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someone stole a corpse? But why? "Silly goblins," he mutters while walking behind, deeply confused. After hearing the Sheriff speak, Denche accelerates and catches up. "I came to town to look for work, so if you're thinking about easing your duties by offloading them to us, I'll expect appropriate compensation. I'm sure it's the same for all of us." and he looks at the rest of the group.
The ranger finishes his meal, pushes the wrapping away and looks up, expectantly.
Denche wakes up from a dreamless night and makes it downstairs. Seeing almost everyone at the table, he realises he overslept, which is quite unusual. "G'mornin", he says colorlessly. The half-orc then sits down and stares blankly for a bit. Producing a ready made meal out of his pack, he mumbles that it would just spoil and starts eating it.
The half-orc nods and holds up two fingers to the waitress.
Denche sips his ale with small, quick lifts of his tankard, like when drinking hot soup in a hurry. In his head various fantasy scenarios are being created and dismissed, imagining how the man in front of him could have become the town's guardian. After a while, he snaps out of it and says: "I think the mayor can wait for a day. Everyone needs to calm down and sober up to be useful. I don't know how he plans to hunt boar without a dog, but the odd fella's proposition sounds nice to me." Turning to face Rak, the ranger adds: "Unless you think it can't wait or are not interested, in which case I'm happy to go alone." The woods always struck the right cords with Denche.
"So the complaints started before the actual attacks?"
Denche leans in closer, visibly interested. "Please do continue. What is your suspicion?"
What do we know? "It was simple for them to come in unnoticed; probably the best day to try. But why??" he glances expectantly at the sheriff.
I've updated the treasure tracker to account for the sale. Sorin, will you take that potion? I need to use some of the new funds, which forces us to conclude on how we'll handle money. Shared and relying on cooperation or split and banked immediately?
armory: "Thanks, I'll take some more strings just in case." Hopefully it's just the butterflies. Thinking out loud, Denche continues: My broken bow left me with only my skinning dagger. I need something bigger. And yes, we should let the others know." He buys a falchion (37.5 gp) and a short bow just in case (15 gp). Then he just waits to see how either will respond to Rak's question.
tsk tsk, but I'll leave it at that since I don't want to get killed. :P
!(sorin or ariza) => fine
or don't we agree on the operators or something?
Sheriff et al:
"Nice to meet you and thank you for the kind offer. We will take you up on it." Denche says impressed with her handshake and gratuity. "First, can you restring my bow? I don't have any spare bowstrings, so I'd like to buy some on top of that." "Secondly, please show us your craftsmanship. I'm sure you have made items we will be interested in." The half-orc then turns to Rak and says "I think we can get rid of everything (sans the potion). The armor could perhaps fit Ariza, but she doesn't seem to like wearing armor in the first place."
Anyway, I suggest you take the potion Sorin. I'll hopefully be more at a distance next time and I still have two light ones.
To get back on topic, some topology instead:
So not that symbolic after all. Don't you model using Mathematica, Octave or similar?
What kind of math do you do DM (cf not seeing a bang in a while)?
Unless we have too many, consumables should be taken asap.
I'd just keep it as-is and take out of it as need arises. Most stuff is indivisible, so unless we converted most of it to gold, it could be quite some work to be mathematically fair. Useless stuff we sell/convert immediately to keep it brief. Possible?
not Ariza: "I think my friends here are eager for a drink. How about we drop them off at the tavern, I leave my bow at Savah's and we return to join them?"
not Ariza: Happy to have done some good already, Denche packs up the rope properly and catches up with the rest. On the way to the tavern, the half-orc can't help but ask the sheriff about his problem. He feels like a mason without a hammer, a pigeon without a worthy place to s~&~ on.
Nope, both my voices agree with you. Plus there's the potential for him being "tagged" to find the lair, scrying or whatever. I'm sure the leader would have more to say, but it felt too dangerous to let him live when we started.
"Yes, we need to find the sheriff and probably the mayor too. She'll want to know."
"... and then I can hopefully fix my bow."
Slovenia, another gem, just not so much in a historic sense. :)
Denche withdraws the dagger and grins.
It depends on how much you dig the period, archaeology and how fast you can walk / how tired you get. It's a small city, not just a bunch of ruins, so unless it rains, I'd never budget for only half a day. I think I've been there twice now — it's been quite a while. It sucks to have Italy so close, as everything is lame afterwards. ;)
Hearing angry goblin again, Denche returns to Ariza's side, facing the captive. He unsheathes his dagger and looks at it for a bit, twisting his wrist slightly to see if there is a shine to it. Content, he starts cleaning the grit under his nails. Without averting his focus, he says coldly: "Is he talking or do I need to make a point?", at the same time swiftly pointing the dagger to the goblin's left eye.
