Shadowed Futures (Inactive)

Game Master Signore di Fortuna

Jerrica points at the black water in the chasm. "So is there something we can do about that or can we go now?"

She shakes her head, "I don't think there's anything we can do about that right now. We might have to come back to that later. So.....what do we do now? We've got those maps Isotalo was asking for. We can take them to him and then see where to go from there." Going over to Vishanti she asks, "What do you want to do? This place still seems pretty creepy to me, I wasn't sure what you wanted to do about it. We don't have to do anything about it right now if you don't want to. Whatever you want to do though, I'll support you."

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"Ain't nothin' else t' fight in here, ain't no treasure or nothin'. Let's get th' hell back t' Vinse so we can forget this damned fort e'en exists."

"I do want to ...cleanse this place." Vishanti says, her eyes scanning the structure around them, "But we did agree to get the maps to Isotalo. I suppose we could achieve that and then come back...those of you who are willing that is." the shamaness replies.

"Get paid and solve the problem? I like it," Jerrica says. "Then maybe we can get some R&R for a few days before figuring out what to do from here."

Knowledge (Religion, Planes, Arcana), anyone?

Know Arcana: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20

know planes: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (11) + 5 = 16
know religion: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7

Derika and Abigail know that the water is tainted by the negative energy plane. It will take strong holy magic, such as the spell Hallow, to purify this place.

Walking over to Vishanti she puts a gentle hand on her shoulder, "I want you to be able to finish cleansing this place too....but, the taint here is very very strong. Like....it's tainted by the negative energy plane itself. It would take very powerful Holy magic to heal this place completely. We might have to wait on that for a while....who knows, maybe we'll meet someone at some point that can handle that kind of cleansing....but, even if we don't Abby is with us and eventually I'm sure she'd be able to handle that. All I can tell you is that we won't forget about this place and someday we'll come back and finish what we started, for you and your ancestors." She rubs her friends arm in an attempt to offer some comfort.

religion: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 27

Yes, let's come back after a brief respite.

He looks at Vishanti. We'll see this through. It'll be cleansed soon enough. I think a night's rest will do us all a lot of good.

3rd level is a special time in an evoker's life...

Knowledge Religion: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23
Knowledge Planes: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (9) + 6 = 15
Knowledge Arcana: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (8) + 7 = 15

Everyone (except Thangrom and Jerrica) knows what the problem is.

We'll explain on the way back to town. We need a reset. We'll wake up 3rd level.

Thangrom doesn't have anything but Knowledge (nature) anyway.

"Right. Let's get movin'."

"Thank you." Vishanti says quietly, accepting the comfort. "I suppose we should get going back to town then."

The trip back to Vinse is uneventful and strangely quiet after all you had been through. The air outside of the keep seems less oppressive and the townsfolk seem a bit happier upon your return.

At Isotalo's, the sage gives the group five hundred gold as promised and takes the maps inside to study them. He invites you to come back if you would like to learn more about Hadramkath. The sage expresses an interest in investigating the ruins, yet he does not press the matter.

You're doing a good thing, here. We'll see it done, whether it takes weeks or years.

He gives Vishanti a wink and a nod. I want to take a look at those maps, before we give them away...

EDIT: Late post. If we can't sneak a peek, looks like we'll get that info, anyway.

They are just overland maps.

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Kewl.

i don't recall if Abigail was part of the deal to recover the maps or not.

She wasn't present when it came up, but I'm sure the party will share with her and Thangrom.

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ok that's fine just wasn't sure If I was present for that part or not...

Returning to Vinse, Abigail gives Vishanti back her family shield.

I'm sorry for any trouble I caused, and I thank yo for the use of your family shield. It is not my place to keep this. It belongs to you and you should decide what should be done with it. but as long as you need me, I will be here. I may not have the necessary skills to cleanse the keep, but I will do what I can to complete that mission.

Once back in town, Abigail returns to the inn for a good warm meal. and inquires about a bed.

the others (or at least Derika, Vishanti, and Telsyn) went to see someone about some maps. she didn't want to muttle things since she did not make any deals about the maps. she knew that those that made the deal would split the reward appropriately.

Telsyn is curious about Hadramkath. He asks Isotalo to tell us more about the ruins.

Later, he'll want to copy some found spells into his spellbook. He'll return the sword to Vishanti, or carry it for her, as she likes.

