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You are good! Thank you for communicating :)
Just a request DM, if you are going to do rounds sequentially I just request we start the turns after the minutes of invisible searching with whatever small chance there is to find them with regular stealth.
X starts stalking the prey knowing her invisibility could at most last minutes and every time she recasts he might hear her casting the spell to home in. Moving away from him likewise would home him in.
In hindsight this is a pretty big weakness in our group having no way to counter invisibility for the rest of this game if this keeps getting thrown at us though. Is there some way we can purchase even a one off item like potion of see invisibility?
X continues to remain silent and invisible listening as he waits patiently for the enemy to give themselves away. Movement will create sounds to follow even if he can not pinpoint their location. The others banter however is only telling the enemy their weaknesses. He hopes that none of them draw particular attention to him as it is unlikely the enemy knows he is there yet.
X the Shinobi listens holding still as he delays.
X delays invisibly waiting and watching for the invisible foes.
*Runs around the unattended PbP creating chaos* Er...see you in a week roughly!
X mounts his broom of flying while invisible and takes off directly up into the canopy taking care to move stealthily as he homes in on his target. He spends his whole turn just getting behind the foe while drawing a Wakazashi in one hand. + any cover and circumstance mods.
Look forward to it!
X vanished like a ghost once more moving into the bamboo forest for a stealth battle with the other combatant.
No worries thanks for the communications!
X looks to Hou Wong Xia and nods. "I accept this task." He restores his Tabi boots of haste and prepares himself for a duel in the bamboo forest.
X continues to invisibly light step over the coals biding time.
*Lines up the corpses to spell out Happy Holidays*
X wonders what the audience will think of an entire team vanishing...surely that can not be entertaining to them. He focuses his ki and steps lightly across the coals taking no damage.
X nimbly moves onto the coals as he blurs into ghostly unseen form, a handful of shurikens coming out to his hands. A single spinning blade of metal flies from seemingly no where at the topmost monk.
X nods to Marthysan and assuming they are in private speaks in his short way. "There are many things that have become revealed as we compete. Someone poisoned the food. The Golden League seeks to provide illegal gambling. The sorcerer in the boat during our exhibition failing to cast the magic to protect those who fell off the wall."
Understandable, I will not expect serious updating until after this holiday but still hope for it each day when I check.
X bows his head toward Darnak accepting the praise modestly as he looks back at the match. "There is a beauty to simplicity. We will compete with honor in this tournament and earn respect from many who may one day seek us out."
"I either pay the money or collect from them. Then they take the money to their boss. We follow. Then we share this information with the officials."
"My wagers may be too rich for your purse, who backs your bet? I will wager on the tiger, 100 gold coins. There is no way a predator like that could lose. If you wish to back out I understand." X assumes a cocky inflection to his tone and tries to sound like an easy mark.
X turns to the man and examines him pretending to be friendly as he memorizes his distinct features at close range. "What did you have in mind? I would not wish to anger the officials if they heard of such a thing."
X sits down beside the man pretending to watch the match. He leans over and says to Darnak just loud enough for the man to overhear. "This looks interesting. Who do you think would win such a match? Surely the odds favor the tiger."
X watches the man slipping into the crowd and whisper to Darnak. "I wish to follow him, I will try to find you again if we lose you." He then attempts to stealthily slip after the man following him back to where ever the Golden League call their base.
X and Darnak montage going around town! *Cues music to cover the screams of pain from gamblers being beaten up.*
X looked around at his companions the next morning and spoke in Celestial tongue to reduce the chances of being overheard. "There was a man last night who was hurt in an alley. He claimed that The Golden League beat him after he lost a gamble and could not pay them back in time. I am going to look into things until our match." He would wait for responses before slipping out the door and beginning to discretely ask around where one might place a wager on the tournament.
X comes back to his companions and shares his quiet company, reflecting on the day.
Have a good one GM! Looking forward to the action when you return.
X seems to pause for a long minute thinking. Not a lot was known about him save for his abilities but he understood where this man stood and how he had very little legal recourse. There was only so much he could do however with the tournament going on. He flips the man a gold piece. "Find a place to sleep, food to eat. If the Golden League give you any more trouble come to Yon Lon's Noodle house." He turns and walks away heading into the noodle house.
"Where are these Golden League enforcers?"
"Golden League? They are running gambling on the matches?" X thought back to the poisoning attempt from the night before...it might be connected.
X just stares at the man impassively giving him a minute to explain himself. Eventually if nothing occured he followed the others inside the noodle house to get a free/cheap bowl of noodles.
As the woman falls he dispels his invisibility seeming to appear from thin air standing beside her. He sheaths his wakazashi dramatically before taking a rope ladder down to the ground. He meets up with his comrades before they exit the arena. "Together we succeed, alone she fell."
X eyes the bloodied man before speaking in Tien. "What happened?"
X draws his second wakazashi and begins to attack Ganyavesha in an earnest flurry of blades.
X draws one of his Wakazashi as he collides with the woman sending her to the side of him. He begins to bludgeon at her trying to land a solid staggering blow.
Sadly X did not draw his wakazashi yet due to using shurikens and two hands for climbing. I will let you handle any adjudication of the bump as I have no control over whether or not I could get out of the way. I'd love to say I bump her off the side of the tower but realistically that is improbable.
@DM Hello DM. It appears the NPC attempted to jump into the space U9 which is currently occupied by the invisible X. How shall we resolve this? The movement is clearly noted in my last post with the explaination in this discussion thread I didn't roll due to being unable to fail to long jump 20 feet with my bonus.
I didn't bother to roll long jump as I can always count as having a running start and dc 20 is less then my movement speed along with my base acrobatics modifier being +21 without factoring increased speed and other bonuses.
Invisible and fueled by the power of Wong's prayers, X leaps and glides 20 feet to land on square U9 gracefully and effortlessly. He flings a single shuriken at Ganyavesha from there aimming for a good place to sneak attack.
Unfortunately the shuriken flies through the space she occupied as she blinks out.
Enjoying a break is a good thing now and then and I am ready when you are to get the ball rolling. :)
Understood thanks for the update!
The ropes of the rope ladder on the tower closet to their side sway and rock as an invisible Shinobi makes his way to the top.
@Deathless I'm sure you could almost reach the 20 foot platform with no climb speed and 30 feet movement speed using two move actions. You move at 1/4th base movement speed or you can fast climb by taking -5 to a climb check(DC 0 according to DM) and so long as you don't get a negative you can move half speed climbing. So I'd say just double move climb fast and so long as you don't roll in the negatives with the -5 penalty you can go 30 feet up the side but not quite 40
I have a question about the map as it is not clear from the description. Are the rope ladders extending from the ground up into each platform? Thus allowing climbing up through the seeming holes in the floor of the platforms? Also I assume Floor 1 is just ground level and the picture of the platform on that is for judging where it is above you? Second parter to the questions, this is about jumping to avoid slowing things down. See Table at bottom for vertical reach for high jump. https://www.d20pfsrd.com/skills/acrobatics/#jumping-and-falling
Being invisible is unfortunate for showy moves, they need to hand out 3d glasses to audience for viewing invisibility.
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