GM-Foxy's Hell's Rebels (Inactive)

Game Master Foxy Quickpaw

Is there a hole behind the the fallen wall? Or dirt? Or did supports erode? I'm confused, because walls don't just fall down in a basement without the whole ceiling collapsing in. That is what Saul's perception was for.

"This... doesn't make sense."

The collapse is just a part of a wall between the storage room and the privies. It was built there as an addition and was no part that was essential for the statics of the basement or the building.

Logan also finds nothing out of the ordinary.
And with such lousy rolls you'll keep finding nothing.

Fhingle comes rushing into the room.

Saul are you breaking things again? " FHingle smiles. "I guess I can get a broom and clean up in here."

Perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12

Perception: 1d20 ⇒ 17
"Yeah, walls don't tend to just collapse like an elf trying whiskey ..." Cassius looks around the privies for any evidence of something that could have caused this.

Saul crouches down near the rubble and takes it in spending quite a bit of time trying to figure out what could have caused the...accident? Wall don't fall down on accident.

Taking a 20 on perception for 25

"Maggie! You spend more time down here than me. Ever see a problem with this wall?"

Fhingle goes and returns a few moments later to see Saul crouched near the rubble.

"DO you think something is wrong?"

"Walls fall down for a reason, Little Mac. There must be one. Help me look. Does anyone have engineering experience?"

"Not me no, I can paint it once we get a new one up." Fhingle says while trying to help look.

Aid in looking, taking 10 to aid: 10 + 5 = 15

Saul finds scratches that point to tool usage at the wall. And close by Cassius finds a chisel and a hammer sized for a small person, which was hidden behind the wall when it was still standing.

"We've got an intruder, I think. Is everyone accounted for? Who else knows this place is here?"

"That short woman!" Vendalfek calls out.

Saul heads upstairs to see if Laria is available for a consultation. Given how he left, he approaches the situation very delicately.

"Laria, ma'am, when you have a break between slinging coffee and pastries, could you report downstairs for a structural issue?"

"She is not a short woman, she is taller than you." Fhingle blurts out, then covers his mouth.

"What?" Laria asks and follows Saul downstairs.

Seeing the collapsed wall she cries out "I allowed you to use the basement. I didn't allow for rebuilding it or taking down walls!"

"It wasn't us, ma'am! We were standing here, talking, and the wall fell down, nearly hitting our regal majesty Vendalfek. Look, we found some tools scattered about that are possibly halfling sized. Do you know of anyone else who has access to this basement, perhaps from past activity, who bears you a grudge?"

gather info? diplomacy: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (9) + 6 = 15

"No one comes in through the coffeehouse, that's for sure." Laria replies looking at all the new occupants down here with suspicion.

"Someone could have seen us go in and out of the sewer with our rowboat."

Saul will attempt to look for tracks near the water's edge, but he has not been trained in the art.

survival: 1d20 ⇒ 6

Saul finds rat tracks.

"Blast it! Nothing!"

Frustrated, Saul sits down by the large sacks of money and counts up the loot from the previous night.

We never did figure it out. Also Logan, sounds like you get the amulet of natural armor + 1 as myself and Fhingle are voting that you get it.

"Maggie, you and your sisters are probably better trained than us. Do you see any signs of an intruder in here? Tracks?

"We can't have people down here who aren't invited. We can't trust them. I guess that goes for animals too."

Maggie and her sisters go for a ththorough search of the basement, but besides one or another track of a rat there seems to be nothing. Of course there are tracks of boots all over the place. Which doesn't really help. Only in one spot there is half a foot-print that looks different. Like from a chicken, but not really.

With nothing to be done about the intruder, Saul asks the Tengu sisters to stick around the basement that morning and keep their eyes open, bids Cassius to explore and have free reign of the place, and heads back to the office.

The morning in Kintargo dawns bright and cheerful, despite the incident downstairs. We shut those Red Jills down hard. The Chelish Citizen Group will likely have retaliation against them, and maybe a straight up gang war will start up. I'm not sure else how to start a rebellion in the city. We are too few and too weak. The Thrunes are too established and too strong.

As he walks, Saul keeps his eyes on the cobblestones but his ears perked up to pick up any rumors or talk of Red Jills or the CCG.

diplomacy gather info: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (16) + 5 = 21

Taking a detour to get past the temple area, Saul sees that some dottari are patrolling the area, and some clerics of Azmodeus are there, probably for taking care of the bodies.

Nosy bystanders get to hear that some people were hurt during a minor collapse and that the old temple and orphanage of Aroden and the surroundings are now closed to the public.

But the dottari were not the first to arrive on the scene and so details, like all but one victim being tieflings. And the other one a strange winged creature, but for sure no angel.

