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With the soulbound guardian defeated, the poppets can take a little time to investigate the vault more thoroughly. In addition to finding the deed to the land on which The Terrific Toybox sits, they can discover proof of other underhanded plots Baron Vreen has been undertaking throughout Egorian for years. While the specifics are beyond the scope of this adventure, they can rest assured that by making off with this proof, they can essentially eliminate the baron’s influence and put him in his place. In addition, though they’re small, they can grab enough treasure and other valuables to help Gettorio stay in business for a while to come.

Marcella cackles and rubs her hands with glee as she sorts through the proof of Vreen's illegal plots. "Bwahahahaha! Now this is what I'm talking about. We have tons of blackmail material. This'll teach Vreen that poppets are a force to be reckoned with."

Hooray! Thanks for running this for us GM Frost. Poppets never not fun. Now I just need to make my poppet swashbuckler Princess Polkadot and my armadillo gunslinger Tex Arcane. Although now that awakened animals are legal I might make Tex an actual armadillo.

Marcella stares in disbelief as the armor and animated objects fall lifeless to the floor. That moment is brief however and soon a broad smile lights up the poppet's face. "You did it, Cutie! You did it! I thought we were headed for the Boneyard for sure!" She gives the stuffed poppet a huge hug. "You all did great" She grab Hellup and the Tin Wizard with each arm and draws them in for a hug as well.

Wait. Wasn't cutie attacking the gem and not the armor itself?

Not sure why you're jumping instead of just moving. Rule of cool? Also you need to add another +1 to hit and +1d12 damage for runic weapon and +1 for fury instinct. You probably hit anyway since he's -2 AC for flanking and -1 AC due to clumsy.

RAGE [one-action]

BARBARIAN CONCENTRATE EMOTION MENTAL
Requirements You aren’t fatigued or raging.
You tap into your inner fury and begin raging. You gain a
number of temporary Hit Points equal to your level plus your
Constitution modifier. While you are raging:
• You deal 2 additional damage on melee Strikes. This
additional damage is halved if your weapon or unarmed
attack is agile.
• You can’t use actions with the concentrate trait unless
they also have the rage trait. You can Seek while raging.
Rage lasts for 1 minute, until you fall unconscious, or
until the encounter ends, whichever comes first. You can’t
voluntarily stop raging. When you stop raging, you lose any
remaining temporary Hit Points from Rage, and can’t gain
temporary Hit Points from using the Rage action again for
1 minute.

So as long as you are not fatigued or currently raging, you can use the rage action.

You cannot gain temporary hit points from rage for one minute. You can still rage though.

Marcella gets back the Tin Wizard to fight and applies oil to her weapon.

Tin Wizard is back, Wounded 1 and Prone. Tin Wizard, Cutie and Hellpup are up!

Not to her own weapon. The oil was applied to Cutie's weapon.

We don't have much left. I'm staying here for the flank. Maybe move, rage, furious finish on the gem?

Marcella pours her elixir into the Tin Wizard's mouth. Then she pulls out her magical oil and gives it a quick kiss for luck before anointing Mr. Stabs. "Ok Cutie. It's all up to you now. It's a one-in-a-million chance but it just might work."

◆ Interact (feed elixir to Tin Wizard, ◆ interact (Retrieve oil), ◆ interact (use oil)

minor healing elixir vs Tin Wizard: 1d6 ⇒ 4

I hope you guys don't think that I'm being pushy issuing orders like that. It just seems like the sort of thing that Marcella would do in a grim situation like this. Obviously if you have better ideas then by all means go ahead. I was all but ready for a TPK until I reread the description of the armor and the results of my recall knowledge and had a lightbulb moment. Maybe this could work?

GM Frost. Would it be possible to use thievery to snatch the gem from the armor?

Cutie nods gravely...

"You'll have to hit it really hard. I have an oil of potency in my satchel. I'll oil up your weapon to give you some extra oomph. We probably only have one chance so we better make it count."

"Hellpup. See what you can do to help Cutie. We also need to keep that book and table busy. Maybe Flappy can distract them?"

"Tin Wizard. We need to keep that thing away from us until Cutie is ready. Can you tangle him up with that vine spell of yours?"

"Waitaminute!" Marcella gasps as she finally begins to piece together a plan. "That glowing gem in the center of the armor's chestpiece. I bet it's the construct's soul gem. Cutie! Do you think you can smash it?"

Marcella looks around, desperately trying to figure out a plan. Is there anywhere in the room that she might be able to hide? Perhaps behind the platform that the soulbound was standing on?

deception, create a diversion vs soulbound: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6

Never mind.

With no other real choice, she sweeps the legs of the armor.

athletics, trip vs soulbound: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 6 = 24

She moves to protect the tin wizard and hopefully stay out of reach of the deadly armor. "I don't know if we can pull this off guys. There's still too many of them. We may need to retreat."

Marcella pulls out her minor elixir of life.

No more -1 to AC for most barbs. Giant instinct still gets clumsy 1 though.

