The Orphan Thieves.

Game Master Belac93

Making the first gameplay post, so you guys can add it to your campaigns.

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Ok, so everybody is in the human village. Sara is 2 months pregnant with Valcone's kid, Skylar is being raised by Simu and Narun, and Jared is just being weird.

You've been there for a month, Narun still hates Sara, Jared is still jealous of Valcone, and Simu hasn't gotten the shirt off of her neck.

What do you do?

Narun wakes early one morning jumping out of his bedroll in a slightly crazed wild animal like manner. The night before he had decided it was time to be heading on with their adventures. And also maybe time to help Simu with her shirt. He stretches, reaching to the sky.
He immediately went in search for Sara, finding her asleep in her own bedroll.
He begins to speak, maybe a little louder than necessary. "Sara, I think we need to talk about... Well about a lot of things. If you and I are going to coexist in this adventuring party we need to come to a compromise. And by that I mean you follow my rules or you have to go."

I go and and find Dragon-slayer, my dog, and Sara to find my little sack of meat (unborn baby.)

Over the past month, Simu has finally learned to count. As usual, she is crouching in a tree, trying to decipher the strange ways of her companions. So far, she has figured out that they do not like being greeted politely, children are not allowed to be punished, and that they seem to want her to wear a cape, or as they call it, a shirt.

Sara blinks awake, looking up at Narun. "I don't think that's a compromise. Anyway, why do I have to listen to you? I only listen to Valcone." She says, with a; 'why did you wake me up?' Look on her face.

Valcone, distracted by the needs of his stomach, goes to find food.

Simu has certainly learned much. She notices everything that is happening in the camp from her perch on the tree.

"You little...!"
Narun sighs and places a hand on his hip and a hand on his forehead in slight annoyance. He pauses and takes a deep breath before speaking again.
"Alright, I suppose that isn't much of a compromise. Here's what I can offer. In exchange for allowing you to continue to be with Valcone, you will let me train you as a Cleric. The reasoning for this is to avoid any more.... Early pregnancies. Also, of course, so you can care for your child and survive in our party. Valcone will feed you and the small child and the rest of us as your party members will protect you. Is this what you would call a compromise?"

"Does that mean I can cast magic!? Awesome! But... I'm not going to be able to have sex till I'm an adult. That kinda sucks. Well, I guess." She says.

"So, since you're an Aasimar, that means you know gods, right? So you can teach me about that! I've always wanted to cast magic."

Have you ever had sex with an angel? I mean, you kinda are one, so it wouldn't be weird or anything."

Once she is done talking to Narun, she dances off to tell Valcone, and then has some breakfast.

"Had sex with an angel...?" Narun goes bright red at the mention of sex and instantly becomes defensive.
"I-I... That's none of your business what I may or may not have done! With an angel or any other beings! My sex is my business you little son of a..."
He suddenly realizes he's shouting out in front of the entire camp of humans and his party members. He ducks his head and quickly goes in search of Simu to see if she's eaten yet.

Earlier when Sara rolled her persuasion/seduction roll and Narun resisted with his "secret weapon" he didn't say anything about being gay and is still attempting to keep that part of his life secret, hence his defensiveness around his sexual/romantic life.

Simu watches as Narun rushes off in her general direction.
I wonder if I could hit him on the head with a chestnut...

Narun walked quickly in the direction of Simu's favourite tree hoping she might be there. Then maybe he could forget his conversation with Sara...

stealth: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 13

Narun manages to spot Simu before the Elf wings a chestnut at his head.

As he walks up to the tree, nobody notices except for Simu, Skyler, and Simu's cat. Simu's cat goes back to sleep, and Skyler goes back to eating her breakfast.

"Valcone!" Sara yells at him. "I'm sorry, I can't have sex with you for a while, but I get to cast magic! It'll be so neat! Then I can heal you up when you get hurt!"

"What was that for? I haven't done anything wrong to you..."
Narun looks up at Simu dejectedly before flying up to her height.
"I should have know better than to come over here. I just wanted to see if you had eaten anything yet. Damn Elf..."
He sighs and sits lightly on a branch beside Simu.
"This is gonna be a long adventure isn't it? You know I was thinking we already basically have three children, why not grab a few more? Just find some bad parents and adopt their children into a better life. Maybe it's crazy but it might be fun..."

"Yeah! Magic healing! Now I can can get whacked off a cliff and shat on by a dragon all I want, and I will still be alive." Valcone says. "No sex is sad though." He says sadly.

Jared sighs and says "I,m going to find Simu and Narun."

Jared leaves Valcone and Sara, going to find the two in the tree. They see him coming from across the camp.

