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Honestly I was hoping for something like deflect arrow, where when I’m told I’ve been hit I can say “No I’m not.” The way Crane Style used to be before errata. But I haven’t heard of/investigated some of these other options that people are saying so I’m going to investigate them as well.
Hum, I don’t know how I missed Snake style. That is potentially useful.
The spell I couldn’t think of was Windy Escape, it also negates sneak attack, critical, and poison. So if you know one of those is coming I guess it could be situationally useful. Also just found Bleed for your Master, throws your familiar into the path of the attack in order for you to take no damage, kinda messed up but it “Negates” an attack against you.
Ok so I’m looking for ways to completely negate attacks. I know of the feat Deflect Arrows. I found a spell, the name escapes me at the moment, that allows you to instantaneously turn insubstantial, but it only gives DR 10/magic which is lame. I know Crane Style used to allow you to negate melee attacks but got errataed. Is there anything else that I’m missing? Thanks in advance.
I would like to apologize, I've never been able to give this pbp the attention that I wanted to due to work and my 8mo old. I got into a motorcycle accident after my last post and while I am recovering just fine I have less time then ever to work on the storyline. I realize we didn't get far into the story but I feel I wont be able to put the attention I want to into this. Again I apologize.
I am, sorry, no excuse this time. I was just being lazy and forgot to update. Will do it when I get off work this afternoon.
Most likely no, you could roll local knowledge if you have it
The two lords don't seem to have noticed anything as they continue talking to each other about the art in the room as you leave.
Tobias You hear someone attempting to move stealthily, then bumping into something that falls. You assume it's not the guards.
Tobias The guards look to each other and then Papadakos. He does not challenge you so they shrug and leave. Victor You find a bedroom with a very solid oak door and set your trap, banging a candlestick against a bed pan and knocking over furniture. Once you feel you made enough noise you throw the candle stick and chamber pot and make your way to your hiding spot. Shortly after two guards come over and investigate entering the room. You wait a moment and when no other guards appear you move and shut the door keeping them inside. You then move back to where you started, bumping into a painting and knocking it off the wall in a moment of carelessness.
Tobias after looking over the vault you all suddenly hear noise as though someone I banging things together and knocking items around from the other side of the manor. Papadakos and the two guards look at you. "Well, do your job." he says pushing the vault door so I begins to swing shut. The two guards look to you expectantly.
Tobias The two lords lead to the entrance to the room with the vault, using an ornate key to open the door. Once they enter the room you can see that the entrance you came in from is the only way in. 'Minor' riches are about the room as though in a viewing gallery including some paintings and small statues. On the outside facing wall there are no windows but on the inward facing wall is a large solid door. Approaching the door Papadakos steps aside and allows the other young lord to open the door via the combination lock. Once unlocked is swings forward almost effortlessly. Inside you can see many lock boxes each with a very fine locks, as well as some desks that you can only assume hold some form of documents, probably wills and the like. There are also pedestals with jewelry, ornaments and jeweled statues. After giving the area a sweeping look Papadakos states "Seems as though nothing was disturbed, he must not have made it this far." Victor Climbing into the attic you find more old furniture and clothing, some items so old that they have been eaten by moths or dry rotted. You manage to find some fine gold threading from one garment and a number of fine jewels off a dress that was begging to fall apart. You didn't mind helping it along at all. Once you get back down to the 3rd floor you approach the nearest door and check it, noticing nothing on the other side you peak in and see a sort of sitting room, on the other side of the room you see an open door that appears to lead to the hallway you just vacated through the window not too long ago. You presume with the distance from the window that you entered this hall in that there is a sizable room between this sitting room and the outside wall, but the only way in you remember seeing was in the other hall.
Had a mini crisis at home today. Will post tomorrow
Busy, but still here. Should have time to post this evening or tomorrow.
Victor After quickly but carefully making it to the other room. Things seem to have quieted down. You can hear no shouts or any other such noise that would make you think you were being chased. Once you look around the room you can see that you are in some sort of storage space with stairs heading up to the attic. It seems to be filled with stuff under dust covered sheets. Tobias One of the two guards opens the door, the other training a crossbow on it. When they see it is you they let you in. "Well what did you find?" The younger asks. While the older says to two foppish looking young men. "He is the one we were telling you about. Apparently he is your new body guard, my lord." With that the young Papadakos looks you up and down. "He appears low born, but perhaps he will fare better then the last." He sneers. "A thief you say? Not a very good one to step on a basic arrow trap. Well I suppose we should check the vault." With that he stands and makes to leave the room.
