PFS PbP - Thornkeep - The Dark Menagerie (lvl 5-7) (Inactive)

Game Master Revvy Bitterleaf

Grimdoc will follow along behind the leaders.

"Our missing wizard's gotta be hiding in there somewhere!"

So through the door further to the east it is?

spellcraft jacuzzi : 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (6) + 14 = 20
"A man after my taste. A little luxury nrver hurt anyone. Wonder what it does though..."

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All Logain is able to figure out that it will be a nice relaxing tub to soak in

"Hey, time fer that later. Lets get this next door and make sure it aint full of rubber duckies or shampoo."

Unless objections are raised, the portly dwarf will open the east door.

East it is. Will use another charge of aspect of the falcon

After Snow Adder prepares himself for battle Grimdoc opens the door to reveal:

Fresh blood splatters the white tile of this operating laboratory, which is lit by mirrored lamps hung from chains suspended in the shadows of the distant ceiling. A sturdy wooden table near the center
of the room holds the lightning-charred corpse of a bald human man with a broom-bottom beard. Smaller tables and bookcases nearby hold the gore-spattered spoils of a recent battle.

Of more immediate concern are the room's living inhabitants: Man, who fits the description you for Togarin and his pet, a skinles s dire tiger.
The apprentice greets you warmly (despite his dubious surroundings). He welcomes you in Azlanti, saying,

"Anyone understand what he's yammering about?" Snow Adder keeps an arrow nocked and ready to quickly train on the man or his "pet."

"No clue. But he sure is a chatty fellow."

Grimdoc will detect evil on the man while he is talking.

Logain does and will translate for the group. More from me later

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The man doesn't detect as evil, if you cycle all aligments..he detects as neutral

Samuel looks just as confused by the translation as he does by the original Azlanti speech.

"Paradox? What's he talking about?"

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Right, what pair of docks? We ain't even near water!"

"Think we're out of our element here Logain...though I certainly don't like the look of his 'friend'."

"Grimdoc, I don't think that's what he means, but putting aside what a Paradox is, how do we create one?" Marcel cannot help but think aloud.

Calistan tries to read everyone's lips, but the conflicting words makes it tough. He shrugs and lets the mouth-speakers handle it.

"He don't seem evil, but I am not sure we can take him at his word. I am not sure how e create the situation he describes. Is it one of them there logic puzzles?"

Grimdoc scratches his beard and pulls out a trail ration to munch on while thinking.

"Is his skinless tiger evil? Not really sure what to make of him given the state this room is in and what we've heard before."

The tiger also detects as neutral

The man looks at you, waiting for your response.

"So Togarin, you are saying that Rozimus is no more and that Vuzhon took over his body hmm? It sounds like something you young wizards would try. Do you have any good theory behind why a paradox would work for you? And would you be willing to share information about this place once free...?" Logain replies in a the same language as the man is speaking.

Grimdoc cannot respond to the man, and just waits to see if he responds to Logain.

"Good thing Logain is able to speak whatever this madman is speaking."

"Yeah, good thing, huh Snow? I say we drag this one back to the other wizard and make them play
three rounds of rock/scroll/dagger/lizard to see who wins title of head nutcase of this place - Hhahahaarrrr!"

sorry for not updating sooner, busy day yesterday and when I had time to log on and update the site was down

Rozimus goes into some arcane explanation about why a time paradox would disrupt the magic surrounding this place which makes sense to logain

"So what say you? Will you kill Rozimus and create a time paradox?

sM : 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (18) + 11 = 29

"Whats he saying now, Logain. He does not look happy whatever you said. See if he wants to come with us."

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14 Assuming he's human, but that still doesn't get it for Snow Adder.

Logain ponders for a moment but agrees in the end. "Very well, we will create a time paradox. Do we have to kill your ex-colleague to do it then? I figure you two would like to get rid of the other one, but that is not really our concern, unless you have something to offer us for it."

"Oh, and Logain, ask him if he has any more of them there Ioun stone doodads. We may need a few of those to get out of this place."

"Ah yes, any Ioun stones around? We might need them to set off the paradox as well as move around this place easier."

"The way to set of a time paradox is to kill Rozimus before Vuzhoon can posses him, but killing my other ex-colleague might work as well if you plan to try that"

"The time array is made out of ion-stones, but it's almost impervious to damage. The best way is to disrupt the magical protecting it by causing a feed-back loop by creating a paradox."

