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Gathroc unsheathes Zhennuelge, and motions for Vesta to go, assuming the rest are ready.

Vesta turns invisible and stealths up to the door.

Stealth 1d20 + 43 ⇒ (5) + 43 = 48

Then dimension doors behind the front door a few feet. (Ddoor isn't an attack so it shouldn't break invisibility) Assuming nothing bars her way she checks for traps with the aid of detect magic.

Perception 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (14) + 10 = 24

Vesta wagers that bypassing the portal through a dimension door would be successful, and often alarms are not made to penetrate the earth and subterranean ingress.

::Sometimes alarms arent made to go off when someone comes through the ground, but then again they deal with undead alot. I'll just dimension door in and open the door when you're all ready.::

On your mark vesta will open the front door for you.

** spoiler omitted **

Vesta's vessel is summarily executed with a minimum of fuss, releasing her essence from the interminable confines of a physical body.

Pulling free of her corporeal form vesta stretches her limbs with ecstasy. This is odd seeing as she now doesn't have any muscles, etc to stretch, but whatever.

::"So how exactly am I going to break this one open?":: She muses to herself, though she sends it out to the others telepathically?

Know arcana for ways to circumvent alarm spells incorporeally 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (20) + 9 = 29

edit: BLAM!

They came out here for a reason, and made it abundantly clear that Vesta's temporary body was not welcome; I think that they people who are meant to be here, are already here. It would probably be better if we just finished off her body, and then she opened for us from the inside.

"Good point. SOmeone gag and hold me. When I vacate either cut it's head off or I could take care of it."

Gathroc ponders the ghost wolf's plans "How about knocking on the front door, but with Gabriel on your shoulder to launch an ambush on whoever answers?"

::Works for me. You game, Gabe?::

Spellcraft 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (20) + 14 = 34

::There is an alarm spell that will sound inside the building if the front door is opened from the outside. It shouldnt go off if opened from the inside. If you want me to take care of that I'll need someone to slice the throat of this body I wear. Or I guess I could knock on the front door with this body and see who answers.::

Babies are so selfish.

::Distraction and carange? Sounds like a plan. Lets just be sure to run when the big glowy guy comes near. ::

::"As soon as it gets dark, we should strike. Having the cover of the night may not hinder them, but it will surely aid us."

::As you wish. I can go first and let this body be torn apart. I'd rather be rid of it. The flesh is nice, but it does get inconvinient. ::

Vesta returns to within 100 feet and telepathically reports the above.

::This body was fun I suppose, but I need to get rid of it. It's too constraining if I'm going to be stealthy. ::

Vesta finds some privacy and trails the group to report their actions. She casts invisibility if anyone begins to take notice.

Stealth +23 or 43 with invisibility. 63 if I dont move.

::"Why not go invisible and trail them? They might smell you, but all they'll smell is one of their own. Without seeing you, they won't know who or what you are"

im unclear on the goal. Aren't we just waiting for the poison to kick in so we can mass murder?

Vesta's attempt to ingratiate herself meets upon a significant early barrier. As her wolf-flesh host draws near a couple of the group turn and bare teeth at her while growling menacingly. It would seem that the ones that departed are unwilling to increase the size of their group.

Vesta will act appropriately meek and go elsewhere.

::So much for that.::

Twas my intention to go after the one that left at midnight, not the steriod super wolf

Alright then. Vesta-wolf will to ingratiate herself with the one that left at midinght, not steroid boy.

Vesta - for clarity, is that the big one that left at midnight? or the hulked out rune giant werewolf?

I thought we were talking about the giant runed one. To be clearn I'm not engaging him, but merely his entorage.

Vesta-wolf does her best to ingratiate herself with the crowd around the Packmaster. As she gets closer she thinks,

::Anyone know how wolves make friends?::

::I'm in a werewolf body. I can try to buddy up with the big guy, but I'm low on the social totem pole, so that may prove difficult. With that in mind I can do whatever needs to be done. I do enjoy flesh, but it's so inconvinient sometimes. ::

Daemon, do you not posses access to Invisibility magick?"

