Hey Shadow,
Just familiars, or would you be open to an awakened animal companion?
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Scath would likely investigate the burned out building (I think I said that earlier). Given his form, trying to free prisoners is more likely to cause a panic that get's them killed stampeding each other than it does anything else.
Ok, I still think the two teams we are allowed should be a Sneak and a Freedom Fighter to start with, when we do our rolls.
So, we recruited 16 people, and need to break them into teams yes? Is that how it works? And I assume right now, we can only put them into Tier 1 teams? Additionally, we can only have two teams right now? So we have more people than we can field for the moment. So we shouldn't recruit anymore until we have the ones we have utilized? I would suggest two teams, one sneaks and one freedom fighters. That keeps our stealth DC higher, and utilizes 9 of our 16 people. The freedom fighters can reduce danger, and the sneaks can secure cache.
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By day, Scath is a cowardly house cat named "Cringer', and by night a mighty powerful crime fighter named "Battle Scath"!
We should use the full on rules to start, if some seem dumb, we can drop them later. Scath would prefer to investigate and build up knowledge, maybe take out a few guards (Thrune's guys, not the poor look for purse snatchers town guards) in the dark. Quiet like, no bodies, no blood, nothing... and in random locations, so no one neighborhood get's the 'bad rep'. Scath is probably also busy organizing the first real theives guild in town...
Scath listens to the two-legs, and by night, sniffs out various places that they mention, the salt works, the burned out estate, etc. Being naturally cautious, he starts out from a distance, then moves in closer and closer each night...
Unless it's critical to the story, I'd say just let the Misha loot vanish, and sprinkle some extra loot in to make up for it over the next 2-3 loot encounters. That's what I usually do.
Using ABP the strongest build is a two-handed weapon build. So powerattack and bastard sword or great sword are your best choices for a melee fighter.
Not having Victor mad at them lasts longer than the coins from doggy. And yeah, Urchin's rock.. especially as they grow up into very loyal spies for you...
I had said they'd eat the dead ones I thought. If Victor expressed an interest in the survivor, Sanita would have left it in the stable. No need to amend the urchins, they'd have hidden down below when Victor came by, and thrown stones to scare him away if he came below. If he still went below after getting the dog, then we can move to the 'return with treats'.
Scath shakes 150 gp in gems out of his hidey hole, and gives it to Sanita to take the child to a temple for a Remove Disease casting. Those are generally available all the time. He scratches out that she's to dress up in the best clothes she has, and the child as well, so that it's not so suspicious. Her story is her employer sent her down with the child of the headwoman as she didn't want any diseased kids in her house.
Secrecy/Security? Nobody seemed to vote for Loyalty.
Secrecy Security as a second... Loyalty as a third...
Scath would get all the information he can from his urchin network. He would also make sure to scout out the new urchin hideout (the old silver raven hideout) and make sure they are cleaning it out and the older urchins are repairing/rebuilding the unsafe portions. That also includes removing the demon binding spells from the walls (the ones in the water pit area). He'd also make sure the urchins had added a good concealed entrance from the rooftop so no one would see them coming and going from the stable. A secure safe to stay place is a major boost for the urchin gang.
Tobias's new character could have been a friend of Scath's former Mistress. He might notice Scath walking around, not having expected to see him again after having heard of her death...
I read it as you did. It's poorly worded and could be read the other way as well. What I think they were trying to do was say you could take it as many times as you wanted as a talent, and each time you could get a feat from the list, and added new feats at specific levels. But they mis-worded it. That would have left it similar to the ranger ability.
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How are we doing HP? Roll, average, max, Square root of Pi?
Since things have come to a quiet end, Scath stands up, no longer trying to be stealthy, and lightly leaps over the tengu heads to the other stacked crates, making himself the center of attention. Whereupon he turns his back to the Tengu and begins to groom his right rear foot, to get some of the dust off...
I'm fine I think, life is calming back down.
Feeling his feline nature taking over again, Scath wiggles his rear and sneaks down the crates while everyone is busy talking and distracted, and then sneaks up so he's in 'pounce range' of all four birds and crouches down mischieviously.
Scath relaxes a bit as the birds go to put up their weapons. He remains silent though, in case things turn south again, but leaves it up to the two legs to talk things out. Something doesnt' seem right, but he can't put a claw on it.
GM: Scath will continue sneaking along the back wall, and climb the boxes that are taller in the bottom corner, where the blue square is on the map. That keeps him in the dark. He knows about Tengu, and they don't see well in absolute dark. The dim light is better for them than the humans, but as long as he keeps out of the main area of the light, he should be ok. Plus they are distracted looking at the humans in the center of the light.
