Will Parii and Grizmark be on the same team?
The eating contest is set to take place over four rounds. Each round will require you to make a fortitude save.
If you want you may make these all at once.
Same team would make sense, but a little friendly competition would be fun too. I'm fine with whatever Parii chooses.
I do believe Parii will try for the opposite team, for the friendly competition.
There are three members on each team, and there is a puddle of mud in the middle of the two teams. The game begins, and the two teams begin their pulling. you may each make strength checks.
Parii's team ends with a 18 on the first pull.
Grizmarks team ends with a 24 on the first pull.
Parii's team is precariously close to the mud at this point.
Khaz may make diplomacy rolls if he is trying to gather information about something in particular, but that particular should be stated beside the roll.
Leroy may begin eating at any time. the first round is a pork eating round, where you are required to eat at least 2 pounds of pork. as stated before, all the rounds will require a fortitude save, which becomes progressively more difficult. There are five other contestants.
Parii tries to pull the rope back more, but she ends up falling face first into the mud. She slowly looks up with a slightly annoyed look, more for the fact that she has mud in her hair.
Well, you haven't actually fallen into the mud yet, each team may make another strength check.
Leroy only manages to make it to the second round, pie eating, makes it through two pies, and then can't finish his third. A will save will allow him to continue on, at the risk of becoming sick. If you stop now, Leroy will be feed for one whole day.
The new temple is the talk of the town today.
Parii's team gets a 20 this time.
Grizmarks team also gets a 20. neither team moves.
You may make another strength check.
Leroy, plunges into the third pie! He finishes it! Make a fortitude save! The third course is brought out, and it happens to be fowl, of many different shapes and sizes. four of the other contestants have left the stage, one in the second, three in the third, one left having to be dragged of the stage, having made himself sick. So, if you make it to the fourth round it will be only you and one rather large, burly man left.
Parii needs to make a strength check as well.
Khaz may, if he wants make another diplomacy roll, either for the same info or something else.
Leroy becomes sickened. do you wish to use a willpower or fortitude save to continue? failure of either will result in a loss, or you can also back out.
Parii, pulls with all her might, and yet, her team mates, aren't helping much at all, but unfortutely the other team seems to pull just a little bit harder, pulling Parii into the mud spot, thus ending the match, but impressing the two locals on the other team that a small Gnome could pull so well. No one fell into the mud, as no one was highly outmatched this round.
Parii smiled, and walked to Grizmark, shaking his hand. "Well, that was fun, no?"
"I'm glad you enjoyed it! I thought I might get ya dirty at first, but you sure did recover and how! Must be that gnome optimism I keep hearing about.
I'm not sure what the others are doin'. Want to try and meet them, or perhaps check out this new church?"
"I do not know for sure if that was my kind's optimism, or the faith in my goddess. Perhaps both?
"I would love to see the new church, perhaps afterwards we can find the others?"
Grizmark joins Parii to go see the church
The church is not yet open, as the opening ceremony will not take place until after lunch. Speaking of which... The noon bell gongs. The people begin to gather in front of the temple complex again. The acolytes wheel a giant covered box right behind father Zantus, who gets up onto the stage.
"Greetings again people of Sandpoint, visitors, and all. That bell is our herald for the beginning of lunch, generously provided, free of charge, by our towns various taverns. I suggest that you all try as many of their various dishes as you want, I am sure that they will all be delicious. Of course, before our meal, I must, as it is this towns tradition, tell you all the tale of the swallowtails." The people get even quieter as he begins the story. "It was long, long ago, as the gods themselves were just discovering our planet. Desna, the goddess of luck, fell down to Golarion, injuring herself in the process. Yet, a lone blind child found her, and caring for the stranger, nursed her back to health. in return, the goddess blessed the child, turning her into an immortal butterfly, and this child then, over the centuries spawned her many children." As he said this last bit, the acolytes pull the covering off the box revealing a cage containing hundreds of swallowtails, which then fly out of it in a great cloud, dispersing over the crowd, much to the delight of the children, many of whom take off in an effort to grab the butterflies.
"Enjoy the meal!" hollers Father Zantus, as he climbs of the stage.
The meal consists of vast amounts of various stews, soups, and dishes prepared by the various taverns in town. The delicious array of offerings include a curry spiced salmon prepared by Ameiko Kaijitsu, owner of the rusty dragon, a peppercorn venison by the cooks of the white deer, a lobster chowder from the Hagfish, and a beef and venison stew by Lanalee Magravee from Risa's place. After lunch, the opening ceremony will take place. would you care to try any of these dishes?
Grizmark will have the beef and venison stew
Khaz will leave Leroy to go rest off his large meal, and will go enjoy the free lunch provided by the town. He will go for the peppercorn venison. If still hungry, he will then try the lobster chowder, and will generally stick around until the opening ceremony.
