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Vilya the Taker wrote:

"Damn, it got quiet in here all of a sudden..."

Better?

Ha!

"Damn, it got quiet in here all of a sudden..."

"Oh, come on... If it's not illegal, it's not any fun!"

"But I'll bet that YOU are." Magnus says with a knowing smirk.

"And I am Magnus Darkenstar, mystical duelist extraordinaire of The Coatl's Wing', at your service." He says with a flourishing bow.

"More fun than you can possibly imagine."

She grins, and her outline blurs slightly, as if with a sudden, lightning-fast motion.

"Name's Vilya, and I'm a pint-sized death dealer. And you're way too shiny to have seen much action. This is gonna be hilarious."

"No, she made it in insanity and derangement. And not a little bit of irony and hypocrisy, as well. My recommendation? If you're thinking about coming with us, learn to take Vilya's comments with a grain of salt ... no, make that a mug of rum."

"I can hear you. I'm sitting right here."

Vilya sticks her long black tongue out at San.

"You're no fun."

Vilya stretches, catlike, in her chair, and looks to either side of the newcomers.

"Where's the rest of the circus?"

Thread bump.

Oh, we're going to get along FAMOUS-ly. I can tell! :D

I see what you did there. Damn skippy.

Vilya stares at her shot glass, talking to no one in particular.

"He talks a lot, doesn't he."

She sticks out her tongue. One gets the impression that she's not taking offense to anything Magnus is doing in particular, but instead taking offense to being upstaged by his ostentatiousness.

"Well. It appears they have reached the same conclusion that I have. Their little group is missing one important person. Me!" He grins broadly.

Couldn't resist...

"I'd say that probably entitles them to at least a share of your loot then, right Vilya?"

"If they can hold onto it. Which I doubt."

Citlali c0cks her head as she looks at Vilya, her face thoughtful as she processes the other woman's words.

"I was referring to both these men I believe. The stars have drawn them both to this place at this time. Why do you see trouble?"

"I just know they're going to be getting in my way. Call it a premonition. They'll be tripping me up, making it so that the rest of us don't get as much of a share of the loot. I say we use them as arrow-fodder."

She leans in closer.

"I know a few nice ways to make it look like an accident..."

Vilya giggles and leans back in her chair, her eyes glinting like dark gemstones.

"I might actually know that flash bastard with the hat... Think I might have, ah, relieved him of certain shiny things once or twice..."

Silent during the discussion, Citlali suddenly stiffens, eyes taking on a distant look as her head turned towrds the door. Her eyes locked on a clean cut young man standing just inside, taking in the surrounding.

"I have dreamt this moment. That man..." she points to the young foreigner at the door, "...he must be a part of this. Young but with an anciant soul. He and one other will lead to success.One long gone and now returned."

A few minutes after Citlali's pronouncement, Vilya, who has clearly not been paying much attention, gives the pair at the bar a sidelong look.

"I think I missed something. Were you talking about the dandy or the stiff? Either way, we're in deep trouble."

"Uh okay sure." Felicia responds to Citali's outburst before leaning in and whispering to the others "Probably a little touched in the head so best to just humour her for now."

Vilya rolls her eyes.

"Or something like that..."

Well, between Citali's prophetic visions, and Magnus' desire to have his praises sung, I don't think Kessel will have a problem being introduced! ;)

I kind of like the idea that Vilya 'looks familiar' to Magnus. Eventually he'll recall why,... :o

Yeah... I left him bleeding and penniless in a back alley near the docks a couple years back. Or was that that other guy... I can never keep them straight, there's so many of them.

"Shiny."

"Does this job involve ripping these people off? If so, I'm in twice."

Dungeon Monkey wrote:

Armando leans close

"Have you ever heard of House Akkavin?"

DC 15 Knowledge(local):

Spoiler:

"Sorry, no. I spend a lot of time in the jungle, and when I'm not there, I tend to be here. What about 'em?"

