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There's a weird half-square on the map, I'm going to assume that Moonlight is 35' from Sien and too far for haste, and that the closest foe is 35' away as well.

Sien quickly Shields ◆ himself before casting Sky Laughs at Waves ◆, sailing over the tables and landing next to the closest foe and Striking.

Sawtooth Saber: 1d20 + 28 ⇒ (16) + 28 = 44
Slashing: 3d6 + 10 ⇒ (2, 6, 4) + 10 = 22 plus Cold: 1d6 ⇒ 6

He reserves some of his energy and enters Arcane Cascade ◆.

Sien stands and starts clapping with Shirota, trying to start a slow-clap.

When that doesn't work, he just draws a sawtooth saber.

Alright, I ran out of time today, but I'll get to this tonight or early tomorrow.

I thought I had given a heads up about this earlier, but I went to quote my post and I can't find anything. I apologize for not making this clearer earlier:

I'm going to be traveling from December 20 to January 4, and I'm not sure what my posting situation is going to be. I'll be in a country with Internet, but I'm not sure whether I'll have time to post, or it might be irregular.

Sien can use his arcane powers to read a scroll, and then has Society +25.

Recalling the stone-stacking games he played as a child, Sien tries to rig a pile of bricks to collapse on any cat that might be following him.

Crafting: 1d20 + 27 ⇒ (19) + 27 = 46 vs DC 34

That will teach those cats to follow me around.

No actual cats were harmed in the making of this post.

Athletics: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (9) + 22 = 31 vs DC 34

Sien's not great at being chased, but he gives it his best shot.

Society (E): 1d20 + 25 ⇒ (19) + 25 = 44 vs DC 36

"I heard they're obsessed with Calistria's pleasures of the flesh and found some swanky AirB&B to celebrate in."

Thievery: 1d20 + 23 ⇒ (3) + 23 = 26 vs DC 34

Sien snatches a live tarantula from a cage and sets it loose, but it nearly bites him.

Stealth (L): 1d20 + 29 ⇒ (10) + 29 = 39 vs DC 33

Sien was hoping to be fancy and afford an additional diversion to help others, but he ends up just disappearing himself and not able to aid the team.

Sien will drop a rock into the water to make a distracting splash, just as Moonlight is about to steal it.

Sien will let this play out, but he'll Sneak forward to be within range of snatching the ledger.

Stealth (L) +29, Thievery (T) +23

Sien will use his armor's invisibility rune to approach the dockmaster.

Stealth: 1d20 + 28 ⇒ (8) + 28 = 36

Before he can get there, he witnesses Ketsu-kiba being made, and he pauses as the crowd clears.

Going to let Ketsu-kiba react, but I'm happy to be uninvisible and start talking, or try to steal that ledger while they're distracted.

Sien prefers to work alone.

Not me, I'm glad you guys are there.

Seconded! Sien will volunteer to sneak around, unless he's needed for Diplomacy.

SHOULDER HYDRODILATION ◆ Feat 8
Prerequisites Risky Surgery
Trigger You are about to attempt Risky Surgery.

You inject 20 cc of saline into an ally's shoulder. Make an Athletics check to Crank It. If successful, you gain all the benefits of Risky Surgery without taking damage.

+1

:D

I'll roll Diplomacy if forced to, but at DC 34, Sien needs a nat 16 to Succeed, and Crit Fails on a nat 1-6, which is negative EV.

Sien will instead appeal to the societal structure of the organization, explaining how the Mantis organization still relies on honor and trust, and that we were lied to about our mission, necessitating that we go underground.

Society: 1d20 + 25 ⇒ (3) + 25 = 28 vs DC 34

It's too conspiratorial.

Oh, geez, my bad. For whatever reason ("out of U and ME" topping the list), I assumed Ketsu-kiba was trained+ in Diplomacy and that she just preferred lying. Sien, I guess, is the party high in Diplomacy and I'll roleplay him as such in the future. He'll probably still defer to Ketsu-kiba to lie whenever possible, and Aid Deception with a +1.

