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Maria begins to poke her head out the door but immediately retreats as she hears the agressive voices and sees the crossbows trained in their direction. She ducks behind Nodachi and immediately aims her musket at the barricade.

She aims down the sight as she mutters under her breath "Not unarmed this time, blow those horrible creatures into a dozen pieces"

She is one the edge of pulling the trigger but pauses as her companions call out. Her finger remains poised on the trigger ready to fire at the first hint of provocation.

Back from camping and getting caught up! I will post shortly

Maria peeks out the door towards the yellow fog and trampled earth.

"That fog, it was in my dream with all of you. It was everywhere! This horrible rag creature came out of it and killed me... I dont think I want to go out there"

Maria turns and is about to turn and climb back down the shaft when she remembers the pile of gooey bodies that await her at the bottom. Rather than descending she sticks her head back through the hatch and hollers down the chute

"All clear up here. I think its a closet. No sign of the doctor thing"

Then she backs into a corner opposite the door and points her musket at the entrance ready to blast anything that comes through.

Looking at the closed hatch, Maria takes a few moments to wipe any remaining body goo off of her hands onto her skirt. She cringes as she looks at the gory stains.

"Those are never going to come out"

an instinctual thought crosses her mind

He is going to be so Mad! Maybe I can hide them before he finds out and I wont get in as much trouble

Even as she begins to reach for the buttons on the back of her skirt to take it off, Maria realizes she has no idea who HE is or why anyone would care about a dirty goblin.

Better to have a dirty dress and hands that wont slip.

Still slightly confused by the strength of that feeling and instinct, Maria quietly pulls her musket off of her back and loads the chamber. She points it at the hatch and, with a quick push, tries to throw the hatch open, ready to blast anything on the other side!

"It's okay, I want out of this awful place as much as anyone! I just want to go home..... Although I guess I dont really know where home is anymore"

For a moment Maria gets teary eyed, but with a grimace she blinks the wetness away and takes a breath to steel herself.

Maria takes a moment to look around the pile of rotting corpses. Seeing what she is looking for, she darts forward and snags a thin leather belt off one of the mangled bodies and takes a moment to use the belt to tie up her skirt and keep it out of goo range.

Once everything is arranged correctly, she gingerly steps forward trying to step on the most solid and least juicy looking body bits. She climbs her way to the top of the pile and grabs onto the chute.

With all the strength she can muster, Maria begins to climb up the chute, she climbs quietly, stopping to listen every few feet and doing her best not to make a sound.

Climb: 1d20 - 3 ⇒ (18) - 3 = 15
Stealth: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (11) + 13 = 24
Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 16

Maria is a complicated woman

Maria peeks around the corner and immediately her eyes grow wide at the sight.

"Ohgodohgodohgod are those ALL bodies?

Waving away flies as they buzz towards her, Maria moves closer to the pile.

still wide eyed she looks over the pile, she seems far more curious than disgusted at the sight.

"Who do you think they were?" after a brief pause and a slight sniff "You know, I thought dead people would be grosser. These really arent much worse than some of the midden piles I have dug through"

Peering up at the chute, Maria says "I think if I put my left foot on that leg there, and my right foot on whats left of that head, I might be able to climb up what is left of that big one and get to the chute. Do you think the scary doctor thing is gone by now?"

Knowledge Arcana: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21

Maria claps a hand over her mouth to silence a gasp as she sees the hideous creatures. Very, very quietly she begins to back even farther from the hatch and down the vent.

She scurries back down the vent and turns to the others wide eyed

"There is a way out through those vents... but there are three hideous rodenty things at the top. I have read about one of them, its called a zoog. Nasty creature with dangerous teeth and claws. I dont know what the other two were exactly but they looked like huge, filthy rats!"

"I think if we are going to go up there maybe someone a little bigger should go first... Those rats are nearly as big as I am and I really really dont want to be eaten"

Maria backs up a little bit to ensure that she is out of sight of anything peering into the hatch and then takes a moment to listen to the sounds.

Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 24
Stealth: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (18) + 13 = 31

Can I determine anything more specific about the sounds? The size of the creature making them, number of creatures, etc...

"I will just peek up and come back. If it leads anywhere someone a little bigger can go up first."