"I think I know them... They're that crowd of spoiled-rotten nobles that all pray to the Shark. Bunch of nasty customers if you ask me. Rich, though..."

Armando leans close

"Have you ever heard of House Akkavin?"

DC 15 Knowledge(local)

Knowledge (local): 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 1 = 20

"Uhm, I would reward you on a sliding scale. If you can find news of my ship's whereabouts or fate, that is worth five hundred roses. If you can retrieve my ship in sailable condition, that is a different story. I would give you 5,000 roses. If you can recover my ship and its cargo, I will sweeten the deal by awarding you 10% of the cargo's sale price as well as the 5,000 roses. A cargo like that sent to Dragora can fetch 100,000 roses easily."

"Oooh, shiny. I like those odds."

Vilya turns towards Egan, smiling sweetly.

"If you die, can I have your cut?"

Vilya orders a shot of the same cheap, s*+%ty rum as before, tosses it back, and slams the empty glass onto the table.

"I second that question. What's in it for me? I mean, us. What's in it for us?"

"I would hear your words." she says in the common toungue of the cities, her accent strong yet pleasing to the ear.

The irony of her statement was not lost on her.

Vilya narrows her eyes.

"So which ones do you want to hear?"

Hearing the screech of a hawk from across the crowded tavern, Vilya instinctively snaps her head towards the source of the sound. Her mouth twists into a wicked grin as she recognizes several of the faces clustered around the area from which the sound came. She saunters over, placing her long-fingered hands on the table and leaning in towards Egan.

"Seems like you're getting the band back together. Wouldn't want to miss out now, would I."

Amidst the clamor of the Explorer's Guild tavern, the small, gaudily-clad woman attracts slight notice as she slips through the saloon doors. Her movements are smooth and lithe, though offset by a slight limp.

The woman approaches the bar, sitting cross-legged on one of the stools. As she orders a drink, she flashes a smile at the patrons to either side of her, tossing her thick black hair over one shoulder. The bartender pours a shot of rum, and as the small woman reaches towards the glass, the man to her right notices that her fingers bear an extra joint and taper to blackened, clawlike points. The man gives an involuntary shudder.

The woman lunges toward the man, her eyes clouding with a glossy black film as she lets go a feral snarl. As the man flees in horror, she giggles insanely, a six-inch black tongue lolling from her mouth. She raises her glass high in a mock toast, and for some strange reason, the nearby bar patrons can't help but toast along with her.

"That's right, run! No one insults Vilya the Taker!"

She downs the shot with an artful flourish and signals for another one.

Things haven't been the same since the Xoltec job went t@~!-up, she thought to herself. I was promised riches and adventure, and what's more, a chance to muscle out the competition. And what did I get? I got pushed to the side, a glorified bush ranger with a set of lockpicks. When those idiots finally decided we should bail, all I had left was a shiny knife, a broken wrist, and a badly infected leg wound. Amateurs. I'd like nothing more than to show them all what I'm REALLY capable of…

Vilya is now up to speed stats-wise. Look alright to you?

Shiny,

That's fine.

Maybe you were only gone for a day, but you kinda have a habit of bailing for a week, or a month without saying anything, and I can't keep track of it. I've sat on your turn for a couple days before until I figured out you were going to be gone for an extended period.
Also, it's all well and good if you want to fart around on fawtl, but other people might want to play at the same time. I mean, I really can't tell if you're not going to fart around on fawtl tonight and disappear for two weeks, and don't take this the wrong way, but I suspect that you can't either, so that's......pretty much where I'm coming from.

I do it too; I got life stuff too. Everybody does, and pretty much everybody here is gone some of the time, and it's really not that big a dealyo. If I stopped the game every time somebody was gonna go off for a week, the game would totally stop, man.

So the gone guy kinda falls down a hole, or disappears into the fey realms, or gets kidnapped by mindflayers and plugged into a weird soma injecting meditation machine to be used to try and break into the Dreamlands because mindflayers can't astrally project into the human dreamlands and they need a dwarf to attempt it because humans are too flimsy and they always die when they're used....but life goes on, man.

