Dingdingding! Yes, they are members of the Grey Maidens' successor organization known as the Scarlet Rose - those who tried reintegrating into Korvosa after the fall of the queen. And yes, Kintargo the city closest to Kintargo in Cheliax, being close to the border of Nidal. Korovosa's even closer than Magnimar - it's just barely into Varisia relatively speaking.
I'll move us on tomorrow, if no one's posted before then.
Raven, how do you have a +12 to your Stealth checks?
2 skill points, 3 class skill, 4 dex, 5 cloak of elvenkind,-2 acp. That cloak at level 1 is insane lol.
Dex +4, 2 ranks, 3 class, 5 cloak of elvenkind... hang on... that's not 12, that's 14... Oh, oops, forgot the ACP.
We know a priestess who can cast remove disease?
Aisling's immediate superior is a level 5 cleric, yes. So, strictly speaking she knows such a cleric.
Ah! Okay. I didn't think I'd lost the plot that badly, but you never know!
You're good. :P I try not to spring stuff on you guys like this, but since Aisling expressed disinterest in continuing to engage with the "Rexus is sick" plot, I figured that I might as well throw her at Darisca, who can make it go away with almost a literal snap of her fingers.
Vantine lives in Jarvis End. The closest marked location we have would probably be The Three-Legged Devil.
Well if we can just come by the cure honestly I guess there's no reason for a heist.
The Raven sighs and shakes his head, a great depression creeps over him as realization dawns that he will not be getting his deposit back on the getaway cart he booked.
Vantine lives in Jarvis End. The closest marked location we have would probably be The Three-Legged Devil.
To be fair, Jarvis End is also near Temple Hill, just on the other side. xD
FWIW, I've been assuming that Jessi's apartment is also in Jarvis End, in the block south of the block containing the ruins of the Silver Star.
Okay, making note of these things.
So, uh, odd but important question: how are the Ravens dressed, generally speaking?
Pretty much as described for Nyxra on her profile--she doesn't have any visible pouches on her person or anything like that.
Jessibel's mostly in black. As a rule, she uses prestidigitation to color the reds and oranges of her armor and new boots black before venturing out into the city streets, and her red-and-black reversible cloak almost always has the black side on the outside.
Hmmm... noted, noted...
Vantine would be in a dress for something like this. Consider it to be a notch above what the typical woman would wear day to day, very presentable. Also a heavy cloak with hood. She uses cosmetics daily, and wears some basic jewelry. She favors fairly basic colors, so say a light grey dress with a Varisian scarf for a splash of color tied around her shoulders shawl-style under the cloak.
Aisling's using the cold weather to wear a heavy cloak that mostly hiders her armour and shield slung over her back. You could probably tell that she's armed, but that's not unusual for most people these days I'm guessing.
Indeed it's not. It's actually alarmingly regular.
The Raven is wearing his usual stuff except for the smaller mask with his fancy elven cloak wrapped around himself to hide his armor.
Just to say that in the surpries round you get a move OR standard action, you can't usually move and then attack. If you're plaing it differntly that's fine but hopefully that will work in our favour too at some point :)
Oh, huh... Well, I'll let you guys take advantage of it next time there's a surprise round (in your favor), but then we'll go back to the normal way. You're quite right.
I totally forgot about that. I've been doing it wrong for awhile, I guess.
OK, that works :)
You guys handled that really well - Vantine's sleep really worked, 'cause they were all rogues, and would've been doing some serious flanking/sneak attacks if they'd had the chance.
Wait--one of them was named Riva?
Uh, did I mess up and choose a random name poorly? Because yes, the one Nyxra, uh, gutted was named Riva.
Well, one of the captains I described for the Fuchi sisters was named Riva Farrah... this isn't the same person, right?
Oops! I forgot about that. But no, this is not the same person - she's a tiefling, which Riva Farrah is not.
Just poking my head in to let you guys know I'm still here and reading, but I don't want to interrupt this excellent character interaction.
Was Aisling able to stabilize Riva?
Yep, she did. I'm pretty sure magical healing stops people from dying/auto stabilizes them, unless otherwise specified.