Ok, a hint: don't talk about mafia, as they get annoyed. Not because it is taboo, but because they have Cosa Nostra (Mafia is on Sicily). It's weird, like they're proud. >< You should reserve at least half a day for Pompei!
Italy is great, but 10 days, ufff, that'll be quite a rush even if you visit a tiny subset of it.
The half-orc finishes his inspection and stands up from the ugly corpse in front of him. Little scum; like baby orcs, but worse.
Some more of that Ariza and he'll be either too terrified to be comprehensible or will soil your hand. :^)
Denche feels he filled his role and seeing Rak locked in a hug, chuckles and moves to inspect the corpses.
"Thanks, we'll try. Check their leader for anything interesting, perhaps their tribe could be identified."
in goblin:
Ariza, come here, let's have some fun. Denche kneels besides the tied goblin and wipes the dagger on his head, like it was a rag. Finally looking into his eyes, he says in goblin:
You saw what we did to the others, didn't you? Your puny master and his pet are dead. The shaman that lead another group lies silent in a pool of his own blood a few houses away. No goblin survived our wrath. Nobody is coming to save you. Better start talking. He motions to Ariza and makes a sidestep back. in goblin: I see you like fire.
"YEA! All clear!" He says after looking around. The half-orc then slowly, but menacingly, approaches the stunned goblin, taking out his rope at the same time. "Since he is so kind and presented himself, let's go with your plan Rak. I'll tie him up and then we have all the time in the world." He looks around nervously. "If the city is safe already."
Feeling a rush of adrenaline, as the half-orc finally manages to stab something, he gets lost in the victorious moment. Alas, his revery is interrupted and his attention to the present swiftly returns as the dog tries to bite him again. Now for you. he sneers subconsciously.
Denche looks at the ugly creature in front of him, searching for weak spots and then deftly slashes at its head.
Denche shrugs off the dog's bite and decides to finish the leader, hoping to demoralise the rest. "I'll take their master out, hang in there Ariza!" Starting the attack, he shouts "You, Foxglove! Don't just stand there — fight or get the guard!"
Can't be of much help Rak — you know more of the classes and feats than me. Enlarge person does sound appropriate, especially for a dwarf — I remember from one literally book that druergar used it a lot (maybe a racial innate for them?).
Cool, if we're lucky we can coup-de-grace two in the next round.
We've all been reading your spell list wrong Ariza. :( RE sheet: what if use up two items of a kind? The new column could be numeric and there'd be no need for conditionals, but do we really want to track loot in such detail?
Watching the other goblins get blasted by arcane energy, Denche steps in front of their leader and tries to stab his mount in the snout.
Nice, perfect initiative rolls. Ariza you can now blast most of them. :)
"Goblins are silly little idiots, so I doubt we could pry much from them." Pauses, "But a good thought nonetheless, perhaps we could set one free outside town and secretly follow it." He then marches north, unsheathing his dagger again.
Why not just decrease the count? We'll always have the original in the gameplay thread — this one is more of a ledger though. I moved the total to the top, so it never has to move again.
"Bah!" Denche turns toward the shriek, trying to recognise it.
I hope I won't need my bow.
Don't worry, we'll be fine. Have some fun. :) Btw, do you keep track of xp and will just let us know when we all reach a new level or do we need to do any bookkeeping? How much loot micromanaging is there? Can we just assume we find buyers for common stuff and convert to sp/cp?
"Hmpff, thanks. We need to inform the guard. I guess everyone is in a drunken stupor somewhere? How else could they have gotten in in such a number, without anyone noticing?"
"Let's find the sheriff and then trade some of their gear. If nothing, perhaps the small bow strings could be used to repair mine."
Denche curses as his swing yet again fails to connect. Seeing the goblin suddenly flee, he turns around to see what might have caused that change. For all my shouting, he leaves by his own volition?! Could I be any more useless? Eyeing the other dead goblins: "Everyone ok? Looks like we're safe for a bit." He returns to the other side of the stage, picks up his torn bow and inspects it. You fail me not when hunting for food, but when my life is at stake?! Must be this solstice and the poor butterflies. He then jumps down and inspects the corpses for any symbols, emblems or other identifying objects. And pulls out that one arrow he managed to shoot.
At the same time he responds to Rak: "They had nothing relevant to say and my shouting was mostly aimed at making them fearful." "I need to get my weapons fixed... or replaced. Can you point me to a bowyer and a blacksmith, Father? Do you know if the town is now safe?"
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