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Weyland tells Pons to stay in cover and moves within 80 feet of the camp so as to be in charge range if the bandits decide to fight.
Can't ready a charge action. It's a full round action and you can only ready standard actions. Darren has given the bandits the option surrender, so it wouldn't be honourable to preemptively attack them. As such, no point to roll anything, since I have to delay until after the bandits' turn anyways, to see what they do. :(
We could lure them into a trap or just rush them. We're pretty beefy and barring some unfortunate rolling, we should be able to take them in a straight fight.
Weyland is mounted and in heavy armour, he jangles a fair bit. Sneaking in is not an option for him. Let me know when you need a devastating charge.
Hey nobody is a fan of lawfulness, until they make the laws. It's a lot easier to blow up trains than to make them run on time.
Yup, I know, but Weyland just met you guys. As for later, who knows? With Weyland standing as a gleaming exemplar of goodness, how will you be able to resist the siren's call of the light?
Weyland seems more than a little disgusted by the talk of torture. "Pain motivates many things, but the truth is rarely one of them. Banditry is often punishable by death, but let it be a clean death" As they ride, Weyland starts giving everyone the once over the with a little detect evil
He leans down to offer his flask to the halfling. "Just water, I'm afraid. The trading post didn't have much wine to spare, and I shared what I had after our battle. Now, Sir Piper, where do you hail from? I don't believe I know your house." Weyland takes the flask companionably, but does little more than moisten his lips before reaching up to pass it back. "My thanks. Whether you wear the title or not, the responsibility of it hangs on you regardless. I shall endeavour to avoid its usage, but as I am the soul of curtosy, lapses may occur." Pons snorts loudly at this last, but Weyland ignores him. "As for myself, I claim no ties to the nobility. The small folk don't put much weight into such things and you tall folk do seem to be rather reluctant to bestow such honours on us, so I guess it all works out. I am a Knight of the church of Erastil and so travel the lands protecting the communities that cannot protect themselves."
"A pleasure, my dear. I cannot speak to the numbers of agents that have been sent or may yet be sent in the future. I imagine that depends on our own successes."
"Derren Orlovsky, of the Brevic House." He gives the newcomers a quick nod. The halfling knight looks up at Derren on his tall horse. "Well met, my Lord. It makes my heart swell to see a lord of the land out among the people, meeting out justice."
"I do indeed carry the writ of Restov, good master Quinn. Clashes with these ruffians already and riding to battle presently, you say? Then let us set forth together to vanquish this evil from the land." He turns to his manservant, "What do you have to say about that Pons? It's hardly oversleeping if you arrive on time." The other halfling gives Weyland a wry look, "You may have misheard Sir, but battle has already been joined." Weyland snorts, "Bah, you know hors d'oeuvres give me gas. We've made the main course in time and that makes us fashionably late." "If you say so, Sir."
The jangle of harness and the clatter of hooves announces the arrival of an oddly matched pair. Trotting down the road is a duo of halflings. One in well-made, but travel-stained clothes, astride a nondescript brown pony, the other resplendent in shining armour, a brightly coloured pennant snapping at the end of his raised lance. This second sits proudly atop of massive slavering, St. Bernard. The pair jangle up to the group assembling at the gate. "Hail and well met travelers. I am Sir Weyland Piper. Foul rumors abound of banditry in these environs and I have come to bring the light of civilization to these lawless lands. Might you have news of such misdeeds?"
@Calvus: Should I just write myself in, or did you want to?
Hi all and thanks to GM Calvus for extending the invitation. From a glance at the gameplay thread, I can see that you're just wrapping up the trading post's bandit fight (which is great since I've done that encounter like 3 times on other failed Kingmaker campaigns). I'll try to skim the rest when I get a chance to, to catch up. @Calvus: Since you gave like a million starting gold, I built Weyland with a manservant(expert hireling). Pons is there to help Weyland in and out of his armour, tend the animals, set up camp. He cooks and plays the lute, all that fun stuff. He has stats but is intended only for RP purposes. Anywho let me know if you are ok with that.
Well assimar are pretty broken too... Anyways considering that all base races are in the 8-10 RP, with their points spent on mostly garbage, but flavourful features like stonecunning, hatred or defensive training, the power difference between a 14RP custom race and a core race is substantial. All killer, no filler as it were. But really, it's the advanced ability scores thing for 4 RP that throws off the curve. I mean you could give a half-orc +2str, dex and con, -2 int and +4 wis and they would still only be 12RP. (and the best Monk race ever)
So ya, the race building rules are super broken........ Anyways, Weyland is a halfling paladin(shining knight) of Erastil that rides a dog and has a halfling manservant named Pons, because that armour isn't going to don itself. (and because with 500 starting gold why not) He's got a super high CHA and diplomacy scores, likes helping people, doing the right thing and its the type of guy that travels everywhere with his own Gentleman's gentleman. And that's really all you need to know. Motivation for exploration:
Pledged to uphold the tenants of the Erastilian faith, Weyland roams the land, carrying the light of civilization with him. Resplendent upon his nobel steed, Barky von Schnauzer, and with his faithful manservant Pons at his side, he strives to protect isolated farming villages and works to keep the less trodden tracks free of predatory banditry. When the word was put out for brave souls to tame the Greenbelt so that it could be properly settle, he knew that it was a call that he must answer. Crunch is mostly finished and is in the profile. Pons is there for RP more than anything else and intended to not contribute in combat. He is being paid as a skilled hireling and is paid up for then next two months. Let me know if there are any questions.
