist for 3 rounds after? I thoguht I read something like that
Hawk drops his bow (and his bardsong) as Carfen glares at him.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): These effects have lasted for 1 round so far.
Hernz: skip all the stunned people... nice fast round lol
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Hawk is stunned and Fi is...well, dead, so skipping their turns.
Vegeta's stunned, too
So that leaves Claire and Nidri.
Hernz: you gonna auto Hanne?
just wondering if we're done for the day lol
(GM) Chad S. (GM): I probably will, this fight is almost over unless everyone messes up their rolls
Hernz: attack with her... she might end it in one blow
(GM) Chad S. (GM): waits for everyone to fail
Cat: now that you said it.
i have no way to damage this schmoe.
but i think i can get over to heal rockbutt or hanners.
kinda need to see if claire heals her.
Hernz: Hanne yes, rockbutt, off by 5 since moving from box to floor is difficult terrain
Cat: i can still get there.
it's 10' to move off the boxes, yes?
Hernz: you making a diag somewhere?
Cat: yeah, 1 diag.
Hernz: can we do that if it's not the first step?
Cat: yes.
Hernz: oh...
Cat: the real problem is i provoke an AOO to cast on him.
Hernz: then ok lol
Cat: the first diagonal you use is 5', second one is 10'. is my understanding.
Hernz: thought it had to be the first step to go diag... and yeah, the AoO, might as well do Hanne then
Cat: i want to wait and see what claire is doing.
if she decides to attack, and actually does damage, it might be moot.
then again, there's not much of a clear shot.
she can ask if rockbutt is good, but who knows if that'll work.
Hernz: or Hanne for that matter
Chris: They make every other diagonal be 5' and 10' alternating to average them out.
Hernz: good to know
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Well, more Fire Emblem time for me
George: Yup. Hawk made exactly 1 save this fight. He got to shoot on arrow, and managed to sing for 2 rounds.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yaaay Fort Saves!
George: With how we're rolling, I'm not sure this fight will end well for us, even with rockbutt helping.
You could always declare it a tpk... ;)
(GM) Chad S. (GM): ...and then, the sun went nova. Take 721 damage!
Heehee, it's blue
Hernz: LOLOL
does that allow a reflex save? cause I might escape it unscathed with a lucky roll lol
(GM) Chad S. (GM): lolz
Alright, lemme see if Hannelore can end this.
Hannelore attacks Lord Carfen hitting AC 23 for 4 damage
Hernz: doh
wait, only +1 dam? rage over?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Oh yeah, forgot to add rage dmg
Hernz: though no singing damage... too many pluses I have no clue on lol
Hannelore's blessed axe tears Lord Carfen down! He collapses and his Div features peel away.
Hernz: oh right! blessed!! wooo!
The remains is a human skin ragged and charred.
Argus Carfen: Th...Th...Thank...y

Vegeta picks struggles picking up Fi
Vegeta: Hurry, we might still be able to help
The body disintegrates, scattering black dust across the warehouse. All that remains of Carfen is a black ring.

Fleir growls at Vegeta.
Adrias Stonebottom: cough cough
Hernz: (see, vegeta's not always about loot)
Vegeta: what? you want to carry Fi?
Adrias Stonebottom: We need to get Fi to the Company, quick.

Fleir is very disturbed by any action concerning Fi. She is obviously confused and upset.
Vegeta: ugh... I'm not in the best of shape.... if anyone can help out
Adrias Stonebottom: Um...anyone can talk to animals? Not my forte.
Fleir: Fleir's INT Check: 7
Adrias Stonebottom: Her master's dead...no wonder she's upset.

Vegeta drags Fi over his shoulder and slowly makes his way to the door

Fleir circles Vegeta, hoping for some signal from Fi.
Meghan: I'll heal hannelore
Hannelore Tentoes: (GM) Handle Animal check 15

Claire is healing Hannelore with Heavenly Fire Healing
Claire: Healing Result: 4
Type: healing
Notes: Only heals good creatures. Ray. Use up to 7 per day.
Vegeta: handle animal 8
Hannelore tries to calm Fleir down.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): (She has ranks in HA)
Vegeta: what do you want dog? move!
Cat: nidri picks up the ring with a pouch, without touching it.
Meghan: good
If stonebottom is good I can heal him, too
how much more does hannelore need?

Fleir stops circling, and follow at a heel.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): She's down by 6 HP.

Cat casts Cure Light on Adrias Stonebottom!
Cat: heal 7 HPs.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Claire you can make a spellcraft check to get a hint on Adrias's alignment.
Adrias Stonebottom: Ah. Thanks, Nidri.

Hawk Hubertins follows the party numbly, not even talking.

Fi is pretty light at 96 lb. But is carrying almost half that again in equipment.
Nidranisan: Claire, if you can fix up Hannelore, I can finish healing Adrias.
And we can get moving with FI.
Nidranisan casts Cure Light on Adrias Stonebottom!
Nidranisan: heal 5 HPs.
I can carry some of Fi's things if it helps.

Claire is healing Hannelore with Heavenly Fire Healing
Claire: Healing Result: 3
Type: healing
Notes: Only heals good creatures. Ray. Use up to 7 per day.
Heavenly Fire Healing uses remaining: 2
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Hey Vegeta, give me 3 more Fort Saves while the poison wears off.
Meghan: Vegeta is off on his own, crying in a corner. "Honooooor"
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Hannelore needs 3 more HP.

Claire is healing Hannelore with Heavenly Fire Healing
Claire: Healing Result: 4
Type: healing
Notes: Only heals good creatures. Ray. Use up to 7 per day.
Heavenly Fire Healing uses remaining: 1
oh my god. Barbarians are just empty holes that healing goes into
Vegeta: Forts 9 20 5

Claire is healing Hawk with Heavenly Fire Healing
Claire: Healing Result: 2
Type: healing
Notes: Only heals good creatures. Ray. Use up to 7 per day.
Heavenly Fire Healing uses remaining: 0
Vegeta takes another 2 points of Wisdom Damage.
Chris: lol. All 1s.
The poison finally subsides.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): I know, lol
Hannelore, Fleir, Claire and Vegeta are full on HP.
Nidranisan: the extra 5 didn't fix up rockbutt?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Oh, didn't see that. Adrias is full, too
Cat: nidri and i are totally confused about who's who.
by the way.
Claire: I got donuts for tomorrow
Meghan: I mean I did
Cat: nidri's saving her last spell for when we get jumped by something on the way back to the company.
can we assume the party can figure out how to carry fi and all of shkler stuff?
Fleir: And I'm going to put Locke to bed.
Cat: yup, i actually just cackled out loud.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Good, me too
Cat: thanks chris. that made my day.
Chris: no problem.
Hernz: lol
Meghan: Chris was giggling and I hadn't looked at the tab yet
The party manages to carefully carry Fi and his stuff out of the warehouse.
Adrias locks the door on the way out.
Adrias Stonebottom: So, to the company?
Nidranisan: yes.
I just hope we can get help for FI.
Adrias Stonebottom: Alright.
Chris: Someone may want to deal with the rope dangling outside...
Meghan: we've all forgotten about it
the only one who would remember is down a bunch of wis
Cat: the lazy pinky is now official, and shklee shall heretofor be referred to as FI at all times. by me.
i just don't care...we'll need to sift through that warehouse later anyway.
Chris: I guess only Fi would care. Oh well.
Cat: Fi was kind of our attention to detail :)
The party brings Fi into the Company. Adrias starts to depart from the team.
Adrias Stonebottom: Lemme get Marjorie. She owes me a favor.
Nidranisan: Sometimes I think favors are official currency around here.
Adrias Stonebottom: Kinda!
Adrias Stonebottom runs off
Chris: So does that mean that we will now owe him one?
After a minute or so, some employees pull out a stretcher to help carry Fi. Adrias comes running back.
Adrias Stonebottom: This way, please.
Cat: probably, but i think dakan is gonna owe us one.
Hernz: soemthing tells me we'll be paid in restorative spells for this one lol
The party is led outside of what seems to be an ordinary room. The thick wooden door prevents a good view of the room, but Marjorie and Abraxinal are waiting outside.
Nidranisan: Hi Marjorie.
Marjorie Mel: ...Yes. Adrias, Abraxinal. Bring the body inside.
A good day to you, Miss Nidranisan.

