Tarnish Gaborza's page

The better question is where did Wivvy go?

No problem on my end.

I believe so.

This has always been a slow moving game. Hopefully things will improve in a little bit.

Your initiative order lists Strife twice and omits me. So where do I fit in?

Initiative: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

That's ok. We've got this guy named 'Strife' who is a real berserker with a quarterstaff. ;-)

Let's head towards the noise, Tarnish and Montaign in front, Kugrim and Strife behind, assuming we can get two abreast.

Tarnish says, "Towards the noise, of course."

Tarnish loads and readies his sling staff.

Tarnish says, "Just do what you have to do."

Tarnish says, "I can climb, I can sneak, and I can pick locks. But I can't do any of those things very well while wearing this armor. Taking the armor off might take time we don't have, to say nothing of putting it back on again. Anybody have any ideas other than just breaking a door down?"

Tarnish says, "Sounds good. Let's not waste any time then."

Tarnish comments, "It might be nice if we didn't have to fight. But given that we do have to fight we need to have people who are good at it. By the way Strife, you might want to do a better job of cleaning the goblin brains off your staff."

Tarnish nods to Montaign and says, "Pleased to meet you."

Obviously a man of few words. :-)

Welcome. Look forward to gaming with you.

Tarnish gets back on his horse. He says, "Just what I wanted, an excuse to get out of here. Shall we go?"

Tarnish thinks, "Time to finish this." He again swings at G1 with his warhammer.

Attack roll: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15

Damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

Tarnish again attacks G1 with his warhammer.

Attack roll: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7

And manages to miss for the third time.

Tarnish looks around and notes all the people who have dismounted already. He thinks, "Darn. It could take a miracle for this to end well. Better get down before I fall down."

Tarnish dismounts from his horse on the same side as G1 and strikes at the goblin with his warhammer.

Attack roll: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7

But Tarnish misses again. Getting off the horse must have unbalanced him somewhat.

Going to need somebody to move me on the map as the smartphone I've got won't handle that.

Ride check: 1d20 - 3 ⇒ (18) - 3 = 15

Tarnish yells, "We can outrun these things. Head back to Sandpoint!"

If I'm reading the map right Tarnish is next to Kugrim.

Tarnish will turn his horse around and then ride 4 squares closer to Sandpoint. Then he will turn left and move forward one more square. That should put him adjacent to and "northeast" of goblin 1. Tarnish will then attack G1 with his warhammer.

Attack roll: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8

But Tarnish really isn't used to fighting from horseback and misses.

Tarnish replies, "They've already attacked the town once. Where else would they be likely to be going to in force? And if they're not going to town I doubt they would turn aside just to chase us."

Tarnish shrugs. He says, "All I know for sure is that I'm not trained for mounted combat, and the rest of you aren't set up for heavy infantry formation fighting. I think that unless we want to get overrun we better get out of here. Going back to town and warning everybody seems to be the best bet. If we have to try to ride through some of them to do that then that's what we'll do. But staying here is not an option, and trying to ride horses deeper into the woods under current circumstances doesn't strike me as a good idea."

Tarnish readies his warhammer.

Tarnish says, "We're on horseback. We should be able to outrun them. Let's just get back to town and give the people there some advance warning."

Perception check: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (1) + 10 = 11

What 100 member drum and bugle Corps on elephant back?

Tarnish shrugs. He says, "Tavius is the expert on all this woods and forest stuff. At any rate, I guess we'll find out what's going on when we get there."

Happy Thanksgiving everybody. :-)

Perception check: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (10) + 10 = 20

Tarnish comments, "Things seem to be a little noisy in the forest today."

Tarnish says, "I decided it was time to check out other areas. I need to get a lot better at what I do and significantly upgrade my equipment. Eventually I'm going to have go back home and take care of some personal matters. But that will likely be several years down the road."

"Changing the subject, I was wondering what you might be able to tell me about Amieko's father."

While Tarnish can ride a horse as long as it isn't doing much, it is obvious that he is not a trained horseman. He's just barely getting by based on raw dexterity inhibited by his armor.

Tarnish says, "If that kind of trade is on the table then I'd like to get a masterwork bastard sword instead of a regular bastard sword."

So Tarnish would be trading in regular scale mail armor and a regular longsword, and looking to get regular breastplate armor and a masterwork bastard sword in return.

Tarnish replies, "Your secret is safe with me. Ideally what I would like to do is to trade in my scale mail armor and longsword and get breastplate armor and a bastard sword."

