Forgot to add Shilyn's latest damage, but Varian just made that moot... more so if he confirms the crit threat:P
Orange Will:1d20 ⇒ 7
Dropping his club after Varian stabs the orderly across from him with his greatsword, Orange shouts, "Dun hurt me!"
Combat over... unless you feel like beating more heads in!
Now that you've gotten past the entrance and nothing is trying to kill you, the true gloom of this place is starting to set in. Candles lit within various sconces keep the place in no more than dim illumination, which doesn't do much to make the dingy, pale green walls look more appealing.
North of Owai is a dining room with a trio of bowls half-filled with a stew filled with various chunks that are hopefully meat and vegetables; it's hard to tell in the lighting and the strange odor coming from the area.
Human Sorcerer 9 | HP 59/59 | AC:14/12/12| F:+7 R:+7 W:+9 | Init:+3 | Perception: +10
Mahasi seems distracted as the others focus on healing and the next door. He wipes up a small bit of brain matter from the gore on the floor and studies it, entranced. He smells it and shudders for a moment, almost as if he enjoys the smell.
@Deaglan: "Da boss said ta keep out intrudas and put 'em in da cells dunstairs! I can't tell ya who in charge tho', Boss Crove said wants to keep dis hushy hush!"
Seems to be telling the truth, first idea is that he's too stupid to lie well at the very least.
@Mahasi: Way to RP it... and I haven't forgotten, but darn it, you guys are pushing through rapidly to say the least!
Female Half-Elf HP 36/36 AC 16 CMB +5 CMD 18 Touch 13 Flat 11 (Melee Weapon: +1 Rapier)+10;1d6+6 (Ranged: Short bow) +7;1d6+0 F +2 R +7 W +5 INIT +3 Perc +15 Rogue 4 - Sorc 2
Walking over to Deaglan, Shilyn looks at the orderly and points with the tip of her rapier. "You know, your best choice is to answer his questions," she says quietly. "One of you whapped me upside the head with a club and I am not very appreciative and quite frankly, it's make me a bit.. upset as it'll probably bruise."
She pauses a bit before poking him lightly with the rapier's pointed end. "So.. you can talk freely.. or I start poking you over.. and over.. and over until you decide to do so."
She gives him a predatory smile and asks, "So.. we ask once more. Why did you attack us, and by whose orders?"
bluff with cracked mulberry ion stone:1d20 + 8 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 8 + 1 = 23
"But I can't tell ya Boss is Boss Crove!", he cries out to Shilyn's threats.
Which would be an Intimidate check, btw... but the roll with your Charisma would have still worked :)
To save SOME time as there are many doors, much open, wows, let me know which set of doors you're aiming for (all the eastern ones, the ones near the entrance, etc. Basically it'll be 2-3 doors a search.
And map updated, exposed a few hallways that are visible enough or that I forgot to show during the orderly chase
Female Half-Elf HP 36/36 AC 16 CMB +5 CMD 18 Touch 13 Flat 11 (Melee Weapon: +1 Rapier)+10;1d6+6 (Ranged: Short bow) +7;1d6+0 F +2 R +7 W +5 INIT +3 Perc +15 Rogue 4 - Sorc 2
knowing she'd never actually torture someone.. wouldn't that be a bluff? (at least that was my logic) I'll have to remember that for next time..thanks ;)
But the bad guy doesn't know that Shi :P While GM's will vary on particulars on 'what is bluff vs diplomacy vs intimidate', I see threats of violence, as Intimidate. As the saying goes, 'violence perceived is violence achieved'. :)
Male Aasimar (Azata-blooded) Bard (Dawnflower Dervish) 3, Monk 2 (Master of Many Styles/Monk of the Sacred Mountain) HP 39/45, AC 23, T 17, FF 16, CMD 18, F +7, R +11, W +5, In +5, Per +4, SM +16, 1 Str dmg
Owai takes out a rope to tie the orderlies who have not perished, and finds some appropriately foul rags to gag them with.
Deaglan goes through several of the doors in the central area of the asylum. From near the barracks and dining hall is a storeroom filled with crude, yet effective suits of studded leather armor and a variety of clubs, straightjackets, and other equipment for subduing people. Adjacent is a set of large bins with stagnant water. Given the fact you see soap and a brush leads you to believe that's the washroom.
From the central hallway is a man chained to a wall orange straightjacked icon on the map at a small landing before a set of stairs descends below. Upon seeing you, he shrieks out horrifically.
"Light! FLESH! Why am I not skin? I CRAVE MEATING!", and begins thrashing against the chains that bind him.
Male Aasimar (Azata-blooded) Bard (Dawnflower Dervish) 3, Monk 2 (Master of Many Styles/Monk of the Sacred Mountain) HP 39/45, AC 23, T 17, FF 16, CMD 18, F +7, R +11, W +5, In +5, Per +4, SM +16, 1 Str dmg
"We know who we are here to find. Might he not be on this level? Let's quickly scout it out." Owai says.