Hawk Hubertins bows to Marjorie
Nidranisan: If you can help us out, it may turn back into one.
Marjorie Mel nods
Nidranisan: Thank you.

Fleir attempts to follow Fi.
Marjorie Mel: Mister Stonebottom made a generous donation of materials for this.
I must request-
Adrias Stonebottom: Let Fleir in, please.
Adrias Stonebottom shouts from inside the room
Marjorie Mel: Fine. The rest of you, please wait outside until I am finished. I need to concentrate.
Nidranisan 's face is suspiciously moist.
Nidranisan: Stay quiet, Fleir.
Nidranisan does that thing where you sit in the hallway outside the hospital room, waiting.
Adrias and Abraxinal step out of the room. Fleir enters, and Marjorie nods as she enters the room and slams the door shut.
Nidranisan sighs
Nidranisan: Thank you, Adrias. We would've been toast if you hadn't come when you did.
Adrias Stonebottom: Um...oh yeah. I guess so. I was investigating some stuff on behalf of the company when I noticed poor Fleir outside.
Couldn't figure out what she wanted but I heard some shouts from behind the door.
Abraxinal peers closely, reading people's lips
Nidranisan: Yeah, we were doing our own investigating and turned up some thing we weren't expecting.
Nidranisan casts Detect Magic!
Nidranisan: School: N/A; Level 0
Casting Time: N/A
Components: N/A
Range: 60' cone
Targets/Area: N/A
Duration: 1 min/lvl
Nidranisan: Saving Throw: DC 14, N/A; Spell Resistance:
Adrias Stonebottom: I'll say. I didn't expect a div to show up.
Nidranisan: well, three.
Cat: i assume this ring is magic?
Nidranisan is peering into her pouch.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yes, weak enchantment magic.
Cat: three rounds later, i'll hit this spellcraft button then? :)
Nidranisan: Did he really thank us right before he dusted?

Hawk Hubertins sits against the wall with his eyes closed.
Marjorie opens the door a crack and steps out, closing the door behind her. She purposely stays in front of the door.
Adrias Stonebottom: Yeah, he did, didn't he?
I was a bit woozy at the time, didn't notice everything.
Nidranisan: Nidranisan's Spellcraft check: 19

Fleir makes a few noises from the other room.
Cat: so, weak = faint, or weak = moderate heh.

Vegeta seems mentally exhausted
Nidranisan: Bleh. I need to look at this again when I'm less distracted.

Fi 's voice can be made out. There is a bit of other noise after that.
Nidranisan packs it up again.
Hernz: reincarnated as a talking TRex??
Adrias Stonebottom: I've seen some Divs before. They like to talk big about demolishing cities and reducing kingdoms to rubble.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Iiiiiiiit's Stubby!
Nidranisan: Maybe start out by blowing up a few tunnels?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Stubby the T-Rex!
Nidranisan: And work up from there?

Fi comes out of the room with Fleir tripping him up a bit.

Fi seems a bit frailer than normal...
Nidranisan: Welcome back, Fi.

Hawk Hubertins opens his eyes and looks at Fi.
Fi: Haha. Yeah, that was... awful.
Nidranisan: Sorry I let you down.
Fi: Huh?
Marjorie Mel steps aside

Hawk Hubertins looks miserable.
Vegeta: (in a friendly banter type) hmph... just stay back and let me take the hits next time
Cat: aw crap, is Fi Agent Coulson?
George: :P

Fi frowns.
Fi: Yes, perhaps you are right.
Meghan: and Vegeta is Melinda May
Cat: is Fi actually at full HPs?
Chris: sorta...
Cat: all like 4 that you have left? :/
(GM) Chad S. (GM): lol
Meghan: Chris is (finally) putting Locke to bed
Chris: Chad was kind and let me not have less than I did at level 1.
Cat: heh.
George: Ouch. Yeah, that's nice.
Cat: k. i assumed this was raise dead which says you come back with current HP's of 1 per hit die. didn't know if healing was needed. :)
or if it was a different spell, or already taken care of. :)
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Oh right. Yeah, Fi is healed to full.
Marjorie topped her off.
Chris: She would have done it herself if not.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Alright, more concluding and stuff tomorrow. (Hint: You're gonna level after this) but for now good night folks.
George: Nite Chad. See you tomorrow.
Hernz: hey, is this like video games where you level and you auto heal all poison and shit?
lol
(GM) Chad S. (GM): lol nope
Hernz: I have to be up at 4am for a deployment....yay... ok, night guys
Meghan: awesome
(GM) Chad S. (GM): yaaaay...see you tomorrow
Vegeta: yup
Chris: So I go down a level to go up a level?
Cat: yo-yo leveling.
so do we need to now go get restoration spells to resolve vegeta's wis and fi's level?
and/or con?
Chris: I already got 1 restoration. Then next has to wait a week.
Cat: cool.
so yeah, we owe these two like, three favors now. heh.
Chris: Vegeta needs a Remove Curse, and maybe a lesser restoration or two.
Fi will need another 1000gp Restoration in addition to the 6000gp that Adrias evidently just donated.
And now Fleir has 4 times my HP...
Cat: lesser resto just speeds things up, right?
any stat damage it would cure also heals, slowly.
yeah, 1k we can scrape up without much trouble, the 5k would not have been quick.
Chris: 6k. I already had one restoration or I would still be dead.
It's weird.
Meghan: so wait, how much do we need in total?
and do we owe adrias money back for that?
Cat: yeah, the 1k for that restoration we could've scraped up, but then wouldn't have the 5k for the raise.
we likely need 1k.
and we owe rockbutt a massive favor.
Chris: Depends on if Vegeta's Wis damage is permanent or temporary.
Meghan: right.
Cat: true.
Meghan: how much is the remove curse?
Chris: Doesn't say anything about component costs. So either paying for the spell or having a friend cast it.
Cat: so probably relatively cheap...what spell level?
Fi: Level 3 for most.
Meghan: the joke doesn't work as well over text ("l-e-v-e-l")
Chris: Nope
Cat: most people have been hoarding money...we can probably afford the spells without much issue.
depending on exactly what veg needs.
whelp, i'm gonna go make up the stuff for brunch.
see you all tomorrow for the next game.
Meghan: ok. see you
rolling d20
(
12
)
= 12
rolling d20+12
(
14
)+12
= 26
Cat: ember's magic missile 34
ember's magic missile again 32
ember's magic missile again 32
ember's magic missile again 31
Hernz: I am the home... god that was awful... hope you all made it back ok!
Chris: Glad you're home. Cat and George left a little while ago.
Sounds like Anne's ride got rear ended though.
Hernz: oh no! I'm surprised they were trying to go out in this weather!! it's crazy out there
hope they're ok
Chris: No reported injuries, but only time will tell.
Hernz: thanks
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Hope Anne and co are OK. Good to hear you're back, Hernz.

April 20, 1236 AD (afternoon)

George: We're home safe and sound.
Fi is back alive again. Everyone is glad for his return.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yaaay
George: Glad you made it home safe too Hernz.
Time to curl up with some blankets and hot tea and watch the snow.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Oh, you'll get a show tonight, that's for sure...Not planning to go outside until Monday.
And by Monday, I mean probably Tuesday.
Chris: I'll be on the roof again Monday morning...
Maybe not till afternoon, depends on how long driveway, walkways, and raking what I can reach from the ground takes.
Adrias Stonebottom: So, uh. What are you guys going to do now?
Nidranisan: Have a long soul-searching chat with Dakan, that's for sure.
Nidranisan is half mumbling that.
Nidranisan: And probably another talk with Melodie.
With any luck, we'll have some nice, manageable company assignments by tomorrow.
That probably won't get anyone killed.
Hernz: fetch quests in town?
Adrias Stonebottom: Ha, sounds good to me. You guys make quite a team, eh?
Nidranisan: I'd say we've done pretty well right up to an hour ago.
Thanks to you, we're still a team and can learn from those mistakes.
Adrias Stonebottom: Eh, no problems guys. I'll return to that warehouse and make sure it's secure. You all go talk to Melodie.
Nidranisan: If you happen to notice any suspicious residues or other clues about what was stored there, that information will be valuable to those folks I just mentioned talking to.
Adrias Stonebottom: Heh, got it.
Nidranisan: That's what we were looking for.
Adrias Stonebottom: I was following up on some leads. Heard there were a few missing shipping crates.
Nidranisan: Nothing about some kind of, what, wasps?
Adrias Stonebottom: ...nope. What kinda rumors are getting spread?
Adrias Stonebottom shakes his head, then laughs
Nidranisan: I forget, they drummed something up. We were, uh, "inspecting".
Adrias Stonebottom: Yeah...
Time for me to go.
Nidranisan: Good luck.
[Fi] so how long before we can fix you up the rest of the way? Did you say a day, or a week?
Fi: Oh. Uh... Another week maybe?
Nidranisan: Sure, I think I can scrape together a little more cash by then.
Adrias Stonebottom nods then heads off.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Where to next?
Fi: Should we find Melodie while we are here before seeing Dakan?
Vegeta: let's see if we can find someone to get these thoughts out of my head [i.e. the curse]
Nidranisan: She might have a...stronger reaction.
Then again, time to cool off before I see Dakan might make for a better talk.
Fi: [Vegeta] Uh? You didn't ask Majorie while she was here?
Vegeta: I didn't think to... my head's been everywhere
I can go see her I guess
Fi: Hmm... Anyone want to go with him to ask?
Hernz: yes please lol
Fi: That or we visit a temple, make a donation, and get you checked out.