Logan decides to follow Saul's example and heads to work, hoping maybe he'll hear something about last night's raid (or anything else useful) from the other dock workers.

He spends the day loading and unloading ships, carrying boxes and stacking crates.

During their few breaks, Logan passes his hip flask around, hoping to loosen some lips.

Diplomacy to gather info: 1d20 ⇒ 2 Any chance I get a bonus for getting them a little tipsy first?

Also, I have ranks in Profession(Porter) but I don't really have to roll to move boxes for an entire work day, do I? Can I make a roll to see if I'm loading/moving anything suspicious or to see if I learn anything about the ships or my fellow workers? I'll roll it below anyway and you can use it for whatever.

Profession(Porter): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9

Well, probably not with those rolls

Fhingle goes about cleaning up the basement and painting some more.

Fhignle tries to gather any information from the Patrons of the coffee house.

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17

Logan only gets suspicious side glances as he asks around.

Fhingle manages not to annoy the customers but he hears only gossip that he is alreday aware of.

After a while a sailor sits down besides Logan. "Got something left in that bottle?"

Disguise: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (8) + 15 = 23Diplomacy to gather info: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (14) + 9 = 23

Cassius wakes up late and changes his disguise, using a blond wig and a large hat and artisan's outfit. He then hits the bars, as is his wont, trying to find out the current scuttlebutt.

Cassius, or, rather, "Franklin," takes another swig of his ale. "Can't say as I blame them. And I bet their sailors are about to go mad with buggery!"

Fhingle goes about his day, bringing Rexus food and drink.

"Not much going on around here today." Fhingle tells Rexus

1d100 ⇒ 76
"Yes. Wan tto help with the documents?" Rexus replies.

Rolls in linguistics to help

To the sailor, "Aye!"

He passes the bottle to the grizzled old sea dog. He takes another mouthful himself, when the man hands it back.

"What news from the sea, friend? See anything interesting out there, or around here for that matter?"

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (19) + 0 = 19

The sailor takes a swig and hands the bottle back.

"Interesting you say? Nay. But driving everyone crazy? Aye. That new decree hit our Captain like a brick on the head. I'd say he just needs ta get laid more. But he only wants that one bird he can't get ta anymore. And that bird doesn't come to him either. He's going to sink the ship with his running in circles. The floor is getting thin already."

"And we can't have fun either with all the new rules."

I don't have Linguistics, I do Speak celestial

"I would like to but I don't know if I can, nothing you have here looks like it makes any sense to me." Fhingle replies.

"Lucky you. To me it makes sense, I spend an hour on transcribing it, only to find out at the end of the page, that my assumptions were wrong and I have to start over again." Rexus replies with a sigh.

"How come the captains don't just sail off for another port? Are they being kept here?"

"You're from behind the hills? We got cargo to deliver and reload the ship. How are ye going ta do that from afar?" the sailor asks with disbelief on his face.

"Never been a seaman myself, guess that's obvious. My ...deals are on land, once you brave boys get the goods here. The captains able to communicate with each other? Seems men on ships got an advantage on lubbers if they organize." Diplomacy: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (10) + 9 = 19

"Ye got no advantage once yer off the ship. But ye talk as if ye can do sumthin. Do you?"

"That's quite possible. Like yourself, I'm a man not too happy about the way things have been going here. And the fact is, more people are unhappy than are profiting. We just have to work together. They letting anyone else on the ships?"

"Want to come along? Maybe a landlubber can get my captain what he needs to stop driving everyone crazy."

Cassius slams the rest of his ale. "Let's roll."

Back trackign?

Looking at the small tools, Fhingle has Saul put them up so someone cannot get to them again.

"What about that devil we found under the Livery he could be up to this could he not?" Fhingle asks.

To Rexus

Well I can read Celestial if that helps[ Fhingle offers

"What devil?" Vendalfek inquires. As he is really set on being the unchallanged ruler of this realm.

The sailor gets up and leads the way to the ship. On the way he wants to know more about what that landlubber can help with. "I'm not sure, what our captain would need from you. But it is nothing he'd trust us with, for fear of retaliation from that Thrune. So what makes you worth his time to listen to you? Just to make sure he doesn't whip both of us off his boat."

"Little devil, Lemure, there was something else down there but we never found out what it was, playing a flute or something." Fhingle offers

Saul arrives back at his office after the already eventful morning. He makes sure the "OPEN" sign is flipped on his door window and plops down at his desk.

Clearly there was someone down in that basement, but none of us had the eyes to see it. That is a very problematic security breach. Someone like that could merely be pulling a prank, but could also expose our whole operation to the Dottari! I can't let this go.