Victor You manage to climb out the nearby window but soon realize that there is no window on the room serving as the treasure room. You can climb into the next room over and see if there is a door in to the treasure room or backtrack through the window you left from when you think it may be safe. But for now you have an amazing view of the estate and side road. Tobias Weylyn does not respond to your query, just gurgles wetly. You think you recognize him as a small time thief. The two guards pass into a room close to the end of the hall and close the door behind them. As your eyes are sweeping the corridor you notice that the window at the end of the hall appears to have been used recently, whether for entry or exit you are unsure, but the curtains are disturbed.
Tobias Moving too quickly to be effectively stealthy as well you make it up the stairs and see a man lying on his back with an arrow sticking from his chest. He is unconscious in a slowly spreading pool of blood but you cans hear him moaning so you know he is still alive. The other guards follow you up the stairs and pass you and the man on the ground passing toward the private chambers. Victor remembering the hastily drawn map you make your way toward the private chambers and treasure room looking for traps along the way. You approach a large door that is very gaudy and hear footsteps approaching from behind.
The two of you is fine with me, the way this is going it looks like you guys are going to be vs each other though. Hah
Tobias The younger guard looks at you, "What do you mean gone?" Suddenly you all hear a clank and a thump like a sack of potatoes hitting the ground, from up stairs. Victor You and Weylyn are making your way stealthily down the hall when there is suddenly a clack sound, Weylyn looks down at his foot with a horrified expression on his face and then an arrow seems to suddenly sprout from his chest, causing him to drop like a sack of potatoes.
Sorry guys, my net went out and I haven't been able to get on in a few days. We are continuing without Weylyn.
That is fine, I work a 7 on 2 off rotating shift work schedule, my posting is always spotty at best and I am in no less then 3 other pbps.
If he doesn't post in 2 days I'll consider him out. Apologies for the delay.
Tobias You enter the room and give it a quick once over looking in the hiding spots that you would choose, ignoring the ones like under the bed and in the closet. What kind of idiot would choose to hide in such an obvious place? Once you are satisfied you exit the room and follow the guards back down stairs.
Weylyn and Victor The voices make it all the way to the top of the stair, you can make out what they are saying now. "I am sure that that noise was something." "It was probably just a rat knocking into the table mate, your imagination is getting the better of you since you saw the lout that delivered the statue." The door knob rattles and starts to turn, then there is a faint knock from the first floor. The first voice says, "Look into that would you? I will keep looking about." You hear a pair of foot steps recede and the door opens. DM:
Victor can very clearly see half of Weylyn's cloak sticking out from under the bed from the closet that he ducked into, but somehow the guard misses it, and doesn't even think to look in the closet. Then he turns and leaves. Shutting the Door behind himself. Victor A younger guard in better clothes answers the door and looks you up and down. "You are calling a little late aren't you?" When you throw the letter into his face he looks a little surprised after reading it and says. "The two lords are in a meeting right now, you can wait with me and Justin, we heard a noise a moment ago and he went to investigate claiming it was robbers for one of the lords nick-nacks."
Tobias Looking over the bushes you see a few guards fooling around with a couple of whores. Shaking your head you continue toward the mansion. Weylen and Victor You make your way quickly to the next landing, and dive into the first room that you come to, it looks like a guest bedroom. As you wait in the room you hear the voices slowly make their way up the stairs.
I have no problem with Weylyn's slow posting schedule, I understand that life sometimes gets in the way since I have a job that sometimes demands 14hrs a day from me and a 6 month old at home. People that can post once a day are not the only ones looking for games. I am sorry if I do not match your sense of urgency in posting and reading posts. If that is what kills this game then so be it, but I am willing to continue.
Tobias You know roughly where that house is, due to it being one of the more well known houses in the district. You stalk your way there and get there relatively quickly. Once you arrive you notice no guards on patrol like at the previous house and upon inspection you hear giggling and moaning coming out of some of the bushes in the garden. Weylyn and Victor As the two of you head up toward the third floor, Victor suddenly notices a pressure plate on the floor and while swerving to avoid placing his foot on it crashes into a decorative table with a vase on it. making a sudden noise. You both here chairs scraping and voices coming up from the 1st floor.
Tobias The man sputters and coughs for a minute before noticing the seal on the letter. He quickly rips it open and reads it. Then he says drily "Ah, so you are the replacement guard. He is not currently home, if you wish to start now i would recommend going to the Hendershots, He is currently visiting the Lord of their house with a business proposition." He hands back the letter. "This shows that you are a guard for the Master, keep it with you."
