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Finn just stares in pure horror at the worm bursting out from that man’s body! What in the name of all that is holy was THAT?!?!
The halfling then pulls out a knife and begins juggling it as he moves forward in an attempt to slip through his legs.
Despite his fear, the halfling slips under the graverobber’s legs and jumps back up into a flanking position with P’oxtan!
Finn glances at the other ringmasters with skepticism in his eyes. ”I’m sorry, run that by me again?”
After seeing Hush’s attempts mostly fail, Finn facepalms and decides to do it himself. Buncha Medicine rolls:
”Well, with all due respect, we are in no condition to do anything of the sort right at this moment.” Finn then sits down and begins Treating his Wounds.
”Wait, so these demons weren’t the only things that came here? Huh.” "They...They took the holy books!?" He begins looking through the shredded pages near the altar and concludes, "None of the pages are here. Chosen of Abadar," he says, referencing the ringleaders, "If you find The Manual of City-Building or The Order of Numbers in your adventures, I would pay you to have them returned.... ”I mean…sure.” I don’t really have use for Abadaran scriptures.
She'll cast detect magic on the pendant to see if it is magical.
Unlike Honey, when Finn hears the voice from the door, the halfling immediately jumps to try and rescue whoever is making that sound!
Finn sees the demon tear into Hush and starts panicking! His feet moves before his mind comprehends it as he runs straight for the demon! ”P’oxtan! Duck!” When the iruxi crouches, Finn uses his shoulders as a stepping stone and does a leap-frog to get over the demon!
The demon back-hands the flying halfling, only for the halfling to try to jump with style through the demon’s space once more!
Finn grits his teeth as he is stopped by the demon once again! He throws the knife over P’oxtan’s head at the demon, putting an insane amount of spin on it as he throws it sidelong!
If either of those Tumbles succeeded:
Finn catches the knife and stabs into the beast with each!
The halfling then confidently dances away from the ugly demon!
Finn pulls out a second knife that he begins juggling it. ”Take a look at this, you big lug!” The halfling throws the knife in the air and tries to slip under the demon’s cloven legs and leapfrog back over into his original space just in time to catch the knife!
But the halfling only manages to run face-first into the demon’s body. He still manages to catch the knife, though. Frustrated, he tries once more just for good measure!
That said, giving me magic weapon isn’t actually that helpful because, well, thrown weapons.
Finn did you include the magic weapon I cast one one of your daggers? Pretty sure that crit-failed Stealth check happened as Honey was sneaking in, so initiative occurred before that could be cast.
Finn pulls out a second knife and begins juggling it. ”How about THIS?!” The halfling catches the two knives—one in each hand—and stabs at the smaller creature while throwing the other knife confidently at the bigger one.
Finn sighs. Guess we're doing this then. The halfling makes a big show of strutting up the aisle of pews as he looks at the demons (though not too closely). "Hey there, uh...boys? You ready for a show?!" The halfling pulls out a throwing knife and juggles it to try to get the little guy's attention.
Finn’s eyes go wide as he silently yet desperately motions to the other ringmasters to hide as he himself does. He then attempts to sneak into the church, using the pews as cover. What’re those? What’re those?! WHAT IN THE NINE HELLS ARE THOSE?!?!
Finn stares at the ramshackle church, then glances at the other ring leaders and simply mouths What? Finn walks straight into the church to try and find any clergyman that he can.
Millie stokes the crowd’s contempt at the Menagerie circus folk.
Oops...I think all of us missed this: That's my bad; I'll get on it.
Finn grins as he glances at Millie and mouths You're up.
Finn reflexively tenses up as he sees the lion tamer strike the fire dancer—Viktor—with her whip. He wants to scream at her—put any and all rivalry aside to give this woman a piece of his mind and introduce her to the business end of one of his knives! But he doesn’t. His own fear keeps him from moving forward. He just stares, his anger boiling up inside him but too afraid to act on it. Just like back then... Instead, when the lion tamer and P’oxtan face off, Finn slips away, making his way toward Viktor and pulls on the fire dancer’s pant leg. ”Hey, uh, I know we’re kinda on opposite sides here, but in all seriousness, are you alright?”
Once it’s Finn’s Turn: Finn faces the much-taller-than-him fire dancer with a smile on his face. He pulls out several throwing knifes that he holds by the blades.
”Let’s see who can pull off the real show!” The halfling tosses the knives in the air and juggles them, snatching several knives out of the air by the blade before immediately tossing them back up!
Finn snatches the knives out of the air, does a twirl, and bows to the crowd for his performance. ”Top that!”
My first instinct would be to to have each specialty go up against each other. E.g. have the acrobatic Honey go against the acrobatic clown, have P'oxtan go against the other animal person (the lion tamer), and Finn go against the fire dancer (bit of a stretch, but fire dancing and juggling have kind of the same skill set), which would leave Hush to Aid one of us. I have no justification for this choice beyond pure story reasons (I find the idea of Honey saying "let me show you how a real acrobat does it" to Mr. Tickles over here). Speaking of P'oxtan, has anyone heard from him? It's been quite a while since he last posted...