Sitting at his desk and waiting for clients, Saul begins to dream up possible traps to catch the intruder.

Oh yeah, duh. Gonna reread players guide now that more of it is relevant now

Fhingle and Logan, maybe Maggie and her family could do some gather information for you on the saltworks.

Foxy, is there is a limitation on how often we can ask our teams to do something? Player's Guide implies once a week, but we aren't exactly following that structure...

I'm unsure how to do that. For characters I have the DC given (DC25 in case of the Red Jills) And you'd use your skill which is +3Int +2Ranks +3CS +1d6 +1d20.

For the teams I roll tier +your cha mod. But the DC is also independent of the one given in the AP it's a fixed 15.

So I tend to take the PG approach and limit the number of your team actions. But one action per team per weak would even be more than the PG allows, as you can see on page 22. Where you need 55 supporters to be able to take more than two rebellion actions a week.

We've been playing out every single day. Player's Guide seems to indicate that the minigame aspect will handwave time and address actions over the course of a week at a time. I would argue (but your call of course) that we should be able to ask our teams to do something each day. Because otherwise what are they doing all the time?

Living their lives. And then doing a little rebellion in their free time. How many days did it take you to find a dead cat?

How long it takes your team to complete a task depends on the task of course. If it's deliver this message to a known person at a known place it's a matter of an hour. If it's searching for the home base of the Red Jills where you have an idea where it might be, it depends on the approach.

Comb the desert! works faster than trying not to be detected. On Temple Hill where also the temple of Asmodeus stands and their clerics tend to the graves, which make up the temple hill park.

I'll have them report back as soon as I think enough time has elapsed.

The PG assumes, you pay for the teams and they live in your basement. But so far this hasn't happened. And I don't think it would be clever.

Ok, what you are saying is that there is no hard and fast rule. I can live with that. So Fhingle and Logan could ask Maggie to gather information, and if you deem it as appropriate then it could happen.

Maggie and fam does live in the basement and we do pay for them, at least theoretically. Salonius handled that side of things. If he doesn't come back, I will take that job unless you want to do it and I don't plan to follow his loot distribution method.

Fhingle can take that job over

Fhingle don't know if I understood your last post. Are you all for going in tonight? How are your spell slots? This could be the hardest thing we've done yet.

No Fhingle is good to wait he was just telling you that Maggie and her crew are willing to come.

Ok! With them, and our dragon, this will make for a very interesting adventure! Once Logan wraps up his conversation I am good for advancing to the next morning.

The loot sheet is not mine, but Salonius. But I can read it.
Here the current content.

Current Share Fhingle Jhen Meliandri Saul Salonius Consumables Carried By Expended Consumables Expended By Silver Raven Expenses Cost
547.5 547.5 47.5 -702.5 547.5 Scroll of Daylight Fhingle Potion Cure Light Wounds Saul on Rexus Rowboat 50gp
Scroll of Cure Moderate Wounds Fhingle
Actual Coin 987.5 Scroll of Remove Blindness Fhingle
Scroll of Remove Disease Fhingle
Coin Taken Out 300 300 300 300 300 3 x Potions of Lesser Restoriation Saul, Mels, Jhen
3 x Potions of Cure Light Wounds Mels, Saul, Jhen
Full Value Sale Value 1 x Potion of Cure Light Wounds Saul
Various Mundane Items 3000 1500 Sold
Leather Armor +1 1160 580 Sold for 800gp
Cloak of Resistance +1 1000 500 Meliandri
Cloak of Elvenkind 2500 1250 Saul
Scroll of Whispering Wind 150 75 Sold
Scroll of Undetectable Alignment 25 12.5 Sold
Scroll of Pass Without Trace 150 75 Sold
Scroll of Misdirection 150 75 Sold
Additional Funds from +1 Leather sale 220 Straight to Coin
Rowboat Silver Ravens Expense -50

Total 4237.5
Individual Share 847.5

I should have said, I don't understand it...

I don't see the actual party fund in there of our straight up gold, do you?

Fhingle, if you want to start it over from scratch, personally I think that is the best way to go about it. And I would really appreciate it if we could just do a normal loot distribution; whoever is best suited for the item gets it. People play with the party in mind and not themselves. If no one wants it, we sell it, and split the gold. None of this party share stuff. Please.

I am also willing to put the spreadsheet together if you would like to pass, Little Mac.

Unless you would like Fhingle to have a post on getting our disguises, I think we are ready to fast forward to the exterior of the saltworks.

I might be able to whip up the loot sheet tonight

You got a complete description of the place and a map. Feel free to write yourself to the Saltworks, using your preferred time of day and darkness.

And the way you're taking, as it's past curfew and you might run into dottari.

