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The door Jimmy is at is a huge black stone door measuring 6 feet wide and 14 feet tall, and it doesn't budge when you push or pull it.
Uh, you are in a closet. What exactly are you keeping an eye out for? There's a door to your East that leads outside to the main area (which you would pretty much figure out since you've been there) and a door to your South. Inside this room are hats, coats and other minor tools. A key hangs on the wall.
Phaedra moves to the door that she had seen the slaves bringing in the food from and check to see if she can open it or not.
I'll certainly pocket the key, and check the door to the south first, then the main area I came from. Just enough of poking out my head to try and see what is out there, and see if anyone is around. I'll have my invisibility scroll handy (the one that I failed to scribe) to cast just in case, but at this point am not going to cast it unless it becomes needed.
Main focus is that I am trying to avoid confrontation as much as possible, since I have no idea what is going on inside at the moment.
"Yeah, Jimmy, this dressed up fellow Eirtein Oberigo said that wasn't the way in. He was going to pay me to find it, but he knew it wasn't behind that big stone door. He might have known a lot more, but I kind of forgot to talk to him." Tristain holds his sides. "Anyone spare a heal? That Hellkniight got me pretty good."
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C'mon Jimmy, lets follow after Phaedra...seems she may have a nose for this thing...besides I need you to help keep her safe. Good job with those Hellknights too by the way, just try and be careful not to set anything important on fire please.
Corey will follow with Phaedra whip in hand, rapier sheathed.
"Oh, of course Tristain, sorry."
Phaedra taps Tristain with her cure light wounds a couple times and then will cross the bridge and see how many doors are in the direction that the food came from.
Phaedra will cross the bridge and look around for any other doors other than the one that they entered the room from.
"Jimmy thinks you're welcome!" Jimmy says to Corey.
He then follows after Phaedra, and points out the doors north and south of her position.
"Looks like a door to the left and right, as well as the one we came from. Three doors, which one do you want to try first?" Tristain tries to listen, but doesn't hear anything. It's like the night before Christmas.
"Well, let's try the left one first."
Phaedra moves up the the door and checks to see if it is locked or not.
Jimmy doesn't care much which door they take first, and follows after Phaedra.
"Jimmy can smash the door, if it doesn't open," he informs Phaedra.
"Okay, we have a hallway here with some doors in it. No guards at least, so that is a good thing. I guess we should go see if any of the doors are unlocked and see what rooms they open up into."
Phaedra moves up a step to the closest door and tries the handle to see if it is unlocked or not. If not, she will slowly open it a crack and peek into it.
Phaedra would step back and allow Corey to peek in the door.
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As Corey opens the door, you smell something rather, well, odd. You don't know what that smell is, but it seems to be coming from an open bottle lying on the floor. Inside this room is also a small table in the middle (not shown) as well as a few very small chairs, ideally sized for halflings.
On the wall, there is a letter stuck to the wall with the word "TONIGHT" written on it. There is also a letter attached to the open bottle. When you look at it, it reads:
Dear friends,
I know we have only been together a few days, but trust me, my plan will work. Use this bottle at the party, but be careful not to over do it in any one meal.
Love and best of luck,
Sian
After helping Corey look about the room, Phaedra offers up her opinion. "Well, this is certainly proof that this was not a normal party. Now we know for certain the food was drugged and even have a name to investigate later. We just don't know yet what the purpose of drugging everyone was. Robbery? Assassination attempt? Escape?"
"I suppose the biggest question is, do we touch anything in this room or leave it be as evidence that there was something nefarious afoot? You know, something other than us of course."
As Jimmy steps into the room he shrugs at Phaedra's question. He's not really sure. "Jimmy thinks maybe the halflings and three Hellknights worked together? Jimmy doesn't mean that for real, but for excuse?"
Jimmy moves over to the door in the western wall, and checks if he can open it.
"Jimmy sees William!" Jimmy says in surprise.
"Jimmy wonders if William's alright, and if William found anything useful?"
As he casts guidance on himself, Jimmy steps inside the room William seems to have come from to inspect it.
Phaedra glances around. "William? How did you get in there?"
