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During hexploration starting add a ruin with a haunt that replays defenders losing to grendel but don't make it fully obvious. If you haven't done the stag king he could have some terrified scribblings about ti (maybe make his drinking a reaction to PTSD when something horrid came and killed his previous crew and only the amulet N gave him spared him from death. Later when Trolls are rising up one of the fey (tyg titter-tut or perlivash) can have a rumor the Troll sought out an audience with a great monster and it was found in pieces Later when the tiger claws start riling up they avoid a hex they believe grendal to be in. basically seed it all along.
having some personal issues will not likely be posting for a couple days bot me as needed.
having some personal issues will not likely be posting for a couple days.
having some personal issues will not likely be posting for a couple days.
Sorry got a little busy at work will be posting today or at worst tomorrow
Spindleshank falls asleep thanks to some quick action and thinking on Amelia's part.
Elbin consents tot he spell. "The nasty bard is two bards a girl and boy both pretty and looking almost the same. They will talk to gangs and after gangs get more violent, ambitious, and angry at one another. They talked to those ex-guards trying to make security work. Instead they ended up forming a gang. There's blood on the street because of those two but what they don't know is that I saw... They have been careful but Elbin likes music, knows instruments. Maker's mark on the boy's banjo is Pitax, masterwork possibly magical instrument."
Spindleshank smirks, still confident in his position. "Very well, tell your betters that the theft was a commission. We were paid to..." Spindleshank starts choking. His hands instinctual go to his throat but there's nothing there. Spellcraft if ya got it.
Spindleshank sits in a relaxed pose, he hasn't quite put his feet up but it's close. The body language is smug. "They sent you, that's quite funny. Where's the paladin? He was clearly in charge.
@Allan, for the most part it's a general incompetence be it in one case taking a bribe publicly, one nearly killed a bistander in pursuit of a suspect, more than one washed out for failing 3 physicals, it's a mixed bag of failure.
no worries, we will keep your spot warm.
Okay with much hand waiving you arrive at the station about the same time. Team Waterfront has some washout ex-watchment to book which causes a bit of a stir and you find out Elbon and his "dog are waiting for you in a interrogation room. He has asked for Roedar in particular. Spindleshank has also been transferred to the station for questioning. Most importantly what are you reporting and when you've decided whos questioning who we shall proceed.
Okay so I was really hoping to see you guys take the invitation to roleplay getting back to base form your respective missions and discussing things a bit. The game doesn't work if you are all playing off of the GM.
If everyone is cool I'm saying you all return to HQ to discuss your next steps. Elbin and Spot are waiting for you when you get there, claiming he was promised protection.
Team Murderbait: Fagen smirks [spoiler=also in Orcish] "They fought an died so that their children struggle and die in the winter's cold without me? Are you under the impression I invented poverty? Look around this neighborhood and tell me how much of your watch's budget on magic baubles could do more here. You work for a system that buries the poor so that the rich may live comfortably." Spoiler:
He punctuates his speech by spitting on the ground. someoen says something in draconic from behind him and he and several fo the "boys" disappear. Spellcraft 18:
That was invisibility 10ft radius Okay spoiler tags have limits :P Alan's knowledge check:
Not illegal to point or even threaten but totally illegal to fire. We can move this to the Tea shop if you like, or you can regroup with others.
Team Waterfront: Since there were 2 PCs in the scene and the one that wanted a combat stated "bot me" I'm going to narrate this one away. With Tackleberry raining down bombs and crossbow bolts, Hightower using a reach weapon from the fire escape landing, and Sven plugging the entrance to the basement the old guard types find themselves badly outmatched as they need an 18 or better to hit Sven, and can't hit anyone else this becomes frustrating and painful for them. Tack, Sven and Hightower all ko 2 a piece before the remaining 3 run for it. These were 1st level fighters.
Team Murderbait: Fagen pulls a card of his own, it is one given to clients of First & Basil "You want to know about pies lad, ask yer boss. Mind you ask politely they have much larger predators then yerself lad even if yer a bit to old to be one oh my boys. I gave ya yer lead sir paladin, kindly take this mercenary and that lil traitor and get the hell off my property.