Finn eyes the other ringmasters as he mutters just loud enough for them to hear ”We’re absolutely doing this, right?” If we’re actually doing this: The halfling adjusts his coat and straightens up to be as tall as he can manage. A wide grin emerges on his face as he shouts toward the lion tamer. ”Thank you for the introduction! And the sheer honesty; your little pussycat is looking quite ‘feeble.’ The only entertainment you—how did you put it? ‘Struggling charlatans’?—can provide is from comedy of your incompetence. Lucky we showed up right when we did so these folks don’t die of boredom!”
Finn rubs his eyes and stares back to make sure he saw correctly, which he unfortunately did. "You've gotta be kidding me! The Menagerie's here?!" I thought this was our turf.
”Hmm…I’m more curious about what that hag was doing in that barn, if I’m being honest. Call it a gut feeling, but I think we should check out that barn.”
"Wait, you know about the...!" Finn stops mid-sentence, realizing the opportunity before him. He puts on the most wonderful customer-service-smile and says. "We'll happily clean up your bar of the mess we've caused. And Pruana, it seems there's been a severe misunderstanding on our part. We'll leave you and your boys alone for the foreseeable future, well, once we're done with the cleaning. Isn't that right guys?" Finn turns to the other ringmasters, his smile unwavering but his eyes shrieking Don't contradict me right now!
Finn blinks in confusion at the bartender and looks around, suddenly well aware of the human, dwarf, goat, and dinosaur blood that’s staining the wood of the Mad Mug. Ah shit. The halfling turns to the bartender and the now-conscious dwarf and points at Violet. ”New goat? She’s just fine.”
If that succeeds:
As they’re momentarily distracted, Finn starts to move to hide behind the bar to leave the clean-up to the other ringmasters, when he suddenly feels a heavy weight from the holy symbol in his pocket. He grits his teeth for a moment as he slumps his shoulders. Oh, fine! Finn looks over at Violet one more time. ”Oh…uh…guess not…” The halfling sighs. ”We’ll help you out where you need it. But why are you helping her? I thought the Mad Muggers were a buncha delinquents—no offense—who were blackmailing the mayor or something. We're here to liberate the town from their vile clutches!”
"Huh?" Finn looks to where the other halfling is pointing. "Oh yeah!" He jumps off from the counter and grabs at the dwarf woman's shins. "Hey, P'uktuan, mind helping me out here?"
Finn bows deeply as the goat falls—whether or not there is actual applause. ”Thank you! Thank you! All in a day’s work!” Something suddenly crosses his mind as he turns to Millie. ”Wait, why’d we come here again?”
"Say no more, my dear!" Finn pulls out a juggling club and sends it flying at the goat!
The halfling then pulls out a knife and begins nonchalantly juggling it.
Not necessarily a bad idea, it just made me scratch my head for a bit. Then I noticed Honey and Hush's HP and I realized what you were going for.
Yes, it does also heal enemies, which in this circumstance includes: the boar, Violet the goat, the dwarven woman that owns Violet, and at least one of the ruffians (depending on how the GM rules NPCs that hit 0 HP).
Oh that ain’t good... Seeing both the goat and the boar converge on the same place, Finn catches both of his knives and send them flying spectacularly—one at each of the animals!
The halfling spins as he makes his spectacular attacks—after all, folks deserve a show.
The halfling’s eyes go wide. That goat just knocked out a dinosaur! And…that’s a sentence. Trying not to let his fear show through, Finn quickly pulls out two more throwing knives that soar through the air. ”Now folks, watch as the Circus of Wayward Wonders takes down this villainous woman and her horrid familiar!”
All the while Finn casts some glances out the window toward Honey as he mouths We need help!
Oh jeez, has it been a week?! I'll check in with the GM, see what's going on; he's been posting fairly well in my other games with him.
Not really. That's a specific action that Amaqil has to take; it's not automatic. And if the Support action is taken, no actions other than move actions can be taken that turn by Amaqil.
Finn winks at the customer he’s thoroughly astounded and rushes forward and dramatically leaps onto the bar counter! He then looks dumbfounded at the dwarf and the goat. Huh. A literal goat…How’d I miss that when I took that guy’s hat? Ah well. Guess this must be the “alpha-‘bro’” Honey was talking about. ”Hey, goat-lady!” He calls to the dwarf. ”I got a present for ya! CATCH!!!” Finn catches the knife he’s juggling and with a flick of his wrist chucks it toward the dwarf woman!
Finn kicks the back door open and pulls out a knife as he begins Juggling. ”Now featuring Honey Wasp and her magically-animating pig! Who’s ready to have some fun!”