Tarnish replies, "Ok, I'll take 120."

When he gets the money Tarnish gives 30 gold each to Strife, Kugrim and Tavius.

Tarnish would like to get breastplate armor but the funds simply aren't there for it.

Tarnish asks the shopkeeper, "What do you have for bastard swords?"

But weapons and armor are what Tarnish is really interested in.

Tarnish talks to the shop keeper to find out what kind of deal he might be able to get for the goblin weapons he has.

Before heading off to the general store Tarnish would have retrieved the weapons he took off the goblins from his room. If I've got it right that would be 6 dog slicers, 2 shortbows, 40 arrows, a MW horse chopper and a whip.

Tarnish says, "I found out yesterday that the Tickwood boars are no joke. They are a lot tougher than the goblins who I have seen run in fear from them. I've got no objection to hunting them, but if the goblins were too much for you the other day going after boars yourself might not be a good idea."

Tarnish replies, "Sounds good to me."

Tarnish finishes his meal and then turns in for the night.

hit points: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7

And I get exactly what I thought I got already.

He should be good to go now. Let me know if you think I missed something.

Tarnish arches an eyebrow and says, "Whatever." Then he goes back to eating his dinner.

Yeah! The only problem is that it will take me a bit to level up. I assume the standard 1/2 hit die + 1 + CON MOD for hit points?

After the guy leaves and is out of hearing range Tarnish laughs. He turns to Strife and says in a normal volume and tone of voice: "That was well done. And a lot less work than all my screaming and yelling. Almost makes me want to take up magic."

Tarnish returns to his place at the table and starts back in on his meal.

Tarnish bellows at the top of his lungs: "I am a trained professional you witless moron! Killing people and other things that need killing is my job and I'm good at it. Your city guard wasn't there when they were needed, and I sure as heck wasn't going to stand around and let myself get carved on by goblins waiting for them."

Tarnish walks up to the guy and points his finger at him, continuing to speak using a volume and tone of voice that would do credit to a torqued off drill instructor:

"I don't give a rat fart who you are, how important you think you are, how much money you've got, how fancy you dress, or how many useless sycophants you might have to try to do your bidding. If you were anything other than a spineless drunk you could have dealt with the problems yesterday by yourself."

Tarnish points to the door and continues on:

"Now leave, or find out first hand how a trained professional uses violence to deal with worthless sacks of cow manure."

Intimidate check: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (13) + 6 = 19

Tarnish stands up from where he is sitting, rising to his full height. He says in a voice loud enough to carry and in a tone that indicates he is not amused:

"Now listen up and listen good. We were attacked at the festival just like everybody else was. We defended ourselves as best we could, and by doing so killed goblins who would have gone on to kill more people if we hadn't stopped them. We weren't trying to be heroes, we were just trying to stay alive. Now either leave, shut the heck up, or take the beating you so richly deserve you drunken idiot."

Intimidate check: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18

Tarnish says, "Let's just go to the Rusty Dragon, get dinner and call it a night. I scrounged the weapons off the goblins we killed in town earlier, we can sell them in the morning."

Tarnish replies, "The presence of apparently humanoid footprints touches on something that the Sheriff had asked us not to tell anybody about. So while I will not provide details, it looks like there was a humanoid working in concert with some of the goblins and they were up to no good."

Tarnish collects the goblin ears. Then he says, "I guess we'll go back with you. Hopefully the other guys will lend a hand getting the boar up onto your horse."

Tarnish grabs a hold of the boar and drags it closer to the horse.

Tarnish says, "Thanks for the healing. Given that Sandpoint was attacked by goblins the other day during the Swallowtail festival I don't think you'll have too much of a problem convincing them that something is wrong. The problem is likely to be that they may not have enough people they can spare to do something about it."

Tarnish cleans off his longsword and sheaths it. He retrieves his sling staff and loads another bullet in it. As he does so he moves with a bit of a limp favoring the leg that the boar hurt. When he is finished he asks the lady, "What's the rush?"

Minor oops. Strife had cast guidance on Tarnish so that would be an extra +1 to hit. So Tarnish would have hit AC 15.

I had been waiting for Strife to do something, but I may as well go.

Tarnish drops his sling staff, draws his longsword, moves forward and attacks the boar. He says, "You scratch me, I scratch you."

Attack roll: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (9) + 5 = 14

Damage: 1d8 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12