I had forgotten about that too...I agree, no way. 22 STR check then?
Felgar leads with his shoulder, his axe held behind and out of his way, and muscles into the crude and hacked door. The force of his push sliding and toppling furniture out of the way with loud bangs and screeches across the bare planks of the room.
This one-room flat combines all the amenities of a bedroom. a kitchen, and a painter's studio into one fifteen-foot-square space, leaving little room for much else.
A stack of cheese and bread sits on the counter next to several full waterskins, while the easel in the opposite corner holds a half-completed painting of an imp and a pseudodragon fighting atop a church steeple. A single window looks out over the tangled rooftops of the Shingles, while just under it, a woman sleeps in a curled-up position on a low bed.
Felgar pushes his way into the room and steps to the immediate side of the door, axe ready to block any chance at escape, and he leaves room for the others to rush in.
Somebody's home!
Neva was shocked at Felgar's strength as he plowed into the small room. Seeing the woman on the bed, Neva rushed into the small space, afraid in the same moment that the stranger might be hurt or dangerous.
Pravlox steps just inside the little room, staying by one side of the door, in an effort to clear the hallway and, hopefully, limit the amount of attention drawn to the party.
Copper stays in the hallway for now, more concerned with someone coming up on them while they arent paying attention than with a sleeping girl in the room.
As a group most of you rush into the small space of the room, gathering in ready to handle this possible assassin. The form under the blankets, however, does not even react to your presence.
Confused, Neva moved to the sleeping woman and placed a hand gingerly on her immobile form. "Enchanted sleep? she mused. Poison perhaps?"
"Or a ruse of some kind." Rex will move over to one side of the window quietly, not commenting on it specifically, but watching it carefully. Pravlox will cast detect magic on the room, starting with the sleeping girl.
"Problems?"
"Someone's out on the rooftop. Could be our friend." Rex speaks quietly.
If any one be havin' magics to stope 'er, now's the time!
Felgar pokes his head back outside the door, to see if there is easy access to a position outside the window from the front door.
Perception:
As far as Felgar can tell, the only way out onto the rooftops, from up on the third floor here, is the very window that is in the room.
Rutter had entered the room relatively cautiously, suspicious that the "sleeper" wasn't woken by Felgar's racket. He immediately looks for other escape routes, and isn't surprised to hear noises from the window.
If she could set traps, that junk behind the door would've gone "clink" , Rutter reasons, and he dashes out the window, hoping his natural agility will help him make up ground on the long-legged, but clumsy human.
"She's...it's an illusion!" Neva gasped as realization dawned on her. She turned to face the others as Rutter rushed past and out the window.
Oh dear.
Grunting as she climbed through the window, she set off after the halfling.
"Great, climbing!" Copper whines as he moves into the room and towards the window, trying to make his way up with Rutter and Neva. "Magic isn't any good, Felgar, without someone to aim it at.", he says as begins his climb.
Pravlox jumps on Rex's back as the serpent like creature pursues, letting his eidolon show off his natural climbing capability, worried only about their target jumping over a gap.
I thought Pravlox saw 'er!
felgar just shakes his head and follows the others out the window and on the chase.
Seeing the group scrabbling at the window as a few of you make it out, the young lady, a petite, attractive, blonde girl, stands up from where she was slowly making her way while attempting to hide. It is at this point she decides that she's been spotted, and there is nothing to do but run.
The landscape up on the Shingles varies in heights, stability, contents and any sort of rhyme or reason as to its intended purpose. The woman managed to get a good thirty yards away before you figured out her ruse, now you are left with having to chase her down among these unlikeliest of obstacles if you want to take her alive. If you don't get to her before she makes it to the end of the Shingles, you just may lose her in the city.
Felgar
Neva
Pravlox
Rutter
Trinia
Turn Order:
Trinia - Moved, on rooftop 5 now.
Pravlox - (since you are mounted, Rex goes on your Init)
Felgar -
Rutter -
Neva -
Comfortable with the amount of a lead she has on all of you, Trinia cautiously makes her way up a sharply angled roof to the top of the next one nearby. From where you are all at, you can see that there may just be a small path that is cleared up to the next building, or you could scurry up the clothesline that is attached to it. On the far end of the roof, however, there is a guidewire that looks to hold the buildings somewhat steady at this height, and it runs all the way up to the roof she was just on. If only you could figure out a way to get to that line.
1: Does a DC15 Perception AND a DC15 Climb together count as one check, or do we pick which one to move 2 rooves? In other words, if I want to move 3 rooves, do I make TWO Perception Checks and TWO Climb checks?
2: Neither Climb nor Perception are DEX based skill checks, and the only benefit that I can see from harrow card is to increase movement. Am I right thinking that, for Felgar?
Copper stays where he is and launches a spell at the woman, trying to end this quickly. "Slapen, mijn vijand, en hebben geen strijd mij.", the arcane words spill from his mouth, as he tries to put the woman to sleep.
Copper chases after the woman, moving closer by two rooftops.
I will spend a Harrow point to increase my speed for this encounter by 10' to 30' total, negating any penalty.
Felgar will attempt to climb in order to close the distance two rooves.
Climb:
I'm comin' for ya darlin'
Rutter decides to try and take a shortcut to catch the painter more quickly.
But the path Rutter searched for didn't materialize, and he could only cross to one rooftop after wasting so much time.
Trying not to look down to the streets below, Neva stood up straight, held aloft small, straight piece of iron, and said in a loud voice "Look upon the Gray Lady, young woman!"
Copper confidently lets fly a spell, ready to put the silly chase to a quick end. He summons the arcane energies, directing them towards the woman... as she continues walking across the new rooftop she just arrived at.