Tobias You see that it would be quite easy to sneak into or out of the manor due to the twisting garden paths and bushes. There are numerous fountains to disguise sound as well. You also note that while the front door lock looks well made it is actually a cheap knock off and you think that if the builder of the mansion cut corners there to keep his pockets lined he probably cut corners elsewhere as well. Upon reaching the door it opens and a servant stands behind it. "What can I help you with... good sir." He sniffs. Victor You stealthily make your way down the hall poking your head into door ways hoping to find something else to lift. Most of the rooms don't have anything expensive looking in them. At least nothing small enough that you could carry it out easily. You make your way toward the entry hall, following the map to the stairs toward the 3rd floor of the building. Weylyn While you are looking about for the servant's stairs you notice a figure trying to move stealth-fully on the second floor. You know that most servants should be in their dorms at this hour and surely not sneaking.
For some reason it didn't show that he posted last time I was on.
No problem
Weylyn you still around? I am trying to keep all of my replies to you guys at once until you meet up.
There is a quest to steal a journal. If you are not fast enough you can just steal it off one of the other participants after they get it. It's rather funny
Tobis He smiles at your seeming attack of conscious "The younger son of the lord requires a body guard, he is a bit of a fop turns out. Lives in a manor by himself. You can start today if you would like I will send you out with a sealed letter from the father explaining why you are there." Victor DM: You find a fancy ash tray worth a fair amount and a small statue of a nude woman that you suspect that you could fence. you are not sure on the value of any of the books.
At first you hear nothing on the other side of the door, but just as you are moving to open it you hear the faint sound of footsteps getting louder, they get closer and closer and then finally pass your door, moving away until you cannot hear them again. You sigh with relief and guess it was just a guard making a round due to all the moving equipment you heard as he passed. Weylyn Weylyn opens the door and looks out into a grand entrance hall, currently vacant but very large and open. You see a couple of statues you can quickly dart behind to make it elsewhere, you could attempt to use the main stairs to get to the second floor, or sneak around looking for servants quarters for the other stairs all houses of this size have.
Haha, can't help but think of the mission for getting into the thieves guild in Oblivion with this banter.
If you would like, I could incorporate them into the game instead of just making up random people. Waiting on Weylyn to post
Victor dice: you handily make your way over the fence and no one from the street or grounds notices you. You dodge your way from bush to tree making your way up to the mansion and once there handily climb up the face of the building. Seeing no one on the other side of the drapes the simple lock on the window quickly falls to your expertise. Once in the building you pull out your simple map again. You can tell the vault is on the third floor from it and that it is down a hall full of bedrooms. The room you are in appears to be a deserted sitting room. Probably a smoking room from the smell. There are two closed Doors.
Weylyn dice:
You are confident no one saw you from the street or yard while you were scaling the wall and stealthily make your way to the ground floor finding a window propped open allowing a pleasant breeze to blow into the house, and a way for you to enter. You step into a small reading room, it's walls lined with books. There is one door exiting the room. Tobias You approach the place that you know is hiring for the Papadako's. Upon entering you see that the hiring manager is someone you knew of from the guild. A rather sour fellow whom you never really liked. When you ask about jobs he smiles crookedly due to a scar and says. "I know your reputation. No need for a resume. What can I do for you?"
Tobis Suddenly Colin seems much more polite. "Well if I were you, I would start with the Papadako's They have always had ties with the thieves guild and no one would benefit more from gaining assassin records. I hear that they have locked down all access to their manor recently, though no one knows why. That does not necessarily mean that that is were they will be however." Victor "Let me ask the girls who are not busy, we don't generally leave the house but that is a lot of coin to say no to." She leaves you standing there and walks out. You are there for so long that you think she may have just left. But then she returns with two passable females. "These two would like to assist you. Though if anything happens to them it will be on your head!" Weylyn Dugan looks back to his drink loosing interest in the conversation when he thinks no money is forth coming. "I don't know any hawkers Dell, you know that, but the statue wasn't the only thing in the vault."
Weylyn Dugan gives you another side ways look. "Well small enough I could carry it if that answers your question. I didn't exactly measure it. Does that mean you are paying me?" Tobias Suddenly Colin looks livid and shouts at you. "All of them, you fool assassin! They all have their fingers in the pies, the political enemies they want killed, the priceless items that their rivals wont sell. They pull all the strings, that is why your petty guilds fell so easily. Even the people that though they were in charge were probably being manipulated from the shadows. None of you could see it because you were on the inside. Riches and records have been being moved for months. Who knows where to?" Victor You find a alchemist easily enough in such a large town. He doesn't even blink when you ask for something that makes a thick dark smoke and proceeds to show you the rest of his wares The Madame is retrieved and looks you up and down "What are you looking for? You look like a young boy might be to your tastes, I can provide."
