GM Silbeg's Race for the Runecarved Key (tier 18-19) (Inactive)

Game Master Silbeg

I just want to be clear. Did we hear spellcasting coming from in this wagon after the wizard left it?

Yes. The spellcasting came from the wagon that the wizard left from. After the wizard came out, and after he was glitterdusted, there was a spell cast. There is no one left in the wagon at this time, invisibly or otherwise. You heard nothing from the other wagon.

Floating out of the wagon Antonius looks over to the captured wizard. Who else was in there with you?

Dismiss these tentacles please

Floating out of the wagon Antonius looks over to the captured wizard. Who else was in there with you?

"Oh, there was the team lead, Baruvius Geed, and his partner, Malic Oversteed. We were just transporting Aspis funds, and such." says the wizard. "We were worried about bandits and such, given the large sums we were bringing in... not that we expected such esteemed individuals as yourself, more likely Szcarni scum, goblins, and the like."

At Vuvu's request, he looks up at Antonius, and asks, "May I?" At this time, he looks over and dismisses the spell.

Yes, get rid of them. What's in the other wagon? he asks floating over to it and checking it over for traps and such.

Perception: 1d20 + 38 ⇒ (9) + 38 = 47

Sense motive 1d20 + 41 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 41 + 2 = 62

Vuvu listens, content tonlet Anotnius talk after the dispel magic debacle, but he keeps an ear out for falsehood

As he examines the second wagon Antonius calls over his shoulder. This leader of yours, where is he likely to have gone and where is the gold?

"So the team lead teleported away or what?"

"shucks!"

the still-invisible Duhwoo's monosyllable -- an utterance seemingly from nowhere -- simultaneously conveys his regret over not getting any sword attacks and his dismay that these guys seems to know we are Pathfinders...

"This leader of yours, where is he likely to have gone and where is the gold?"

"He probably is heading back to the Bronze House, to let Master Sloan know that our shipment has been taken. The gold is in the other wagon."

"So the team lead teleported away or what?"

"Yeah, we may work for the Aspis Consortium, but even they don't pay us enough to throw our lives away. A dimension door hop to get as far away as they could, I imagine, and then have the air elementals carry them as fast as they could."

As Antonius enters the other wagon, he sees a very large chest... however, as soon as he pokes his head in, the sound of a hand bell starts emanating over the chest. Antonius quickly realizes that this is probably just an alarm spell... he didn't notice any traps before it started making a lot of noise.

I assume he is being honest?

Antonius will check over the chest, he mutters a quick detect magic spell as well to make sure it is not magically locked or trapped.

I can probably take the whole thing if we don't want to risk opening it but we should check the gold is here.

Perception: 1d20 + 38 ⇒ (10) + 38 = 48

Vuvu, you believe that he believes what he says.

Antonius does not believe that the chest is trapped, though the alarm will most certainly keep going off if you don't do something about it.

Oh do be quiet he mutters as he tries to dispel the alarm.

Ioun stone modifier: 18 + 1d4 - 1 ⇒ 18 + (1) - 1 = 18

Dispel Check: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (14) + 18 = 32

That gets caster level 21 which is hopefully enough, if not I may run away!

Finally!

With that Antonius will flip open the chest with an open/close cantrip and check the contents. If it is locked he will pick the lock.

Disable Device, if required: 1d20 + 34 ⇒ (3) + 34 = 37
Perception: 1d20 + 38 ⇒ (5) + 38 = 43

As he works he calls over, Does someone want to relieve our friend their of his possessions, spoils of war and all that.

Vars will start stripping the lackeys of their loot worthy possessions.

Antonius is able to dispel the alarm, and open the chest. Inside are what appear to be tens of thousands of gold.

On the bodies and the mage:
scroll of locate creature,
croll of spell turning,
scroll of stoneskin,
scroll of true strike,
wand of create pit(6 charges),
wand of black tentacles (CL 15th, 1 charges)
quarterstaff,
amulet of natural armor +1,
cloak of resistance +2,
headband of vast intelligence +2,
gold dust (25 gp),
spell component pouch,
spellbook (contains all prepared spells)

blunt arrows (120),
6 tanglefoot bag
6 +1 chain shirt,
6 +1 composite longbow (+3 Str) with 120 arrows,
6 rapier,
6 cloak of resistance +2,
6 ring of protection +1,

Conscious of the risk of deception and knowing how tricky the Aspis can be Antonius draws out a small pot of multi coloured unguent. He mutters a spell as he smears it across his eyes, which begin to glow bright blue.

Antonius casts True Seeing and examines the chest, its contents and everything and everyone else in range. How much does it look like this lot weighs?

CL: 18 + 1d4 - 1 ⇒ 18 + (2) - 1 = 19

There is no difference in how the gold and the chest look.

The chest and the gold probably weigh a few hundred pounds.

Vuvu sheepishly strolls around watching Antonius impressive magic. He wanders to avoreal

Pssst. Looks like some competition you got there!

He summons a banjo and starts to pluck away.

I am sure that you all understand when this becomes a song you were all much more supporting characters...but don't worry I'll dedicate a verse to your heroics

Everything looks clear. Do one of you burly types want to lift this lot out and we can get going. He floats, invisibly, away from the wagon and then stops.

Oh, I nearly forgot about you lot. Whatever shall we do with you? he says looking over at the guards and the captured mage.

Via telepathy, I can cure the crazed guards but it will use up quite a bit of power, as far as the mage goes, I am less inclined to let him go. He could easily get back to Magnimar quickly enough to be an issue. Avoreal, you could turn him into a lawn ornament for now and turn him back once this is all over? The guards can probably be scared off ever going back to Magnimar, or I can Mass Suggest them to bugger off.

"Duhwoo, go grab that chest!"

