"Either way, it won't be long before a trial and likely and execution; or at the very least life with hard labor. The evidence is overwhelming." He finishes applying the manacles, then picks up the warchanter by the scruff of her neck and barks at her.
Intimidate 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (15) + 20 = 35
Goblin:
"How many more of you are there here? Why did you attack the town? What are you planning?"
Female Gnome Rogue 1/ Sorcerer (elemental: air) 3 | hp 26/26 | AC: 14 (14 touch, 11 ff) CMD 12 | Fort +2 Ref +6 Will +3 | Perception +7 | Init +3 | Attack of Opportunity +2
Jerjia snorts in derision as she continues her conversation with Wits in their native language.
Gnome:
"Sure, he's talking about execution and hard labor now. I've never met a goody two-shoes yet who couldn't resist the temptation to try to turn an evil creature into a follower of his deity. They all think well, she's just never met the right kind of paladin before to show her the light. And that goblin has spent her life kissing up to King Ugly over there; it's a short step to kissing up to the lawman in shining armor. Mark my words if they don't live happily ever after."
"Either way, it won't be long before a trial and likely and execution; or at the very least life with hard labor. The evidence is overwhelming." He finishes applying the manacles, then picks up the warchanter by the scruff of her neck and barks at her.
Intimidate 1d20+20
** spoiler omitted **
HOW ON GOLARION DO YOU HAVE +20 TO INTIMIDATE AT THIS LEVEL? Everyone in the room should've just soiled themselves.
"Well, I suppose it's best to quiet those who lurk above before we explore downward. Won't do to leave anyone behind to rouse the cavalry, as it were."
The Goblin looks at Adonia, and speaks again in goblin.
Spoiler:
There should be more, patrolling outside. It sounds like all of the others from in here have come down to fight you. There are humans downstairs, they decided when we should burn your town. We just like to burn things.
The intimidate takes a little while, so I'll assume the others look up stairs while you do that alone.
The two sets of stairs lead up to two rickety towers. Both have been used recently as watch towers. One looks to have the remains of a picture-card game. The other has a large jar of some sort of stinking pickles, which has fallen over, and is leaking down the stairs. The goblins from up here have all come down and been fought already.
"Looks to me we killed 'em all." He comments as he gnaws on his toothpick with a bit more business. "Looks like downstairs to me." As he turns and heads back down.
Then he will manacle the goblin to something immobile and stand guard watching both the entrance and the way down stairs. When the others get back he says:
"It seems that there are some humans downstairs. Someone sneaky might want to take a look first."
The Goblin laughs hysterically, stopping after a minute or so enough to speak.
Spoiler:
"You haven't dealt with many Goblins, have you Two-Legs? They could e minutes, they could be hours, they could have fallen off the cliff chasing birds, and never come back."
Female Gnome Rogue 1/ Sorcerer (elemental: air) 3 | hp 26/26 | AC: 14 (14 touch, 11 ff) CMD 12 | Fort +2 Ref +6 Will +3 | Perception +7 | Init +3 | Attack of Opportunity +2
Adonai Soldatovic wrote:
Casey Jayne wrote:
"You all may not know this, but I ain't much of a sneak." He tells them as if that's news.
"Certainly the truth there. I wonder if they may have heard the boom of your cannons."
"They certainly heard you stomping around above their heads in metal pants," Jerjia sniffs. "Not to mention all the hearty shouts of 'What ho! Halt, miscreant!'"
Casey stares at the lawman, stares at Jerjia, and without a single expression upon his face, checks his gun and readies to move out. Best not to say anything. Just safer.
Wits looks intrigued for a moment, then shakes his head. "I believe the offspring would be unable to reproduce, which is a pity because their small size yet complete lack of stealth would be an intriguing trait to study."
A single lantern hangs from a hook on the wall next to where the stairs enter this room from the north. Several rickety doors open into this room, and a few discarded dog pelt rugs lie forgotten in the northeast corner
Stood in the doorway at the bottom of the stairs, there are three doors in front of you, one each to the left and right, and one in the same wall you are looking "out of".....
This has obviously been used as some sort of feasting hall for the goblins at some point, small bones litter the corners. But it's been cleared out somewhat recently.
The door leads into a short, dark, damp tunnel. 5ft further down, there is another door that hangs open to what could be a storeroom. Or a cave. It is difficult to tell as there are no torches in here. The walls do look more cavish, than constructed though. The soft surush of the sea can be heard through the cave system, and a small amount of light filters through from somewhere.
Crouching, Reynard scans the area for signs of when goblins most recently passed the area.
Spoiler:
Goblins pass this way on a daily basis, but almost never through any door other than the one you have open. Humans pass through the others though. Quite often.
Casey looks at him with a raised eyebrow. "Justice? Dang, lawman. Let's try to kill 'em before they give up. A lot less to keep up with." Casey surmises as he checks his gun again, making sure it's still loaded.
