Post by streamofthesky on Apr 16, 2009 2:36:47 GMT -5
JoviCreamePuff: A young woman would float into view, a mane of fiery red hair surrounding a pink skinned face, emerald green eyes surveying the landscape around her as she strummed on... some kind of guitar. She wore a beautiful green cloak that brushed the ground, adorned in stylish traveling leathers, a shirt if silvery, shiney chain, and a slitted skirt that showed off her stripey-stocking wrapped legs and traveling boots.
Darkest Prison: (last I saw was "on a brance")
Darkest Prison: *branch
JoviCreamePuff: ((My post is all you missed)
Darkest Prison: Dais waits to take his shot
JoviCreamePuff: ((Spot checks? XD))
OnlineHost: BardicLasher rolled 1 20-sided die: 10
Darkest Prison: (roll if you want. or do you mean to see you?)
BardicLasher: ((Spot 16))
OnlineHost: Darkest Prison rolled 1 20-sided die: 15
JoviCreamePuff: ((I totally wouldn't see anybody)
JoviCreamePuff: ((I meant for recognition)
Darkest Prison: (30)
ranzunar: (Dolo not hiding)"Hmmm, good guitar, average singing, young woman. Could it be?"
OnlineHost: ranzunar rolled 1 20-sided die: 14
BardicLasher: Clearly, there's only one thing for Charir to do in this situation. He hurls himself forward, flies through the air, and pounces the girl. (Roll me a save vs fear)
BardicLasher: ((And I roll melee touch...
OnlineHost: BardicLasher rolled 1 20-sided die: 3
JoviCreamePuff: "Wuagh!"
Darkest Prison: The hell is he doing?
BardicLasher: Charir fails to touch flatfooted AC, and instead crashes into the ground beside her.
JoviCreamePuff: (You failed to touch 10?)
Darkest Prison: Oh well, if i fire into a grapple and hit him "by mistake," he can't get mad.
ranzunar: "Damn it Char, stop trying to burn/eat/hump every young woman we see"
Darkest Prison: (lol)
BardicLasher: ((Yes. I need to pick up Weapon Finesse next level))
JoviCreamePuff: (XD Oh wow)
Darkest Prison: (25 xp for gabe in a future game where i give bonus xp)
BardicLasher: "When done right, humping includes eating!"
ranzunar: (LOL)
BardicLasher: "Unless you're a very inconsiderate lover."
BardicLasher: ((Jovi, you need to roll will DC 18 or be shaken from almost being Charir pounced. :-P
OnlineHost: JoviCreamePuff rolled 1 20-sided die: 20
JoviCreamePuff: (She's immune))
JoviCreamePuff: "Get the hell off me you stupid monster!" The girl flailed, scrambling away from him, her guitar tucked against her side as she started to strum a power chord.. then paused, blinking.
BardicLasher: ((...I believe the only response on a will save of 20 is "Hi, Charir," Completely unfased))
JoviCreamePuff: "Oh."
Darkest Prison: (Or laughter)
ranzunar: "Forgive my friend, wait a second. Don't I know you?"
JoviCreamePuff: "...Oh! What the hell!? I've been looking for you for weeks and then you tackle me!?"
BardicLasher: "Hey, I may be stupid but... Wait... No... Yeah, that's about right." He rolled onto his back and looked up at her.
Darkest Prison: The hell are they talking about?
Darkest Prison: *casts SLA message*
Darkest Prison: Dolo, what's going on?
ranzunar: "You were with the Ashbringers weren't you"
ranzunar: to Dais: She may be an old friend of mine and Char's"
Darkest Prison: So, should I say hi, or stay here waiting to snipe just in case?
JoviCreamePuff: Up close, it's clear that suspicious glitters on her skin are actually pale green scales, lines of them dotting and outlining her cheekbones. "Were. Then they got all boring and stuffy and then I ran out of patience and burned down a library."
ranzunar: to Dais: wait for it, she's a hothead in more ways than one"
BardicLasher: "Remember boys and girls: If libraries didn't want to be on fire, they wouldn't be made of books!"
