Aurorae's page

"Wow, I didn't think you had that effect on people. Sorry about that Rune."[/b], Aurorae pats her on the arm.

"You're right. Let's try the second one."

Moving forwards, Aurorae stands by the frozen smith: "Hello Sir? Are you okay? Please speak to me."

She pats him on the cheek to elicit a reaction and checks his general state.

heal check: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 14

Aurorae takes a step forwards and smiles a sad and wet smile.

"Hello, Sir, as you can see, we are newcomers in town. We came here as a merchant's guards, but our change is now the new occupant of your town jail. We were cleared by the guards, but found we are stranded here until we get our pay or earn enough funds to go and looks for work elsewhere."

She waves a arm indicating her companions, "One of us was a smith apprentice and we were wondering if you had some work for her. She is strong and skillful..."

She takes a step back and to the side and pushes Rune forwards with a whisper: "Go ahead, Rune, make your case."

"So either of them seem equivalent. Let's go to Baccus Smith first then. We can try the second one just after."

Aurorae smiles warmly and continues: "Thanks a lot, can you point us at Baccus Smithy first then? And indicate us where to go for The Chance one as well."

"Oh, and by the way. Which one would you recommend? They much each have a specialty or something like that", she says, lightly brushing the man's shoulder with a hand, as if she was dusting his cloak.

"I don't know, but we should be able to find it easily. Smoke, lots of hammer on anvil noises and a big sign with horseshoes, a weapon or something like that. Plus we can always ask people"

She looks around from their spot at the river's edge and goes to the first person she sees.

"Hello, we are quite new in town as you can see.", she says, hair still dripping wet from her foray into the river. "We've been told there is a smith in town. Could you direct us to its workshop, please?"

"Maybe you'll have more luck trying to fish with a net, next time. Or better, jump and swim after them fish.", says Aurorae with a smile.

"We did not find anything on the island, except a very crude shelter.", she explains. "We were going to the smithy. Do you want to join?"

Rune replies after seeing the place

"Seems like he is one of those bare basics druids.
And I don't even know what we'd be looking for if we were looking for foul play.
As for sleeping, I'll likely find a sandy spot somewhere near the river.
And I'm for checking the town out, since we may need to mingle with them while we look for work."

"Good, let's go. I propose we check the smithy first."

Aurorae runs back to the backs and dives into the river. She emerges a few yards further and backstrokes lazily back to the town.

Once there, she removes her "horrible swimsuit", dons back her gown and walks to the smithy alongside Rune.

"Well, this druid was really hard-core., says Aurora, unimpressed by the lean to she found. "Not even a proper home just a stone throw away from town."

"I think there's nothing else to be found here. So Rune, if you find that a good place to sleep, we can cross back and try to talk to the town smith, the herbalist or the apothecary. They may have some work for us. what do you think."

Reaching the island, Aurora gets out of the water and waits for Rune to arrive. "Come on, let's look around and see if you can use that place to sleep. Let's also see if people still come here since the druid left."

Looking around, she checks the banks for recent tracks before going to inspect the departed druid's quarters.

survival to look for tracks: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 17
perception to search the druid's house: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14

Neck deep in the water, Aurorae pouts, trying to delay the inevitable :"You sound just like my mum. I should be allowed to wear whatever I want! It's not my fault all those guys had their brain between their legs. "

With a sigh, she heaves her back back on the bank and still in the water, fishes around and takes out something that looks like a sleeveless wetsuit that stops at mid-tight from the front. The back has a large opening and only fastens around neck. It is made in a light waterproof and extensible grey leather.

"Mother had that costumed-conjured for me. She said it's made with some kind of giant-eel skin. At least I could convince her to keep the arms and legs free. But it's a pain in the butt to put it on."

She heaves herself back on the bank and struggle into the suit. Once it's eventually fastened, she stands up and twirls, arms extended. "You're happy now?" she bows, grabs her bag and dives back down, this time cutting through the water with a fast front crawl, pushing her bag in front of her.