Just an update to y’all: I have been keeping in touch with the GM in the interim—the move to his new place has gone fairly well, but the transition is still being accounted for; not to mention offline life suddenly hitting like a truck. That is to say that the GM hasn’t abandoned the game, just that recent things have just been of a greater priority than PbP. Sorry for the wait, everyone.
Finn stops with an awkward grin on his face as the metaphorical gears in his head turns and the smile melts and he just scratches the back of his head. "You know...I did see other people in there now that I think about it...Yeah....this is probably not a good idea now that I think about it...What if we just heal it out front and bolt while the guys out front deal with it?"
Finn watches Honey carefully with a grin on his face until she heals the beast then slams the back door closed and braces against it with his entire weight to try to keep it from being able to be opened from the other side!
Finn only notices Honey leaving a bit too late. What in the world is she...? He shrugs and continues picking at the lock. Back around the back of the tavern, "Look what we brought. I say we could wake this angry mama up and cause quite a scene. It might provide a bit of a distraction we could use to our advantage." A glean sparkles in Finn's eyes and a smirk with a combination of ambition and wicked realization spreads across his face. "My dear, you are now speaking my language! How's this for an idea: place the body just inside, someone heals it, and we man the door from this side while we make the preparations needed and swoop in while they're recovering."
I love it! Sounds like it could go very wrong very quickly, but I just want to see what kind of hilarity ensues.
Finn grabs Hush’s arm* after she tries the doorknob. ”You were about to knock, weren’t you? You were actually about to—? Nevermind, just, let me.” Finn reaches into his bag and pulls out a surprisingly intricate set of lockpicks and other tools. Assuming a simple lock (3 successes at a DC 20):
After the better part of a minute, Finn manages to finagle his way through the back door. ”And that’s how it’s done.” He then then opens the door a crack and sneaks inside of the Mad Mug. *
Finn is about to say something that would likely get him punched in the face, but stops as he sees Honey trying to move the group away. He holds his arms up in feigned surrender. ”Alright, alright. Simple misunderstanding. We’ll get out of your hair. Just, uh…” The halfling slides his recently acquired hat onto the table. ”Someone in there is missing that.” He then slowly steps away at Honey’s lead.
Honey steps away from the porch to consult with her party. She whispers to them, "I suggest a tactical retreat. I bet we can take them but there is no reason to fight them on their terms. Maybe we can try to sneak around back or wait until they sleep or separate to ambush them. Also, we're still outsiders here and I don't know how the locals will appreciate or not if we rough up their men. What do you think?" Finn groans. ”I gave up my style points for this?! There’s no way we’re getting through to those bozos. Would’ve been so much more fun to watch that guy’s face nearly pop as I turn his threats around on him instead of sneaking around back, picking the lock, and getting them when they aren’t looking. Plus, it would’ve made them attack first; self-defense and all that. Come on, don’t tell me you’ve never wanted to be in a good ol’ barroom brawl. And at this place we could’ve even had a Xopatli Standoff! Stuff like this is once-in-a-lifetime.”
Shhhh! No one needs to know!
Another joins in. "Watch me juggle these knives! Isn't it cool? I'm just going to do this and nothing else for like 10 minutes! Give me coin?" I didn’t even perform this past show; how’d he know that? Well, let’s try killing them with kindness. Hehe.
Finn looks way up at the balcony as the angry drunks shout down at the ringmasters. The halfling cups a hand around his ear as if to try and listen better to the trash talk. A smile of sudden understanding crosses his face as he cups his hands at his mouth and shouts back up. ”And a hearty ‘howdy’ to you too, par’ners!” He turns to the other ringmasters and says, loud enough for those on the balcony to hear ”Seems like a fine ol’ saloon they got here. I’ll get meself a sarsaparilla!” Finn then goes through the wild-west swinging doors into the Mad Mug, pushing through it with his hands to let it swing, despite being short enough to go through the space beneath the swinging-hinged doors. He scans the tavern’s patrons and smiles as he approaches one of them.
Finn passes by one of the customers and swipes the man’s hat with a quick ”I’mborrowingthisI’llbringitrightbackthankyou!” and makes his way up to the balcony, putting on his newly-acquired Stetson hat that is far too big for his head. The halfling approaches the group of trash-talkers and puts one foot up on one of the chairs as he pushes up the brim of his Stetson with his thumb. ”So you’ve heard of me and my humble posse?” He says with a big smile on his face. ”Care for an autograph from us, cowpokes?”
The acrobat archetype looks interesting. My only concern would be that it would distract from my true focus of sorcerer/healer. That's fair, but the auto-maxing proficiency in Acrobatics from the dedication alone is worth it in and of itself, in my opinion. EDIT: To be clear, I'm not trying to force you in how to build your character. I'm just playing devil's advocate for a bit.
"Well, maybe not the whole town, but I do agree. Sounds like a plan!"
”Uh..might wanna check out the Mad Mug; stuff happening to the sheriff doesn’t sound good…”
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