::you want me to listen at all of the doors while invisible? and then we can go from start to finish and check the rooms ? ::
you do so, using up the rest of your invisibility. you don't hear anything. I'd suggest just giving a pattern of action and i'll describe the rooms until something occurs and let you know how long each search takes.
:: let me just check the halls and see if we find anything ::
chugs invisibility extract. pulls ripcord on wings and flies down the halls to check them out. take 10 on stealth: 38. should be enough to scout a bunch of the areas.
1-16 wrote:
This large courtyard is empty, silent, and dark. A fountain still flows with clear water in the otherwise dank and moldy yard. The centerpiece of the fountain resembles the form of Charon on his skiff, ferrying souls to the underworld. The rest of the courtyard is littered with moss and lichen on the stone, dusty webs, and looks pretty uninhabited.
perception:1d20 + 9 ⇒ (16) + 9 = 25
10 doors adjoin the high ceilinged courtyard
1-27 wrote:
Beyond the courtyard, it looks like it opens up into a massive open hall with vaulted ceilings. Past the ornate archway, six huge columns support the palacial room. Every surface carved in baroque scenes of daemons and their humanoid allies marching together.
perception:1d20 + 9 ⇒ (11) + 9 = 20
this room is too massive to check with just one check. as is, you don't notice anything out of the ordinary with it or any creatures in it.
1-27A wrote:
A large stone throne decorated with scenes of daemonic victory over angels sits on a dais.
perception:1d20 + 9 ⇒ (4) + 9 = 13
1-28 wrote:
an empty chamber. a metal rod stil crosses the lip, indicating that some kind of curtain once separated this from the main chamber.
perception:1d20 + 9 ⇒ (10) + 9 = 19
1-29 wrote:
an empty chamber. the open archway covered by a ragged silk tapestry, so soiled its difficult to make out the great white horse skull that adorns it surrounded by a ring of jagged daemonic iconography that loosely translates "All must ride with the horsemen
perception:1d20 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 12
your fly-through of the hall takes is over in 2 minutes, you come back and report what you've seen with 4 minutes remaining on your invisibility.
Well great. So he's got allies that are on their way? at least we've got a few days before they arrive. We can go start exploring the spire a bit before then.
i'd probably activate my wings before Temperance and Piety went out,
i'll have mutagen and a shield extract active.
i'll fly 60 and throw an alchemist fire at him.
::edit::
went and looked at the map after moving 60, didn't get me close enough to lob an alchemist fire, so i'll just double move and continue to circle around him.
i'm fine. depends on what else we want to do today. We found the spire ritual chamber. We need to get a metric s~$~ ton of holy water, and start gathering the rest of the stuff we need for the ritual. We might as well check out the rest of this spire though and make sure its cleared out. We need the other two eyes anyway right? they're around here somewhere?
Guys, there's also three entrances I can see on the cliff face. at about 200 ft. up there's a big archway. at 150 ft. on the NE side there's another one , with some stairs, and at 100 ft on the NW side there's another with stairs.
we'll call these East, West, and Central entrances. if you refer to the map, and scroll up, I've added a key for the size of the grid squares, as well as red lines showing your ascent, and grey circles around the Central, East, and West entrances. East and West look like they can be accessed from stairs ( rubble and overgrowth are currently concealing the ground level portions of the stairs. the whole winding stairwell looks like difficult terrain the entire long treacherous way up. )
I engage my wing contraption, my leathery mechanical looking wings sprout from my red longcoat, and I move 60 ft. to try and fly after leo and catch him. I can make it right out of the elemental's reach this round, right over where leo almost landed.
Ash flies around to spread out, and flies up to flank with Piety ::please draw a weapon or have one out :: trying to dodge and weave the last five ft. (acrobatics)
acrobatics:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12 not enough to save me.
1st day i can't do much, 2nd day i can prepare a bunch of extracts for detect secret doors and we can comb this place, since i didn't see any way up or down. i've got enough for us all, we can do walk throughs of all the chambers, and see if we turn up anything. All in ?
I need to start preparing an extract for inflict light wounds, i think i learned that or ok'ed it with the gm, its not a typical Alchemist spell. but he seemed fine with it. Might want to research an extract of Infernal Healing as well, that seems like a no brainer... for now at least since we're not very wand-plenty.
i can produce up to two light curative healing tonics today. Can you take positive energy dilutions without harm? , Ash asks Saio
Forsythe, would you like to use my longbow? I realized in a fight you might be better at it than I am, I was just holding on to it to have something magical to use at a range.
i'm +3 (1d8+3/x3) with it, in your hands it's be +7 (1d8/x3), not as good as your light crossbow, but magical already, and easier to equip
Ash returns. One of the horses was killed outright, another drowned in a bog during the fight. He recovers four, and rides back spouting some postulation about bottling horses.
You quickly cut Leo out, as he still seems alive, but very tentatively. and @leo seems barely to be breathing. You quickly wash the acid from him, and Saio can focus on healing.
Ash brushes off any offer. Forsythe says she can cast infernal healing on you, that she can do three times today.
yeah so by the time you get leo out, he's probably on 73 damage, and saio has already absorbed +10 points in the two rounds after combat. so, saio has an additional 83 points of damage to recover.