The party makes their way west and Deaglan leads the way. He opens the door across from the lunatic with stairs... to find a similar setup of a man suspended by chain with stairs going downwards. She immediately cackles out in some tongue that is perhaps more gibberish than intelligible words.
Past that, a hallway leads to two doors. There is noise coming from both, but Deaglan checks the southern door first.
Two women, their straightjackets undone, are sitting over a body of man also in a straightjacket. Their hands are empty, but you hear one call out to the other. "Any 3's?" The other looks at her empty hands, sticking out her tongue and placing a severed toe on in front of the first woman. "Cheata!". The light coming in from the opened door gets both women's attention, though. "More meat prizes!" they call out in unison!
Shocking Varian, the lunatic whips at him with a straightjacket belt, but the aasimar easily avoids the obvious attack. He then fells the lunatic in a single blow!
Male Aasimar (Azata-blooded) Bard (Dawnflower Dervish) 3, Monk 2 (Master of Many Styles/Monk of the Sacred Mountain) HP 39/45, AC 23, T 17, FF 16, CMD 18, F +7, R +11, W +5, In +5, Per +4, SM +16, 1 Str dmg
Owai rushes into the room and advances on the patient still standing. "Someone see if that one is still alive..." he says before flicking his blade at the other, turning it at the last moment to strike with the flat.
WHAM! The patient spins around in a circle before landing face first onto the body, several fingers popping out of a pocket.
The patient that Varian attacked is still alive and can be stabilized.
Looking through the rest of this area, it's a storeroom, although the location next to the the body and patients is a toilet; more mirror fragments lie here and a blood trail obviously shows where the other patient was killed and dismembered.
To the west from the hallway where the party entered the storeroom, more frantic shouting can be heard.
Female Half-Elf HP 36/36 AC 16 CMB +5 CMD 18 Touch 13 Flat 11 (Melee Weapon: +1 Rapier)+10;1d6+6 (Ranged: Short bow) +7;1d6+0 F +2 R +7 W +5 INIT +3 Perc +15 Rogue 4 - Sorc 2
Caught flat footed eying the grizzly game, Shilyn gathers her composure and rushes after Deaglan. "Hey, she was cheating," she mutters as she pulls her rapier trying to catch up.
Deaglan saves the wounded lunatic before heading west.
This lecture hall is the largest room you've come across. A man, unconfined by his straightjacket, speaks to another four men and women who stare at him in awe.
"...nd that's why the voting for king doesn't make any sense. It is our sovereign right that kinghood should be determined by the most fair way possible: the champion of rock-paper-scissors-lizard-vrock!"
The attendees clap enthusiastically, and in doing so, you can see each one has a various item in his or her hand, one has a pair of garden shears, another a fist sized piece of middenstone, a third has a large book, one has a dead iguana on him, and the speaker now clutches a statuette of some monstrous creature.
The patients finally notice your presence, the speaker shouting, "Interlopers! You weren't invited to our kingmaking!"
Male Aasimar (Azata-blooded) Bard (Dawnflower Dervish) 3, Monk 2 (Master of Many Styles/Monk of the Sacred Mountain) HP 39/45, AC 23, T 17, FF 16, CMD 18, F +7, R +11, W +5, In +5, Per +4, SM +16, 1 Str dmg
"THey seem to be just demented patients... let's not hurt them... or make them hurt each other. Perhaps this will stop them... give it a chance to work please."
He moves over by the patients and casts obscuring mist so it blankets them as well as himself. Then he readies to walk out of it back to the party next action not a readied action, just stating what he plans to do next round.
With the fog in the room, Varian eventually slips out unnoticed. Owai then closes the door.
Out of Combat order unless someone wants to. I assume everyone will just leave them be? If so, then let me know where to explore next (including down the stairs as an option)!
Human Sorcerer 9 | HP 59/59 | AC:14/12/12| F:+7 R:+7 W:+9 | Init:+3 | Perception: +10
"Where are the staff? Shouldn't they be dealing with idiotic things like this?" Mahasi scowls. "I can summon a web to bind them temporarily - it should make it easier to subdue the madmen individually."
Female Half-Elf HP 36/36 AC 16 CMB +5 CMD 18 Touch 13 Flat 11 (Melee Weapon: +1 Rapier)+10;1d6+6 (Ranged: Short bow) +7;1d6+0 F +2 R +7 W +5 INIT +3 Perc +15 Rogue 4 - Sorc 2
"I say let's leave them well enough alone. We interfere and they could end up trying to include us in their little games.. with or without our consent."
"I agree with Shi... they were calm enough before we entered... I think they will calm down just fine after we leave, but if we stay, we'll be forced to fight and probably injure them."
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