Rolling to see which he can learn. DC 16.
disguise self 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (19) + 9 = 28
hold portal 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11
hypnotism 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (8) + 9 = 17

DC 17.
darkvision 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (17) + 9 = 26
false life 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (8) + 9 = 17
invisibility 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (8) + 9 = 17

6 hours.

All but hold portal. He'll copy disguise self, darkvision and invisibility into his book.

5 hours, 90 gp.

He'll hang onto the other spells for now, and maybe use them to trade for other magic later. Hypnotism and false life are in his opposed schools.

I'm not sure how much money we'll have. Telsyn is already ahead of WBL. He should have enough. Let's grab that crossbow we didn't want and sell that, too.

I'll let you guys sort out money and downtime. Things IRL have been a bear so I'm not in a particular rush to move things along just yet.

Just say we grabbed whatever we left behind to sell. We divide everything equally no matter who was where at the time cuz that's how we roll. WPL don't mean s%+# in our world. What you make, you make. End story. I'm still feeling fairly awful and the stress of everything right now hasn't been helping matters. I might go to a dr one day.....but I trust em as about as far as I can throw an elephant. If I'm not better by next month and I keep getting sick like this and losing weight in not fun ways.....Ill think about it. I just don't think there's much they can do.

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The book wasn't stingy with loot and, if you actually had taken it all and sold it, you each could probably have bought a nice house in a good part of one of the major cities. I'm not stingy with loot either, but I try not to overdo it.

The thing is...realistically we can't carry every single thing we find while adventuring. That's why I said once we were done clearing the place out, we go through all the rooms we cleared out and gather everything up worth selling and take it into town. Of course this might take a couple trips. But I'm not opposed to it. Lol I just have to look back through and write down the stuff that I didn't take before. It's gonna have to wait until tomorrow though. I feel like crap and I'm not up to hunting for it tonight. Quite a bit of things went to getting me new armor though since I was having my guts ripped out every other fight.

The thing is...realistically we can't carry every single thing we find while adventuring. That's why I said once we were done clearing the place out, we go through all the rooms we cleared out and gather everything up worth selling and take it into town. Of course this might take a couple trips. But I'm not opposed to it. Lol I just have to look back through and write down the stuff that I didn't take before. It's gonna have to wait until tomorrow though. I feel like crap and I'm not up to hunting for it tonight. Quite a bit of things went to getting me new armor though since I was having my guts ripped out every other fight.

on the plus side... every other fight your guts remained in tact...So you got that going for you.

Yeah, we're all breathing. Considering the dice, that's pretty good.

Derika: Why don't you post the grand list of loot and someone can calculate how much you guys made?

Alright....I can do that. Sorry it might take me a bit to find all of it.

Okay....here's the Mass Loot List:

2 light crossbows, 20 bolts, 2 studded leather armors, two +1 light wooden shields, a flail, a small onyx worth 50 gp, a dark blue fur-lined cloak worth 30 gp, a silver belt buckle worth 10 gp, mwk heavy flail, mwk longspear, mwk half-plate, three scrolls of cure light wounds, scroll of protection from good, spell component pouch, 2 onyxes worth 50 gp each, a dagger, 3 darts, 2 heavy wooden shields (small), 2 mwk studded leather armors (small), 2 longswords (small), Derika finds 4 sticks of incense (worth 5 gp each), a golden statue of some foul looking creature, Heavy crossbow, 10 bolts, 3d4 + 20 ⇒ (3, 1, 2) + 20 = 26 gp, 3d6 ⇒ (4, 6, 5) = 15 sp, 3 belt pouches, 3 handaxes (small), 3 shortbows (small), 60 arrows (small), mwk. falchion (large), 3 mwk. javelins (large), golden earrings, +1 buckler (large), plate arms and legs, tawdry jewelry, 3 belt pouches, 3 mwk. studded leather armors, 6 sickles (2 appear to be poisoned), a golden necklace with four carnelians, masterwork thieves' tools, electrum braiding. The braiding is worth 20 gold alone, a pair of golden earrings in the shape of flowers worth 150 gold.

Okay, so that's all of the Loot aside from what we've used or are currently using and stuff that was actually worth something. I'll let you tally it up boo bear.