Fi is probably not the right person right now.
Cat: claire is the right person to talk her into another favor haha.
Meghan: how much does it cost?
do you not have the money for it?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): You would guess it would cost around 150 gp.
Meghan: ok, so do you want money?
Chris: We should probably ask Majorie for what the appropriate course of action is.
Hernz: yup, I can get that taken care of
Chris: not sure if any of us actually know that this is a curse.
Hernz: good point
Meghan: oh, ok
Claire: Come on, Vegeta, we'll go ask her.
Vegeta: let's go and see if we can get this out of the way
thanks
Claire: s/diplomacy/spellcraft/g
sorry, got that backwards
but let's be real, it's s/*/diplomacy/g
Marjorie is in her office, as usual. Various other accountants are busy auditing records as Claire and Vegeta enter.
Claire: Claire's Diplomacy check: 19
vegeta needs to know what to do to fix the thing.
plz help
Vegeta: diplo 9
Marjorie Mel: Greetings, Miss Novak. Sir Vegeta.
Vegeta: Hi...
Hernz: he's gonna be blunt if you have him talk lol
Marjorie Mel: You seem concerned, Sir Vegeta. Would it be easier for us to speak in private?
Claire: He got hit with some spell or something and isn't feeling well. I don't know what's up.
Meghan: unless I'm getting details wrong, in which case oops
Vegeta: I can't think straight... move clearly...
having nightmarish visions that just won't go away
was touched by this... div?
Nidranisan: An Agash.

Vegeta is horrible at all these creature names haha
Marjorie Mel: Yes, I see. Agash enjoy cursing their targets.
...You had quite the adventure today.
Vegeta: how do I get rid of this?
Nidranisan mutters s'more.
Marjorie Mel: I must request about one hundred fifty gold pieces to clear your mind.
My apologies Sir Vegeta. "Time is money" as they say.
Vegeta: take it.. here... just do it

Vegeta hands over the geepees
Marjorie Mel: Please come to my office, Sir Vegeta. No one else, please.
Nidranisan: We'll wait outside.
Let us know when you're ready to go Veg.
Vegeta: k
Marjorie stands up and leads Vegeta to her private office.
Meghan: this is weird.
don't forget to turn your head when you cough, Vegeta
Hernz: she is just an expensive prostitute... there's no curse... she lied to us lol
Chris: O.o
Should we start a negative loot entry for expenses incurred from battle?
Vegeta: what the!
(you guys here him scream that in surprise)

Fi looks unsurprised.
Nidranisan raises an eyebrow.

Vegeta comes out... seems a lot better, although a little still out of it from all the poison
Cat: hernz would already be pushing that if it were anyone else. i had to pay for my stupid little crossbow!
sounds like veg just dumped the 150g out of pocket though :)
Marjorie Mel leaves her room and sits back down at her desk.

Fi shakes his head.
Hernz: yeah, not sure how we want to handle that... I dunno
Cat: i mean, they aren't really a person's sole responsibility...
Chris: No way Fi can afford 1000gp any time soon.
Not missing a beat, Abraxinal hands her an expenses book and Marjorie continues her audit.
Cat: ...nidri can, actually.
Hernz: I'm good either way... you guys decide
Cat: close to it already.
Chris: If that is the case we should probably make healing potions and battle recovery spells come out of group funds.
Cat: so frankly, it'll happen, and the money will get figured out later.
Marjorie Mel: ...quite the adventure.
Fi: Thanks for everything. I'm looking forward to our assignment.
Vegeta: lets go Claire
Marjorie Mel: Yes. They will be ready in the morning.
Chris: Maybe they'll keep us out of trouble...
Next stop, Melodie?
Heading past various security guards, the team finds Melodie reading various reports describing the overall status of company safety.
Melodie Mel smiles as the team approaches
Melodie Mel: Oh, hey guys! Can I help...oh gosh, are you OK?
Fi: Haha... funny story. Kinda fell for a trap.
Melodie Mel: ...did Magmere attack you guys?
Fi: Carfen.
Melodie Mel: Whaaat?
I mean, Lord Argus Carfen?
Fi: Seems to have been possessed by something. Seemed like he was a Div of some sort.
Melodie Mel: Wow... he's been around for so long...
I would say I don't believe it, but...I know you wouldn't lie.
Vegeta: he... thanked us after we killed him...
maybe he was possessed?
Fi: Well, it lines up with what Snock said.
Nidranisan: Aghash...and he had 2 lesser divs with him.
Melodie Mel: The Doru, right?
Nidranisan: which I suppose would have smelled...like me.
yeah...
Melodie Mel: Divs are often jealous of achievements and society. They often try to ruin civilizations.
Maybe they got to Carfen.
Oh...Lord Dakan's going to be so devastated.
Melodie Mel frowns
Fi: Yeah, we need to talk with him about it after this.
Nidranisan: He have a particular connection to Carfen?
Melodie Mel: ...and his um, lady friend is here, too.
Nidranisan: Hang on, whose lady friend?
Fi: Dakan.
He said she was back in town.
Melodie Mel: The Carfen family came from a long line of blacksmiths and crafters. They were instrumental in supplying Harvest Wharf during the Fifty Years War.
Yeah, Dakan's lady is in town.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Make a sense motive check as she mentions Dakan's lady.
Fi: Fi's Sense Motive check: 14
Chris: We already know she likes him...
Nidranisan: Nidranisan's Sense Motive check: 26
Chris: a 26 green with envy.
Vegeta: sense motif 23
Hernz: stupid -6 wis lol
(GM) Chad S. (GM): It's pretty obvious Melodie doesn't like this lady.
(DC 15)
Cat: lols.
Chris: Would say something witty, but missed by 1.
Hernz: lol
Melodie Mel: Lord Dakan always thanked Carfen for donating arms and weapons during the war, but his family fell on hard times.
Oh yeah. Where did you guys find him, anyway?
Fi: In one of his warehouses.
He was hiding in a crate for some reason.
Vegeta: wasn't he feeding? or claimed he was?
Fi: Adrias is further checking it out now.
I thought we were the food?
Nidranisan: He just said something about us interrupting his meal or feeding or something.
Vegeta: my heads not all there yet... you could be right
Fi: Your head isn't? Lets swing by the office after this. I've got something to tell you guys.
Melodie Mel: Adrias told me you guys secured the warehouse. He was checking on a delivery we were supposed to get from the Draugh Empire. Went missing a few weeks ago.
Fi: Yes, we didn't get a chance to finish our investigation before getting rushed back here.
Melodie Mel: Oh right... Adrias is a smart guy, but he's not much of a fighter. He would have been in big trouble if he went in first.
Thanks for helping him, guys.
Fi: Uh... Sure.
Nidranisan: Yeah, it was definitely a joint effort.
Melodie Mel smiles
Melodie Mel: Alright you guys, thanks for the update. Now get going!
Chris: KTHXBYE

Fi nods.
Fi: Thanks.
Melodie Mel giggles then grabs the security notes.

