Nor do I. As long as we come back eventually.
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"Well, for starters, what can you tell those of us who are new here and know nothing about the town what the rather large building in the center of the map is?"
With Pai Song's player's status unknown, we're down to 3 PCs now. Myself, Henric and Vincent. Seb, would you like to reach out and see if anybody is interested in joining us from your other games??
"Listen little girl, if you can't make an educated guess as to what I might have meant when I said 'investigate further', that is not my fault." The tattooed man says, in the tone of voice one takes when speaking to somebody much younger. Truly, they were all infants in comparison.
Aleister sighs "I did not suggest we 'just barge in'. All I asked is if we could be shown an entrance, and if we wanted to even bother investigating any further. Which I would imagine would include more information gathering, and verification of what we've been told."
"That seems a rather large area, do you think you could lead us to an entrance." He looks at his companions "Assuming we want to go and investigate this further?"
Once Ameiko returns with the map, Aleister address their captive. "Alright Tessa, we have a map, can you show us where this 'hidden place' you mentioned before?"
"Sounds good, lead the way. Shall we take the prisoner with us?" He pauses and turns back to the sorceress. "Apologies, I have been most rude and never even asked you your name. If we're to be allies, it would be best to have something far more appropriate to call you then 'prisoner'."
"I'm sure Vincent would be quite wiling to accompany you." The mage offers, flashing the gunslinger a grin.
Aleister chuckles "That can also work, I'm not sure she needs to come with us."
Aleister sighs heavily, "You've clearly never dealt with magic users much, have you? Bind her hands, place a blindfold over her eyes, and a gag her mouth, and you have limited her ability to cast as best as possible." He says in a patient tone, like one adopts when speaking to a child.
"Sounds good, lead the way. Shall we take the prisoner with us?" He pauses and turns back to the sorceress. "Apologies, I have been most rude and never even asked you your name. If we're to be allies, it would be best to have something far more appropriate to call you then 'prisoner'."
"Uh, I would love to provide you said map, but I've only just arrived in town. So, I'm not much help there." He looks to Ameiko. "Could you supply our guest here a map?"
It's absolutely my fault that this game has stalled atm, as I completely forgot you replied. However, should something like this(where an NPC can provide the solution as opposed to a PC), you need to just step in and do so. Assuming of course, it's something minor like providing paper and writing implements so a map could be made.
"Despite his reservation, my companion brought up a good point. Can you draw us to this 'hidden place, beneath the earth' ?"
"Where's your ancient refuge? And our there anymore attacks planned by other groups, now that you've failed?"
"And what of those you brought with you? I believe many of them escaped the attack on the ship. Where would they have gone?"
"Let's start with the basics. What did you hope to accomplish with the attack, and why were you chosen to lead it?"
Re: Sense motive on the group watching Aleister question the prisoner: Hmm, I would say this is basically reading a room that you just walked into. My suggestion would be that those who feel they should conceal their reactions can make a bluff check, but maybe with a penalty as they are focused on the questioning. I'm also wondering if they should even get a check in the first place, because they might be too distracted to 'fake a reply'.
"Have mercy good master, for I am bound to a cruel mistress. My fate has been too cruel. Only show me a little mercy and I will reveal all." Aleister is quiet for several moments, letting his prisoner squirm in the silence. Finally, he speaks. "I am open to negotiating, perhaps up to and including your release. I might even be willing to grant you protection, depending on how useful your information ends up being."
"Yet you failed, and I do not think your Dark Lady will reward failure. In fact, I get the feeling you be will punished most severely."
Ahatsunu discussion: Aleister has been awake and active since Aroden died, which is about 100 years prior to the events of Rise. He may not have been to Sandpoint specifically in those 100 years, but he has certainly wandered all over Varisia. In the end, it's up to you, and I'm okay with whatever you decide makes the most sense. Clearly, with my massive bonus to linguistics, I don't have problem with making that check. I was just wondering if that's the best skill to use here. If you still think Aleister shouldn't have any knowledge at all of Ahatsunu, that's okay too. I just wanted to be clear about how long he's been awake and active for.
come on people, let's kick this back into gear -- these are all pretty much RP posts that don't require looking up any rules, we should have more posts. Seb, it's the weekend plus holiday month. Also, Pai Song apparently has the flu, and is super busy with family as well. Henric is out of action due to family visiting for a week or so. We're down two PCs temporarily. I will do what I can, but it's gonna be slow going no matter what.
"Does your mistress have a name? Has she sent others to attack Sandpoint?"
Aleister steps inside the cell, and sits down facing their prisoner. He then pulls up his sleeve to show her his tattoo of the Rune of Wrath. As he begins to speak, the Sihedron tattoo adoring his brow begins to glow softly. "Before we were so rudely interrupted, you were telling us of your mistress. Why did you attack the Shallowtail Festival, and on whose orders?"
"Apologies, I meant the cloaked woman. As I said, I personally do not claim any knowledge of who she is. I know what she spoke of in her vulgar, alien tongue, and I know who she worships. I also know she attempted to end her life, but we prevented that. Anything else is pure conjecture on my part. Which is why I suggest we continuing interrogating her."