I just noticed a big omission on hellpup's familiar. As a remastered witch with the the faith's flamekeeper patron (Statblock doesn't say so but it has to be since that is the only divine witch and the only one that grants Stoke the Heart.) Flappy should be a familiar of restored spirit, granting 3 temp HP to one creature within 15 feet whenever Hellpup casts or sustains a hex.

As we are getting our butts kicked right now that might be useful.

Faith's Flamekeeper

Marcella tries for a finishing blow on the evil chair.

shortsword vs blue, OG: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9
damage, piercing: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
sneak attack, precision: 1d6 ⇒ 4

shortsword vs blue OG: 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (1) + 7 - 4 = 4
damage, piercing: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
sneak attack, precision: 1d6 ⇒ 5

HP reroll first attack

shortsword vs blue OG: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 16
damage, piercing: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
sneak attack, precision: 1d6 ⇒ 5

With Cutie unconscious, the situation is grim. Marcella takes studies the suit of armor in hopes of determining some sort of weakness.

◆ Strike, ◆ strike, ◆ recall knowledge

"Ha! I knew it was a trap!" Marcella draws her short sword and enters the fray.

short sword vs blue, OG: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11
slashing: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7
sneak attack, precision: 1d6 ⇒ 4

◆ draw weapon, ◆ stride, ◆ strike

Marcella will use nimble dodge at first opportunity.

"No...wait. Nevermind. I thought I messed up but it's okay." Marcella frowns at the mannikin. "That doesn't look ominous at all. Okay everyone, stay focused. We're looking for the deed to the toyshop. If we can find some good blackmail on the baron make sure to grab that as well. Let's split up and see what we can find."

Marcella heads for a nearby filing cabinet, then reconsiders. "Maybe we should check this armor. It might be some sort of trap." She steps closer and carefully examines the armor. Perception +6

thievery: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16

Grr, of course

"Stand back everyone. I got this." Marcella examines the lock and begins to work when suddenly...

"Oops."

"What a mess! Well let's see what we can find."

perception: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 6 + 1 = 13
perception: 1d20 + 6 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 6 + 1 = 20

"It's locked!" Marcella examines the lock from several angles. [/b]"Looks like it might be one of Claudio's. Or maybe one of his apprentices. Tricky, but not too complicated. Gimme a second."[/b]

thievery: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 12
HP reroll
thievery: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (5) + 9 = 14

"Darn it. I'm used to doing this with bigger fingers."

"Well I learned a bit about wards and similar things in my previous life but I find it easier to simply avoid them. Like so." Marcella quickly cartwheels, leaps and tumbles past the various eldritch impediments.

acrobatics: 1d20 + 7 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 7 + 2 = 24

I'm envisioning those scenes in heist movies where the hero tumbles through the web of lasers to get to the vault or some such because it's much cooler than simply sneaking by. If this is a bit too much then just consider that a stealth roll instead since Marcella's stealth and acrobatics have the same modifier.

"Sounds like there's some sort if party going on. Let's see if we can slip past." Marcella silently leads the way deeper into the manor.

stealth: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13

Marcella rushes towards the remaining enemy and attempts the get him in a chokehold.

athletics-grapple: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15

Also as a tiny creature Tut probably has no reach and would likely need to be in Cutie's square in order to attack them.

It is worth noting that as a stuffed poppet Cutie normally takes zero damage from falls of any height.

Hellpup gasps at their opponent. ”A werebatpig!”, they exclaim. ”I never heard of those!”

Marcella blushes, realizing that she likely misidentified the creature. She declines to admit her mistake however. "Erm yes. Werebatpig. Very rare."

I'm pretty sure that I critically failed that knowledge check. Unless it was successful I would not have been able to deal sneak attack damage to Tsk and he would only have taken 14 damage.

Confident that she has the creature's measure Marcella draws her short sword and attacks.

shortsword: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27
piercing: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7
sneak attack, precision: 1d6 ⇒ 6

"Ha! Take that you stupid bat!"

Marcella carefully studies her opponent. Recall knowledge vs Tsk

Mastermind Racket

I think I know what these are so I'll wait to see if Marcella knows also before I take the rest of my actions. Most likely if I succeed then I'll draw an appropriate weapon and stabby stab, and if I fail then grapple and kidney punch.

◆ Recall knowledge

Marcella scoffs at the intruders.

"Ha! The baron can kiss my varnished wooden ass! I'll have you know that I greatly respect other people's belongings. I just prefer to respect them in the comfort of my own home."

Hugging the wall, Marcella cautiously enters the room and looks around. Her brow furrows as she spots the desk. "Surely it can't be that easy. Keep an eye out everyone. I'm going to check the desk. Vreen is just the sort of jerk to set traps on his workspace."

With a final glance around the room she approaches the desk and carefully examines it for any oddities.

Perception +6 to search the desk

The tiny head of Marcella the Marionette emerges from the crate. She quickly scans the room and hops out. She silently and carefully creeps over to the door and listens for any signs of life before returning to the crate to motion for the others to emerge.

"The coast is clear. All we need to do now is find that deed and make our escape. That'll teach Vreen a lesson."