Fi motions for us to swing by the office.
Fi: Probably better for her to have Adrias's story.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): (Moving you guys to the office)
Fi: So. That talk about about the Div and their dislike of society reminded me of something.
Not sure where I saw it. Maybe while I was dead? Is that possible?
I saw an army of Devils, Demons and Divs taking over Harvest Wharf. Hmm... alliteration.
Nidranisan: Probably the moment you came back.
or the moment you...went.
Fi: There were also Angels, Archons, and Azata. More alliteration. What's with these names?
Nidranisan: Landslide of outsiders. Sounds like something Micel would be interested in.
I want to find out of this ring is also Outsidery...if so, it's our ticket in to see him.
Fi: Anyway, The Triple A team was coming from Mardens City.
But they were killing people too.
Nidranisan smirks.
Fi: I think I saw Dakan get killed by a big Devil or Demon. Maybe a big fiend?
Nidranisan: Good an evil are never as clear cut as we think huh.
Fi: I always get those confused.
And Carfen was laughing about society returning to dust or something.
Nidranisan: Maybe it was a big Div.
Sorry, that was inappropriate.
I have to wonder what the deal was there, divs don't "possess people"
So how was that Carfen, but not Carfen?
Fi: It had flaming wings.
The fiend thing.
Nidranisan: I mean, the one we all fought.
Fi: I don't know. You guys killed him, but I'm not sure how that relates to what I saw.
Nidranisan: He thanked us as he was dying.
Fi: Weird.
Nidranisan: like the people who get freed from those artifacts.
Fi: Hmm... Perhaps someone should make sure Adrias doesn't end up with one?
Vegeta: with... an artifact?
Fi: Or did you guys find one?
Nidranisan: I got the ring Carfen was wearing.
Fi: Ah, good.
Nidranisan: I don't quite understand it yet.
Vegeta: yes good
Nidranisan: I was a little distracted.
I'll look closer tomorrow.
Fi: Anyway, after seeing all that. A lady, made the vision go away.
Nidranisan: A lady?
Fi: Couldn't tell who she was.
Was saying something about how being in the material plane for so long was screwing with them.
Nidranisan: Hmmmm.
Fi: Said that most of them went into battle to die.
Vegeta: I had some similar, well, not that similar, issues with that curse... then they went away just now when she helped me... maybe that's all it was, you having been cursed
Fi: a few instead decided to live among the mortals instead.
Cat: hey, she's the big mommy dragon!
Fi: She handed me a headband before everything disappeared and I was alone.
Nidranisan: ...didn't wake up with a headband, did you?
Fi: No.
Vegeta: hm... that's way more detail than I remember on mine....
Fi: Perhaps due to my soul departing it was easier to imprint on me?

Fi shrugs.
Nidranisan: Didn't look like the one from the swap.
Fi: Couldn't see her features.
Nidranisan: The headband.
Nidranisan sighs.
Cat: k planes get me anything on any of this?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Sure, make K Planes checks.
Nidranisan: Nidranisan's Knowledge (Planes) check: 7
Cat: LOL.
deaaaar dice.
you are fired.
don't let the door hit you in the ass.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): lol
Cat: and on that note, i need to go sleep. a lot. like an hour ago.
Fi: I think the headbands looked similar.
Nidranisan: Interesting.
I suspect the headband you saw was another Outsider.
I doubt we'll be able to reconstruct who.
But the way the robe has markings unique to Jubilation...that headband probably had someone's name on it.
Fi: She told me not give up. Maybe it was Perseverance.
Nidranisan: I think we may want to hold off on discussing this portion of the adventure with Dakan until we know more.
Fi: Why I brought it up here.
Nidranisan: And our best bet is to figure out how the ring is related, and whether we can bring his to Micel for more info.
Hernz: alright, night guys!
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Night.
Hernz: So interesting errata fix on summoned creatures... their smite no longer does 2x damage against evil outsiders AND it no longer bypasses DR... Just FYI, those tigers won't be as useful next time lol
Chris: oh well...
George: Oops
Hernz: yup, they only changed it just last month
cause I went to update the summons list for Lucia last month knowing we'd face demons and last month it applied... so they just fixed it recently
Cat: HAH.
Hernz: ok, so debating a few spells.... 1) communal resist energy (by hub rules, resist 40 of one energy type per round, for many minutes), 2)summon monster 4 (if I take the actual spell vs. my class ability, I can summon AND have totoro out), 3) some sort of control spell like wall of ice... I think given last fight and role, Lucia and party would love #1 most lol
Cat: ember has the single protection from energy.
with the party, if we have actual prep time and we know what to expect, the communal version is pretty sweet.
Hernz: yeah, I do have to touch everyone...
Cat: summon may not make a super ton of sense.
yeah, but you can always use "communal" on "one person plus tap myself while i'm there"
once we're in the fight.
control spells would be interesting.
i looked at wall of fire/wall of ice briefly but they're not really ember's style.
Hernz: yeah, the fire one isn't mine... I don't do damage spells in general
plus these demons will just walk through it anyway lol
Cat: yeah, probably part of why ember's leaning towards them.
she took two damage spells with the level up.
Hernz: which ones?
Cat: a 0th "break your concentration" spell, and "dragon's breath" from 4th list.
Hernz: nice! dragons breath gives you the elemental versatility... love that one
Cat: yeah, she's gonna start collecting dragon scales.
Hernz: plus line/cone for varying situation
yeah... george, we need to go hunt dragons!! lol
Cat: naw, we need to make friends with them.
trust me.
Hernz: oh right, hub dragons lol
Cat: they'll pretty happily give you a scale if they like you.
and people in the hub recognize dragon's breath. and if you're casting it, you're getting your scales somewhere.
and maybe you have dragon friends.
Chris: One does not simply kill Dragons in the Hub.
Cat: i also love the idea of this little (invisible) faerie flitting around and then sort of barfing like a 60 foot cone of flames onto someone.
don't worry, i'll aim it away from you guys.
because of course, the problem is usually maneuvering into position, which i'm good at :)
i looked at stoneskin too.
you could consider that, for defenses.
would be cool for the crunchier/less armoured.
Hernz: stone skin is to expensive to cast though
Cat: because it doesn't interfere with AC, just reduces the damage.
Hernz: 500gp each time
Cat: oh, is it? i'm bad about spell components :)
Hernz: hahaha yeah, I get the option of dropping a spell every few levels for a new one and that one went.... I picked it without realizing it... ugh
Cat: actually, 250.
Hernz: whatever it was... expensive considering we could use a few castings and get a magic item instead...
Plus lucia has an IOU to maggy hahaha
Cat: haha.
the other i looked at was detect scrying.
after all, we've got powerful people looking for us and they've already scried on us once.
also, when it comes to a 4th list spell, surge changes are such that something not in combat is safer :)
not that i took my own advice on that :)
Hernz: hahahaha
Cat: i'd say det scry, or resist energy thingy.
i only have prot energy because it comes from my bloodline.
Hernz: dont you have the resist energy already I thought yu said?
ah ok
Cat: yeah, i have the single-target 3rd list version.
plus slow, and lightning. heh.
and just got my first 4th list.
your list is different though heh.
oooh baleful polymorph.
other than the whole thing where anything you want to use it on makes its save, it's awesome :)
Cat: given how our fight went today with the across the board strength boost, maybe you want mass bull's strength! :)
Hernz: yeah, I got a lot fewer to choose from
I dont get the mass versions until level 4 spells (which is lvl 10 for me)
Cat: aaah got it.
magic circle :)
hey, magic fang too.
if you're gonna be summoning stuff with natural weapons :)
that communal resist energy is pretty nice if we know there's a fight.
tongues might not be bad either.
Hernz: I was thinking heroism... but while it's all great too, doesn't allow versatility in fights... I like mages for versatility...
Cat: yeah.
Chris: Asterra smash!
Cat: fly is always good :)
heh heroism would be better on maggie or mannie.
Chris: That's all I had to say in response to mages being versatile.
Hernz: LOL
Cat: haha.
ok, of the 3 you suggested initially, my vote is for communal resist energy. But i'd still suggest considering magic circle, magic fang and/or detect scrying.
Hernz: she doesnt deal with scry... lol
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Manny chose Tongues and Heroism this level. Maggie should enjoy the +4 bonus to attack.
Hernz: and saves
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yup, but Maggie's biggest problem is her hit rate. With this her Sneak Attack will wreck
cue fighting neutral oozes for the rest of the run
Cat: lol.
Hernz: lol
George: I'll take that as a request, Chad. You asked for it, you get it! ;)
(GM) Chad S. (GM): No no! I was talking about my run! My run!