Sien will explain that they were betrayed, not the betrayers, and will gloss over the fact that Moonlight is lurking about. But he'll keep his comments short in anticipation that Ketsu-kiba will jump in.

Spoilering an Aid Diplomacy roll in case that's needed.

Sien will advocate just walking there openly. The jig is up.

Sien sniffs around.

"Who tooted? NO TOOTING WHILE SNEAKING!"

Stealth: 1d20 + 29 ⇒ (5) + 29 = 34 vs DC 30

Note that Sien is Legendary in Stealth, so y'all can Follow the Expert at +4+Level+DEX.

RL has been okay. The weekends in October are really wild, though. All the kids' activities have stuff going on.

Do we want to keep splitting up? If we are ...

Sien will go back to the hospital and poke around - he'll sneak in rather than use a disguise.

If we're staying together ...

Sien will advocate looking for the leshy druid. Presumably, there will be fewer people around to note the four of them traveling together.

Society (E): 1d20 + 25 ⇒ (14) + 25 = 39 vs DC 34

Sien rattles off a list of the Worst of the Worst - a list of criminals so vile that even other criminals abhor them.

"We've been looking for four rogue assassins for reasons that may or may not be related. We heard that someone in the Red Mantis had put a price on their heads as well," Sien says.

"We're not here to take away anyone's bounty," he quickly adds, because that's what everyone is thinking. "But we'd like to make our own little side deals with the overseer of this operation. That's all. Everyone gets paid in the end."

Neigishi backs away deferentially when chastised by Sonogashira. He acts like he's just there in case they need to ... "take care of things themselves".

"Since it doesn't seem to have been communicated properly, let me be clear: we are here for your benefit. We could easily take this to any one of your competitors. Sure, we wouldn't get paid as well, but that's the only reason we're here first."

Sien always starts of negotiations antagonistically.

Aid Deception: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (18) + 18 = 36

Sien would have attempted to Aid Deception with Follow the Expert. +2+1+15 = +18. I'm not sure whether one can use FtE to Aid a roll, but even if he couldn't have, +1 vs DC 15 is good enough. This is all moot because of the nat 20, but Sien would have attempted it anyway.

"Yes," Sien emphasizes. "We all get paid."

"Pay gold? Pay gold?? We're here to get paid."

Sien turns to Ketsu-Kiba. "What do you say, Sonogashira? Shall we wait the three days, or should we find someone else in this town who might appreciate this information a little more?"

Sien winks at Ketsu-kiba, asking her to jump in.

Aid Diplomacy: 1d20 + 18 ⇒ (20) + 18 = 38 vs DC 25

"I'm here to see the Gnasher. I'm here to ... sell information."

Sien will visit Nasha.

I'll trust the GM to work it out fairly.

The promise of Sien's lead (Nasha) is that we could get more leads. Also, to be blunt, since they presumably know that we work as a team, us showing up in force isn't any worse than any one of us showing up individually.

I will vote either 2x2 (Sien would like to visit Nasha, and another pair can visit the docks), or all 4 of us pay Nasha a visit.

PCs, are we proceeding as a group or individually? They're looking for 4, but I see no reason to go 1 by 1. Maybe 2 and 2?

Sien could ask around, but he prefers to sneak around and try to Read Lips for information.

1d20 ⇒ 10
+18 Diplomacy (Gather Information), +29 Stealth (if allowed), +19 Perception (if that seems more appropriate)

I'm not sure Sien has a say, if we're separated, but if he does, I suggest we stay within the city walls, especially if we need to be sneaking around at night, it would be much better not to have to make those Stealth checks to get into the city repeatedly.