I hadn't posted my WIP character yet becaus eI'm still tuning background and equip but here's where I'm at Storing on a google doc at present Akoris Sands I haven't quite equipment (4,824 GP of 6k spent thus far thinking about a defensive item aside from cloak of prot) and I'm working on background now (wanted to read a bit of the old thread and find a tie in. The main beats of the story I have thus far:
Adventure Hooks
Okay finished equipment I found a keen magic item I wanted and ended up trading out some wand charges (prorated at 15gp a charge) to cover the overage giving a R of 1 gp :D
This helped my HP situation sweet.
Can I assume all Paizo classes are acceptable? Also what races are available?
Team Oz: One of the guards clears his throat, then mentions "The cafeteria makes this thing called limeade, it's pretty good.
Visibly gives Amelia an up and down, I could um go get you some" -he actually blushes a little as the other guard smirks.
Sorry for the delays folk but I'm back and ready to rumble. Team Waterfront:
Tackleberry's shot does seem to give them pause but they move on. Elbin and Spot duck into the basement and disappear into the shadows, the goblin has like a +20 modifier if you care that much on perception let me know. Instead of making this a messy initiative I'm just going to do it this way for this combat PCs involved have a total of +5 innit which is better then 2 baddies at a +2
So take your actions. Bear in mind at this point you're in the middle of an alley they have plugged either end and are 4 on one side 5 the other. There's a fire escape and the basement widow. They have to close 15 f to attack on either side and will provide flanks unless you pull something out or take a superior position on the board. These guys are chumps so this should go fast. Team Oz:
As you're about to try and get a runner to Callahan one of the guards says Spindleshank want to talk Team Murderbait: Fagen hides his emotions as well as he can "Alright copper, I'll give ya a chance to see if you got what it takes to put a stop to this." "The fairies like the tea shop that's come by way of Tian-Xia called Gran Yukai's Wabi Sabi teas. You can find them there sometimes, or leave a message with the proprietor but heaven help you if you cause trouble there." "Even if they ain't there you can at least talk tot eh patrons or maybe run into them."
Rather than grab a character I've previously generated (I actually kind of have tons) I'll bring something that's been banging around in my brain for awhile. A shruken focused ninja with a likely pair of dips. Would be a very skilled character with a niche close range specialty but it ramps very nicely. I'll likely re-flavor the Ninja as being a more Egyptian styled rouge/assassin
Sorry been spotty on my side, work has beaten me over the head all week with a pool queue
yeah I can relate to how the dice can hate a GM with a passion
Team Murderbait: "Now you listen 'ere copper out there the laws on yer side but in here I makes the rules. Ace should have told you to have soem manners comin' into my house. Yer right, I didn't order them that died killed, but that means I have a problem I gotta deal with. I didn't call for no Bobbies, this is my fight. If ya think I'm letting you arrest that monster yer mistaken cause I'm gonna kill it. I ain't for arrestin' no monsters."
I love my character but not the way this game has gone so I get it. I think a big part of it is that we only barely have started to gel as a group tactically and the RP between characters has been lacking since we lost the wyveran dude with the kid in tow.
Team Waterfront: Hightower easily clears the debris in front of the broken out window. "Sven You can make a choke point here while I hold the fire escape with Tackleberry using ranged strikes. Tackleberry doesn't wait and scampers up to the first fire escape (using quick runners shirt) landing before firing a bomb-bolt from his crossbow.
Hightower gets to the landing and holds. It will take them a round to close and fight so take whatever actions you like in the round. Then I will roll out innit.
Team Murderbait: Ace Sweetchuck takes you to a part of down called the Brine Bread district or "The Brines" so named for a commoner dish that bakes fish scraps into salty bread that's sold very cheaply in pretty much every bakery (Mivon partly subsides it.) The air is consistently filled with the scent of both fish and baking bread. This district is near a rich district that sits on the river and where many of the poorer servants that are not live in servants reside.