Looking at the loot the funny thing about all those scrolls is they would be useful right now.

As a player I am not opposed to selling things but we shouldn't sell all consumables since they could save us spell slots and be beneficial later on.

Here is the sheet so far

Here is a link to copy: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HjJMpehDXKaWSrCcH204WUCZ-nQe3V1P7zY ZCpI07rk/edit?usp=sharing

Cool, Fhingle! Could you add another column at the end for our party fund? Which I have no idea how much is in it right now...

Well let's see, if we gave it an even share, it should have the same amount of gold that I have more or less since I haven't bought anything.

I have 300 gold. Is that an okay party fund, Foxy?

I don't think we should sell consumables at level 2. Maybe later when stuff gets old and we haven't used it.

Sure anyone with the Link can Edit if not let me know and I will change the settings.

I suggest you remove the various mundane items from the list and add a party fund entry, where you put the money you got for that.

Also I believe you sold the +1 leather armor already and not for the regular price.

doc added to the links at the top.

I tried to sort though what he was doing as best as I could, I didn't understand his system to begin with

Me either, Fingle... which is kinda obvious because I complained about it all the time. Well I kinda understood it but I didn't like that method at all, was too by the book and too inflexible.

As for captaining a boat, yeah, that is in my character history (dad was a fisherman and Saul did it ages ago). But next time we level I really should put a point into profession:fisherman! Oversight. :)

No worries, Fhingle isn't to "Worldly" so I am playing him as such

I made a few adjustments to the loot sheet. The exact sale price of the leather armor doesn't really matter at this point, so I left it. The columns on the left are just to track the things we find and want to sell. If we find things that a PC want, they can immediately go into that person's column.

Exactly without some +/- stuff that was happening.

Yes!

I think it is your turn again Foxy

If opening a door is a move action, then Logan you should be able to charge at him and deal damage. (you can't charge and grapple I don't think.)

I didn't realize at the time of making the Oracle that their spell choice was permanent, at 4th level I am going to retrain a spell.

As you both look so eager to progress here, Saul needs to go on a RL mission and get Logan to post. :P

ha ha, you are right. he is probably tied up. when he doesn't post it is for very valid reasons!

I was referring to your "And then I tie them with manacles to something solid in the room."

There are so many points to interrupt that, that I wanted to point out, that you limit yourself to actions that match the action economy, and only "try to do this and that" if you don't know how it will play out.

Aha! You are right, that shouldn't have been written like that.

Absolutely; I think I just misinterpreted you.

Sorry everyone. It was a busy day and I wasn't in my office.

I'm a bit confused though, what happened to that guy who was running out of the room? Did he make it? Is this combat on a map somewhere that I'm not seeing?

The map is not sorted. He go ta head start on you, but now he only got a move action to the door and another move action to open the door. You can easily get to him. It's the back door of the large building.

As Saul told, you're able to charge him. You could attack him with a weapon, trip him, but not grapple.

I'm actually wondering about doing an overrun. I've not done that maneuver before, but if I read it right, I can charge and then move through his square, with an attack thrown in there too. It looks like it would provoke an AOO, but I'd like to try and get in his way so he can't keep running.

Sure.

Sorry guys. Apparently even digital dice hate me.

I love it. Moral dilemma! How good are the good guys in dire situations? Also you get an AoO while the guy leaves you.

Hmmmm... yes.

I think Chaotic Good gives a lot of leeway in a situation like this. I don't think Saul would have any problem killing prisoners who act up. He would justify it as necessary for the greater good and maintaining cover.

It was a good idea Logan. Overrun would have been perfect for this situation.

"Would" being the keyword here. The door shares Logan's pain. ;)

Yes, Maggie! That was quite the stab. I'm glad we didn't try to fight her way back when.

Foxy, we don't know where the barracks are?

I thought we knew a general layout from that guy who used to work there.

It's just the small building on the other side of the yard. Maybe you don't know what they're called. But you know they're there, and you're only following the dottari anyway.

I think Logan and Fhingle need to go again.

Ok, you're a group of eight. They are nine. With one out and two tied up. Explain Outnumbered to me again? But of course running is always an option. It's unclear though if it's the better option.

Saul thinks we are outnumbered. Sounds like he is wrong. Will running be better? I don't know. This is a stressful situation for Saul, especially seeing how Logan was nearly laid out in a single hit.

Could you put the enemies on the map? Theater of the mind is starting to get hard here because we are spread out across the map.

Map is updated. As long as you can hold the door, you're fine. And even if Logan goes down? He's got plenty of Con to roll through and you brought a healer.

Maybe Vendalfek will use his breathweapon on Saul the next round :D