Pravlox is able to pick his way, from Rex's back, to the far reaching line in hopes to make good progress. Sadly, halfway up, his mount can't maintain its grip long enough to go the whole distance. The drop deposits him only slightly further than the roof he had started on.
Felgar decides to stick to the obvious route, moving to the clothesline and crossing it easily hand over hand.
Rutter, looking all over for the path to the long wire, realizes he's wasting too much time, and settles for the other line, getting just far enough to drop onto the next roof.
Neva, seeing what Copper had in mind, to put an end to this thing also casts a spell to stop the woman in her tracks. After finishing her incantation the young lady stops cold, unmoving, just a slight way down across the roof she was on.
She remains frozen in place, unable to shake off the effect on her, but it may not last too long so getting to her sooner than later is still optimal.
Copper and Neva, having chosen a different approach, are still on the first rooftop. Pravlox and Rutter, though managed to end up on a crumbling roof, with a steep angle. It will probably be a precarious crossing, but if they can spot the best places to step they may be able to make it across with good time. In the lead, Felgar sees that he could skip one of the roofs if he makes a short leap, or go further if he walks out to the edge of the nearby narrow ledge before making a short jump from there.
Rex continues to slowly pick his way as Pravlox holds on.
Felgar will attempt to get closer to the frozen woman by jumping across the gap.
Rutter, still kicking himself for the time wasted on the first roof, decides to take the most direct route to catch up with the painter. He scrambles up the angled roof, barely breaking stride.
After taking a few seconds to see where his friends and allies have succeeded and where they have failed, he easily makes his way across two roofs, moving closer to the temporarily suspended woman.
Neva stayed focused on the frozen woman, hoping Felgar would arrive before the painter broke free of her paralysis. She watched the others move forward with trepidation.
"We mean you know harm!" Neva stated loudly to Trinia. "In fact, we have come to protect you from a vigilante mob. Please do not struggle! If you are innocent, I will do my best to aid you!"
Copper, looking for the previous members' paths, manages to find a way around some of the cluttered rooftop landscape to end up further ahead, and closer to the goal. Pravlox tried to make his way across the middle of the steep crumbling roof, but spent much of his time backtracking away from the dangerous portions, and instead only made it a brief distance. Felgar, only needing to get to the roof with the contained woman, goes for the simple jump across he needed to get to her. Rutter, decides to avoid picking his way acroos the steep roof, and instead takes a longer, safer route along the outer edge, but making decent time. For his efforts he is rewarded by another steep and decrepit rooftop, no less dangerous than the last. Neva, the last one still at the window to the girls room, decides to catch up to the rest of the group. Her eyes fail her as she watches the events of the others' progress and tries to allay the fears of the young girl. She catches a loose shingle underfoot, it knocks her to the edge of the angled roof, and precariously close to falling. She spends more time just getting back up and on track.
Trinia, visibly afraid despite her held state, focuses her energies and you see her manage to break free of the paralyzation that had gripped her. It may be too late, as Felgar is now on the same rooftop she is, and she may not have a chance to get away before he gets to her.
Felgar will attempt to grapple the woman.
C'mere honey, let me give ya a hug!
Grapple:
Rex is unable to make any progress.
Copper tries to use the ledges of the building he is on to catch up quickly, but loses his grip on part of a pipe and lands flat on his back, losing precious time.
Neva moved back to the window from which she'd started. "What in the world was I thinking?! I can't go leaping rooftop to rooftop!
"Get her, Felgar!" she shouted, feeling useless.
Rutter, not wanting to spook the painter, stays on the other roof until he sees whether Felgar is able to subdue her.
"Oi! We're not the ones trying to kill you! That mob's on it's way! We're your best chance of staying alive!"
Felgar's grab was hasty and awkward, and having just broken free of the spell, Trinia was not likely to get pinched again so easily. Copper and Pravlox find the leaps to be especially harrowing, both of them stopping at the very end of their respective leaping platforms, second-guessing the success of their actions. Rutter, resigned to making slow and steady progress, eases his way onto the roof with Felgar and the young woman. Neva decides that she will leave the young woman to the young men that have the sprightliness still i their limbs to keep up with their quarry. maybe she could follow Rutter's path and get there before too long, but she will not likely catch up to all of them any time soon.
Trinia, truly threatened by the dwarf grabbing at her, and the scruffy looking halfing just catching up, takes a step back while drawing her blade. With a dagger in one hand, she begins a soft melody, and tells the dwarf,
"Three goblins were walking down the road when they find a dead rat.
The first goblin says, “that look real tasty!”
The seconds one says, “I no like rat!”
The third one says, “I wait fer something better!”
The first goblin eats the rat
Further down the road they see a dead rabbit.
The first says he is full, the second says he loves rabbit, and the third says that he is still waiting. So the second one decides to eat it.
As they walk, the first and second one start vomiting.
The third goblin says, “Finally, meal I can eat!”"
As she finishes, you can tell that she just uttered the words to a spell.
Will Save:
Copper quickly manages to close the gap between where he is and the roof where Felgar and Rutter are trying to catch the woman.
As Rex reaccesses the situation, he backs up one more time, and launches himself toward the singing girl, if for no other reason than to get her to shut up about silly goblins.
Neva grasped the air, cringed in sympathy, and basically mimed the fight taking place so many rooftops away. "Pharasma's icy t@*&!" she swore to herself in frustration.
With a deep breath, she steeled her courage and started to make her way forward as best she could. As she reached a particularly precipitous ledge, she exchanged her curse for some hastily whispered prayers of forgiveness.