Scath sneaks through the dark toward the voice...
Sorry everyone, life's been hitting me hard recently, and I've had a severe lack of energy when I've not been working or travelling. Every other week I spend about 20 hours on planes or in airports (sunday and thursday, 9 hours up and 13 hours back). On top of that, all the family stuff has taken a toll. Plus, my wife is working from home now, so when I'm home, she's working 11 to 8 and I'm working 8 to 4:30, makes it very complicated. Nothing like seeing your wife 24 a day or 0 a day depending on the week to make things topsy turvy. I'm finally getting used to it though, and I hope to be back to normal posting going forward (with occasional lapses from exhaustion).
GM: Scath slinks slowly along the ground, his belly rubbing and his nose working. He slides sideways to the other wall, to get a better look in the other side of the room.
Since the two-legs are using lights to explore to the north, Scath will sneak in the darkness to the south and explore slowly, sniffing the ground.
Scath ignores the two-legs and continues to happily gnaw on the big fat gator liver. It's especially nice as the gator was well fed and large. When he's done, he licks his chops and cleans the blood off his paws.
Scath pads over to watch the two-legs paw in the gator's insides. As she does, he snakes a paw into the thing's guts and snags the liver, ripping it free. While she digs into the things guts and tries to identify the people inside, he gnaws on the large fat juicy liver, making little rumbly sounds.
Scat goes to cleaning off his claws and paws and other blood splattered bits. He coughs out a couple of feathers, and goes back to licking.
Scath grumbles and pounces forward, following the stupid bird thing...
Scath sidles sideways, going for the opposite side of the bird thing as the bald two-leg, attempting to set up a flank...
Unable to reach the bird creature, Scath moves toward the opening into that area, and keeps low and crouched next to the wall in the shadows.
Scath looks at the dog, and huffs in a growly raspy voice that sounds like a cross between a tree falling and rusty metal bending. Animal:
"Pay more attention, mutt. You give four legs bad name." The cat then grooms the blood off his paws and claws with fastidious and pedantic carefulness, ignoring the dog while it uses up healing resources.
Scath growls and skips forward a couple of feet and goes for the gator's throat!
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Scath sniffs around, looking for where the scent of two-legs seems strongest, which should indicate the normal path they take down here. [
Huffing unhappily, Scath scoots through the door before anyone can cast any more light spells or move any down the corridor, trusting his sight and smell and stealth. He moves as far as he can, to avoid being in the light or backlit if possible.
Scath grumbles as he sniffs about, then snaps at the magical lights as they ghost past him, as if annoyed by them, or maybe it's just the lights flashing past awaken an instinct in the feline to chase them. He skulks ahead in the shadows...
Scath would have taken a bath and stayed under the water for several hours to drown most of them, only his nose out of the water. Sentient brains triumph over primitive instincts. If they don't go away with the next treatment, he'll fork over 20GP to pay an acolyte to channel negative energy with him in the area and then cast cure on him to counteract it.
Scath, apparently annoyed by Juniper's spell and then the discussions about him, waits for someone to be leaving the pub, and then he crosses the room from rafter to rafter before climbing down the wall and leaping out the front door between the poor shlub's legs, nearly knocking him or her or it off their feet. GM: Upon returning to the urchins, Scath makes sure the urchins know to go search the stable basement from top to bottom, and to be on watch for the gremlin. Then he gets Sanita to help him break into a library, once he's in the library, he noses a book on Strix languages, and gets her to turn the pages while he decipher's the page he has from the box. He'll nose words from books in order for her to write them down to translate the page. Then he gets her to tuck both papers into his armor, and he'll sleep the night away with the urchins, returning to the pub in the morning.
The cat closes it's eye and goes back to resting.
Scath opens an eye and bends his neck to pin the paper inside his armor. He growls down at Juniper, showing fangs.
Scath, looking bored, claws his way up to a rafter in less time than it takes someone to say 'bad cat' and curls up on a rafter. One ear is cocked toward the group below, but otherwise, the cat relaxes and breaths steadily, resting to regain strength.
My understanding is weapons and armor don't resize, but all other items do. I generally am ok with someone using a weapon that's of a different size as something similar of it's own size (small longbow -> Medium shortbow, small short sword -> Medium dagger). But since there is a specific ability for armor and weapons to resize, I generally don't have them resize. |