"The race is still on, Rune!", she calls as she crosses to the Druid's island.

Aurorae looks at the boat, looks at the water, then back at the boat.
She drops her pach down, fishes an oiled bag. She puts her pack and weapons in. Standing back up, she drops her cloak and dress down, steps out of them and stuffs them in the waterproof bag.

Bag in hand and buck naked, she calls to Rune : "Race you to the other side!" and dives into the river.

Aurorae has a swim speed of 20'

After asking for directions, Aurorae crosses the town back to the river.
Once in view of the small island, she looks for the ways people go to the island. "Can you see a boat or anything to get to the island, Rune ?"

perception check if necessary: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14

"Okay, Rune, there's just both of us now. Let's go for the Druid Grove first if that's okay with you. I'll be right behind you." says Aurorae as both men leave to go fishing.

I guess this is the small Island on the map called Druid Isle

"Okay, If that's what you want.", says Aurorae, pouting a little as she sees her idea of a feathered bed disappearing.

"But that means we have people to see now. Where do each of you want to go this afternoon ? And do you prefer going alone or in group? For my part, I'm fine with going two by two so that we cover more ground at the same time."

"Good idea,Lairë. Let's do that. The Inn first then I'll go and visit the herbalist and apothecary.", says Aurorae, pushing back her empty plate.

"Are we all ready?"

She stands up, bows to Raz: "Thank you very much for coming to see us. We'll keep your advice in mind. We'll no doubt see you around town in the next day or so. Do not hesitate to ask if you think we can be of service."

Then she calls to Winry: "And thanks for the meal and conversation. It is nice to meet friendly faces when you arrive in a new place." and takes her leave, going for the Inn.

As they exit, she whispers to Rune: "Maybe we can share a room. We'll ask for an extra mattress or two and put them on the floor so they can accommodate your size. I don't mind the heat, you know."

"Thank you for the warning," she continues her conversation with Raz in common. "Winry, here, told us you were taking over some of the duties of the druid here. Do you need help? We are kind of stranded here until we recover our pay from the smuggler who hired us."

"Sorry,", says Aurorae, switching back to common.

"I couldn't resit speaking elven. The lady here is indeed Raz. I asked her if she was a seer and she told me she was just able to see beyond normal limits of time. Which is just my definition for a seer.", she adds with a wink.

Aurorae squints her eyes in suspicion but catches herself and returns to her amicable behavior. Smiling invitingly, she brings an extra chair to the table and switches to Elven :

Aurorae is very suspicious of the knowledge of Raz and would like to sense her motives: Sense motive: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 2 = 22

"I agree, as soon as we get fed, we can go there, then to the various shops to look for possible jobs."

Aurorae keeps looking around, trying to catch the other customers eyes when they look the group's way and smiling at them in return.

Lowering her voice to be heard only by her companions Aurorae whispers :

"Not going to say it too loud yet but don't you find that strange that the druid disappeared just one week after this elven woman Raz came in town and that she is taking some of his duties. She could have driven him out or frightened him."

"I think we should keep a eye on her. And maybe go to the Druid's grove. There may be animals that we could talk to. They may have seen something and I bet no one asked them."

"So she's a druid as well? It's a blessing that she came right on point. Thank you for your help."

Aurorae smiles and swirls back to regain the table where her companions are waiting.

"Well, they seem to have both shops, so I'll have to visit those as well. And they had a druid who left with his pregnant wife. It seems the elven woman Raz arrived at the time he left and is sort of covering for him. I'll keep an eye out for her. She may have a thing or two to teach me."

"Good point. Let's ask the tavern keeper as we wait for our meals ?"

Aurorae gets to the bar a second time. "Sorry Sir, we were discussing with my friends here and were wondering whether you nice town has an apothecary or an herbalist in addition to the temples of Abadar and Shelyn. Or maybe there's a druid from the Wildwood Lodge here, with you being close the the Verduran Forest?"