"Jealous?" the paladin quips to the gnome. "I got her manacled to the banister over there. If she can get out of that, I guess we'll just have to take care of her again."
Then to the gunslinger.
"Aroden's justice. And if I may recall, there was a lot of b+*!*in' and moanin' when I was going to bring that," he points to the warchanter. "to meet him."
"I said kill 'em before they give up. Not after. It ain't no fun killin' 'em when they give up. That's why I don't do it. I always find it easier to kill sumpin' when they're tryin' to kill you."
"Semantics are the soul of the law, paladin. Don't they teach you that in your Paladin school?" Wits checks the manacles on the goblin warchanter, just to ensure that she will not be getting loose. In a fit of mercy he retrieves the pickles from the table and sets them close to the shackled goblin. "Wouldn't do to have you die from hunger."
"Alright, let us see what fresh hell the goblins have conceived in the depths of this place, shall we?"
"Down here, I am the law. And I take no joy from administering this type of justice. But be that as it may, let's kill these fiends before they kill us. Or give up." He winks at Casey.
A single lantern hangs from a hook on the wall next to where the stairs enter this room from the north. Several rickety doors open into this room, and a few discarded dog pelt rugs lie forgotten in the northeast corner
Stood in the doorway at the bottom of the stairs, there are three doors in front of you, one each to the left and right, and one in the same wall you are looking "out of".....
This has obviously been used as some sort of feasting hall for the goblins at some point, small bones litter the corners. But it's been cleared out somewhat recently.
The door to the left hangs open, where Reynard has just been peering through....
Casey looks at the open door, chewing on the toothpick a bit more aggresively, as if it helps him think. "Well, we goin' through the left one?" He asks as he looks to Reynard.
Wintergreen's CE PA IT Geek 10/Daddy 9/Physicist 3/Cartographer 1/Runner 3/Cub Scout Leader 2/Musician 1
Hello, and welcome to my Rise of the Runelords-ish game!
We are just waiting for the last character to be built, then I'll give them a final look over, and we can get going.
One thing I would like (even if it's in your background already) is the reason for the character to be in Sandpoint for the Turandak Academy's Annual Inventors Parade.
Ok, I can't think of anything to spend my gold on anymore, so I should be all set barring DM suggestions. My character is from Sandpoint. Does he need a reason to be that the parade, or does he just need a reason to be in town?
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Dean Ninian Beard wrote:
Ok, I can't think of anything to spend my gold on anymore, so I should be all set barring DM suggestions. My character is from Sandpoint. Does he need a reason to be that the parade, or does he just need a reason to be in town?
"From Sandpoint" is reason enough. This is a whole parade through town thing (as you'll see later ;) ) so no other reason needed.
After his expedited departure from Magnimar, my character hears of the parade and heads north to his old stomping grounds of Sandpoint. After all, with his newfound funds, what better place to stop by and do some shopping for the latest gear than at an Inventors Expo?
Well, I created my alias as Emanual, but I can't figure out how to post on the boards under that name. Any help? Anyway, I got his background up on his profile, but I don't have my character sheet handy, so I'll have to post his stats later. Everyone feel free to read his info is you wish. I must warn you though, I am not the best speller and an even worse writer, so please forgive the errors that you find. As for why Emanual is in Sandpoint, he has good things of restuarants in Sandpoint and has heard that the owners of the resturants will be serving their best dishes for the parade. He is very excited to taste the differnet dishes from each place and hopes to come away with some fresh ideas for his future menu.
I forgot his description. Emanual is a tall and well built man with spiky black hair and deep green eyes. He wears a long black trench coat over his chain armor, and a smiling silver mask to cover his badly scarred face. He carries a very large sword that looks to be almost too big for even a man his size, and a heavy crossbow holstered on his back. A belt of many small pouches is slung around his waist and shoulder like a bandolier, holding many common and exotic spices that cause a pleasnt, if unusual aroma to surround him. He also carries a leather duffel bag full of various adventuring gear, including an iron pot and cooking utensils. After all, you can't go adventuring on an empty stomache.
Excuse my intrusion, just dotting to keep an eye on in case someone drops out and/or you find yourself looking for another player!
The concept looks awesome, unfortunately I missed the recruitment thread before you filled up, doh!
Good luck and enjoy the ride, folks!
My character's name was inspired by the protagonist of Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo - Edmond Dantés. I chose Luc as a French sounding first name.
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Just a couple of things, I know these maps are stylistically all wrong..I'm going to try and work on that, I just need to work out what a Victorian version would look like ;)
For the moment, they are doing what I need, since we don't need to be too accurate with placement, at the moment.
But, how does everyone feel about maps going forward? Must have? Nice to have? Would rather not have? Hexes or Squares? line drawn, or fancied up?
As I've mentioned before, this is a bit of a hobby, but I don't want that to distract from the game.
I don't need detailed maps. They help for tactics so for me, where everyone is and what kind of terrain is all I need. I would like to have them though.
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Luc Dantés wrote:
DM, you going to resurrect the OOC thread or create a new one, where we roll for hps, list 2nd level changes, etc. or should we just list it in this thread?
