Hell's Vile Rebels (Inactive)

Game Master Kobolum

"It collapsed into something. As we've seen, plenty of these buildings seem to have hidden shelters under them, where our lovely citizens like to hide their prized possessions... or it could just be filled with spiders and old wine. Who knows. Worth a cursory look at least." Adelina will look for a way down.

Maybe there's someone to eat...

*Sinister grin*

"Yes." Adelina encourages, having grown at least semi comfortable with Khor's appetites... as long as they were not directed at her. "Hopefully with a full purse as well." she adds unnecessarily.

Imperia waves her minions colleagues on, and stays back at the edge of the rubble field to observe from a distance.

The sinkhole is filled with chard stone, searching through it will take time. How much time are you willing to spend searching?

how long can we realistically search without drawing unwanted attention?

You don't know. Someone could come wandering by anytime.

An hour, lets say then.

Johnny ties a rope off and knots it and then climbs down into the pit and does a deep, detailed search take 20?

Take twenty... I will allow it, but there will be consequences. Or people in the sinkhole digging through the rubble can just roll a standard perception check.

Imperia stays well out of the way, using her natural poise and grace to divert curious passers-by. (aka scaring the pants off them until the go away!)

perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 25

Johnny starts rummaging around keeping the knotted rope close by

Adelina will climb down as well. Too greedy to let someone else do all the discovering, in case of stealthy pocketing.

perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (12) + 9 = 21

Adelina, make a DC 15 Reflex saving throw. If you fail takes 3D6 damage from shifting rubble falling on you.

Johnny, you an iron coffer. Scorched and scratched but intact.

reflex: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20

Johnny ties the coffer to the rope and has it hauled out quick and the rope tossed back down so they can make a quick exit

Imperia pulls the coffer up and then quickly ties the rope off so that those below can climb up under their own power rather than hers...

"Yes, let's get out of here." once the treasure is secure and out of course.

Once you’re away from the sinkhole you can open the coffer to find four scrolls and seven potions. Three of the potions you recognized as potions of cure light wounds.

So I think it's a time-waster to have you constantly identify magic items that you've already seen before. So, starting now, I'm going to keep a list of magic items that you identify, so if you come across them again you don't have to try and figure out what they do.

Johnny takes a look at the scrolls and searches the chest for anything hidden or missed once they are safely inside take 20

You cannot take 20 when trying to identify a magic item or decipher a scroll. You can take 10 if you have the spellcraft skill.

I 'm still hungry...Its strange how quiet the things are. Maybe a little too quiet?

perception: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 2 = 22

Khor gives a menacing look to his surroundings

Imperia takes the scrolls, speaks a few short arcane sounding syllables and reads them with a nod.

"Hmm..."

Read Magic for the scrolls. :)

Spellcraft for Potion: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23

The scrolls in the coffer are a scroll of cure moderate wounds, a scroll of daylight, a scroll of remove blindness/deafness, and a scroll of remove disease. The potions include four potions of lesser restoration.

There does not appear to be anyone around other than the occasional passerby.

I was trying to search the chest for hidden compartments etc

"Best to move on then." Imperia decides. "Let's go."

Next location. I can't remember which of the others we've done but Imperia does. :)

The contrast between the surrounding estates and the remains of the Victocora estate is as sharp as the grass and the scorched-earth surrounding the ash. Stone and wooden beams marked by fire sit atop large piles of soot, waiting to be taken by the first poor scavengers to set foot in the Greens.

perhaps we are the first poor scavengers? Johnny will look around and then at the group shall we?

Keep the bracers I am just referring to the future

Adelina was interested in living more than getting back her stuff. Unfortunately...

God bless the United States Military and thank all soldiers past and present for the gift of freedom. My heroes.

Happy day before Veteran's Day to you as well.

Happy Thanksgiving if it applies to you! And happy Thanksgiving to you if it doesn’t!

You too sir, I plan to eat too until I burst!

Happy New Year! And merry belated Christmas!

Happy new year too!

And to you all as well!

Sorry I haven’t posted since Sunday for you guys. I have been working on getting a replacement character for my Way of the Wicked Game.

No worries. Way of the wicked is fun. Is the replacement going well?

Too well. :(

Did I mention anywhere in this game that I want us to switch to block initiative? Because I remember mentioning to my other game that I want us to switch a block initiative to make things go faster but I can’t remember if I did that here.

Block is good, I can't remember if you did or not, but good with it either way.

I dont recall either but I agree, block is good.

No problem with that

Well I finally finished up with my character replacements in my other game so now I can talk about how I Implement block initiative.

I roll everyone’s initiative and see what they get and use that to determine which block goes first. You can still delay till after someone else acts, ready actions, etc. Otherwise, priority goes to the block of whoever rolled the highest initiative.