April 20, 1236 AD (Afternoon)

After talking to Marjorie and Melodie, Fi ushers the team into the office to recall an interesting revelation that was experienced in his death throes.
Cat: yeesh, don't sugar coat it or anything...
if we're good here, i think Dakan is next....but we shouldn't mention the visions and maybe steer away from the ring if possible.
Meghan: Thanks Chad
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Alrighty then.
Heading off to the Barracks, the team is informed by a desk sergeant that Captain Dakan has taken the day off and is home.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): (assuming you guys head to Lord Dakan's home)
The Dakan residence is relatively small for someone of his rank and power.
A guard stands outside the entrance to the manor.
Cat: oh boy, maybe we'll get to meet ladyfriend.
Fi: And last time we saw him, I said that hopefully we wouldn't cause any problems...
Meghan: So Chris and I did the "math"
and a great axe (Danish Axe, wikipedia) is about 5' long for a regular person.
Assuming Asterra's is proportional to her, it's 10' long.
so Maggie was sneak attacking is a 10' long axe.
I should draw that
jsyk
Cat: haha.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): STEALTH AXE
(Assuming you guys ask to go inside)
The guard steps in for a moment. He reemerges, and an assistant to the manor leads you all in.
The halls of Dakan Manor are lined with various artworks celebrating the Dakan family's many accomplishments. One section is dedicated to Alexen Dakan's efforts to restore Harvest Wharf after the war, donated by local and national artists.
Hernz: any statues of great warriors?
The assistant leads you past the extravagant dining hall. No silverware or utensils are there. It looks like it hasn't been used in some time.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): No statues, mostly pictures and some writing.
Vegeta: For someone's who's known as a true warrior, this is lacking in monuments of honor
Eventually you reach the secondary dining room, normally used for servants. It is empty except for three guests:
Lord Alexen Dakan is seated at his table, wearing relatively simple clothing.
His half-elven son Marxen Dakan sits at the table, drinking soup. He was dressed in lower quality clothes, respectable for someone in the Docks District.
The third guest is an Elven woman, hair unkempt, robe loosely fit and one end hanging off her shoulder. She puts her glass of elven wine down on the table and turns as the team approaches.
Elf: And here they are, right on time.
The assistant excuses himself and leaves. Now it's just the team looking at 3 people sitting at a small wooden table.
Hernz: no one we recognize I take it
nevermind, you'll ask me to make a K local check and I'll suck lol
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Marxen you may recognize as he and Alexen sparred earlier in the morning
Hernz: oh right
(GM) Chad S. (GM): The elf? Make a K History check.
Vegeta: K Hist 14
Hernz: (yay, I actually have that skill!)
Fi: Some people have something called humility.
Vegeta: our greatest warriors were almost worshiped... sometimes out of fear, heh
Fi: Sounds like a really lovely place...
Vegeta: it happens everywhere Fi... not all rulers are "good"
Fi: Yeah. I know.
Vegeta: whatever makes a nation prosper
Fi: I would rather leave.
Vegeta: many do... but some consider them traitors and hunt them down.
crazy place we live in

Fi signs.
Chris: sighs.
Hernz: funny, that day I counted the he/she stats, I noticed a lot of "Fi sighs" lol
Chris: I wonder why...
Hernz: and "Fi shrugs"
lol
Cat: i assume you guys had that conversation on the way...not standing in front of these 3...
also, someone remind me to drop a point in k.history when we level...
totally something i should have at this point.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): I also assumed this was on the way
Vegeta: yes
Chris: in the hallways probably.
Cat: yeaaah good call :)
Nidranisan: Sorry to interrupt your afternoon.
Though it sounds like perhaps you were expecting us to.
Elf: Not interrupting here, Nidranisan. Finished up our conversation before you got here.
Vegeta: [Nidri] you know her?
Alexen Dakan: ...please, a proper introduction?
Elf: Yeah, yeah.
The elf stands up and reaches for a handshake.
Elf: Fi.
Nidranisan.
Vegeta.
Claire.
Hawk.
Hannelore.
Elf: aaaaand Fleir, I can't shake your hand. I'll pet you instead.
Nidranisan shakes her hand.
Nidranisan: Call me Nidri.
Elf: Will do.
My name is Shavani Tinderrain.
Nidranisan: Pleasure to meet you.
Fi: Hi.
Nidranisan: As you seem to know us, I presume you're aware of what we've been doing today?
Shavani Tinderrain: Vaguely. My third eye knew you would come here this afternoon, but the details of what you were doing is fuzzy.
Marxen Dakan stands up and offers to shake hands
Marxen Dakan: I am Marxen Dakan. Good to meet you all. I'll get some more seats for you.
Fi: Thanks.
Your sparring earlier looked pretty good.
Vegeta: yes... not bad Marxen
Marxen Dakan: I thought I had a good chance to surprise father by disarming him, but father tripped me instead!
Fi: It's hard to make up for experience, but it was still impressive.
Alexen Dakan: He fought well, much better than a few weeks ago. He'll have his old man whipped some day.
Shavani Tinderrain finishes off her glass and retrieves another glass of elven wine.
Marxen Dakan pulls up some extra chairs for the party to sit.
Nidranisan sits on the floor, as usual.

Vegeta sits
Alexen Dakan: Be seated, if you wish.
Vegeta: thank you
Shavani Tinderrain: Huh. You are sitting on the floor.
Nidranisan: It's been quite a day so far...it seems like all present are comfortable hearing about the status of our work?
Alexen Dakan nods
Nidranisan: [Shavani] I usually do, yes.
Shavani Tinderrain: [Nidri] My visions usually have some inconsistencies...a curse of some kind?
Nidranisan: I consider it a mixed blessing.
Marxen Dakan sits attentively, mostly paying attention
Nidranisan: I would be happy to speak with you about it later if you like.
Alexen Dakan: No, now is fine. I had some information to tell you, anyway.
Cat: still some place settings on the table?
spoon, knife, something like that?
...and did alexen assume i was talking to him because i forgot to put in the []'s like i always do? :)
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Alexen assumed you were talking to him. There are plates and silverware, food has been eaten and drinks consumed. Except for Shavani's many empty glasses.
Cat: heh.
Nidranisan: Ah, I meant Ms Shavani's question about my seating choices. I assumed we would start with the warehouse instead.
Shavani Tinderrain: Yeah yeah yeah. We can start later. Warehouse now.
Nidranisan: We took a look inside and unfortunately found it was something of a trap.
It looked like someone had been trapped under one of the crates, but it turned out...well, let's just get this out there.
It was sort of Carfen, but he was a div.
Aghash, to be precise.
Alexen Dakan: I...see...
Alexen Dakan 's face looks grim
Nidranisan: Nidranisan's Sense Motive check: 17
Alexen Dakan: (To GM) rolling 1d20+7
(
7
)+7
= 14
Nidranisan: There were two Doru with him also.
Let's just say it didn't go well for us.
Nidranisan glances at FI.

Fi stares at the ceiling.
Nidranisan: We're standing here through a combination of dumb luck, smart Fleir, and a favor owed to Adrias Stonebottom.
Vegeta: Sense motif 22
Alexen Dakan: I...I must apologize. I am fortunate you all survived.
Vegeta: why the worry captain?
Nidranisan: We didn't, to be completely technically honest.
It's a big favor.