::I do. ... So are we hitting them in the morning or what?::

Telepathically ::The big guy is high on the totem pole. They have a very clear wolf-like social structure. The body I posess is at the lower end of that. ::

Vesta-wolf will investigate and ask around for information like where the majority sleep and where the sleeps/spends time.

I think we're just waiting for the poison to take full effect before we strike.

Just waiting on results.

Sense motive 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (14) + 14 = 28
Sense motive 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (4) + 14 = 18

bluff 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (14) + 16 = 30
bluff 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (18) + 16 = 34

My bluff is pretty high. +16 and sense motive is +14. I'll stay in the wolf body and attempt to act normal. Essentially doing as she thinks she's expected to.

Vesta-wolf will participate in the orgy of murder with the humans, but she will refrain from actually ingesting any. Beyond that she will "socialize" where she think's shes expected and do her best to act accordingly. She will try to pull details from her hosts mind about who he is and where he stands in the pack. Combining that with context clues she can gain from her surroundings.

good with me

I do not think that this poison will reduce the leaders powers significantly enough for us to destroy him, perhaps we can use the Vampire guises to attack and kill several of his 'Generals' while everyone is at their sickest and then flee pinning the blame on the vampires causing them to start a feud with the vampires effectively tying up two enemies? Any other ideas?

::That sounds fantastic! It's a great plan and I'm excited to be a part of it. The only thing better than mass murder is sewing deception and chaos. ::

Vesta wolf takes part in the hunt following the example of the others. A) it looks like fun. b) she's trying to blend in.

Daemon Son-of-none wrote:

We wait until they feast on the poisoned flesh and then attack, some may have to hold back the pack while the rest kill the leader.

"Two days if memory serves until the poison is in full effect. So we loiter for a bit then start taking them out? "

that was supposed to be a thought, not spoken.

We wait until they feast on the poisoned flesh and then attack, some may have to hold back the pack while the rest kill the leader.

"Two days if memory serves until the poison is in full effect. So we loiter for a bit then start taking them out? "

DM - Voice of the Voiceless wrote:

Alchemical Allocations:

"It works quick enough, maybe a day or two to reach it's peak... then they'll come down off it in a few weeks." making no move to retrieve the purses yet...

Above quote was the response to a question posed on how long it takes for the werewolf poison to work.

As Gabriel has stated, I've made it plain enough what power level the leaders of the groups are. Those that think they are immortal might do well to consider that some of these werewolves are dangerously genre savvy considering where they live and who they deal with regularly.

Weekend being weekend, I'll advance plot when I can.

I, the player, know that, but Vesta isn't exactly mentally stable. ;-)

Still not entirely sure which body Vesta may be possessing you hear her in your mind telepathically via Gabriel

::So what's the plan, people?::

Of course she uses "people" in the ironic sense.

Very well. It certainly sounds fun.

its probably best not to follow the lead of the sociopath ghost. Just saying,

I was under the impression that the plan was to remove the pack leader through use of the poison to weaken him and then a supprise attack so that in-fighting for new leadership would cause them to be a non issue.

im immortal. I say LET'S DO THIS!!! It's a great plan and I'm excited to be a part of it. :-)

Gathroc comes up short at the sight of the massive werewolf. "I wonder if one dose of that poison will be enough to incapacitate this monstrosity."

::I have a doubt:: You hear vesta's voice in your minds, but she is nowhere to be seen.

Free of her immortal shell Vesta flow's below the earth to properly prepare herself.

She goes invisible and proceeds to move toward the tree-line as soon as the wolf-man indicates that's where everyone will end up. She emerges (invisibly) to occationally get her bearings. She'll hover around the edges of the activity and look for a suitable host. Somoene who looks weak willed. It's all in the eyes. After a few hundred years you learn to recognize one's willfulness by looking at their eyes and how they percieve the world.