"And I will check with the temples if the need supplies for brewing potions. They may even have an apothecary or and herbalist I could work for. But we should also check the garrison and the Inn once we've finished our meal."

Aurorae sticks her tongue out at Rune :"Yeah, you're right. But let me keep my dreams. I'm sure that if I wish it strongly enough, it will happen."

Turning back to Winry, she adds :"I'm sorry, I did not introduce myself, I'm Aurorae Hobbs." She leans forwards and asks quietly: "By the way, would you know if anyone in town would be interested in hiring us. I mean for doing guard or escorting jobs or anything necessitating capable individuals like us? Any direction would be appreciated. We just arrived in town a couple of hours away."

Rune replies

"I don't know about what types of jobs we'll find, as we are a unique group, with unique individuals.
As for the Pay we were due, I doubt we'll see even a single copper, but if I'm wrong we get something."

"Don't be so glum, Rune. We'll find something. There's sure going to be something. Maybe messages to carry, or some merchant to escort. Or maybe even better, a big bad wolf that is attacking the villagers that we will have to persuade to leave. You know, like the stories they told around the fire when we were young."

Winry Dfair:

Winry looks at Aurorae and clapse her hands together in excitement
"It's nice to see one of our new customers is another elf, as there are so few here,
As we really only have Ms Willoway, and Raz here.
Not sure how much I count since I'm more like 3/4's elf."

With a big smile, Aurorae puts her hand on the arm of the waitress and replies : "You count as you want to, dear. I'm sure if we go far back, there's a little bit of devil or genie blood in every one. If you feel you're an elf, then you should count yourself in, whatever other people say."

She strokes the arm as she goes on, "But that's an interesting thing, I would have thought more elves would live here with the Verduran forest close by. Raz and Ms Willoway, you said. Where could I find them, if I wanted to talk to them ?"

"Oh, and I'll take a sald as well and an Elven Mead, obviously.", she adds with a wink.

Rune takes her seat when the bench is placed at the table, and sees Aurorae deal with the Grayhand's owner, when Aurorae takes her seat,

Rune pipes in with a bit of a sigh
"Your lucky in that your femininely beautiful, Aurorae, while I have to deal with being very masculine in appearance, scaring the crap out of people even when I don't wanna scare them, and have to deal with a lot of size issues.
I really wish I could become femininely beautiful, but it's not in the cards as far as I can see, and I can thank *Dad for that."

Aurorae comes back to the table and sits by Rune: "Sorry Rune, I did not intend to hurt you. I know you have people on their back foot whenever you go somewhere. And that's something you have to deal with everyday. But you know, sometimes I envy you, cause when my tricks with people don't work, I've got nothing to back me up. All this willy grace was as useful as t&!+ on a breastplate when I was kidnapped. And I'm far more confident going anywhere when I have you to cover my back."

She punches Rune on the arm. "So don't sell yourself short. We all have been given a weird deal in life and we'll have to play it. But what I see is that we complement each other. Keep focused on the good things, we're alive, free to go where ever we want and do whatever we want..."

Aurorae sighs: "Thanks for your concern, Lairë.  But I think we should try that a different way.", she whispers.

As the tavern keeper indicates the table by the bar, she sashays to the bar, perches on a bar-stool and leans forwards. There is a soft thud as the wooden tree-like symbol she caries around her neck spills out of the top of her dress and hits the wooden bar.
She absentmindedly tucks it back in place and she smiles to the man behind the counter.

"Thank you very much, my dear sir. I’m afraid we started on a wrong foot. Maybe we could start again, I’m Aurorae and I’m delighted to meet you. Your tavern was highly recommended by the town guards. My friends and I are just travelers stranded here on the shores of your establishment and we are not ones to cause trouble. We only wish to find something to sate our thirst and hunger. If you could provide two portions without meat it would even be better."

