"Darn straight we'll take down these bone bags. Watch your six Ra!" Max tumbles past the bony foe, drawing his knife. He lashes out, not to cause harm directly, but to give Ra an opening.
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"Watch your step!" Max lashes out with his whip, trying to throw one of the skeletons off balance, then dodges out of the way.
"What do you think, guys? Circle the compound or straight to the heart of it?"
"Now what have you got there you dirty dog?" Max rubs his hands together as he unearths the box and gives it a quick once over.
Go right ahead Camris.
Max squints at the snake and whispers to Ibrahim. "So, uh, is that thing going to bite if we get near?"
Despite the poor angle, Max takes a shot at the dog.
Assuming he detects nothing out of place outside. Max cocks his crossbow and gestures with his neck toward the southern outbuilding.
"Sure." Max makes a once over of the southerly outbuilding.
If no one else wants to take charge, Max will lead the way to the larger courtyard in the East.
"I expect we'll need to search the whole kit and caboodle before we're done."
Max fiddles with the door to unlock it.
"I'm certainly going to try!"
"I... I don't know what came over me there." Max sheepishly comes out from behind the statue before darting back toward the now shut doors.
Seeing no obvious escape from the threat of the gates, Max ducks behind a statue to conceal himself.
"We're Surrounded!" Max rushes off to the East.
Is Max Frightened, Panicked, or something else?
"She's right! They're coming for us!" Max exclaims in terror. The halfling rushes up the steps to the door and starts trying to get inside.
"Shall we choose door number one, two or three?" asks Max.
The halfling makes a walk of the perimeter, on the lookout for less obvious entrances. He then focuses his attention on the gates themselves.
"Magic?" he asks Inferis and Cerastes.
"Sorry to hear it. Our expedition wasn't without a few close scrapes as well." Max replies. He has better sense than to laugh at the joke.
Ra, Yes, the shield is simply that valuable. Things will equalize pretty fast when the rest of us start finding usable magic items though.
np. I guess add another 125 each for Cerastes, Max, Inferis & Lori from the sale of the last Mask.
"Well she's a piece of work if I ever saw one. Falto, your taste in women is quite questionable. What is this tomb she seemed so interested in anyway?"
Max's eyes narrow. "Now where would you hear a thing like that?"
Max seems to be hardly paying attention to the details of Ibrahim's explanation as he takes a heavy toke of the hookah. "Well you seem to know your stuff. I think we can take you on. On a trial basis, of course. As soon as we figure out the next job that is." "Too bad about the snake. maybe we could find a gnome or something to tinker it into submission."
I'm a little interested if you need one more.
"Seems you had it easy, just dealing with a couple of dried up corpses. We had an entire sarcophagus animate to keep us out. Now normally, such a trifling thing we'd dispatch with haste, but this particular stiff decided to try to flood us out at the same time. Can you imagine? A veritable flood in the middle of the desert! But we cut that overgrown cabinet down to kindling despite the odds." Max brags. In response to Ibrahim, he adopts the exaggerated airs of an interviewer. "Nature magic, huh? Can't say as we've run afoul any animals out there yet, aside from the bugs. Know anything about battling bugs?"
"If that is how it has to be. Not everyone is cut out for the dangers of the line of work." he replies to Lori. "May the wind be ever at your back, or whatever it is sailors say." "Well met Falto. I am Maxelmish Stoutwick, and we are the Silver Serpents." he says with a flourished bow. He chuckles as the knife nearly impales Falto. "I dunno Ra, I think he's good for a few laughs. Maybe one of those acts where he's tied to a a great spinning wheel and and a knife thrower with a blindfold tries his luck."
Reminded of the mark, Max affixes a bandana over his head to cover it.
Shall we level up and buy new gear now, or wait until the denouement is done?
Max regales the priest with exaggerated tales of their exploits below. He conveniently forgets to mention setbacks and exactly how close they were to death.
So... I'm good to advance things and meet up with our new party member.
Max follows the dwarf, trying to cheer him up. "Don't sweat it too much Ra. What's Akhentepi going to do with a chunk of gold anyway? He's gone on to his final reward. I'll tell you what, hows about we try and track down his descendants? We find them, then use our shares of the mask to treat them to a feast in this old general's honor. Let the living remember him for a change. Heck, when my time to kick the bucket comes, I'd insist that you take my last share and buy a round to toast my name, not bury it with me somewhere in the sand."
I concur, Lori shouldn't leave empty handed. The druid will come in with level 2 starting gear, so things will be fine. (besides, I don't want to do the math again)
So the math here was pretty tricky, and none of this is counting the mask we are still debating getting. After Lori takes her split in cash (1666 gp) and leaves, I propose we all chip in to buy a wand of cure light wounds. This leaves us with the following. If you want to claim one of the silversheens or darkvision potions, deduct its sell price (half of the buy price) from the gold you are getting to compensate: Party as a whole is getting:
Cerastes is getting:
Ra is getting:
Max is getting:
Inferis is getting:
Max shrugs, and continues tallying the rest of the haul. He doesn't make any moves to take the mask.
Normally, gems and art objects are sold for 100% and everything else for 50%. Are we deviating from that?
For the loot, I guess the only real questions are: Does Cerastes want the masterwork spear and/or the holy symbol?
Other than those, I'm thinking we keep the Scarab Shield and the the potions and sell everything else. I'm also not sure whether the silversheen is worth keeping. Once the two questions above are answered, I can calculate what we get for it.
druid as well.
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