I could dominate him if you like. Then we could have him do whatever we wanted. Just let Vars knock him silly first

the hillbilly complies, hefting the chest onto one shoulder with a modicum of effort:

"Shore thing, Lord Vars! Where'dya wants it!"

"We'll be taking it back to town."

You want me to knock him silly?

***OVERSEER ANNOUNCEMENT***

A white raven begins circling overhead. The bird is Sheila Heidmarch’s signal that you should wrap things up and head back to Heidmarch Manor with or without the Aspis Consortium’s gold.

Yea knock him out, and I will dominate him, when then we can wake him up, and send him to do what we want. Antonius, what would you like me to have him do, actually, I could put a Geas on him too

Looking up, noticing the raven Vars responds ]Actually I think we better just be going. No time to screw around. . Duh, let's hoof it with the chest. Then he starts heading back to town.

Duhwoo hears Vars say 'hoof it', and pulls out his wand of <Mount> -- which he can't use himself:

"Ah don't s'pose ya could fire off a charge from this here wand, Miz Starseeker -- this big ol' chest'll leave a dent in my neck if'n I carries it all that way my own se'f..."

assuming Avoreal complies, he'll strap the chest to the summoned horse's saddle, and lope along beside the 2-hour horse to protect the treasure...

Since we are are out of time

Vuvu will cast a dominate person D.C. 25 and he will wrap it up in a story performance with spellsong . This means for him to realize I am castinghe will have to sense motive a 1d20 + 42 + 2 ⇒ (13) + 42 + 2 = 57

Assuming it works

Ok boss. When you return you are going to tell them who hit you, but you are not going to use magic to get there. Take your time. Go back take a day or two to rest and recover, then Once you feel yourself report in. .

Vuvu also adds in the importer name that antonius used-sorry phone posting and searching for it is a challenge

Antonius looks at Duhwoo as if he has gone mad. You expect to walk back to Magnimar! Don't be foolish he says with an exasperrated sigh.

Gather together everyone and I will make the necessary arrangements. In a swirling pattern of goden light he whisks the group from the scene of carnage and back to the gardens of the Magnimar Lodge.

Antonius greater teleports the group back to the lodge in Magnimar. At base CL18 he can bring himself and up to 6 others so that should get everyone even if there are familiars and what have you knocking about.

"Not going to complain about taking the express way. " so he huddles up and gets teleported.

mage will save DC25: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (15) + 10 = 25
Saves!

"Um, sure. If that keeps me alive, then sure. Even with your spell not taking hold of my arcane trained mind." says the wizard.

He doesn't realize you are casting the spell while casting, but that doesn't stop him from knowing you cast after the spell has been cast. Since he made the will save... he might not know what you cast, which is also questionable, but he does know you cast something attempting to affect his mind.

FYI - he is telling the truth. You get the idea he will do anything to stay alive.

FYI - we are waiting for the overseer to start the next phase.

bard of the century here

You are knocking it out of the park. You should have intimidated him first and it would have worked. We did loot him to the ground, not sure if his save includes the +2 cloak of resist it looks like he had?

On the issue of loot, does anyone want any of the wands or scrolls? I assume the rest is thrown in the bag for low level pathfinders. I wouldn't mind the scroll of spell turning. The CL15 wand of black tentacles with 1 charge is pure authorial cheese!

Yeah, missed that, but it really doesn't matter... he is going to comply either way.

Sorry folks, bad weather has had me locked down for a minute..

Avoreal will take the scroll of stoneskin and locate creature if no one objects..

I'll snag the black tentacle wand

Duhwoo has plenty of TP in his haversack...no need for any of these scrolls...

***OVERSEER ANNOUNCEMENT***

Two hours before the auction is slated to begin, Sheila Heidmarch calls everyone back to the theater for another emergency briefing. She appears greatly agitated and her tenor is one of immediacy.

“My friends, we have little time and much work to do, so I’m going to make this simple. While you were dealing with the Aspis Consortium, my informants in the city investigated the individuals you reported on from last night’s gala. It seems a number of them have sufficient funds to jeopardize our efforts. In what little time remains, I need you to prevent as many of them from participating in the auction as possible. My agents will provide each of your groups with a mission brief. Once you complete the task, return here to inform us of the results, and we shall quickly set you upon another mission. Again, we need you to complete as many missions as you can before the auction starts. But remember to keep your efforts clandestine and try not to kill anyone important. We’re still trying to win the auction somewhat legally.”

There are a lot of words that the definition seems to matter..."somewhat", "legally", "important"...to name a few

Antonius raises an eyebrow, Somewhat?

She will never learn

"Hell, I find 'try not' to be rather fuzzy myself. "

"Uh, whut's "clan-dest-tinn" mean?"

"We should all just get some party masks and parade around destryoing half the city.. Why not just take the dam Key? It seems that is what we are trying to do anyways.."

She will stow her Wayfinder of Infinite Doorways away into ther Haversack to avoid future Society alignment questions..

"Uh, whut's "clan-dest-tinn" mean?"

it means no hitting things with your sword until no one can see you

Sheila Heidmarch looks over the assembled team. "So, I have some missions for you to take care of, obviously. We are not going to steal the key, though I have no doubts you folks could pull that off. We are going to buy it, fair and square. However, if we can remove certain folks from the bidding process, that would be... helpful. Now, I am not talking eliminating in a permanent sense, now, right?"

"The tasks include eliminating rivals from the running, recovering
debts, and earning money to increase funds. Would you like me to just send you on missions, or would you like to choose? I would guess you capable lot will be able to do them all..."

"Just go ahead and send us. "

Give us the one you think will be most difficult of course. I don't suppose turning potential bidders into turtles is allowed? We could turn them back afterwards...