Fi adjusts some silverware.
Nidranisan: We were lucky to be able to get Fi back to the company as quickly as we did.
Marxen Dakan: The East Ferren Trading Company?
Cat: nidri is kinda doing that...stare.
the deadpan waiting-for-reaction one. you know?
Nidranisan: Yes, Marxen.
Marxen Dakan: I'm glad they were able to bring you back.
Fi: Me too.
Nidranisan: Unlike certain other local corporations, they take great interest in keeping their employees alive.
Shavani Tinderrain: snort Heehee!
Nidranisan: [Shavani] sorry, I get extra snarky when I mention the other guys' name.
So I'm definitely forming a hypothesis about what Snock is smelling.
Alexen Dakan: Yes. Snock. The goblin, correct?
Fi: Yup
Nidranisan: The one who seems to be able to identify "stinky" people.
Nidranisan mutters.
Nidranisan: (Should've trusted my hunch.)
Alexen Dakan: Yes, correct. Snock mentioned a woman who led some of the guards away, correct?
She seemed stinky to Snock.
Nidranisan: Yeah, if I remember, he said Carfen was too.
Cat: smack me if player is doing that no-brain thing again...
Alexen Dakan: Yes, yes. We had done some research on the guards who were supposed to protect the estate on the night of the bombing.
Nidranisan: He smelled...different from the lady, but just like "da boss" I think?
Alexen Dakan: That's right.
Nidranisan: I didn't get a straight answer from Snock on which kind of "stinky" he thinks I am.
That's a data point I would really like to have.
Alexen Dakan: Hmm. I wonder if he realizes how his scent works.
Nidranisan: Hard to tell still if he's actually dumb or if it's just communication in common.
He might.
In the aftermath, I forgot to ask Melodie...I'll check with her on asking Snock a few more questions.
Alexen Dakan: The guards all died from disease within a few days of the bombing. We first thought they were infected suffering injuries from the blast.
Nidranisan: ...you sure it was disease?
Fi: Oh no...
Nidranisan: And not, possibly, a curse?
Vegeta: disease?
Alexen Dakan: But upon closer inspection, their bodies were...damaged after they died. All part of a cover up.
Nidranisan: damanged?
er, damaged?
Cat: lol. de manged.
Fi: To look like they were in the explosion...
Shavani Tinderrain: Yup. Crushed, burned, impaled, torn.
Nidranisan: Did someone determine what disease killed them after this was discovered?
Alexen Dakan: Some died from the Bubonic Plague. Others from the Shakes. You'll be fine for a day, but then your strength and coordination will wear away.
Nidranisan swears.
Nidranisan actually swears kind of a lot.
Fi: Been studying my language?
Nidranisan: You know what? I'm not sure I even need to talk to Snock.
Cat: actually, nidri swears in infernal...it's not pretty.
Nidranisan: He'll say I smell like the lady.
And then I'll assume the boss is another Aghash, and the lady is a Pairaka.
Shavani Tinderrain casts something as Nidri swears, and laughs.
Shavani Tinderrain: [Infernal] And all six horses! Haha!
Nidranisan: We're being infiltrated by Divs who don't like how nice Harvest Wharf is.
Alexen Dakan: Lord Carfen and I were steadfast allies during the Fifty Years War. He made sure the finest weapons were sold at cost or given away.
Harvest Wharf wouldn't have lasted as long as it did without his supplies.
Nidranisan: Well either he was playing a very long game, or "infiltrated" means this Aghash murdered and impersonated him some time since.
Alexen Dakan exhales deeply
Alexen Dakan: When you suspected him yesterday, I could...I could not believe Argus would destroy the city he put his family name on the line to protect.
I just couldn't.
Nidranisan: At the moment, I'm doubting this Carfen is the same one you knew.
I think the one you knew has been gone for at least weeks, whenever that warehouse thing started.
Maybe longer.
Alexen Dakan: My soldiers have been inspecting and patrolling the Carfen estate for a few days.
Cat: where 'gone' could possibly mean 'possess by that ring we're not mentioning' if you want me to bluff or whatever...
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yeah, give me a bluff check.
Nidranisan: Nidranisan's Bluff check: 24
(GM) Chad S. (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d20+5
(
2
)+5
= 7
(GM) Chad S. (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d20+11
(
16
)+11
= 27
(GM) Chad S. (GM): (To GM) rolling 1d20+6
(
3
)+6
= 9
Cat: given that it's pretty close to the truth, really... :)
Dakan looks like he's about to ask something, but stops himself.
Alexen Dakan: What is you said, Shavani? The war never ends?
Shavani Tinderrain: I told you before, hon. Never ended. Even when we killed that Demon.
Never ended.
Fi: Which Demon?
Shavani Tinderrain: The first one we slew together was my direct superior during the Fifty Years War. I had pinned Dakan and was about to demand his surrender when my superior tried to bumrush us both.
Luckily I was half-flirting and half-faking the pin.
Nidranisan snickers and mumbles something more or less unintelligible.
Alexen Dakan: Hmpf. I had tackled you, as I recall. He claimed to help you, but then he tried to kill us both with a fireball.
Shavani Tinderrain mumbles something back and chuckles.
Nidranisan shakes her head, smiling.
Shavani Tinderrain: Sorry! Right Fi. The Lucavan and their nutty worshippers.
Fi: Hmm...
Nidranisan: Aw crap, they were the ones that the whole....swamp bit was reminiscent of?
Shavani Tinderrain: The what? In the who now?