Tobias Colin looks at you for a moment, "No need to be rude about it. Employ is easy, there are houses everywhere that are looking for muscle and seeing how your past might agree with that anyway I don't see any problems. Who raided your guild? It was the city constables, where any information they may have had went? That is anyone's guess. I have heard nothing." He hasn't moved from the door. Weylyn Dugan looks at you out of the corner of his eye. "There is always work for those who look friend. Why just the other day I delivered a statue to a silly little fop. Got a pretty penny for the delivery and then again for selling the info about the delivery. Figure I could make some more selling it to you?" Victor You can tell from the map that the vault is somewhere in the center of the manor. During your recon you manage to blend with the crowds around the estate rather well. you don't see any traps around the manor but there are at least two guards on every side, sometimes 3 or 4 patrolling through the gardens. You suspect there would be at least a few inside but know that most nobles don't like having guards in the houses. DM rolls:
You manage to pick the pocket with ease. Weylyn:
217gp 89sp total Victor: 72 gp total
Victor Colin answers your questions, "No known traps, but noblemen like to think they are tricky, so I would keep on my toes were I you. The two known digits are 2, and 7 I can give you a rough map that shows the route that the man who made the delivery took and I know little about how many guards. You should probably scout the place out prior to heading in. But you probably know more about that then I. The nobleman is just some minor son of another nobleman that has too much money and not enough sense to spend it wisely." Weylyn You manage to lift all the purses you try for, though you have to make a hasty retreat to another part of the market when the merchant lets out a shout right after you lift his. Once you enter the Mermaid, Dugan looks up at you bleary eyed, already a few drinks deep. "Eh? Weylyn? That you? I've been keepin on. Not much work these days for 'honest folk' ya know?" Tobis You find it quite easy to get into the flat, the window you used wasn't even locked. As you make your way through the single room you can tell by the things in it that it is nothing more then a meeting place for him to meet clients. There is nothing that could be traced back to him, that you could tell from your cursory once over. From a small planner that is open on the desk you can see that he has an appointment there in about an hour. You waste a hr puffing away at your cigar. Soon enough you hear a key scrape in a lock. and Colin walks in looking surprised that someone is waiting for him.
All of the checks I put up are for 'deserving' people. Tobias
Weylyn You don't notice many good marks on your way to the market, everyone has been holding their coin purses close since the collapse of the guilds due to all the rampant theft. Once reaching the market, the normal bustle of activity puts people at ease and they are more lax about their purse security.
Target perceptions:
Minor noblewoman , Noblewoman's guard , Merchant , Other pickpocket Tobias You know of a pretty well known freelance info broker named Colin and you know a few of his haunts. He can be found at the market, the docks at a place called the Drunken Mermaid, or a small flat in the middle district. Any choice to check is as good as another as far as you are concerned. Victor Colin's rolls:
Perception,Sense motive Colin starts when you whisper in his ear "Ah Victor, I didn't recognize you, good thinking with the collapse of the thieves guild. I know of a juicy little job. A lord in Freeport recently bought a small statue and had it delivered to his personal vault, allowing the man who delivered it get a look at what was inside as well as the first two numbers in a 3 digit code. Now I am going to give you this information for old times sake, but I expect our previous cut. 70% for me 30% for you. He says everything in a low voice that almost doesn't carry to you, despite being right next to him.
Tobias Flint There are many job offers for muscle on the local job boards, but you know that they are all for low end shops or people that hold no real political power. Most of your informants and people that owed you favors have disappeared, either in the prisons or away from Freeport. But you think you still have a few you can tap. Weylyn Dell DM Rolls: You are confident that no one saw you as you leave your little home. You make it to the pie shop without incident.
Victor ManasYour search for people behind the raid doesn't turn up much. You are of the opinion that whomever pulled it off definitely didn't do it for the lime light. No one seems to know who it would be. Your search for info on burglary targets turns up much better information, tapping one of your old informants , that never joined the guild, from when you were a freelance. He drops hits about a really juicy target that he heard about and wants you to meet him at 'the old meeting place.' When you joined the guild you never though you would go back to The Drunken Mermaid.
Also Dementia you never actually vetoed the 3pp archetype Glory Rogue. All of us could use that if this is going to be an all rogue party. As I have said before I would prefer Paizo/Pathfinder specific material only. If you have a good argument for including something, other then 'it would make the character more bad A.' I will think about it. I am eventually thinking of getting you guys mythic tiers, we will just have to see what happens in the game though.
They were fresh out when I asked about them.
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