... though now that I say that, I can't actually find anything saying that.
Neat.
Also, was her boss the one who served as bait for the ambush or was that a subordinate?
Well, you don't know for sure at the moment who she's referring to as "boss." So... maybe?
I've always thought that any type of healing automatcially stablised because you have gained hit points as a reastul, but I can't find the rules.
I'm going to hold off posting any more in game to give the otehrs a chance, BUT can we please in future have group discussions (IC or OOC, Id don't mind) before we recruit? Anyone who hides in snow and tries to murder innocent people is NOT someone Aisling wants to have in the Revolution Resistance.
While Nyxra made a good point about police burtality against tieflings the fact is that these people are attempted murderers and the next time they try this, it might not be agating people who can defend themselves. Aisling's not about to kill them here and now, but the chance that she just lets them go and do this to someone else is very, very low. She'd have to be seriously outvoted by the rest of teh group if we're leaving the police out of this.
ALSO, @ Kintargo GM: we did make a point os speficilally disarming them before they woke up. So her sword is nowehere near her :)
Oh, fair enough. Disregard that!
But yes, I agree that the group should agree on whether to recruit someone OOC (though once they've done so, you can argue IC with whatever the agreement is winning out in the end) before starting the process IC.
It's also true that the dottari will probably throw them in prison and they'll be sentenced to excruciation, if not execution for attempted murder. That said, it's not like they're innocent of that...
Though there could be an argument made that an execution by the Silver Ravens is far more merciful than letting the dottari get them, given that excruciations are literally public torture spectacles.
Hm, that does sound bad. What about if we handed them over for mugging/assault rather than attempted murder?
Yeah, I kinda jumped the gun on that. Sorry about that.
Hm, that does sound bad. What about if we handed them over for mugging/assault rather than attempted murder?
That'd be an idea that Nyxra (and I) would be comfortable with.
Aisling would know that a mugging/assault charge is more likely to get them sentenced to fines and penal labor - possibly a beating or the like, as well. Nothing so grandiose and public as an excruciation, at least. Significantly less likely to result in their deaths, not as cruel, and more generally humane. At least on the Ravens' part. They're not likely to be very well treated in any penal labor areas, though.
No problem, Nysra :)
I have to say that Vantines isn't wrong here. I'm open to dropping the charges down to assault/mugging if there's some cooperation, but if they're still proud of what they did and refusing to help out or maek ameneds then I'm thinking we turn them in and let them take the full punishment.
Can anyone make the Perception check, or just Vantine?
Just Vantine, I'm afraid.
More than actually killing the tieflings (even if it hadn't been set up for character reactions before doing a coup de grace Vantine probably would have failed to do anything significant with her attempt), I wanted to work in a little reminder that Vantine isn't human. She's a good mimic, and mostly not even consciously, but her psychology is at variance from that of a human. Even though she's mild mannered under most circumstances, best not to cross her...
It worked vreery well! :)
I think we're wating either/both on the outcome of the grapple check and/or Jessible and Raven to post.
Sorry, that was partly on me being kind of tired yesterday. I'll post the result of the grapple soon.
OK, my take on the fact that there's 20 of them (assuming she's telling the tiruth) means that this isn't a gang we're menat to be taking on ourselves. Even if they're all 1st level, that's like a CR 7+ challenge or something.
I will say what she has only implied - most of them are not at the base most of the time. Indeed, it couldn't really hold that many of them. This is a challenge you can take on yourselves.
The majority of members are out, well, doing whatever gangs do. Shaking down stores, mugging people, the occasional murder, warring with other gangs, that sort of thing. They also probably have bolt-holes and homes of their own.
Are we thinking about diverting from our original purpose to go to the lair then?
I wasn't, but GM Kintargo has corrected my assumption. I think if teh Silver Ravens took down the Red Jills that would be a feather in our caps, making the streest safe for people. (Yes, the pun is intended.)
For now, lets keep to origininal plan and go after the Jills later. They aren't going anyewhere.
EDIT: remind me, what was our origina plan?