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"I didn't think the smugglers would be nice enough to actually take the time to make a boardwalk, I was expecting a fallen tree bridge or something."
Hi, sorry! This campaign completely slipped my mind, I think I missed the post notification somehow! I can start posting again if you're good to continue
"Probably trouble. If we can bear it, spending some time to prepare before we get too far in wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. Plus, I can probably get that bug repellent brewing!"
"I can't imagine they'd still have a job if they kept following us - it didn't sound like they had Mastrich's approval."
Ahahaha, I'll keep that in mind. Don't have any crazy campaign plans on the burner right now, but that does sound fun. And no, seemed fine - would have gone smoother for me if I remembered half my nice powers, and informed me that I should probably invest in some more potions to use in situations like that.
Naali brandishes a sizzling jar of alchemical explosives in her now scaly claws.
Naali considers answering his question with a bomb - they would remember the feeling, but reconsiders her less than stellar state.
Naali breathed quick as she pulled out the vial she always tried to avoid. Almost too small to notice, a thimbleful was all Naali could manage to keep down. In a gulp it was gone. Her mind raced. Though the situation remained dire, every step forward seemed clearer.
Another elixir down the hatch while the thugs searched the smoke for an invisible tiefling. They would have trouble finding a tiefling at all, were she visible - with the pop of bones shifting, and flesh rewarping, what now stood in the clearing was a kobold.
Naali tries to work her way through the smoke to find Anna - she can't rightly tell her to come to her.
Things were dire - they were outnumbered and wounded already, and these didn't seem the type to take prisoners.
Nice, and same! Sorry I've been less reliable than the start of the campaign, daily schedule has been weird, but it's getting better recently.
Naali yowls in pain as she reels from the arrow and following blow. "Ignore him, we have bigger problems!" Naali shifts to get away from the trapped man and avoid being surrounded. Naali takes the risk to chug what appears to be an empty vial. With that, she disappears.
Naali winces through the pain, and tries to take more steps back before she is surrounded. She takes more care in choosing her surroundings and lobs another bomb at the falchion wielding thug. She is uncharacteristically too focused for a witty retort.
That makes sense!
*sweats* Oh boy Also, I honestly don't know whether the tanglefoot bomb discovery also deals damage. The rules and FAQ are kinda unclear. Doesn't mention whether it does or does not. A faq says smoke bombs still do damage, but it's up to your interpretation. If it does, I'm kinda ambivalent about which interpretation, because one makes tanglefoot way better at combat, but worse at utility stuff, and vice versa.
"We already went through this whole thing! It didn't end well for you!" She ducks under his swing and steps back before he can swing again, chucking a bomb at his feet.
"Over here!" Naali alerts Anna, shifting to face the two men. "Drink this!" Naali shouts, tossing Anna a blueish vial before the men can move up.
"Not sure yet, didn't want them to get you while you were asleep. I heard something sneaking closer. Ready?" She corks the bottle again, dagger at the ready as the smoke slowly dissipates.
Naali reaches into her backpack quietly, watching the edges of the forest as she focuses on what she's looking for - her urgency met with the reliability she's come to rely on from her magical backpack.
She dives from her seat towards Anna, kicking her awake. "Get your sword."
"I could try to brew something if we can find the right stuff around, but I don't think I have anything on hand."
Naali returns with an even smaller collection of sticks, and smiles sheepishly as they pile them together.
"That depends - are you more worried about the animals that would be afraid of fire, or the distinctly-not-animals that would be drawn to it?" "I can take first watch, you see better at dawn anyway."
"And that evil should beware, there's a new paladin in... swamp!" Despite not expecting any leprechauns, Naali does fasten their bags on the horses, and finds the most firm ground to start planning the rest of their journey.
Naali ties up the horses to the least rotten stump she can find. "Right, and we should plan where exactly we're going. We could try to head for one of those X's on the map, see if that's at least good information." "Hey, we might be stuck in a swamp, but at least we don't need to worry about leprechauns stealing our food this time."
Naali haggles with him a bit for feed and supplies, but ultimately trades the wagon and sets back out before Anna starts burning down stalls.
"That we could - the gnomes made it well, we could probably get another horse so we don't have to share. As nice as it is, I don't think the horse is too fond of it." "We might as well go together - I wouldn't want to stay any longer around the swamp than is necessary - that smell is going to be in our lives for the forseeable future." For once in her life, Naali was glad that years of alchemical work had dulled her sense of smell, but there was little that could banish the swamp stink completely.
"We could try to at least hide cover it up for when we come back, if we think we're lucky enough that nobody will bother to investigate."
"But that's what makes it such a wonderful disguise! Who would willingly make themselves like that?" "Me, that's who - apparently!" Naali would be happy once they left the town. It had been the worst outcome - open ended deals, untrustworthy sorts of people knowing about them. It could only end to make things worse farther down the road. Hopefully that trouble would at least delay until they returned.
Naali snickers quietly. "Don't worry, it's not permanent. Let's get out of here and then if you just focus enough it should run its course over a couple seconds. Don't want to try to hitch the horses when we're disguised."
"No, no, you're right! We can't stay here much longer - I set up a chance to investigate and see if it would be doable, and I did that. It's too busy to check during the daytime, and if Encvaenves is right, then there are magical traps that I didn't even see while I was in there - I'd definitely run into those at night time, and I don't think I could do anything about them. It's too dangerous." "Besides, we still have to go find our missing researcher, shouldn't dawdle on that either."
"Ahh, you're right. I can't imagine they're suddenly going to leave the door open. I'm wondering what those newer marks on Mastrich's map were." "Mastrich already admitted he was going to spy on us where we were going, so I can't imagine it's just happenstance."
Naali sighs. "Well it doesn't look like there's any other ways in, just some tiny windows." She shrugs. "If we needed to get bigger, I could do something about that, but as is, it's the front door." "The guy in charge, Dox, has an office where the safe, is, but it's locked and he has the keys. If he wasn't around, I might be able to get through it all, but it would take time." "Besides, I couldn't very well leave you out here alone, right? Who knows what trouble a paladin could get into!"
Yes! I've just been bad at posting regularly, my schedule has been hectic and I've fallen out of a lot of my normal routines.
Naali sighs a quiet sigh, and squeezes through the main door and back outside. For a master thief, perhaps the safe could be picked quickly enough, but not for her. Not enough time. Too many eyes and ears.
Naali thinks to herself. She was not nearly enough of a master of stealth to open a safe when someone was inside the room, nor even open the door to get in. Anna was still outside, with no way to get back in, and Naali's invisibility would wear off soon. It was time for an escape - she would hate to leave Mastrich with the upper hand in the two battling smugglers, but there was little she could do without throwing bombs around, and making a sure enemy of the dwarf. She fumbles on the floor looking for a rock, or something to throw at a window - hopefully enough of a ruckus would be made that she could slip back out of the door.
Naali freezes after quietly shuffling out of his path, and intently watches the halfling. Encvaenves had warned of traps - perhaps the halfling knew how to bypass them.
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