With that Maria takes a deep breath, visibly steadies herself, and with Nodachi's help, she attempts to climb up the small vent.

Climb: 1d20 - 3 ⇒ (8) - 3 = 5

Sorry I didnt post yesterday. It was a travel day and I was without internet!

Having found her gear, Maria shrinks away from the dwarf and searches around the room for any exit that doesnt require going in the same direction as the horrible creature.

Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27

Maria goes over to Nodachi, who she is a little less afraid of, and tugs on her sleeve

"Um... I think I could maybe fit up that tube in the furnace. Maybe there is a way we could go around and avoid any other scary creatures? Do you want to give me a boost and I can look around?"

Maria's eyes immediately shift to down the hallway.

"Did you hear that? Do you think that thing is coming back? What if there are more of them?"

Maria immediately brings her gun back up as the weird armless dwarf mentions taking her firearm away from her. Her lips curl back from her pointed teeth as she snarls much more fiercely than before

"This is MY musket, I built it and NO ONE is taking it from me. Keep your weird, ugly, smelly, metal dwarf arm off my musket"

Marias eyes grow wide as she keys in on what Merius is saying. She seems to forget about the weapon she is holding and her fingers nervously twitch and move across the weapon... uncomfortably close to the trigger.

"Do... do you think that creature could come back?"

Maria looks at Zhao she says quietly "I dont think I have a name, but I must right?... Everyone has a name"

She slowly seems to realize she is still holding her weapon and lowers it half way towards the floor so it is not fully pointing at anyone but could be raised into position in an instant.

Quietly she asks the rest "Do any of you know where we are?"

Maria takes a moment to gather up her gear and load her musket, then she backs into a corner with her firearm pointed generally at the strangers.

"You all were chasing me in my dream... If it was a dream. What do you want with me? Why did you bring me here?"

her voice quavers a bit as she attempts to stand taller (taller than her usual three feet) and demands of everyone in general as she stamps one of her little feet

"I demand you release me immediately. Take me back to... to wherever I was"

She falls quiet for a moment before saying quietly in a much less certain tone, a hint of tears in her voice

"Why cant I remember where I was?"

She begins to quietly cry and shake, her musket wavering in the air as she points it at the other three in the room.

Seeing familiar looking equipment in the pile, Maria scurries over to the refuse and begins to dig through looking for other things of use.

Maria uses the rest of her dash action movement to get over to her gear. Wont be able to pick it up until next round

Maria lets out a small squeal as the... things, claws swipe through the air at her. As the weird dwarf with the metal arm hits the creature and distracts it, Maria sees an opening to get away from the violence and she darts to the far end of the room and around the corner.

Seeing the creatures attention turn to another, Maria falls silent and, continuing to watch closely and dodge any possible threat, she moves around the slightly scary dwarf and as far away from the horrible not-a-doctor creature as she can get.

Total Defense standard action to keep AC at 21, Move action to get away

Maria screams as the creature attacks her with the bloody knife. She continues to scream as she frantically dodges, repeating herself until the words largely just compress into a continual unending screech.

"Go Away! GOAWAYGOAWAYGOAWAYGOAWAY

Maria continues to do a total defense keeping her AC at 21 for another round

@GM You are right, I got mixed up in my tracking. Maria will use a full defend action this turn

Much to her horror, Maria watches the shears she threw with all her might have no discernible impact on the creature as it approaches her. Feeling powerless to stop the creature, she drops the rest of her weapons and backs into the corner doing her best to stay away from the monster and it's bloody knife.

She whimpers pitifully as she dodges around her bigger foe.

Maria takes the total defense action temporarily raising her AC to 21

Seeing the thing break free, Maria instinctively throws the long scalpel in her hand.

Scalpel Attack: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22

Scalpel Damage: 1d2 - 3 ⇒ (1) - 3 = -2

-2 damage Lols

Maria runs forward and snatches several of the sharp looking operating tools off of the table. As she moves closer she gets a better look at the mutilated body on the table in front of her and begins to retch trying not to throw up.

Fort Save: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 2 = 16

"Oh god, she killed him. There is so much blood, Why is there so much blood!"

as Maria backs her way back into the corner she calls out in a near panic

"We have to get out of here! I dont want her to cut me up!