Darkest Prison: (what's it say about me if I consider burning down a library more vile than burning down an orphanage?)
BardicLasher: ((Yaphet would agree with you.))
Darkest Prison: Fine, I'll wait
JoviCreamePuff: "Which was kinda of hard, because I don't know any actual fire magic, ya know? I had to like... Work at it." She reached a hand down at Charir, frowning at him.
BardicLasher: ((It says you value eternal, immortal, preserved knowledge more than temporary, mortal, fleeting human life.))
ranzunar: "Yeah I remember you, you were with the strong arm part of the organization, I was with the diplomacy area about a year ago"
Darkest Prison: (that sounds about right)
BardicLasher: Charir reached his hand up to take Annette's... And tug. ((Annette, roll Str or dex!))
OnlineHost: BardicLasher rolled 1 20-sided die: 4
Darkest Prison: (fail to touch again? lol)
OnlineHost: JoviCreamePuff rolled 1 20-sided die: 13
JoviCreamePuff: (Dex 17)
BardicLasher: ((No. She clearly let him touch
BardicLasher: Charir clearly fails to pull her off her feet... And just winds up getting up.
JoviCreamePuff: "Stop that." She said, and after slinging her guitar behind her back, she promptly threw her arms around his middle and squeezed.
ranzunar: "Charir, haven't you worked with her before?"
BardicLasher: HUGS! Charir hugs her tight. "Course! YOu remember Annette, don't you? She wrote that song about the puppies that ended with them eating that guy?"
JoviCreamePuff: "Bitting the feeding hand!" She sang, a single refrain that ought to have conjured half a dozen horrible memories. She giggle,d nuzzling her face into Charir's chest.
ranzunar: "Funny twist indeed, I'm Dolo and you must remember Charir. We used to be with the Ashbringers too until something more interesting and fulfilling came along"
Darkest Prison: Unless she smeared contact poison on her cheeks, I'm pretty sure it's safe to come out
JoviCreamePuff: (XD)
BardicLasher: "We're going to destroy the world! Mwa ha ha ha ha ah ha ha ha ha HA HA HA HA HA!"
Darkest Prison: *throws a rock at charir's head*
JoviCreamePuff: "Of course I remember you, Dolo! ...Sorta! I think. But Charir's the whole reason I'm out here.. .You left wit-... HA HA HA HA HAAAA! -without even telling me!?"
OnlineHost: Darkest Prison rolled 1 20-sided die: 16
Darkest Prison: (-4 for nonlethal, that's...)
Darkest Prison: (21)
Darkest Prison: (flatfooted)
BardicLasher: Totally hits.
OnlineHost: Darkest Prison rolled 1 2-sided die: 2
OnlineHost: Darkest Prison rolled 4 6-sided dice: 3 6 2 4
Darkest Prison: (15 nonlethal damage)
BardicLasher: "OW! Hey! It's not my fault your lungs have one fourth the capacity of mine and thus can't grant you a full, deep, echoing laugh!"
Darkest Prison: "Idiot!"
JoviCreamePuff: "Your face is an idiot!"
JoviCreamePuff: "...Who are you?"
BardicLasher: "He's the guy who actaully knows how to do the thing we're doing."
Darkest Prison: "Dais. Who are you?"
JoviCreamePuff: "Annette! Nice to meet you, dayus."
ranzunar: "A friend that has pointed me me in the right way towards something more important"
JoviCreamePuff: (Upload finished)
Darkest Prison: "...DAY-ISS. Is that so ard to pronounce?"
Darkest Prison: (download finished)
JoviCreamePuff: "I said that."
Darkest Prison: "you said -us"
JoviCreamePuff: "No, I said -is. Dayus."
ranzunar: "Let's leave the phonology for later, what are you up to Annete?"
JoviCreamePuff: "Looking for Charir. He just up and left without so much as an evil guffaw!"
JoviCreamePuff: ((need to feed cats, brb))
Darkest Prison: "That's not like him. I'd expect he'd at least leave something on fire as he left."
