Cal and company
Cal and Company
Ath etc
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Cal and company
Much better than my last one!
Ath etc:
Nevyn, Malik, and Ward':
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Nevyn, Malik, and Ward':
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Verik is a handsome man still wearing his Korvosan guard armour (chainmail), despite his current situation. He carries a spear, and composite longbow with 20 arrows, all the best quality as they are from the guard. He also carries a potion marked "Healing, II" with a guard insignia. Finally, he has a letter, detailing the location of all the world's meat, and the plan to start it up as a free meat provider, simply signed, V.
DC10 Knowledge Local, (Reth gets +5 to this)
Malik, Ward', and Nevyn:
When Verik comes around, "The Field Marshall wants some words with you." Holding up the letter so he can see it. "If you come clean about this I'll put a good word in for you otherwise you know as well as I what happens to deserters or traitors in times like these." ending on a menacing note. Intimidate (1d20+9=26)
We begin to head back to "All The World's Meat" to rejoin the others fairly quickly as Reth is worried about them. Verik is hobbled with rope so he can walk but not run. As he leaves the area Reth flips a gold coin too the beggar, "Right sorry about that, we were catchin a fugitive. You don't happen to know where he was headed or seen him in the area before have ya?" Holding out another gold coin in case he does.
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Malik, Ward', and Nevyn:
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The beggar comes round about the same time as Verik, grumbling something about the end of the world. When Reth throws him the coin, he simply stairs at it dumbfounded.
Verik doesn't put up much of fight, he stands still to be hobbled, and walks carefully with the group, not wanting to slip or trip in the still dark. Even in the uncertain light though, you can see that he is a beaten, man. So much so that he doesn't rise to Reths threats....
Cal and company
Malik, Ward', and Nevyn:
The Boys:
"Come On, Ward. Let's get back to the others."
Having a watchful eye on Verik, they start to make their way back.
Cal and company
Reth and co.
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Reth and co.
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With a clatter, the boys return, and upon entering the upstairs room, reveal a highly trussed up Verik, carried in a fireman's lift by the big, hulking Shoanti.
The Thugs visibly pale at this sight, and the man near Cal stands.
"Ok, you seem to have Verik, can we get to the guard HQ now, so that my friend here can get the medical attention he needs?"
Reth looks toward the man who stands, "Sit down. Your not goin anywhere yet. We need to search this place from top to bottom. Now you could speed up that process by showin us around and bein generally helpful so that your foolish friend there could get the attention he needs all the quicker but he is in no danger of seein Pharasma this day under Cal's care." Looks in Cal's direction for an affirmation of this. "I believe if you were truly helpful she may even see fit too give him all the healin he needs right here and now." He looks to the rest of the group. "Remember the spirits words that there is more to be seen here than appearances would have us believe and it seemed adamant that we find out. Now, I am not sure whether it speaks the truth as of yet or not but I don't wish to take the chance that there is something to what it says and not look around. Nor do I wish to see it angry again..."
"There is more to this place than at first appears or than the good Field Marshal suspects....I cannot see what, but you must find out."
That will take a few hours, for a thorough search, and is likely to get very boring for the player's guarding the prisoners.....Oh, and no, you don't get to search more than 10 rooms with one roll :)
"I say we tie them somewhere central then search from the outside in, then even if they manage to get free they have to get past at least one of us before they manage to escape and as we have thier weapons thats somewhat unlikely." Ward' says somewhat serenely.
Calandra gives a small sigh at the planning. "I can stay with them if you like. I can make sure Bal here stays stable. or just bring them with us as we explore, maybe they'll eventually get bored of watching us search and will be a little more helpful"
"I'll stay too. With two of us they're less likely of trying something funny."
Knowledge nature (1d20+5=16)
Think I may be the only one with Knowledge Nature as a skill.
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Four long hours pass for Ath and Call, alone in a room with one stable, but unconscious man, another fretting over his friend, two snoring Thugs, and a very dejected Verik. Sunlight is slanting through the shutters of the windows before the others return.
The searchers wander through the building as Reth takes it apart with a fine toothed comb. From the stairs the obvious first room to enter is a meet locker. Prepared meat is stored here before being taken into the shop. The air in this room is stale, stinking of day-old meat and blood. Straw litters the floor, scattered to catch what drips from the meat hooks affixed to the walls and ceiling on metal rods. To the north is a low blood-stained table and two barrels of salt, while to the south, a pair of double doors stands. An iron bar extends through a narrow hole at the top of the doors; the bar runs along the ceiling for five feet before ending at a vertical pole running floor to ceiling.
Knowledge Nature DC 25:
The next room is the largest in the building, at almost 40x50ft, The floor of this chamber is strewn with blood-stained straw, and the reek of slaughter is almost overpowering. The room itself is a killing floor. A metal track affixed to the ceiling dangles meat hooks here and there, allowing the hooks and their gory loads to be moved easily from the northwest where a large hammer sits on the floor amid a permanent bloodstain. To the south, a bloodstained grill covers a wide hole in the
floor. Just north of the grill sit two large vats of water; one boiling and one cold. Two large butcher blocks stand to the east next to barrels of salt, and in the southeast corner sits a reeking vat of cast-off meat and bones.