Maria looks incredulously at the Tian woman as she bolts straight at the horrible thing with the broken knife. Didnt she see that creature just butcher the man on the table?

With a quick shake of her head, Maria rapidly sneaks out the door in the opposite direction getting into a corner as far from the woman... the thing as she possibly can.

She looks around the small room, desperately hoping she can find something that she can use to defend herself... a knife, a club, fire, anything!

Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18

Did Merius unlock the door?

Not posting because there arent any new actions for Maria to take at the moment. She would stay cowered in the corner until the door opens or she sees something that would allow her a chance to escape.

Maria whispers frantically at Zhao "Shhhhh! Shhhhhhhhh! Stop kicking! You are going to make that horrible woman come over here."

As Zhao continue kicking at the door, Maria backs up, putting as much space as possible between she and her suddenly shockingly aggressive cell mate. Maria hunkers down in a corner, doing her best to hide behind a cot or whatever cover is available.

Stealth: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (12) + 13 = 25

All of your class abilities, feats, skills, everything mechanical, you are fully aware of and know how to access now that you are free of the nightmare.

How does this work with Alchemist abilities? Do I have extracts prepared (because they are like spells), or do I not have any (because logically they probably require reagents to prepare). Same with bombs, do I have the stuff to make bombs because its a class ability or is that all gone because it was taken with my equipment?

In the commotion, Maria ducks down lower crouching at the very edge of the cell. She is watching closely for anything that she might be able to use to pick the lock on the cell door.

If anything falls within her reach as the other people in the room scuffle she is going to try and snag it.

Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11
Sleight of Hand: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 5 = 25

I liked it! No apologies required

Maria points at the keys at the horrible woman's waist and addresses the other lady in her cell in a whisper.

"The keys there, do you think those might open our cell? Do you have anyway to get them?

Maria starts to cry out as she awakens but notices the scene around her just in time to clap a hand over her own mouth and block the utterance. Her eyes are wide as she frantically looks around the cell.

She is startled as the woman next to her speaks and instinctively she backs into the darkest corner she can find, avoiding notice

Stealth to hide:: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (16) + 13 = 29

Her hand crawls to her throat where it was so vividly slashed what seems like moments ago.

She turns towards the strange woman and whispers "I.. I think I am okay. I am cold" She pauses for a moment staring down a bit dazed "I know you, you were in my dream... That dream was horrible, did you see the rag man too? And the darkness... I fell so far"

Maria looks around for any possible way out of the cell

Perception:: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11

As she looks around she continues speaking quietly to the woman "Where are we? I want to get out of here, I dont like this place"

** spoiler omitted **

All for it! Feel free to curse me to your hearts content. Maria will be delightfully injured and intimidated.

I am here! Not posting anything because Maria is laying unconscious in a pool of her own blood

"..wh...who are you? Are you with him? Just leave me alone!!!"

Maria yells as she bolts ahead running up the path ascending, hopefully, out of the mist.

As she runs she looks behind her to see if the strangers are still chasing.

Equipment: 1d4 ⇒ 4: Dagger, Musket, Cloak, Veil

Maria thrashes desperately on the alley floor for just a moment, fighting against the cold water that is no longer there. Her hands and feet are bruised from where she pounded them against the stone trying to swim.

With a sob, Maria rises to a hunched over position and brings a hand to her throat. Surprised to see no blood, she looks frantically around.

This alley is unfamiliar but within that fog is the horrible man and his vicious blade. No matter what lays ahead it has to be better than being hunted for her skin.

She yells back into the fog "I am a girl! Take the bad goblins but leave me alone. I can be something better!

after a second, in a terrified scream "I can be something better!!"

With a quick glance behind her, Maria lets out a whimper and chooses a direction at random. Keeping low she darts off to the left.

I am good for the gameplay thread! Looking forward to this game. Just read through everyones characters and personalities and we are an interesting bundle of misfits! Should be good!

Made a few small tweaks after seeing the rest of the party. Putting in some more knowledge skills and some stealth / disable device to boost rogue lite capability.

Knowledge skills so far are

Arcane
Planes
Local
History

Anyone going to take crafting feats? I may take wonderous item.

Not adding a lot of personality / "about me" info because I am assuming we wake up not knowing anything about one another?