BardicLasher: "I could've sworn I left a well thought out arson as my two weeks notice..."
Darkest Prison: (called it!)
ranzunar: "I remember leaving well thought out letter explaining my reasons for leaving. And threatening to kill a bunch of people should they ever cross my path again wanting to hurt me. Or something to that extent"
Darkest Prison: (it was an intimidate check in writing!)
BardicLasher: "...Yeah, that might've gotten consumed in the blaze."
Darkest Prison: "So the whole gang's back together now. Yippe."
BardicLasher: "But I really loved how you dotted your 'i's with little skulls."
ranzunar: (the first two paragraphs were a diplomacy check)
BardicLasher: "And that drawing of Leon's head shoved up his own anus? Priceless."
Darkest Prison: "even I'm not that flexible"
BardicLasher: "Neither was Leon."
JoviCreamePuff: ((Back!))
Darkest Prison: "Look, we need to get to town and seek out that scholar guy. So hurry up and say your goodbyes."
JoviCreamePuff: Annette was giggling, the sound delighted and malicious.
JoviCreamePuff: "...Goodbyes? Fuck that, I'm coming with."
Darkest Prison: "it was nice to meet you, ...Omlette."
Darkest Prison: "...What?"
JoviCreamePuff: "I'm coming with. What, can't you hear?"
Darkest Prison: "We're embarking on a religious pilgrammage. It's not a'more the merrier' kind of thing."
ranzunar: "Well, it is easier to travel with one or two more people, especially with all the people that try to kill us normally"
JoviCreamePuff: "Charir says your going to blow up the world. That true?"
Darkest Prison: (you just want your AC bonus, lol)
Darkest Prison: "...Not necessarily blow it up. But I guess so."
ranzunar: (Tony counts for that normally so not really)
BardicLasher: "In accordance with the prophecy."
Darkest Prison: (right)
JoviCreamePuff: "So why would I NOT want to be there? I don't wanna be blown up."
JoviCreamePuff: "...Or is this one of those suicidal things/"
JoviCreamePuff: "Bad charir!"
JoviCreamePuff: "No suicides!"
Darkest Prison: "heh, I just realized how many religions are formed on the basis of 'join us or this bad shit will happen to you' threats, heh"
ranzunar: "Just don't get killed in the meantime, we'll help but no promises"
BardicLasher: "Not suicide. Omnicide. Say it with me. Omnicide.
BardicLasher: "Omnicide."
BardicLasher: "Omnicide."
JoviCreamePuff: "Om-ni-cide. Omnicide."
BardicLasher: "Mahogany."
BardicLasher: "Omnicide."
JoviCreamePuff: "Mahogowhat?"
Darkest Prison: "Deicide."
JoviCreamePuff: "Decide wh... Oh, that little I thing. Deucide?"
Darkest Prison: "...can we trust her?"
BardicLasher: "Look, the point is, violence," Charir said. "And we have a heading! It's..." A glance around, trying to figure out which way is the heading.
BardicLasher: "Can you trust me?"
Darkest Prison: "That's a good question."
BardicLasher: "And I assure you the answer is the same."
Darkest Prison: "You're not a good salesman."
JoviCreamePuff: She nodded her head enthusiastically.
BardicLasher: "Sure I am. I'm just the type of salesman who's out of town before you test the product."
BardicLasher: "Remember that guy I sold the cursed axe of killing your own children to? Good times."
Darkest Prison: (lol)
JoviCreamePuff: "Ooh, that must have been hilarious!"
ranzunar: "There are certainly worse people to get to join our cause, might as well give her a try"
Darkest Prison: "...Fine. we'll see."
JoviCreamePuff: "Besides, the best help you'll get that's not be is..." she looked around, scoffing. "SOme kind of.. fuckin' fairy or something."
Darkest Prison: "Where the fuck did Rouge go, anyway?"
ranzunar: "Somewhere else and I don't care?"