She spins on her stool, hops down from it to rejoin the table and cast a look over her shoulder: "And who knows, maybe you’ll decide the day you first met up should be labelled with a T for treasure."

diplomacy: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (10) + 7 = 17

"Good, It seems we are on the same page. I propose to hit the tavern first. We'll see if we can get any information about potential jobs there. If we don't we'll go to the Inn for dinner and to find rooms. Then there's still the temples that could give us pointers and they may even have a forge for you to work at, Rune."

Thanks for the file, this is really helpful.

"Thanks a lot, you've been really helpful. I hope we'll find what we need there.", she thanks the guards.

Then turning to the party, she asks: "Anything else we need? Or are we good to go and visit a tavern. I wouldn't mind something to eat and drink right now."

OOC: GM, could you give us the numbers corresponding to the 6 building you just referred to ? Maybe put that in the campaign info tab for ease of reference. Thanks.

"Now that all is sorted. Could you give us some pointers about your fine town? I mean, where are the inns where we could rest ? For we had a long journey today."

"And are there any place we could look for a job here? I mean for people like us. Because it seems likely we will have to wait for your commander - Gergis Bellet, I think ?" she hesitates as she tries to get the name right.

"So, yes, we will have to wait for him to process the documentation. So if you can point us to the garrison as well, that would be very helpful."

diplomacy to gather information: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (8) + 7 = 15

Aurorae keeps her engaging smile, trying to divert the attention of the suspicious woman.

"Both of you are very perceptive", she says with a half-bow. "As you can obviously see, some of my friends are "different". As in not completely human. We don't hide it but we prefer not to draw too much attention to it, you see. Because some people are more keen to shoot first and ask questions after."

She shrugs. "I will not say we are harmless, because we can hold our own as caravan guards. But we are good people. Gallus, here, is a follower of Cayden Cailean for example and Rune and myself were wards of a high priestess of Shelyn. Isn't that true ?", she asks her companions.

"And we haven't been fully paid for the job we just did. Do you think there's a chance we can collect our pay from the magistrate in town once he's recovered the price of the fine ?"

OOC: deception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 24 to draw the attention away from how much non human we are.

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 16

While the guards were taking care of Master Gribb, Aurorae had sat quietly on a fence overlooking the river, swinging her feet.

"Our first real job and we already botched that. I should have known he was shady. Dad taught me. And hiring a group of outcasts like us without batting an eye. You should have known better", she berates herself silently.

As the couple of new guards approach the group, she jumps down the fence and removes the hood of her cloak, shaking her hair in place.

Though small for her apparent race, the young woman has clear elf look, with long pointed ears. Without the hood, a mass of curly dark hair cascades down her back. Her green slanted eyes contrast with the tanned skin of her arms.
As she comes closer to the guards with an engaging smile, her cloak parts, revealing a short sleeveless green dress stopping at mid tights.
A nice looking sickle is affixed on the left side of her belt while a light crossbow is strapped to her back.

She stands close to the guards, her naked feet halfway into a puddle and opens her hands :

"Good day to you Madam, Sir. We apologize for not having realized we were hired by a crook. We didn't know that he was carrying contraband, we were just hired to prevent any attempted theft."

Her voice is deeper than expected with a velvety tone that she uses to soothe people or animals.

"We do not want any issue with the authorities here.", she waves a hand a her friends attire. "Now that we seem without an employer, we will just try to find a new job here and be out of your way as soon as possible."

I'll let the group pick;

You enter town looking for the Inn(The Wise Piper)/Tavern(Grayhands) to rest a bit before continuing on a trip,
but something happens when getting a drink in the Tavern Grayhands
or
You start off in the Tavern(Grayhands)?

And I do plan on starting very soon as I had real life toss a few monkey wrenches at me, slowing me down some in getting everything prepared.