Calistria

Category Gods of the Inner Sea
Edicts pursue your personal freedom, seek hedonistic thrills, take revenge
Anathema become too consumed by love or a need for revenge, let a slight go unanswered
Areas of Concern lust, revenge, trickery, and sketchy AirBNB rentals

Mechanically, are Moonlight and Ketsu looking for a place for all of us to sleep, or just themselves?

Sien will find another outhouse by a guard tower to play Brawl Stars while pooping cast clairvoyance and spy on a new password. He'll also stick to the rooftops, so he could walk near someone but not obviously near them.

In contrast to Ann, Sien suggests that they find a place big enough to house everyone.

"If we're in the same place, we can keep watch. If we're apart, any attack might be devastating. They could pick us off one by one."

Sien will advocate finding an abandoned structure, or ... uh ... making a structure abandoned. Straight up murder seems a little evil, even for evil PCs, but maybe we can scare someone into leaving.

Sien watches Moonlight cast a spell, and then he drops the kids off at the pool before reporting that Moonlight is probably making another pass through the same gate.

Since Sien wouldn't have known Moonlight's roll, he would have attempted to create a distraction. Using his charlatan's gloves, Sien picks up a piece of meat from a local vendor and drops it between two dogs for them to fight over.

Is Moonlight likely within 500 feet of a quiet, unobtrusive spot where Sien can Cast a Spell for 1 minute? If so, Sien will find a quiet spot, use a scroll of clairvoyance (casting time 1 min, range 500 feet), and see what Moonlight is up to. If Moonlight moves to another gate, Sien will advocate that we all move parallel to him, and Aid his entry somehow.

Sien has Read Lips, so he should be able to tell what people are saying through Clairvoyance. If it seems reasonable for Moonlight to know this about Sien, Moonlight could even mouth his plans, knowing Sien might be watching.

Unless it's very obvious that it wouldn't work, I'm going to say that Sien uses one of his (two) scrolls anyway, even if the chances are slim that it would work. Like, even if Moonlight happens to be out of range, but Sien thinks he might have been in range, Sien would use the scroll anyway.

Are we close enough together so that we can help each other out?

Sien activates the invisibility rune on his armor and slips in to the city.

Stealth: 1d20 + 29 ⇒ (15) + 29 = 44

Or maybe he doesn't. NOBODY KNOWS.

Sien will have a tough time disguising - he's untrained in Deception. But he's Legendary in Stealth, and he has an invisibility rune on his armor, so splitting up and Sneaking in would be fine.

If we knew we would have to do this before daily preparations, Sien could have even prepared Water Breathing and we could all just swim in.

Okay, because of the cost of transferring, Sien will no longer take the greater frost rune. Instead, I'm going to retrain his Achaekek Lore skill feat to Trick Magic Item, and pick up a wand of vital beacon (5th) for additional healing, plus a wand of darkvision (5th).

He'll pick up a few scrolls - most notably, clairvoyance. He's keeping his Read Lips skill feat (which he hasn't used) but this should allow us to spy a little.

I've also had to revamp his spellbook. I forgot that he gets a bunch of spells from his studious spells, so he can pick others. His default prepared spells remain the same.

My sheet is updated and I'm ready to go.

I forgot to include the cost of transferring runes. I'll need to make some adjustments, but the most likely case is that I'll only get one wand of invisibility.

Quick logistical question about leveling up: is everything available to us immediately?

I don't know if we'll get a chance to rest before we head out, but should Sien's hit points be, for example, 145/176 (Level 14), or 145/203 (Level 15)? I assume we'll have enough time to heal up hit point damage, but should he have 8th rank slots prepared?

Sien carefully rips one of the heads off of a body, and then creates a clean cut edge on the body consistent with a weapon strike. He'll also cut a sawtooth saber in half and lay it next to the body.

Crafting: 1d20 + 27 ⇒ (2) + 27 = 29 vs DC 36
Crafting, Hero Point Reroll: 1d20 + 27 ⇒ (18) + 27 = 45 vs DC 36