"Jimmy thinks you should follow Jimmy, William!"
Jimmy goes back to the others, and informs them of his discovery. "Jimmy found a secret place!"
Excited as a little kid, Jimmy runs back to the entrance of the secret hallway. He then walks to the hallway's end, and attempts to open the door on its other end.
"A secret place? Well, we should definitely check it out then. Afterall, what we are looking for isn't going to be out in the open. Secret places and passages sound like things we should be investigating."
William blinks at Phaedra. "Madame, a wizard does not give away his secrets. He is also not late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to. So tell me..., have your powers of persuasion convinced the hellknights to let you have free roam of the place? I was trying to hide out, and wait till I had a free chance to move around. Seems you all beat me to that. How persuasive were you with out knightly hosts?"
"Long story short, they're dead. The rest of the mayor's party are all in a drugged sleep, but not by us."
"Jimmy slashed the Hellknights! Jimmy slash!"
With the explanation of recent events out of the way, Jimmy presses on by opening the door on the other side of the secret hallway. Or at least he tries to open it.
If necessary, Jimmy will try to force the door open. He'll cast guidance on himself before doing so.
Phaedra will follow Jimmy into the secret hallway, though she will delay to let Corey go before her if he wishes.
If it is dark, Phaedra will cast Light upon her mace and hold it up like a torch.
William nods to Corey. "Always the sunny disposition Corey."
He will follow the others, moving into the secret hallway.
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As you push open the secret door, you see a very small plain oak table in the middle of the room (obviously designed for Halflings). Inside you see four Halflings and one slumped over Hellknight. The Halflings jump as you enter and pull out knives and mumble something incoherent.
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Those in bold may act.
Jimmy
Halflings
Phaedra
William
Tristain the NPC
Corey
Jimmy draws his sword as he steps forward, and his sword catches on fire when he says "Jimmy flames!"
He then swings his flaming bastard sword at the halfling in front of him. "Jimmy flaming slash!"
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GM CC and Jimmy please note this...
Jimmy draws his sword as he steps forward, and his sword catches on fire when he says "Jimmy flames!"
FYI, this was recently pointed out to me in regards to Pathfinder Society...
A command word can be a real word, but when this is the case, the holder of the item runs the risk of activating the item accidentally by speaking the word in normal conversation. More often, the command word is some seemingly nonsensical word, or a word or phrase from an ancient language no longer in common use. Activating a command word magic item is a standard action and does not provoke attacks of opportunity.
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I hate to be a party pooper...
To not change my previous post too much I'd like to just attack. I'll activate the flaming ability later.
I'd also like to change the command word from flames to vuur, if allowed. I hadn't really given the accidental activation any thought... :S
(Vuur is Dutch for fire by the way, if you wondered.)
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@Jimmy
** spoiler omitted **
As does everyone else, myself included until recently. I hate being a rules lawyer, but when it comes up in PFS and rules must be followed as written I prefer to share the knowledge...also checking back into the d20srd, the same applied in 3.5 so it isn't a new rule just one we have all ignored or never noticed.
William rushes up as he sees Jimmy strike, though is too late to act before his blow lands. "For the love of magic Jimmy, STOP!"
William tries to push Jimmy up against the wall, and restrain his sword arm as best as he can.
William growls at him. "What is wrong with you?!"
Jimmy shrugs William's grapple off, but doesn't attack the wizard.
"Jimmy thinks we should check if the Hellknight's still alive! Jimmy thinks we should inform him what the halflings did to the Hellknights in the dining hall!"
"Oh for goodness sakes, stop this foolishness. Unless the Halfings are after the same thing we are, there is no reason to bother with them. Obviously they have no intention of running off to the HellKnights and reporting that we are up and about if they are the ones putting people to sleep. Their absence will likely work in our favor if they are trying to flee and I cannot imagine them sticking around for long after what they did."
Phaedra will make little shooing motions with her hands towards the Halfings. "Go on now, get along with you. We have this huge manor to search and not much time to do it in."
I am willing to bet that the disappearance of the Halfings will work in our favor more than their little corpses laying around. Besides which, I think there has been enough killing for now anyway. More than enough....