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Imperius has the royal inscribers add a +1 rune to his hand crossbow, though he does think that eventually he may want one for his rapier, he prefers not to get that close.

Once back at their warrens, Imperius grabs several handfuls of hand crossbow bolts. He never imagined he'd be going through them so quickly!

He listens to the fancy words of Mihoothe, and looks upon the flamethrower, not being all that impressed by the tool.

'Auntie needs us? Why didn't you say so earlier??"

Imperius level to 3

+8 hp

Esoteric Lore to Expert

General Feat: Untrained Improvisation

Skill Increase: Deception to expert

Ancestry Feat: Draconic Sycophant

Imperius casts infectious enthusiasm to grant himsel, and everyone else who takes an action, a bonus on charisma skills.

Deception: 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 9 + 1 = 14

evidently the RNG really doesn’t want us doing this.

”could we lead the anvil to the ghost dwarf?”

After Pepin's timely healing, Imperius moves and shoots.

hand crossbow +7 (range increment 60 feet, reload 1): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 25
piercing: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4 Personal antithesis 3

He then reloads.

”Stupid anvil!” Yells Imperius as he reloads and shoots.
hand crossbow +7 (range increment 60 feet, reload 1): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19
piercing: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6 plus personal antithesis 3

He then reloads again.

Imperius takes a quick look, looking for weaknesses.
Esoteric Lore: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (3) + 8 = 11

He then reloads his crossbow and fires at the anvil.

hand crossbow +7 (range increment 60 feet, reload 1): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13
piercing: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7
plus weakness or personal antithesis

Imperius draws his crossbow and attempts to exploit weakness.

Esoteric Lore: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16

He then shoots his crossbow.
hand crossbow +7 (range increment 60 feet, reload 1): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14
piercing: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

Imperius applies a dose of centipede venom to his bolt, and fires at the cultist, triggering the potency crystal.

hand crossbow +7 (range increment 60 feet, reload 1): 1d20 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 7 + 1 = 22
piercing: 2d6 + 2 ⇒ (5, 3) + 2 = 10
plus giant centipede venom and personal antithesis 3

He then reloads again.

”We are much to vibrant and powerful for that!”

Imperius will attempt to learn what he can about the cultist.
Esoteric Lore: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (16) + 8 = 24
He passes on anything he learns.

Then he shoots with his hand crossbow with the poisoned bolt.
hand crossbow +7 (range increment 60 feet, reload 1): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 22
piercing: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
plus greater of personal antithesis or weakness

giant centipede venom

He then reloads.

Imperius checks that his potency crystal is still mounted on this hand crossbow, and loads a bolt with centipede venom into it.

He indicates everyone should likewise prep for battle before they open the door.

Ref DC20: 1d20 + 7 - 1 ⇒ (15) + 7 - 1 = 21

Somehow Imperius avoids the brunt of the fire, and survives it.

He then attempts his esoteric knowledge on the ghost.
Esoteric Lore: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (2) + 8 = 10

He then moves, and fires his crossbow, triggering his last potency crystal

hand crossbow +7 (range increment 60 feet, reload 1): 1d20 + 7 + 1 - 1 ⇒ (15) + 7 + 1 - 1 = 22
piercing: 2d6 + 2 ⇒ (2, 1) + 2 = 5
Plus personal antithesis 3

"Well, that was certainly a waste."

"However, maybe we should continue to the left rather than exploring deeper into the depths?"

"I nominate you to try it out, Broomzad! If you want, I can go down with you."

Imperius uses exploit weakness on the final undead dwarf.
Esoteric Lore: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 27

He then reloads, rubbing the silver spoon on the bolt again, and shoots at this one, right past Kadosh and Broomzad!
hand crossbow +7 (range increment 60 feet, reload 1): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (10) + 7 = 17
piercing: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8
plus personal antithesis 3

Imperius reloads and readies a shot on #4 again, when he sees it.

Esoteric Lore vs #4: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (2) + 8 = 10

’rotting dwarves. They must hate tarnished silver!’

He shoots a #4 with personal antithesis.
hand crossbow +7 (range increment 60 feet, reload 1): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21
piercing: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

Imperius then steps back.

”Well, that wasn’t so bad. Wonder what the bow does? Pepid, can you tell?”

Imperius take a good hard look at things. This shiny bow doesn’t seem right, and why is Zyphlryx so insistent that he go in? He never goes in first, that is not the job of a leader!

Perception check.

”If you are so enamored of the bow, which seems to me to be way to big to be of any use, maybe someone should detect magic?”

Imperius moves up and looks for a vulnerability in the boss.
Esoteric Lore: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12

’bones of the dead will work!’ he thinks.

He then shoots, triggering his potency crystal.

hand crossbow +7 (range increment 60 feet, reload 1): 1d20 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 7 + 1 = 27
piercing: 2d6 + 2 ⇒ (4, 6) + 2 = 12
plus personal antithesis 3

#1 already is vulnerable to Imperius's shards of bone, so he decides to shoot at that one again.

hand crossbow +7 (range increment 60 feet, reload 1): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20
piercing: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
plus personal antithesis 3

He then reloads, and steps back.

Imperius attempts to Exploit Vulnerability on #1.

Esoteric Lore: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26

If non, personal antithesis

He pulls out some shards of skeletal bone, since he knows that all pinkskins are deadly afraid of undead. He rubs it against his bolt before he fires.

Note that he is firing past Broomzad, but I don't know if that matters for cover?

hand crossbow +7 (range increment 60 feet, reload 1): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 25
piercing: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
Personal Antithesis 3

Imperius then reloads his crossbow.