So, for example, Johnny rolled the highest initiative in this fight, so all of you get to go first, the rats go after you all in this scenario. However, there’s a rat immediately behind a Johnny in the initiative order, so if Johnny’s HP gets taken to zero or below, the rats will have priority and get first move on the next round.

So everybody go into the gameplay thread and declare your actions.

Johnny and Adelina already did, do you want us to redo them?

Oh, no. You two are fine.

Are monsters and PC's smart enough to recognize who is driving in init to attack them with the hope of changing it?

Do you want to risk being the focal point of the attacks of mobs and assassins and the occasional dragon?

Nope just trying to clarify

You know I like you John G - patronising is just what Imperia is... even when she's trying not to be! :D

Ha! It is just the relationship Imperia and Adelina is destined to have. No real life worries about it. But thank you for the double checking though. :)

No need to be evil OOC too :)

It’s been over a month since anyone posted anything here in the discussion thread. Anyway there just needs to be a little more exploring done and we can begin building up your “good guy” reputations.

And while we’re at it why don’t you level up as well. Technically you have one more set piece to go but since the prison break took so long I feel you deserve it, plus it’ll help you get through the last set piece before the open-endedness of this campaign opens.

We will be HEROES!

Heroes... yes... them.

Now for the most ridiculous level ever! :D

Adelina is upgraded. Basic level two rogue, thought she now has certainty(diplomacy) and can hide her alignment. AND maybe she can take a hit without crumbling like toast each time.

Yeah. you’ll be heroes... as long as one of you doesn’t screw up.

Imperia has taken a sorceror level with crossblooded Infernal/Fey. This has minimal mechanical effect apart from lowering(!) her will save and ensuring that almost every enchantment she casts from now on has +2 to its DC. :D

How are we doing HP by the way?

Did I not mention this before? Half your hit die plus one or roll your hit die. If you roll you must keep the result.

I'm going to be cowardly and take the average! :)

Weighting my options before leveling up

It does amuse me that Johnny is apparently as handsy as they come, and yet still hasn't even thought about trying anything on Imperia :)

I believe Adelina was unconscious when he got all handsy, might be part of his particular healing magic. We'll see if Khor ever needs healing :)

We're going to have to start being nicer to each other if this is going to work out! :)

:) we need that moment where we become less slammed together and more a group. Over pie maybe. Oh no Chocolate cake!

I can tone down Khor savagery if you aren't too confortable with that.

Fact is, he's a cannibal at heart. Well, at someone else's heart at least.

Actually Johnny has a deal with Khor and doesn't find men or orcs attractive. When he gets the chance he will be handsy, no worries. He has been at the bottom of a sewer after all

Personally I have no problem with Khor at all, its simply that he and Imperia (the cold hearted ice queen if ever there was one) are going to have to come to an arrangement of their own - and the only kind Imperia will accept are the ones where she's in command.

She'll happily let him eat corpses as long as he's not too obvious about it and does as he's told. :)

As long as we're all on the same page as players I'm sure we can make it work out in the end. :D

Oh, don’t worry about playing bad characters I’m keeping a mental list of everything you do so I know what I need to do in order to get you all to understand that you’re—

A team, party, friends, allies, mutual beneficiaries.

—mutual beneficiaries. As long as it doesn’t ruin the fun I don’t mind.

So... Imperia wants power, Adelina wants wealth, Khor humans to eat, and Johnny... not to be bored?

Mutual Beneficiaries sound great. MBs for life.

Luckily pursuit of Imperia's goal will provide what everyone else wants along the way - isn't that fortunate! ;)

I can eat half elf and halfling only when I'm on a diet ;-)

(or as a snack)

Okay all, so what is the plan? Our GM gave us one option, investigating the neighbor, correct? What are the others?

Following Imperia's plan, which presumably involved making diplomacy checks and the passage of time.

But seriously boys, if you don't tone down the talk of eating people and breaking them then no-one is even going to hold a conversation with us! There's evil and then there's "Look, I'm never going to fit into any urban society whatsoever because I'm going to EAT YOU!" The second one is part of the fun I agree but a planning nightmare :P

IT is fun though.

Ultimately it is up to our GM though with how much we can get away with being outwardly evil in public. Since he pitched the game as evil pretending to be good, for their own ends of course.

I'm sorry, but I am a quite civilized Half orc: I do cook my victims instead of eating them raw and alive.

AND I use a napkin at dinner.

BTW, I'll be off Internet a few days (Monday to Thursday)

Your options are simple; take the path I lay out for you or create your own.

Speaking of paths, my intent is for the game to be evil pretending to be good. However, you are under no obligation to follow that plan.