Ok, so I got it all figured out how this place is arranged. You are in a human village. The humans, and you, know about several other villages. There are 2 hill dwarf towns, one a week away, and the other 6 days away, to the west. There is also the forest gnome encampment a day away in the other direction. To the north are mountains, with goliaths, lightfoot halflings, and half-orcs. In the south is a city populated mainly by humans, dragonborn, half-elves, tieflings, and rock gnomes.

Narun had been thinking about where to go as well as what to do with the little devil Sara. Now that he had settled with Sara on what to do he began to think about the party's next destination. He turned to Simu as best he could in a tree and voiced his thoughts out loud to her.
"I think it might be nice to visit a city, however we should probably see what these other villages have to offer. Hopefully we can gather supplies and earn some gold before we head to a city. What do you think?"
He paused and realized he hadn't seen Skylar in a while.
"Simu, please tell me you know where Skylar is. I haven't seen her since last night! I forgot to check on her this morning..."
Narun scanned the camp worriedly from his post in the tree in search of Skylar.

"I'm down here!" Narun hears from the bottom of the trunk, in the opposite direction that he flew up the tree. As he looks down, a little ball of childish enthusiasm, and no small amount of cat hair, slams into him.
"Narun! I managed to convince the cat to stand up right as I jump! That way, I can get into the tree without having to climb it!"

At the moment, Skylar is wearing moccasins, light pants, a shirt, and rubbed off cat hair. She also has a large amount of assorted vegetable manner stuck in her hair, including pine needles, grass, and dandelions.

Narun just manages to half catch Skyler, half stop himself from falling backwards off the tree branch.
"That's amazing! And slightly terrifying. I'd try and remind you to be careful but then I remember who you're travelling with."
Narun laughs and puts Skyler and the cat on the branch beside him. He surveys the camp one more time, seeing Jared heading towards the tree.
I wonder what he wants. I suppose I should find everyone and ask them where they think we should be heading next. And hopefully keep Sara off the topic of sex... Especially my sex life.
Narun narrows his eyes at the thought of Sara and sighs, thinking about the days, months and years laid out before the party. He hoped things would go a little more smoothly, but the again they never seem to.

Narun turned to Simu and realized she still hadn't fixed her shirt. He rolled his eyes and sighed at her.
"Simu, let's get out of this tree and fix your shirt. It's been two months for Kyro's sake."
Narun paused for a moment before continuing.
"You do realize that's not how you wear a shirt, right?"
He looked at her and sincerely hoped she did know and was just being strange.

Simu looked confused.
"Oh. Then what's the symbol for the tribe's Wise Woman?"
All these new customs were confusing her.
First there's their obsession with useless shiny pebbles, and now they have no cape for the Wise Woman! These people are so uncivilized!

Narun paused and looked really confused.
What is she going on about capes for? Maybe letting her walk around like this isn't such a bad idea... How could she get any more uncivilized? I can't even begin to think about her tribe's customs.
Narun forced a smile.
"Well I would guess that everyone has their own symbol for wise women. But right now I think it's time to get you dressed properly. We can use one of the storage building so we don't cause a scene."
He shuddered at the thought of trying to get the odd elf into her shirt but nodded determinedly. Two months was long enough to walk around with a shirt around her neck.
"Come on, follow me. It's about time we got this thing on right. And Skylar, make sure you get something to eat alright? Come see me once you're done."
He crouched on the branch and motioned for Simu to follow him.

Why is he looking at me like that?
Simu thought, slightly annoyed. She sighed, then got up and followed Narun to the storage building. She was a little worried about this shirt thing, will her boobs disappear? What if they don't come back?
"Why do I need to wear a shirt?" She frowned at Narun.
I don't want them to vanish...

As the two attempt to get to the storage building, they see a horseman, riding hard in their direction. As they watch, a pair of skeletons run out behind the man, taking aim at the man, and letting loose their arrows. The shots miss, but embed themselves in a tree beside the Aasimar and Elf.

"Help!" The man yells out. "Please! Anyone!" He sounds desperate.

The skeletons see Simu and Narun, letting fly with another shot each. Both shots strike true, sinking into the pair's bodies. They each feel the damage that the arrows did is not fatal, but it still hurts like the abyss.

Valcone, you are having breakfast, so you are not there. However, you hear what is happening, so you can be there in a round. Jared, Narun, and Simu, you are all there. The man is 30 feet away, and the skeletons are 45 feet away. I can roll your initiative.

Jared moves closer to the skeletons, drawing his dagger and letting in loose at one of the skeletons.

Dagger Throw: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9
Damage: 1d4 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5

Narun pulled out his bow and took aim letting an arrow fly at the skeletons while shouting almost incomprehencably.
"This jerk just got us shot by skeletons and now he's asking for HELP?? If I weren't so angry at the skeletons for shooting me I'd shoot him!"

Ok, I'm going to control Simu for this round.
Narun's arrow hits the skeleton in the space between its neck vertebrae, cutting through and knocking the creature to the ground. The other skeleton fires its arrow at Jared, piercing him through the neck, and then draws its sword and prepares for battle. Jared goes down as Simu's shot misses the skeleton by a mile.