That's how I keep it rolling. If I don't, it won't go anywhere.

I'll bail. I really want to keep going with this, but things keep getting in the way. Still not happy about it. Bye.

I'm f##@ing brain-dead right now. I'll reassess the situation in the morning.

she's back in school.....

now the other two have it. WEEEEEEE!!!!

Somebody wanna go for Vilya, it's been a few days I reckon.

It's been a little over one day. Whoah...

Honestly, I'd say Vilya's going to stay put until she gets a little bit of healing. Right now (as far as I know) she's down in the 15-20 hp range, and the efreeti look dangerous. Delay action again.

Also, what were the results of the stealth and perception checks?

"I wonder if there are any salvagable goodies? I mean, my uncle was a watchmaker, and he always used diamonds and rubies in his clockworks. You guys figure there might be some valuable stuff in yon monster's guts?"

"My father was a watchmaker. He abandoned it when Einstein discovered time is relative. I would only agree that a symbolic clock is as nourishing to the intellect as a photograph of oxygen is to a drowning man."

dungeonmaster heathy wrote:

*whew*

Okay.
Not off of rounds.
So, whoever hasn't attacked yet this round gets to do whatever 1 round worth of actions.
Then, everybody gets another round's worth of actions.

THEN,....
perception roll, and stealth roll if you're feeling stealthy......
aye, you're a salty lot, each of you the veteran of scores of battles, dances on the edge of doom,.....something primal in your souls, mixed with the very essence of Ysgard and a few unwinding threads from the Fatespinners' wheels all combines to tells you that this ain't over yet......

Delay action.

Perception: 1d20 + 15
Stealth: 1d20 + 18

End delayed action. Vilya goes to take a look and possibly find something shiny.

Also, blue valkyrie needs healing badly.

Does anyone have a good format for PBP character profiles that they'd be willing to share?

<- This is the one I use.

*whew*

Okay.
Not off of rounds.
So, whoever hasn't attacked yet this round gets to do whatever 1 round worth of actions.
Then, everybody gets another round's worth of actions.

THEN,....
perception roll, and stealth roll if you're feeling stealthy......
aye, you're a salty lot, each of you the veteran of scores of battles, dances on the edge of doom,.....something primal in your souls, mixed with the very essence of Ysgard and a few unwinding threads from the Fatespinners' wheels all combines to tells you that this ain't over yet......

Delay action.

Perception: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (15) + 15 = 30
Stealth: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (20) + 18 = 38

updated

GROUP'S ATTACK!!!

Bel; Vilya; you can prolly go at any time, seeing as you'll get an attack before the golem anyhowse.

Fffffff... Vilya's kind of a one-trick pony in combat. Still, one can always try.

Staggering back from the heavy blow, blood running from a nasty, partially cauterized gash in her thigh, Vilya attacks again, more viciously this time, her axe and knife striking inward like a pair of shears.

+1 keen handaxe (sneak attack): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (13) + 11 = 24; damage (if applicable): 5d6 + 2 ⇒ (3, 3, 4, 2, 3) + 2 = 17
+1 blurstrike kukri (vital strike): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (19) + 11 = 30; damage (if applicable): 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (4, 2) + 2 = 8

The sneaksy girl misses.

The golem retorts, and swings its massive tulwar at the suckerpuncher.....and Vilya takes 24 hp from stab and 6 hp from fire, in case she's resistant to that element....

Holy s~%#, down from 91 hp to 61 hp in one hit...

It got init of 12, so everybody who beat that (added to Stiggy's roll of 5) can go; need a position for Stiggy also; he's grown kinda big to be in the spot he's in.....then it's the golem's turn.

I know Beldan beat it; Vilya beat it;

Ah, the perks of a +9 initiative bonus...

Five-foot step to O11, then full attack. I can't remember if they changed the "no sneak attack on constructs rule" for PF, but in any case, my character wouldn't know that either.