No issue with that, just tell us when you're ready.

starting gold: 2d6 ⇒ (6, 3) = 9

I don't have anything more to add to that early background.

How do you want to proceed to the start of the module ?

Agreed about the ages. And I think it's a good idea to get the two gropus coming in at different times.
Regarding the escape, Aurorae could have contributed with her spell like abilities: reduce person to help the bigger one through small holes and speak with animals to get information from the cave bats they encountered.

Sorry for the late posting about the common backstory. I'm trying to make sense of everything that's been said.

I really should make myself a table with all characters/fears/background.

If we want to link all our characters together, from what was written previously, here is what I'm proposing:

A few years ago as they were still young, they knew each other and had taken to hang out near the village pond but were not yet strongly bonded. One day, a group of adventurer passed into the village and, seeing Aurorae, decided to kidnap her and sell her to slavers, hoping to make a good profit.
Raising in the middle of the night, they entered Aurorae's house and caught her in her sleep. Their deed accomplished, they retreated to a cave close to the village.

However, Gallus had just finished another night of libation and saw them. He ran through the village trying to raise who he could to help him catch the bandits and only Kusar, Laëre, Rune and Falkwyn accepted to help him.

Under heavy rain and thunder, the young rescuers managed to track the adventurers to their hideout but disagreed about what to do. Gallus was furious and wanted to take them head-on while others suggested more guile. In the following scuffle, Gallus inadvertently pushed Falkwyn who fell into the entrance of the cave, alerting the adventurers.

Happily for the young rescuers, their appearance and powers frightened the kidnappers who fled. Entering the cave to rescue Aurorae, the group heard a stronger rumble of thunder. A lightning bold struck the cave entrance, causing a rock-slide and trapping them inside.

To escape, the group had to navigate the caves following Kusar instincts, flee giant centipedes that were drawn to Rune's body heat and after two days where they had to subsist on rat meat or lichen, find their way out and return to the village.

I’m going to go with the eleyna dress. Actually, the hair of that woman looks good to me in term or color and length. No worries if the elven ears do not show. If this is not possible, the hair style You’ve proposed is fine.

For the evil wizard ‘s name, I propose her to be a dhampir called Lacrimosa Von Magpyr. With one brownie point for those who get the reference :)
I also like the proposal C for how the lab got raided. The rival could be a male witch .

And thanks for the avatar suggestion. I had missed it . I will change it during the week-end.

@Azure_zero
I’m fine with staying more with the D&D vibe for nymphs than the pathfinder one (i.e. Nyrissa style).

Here are Aurorae's details. She’s on the short side, 5 feet tall, of medium build with pointed elven ears a light brown skin and curled long dark brown hair with a few green strands. No binding or braiding on the hair.

Clothing wise, she wears sleeveless loose dresses that go down to mid-thigh with long fringes that sway in the constant breeze that surrounds her. Colors are mainly greens and blues.

Tell me if you need more.
I'm not super found of the avatar image and I'll see if I can find something better suited now.

@everyone
Background wise, as we all were rescued from the same laboratory, I suppose we would know already each other. As Gallus proposed and as I see each of us seems strongly tied to nature we could have made an habit of meeting by the pond to listen to Gallus playing, or to run around and swim. I see Aurorae spending most of the time there either in the water or trying to dance to the tunes. She's not very good at dancing yet but she's training.

One last thing. I've got family at home over the week-end so I will not post a lot over the week-end.

Hi all,
Here is Aurorae. I'll be the one expecting every one else to do her job. I didn't choose Sloth as a "sin" for nothing :)

To get background exchange started, and for quick reference:
Aurorae adopted patents are Basken Hobbs, the Shieriff's deputy and his wife Olga.

Aurorae is spending some time at the temple of Shelyn with Lina Blackrose but her real teacher is an old herbalist called Ulrica that lives outside town.

I see we are 3 fey linked plus one minotaur and one celestial, that will make for good interactions.