Valcone runs into the clearing, and is now ready to fight.

Valcone ran up to survey the scene and pulled out his battle axe to attack the last standing skeleton.

Narun watched Jared go down and Simu miss her shot. He then saw Valcone run up and pull our his axe.
Took him long enough... He was probably messing around with Sara.
He growled and let another arrow fly at the remaining skeleton.
"Looks like it's up to me and you Valcone! You had better not screw this up..."

Valcone slices towards the skeleton, it doesn't notice, allowing him to cut its head off in one clean blow.

COMBAT OVER

The village healer runs over to Jared, and takes out a needle and thread, beginning to sow his neck back together.

"Thank you so much." The man on the horse says. "Are you the heroes who rescued the children? Please, we need your help! Its urgent!"

Narun narrowed his eyes then nodded.
"You're lucky there's kids involved or we would be having a very serious talk right now..."
He looked over at his comrades.
"So what do you guys say? Time to start a new adventure?"
He didn't even notice that Simu's shirt was still not on right.

"You'll help!?" the young man says. Now that you can see him properly, you can tell that he is not much older than Sara. He doesn't even has a beard yet, and he is still quite young looking. "I can show you the way. Do you know the city down to the south? That is where we must go. I have direct orders from the king himself to bring you there!"

If you guys have anything you want to finish up before you leave, say it now.

Jared searches the skeletons.

"I'll come with you." He says casually. "It seems like it could be fun."

Narun glances at Simu and Valcone.
"What about you guys? We should probably gather the kids and-"
He stops short as he notices Simu's shirt still not on right.
"...As I was saying, we should probably gather the kids and our stuff."
So much for fixing her shirt... Maybe it's bad luck. I mean, she puts the shirt on and Valcone gets a kid pregnant, we go to fix it and we get attacked...
Narun stares off into the sky looking perplexed before looking back at the young man on the horse.
"I guess we'll grab our stuff and you can lead the way. And if you don't mind me asking, where are you parents?"

"My parents died when I was twelve, and I inlisted in the kings guard when I was 14. I've been working for them for the past 3 years. Here, I can buy horses for you." He notices Simu, and his jaw hangs open. A sound like a choking cat comes out of his mouth, and he quickly looks away, his face bright red.

The young man buys the group four horses, assuming Skyler and Simu ride the cat, Narun rides the second one, Valcone the third, and Sara the fourth.
I'm going to say horses can carry 1 person and a small person at normal pace, a goliath at normal pace, or 3 small people at normal pace. The cat can carry the same as a horse.

Jared manages to find 12 Opitium Pieces on the skeletons. Opitium pieces are each worth half a gold piece, or 5 silver pieces.

Everyone can add 3 op. to your character sheets. Narun, you could also do your character sheet. No rush, it would just be nice to have a copy myself. ;)

valcons eyes flud with joy and says I'v always wanted a hores they be flufy and soft it's so wonderfull valcon realizes that evrey one can here himI mean who needs flufy and soft just food...valcon looks very happy to happy i also will go if i can mabey sit the big king thron pleashe still looks to eager to go very od

"Great! We should get moving!"

The group travels for many weeks. Over forests, deserts, plains, and mountains. Eventually, they get to the city. The city of Ildanuas!
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As the group rides through the cobbled streets, the young man leads them to a back alley, where bearded human is waiting in an black cloak.
"Are you the ones?" He says with desperation in his eyes. "Please, can you help? I can pay you!"

Narun looked at the man and shrugged.
"I suppose we could... How much are you paying? And what's this job?"
He had been wondering the whole journey to the city what this was about, unfortunately the young man had been very quiet about the job.
He grinned as he thought about the poor kid and Simu's very exposed chest and held back a laugh.

"Here is what I have." He says, offering you a bag. He takes off his hood. "I am the king of this city. My wife is a demon! Please listen to me, I'm not making this up. She impersonated my wife, and I need you to save my children! One was with the original queen, but the other is with her. They are both my children though, so please, take care of them." He presses on the brick wall behind him, and a gateway opens up. "Through here you can find a passage that leads near their bedroom. They are expecting you. And whatever you do, do not let the demon see you, and do not fight her! She is a powerful necromancer as well as a master of disguise."
"Good luck."

When you open the bag, you see this:

Narun opened the bag and nodded.
"We'll do all we can to save your children. Thank you for the warning about the demon. Oh and before we go..."
He turned to address his companions.
"I think I should be the one to carry our payment. Mostly because I'm not going to try to steal it... Or eat it... Or experiment on it..."
He trailed off for a moment just considering what Simu might try to do with these "strange objects."
"Um, well you get what I mean. We can split this up after we complete our mission. Any objections?"