Like a flash, Vilya rounds the corner, striking upwards into the golem's back and underbelly with her kukri and handaxe.

Again, no idea if this is going to work...
+1 keen handaxe (vital strike): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (7) + 11 = 18; damage (if applicable): 2d6 + 2 ⇒ (1, 2) + 2 = 5
+1 blurstrike kukri (sneak attack): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (10) + 11 = 21; damage (if applicable): 4d6 + 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (1, 6, 5, 5) + (1) + 2 = 20

Aw, heck...they're at 13th level.

Leveled. And it's a good thing, too--V gets another sneak attack die.

She saved; she's like Suckerpunch or something.

Weird. I was thinking the same thing.

Vilya the Taker wrote:

Alright, for the first round, Vilya's going to try to speedily sneak around the building (if possible) and attack the golem from behind.

Also, has Vilya gained any XP during her dimension-hopping hiatus?

You can get to S12 with a double move; then, to p12 if you're running; however to move through s12 to p 12, you'll need to make a reflex d.c. 16 to avoid 6d6 damage from the "black square," which is a building the golem is beating the crap out of.

Also, there's a door, which is ajar, at t11 on the building to the north.

Bad Decision Girl makes bad decision: Vilya moves to p12.

Reflex: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (19) + 11 = 30, which possibly makes the save. Maybe.

Everyone's at level 12, right?

Alright, for the first round, Vilya's going to try to speedily sneak around the building (if possible) and attack the golem from behind.

Also, has Vilya gained any XP during her dimension-hopping hiatus?

I'm thinking that Vilya will be in the alleyway at R18, being very sneaky.

S+*#. I was gone for so long that I forgot I was in a PbP. I only remembered after I saw your (Heathansson's) post on FAWTL. Did Vilya get killed off in my absence, or is she still sneaking around somewhere?

Vilya the Taker wrote:

Vilya moves in closer, stealthily setting up a sneak attack / flanking position.

Vilya's to A7, and she can sneakflank next round.

(edit)
with Altai's haste, Vilya is behind the thing at d7.

Can go ahead and attack this round!!!

Vilya leaps at the beast, shouting a war cry.

"SNEEEAAAK ATTTAAAAACK!"

+1 blurstrike kukri: 1d20 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 10 + 2 = 22; damage: 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
+1 keen handaxe: 1d20 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 10 + 2 = 24; damage: 4d6 + 2 ⇒ (4, 2, 6, 1) + 2 = 15

Vilya moves in closer, stealthily setting up a sneak attack / flanking position.

"Pssst... I WANNA KILL SOMETHING."

Not sure where Vilya is on the map, but...

Elgan's flame strike provides enough of a diversion for Vilya to move around to the wolf-troll-creature's side. As she draws her kukri and handaxe, she momentarily appears to have four arms, each holding a different weapon. Vilya moves quickly and silently toward the creature, her movements slightly blurred and distorted.

Moves to attempt to flank creature.

If this next bit is possible in this round, go for it. If not, save this for the next round:

Vilya springs at the creature, her concentration slipping slightly, allowing her true features to show for a split second.

Attacks:

Stink of bats.....of wet mammal. And of rotting flesh.

"Ewwww... wet mammal."

Sorry for the week-long absence. I'm staying with my mother, and the internet at her house is always shaky. I'll probably be in and out of the boards sporadically, at least until my girlfriend gets back from Seattle.

But, for all intents and purposes, I'm back. Also, very confused.

Let's put Stig in front of Gjetost in U25 and Elgan on the bridge in X25. That leaves Beldan and Vilya. As they are sneak-attacking twin terrors, maybe they shpuld start off behind Gjetost and Claw and then emerge to cause mayhem?

Definitely sneak-attacking.

Is there a map somewhere?

Vilya the Taker wrote:

"I'm bored, and I want to kill something."

"Aye."

"That's what I said."

NORTHWEST, YOU DUMMY HEATH!!!

But are there stairs involved?