Darkest Prison: "Unless Hypnogogia answered my prayers and had her killed. Preferably in an ironic fashion. "
BardicLasher: "I blame that thing," Charir said, poitning to a triceratops.
JoviCreamePuff: Off in the distance.... T-rex: Urp.
Darkest Prison: (triceratops only PK if you try and move them out of the way)
BardicLasher: ((Call him on it IC. Please.))
Darkest Prison: (call him on what?)
BardicLasher: ((On blaming the triceratops. Duh.))
ranzunar: (They're CR12, no way I want to fight one of those)
Darkest Prison: "Triceratops only kill people that are stupid enough to try and get past them."
JoviCreamePuff: "So why would this Rouge person want to get past a triceratops?" Annette asked, not looking where Charir was pointing.
BardicLasher: "What? No, the... You know what? Nevermind. You can't see it because there's a triceratops in the way."
Darkest Prison: (and god knows if youever DID try to get past one, it'd be a paragon hyper-intelligent phantasmal half-vampire Triceratops with advanced HD)
JoviCreamePuff: (Anthropomorphic)
Darkest Prison: (that too)
ranzunar: "Sometimes t's better if you just don't ask why and just keep going. So let's keep going."
Darkest Prison: ("It's too late, you've awaken the triceratops. It easts you.")
Darkest Prison: *eats
BardicLasher: "Right. To the temple that must be purified with the divine fire!"
BardicLasher: Charir's wings flared, and he pointed onward.
JoviCreamePuff: "...Okay." She said, shrugging, sliding her guitar to her front again. She flipped a switch on a box that was dangling from her belt, and started to strum, an electric hum filling the air.
Darkest Prison: "your fires are hardly divine..."
Darkest Prison: Onward!
Darkest Prison: In a few hours, you arrive at the harbor town of Teiran
ranzunar: "When did you grow wings Char?"
BardicLasher: "I've always had wings. What are you talking about?"
BardicLasher: ((Bluff 32. But you know by now to take everything Charir says with a grain of salt.))
Darkest Prison: It is a large town, mostly wooden buildings (*sigh*), all the main sources of inome tied to the seas
Darkest Prison: (in other words, +2 on sense motive check)
Darkest Prison: *20
JoviCreamePuff: "Yeah, he's had wings for as long as I've known him."
BardicLasher: ((Nah, cause it still doesn't tell you if he's telling the truth or lying.))
Darkest Prison: (agreed. but they know you're a habitual liar and thus have no reason to believe anything you say)
BardicLasher: "Well, this looks promising... Let's find that guy and get him to help us."
Darkest Prison: (so if there was a sense motive check, they'd get the full +20)
Darkest Prison: "...Where do we look?"
JoviCreamePuff: "The tavern. Duh."
Darkest Prison: It's about noon time
Darkest Prison: "Right. A great scholar is in the tavern. In the middle of the day."
JoviCreamePuff: "It's what... Noon? Mid-day rush, there's bound to be something in the tavern."
BardicLasher: "The library?"
JoviCreamePuff: "If it's not the scholar guy, it's someone who knows him."
ranzunar: "Somebody's got to know this guy? Maybe we should ask around"
JoviCreamePuff: "At the tavern."
Darkest Prison: "Whatever"
BardicLasher: "Let us ask around, yes... And then we'll either get him to help us willingly or we'll kidnap his next of kin."
JoviCreamePuff: She shrugged again, grinning as she started to play a jauntier tune on her guitar, adjusting some odd knobs and changing the sound from raching machinery to crisp vibrancy.
JoviCreamePuff: "Or I'll smooth him over with this."
JoviCreamePuff: Strrrruuummm...
BardicLasher: "Split up and search, meet back at the tavern at sundown for dinner?"
Darkest Prison: You enter the tavern. There's only a few people around, mostly drunkards plus the barkeep. Cause you know...it's NOON
JoviCreamePuff: "...This town sucks."
JoviCreamePuff: "There's not even a mid-day rush? Where the hell does everyone eat?"
ranzunar: (how does Dolo not have gather info?)