”Well, no time like the present. Let’s at ‘em,, boys!”

Imperius starts running towards the yelling.

Seeing this might be a tougher fight, Imperius casts infectious enthusiasm, taking the bonus on attacks. anyone who could see me can take an action to also get a +1 status on their attack rolls

He then shoots.
hand crossbow +7 (range increment 60 feet, reload 1): 1d20 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 7 + 1 = 28
piercing: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
plus personal antithesis

Hearing that it was a gelatinous cube, Imperius pulls out some dried pineapple he had been saving, knowing that pineapples disrupt a gelatine from setting.

hand crossbow +7 (range increment 60 feet, reload 1): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27
piercing: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7
doubled if they can be crit, plus personal antithesis 3

He then reloads.

If no one takes the rune, I will add it to my crossbow.

"Droskar! It is Droskar!"

Society: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24

"The pick isn't my kind of thing, but we could really use that rune!"

"About to perish?? Nay! I was just about to cut my way out of the foul beast's stomach so as to slay him from within!"

”Now stop that right now! That is hardly behavior of a truly true true scale, now is it?

“So, do calm down and let Vraz patch you up! You will have plenty of more times to make your queen proud of you!”

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (11) + 9 = 20

"Stumbled into a trap? No, I valiantly found traps and was helpful to all!" declares Imperius.

"We have destroyed the loggers' outpost, so the assaults on our beautiful forest should stop. The pinkskins think that it was overrun by undead, and there might be a reason behind it. There is some powerful necromantic device deep below their outpost, and we should go back and check it out soon."

”Or, you know, that works,” chuckles Imperius.

”Let’s find anything valuable and torch the place. ”

Before going to the door, Imperius casts infectious enthusiasm , choosing charisma skills.

”Mmmmm. Brains! Thuldrin brain goooood. Need more braaaaaains. Kill allll…. Eat alll…..”

Deception: 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 9 + 1 = 11?

anyone else could take the bonus, especially if they wanted to help out to aid another.

Imperius continues trying to cut is his way out of a very bad situation.

rapier(disarm, deadly d8, finesse): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27
piercing: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7 | deadly: 1d8 ⇒ 3
Personal Antithesis 3, total damage 17 + 3 = 20

With this stab, Imperius cuts his way out.

He then stands up, and spits at the warg.

Swallowed, Imperius has second thoughts about saying anything. Far to vile in here. So, he just stabs.

rapier(disarm, deadly d8, finesse): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19
piercing: 1d6 + 2 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 2 + 3 = 6 | deadly: 1d8 ⇒ 5

rapier(disarm, deadly d8, finesse): 1d20 + 7 - 5 ⇒ (6) + 7 - 5 = 8
piercing: 1d6 + 2 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 2 + 3 = 10 | deadly: 1d8 ⇒ 8

rapier(disarm, deadly d8, finesse): 1d20 + 7 - 10 ⇒ (19) + 7 - 10 = 16
piercing: 1d6 + 2 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 2 + 3 = 7 | deadly: 1d8 ⇒ 3

Imperius draws his rapier, and stabs

dc5 flat: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (13) + 0 = 13

rapier(disarm, deadly d8, finesse): 1d20 + 7 - 1 ⇒ (19) + 7 - 1 = 25
piercing: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4 | deadly: 1d8 ⇒ 6

rapier(disarm, deadly d8, finesse): 1d20 + 7 - 1 - 5 ⇒ (10) + 7 - 1 - 5 = 11
piercing: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7 | deadly: 1d8 ⇒ 5

"No. Absolutely not.

[b]"Why would they surrender me, a powerful dragon in his prime, to such an old, wragged, downright chonky wolf such as yourself. I mean, I would expect that you'd have to hire at least a pair of she-wolves just to chew enough food for you to gum down!"

Diplomacy for Bon Mot: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 12
if permitted
Gotta HP THAT result, if permitted

Diplomacy for Bon Mot: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (9) + 9 = 18

perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12

Imperius doesn’t notice anything unusual, probably because his nose is up in the air.

Imperius just shakes his head at Kadosh, not even trying to correct him, this time.

"Maybe that's how Broomzad came back as a ghost? This necromantic sliver?

"So, first, we need to eliminate all of his 'worthless scum', as well as eliminating Greywolf. Then, find out about this sliver of necromantic energy. Maybe we can turn it against them!"

”Oh my dragon! Stand aside!”

Thievery: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (10) + 7 = 17

"Sounds good to me!"

Imperius loos around, and wonders out loud, ”Maybe we can just burn this whole place down?”

perception dc15: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27
”Hey check out this scroll! Who can use it?”

Pallisade is fine.

Religion: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23
Society: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9

"This is obviously a very powerful artifact. Probably of Torag, though someone mistakenly thinks it is of Droskar... not Droskrag. Droskrag is the volcano, not the brother of Torag.

"All that being said, I should wear it for now. Just in case it is too powerful."

”You see it, right? You know I am right. ”
Diplomacy: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (12) + 9 = 21

Yes, i know interaction skills don’t usually work on PCs

”No, it is definitely Torag. See the hammer shape? The stone lords value the forge, and he is their forge father. ”

Society: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 5 = 25

"These are skeletons of ancient dwarves. Their clothes are so out of style!"

Religion: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 5 = 25
"No, it is the symbol of Torag, their chief god."

Occultism: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18 Dubious Knowledge...

”Kadosh, just use your fist. If I can punch these things, why can’t you.,”