The area of the district Sweetchuck is taking you to has some textile sweat shops and inexpensive long term storage areas. It is n area of the city know for both crime and contraband. Those who make high perception rolls (DC 25) will occasionally catch glimpses of children and small folk shadowing you. They run off when confronted but are soon replaced. You're being watched right up to where it's clear you're headed to a derelict warehouse. The street gets really quiet as you approach, to those who have been in battle it's like that moment before someone shouts and the violence erupts. As your feet hit the street opposite the front entrance the doors just open. If you walk in after Ace you're greeted with an enormous looking man standing in the middle of the room about 50ft from the door. HE is built like a sumo wrestler if a sumo wrestler was dressed like an impoverished Victorian. "Well look at what we have here lads and lasses, looks like the prodigal son has returned and he brought us presents he did. Ace old boy do introduce us to your new guard friends." he looks pointedly at Ace's uniform "Wouldja look at tha' Acey-boys gone and joined the bobbies. Guess they don't look for folk that know how to fight anymore eh" Ace looks determined:
Fagen laughs:
I think you guys settled on forcing them through the hole after you as fair escape only works if everyone is trying to get away, Sven seems intent on making some arrests and plugging up the hole so we'll have to play that out
big post got eaten on Friday and weekend was bit on the busy side. So I'm reworking it now because I'm fearful of a TPK. I statted the Murderbait thing under the assumption y'all would investigate the murder scenes or go in and hear out the lesser evil in Fagen so that when a fight broke out between him and his his former fey ally the CR of the challenge would be adjusted by Fagen balancing things to your side. I'm pretty sure that plan is going to go t%$$ up so I've adjusted it a bit as you guys can prolly take down Fagen (CR5ish) as long as you keep the rest of the gang from joining in but not the Fey (CR7) without the CR5. I play hardball as a GM but that's just too heavy. Apologies, though it;s nice to be able to adjust between posts. So sorry about the delay.
As a heads up going to post a bunch tonight. GF had an emergency last night and I had some issues of my own that carried into today. Basically:
-Team Oz you guys played your situation about perfect. -Team Waterfront, I figured this one might be a fight or you'll might escape as the close it becomes clear it's not a gang it's members of the old watch guard with altered uniforms. Knowledge local 15 would let you know some guys got fired and created a mercenary band. This is them, no magic just a bunch of low level stabby types.
Team Waterfront[/spoiler: You are assuming correctly. The gangs are now visible and all lightly armored with finesse style weapons except a couple on either end using anduali longswords and breastplates. They are clearly coordinating in a militaristic movement pattern.
Team Waterfront: @Roedar Kn Local + Perception You notice that there's a boarded up basement window that looks loose meaning you can probably get into that basement and either force your enemies through a bottleneck or lose them on another exit. There's also a fire escape which works if they don't have ranged weapons but would be an exposed escape if they do. Spot and Elbin seem eager to leave any confrontation.
What you disclose it up to you.
yep it retroacts
There's an onion of geeky references and tropes in the plot that are there to be uncovered. Smart Monkey Urban Barbarian/Mutegentic Warrior is actually sort of a riff on Mojo Jojo.
Team Waterfront: Spot to Roedar: Ex-alphas are mad at new Alphas, you should strike hard and fast before they surround you. BTW the goblin dog is at least 4-5 int based on that sentence
Team Oz: After touching the quill, smirking in a cat that ate the canary kind of way Wheeler responds in perfect common: "Very well Amelia I was never so fond of the brute act anyway. Very astute of you to see through my brutish reputation and discern that I am the capo and not Spindleshank. I was once a slave of Challax but I educated myself and fought me way free of them. I do not appreciate those who follow your partner's god." He casually dislocates his thumbs and slips out the table manacles (taking 10.) Relocates his thumbs then steeples his hands. [b]"I'll take a pardon for myself and my confidants in exchange my cooperation and knowledge of an eminent threat to this city's government and it's people. Get that signed by your mayor and I'll sing you a song of blood and fire, you can have your cleric who's aftershave has a most distinctive odor cast a truth verification spell if you like. He could also verify that I could snap your pretty neck before anyone could do much about it. The Watch in this case is the enemy of my enemy." In Vanaran to She: Your were fun to spar with, perhaps we'll meet another time under different circumstances. I find you rather fetching. There are so few of us in these lands after all.
Team Waterfront: "His name is Spot, and he bites." Perception- Dog looks stronger and seems to be in better health then any goblin dog you've ever seen.