Fi whispers something to Nidri.
Hernz: off to try to shovel... I'll be back
Nidranisan: We had an earlier adventure in a swamp where people were acting weird and lifeless.
They were walking and attacking, but seemed almost like they were already dead.
When we got back and described it to Dakan, that's when he told us a bit about the war and the Lucavan.
Shavani Tinderrain: Naw, that's when they get desperate. Apparently the Demons get more if they are willing.
The Lucavan, anyway.
You know. Demons possess, Devils bargain, Angels bless and Divs corrupt.
Azatas inspire I think. Archons judge,
It's been this way for over 1200 years.
Nidranisan: The rhyme kinda gets lost halfway through...I might have to write that one down.
Jubilation was an Azata?
Perseverance was ...an Angel?
So what, was Retribution an Archon?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Are you telling them that, or thinking aloud?
I forgot if Dakan actually knows about them.
Cat: mostly thinking out loud.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Oh OK.
Cat: she probably doesn't really notice she's mumbling.
Nidranisan: Hang on, is Latrop one of these too?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Jubilation is an Azata. Latrop is a creature of Order and doesn't fit there.
Nidranisan: No that was something about Order...that's separate.
Nidranisan is like, mumbling and counting on fingers.
Cat: carfen's corpse didn't like, revert out of being div-y before it popped, right?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Retributiion is an Angel, and Perseverance is an Archon.
The div's body seemed to disintegrate to a charred human, who thanked you before disintegrating.
Cat: aaaaaaah.
so it did revert.
that's like, totally confusing. did i already try to make some kind of k check for wtf was going on there?
or have i not had the chance to really think about it until now?
i think she was too floored with everything else until what shavani said made her think about it.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yeah, you didn't really get a chance to focus. Try a K Arcana or K Planes check.
Nidranisan: Nidranisan's Knowledge (Planes) check: 15
Cat: arcana not trained.
and definitely muttering out loud what i'm thinking through.
if anyone else wants to join in.
Claire: Claire's Knowledge (Planes) check: 18
I might assist
Cat: still not terribly well focused ;)
but yeah, claire probably helps :)
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yup, she assists. Anyone else assisting?
Nidranisan: How...what the heck both possess and corrupts?
This is making my head hurt.
Marxen Dakan: Mother is surprisingly quiet. Usually that means she's intrigued.
Nidranisan: Before we sprang the trap, as it were, his hand seemed human enough.
As he died, he reverted back to seeming human.
That sounds like being possessed, like a demon would.
But when he fought us he was definitely, absolutely, and Aghash.
I do happen to know just a bit about Divs.
Nidranisan does not look particularly happy saying that.
Nidranisan: So how do you manage to be human, div, and possessed?
Shavani Tinderrain: Now THAT's a question.
Nidranisan: I'm just missing about half the pieces of this puzzle.
And it's one little bit of a larger picture.
I wonder if the lady, who seems to clearly have the symptoms of being a Pairaka, is similarly complicated.
And probably someone you all know, also.
Shavani Tinderrain: Not me, these two are locals.
Marxen Dakan: I had heard of a woman who visited an inn near the Palace of the Old Queens a week before the bombing. She frequented the Docks district.
She had robbed a few people, slept with a couple who died of terrible diseases and fled town soon afterwards.
I...never connected the dots until Father asked me about the diseased soldiers.
Nidranisan: Ah, yeah, that sounds about right.
They'd be those same two diseases.
Marxen Dakan: They say she was on route to Mardens City.
Nidranisan: Plague from the claws, shakes from...well.
Marxen Dakan: Uhmmm...?
Shavani Tinderrain: Marxen is a good boy. Bit naive.
The shakes come from caressing, honey.
Nidranisan: Really, the answer there is, being touched by anything other than the claws.
Marxen Dakan: Oh!
Oh...
Nidranisan: Pretty sure even nice, chaste hand-holding would do it.
Nidranisan flashes a toothy grin.
Nidranisan: There's a reason people are sometimes afraid of me. Usually it's the ones who know something.
Nidranisan's Intimidate check: 25
Cat: it's...a pretty scary grin.
Nidranisan: If you know anyone who got a name or a good description of this woman, it might help.
Marxen Dakan: Oh! Um. Y-yes...
Marxen Dakan is clearly intimiated
The other two are unfazed.
Cat: what, i only rolled an 11.
IT WAS AN ACCIDENT.
Nidranisan: Ah, sorry. I forget my smile is unsettling when I get annoyed.
It's been a long day.
Shavani Tinderrain: Poor baby! Look at you!
Shavani Tinderrain tugs Marxen's cheeks
Alexen Dakan: Yes, I can see.
It's been a day for all of us.
Nidranisan: Hope yours wasn't going this poorly before we showed up.
Nidranisan is half-mumbling again.
Marxen Dakan: R-right. Ahem. Carfen was a good friend of my Father. All of this is surprising to him.
Nidranisan: Yeah, I think there had to be some kind of possession/control element to this.
He thanked us, right at the end.
I think he must have seen how he was being used, and was grateful it was over.
Alexen Dakan: He- he did.
Nidranisan: As horrible as that is, I hope it's some consolation.
Alexen Dakan: It is Nidri. Thank you.
Nidranisan: Just as he passed away, that brief glimpse of looking human again, he said "thank you."
Alexen Dakan nods solemnly.
Nidranisan: I'm sorry you lost a friend today.
I should have been more gentle about it. Today has been trying for all of us.
Alexen Dakan: Every life lost is a failure on my behalf.
My son noticed something from him in the last few months. Lord Carfen had a slight hint of...jealousy?
Marxen Dakan: The people speak highly of the Dakan family, father. But the Carfen family is all but forgotten.
Nidranisan: Hmm.
A signal of the change, or how they got ahold of him?
Shavani Tinderrain: I'd guess the latter. You wouldn't believe how many were lost to the Lucavan because they gave into some evil emotion.
Many friends and allies. My superior officer, for example.
Nidranisan: Mmm.
Well, folks, if you start feeling any dark emotions, let us know.
Before the divs, demons, or whatever else get you.
Shavani Tinderrain: Does the demon strike you, or do you invite the demon...chicken and the egg problem. I've had a few hundred years to think about it and I still haven't found a solution.
Alexen Dakan: Yes, of course. Thank you all for your assistance.
Nidranisan: The answer is usually either "both" or "somewhere in between".
If you ever want to compare ideas, let me know. I haven't had so long to think about it though.
Shavani Tinderrain: Of course! More learning is good! That's the reason I got out of the Krimson Forest - we elves have been doing it wrong for centuries.
Nidranisan: Sure, let me know when's a good time, maybe on a less busy day.
Funny story about the Krimson Forest and Jubliation too, if you want to hear it. Later.
Cat: i think i covered anything i really wanted to tell dakan...
Claire: "funny" story.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yup. Will wait until the evening to move the scene, so feel free to ask questions.
Cat: funny in that way all of chad's elves are funny :)
which is to say, AWESOME.
Hawk Hubertins: Hawk Hubertins's Knowledge (Planes) check: 14
Cat: yay hawkhelps too.
stil not breaking 20 tho heh
(GM) Chad S. (GM): He helps. Nidri's conclusion is the same.
Cat: yeah.
Meghan: ... I had two cans of pringles for Hub, too
and another bag of cheddar popcorn
when did we become adults and stuff? I still buy junkfood for hub runs but we don't really eat it.
Except the doritos. we always eat those.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): No, no doritos...I pay for those later.
Cat: i didn't see the pringles until dinner.
i would've totally nommed them.
#notactuallyanadult
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Alright, Nidri had an exhaustive interview with The Dakan family.
Cat: now i have to decide if i want to cash in that date tonight, or wait to see what tomorrow brings.
what time of day is it at this point?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): It's almost dinner time.
Cat: oi.
that party was...just last night?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): The party was on April 18, 2 days ago.
Cat: ah ok.
so how much of a vibe does nidri have that this date is a date vs some kind of fantastic ambush? :)
George: Just watch out for the void bomb at the end of the ambush. ;)
Cat: :P
trying to keep my traps/day average below 1.
Chris: It's a Tarp!

Cat takes the tarp and makes it into a cape.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): lolz.
Chris: When life give you tarps, make tarp capes.
Cat: 'cause maaaan, nidri could use a "night off" right about now.
"Boy, it has been one DOOZY of a day."
George: When it seems like we're done with business for the day, Hawk is going to head back to the office.
Cat: i think this is the last call for questions for the Dakans.
before we decide we're done with business for the day.
George: I missed most of that conversation. One sec while I catch up in thhe log
Yeah, I think Hawk is staying quiet.
Cat: if we're done in time that it's reasonable, i'll call in my date tonight...
and we can skip over it for now if it's not plot-y so we can resolve it when others aren't waiting for the plot :)
(GM) Chad S. (GM): The remainder of the night is going to be pretty quiet, so Nidri can set up her date with Darius Kolphan.
Hawk, you were going to check the office?
George: Office is otherwise empty?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Marjorie and Abraxinal are working late. As usual.
Sweet. Anyone else doing stuff this evening?
Allright, time to write a million whispers, unless you want this public.
Hernz: nope
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Odd = Cat, Even = George 2
Sal'nessee: (To GM) rolling 1d20+1+3
(
5
)+1+3
= 9
Hawk Hubertins: Nite guys. I'm off to bed. Sorry for hogging the GM.
Vegeta: lol, no problemo
Chris: I've been busy all day anyway.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Nidri dispatches a Runner to the Scales of Platinum, Room 415.
That's the address Darius Kolphan left her.
Cat: my turn to hog the GM, but i'm gonna go ahead and let y'all have a chuckle on my behalf ;)
Vegeta: .ooc lol
Hernz: DOH
Meghan: nice
(GM) Chad S. (GM): The Runner returns. Darius requests her presence at the Scales of Silver, a fancy restaurant in the Cliffside district.
Cat: how fancy? i'm pretty much hitting up that same secondhand shop to pick up another dress...since i only own that one so far.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Not nobles only fancy, but you should dress well.
Cat: k. yeah, i pick up a new dress.
"new"
and show up within a few minutes of on time.