Does Leroy stay around for the opening ceremony or go sleep off his food?
Parii will have herself a plate of curry spiced salmon, loving the taste of such a delicious meal.
While all of the food presented is delicious, the one which truly stands out is the curry-spiced Salmon. Flocks of people gathered to taste Ameiko's latest food item, and the Gnome was not disappointed by the hype. The dish is truly first class, as is the early winterdrop mead which is served with it. Ameiko seems to have spared no expense on this meal.
The people begin to make their way back towards the temple for the opening ceremony. Would you care to strike up any conversations on the way over, or would you rather just talk amongst yourselves?
Khaz will assume that the only talk will be about the church and human gods. Neither of which really interest him, but he assumes will be for both Parii and Grizmark. Instead of interacting with the crowd, he will instead talk to Leroy, and suggest that they find Grizmark so he can do something about Leroy's overburdened stomach.
Parii will just talk with Grizmark, perhaps asking him about his deity's story. But for now, she'll hang around him.
Eventually everyone makes their way back to the Temple courtyard, where there is much discussion and jovial shoving amongst the locals. Father Zantus takes the stage, twists his wrist, and a second later, a sharp retort, like the crack of thunder booms through the air, calling to every ones attention the older gentleman on the platform. A stray dog, under a nearby wagon, yelps outs wakened by the crack of the thunderstone. Father Zantus clears his throat, takes a breath... And then comes the first scream. A woman cries out in terror from the back of the crowd. The dog, now dying, lies on the ground, it's throat cut from ear to ear, as several small bodied creatures begin to run into the crowd. Among the numerous of these small, laughing, crazed humaniod creatures several begin a high-pitched chant, singing to a simple tune:
"Goblins chew and Goblins bite,
Goblins cut and Goblins fight,
Stab the dog and cut the horse,
Goblins eat and take by force!"
Drums begin to accompany this chant from various areas of the town.
"Goblins race and Goblins Jump,
Goblins slash and Goblins bump,
Burn the skin and mash the head,
Goblins here and you be dead!"
Much giggling accompanies this line, locals and visitors begin to realize what is occurring, and many people begin to run, fleeing for their houses and other safe places, prompting the creatures to sing their next verse.
"Chase the baby, catch the pup,
bonk the head to shut it up!
Bones be cracked, flesh be stewed!
We be Goblins! YOU BE FOOD!"
The creature who just killed the dog is still standing there, and he is looking around for another target. Two more of his comrades are close by. What do our brave heroes do?
"GET TO SAFETY!""LADS! Protect who can, kill the wee green bastards!"
Grizmark advances towards the goblins. If within 30 feat, he'll shoot a fire bolt at the closest. If not he'll draw his spear.
Roll initiative. I forget to mention that. The goblins are around 40' away.
"Stay together! Leroy, Grizmark, stay behind me! Gnome, you as well. Shields up! We protect the two of them while they blast the bastards back to the darklands."
Hoping that she would listen, Khaz pulled his shield off his back and readied his axe. He knew from experience that foes would attempt to over whelk anyone who could kill them afar, and he was not going to allow any harm to come upon his kinsmen. Remembering that he was dealing with a paladin, he added:
""Running off won't help anyone. The humans can flee behind us while we hold back whatever comes down this street."
[ooc]Going forward I think that the GM should roll initiative for us[/dice]
"What in the...?! Where did these things come from?!" the gnome yelled, pulling out her sword and shield before moving 20' towards the nearest living goblin.
The goblins go first. The one who killed the dog, runs ten feet closer, stops, stoops down, and comes up with a copper piece, which he begins chewing on. The one on the far left, clambers up onto one of the food tables, and begins to chew on the pepper venison that is left. The one to the far right charges Khaz.
It misses, Khaz easily dodges the blow.
Parii draws her sword, right before Leroy launches his attack. unless he says otherwise, he attacks the one that's closest that isn't in combat, or in other words, the one which killed the dog. The goblins is hit, lets out one last shriek, and then lies dying on the ground.
Khaz draws his shield and his sword.
Grizmark, opting to use magic instead of weaponry, takes a five foot step towards the goblin on the table, and may cast his spell.
"Take this ya wee bugger!"
Grizmark draws his spear, disappointed with his likely miss.
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leroy smiles as the dumb thing goes down, he then forgoes gathering energy and instead picks up a peice of food and aims at the goblin eating. Eat this ya' little Rock Biter!
he launches a leg of some fowl at the goblin.
the meat(and the goblin) collide in a very painful hit.
however it isn't a brutal as it could have been.
Parii heads towards the closest standing goblin and swings her sword. "Stand down, you little maniac!"
However, her attack must have missed by a wide shot, and she curses in her tongue.