I'm going to try and fly after the horses, and see if I can't round them up. If either of you ladies has an idea how to guarantee the horses return? or one of you would like to come with me, I can manage to carry one, so we don't split ourselves up too thinly. Ash said, gesturing at Piety, Temperance, and Forsythe.
:: hmm... its daylight... but we're in a forrest. i'll have to hope that i can blind it, and that most of you will still be able to target it ...
ash casts darkness on his blade and flies to the creature. if you have darkvision, you should be fine. Neji, Edwin, and Saio should be ok. Tempy, Piety lose direct LoS.
The Baron approaches Neji after one of your friends has placed a request. I so prefer speaking with you. Do remedy this in the future. Itrust things are going fine , and that you are satusfied ?
the access is found, go ahead and learn it if you want and just pay the materials cost of scribing it to your book
GM: you find the log book, indicating that yes, up until 4 weeks ago, some elf named Aiden Kael, had a prepaid room at the Friar. His payment lapsed though, and he owes 3 weeks fee, a sum of 25 gold pieces on his account. though its marked for removal soon. and indicates which room it is.
perception:1d20 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 12 any sign of his keys?
Screw it , ok i'm going to slip out of the office.. next round.
hey temperance, want to play telephone? bluff for secred message. :1d20 - 2 ⇒ (10) - 2 = 8
telephone, whats aif Tempy doesn't have a message up already.
i'll enjoy some wine and appear relaxed , when Edwin points out to me the innkeeper is out of the back room, I'll drop something under the table, and bend down to pick it up, palm my invisibility extract, and quaff it.
:: tempy, can you hear me over this din? i'm moving over to the door now. attempting to pick the lock ::
disable device:1d20 + 13 ⇒ (2) + 13 = 15
GM: wow, that's low, but you manage. its a rather flimsy lock. have a look around for what you want, perception check.
Well, I'm going to go check out the Wandering Friar.
preparing my extracts today for infiltration. Anyone want to come with me?
Leo? Forsythe? Neji? want to come too?
Are you and Temperance going to trail sister mary or whatever her name is today?
go into the friar for a drink with leo. quaff our extracts of invisibility, get into the office, view the ledger for when our elf may have stayed there, and confirm if it is our elf or not, and what room he was in. check out the room.
There was also someone from the 4th knot, supposedly and expert , an elven ranger, Aiden Kael. He found the horn and sent word back, but then the 4th disappeared. We know from them that its concealed in a great spire of stone less than a day's ride from Farholde. I suggest we mount an expedition like them to check it out.
int check:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23
I think we heard a rumor that an elf was staying at the Wandering Friar Inn that disappeared three weeks back, never came back from the Briar. Maybe we should see if there's anything left of his back at that inn?
(to the group, when we're alone and together again)
I don't know that I trust him. Let alone need to stay with him. We have an inn, and our rooms. Though I guess a place to operate from and conduct our business other than an inn would be good... but we can continue to use it for this "heroes" ruse. I don't know why you twisted things need to play hero...
ooh, a few rolls i might make. first for the livery, then the history
k. nobility vs. the livery:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9
k. nobility vs. the baron:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 6 = 24 k. history vs. the baron:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 16
:: ash discreetly whispers what he learns into the Message that's no doubt up, when the baron isn't around.::
I'm going to go Temperance's route, and do my shopping by going back to the magic shoppe and getting some sleeves of endless garments or whatever, and pick up a few bejeweled trinkets to top off the ensemble. ( 400gp should be enough ? ). I don't like going in unarmed, so i'll conceal a dagger up my sleeves. my mithril shirt shouldn't bee too noticeable underneath things, but i'll do without my shield and leave my weapons at the door.
sleight of hand:1d20 + 7 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 7 + 2 + 2 = 31
* +2 for concealing a dagger, +2 for baggy clothes/cloak
precautions:
drinking extract of see invisibility and false life before we go inside, he'll do it discreetly as we're going up the hill to the house. take 10 on the slight of hand or whatever to conceal his actions. false life:1d10 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9
and i'll make use of the cauldron on the barge to brew
(-640gp) brew list :
6 alchemist fire - 40gp, 6 days.
potion of invisibility -150gp, 1 day.
potion of see invisibility -150gp, 1 day.
potion of bull's strength -150gp, 1 day.
potion of comprehend languages x2 -50gp
potion of identify -25gp
potion of reduce person -25gp
potion of recharge innate magic -25gp
potion of touch of the sea -25gp
[[ -1,140gp // 2,230 gp ]]
i've got 1,015gp left, i'm set for now.
i'll take the unclaimed potions of cure light wounds if we're going to sell them (75gp)
and if ya don't mind i'll use 40gp from the scribing materials to write the scroll of bear's endurance into my formulae book.
the northern Caer Bryr is a temperate rainforest, richly blessed with rainfall and broadleaf trees. the trees there are tall and broad. The thick-trunked boabab tree, unusual in such a wet clime, is common here and grows to enormous size. Its isn't uncommon to see trees hundreds of feet tall with trunks twenty feet across. Its whispered that to walk into the deep Briary is to enter the domain of giants.