Cat drops another couple silver for this one.
Cat: well, nidri does.
Nidri shows up at the Scales of Silver and sees Darius Kolphan, dressed rather modestly.
Darius Kolphan: Nidri! Good to see you again!
Nidranisan: Good evening.
Sorry for the short notice, so glad you were free this evening.
Cat: insert flirty smile here
Nidranisan takes his arm.
Nidranisan: Shall we?
Darius Kolphan: Oh yes!
Darius uses heads in and is seated. The duo are presented a huge menu, mostly focusing on pasta and seafood.
Nidranisan looks just a touch overwhelmed.
Darius Kolphan: Haha. The menu is large, yet ordering is so simple! Look for something basic.
Nidranisan: No kidding.
Complicated food always seems to be trying to hide something.
Whatever's fresh, plain, and well-seasoned tends to be the best.
Nidranisan locates an appropriate selection, and puts the menu aside.
Darius Kolphan: I agree. Some places put themselves on too high pedestals.
Nidranisan: Mmm. Same the world over? I suspect you've traveled quite a bit more than I have.
Darius Kolphan: Yes. Solving mysteries often takes me to different places in the world.
Nidranisan: Must be great story material too.
Do individuals just...hire you to solve things?
Darius Kolphan: Haha. These investigations are personally funded. But my performances keep me well compensated.
Nidranisan: I would imagine so.
Must be fun solving what puzzles beckon.
Darius Kolphan: Oh, yes, quite entertaining. Well, I guess it's more like important.
Nidranisan: Important is good, but if it's not fun, or at least intriguing, that's when you get burnt out.
Darius Kolphan: Yes, that's true.
I've been tracking a string of murders in various cities over the last few towns.
Nidranisan: Interesting. Across towns, so none of the local law enforcement have the whole story?
Darius Kolphan: Most of them have been travelling performers, usually energy drained.
The first one was in the Isle of the Sun.
The first one I noticed.
Nidranisan: Energy drained...what a way to go.
That's terrible.
Wait, was someone you knew targeted?
Darius Kolphan: Luckily, no.
No one personally related to me.
Nidranisan: Ah. Still sad to hear of anyone losing their life, particularly in such an unfortunate way.
Nidranisan does get a brief little faraway look in her eye.
Darius Kolphan: Is-something wrong, Nidri? I guess I shouldn't mention work during such a joyous occasion.
Nidranisan: Had a tough day. I'd much rather hear about your stuff than talk about mine lately.
That...burnout comment might have been a little close to home, really.
Definitely needed a night off.
Nidranisan smiles again.
Nidranisan: It's actually sort of nice just to listen for a while.
Darius Kolphan: Oh, I understand. Sometimes you need to cool down.
The performer Sal'nessee was visiting. Her dance was...riveting.
Nidranisan: Yup. Good meal, different scenery, someone else's mysteries. :)
Indeed.
Darius Kolphan: That's when I started noticing Energy Drained victims. I took that as my calling to start looking around.
And looking around the world for more mysteries to solve.
Nidranisan: Ah, so these mysteries are a new addition to your repertoire?
Darius Kolphan: Yes, new mysteries. All the time.
Solving murders, seeking new challenges, finding rumors and trying to confirm them.
Nidranisan: Mmm. There were no reports of diseases involved, just drained energy?
Darius Kolphan: Well, there are many murders from various causes, but I've seen mostly performers get energy drained.
No, wait. Also politicians, but I know Sal'nessee wasn't there...
Nidranisan: Ugh that's like some terrible kind of undead.
Darius Kolphan: Yes, I had heard of vampiric activity.
Cat: ...did he just let slip that he suspects her?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Yup.
Darius Kolphan: Oh, did you know rumors in this town speak of some kind of guardian angel?
Nidranisan: Nidranisan's Bluff check: 21
Cat: heeeey, hiding it pretty well :)
yeah, nidri is just kinda plowing past that little comment.
Nidranisan: Wait, really?
Angel like Angel? Did it have a name?
Darius Kolphan: Nothing yet. A guardian of the night, I think? Only appears at night.
Nidranisan: Interesting.
Wait, I did hear something about this.
Where did I hear about this.
Darius Kolphan: Doesn't say a word, but shoots evil doers with a bow. Foes burst into flame!
Poof!
Cat: uh...was it the dudes we found when we were looking for Snock and rolled like a 4?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Your attempts to find Snock, yes.
Meghan: Chad, there is no Batman in Harvest Wharf.
Nor is there a Hood
Or Arrow.
Stop that
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Batman's an Angel
Cat: it was like...what, random dockhands talking about that? i forget. :)
Meghan: Not even a little
Does he sing his own theme song?
Nidranisan: He's not the Angel we deserve?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): No singing
Nidranisan: whoops, ooc that ;)
Nidranisan does that thing people do when they try to remember stuff, where you stare for a few seconds and blink a lot.
Meghan: (does he target people who "have failed this city"?)
Nidranisan: We were looking for some guy, and we found some people who were totally useless...but they said something about the same kind of thing.
A guy at night/guardian angel.
I thought they were just nuts.
Did you hear it somewhere that was actually reputable?
Meghan: Every time he goes out, does he have a little monologue where he says something about himself and how he got to be a vigilante?
Nidranisan: 'cause I'm gonna have a real good laugh if that actually turns out to be true.
Meghan: (I swear DC comics you don't need to do that for every fucking show)
Darius Kolphan: Oh? I've seen criminals shot with arrows over night. In particular last night, wow. Plenty of members from a group named "Magmere"
Nidranisan: ...
Nidranisan's Bluff check: 9
Cat: noooope not hiding that one!
Nidranisan makes a face.
Nidranisan: [Infernal] ing Magmere deserves their own * vigilante.
Nidranisan mutters under her breath.
Nidranisan: Ah. Sorry, I...
Nidranisan sighs.
Darius Kolphan: It-it's alright. You did say you had a rough day.
Nidranisan: Actually, if they got the beatdown, that kinda makes my day brighter.
Darius Kolphan: Oh, haha.
Nidranisan: If he's after Magmere, I'll buy the man a drink.
I didn't hear about any big fun going on last night though.
Darius Kolphan: Only appears at night...maybe it paled in comparison.
Nidranisan: Well, that sounds like something I'll be keen to find out more about.
It seems your mysteries might be catching.
Nidranisan grins.
Darius Kolphan: The Isle of the Sun is very peaceful and calm, but everything is subtle.
Out here, if someone doesn't like you, they will tell you directly.
Cat: didn't...maybe Micel?...tell us something about that place?
Nidranisan: Eh, sometimes.
Not always.
Depends what they want from you.
Darius Kolphan: But in the Isle of the Sun, you are never told. It's all smiles until you turn around, then it's a dagger in your back.
Or at least subtly ignoring you.
Nidranisan: Heh.
Hard to imagine you being disliked, but I hope you've got a good friend or a dagger-proof vest when you visit.
Darius Kolphan: Heehee! It's been fun talking to you so, Nidri.
I have befriended many investigators and entertainers. Melanie Mel has been a useful contact; she is well connected.
Nidranisan: Ah, the Mels are pretty amazing.
I don't know if you've been through Harvest Wharf frequently, or if you knew Merki.
He had a mind-boggling array of contacts.
Darius Kolphan: Oh, he did? Incredible.
Nidranisan: It certainly seemed that way. Everyone owed Merki a favor.
I'm still learning how the economy of favors works.
Darius Kolphan nods
Nidranisan: ...advice welcome, since you seem to be adept at navigating this world.
Nidranisan isn't quite batting her eyelashes or whatever, but she's got the twinkle on.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): (Chad is getting super sleepy...will continue conversation tomorrow.)
Cat: yuuuup.
i'm home with the kid tomorrow...will check in randomly.
Hernz: I got the day off so..........
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Heehee. Prepare for more epic date stuff tomorrow.
Cat: yay :)
Darius Kolphan: Everyone, at some point, needs help. We all help each other. What drives us to cooperate like this? Few animals can lay claim to conquering the land, erecting buildings and of course - the discovery of magic.
I think the ability to get help from others is a measure of power - the stronger you are, the more free aid you can receive. The Mel family are a good example. Even I knew about them on the Isle of the Sun, and they have almost no influence there.
People are inherently good, constantly tempted by evil because our hearts are weak. It is important to control yourself when demanding payback for favors given, or your demands will be refused.
Nidranisan: Mm. So far I feel like we've been trying to help anyone we think is doing good things...and we've ended up calling in enough favors it's hard to tell if we're not just right back where we started.
I guess the bonus there is, at least we have friends in reasonable places.
I suppose the relationship-building comes first.
Darius Kolphan: Could you tell how happy someone is just by the smile on his face? Maybe you could say he's a little happy, or very happy, or not happy at all.
But you can't measure it like, say pieces of gold.
Darius Kolphan grins
Darius Kolphan: The more friends you have, the happier you can be. That's why I travel, and that's why I investigate.
I made many friends in the Isle of the Sun, but now I have made even more.
Nidranisan: So it's not as much that it's "self-funded" as that payment isn't in gp.
Darius Kolphan giggles
Darius Kolphan: Yes, these favors have no monetary value.
Nidranisan: Of course.
So will I owe you a favor by the end of the night?
Nidranisan is smiling.
Darius Kolphan blushes
Darius Kolphan: I was about to ask you the same thing. Shall we enjoy the night together?
Nidranisan grins.
Nidranisan: I suspect your place is nicer than mine.
Darius Kolphan: We'll see if that's still true by the morning, won't we! Haha!
Hernz: just note that if we ever do this with vegeta, we'll go DBZ style and skip straight to the part where he has a 1 yr old
Cat: LOL
Nidranisan: Hey, I don't break things permanently! :)
Darius Kolphan slams a handful of platinum on the table and calls his assistant over to ready some transport.
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Only if Vegeta has a dumb mustache, too.
Hernz: deal lol
Cat: yeesh, apparently i'm an expensive date heh
A few minutes later, Nidri and Darius show up at the Everdawn, a relatively small (and private) inn at Cliffside. Darius doesn't have time for a tour, though...
Cat: like uh-oh or like wahoo?
(GM) Chad S. (GM): wahoo!
Cat: lol ok, i was waiting for "date ends in disaster" heh
(GM) Chad S. (GM): Nope, the only disaster is if I keep describing this scene. We'll break right past the PG rating.
Cat: gooooood call!
(GM) Chad S. (GM): So, fastforwarding to morning!