"We were in the middle of trying to learn exactly what role the cultist played, before we interrupted first by the utter insanity that was Ynja stealing Fumiko's body and then by you and the knights showing up. Perhaps we should continue interviewing her?"
Hey Seb, How are we going to handle Ynja leaving? Has she just disappeared? Was she also placed under arrest? Do we just ignore everything she did/said?
"One wonders what difference it really makes if she is sorceress or a divine agent or merely just a woman with a magic item. Should we not be more interested in whether or not she was the leader of the attack on the shrine, and if so, what to do with her? Unless you plan on basing your sentencing on if she is a spellcaster or not."
"I am unable to offer any sort of proof of her magickal ability, or lackthereof. While the battle raged between my companions and this woman, I was busy directing the townsfolk away from the fighting, and saving the life of Yoshi." Aleister replies in his calm, even voice.
"That's not exactly an excuse for the seemingly mindless butchery that I see down here. Tell me is such mutilation of the dead common nowadays?"
Aleister walks quietly along with the rest of his companions, noting the corpses both whole and otherwise. "Interesting assortment of bodies down here. Seems a little bit out of place for such a small town's jail." He says to Belor.
Everyone, I'm doing star wars cut screen to the barracks unless anyone else has anything additional that they want to add. Sorry, I somehow missed you made a new in game post. I can definitely make a post at the garrison. Apologies.
"You mean you want us to actually follow the suggestion I've attempting to make for some time now and go speak someplace private?"
Aleister chuckles at that last statement "I'm a high priest of the Immortal Lissala, while our new arrival is a ranking member of Gozreh's faith. You're not exactly special friend."
I'm already pretty frustrated with this game with all the group infighting and the result I now have to retcon stuff to get it back on track in kind of a messy way. In light of having to put up with all that, I'm definitely doing whatever I feel like with it in terms of setting and the worldbuilding elements I find interesting. There's no need to retcon anything. Put Ynja in jail for stealing the body of Fumiko, and that solves that nicely. It's already in place. No need to get exotic.
That's fair, and I'm not complaining. Nor am I trying to convince you change your mind, or imply that I'll drop due to not being in Golarion. Just stating my general preference for the setting. As long as the lore of Varisia, Thassilon, Azlant, and the Runelords are intact, along with Lissala(Aleister's goddess/immortal), that's all that reallty matters to me.
I suppose that's fine, though I'm unsure as to why you're going through all this trouble of fleshing out a setting we'll never explore. Rise doesn't leave Varisia at all. If we were able to go beyond that country, I would much rather explore the nations of Golarion, but since it's contained within those boarders, I'm curious of the need to detail everything else. One of the things that appeals to me about Golarion is that it's obviously inspired by it's predecessors. However, more so than that, within just the Inner Sea, one can literally run pretty much any sort of game one wishes, regardless of genre. As much as I love Faerun and Eberron, that's not really the case for either of them. Perhaps in Oreth, though I don't know that setting all that well.
I have some important fluff updates coming for the setting. I bought a couple of products for a 3pp. Setting called Amethyst last time rpgdrivethru had a big sale and I love what I've been reading. I'm going to incorporate a lot of that into this world. Seems interesting, but I must say, I hope we don't stray too far from the lore and setting of the Runelords and Vairsia. The main reason I'm playing in this is because I am absolutely fascinated by the lore of Thassilon, sin/rune magic, and the current permutations of them all in the current setting of Golarion. I've also tried and failed to play through Rise of the Runelords close to a dozen times, including a RL game. That was the one that lasted the longest, and we got to around midway into book 2, I believe. I know you've said you weren't really keen on the actual world of Golarion, but I'm worried you're going to alter too things to the point of being unrecognizable.
I was looking for something, and went back through both the discussion and gameplay threads, which reminded of something that still hasn't been settled: Ynja, what was the point of you attempting the tactic of claiming that the PCs were bad guys, somehow in league with those who attacked the shrine? Why did you lie about being Ynja in a different body? I know you said that was there was some telepathy going on, but I posted about how that was all out loud speech based on the use of bold text vs italics.
And Yes the sorceress is the actual villain here. So why not concentrate on her. And let Ynja happily wait with the sharif until your done. You see this started when Ynja showed up and tried to explain what had happened to her. Where by the party stopped dealing with the sorceress and went for Ynja instead. And as far as I can tell are still going after Ynja. It's really your call, deal with sorceress or Ynja. Ynja just wants to show what happened without pregicde, she feels right now she is not getting a fair hearing as there seems to be a bunch of men trying to control her and her actions. The knights, and now this new stranger. She feels a wee bit put upon. This was actually what Aleister suggested. Between the sorceress, Ynja/Fumiko and Knights accusing the PCs of being involved with the attack on the town, there's a lot that needs to be resolved. Aleister suggested we all go someplace private to discuss all of this. Like to the town jail or the mayor's house or somewhere not outside among the townsfolk.
Ynja, I'm not sure why you suddenly decided to say Aleister can't go to the lab, as his only concern right now is to make sure the sorceress is properly incarcerated as she's the actual villain here. He thinks its a bad idea to bring a bad guy to a location where there might be other bad guys. Seems like a logical concern, no?
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