Paladin baby!! Focus STR
Sexy rolls, perhaps a little too sexy... I'll see what I can come up with
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"This would all be easier with a few of us on the other side. Give me a minute." Weyland takes a few minutes to remove his armour and stow it in his backpack. With a deep breath and running start he leaps the chasm at its narrowest.
Landing with a skid of pebbles, he turn back to the other. "One less to worry about. If we use magic to aid the wounded, we should be able to all make it across." Waiting for the others' reply, he begins to re-don his armour.
Use the rope and tow them across?
Weyland steps into the fray, swing his sword in a mighty arc,
Weyland calls upon Iomedae's blessing to know the true nature of his companions. Detect Evil "The corruption of her body has not tainted her soul. Remember Reinnwulf, evil hides behind fair features and fair words as much as behind foul. Lead on child, there is no need to fear harm from these quarters."
I'm not much of a climber, but if we can't find another way, I'll shed this armour of mine and give it a go."
"Onwards and upwards then." Weyland sets to move out, sword in hand.
Weyland attacks again to little effect.
Move and attack:
Weyland goes over to the pile of scales and picks one up, as a memento of the great creature that saved them all. Heading over to join the woman and Ozgo, he takes a critical look at the woman's leg,
"That's a pretty bad break. I don't think you're going to be dancing any time soon."
I'm sure the GM pop up. From previous experience, Apsu is a slow, but consistent gamemaster.
"Disgusting" Weyland draws his sword and swing at the nearest maggot(B):
but fails to connect.
"I think that everyone should just calm down. We are all in this together, at least for the moment, so why don't we all try to be civil. Now I don't want to unnerve anyone, but there seems to be something quite large and horrible over there just outside of the light. I think we should go investigate. Once we have addressed our immediate safety, then we can worry about the next step." Weyland moves to go investigate...
Apparently not everyone under the rubble is dead and with a groan an a clatter of tumbling stones, Weyland drags himself free. Stumbling into the light, he looks a mess. His armour, gleaming all but a few moments ago, is scratched and dented and he is coated in sweat streaked dust. Glancing around at the small group of survivors, he says, "Weyland, Paladin of Iomedae. Glad to see you made it Ozgo. We will need every warm body possible to push back this attack." "Is this it? If so, let's not tarry. There must be a way back to the surface, and we are need there.'
Weyland steps into the early morning light, polished and gleaming from head to toe. For today was Armasse and if ever there was a day to shine, this was it. seeing one of the new arrivals looking a little lost, he steps down to join him. "Good morrow, friend Ozgo. I hope that this Armasse finds you well. Come, let us enjoy the spectacle and put on a bit of a show ourselves. It's always good for Iomedae's faithful to be visible on festival days and on Armasse even more so."
For the games I run, I roll initiatives and I do enemies as a block and PCs individually. Basically it goes pre-enemy, enemy, then everyone. Rinse and repeat. Actions are resolved in posting order.
go go go!
Weyland was originally aiming guardian in the original recruitment, but swapped to marshal at GM Ts request. Guardian would have been fine, but I would rather have a marshal in the group.
Howdy folks. Hopefully this time around goes better than our last attempt. @DM:Couple of things. Dropped the archetype and since we don't have one, I think I'll be going Marshal over Guardian. I think it's a more useful path. @Ozgo: Since we're both playing Iomedaen's, perhaps our PCs have already met? I saw that in your background, Ozgo is new to Kenebres, so perhaps Weyland is showing him the sights during the festival which kicks off this AP.
All right. Awesome. We're bogged down by the content then. I say let's just skip the skill test here and move on. We can pick up a new arcane player and have them join in when we get topside. (We could probably get buy without one, but long term, we'll be hurting without an arcane caster.)
So are we doing this still? We got a pretty low posting rate going on. I don't ming calling it, but let's make a decision about.
Weyland takes a few minutes to strip of his armour and taking a good running leap,
he barely clears the gap. "Whew, that was a little too close. I'll help Reinnwulf hauling people up this side."
"That seems a sound enough plan. A few of us can share the load to make a lighter task of it."
So are we done here?
"Reinnwulf has the right of it. I fear that there is a full blown invasion topside."
I'm guessing that DM Grey has decided not to return...
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