Will this do? ;)
When rolling hit points, any roll of less than half the dice value, gets rounded up to half.
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Just for fun. I'm starting to keep some notes on Obsidian portal I don't think you can add yourself as a player, but if you want to, just drop me an email and I'll "invite" you.
Once you are a player, you can edit the player views to keep your own notes, adventure log, or whatever. There's a bit of info in there about goblins up to now, that you've faced. It costs nothing, so it might be good to see where it leads....
Ninian is kind of annoying me. Any chance I can play Ninian out till we get the girl back to town, then he and the rest get in a big argument and go their separate ways? Maybe Ninian can still do occasional research and favors for the PC's as an NPC later on.
Anyway. If this is ok I still wouldn't mind continuing to play an Inquisitor (in order to keep another caster in the group), just a tougher more badass one. Maybe an investigator brought in by the Baron or something. Someone, more willing to shoot first and ask questions later. If I get the green light, I'll come up with something more specific.
Wintergreen's CE PA IT Geek 10/Daddy 9/Physicist 3/Cartographer 1/Runner 3/Cub Scout Leader 2/Musician 1
Dean Ninian Beard wrote:
Ninian is kind of annoying me. Any chance I can play Ninian out till we get the girl back to town, then he and the rest get in a big argument and go their separate ways? Maybe Ninian can still do occasional research and favors for the PC's as an NPC later on.
Anyway. If this is ok I still wouldn't mind continuing to play an Inquisitor (in order to keep another caster in the group), just a tougher more badass one. Maybe an investigator brought in by the Baron or something. Someone, more willing to shoot first and ask questions later. If I get the green light, I'll come up with something more specific.
That's absolutely fine by me. I wouldn't ask you to play something you don't want to.
I will warn you though, this dungeon is the biggest in this Module, so it could take a while to play out like that...Especially in a PBP. It took my real life group about 9 to 12 hours. If you want to discuss options, we can do that either here, or email me at nevyn @ anferny.me.uk
Not to be too much of a circling vulture, but I noticed you had a player just drop out. Are you looking for replacements? Javell (Zerekias) has given up on running RotRL, as we're about to start our 2nd year of Second Darkness and are only just halfway through, and I think we're going to run Serpent's Skull next. I have a steampunky character I rolled up for a game that never got off the ground (would need to be leveled down, obviously, and background tweaked). Javell would be interested in playing too, if you have room.
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Casts Resurrect....
Hi Folks. I wanted to apologise properly for my disappearing act!. I spent the 4 days in London, then got back to the busiest week of the year at work, and haven't actually spent any time in my office in nearly two weeks. Who's have thought opening a retail outlet could get so complex!
I'm about to post in the main thread. We are out of combat, and this room is exhausted.
We are now down two Players, but we also have two volunteers to run their PCs. Probably this will work until you leave this dungeon, then the PCs will either retire, and be replaced, or keep on under the new players, at their discretion.
Male Humanly Awesome 'n Totally Rockin' Paladin of Greatness
Hey thanks Nevynxxx. Good running with you again. It's been a while. I'll get the character copied over ASAP.
Thanks again for giving me a shot in this!
Edit: I will ask one question though. Any chance I can change his pic? That's just a TERR-I-BULL picture. No big deal if you'd rather I keep it, I just figured I'd ask.
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Javell DeLeon wrote:
Hey thanks Nevynxxx. Good running with you again. It's been a while. I'll get the character copied over ASAP.
Thanks again for giving me a shot in this!
Edit: I will ask one question though. Any chance I can change his pic? That's just a TERR-I-BULL picture. No big deal if you'd rather I keep it, I just figured I'd ask.
Glad to have you! Go for your life... I have to attachment to the icons ;)
Just to be clear though, if the original players want to return, that wont be a problem!
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Javell DeLeon wrote:
Hey Nevynxxx, IT is third in intiative, do I need to go ahead and post like the others or should I wait until IT's acted?
Ah, yes, post your action pretty much as soon as you can, I'm not worried about actions being posted in order, I only post up the next init to jog pople if they haven't posted yet. It gets a bit complex at times, but keeps the flow going.
Male Humanly Awesome 'n Totally Rockin' Paladin of Greatness
Well that makes no sense.
Apparently I've completely altered this character. Apologies for the drastic change. I've went and read through the original poster's post and it's obviously quite a difference.
Hoping I'm not ticking anyone off. Just thought it would be kind of fun. I've went with the whole "lack of self-confidence" bit, and to avoid dealing with it, went with the whole abrasive type attitude.
But will attempt at diverting back to the original character. (But I really don't see this guy as smarter than Dean. Wether it's me or somebody else running him. Mainly because of Dean's schooling background. But that's just my opinion.) :)
Again, apologies.
Oh, and one more thing. I ain't changing the avatar. That original one is just bad. I just flat don't like it. That's more of a 2 CHA, than a 7. :)