After a night of rest and recovery, Derika along with whoever else wanted to go, goes back and collects all the other things they left behind and finds where to sell everything so they can all divvy up the loot among themselves.

Derika goes to Abby and hands her the scroll of Bless, "Here, I think this might come in handy sometime. It's just like having an extra if you need it. I just thought maybe you could use it."

I'm keeping the aspergilium cuz ya never know when you're gonna hafta smack the crap outta some evil thing with holy water. Lol

After scrounging and haggling with Vinse's tradesmen, your selling nets the group a tidy sum of four thousand eight hundred and sixty one gold pieces.

Okay...so here's everything after doing some figuring and how it's gonna be divided up. We are splitting evenly six ways. Derika, Vishanti, Telsyn, Thangrom, Abby, and Jerrica. Jerrica is not my pet and I do not keep her, she's earned her cut and it helps to keep her taken care of so she can continue to help us. Henry said to leave Kerrko out of the split, so that's fine. After working everything out, there will only be two copper left over and I was planning on giving that to Lynnie as a way of saying thanks for everything she's done, if that's cool with everyone. I know it's not a lot, but we're not really done here yet either.

Here's our totals and how much apiece we will each get: PP 24, GP 6,060, SP 1,338, and CP 2538. That is how much we have total. This is how much each of us get from that: PP-4, GP-1,010, SP-223, and CP-423.

After splitting everything and counting it all out in her room, Derika takes the divided spoils of their labors and gives all of her friends their share. Going to Lynnie she hands her the two extra copper that were left over, "I know it isn't much, but I just wanted to say thank you for showing us such kindness."

"Well, I appreciate you thinking of me, Derika," Lynnie says. "So where will you go from here? I know Vinse isn't much for some up and coming adventurers."

She shrugs, "I'm not really sure yet, but there were a couple maps we retrieved for Isotalo and it seems that he's interested in exploring there. I know there is still a taint on that keep that needs to be taken care of...but, at the moment we're unable to do anything about that. I guess the short answer would be, I don't really know? Hey, before we all start trying to decide where to go next, or what to do, do I owe you anything for the rooms and food? I sometimes have trouble keeping up with things like that." She asks as she waits to hear what the others are interested in doing. They might think of her as some kind of leader, but she certainly didn't and wanted to know what the rest of her friends were interested in doing. She stops and considers things for a moment. Did she really think of them as her friends? Yeah...I guess I really do. Huh...so that's what that feels like.

Telsyn glances at Derika.

She's so kind, and she has such a big heart. I'd follow her anywhere.

"Twenty gold will go a long way to cleaning up and putting fresh sheets on the bed," Lynnie says. "I feel bad about charging you when you've done so much for us."

She shakes her head as she pulls out her coin pouch from somewhere on her person, "No...no Lynn, it's okay. We are people, just like everyone else. We don't expect stuff for free. We're not gonna eat your food, take up space in your inn, and use your bathing rooms and not compensate you for them." Without a second thought, Derika counts out twenty gold and hands them over to Lynnie. She gives her a small smile, "You didn't have to keep rooms available for us, but you did and that says a lot to me." She thinks for a moment and gives her another two gold, "Can we just get something to eat and drink while we're trying to figure out what to do next, if you're not to busy?"

Lynnie nods and heads to the kitchen. "Roasted lamb and buttered asparagus sound good?"

She practically salivates at the table as her eyes get really big and glossy lookin', "Good? That sounds amazing and better than the soup I was thinking about. Thanks Lynn, you're the best."

Vishanti smiles at Derika's reaction to the impending meal. "So do you want to explore the place in those maps? I accept that right now there is little more we can do at the keep."

Looking at Vishanti she gives a slight shrug, "I was kind of thinking about it, but I wanted to know what everyone else wanted to do. If everyone agrees that they're interested in these ruins then we can go talk to Isitalo after we eat." She says as she looks around at the others.

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Sounds like a plan. I'd like a day or 2 to learn some of the new spells we found, then I'll be good to go. We can learn about the map and the ruins in the mean time. You can never be too prepared.

She nods, "I don't think a day or two to rest and prepare for the unknown is gonna hurt anyone's feelings. I know I wouldn't mind a day or two to just relax without things trying to kill us every few minutes."

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"It would give me time to commune with the spirit world and see if it is the best course of action." Vishanti says thoughtfully.