(The time array is the magical item that is causing you to be locked in here, destroying most likely will remove the need for you to have ion stones to be able to get out - and as he mentioned, is made out of ion stones. It's located in the room behind where you met the other apprentice.)

Calistan frowns at this.

Sense Motive: 1d20 ⇒ 7

He thinks it over before deciding that he will follow the group's plan.

Snow Adder is clearly out of his league with trying to follow this guy's language.
Sense Motive: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9
Making him undoubtedly another great recruit for the Dark Archive :)

Sense Motive: 1d20 ⇒ 15

"Why do I get the feeling this fella is hiding another option from us?" Marcel asks as Logain translates.

Can we sense motive if we do not understand him?

Grimdoc tries to understand to see if the man says anything about Ioun Stones.

SM: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (5) + 11 = 16

The dwarf nods his head at Marcel.

I am with you on that, Marcel.
Logain, if he said he ain't got any Ioun Stones...well, whatever he said, I think he is being dishonest."

Can we sense motive if we do not understand him?

I think it's mostly about body language, so as far as I know it should be possible..might be a bit difficult though

(What do you guys want to do?)

sense motive Logain: 1d20 ⇒ 9
sense motive Navi: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 = 20

Though seemingly at ease at first, Navi flies close to his ear and communicates something no one can understand. Logain frowns for a moment but nods.
Again in Azlanti Logain speaks "Hmm very well... we'll see to this time paradox. First I want to see the device for myself, perhaps I can figure something out from it. Anything you could tell us about your colleagues that could aid us, should we proceed to remove them?"

In common speak repeats what he said and suggests to go to the device before resorting to more aggressive options.

"They are powerful casters, what more do you need to know?"

He's clearly getting agitated with you for not simply complying with him

Grimdoc grows concerned...or is it just hungry?

"All this chatting is making me hungry. We gotta plan yet? Is he coming with us? Any of them there flyin stones?."

Since this is taking quite some time already, if you have any questions just ask them and I'll try answer them. And you guys can decide what to do; leave or attack him or something else if you want. He's basically asking you to go find and kill someone who's innocent (at least at this point) just to prevent something from happening (which you may or not be able to stop in a different way) he's not radiating evil, but he's not asking you to do something which is considered "nice"

He's not coming with you btw, he can't leave his "research"

Samuel is not in favor of killing the third party, especially given how there is another potential solution.

Grimdoc is with Samuel on this one. We reasearch the alterative solution since he does not trust this guy...evil or otherwise .

"Tell him we will be back. Lets keep looking ."

Grim's suggestion works for me.

Calistan shakes his head. He won't participate in the killing of a third party for no reason other than to free this man. He would rather give Grimdoc some money to go buy cheap ioun stones for the party to leave.

Grimdoc loses interest in the man.

"Logain, ask him what is beyond these here doors to the north? I'd say lets keep looking. There may be some of them ioun stones around yet."

"There are more rooms to the north. I wouldn't recommend you guys going there. You wouldn't like what would happen when you go there. I would recommend you kill Rozimus as soon as you see him."

The tiger growls if you start to move closer to the north side of the room

"Tell your tiger to stand down. Our primary mission is to explore all of these rooms. We'll take our chances with the dangers ahead."

"Enough of this. Tell him that we will not kill another innocent party just to placate his wishes. The Eagle Knights do not stand for those who oppress others, even within an ancient dungeon. We have delayed here long enough. Either he tells us another way to escape this mist or allows us to continue our exploration north."

Samuel begins to advance towards the northern exit, raising his shield, should the tiger try anything.

Grimdoc nods and follows behind Samuel.

"What he said!"

"You do not tell me what to do! I tell you what to do! And right now that is DIE!"

The man snaps his fingers and the tiger starts to intercept the moving Samuel

Init Samuel: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4
Init Grimdoc: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20
Init Marcel: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (16) + 8 = 24
Init Snowadder: 1d20 + 11 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 11 + 2 = 14
Init Calistan: 1d20 - 5 ⇒ (17) - 5 = 12
Init Logain: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3
Init Tiger: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21
Init Logain: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17

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Marcel
Tiger
Grimdoc
Togarin
Samuel, Snowadder, Calistan, Logain