Torn Tapestry (Inactive)

Game Master Jamesui

That sort of thing requires a bluff.
Guard Sense Motive: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10
Owl Bluff: 1d20 + 7 - 5 ⇒ (17) + 7 - 5 = 19
I'm considering this bluff to be "unlikely"
AHAHAHAHA love it! Bavarian Fire Drill underway!

A guard replies to OWL. "Possible intruder. Says he has papers. If the boss says they check out, he's probably a fixer or consultant. 'Bout damned time if you ask me. If not, then we lock him up and weigh our options. Maybe the little bastard is part of the reason our men keep going missing."

Forgot to mention - no one's really in uniform. Formality breaks down on the frontier, and, barring incidents like the above, most people know each other by face. Only about fifty men here at full capacity.

Leander is dragged into the front office. In it, a stout man sits at a desk reading through various papers. His balding forehead drips with sweat. Even at the dying of the day, it is still quite hot.

"I don't recognize this one," he says, eyeing Leander from head to toe. "I've not received word of a new hire. Did you find him trespassing?"

The guard restraining Leander speaks. "He says he's got company papers. Should-"

"Yes, yes!" the foreman interrupts. "Hand them over."

The guard pulls the papers out of the halfling's pocket and hands them to the foreman, who spreads them flat on the table and takes his time scrutinizing it with a magnifying glass.

Situation: Leander inside a 15 by 15 office with two guards. One at the door, one at the center and holding Leander. Foreman in the back of the room behind a desk. Door is closed. Owl speaks to a third guard outside the closed door. Other guards are returning to their posts.

I actually fully expected to be interrogated too since I showed up the same day but this works too. Also, what job is on the papers?

It takes some work to conceal his smile but Owl, now in the role of John Harris, manages a surprised look quite well. "Well that's good. Wasn't to keen on a job were people are going missing but it's the only work I could find around here. Who do I talk to, to get settled in?"

As the bald man looks as his papers Leander remarks, "As you can see my papers are in order. Continuing as he looks over his shoulder and up at the man holding him, "As some of you men have already surmised, I am here to investigate the disappearance that have been going on in the mine."

Crap. I thought I'd posted this already.

Leander

The man behind the desk ignores the halfling's words. "Go get Milethis," he says to the guard not holding Leander. "Tell him we may have an issue."

OWL
Welp, never mind

"Wait, what?" The guard talking to OWL looks a bit taken aback. "What do you mean, 'get settled in?'"

A look of understanding dawns across his features, and he reaches out to grab at OWL.

We're in initiative if you resist. If you resist, his attempt to grapple you occurs on his initiative. Basically, he didn't believe you were bluffing to be a new hire. He believed you were some faceless always-been-there. Once you gave up the ruse, he connected the dots with what's going on with Leander, whose story is much the same, and assumed you are together.

Even if this guard is an idiot, others might not be if a new face shows up. Best to be somewhat truthful.

Did he think I belonged here? Wow. Just. Wow. Owl pretends to be affronted by the manhandling but goes along anyway. "Yeah yeah. I'm comin. Stupid halfling. Soon as the commotion rose up the guide that brought me here ran off."

The man behind the desk ignores the halfling's words. "Go get Milethis," he says to the guard not holding Leander. "Tell him we may have an issue."

Peeved at being ignored the halfling tells the guard that is leaving, "Make it quick, I can't guarantee these men's safety if you dawdle.

"What are you looking at," Leander asks the man behind the desk.