Team Oz: Wheeler laughs and continues in Vanaran: "You chase after who you're told to chase and in return they give you treats, you're a dog to them. I'm in prison but my food is brought to me, I have shelter, protection, and leisure time until the walls come down. They will come down soon enough. You'll tear each other apart out on the streets or some disease will get you. If you're really unlucky you'll be toyed with and skinned before you die. You have no threats that scare me, perhaps you can make an offer of some sort and maybe I'll listen but you can stop trying to throw me off balance with pitying insults. I take no issue with the dog, I look for the master.
Team Oz: Mullancy nods and passes along the messages
Team Murderbait: Lt Callahan actually has some cold iron pellets for her blunderbus she hands them over, there's about 5 shots worth. Rest of you can borrow a basic weapon but it is expected to be returned. By basic I mean dagger. Ace speaks: "They fey weren't friends with Fagen, it was more like a truce. He used their existence like a boogyman, if you fail him he might rescind your protection and then the fey might eat you. Fagen will not be kind, I left the gang and I've tried to bring others out since. Last time he saw me he tried to hurt me and I might have used wand of grease I borrowed and made him look silly."
Team Waterfront: Elbin's rodent is a goblin dog mixed with something else, troll? It's surprisingly clean (goblin dogs normally carry filth fever) as is he despite the fact he clearly lives on the streets. He eyes Hightower, Tackleberry, and Sven before looking at Murtaugh. "You brought muscle but I'm not sure you want to fight. Some of the gangs are beefed up now. Some new drug makes 'em stronger dumber and angrier.
Team Oz: Wheeler seems less than surprised to see She again. Like all his dialogue he sticks to Vanaran. "She returns, smelling a bit of brimstone. Been hanging around lawyers?" His posture is relaxed, he's even leaning back in his chair a bit. "Gangs fighting or are the humans sick? Still think you're free?
About my GM style: -Not all solutions are combat solutions, there are usually compromises or alternate options.
Team Oz:
One thing that's rather striking is that Wheeler has been pretty much a model prisoner, not getting into fights and even breaking up some. He's monstrously strong particularly when he rages but he has shown confident restraint. Team Waterfront:
Murtaugh explains on the way:
My snitch is a goblin hobo named Elbin. I pay him in elven food and fireworks. He's actually pretty smart and watches everything but no one pays him much mind. He panhandles around the docks but the gangs don't really bother him on the count that he's rumored to have explosives. He speaks at least 5 languages and he reads which if you know goblins is a rare thing. Oh and he calls this large rodent thing his dog, it behaves for him so don't attack it. Team Murderbait: "I don't think it's Fagen, Fagen doesn't skin people. He used the threaten us that'd he'd leave us out for the fairies to kill. He said they hunt people for sport sometimes like its a game. HE taught us this rhyme: The first chap, kills with a sword
Next there's the flayer, he starts off small
One was so quick, he's hard to see
You have time to memorize
Mahooney is on the Dock team, forgot to remove her from Murderbait. Team Waterfront:
Mahooney- I'm capable with a sword I'll take the other side. Murtaugh- Tackleberry can provide ranged support but me an' Roedar are gonna need to talk to the snitch. I know Sven can intimidate I saw that, Hightower I'm pretty sure you cna too as long as you don't talk too much 'cause you're too nice. Team Murderbait:
Ace Sweetchuck- I was always the bait. I seem weak and nice so they'd use me to distract folk while they pick pocketed or scammed them into an area where they'd get robbed. I'm not proud of it but it's what I had to do to get by when I was younger, I had no one else. There's good people in the gang but that Fagen makes them do bad things. I've seen him kill. Team Oz: Mullancy- I can also use the message spell to relay messages from say the other side of a door?
Team Murderbait: Ace reluctantly admits he knows 2 out of 3 of the victims and that when he was younger he used to run with a gang. Both victims are members of that gang, he says he thinks he knows where the leader can be found and that maybe some of the members might talk to him. The leader is a human with an odd fighting style that is deceptively fast. He's fat but don't be fooled he strikes as swiftly as a snake. Leader's named Fagen and he hurts the gang that works for him. It's very clear Sweetchuck is very uncomfortable with this topic. He looks down a lot and sometimes involuntarily shudders.
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