Stealth 1d20 + 43 ⇒ (14) + 43 = 57

Perception 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (4) + 10 = 14

Edit: Before heading off she indicates her plan telepathically. ::I'm going to linger in the treeline and see if I can find a suitable pup to take over. That'll help lure more into a trap we set. Keep me updated on your progress.::

Gathroc joins their host and awaits his explanation.

Ditto

I'd like to try and take over the minion Vesta is in sometime during our time waiting, If that's alright with her. The Will Save DC is 21.

Ignac will move forward as Daemon does.

::Lets wait until during the hunt. That way I can jump bodies and you can take over this one or if necessary we can dispatch it.::

::I should simply be able to target it instead of you. I have fairly acute control over it.::

The ability says an undead creature. That means, as far as I can tell, that it only affects one. Since I'm trying to affect the corporeal undead, I imagine I would affect only the corporeal undead, and not it's possessor. I imagine after that, once our wills are opposing for control, it'll be an opposed Cha check, or one of us can give up. All up to the DM, though.

I really just have no idea so I assume Vesta doesn't either.

::If you'd like, I can try to impose my will on your body. Then, you should be free to roam.::

"I'm not sure how that will work while i'm in here. You may be unable to impose your will on this body without going through me first. At least while I'm still in here. I'll just wait for a convenient place to get rid of it. Perhaps at daylight. "

"Exactly. Though going on this hunt and picking off any other werewolves is too good of an opportunity to pass up."

"If this body were to get destroyed I could jump into one of the werewolves and use that body to lure the others into more beneficial circumstances for us to kill them. Just something to keep in mind should opportunity present itself."

The Chelish man grunts and gives a noncommital nod "Fair enough, these need some time to sober up. The others will be here at dusk tomorrow. If you've the time then feel free to hang around." before he moves away with the Osiriani to finish corraling the humans.

So you've roughly 12-16 hours to spend before it's time for the hunt. Do you want to try anything? - or just pause and wait?

Telepathically:

Looks like the betrayer is being set up do do some betraying. That'll make him happy. ;-)

Meat is indeed poisoned already.

The older man moves to the meatwagon and picks up a stick from the ground. He circles the cargo, prodding the drugged humans and sniffing the air occasionally...
Heal: 1d20+10
...though nothing alerts his interest. He gives the chelish man a curt nod, and begins to unload the cargo from the wagon - shepherding the insensate meat into the corral.

The chelish man then turns to you "We accept payment... you are welcome to stay for the hunt?"

Vesta-vampire perks with interest at the proposition of a hunt literally moving to the edge of her seat.

"I like to hunt!" she says with utmost honsety

"When would be best to poison the food? If they take them away without us doing so, this would be quite the wasted endeavor."

"It's been taken care of. " vesta thinks at Gathroc

Vesta waits patiently in her vampire suit, but she does check her nails every often. Clearly bored. Just to be clear. The character is bored, not the player. I'm only playing a role. ;-)

"Perhaps Gabriel should go and investigate? Unless you want to go invisibile Vesta, but I would keep the body. If its suddenly 'lifeless', that might be rather hard to explain."

Telepathically,

"Oh, the body isn't lifeless. He's in here screaming. Should I vacate he would be fully back in control and probably yelling about how we're frauds or what not. Probably best I stay in here for the time being. "

Vesta's vampire suit quirks her face in a look of "Now what?'

The man sneers at you, before sniffing the air a few times. Though his nose does seem to pick up on something, causing him to cock his head to one side... he shakes it away after a few moments. Bidding you to follow by beckoning, he turns to walk away down the path.

Telepathically

Unless anyone has an objection we proceed as the man indicates.

Its ok, I was going to post during the day today, but never got free time at work. Then when I got home, I was so tired, I passed out and forgot. Your post reminded me, so its all good. Besides, I said it that way so I could actually call you a Ghostly Vampire, which is freakin awesome

;-)