She gives the contents of the room a appraising look. "It's too bad we don't have time to clean this place out. Some of this stuff looks like we could make a pretty copper fencing it."

She steps over to a box of silverware that catches her eye and picks it up. "Ugh! It's heavy." She whistles softly as she opens it. "Nice set too. A little tarnished but I bet we could sell this to Jimmy the Nose for at least 20 gold crowns." She sighs and pockets four butter knives. "This will have to do for now."

The elven sniper gives the sergeant s wry grin. "They had some sort of grand plan to somehow evade the Gray Lady's judgement. Fortunately the criminals' vanity always makes them make one tiny, but fatal, mistake. Theirs was to have their entire conspiracy printed and published in play manuscript. I'm sure that a reading of their script will answer most of your questions. There's bound to be one among their belongings."

She reaches down and scratches Rosie behind her ears.

Zindarel moves from the stairwell to one of the braziers, reloads and fires.

◆ +1 mithral tree: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (16) + 12 = 28
piercing: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Fatal?: 2d10 + 1 ⇒ (8, 7) + 1 = 16

stride, interact, strike

will save: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (6) + 10 = 16

Zindarel pops up from hiding to fire at Mr. Aldthistle. Stealth +11

◆ +1 mithral tree: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (2) + 12 = 14
piercing: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Fatal?: 2d10 + 1 ⇒ (1, 4) + 1 = 6

Seeing the undead closing on her position, she retreats from behind the bar and heads to the stairwell.

Strike, stride, stride

Zindarel curses softly as she only delivers a glancing hit. She ducks behind the bar once more, hiding from the ravaging undead and reloads before popping up and firing once more at the evil playwright.

Zindarel uses covered reload to hide and reload. Stealth +11

◆ +1 mithral tree vs grey, Flat footed?: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (11) + 12 = 23
piercing: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Fatal?: 2d10 + 1 ⇒ (5, 9) + 1 = 15

Finally she ducks behind the bar to reload once again.

Stealth +11

Covered reload, Strike, covered reload

Zindarel pops out from cover to fire at the malicious playwright.

+1 mithral tree vs ‘Lady’ Aldthistle: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (4) + 12 = 16
piercing: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

Fatal?: 2d10 + 1 ⇒ (3, 3) + 1 = 7

Quickly hiding behind the bar she reloads before popping up and firing again.

Stealth +11

+1 mithral tree vs ‘Lady’ Aldthistle Flat-footed?: 1d20 + 12 - 5 ⇒ (16) + 12 - 5 = 23
piercing: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Fatal?: 2d10 + 1 ⇒ (9, 8) + 1 = 18

◆ Strike, ◆ Covered Reload, ◆ Strike

Zindarel moves to cover behind the bar and fires at Melsa Alsthistle.

+1 mithral tree: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (5) + 12 = 17
piercing: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7
Fatal?: 2d10 + 1 ⇒ (2, 10) + 1 = 13

Finally she takes cover behind the bar and reloads.

◆ Stride, ◆ Strike, ◆ Covered Reload

fortitude save: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20

Zindarel rolled a natural one on her attack. That should be a miss and not a hit. If retconning is an issue at this point I suppose I can spend a hero point in order to hit.

Zindarel takes aim and fires at the cafe-owner turned zombie.

+1 mithral tree: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (1) + 12 = 13
piercing: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7
Fatal?: 2d10 + 1 ⇒ (10, 4) + 1 = 15

Afterwards she moves further into the room and reloads.

Zindarel ducks behind the brazier before popping up to fire at the pustule-covered zombie. After firing she hides behind the brazier once more and reloads.

Stealth +11

◆ +1 mithral tree vs green-flat footed?: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (13) + 12 = 25
piercing: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6
◇ one shot, one kill: 1d6 ⇒ 6
Fatal?: 2d10 + 1 ⇒ (9, 2) + 1 = 12

◆ Sneak, ◆ Strike, ◇One shot, one kill, ◆ Covered Reload

If Zindarel moves to the star that I've placed on the stairwell, is there enough of a bannister to hide? Can she take cover?

Are any of the tables on the map overturned?

"Okay everyone. Follow me. Make sure to stay out of sight."

Zindarel carefully checks the door before opening it a crack to check the street. Once the way is clear she grips her gun tightly and silently crosses to the theatre.

Stealth +11

Zindarel heads to the stairs. "We should check out the ground floor. I don't hold out much hope but we should see if the Scothwels are still alive."

Remembering Maggie's comment about the Scothwel's robbery, she carefully checks the stairs for traps or alarms before cautiously sneaking down.

"Good job Zakzak Lockbane. Okay everyone, spread out. Let's see if we can find that fancy new gun. We may need it by the time this business is done."

After a quick peek through the window to the west Zindarel begins to search the room.

Zindarel stealthily peers out of the windows at the theatre and the theatre director's house, carefully noting any threats in the street as well as in the buildings. Next she heads to the window leading to the café.

"Well you all heard the lady. Let's see about getting over to the Scothwel's first."