A quick glance into the next room shows them to be inhabited by vicious looking pigs, pulling at their tethers and kicking the walls of the pen...
You will need to break through the grill to investigate further in this room.
I'll deal with the pigs first and hammer second.
Wild Empathy check (1d20+4=14)
3 more wild empathy checks (1d20+4=21) well actually one more since I forgot to put the 3 in the number of rolls area but it's a good one.
I wasn't quite sure when or how skill rechecks are done with wild empathy but figured I had the time since I didn't botch the first one and they are tied up.
Nevyn
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Nevyn
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I'll deal with the pigs first and hammer second.
Wild Empathy check (1d20+4=14)
3 more wild empathy checks (1d20+4=21) well actually one more since I forgot to put the 3 in the number of rolls area but it's a good one.
I wasn't quite sure when or how skill rechecks are done with wild empathy but figured I had the time since I didn't botch the first one and they are tied up.
There are three pigs, so 1 more roll please. These function as diplomacy checks in the normal fashion, so you don't really get re-rolls unless you can do something that may make a difference to their attitude...They are also outright vicious pigs, that would need to be gotten to indifferent to make a difference, so, one is currently still hostile, one is unfriendly, and one is pending your roll.
One more wild empathy check (1d20+4=7) Bah!
Reth looks at the vicious pigs and wonders what the former guards did that could have made them this way. Turning toward Ward' and Malik, "These beasts are liable to attack anythin that gets near them. They will probably have to be slaughtered before they hurt anyone. Goin to leave them be for the moment", he says as he closes the door. "Ward' you want to see if we can lift this grate?"
Reth is still a little wounded isn't he?
"Shouldn't be too much of an issue."
Ward' puts his back to lifting the grate.
"Seems to be well and truely stuck."
Attracted by the noise Malik joins the others. "Ewww. That smells horrible. Do you really want to go in there?" Malik casts Presti to make the smell not so daunting for him and the others.
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Talon:
Rising to the surface to catch a breath between water and floorboards, he heard feet above, many feet, both heavy and light, but all too heavy to be children. This was clue number three, Gadren never lets anyone into his chambers beneath the fishery, except children who have a very short fate. Talon waits, patiently while these people loot the place, and slowly one voice brings back memories. A dark man, who's wife Lamm has had killed, arguing with Lamm, and Lamm manipulating him into killing a rival. Talon never saw Atherton Dram after this, until today. His suspicion is confirmed as they leave with a glimpse of Atherton through the crack in the floorboards. Talon waits a few minutes more, then clambers into the room from the central pool, gives Lamm a solid kick, and watches him splash into the pool, to sink slowly to the bottom, soon to feed the reefclaws.
More days follow, hunting out Atherton Dram and slowly but surely, with lots of favours called in, Talon traces the thief through the riotus streets of Korvosa. Finally following him, to the very gates of the Korvosan guard's HQ. He waits and sees Atherton with a whole group of people, A tall Shoanti, and a beautiful dancer, and others not so descript. He follows them through the streets, to an old butchers shop, and after most of the night, after the sun has risen in a cloud free sky, he sees the group emerge, one of the men covered in filth, and stinking, but all laughing, trailing a group of men in guard uniforms fettered with rope....
A few cuts and scrapes then? Good good.
"Not really feelin like swimmin in that muck and sewage myself." Turning to Malik, "Looks like that ghost of yours is insane there's nothin else in this place". He looks down at the disgusting stuff expecting a Otyugh appearance at any point. He'll take one of his sunrods and activate it and either tosses it down to a solid looking area or lowers it on a rope/chain to take a look around if no solid area exists.
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A few cuts and scrapes then? Good good.
"Not really feelin like swimmin in that muck and sewage myself." Turning to Malik, "Looks like that ghost of yours is insane there's nothin else in this place". He looks down at the disgusting stuff expecting a Otyugh appearance at any point. He'll take one of his sunrods and activate it and either tosses it down to a solid looking area or lowers it on a rope/chain to take a look around if no solid area exists.
The muck and sewage comes right up to where the grid was, or there abouts, . Reth doesn't really notice anything unusual about the muck pile, it's just various discarded body parts...
The muck and sewage comes right up to where the grid was, or there abouts, so there's no point wasting the sunrod. Reth doesn't really notice anything unusual about the muck pile, it's just various discarded body parts...
Reth, his eyes watering from the fumes, stands back and says, "Well let's get those guards back to the Field Marshall. We've wasted enough time here and the pigs can wait til later to deal with as I think they are goin to have to be put down."
"Wait a second. I can try to lift something up magically and we can examine it. Then we drop it back in and I lift the next thing. No need to get in there."
Reth doesn't really notice anything unusual about the muck pile