BardicLasher: "...At their homes, rassy."
JoviCreamePuff: "Nonsense."
Darkest Prison: "They usually go to the dockside inn to cook the day's catches, ma'am," the barkeep answers
Darkest Prison: (how does dolo not have gather info?)
JoviCreamePuff: "Ah-ha! So we're at the wrong tavern, then... But you have all the business at nightfall?"
Darkest Prison: "Yeah, I suppose. The inn's not a tavern, though"
JoviCreamePuff: "If the inn doesn't have a bar on the first floor, it's not an Inn. Maybe a halfway house."
Darkest Prison: "Just has a nice outdoor grilling area people like to use for their own fish."
JoviCreamePuff: "...Open grill? I want a fish."
Darkest Prison: "If you want a drink,you can just get one here."
JoviCreamePuff: "No, I want a fish."
ranzunar: "I'll check the docks to see if we can get some transportation, We'll meet back up later"
JoviCreamePuff: "I'm heading to the docks, too. I want fish."
BardicLasher: "And I'm going to ask around about... We're looking for the smartest man in town, right?"
Darkest Prison: "Heh heh, good luck, miss."
Darkest Prison: "Yeah."
JoviCreamePuff: "I hope so! I'm hungry. And maybe I can attract a crowd down there, find some answers.."
BardicLasher: "Then I'm off," Charir said, and he slipped away into town to start questioning random people.
BardicLasher: ((Why does beguiling influence NOT give +6 Gather Info?
Darkest Prison: "Folks around here haven't been in a sharing mood lately."
JoviCreamePuff: "I'm almost certain I can change their minds." She said, smiling brightly as she headed off.
Darkest Prison: (i don't know. I just love that a high cha party has no one with even a +5 gather info)
ranzunar: "Wait, who with the what now?"
ranzunar: (I technically have +7 total)
Darkest Prison: (wow, impressive)
JoviCreamePuff: (Hey, I have gather info +5. Untrained.)
BardicLasher: ((I have a +5 Gather Info...
BardicLasher: ((Untrained
Darkest Prison: (I have +4, with no ranks OR cha bonus :-P)
JoviCreamePuff: ((that means we have a 75% chance of giving Dolo +9))
BardicLasher: ((How do you pull that off?
Darkest Prison: (Knack)
Darkest Prison: (4 fake ranks)
BardicLasher: ((Ah.))
JoviCreamePuff: ((I really want to like Knack, but I've never found it to be useful)
BardicLasher: ((So yes, let's all roll aid another for Dolo!))
Darkest Prison: (Dais has used it plenty)
OnlineHost: Darkest Prison rolled 1 20-sided die: 11
OnlineHost: BardicLasher rolled 1 20-sided die: 11
OnlineHost: JoviCreamePuff rolled 1 20-sided die: 7
Darkest Prison: (Dais aids)
BardicLasher: ((+2 from me.
JoviCreamePuff: (So does Annette))
JoviCreamePuff: (So +6 to dolo!)
ranzunar: (Wait, does this mean we can sell loot here and finally get our gold to normal)
BardicLasher: ((So he gets +6 on his +7, roll your +13 gather info!
Darkest Prison: (assuming you're all traveling with him)
BardicLasher: ((I think we can!
Darkest Prison: (which is NOt what you claimed)
ranzunar: (let's see what I roll)
JoviCreamePuff: ((Think of it as a montage))
OnlineHost: ranzunar rolled 1 20-sided die: 16
BardicLasher: ((We split up and search and tell Dolo if we find anyone interesting, and then let HIM talk to them. **nod-nod**
ranzunar: well 23 with no aid, 29 if aided)
JoviCreamePuff: ((And Annette is going to draw an impromptu crowd to herself at the fish-grill)
Darkest Prison: (one sec on that)
Darkest Prison: Dolo is bounced around between various people who want to be helpful but don't know shit
Darkest Prison: Finally, he's just told ot go to the university, u on the cliff overlooking the harbor
Darkest Prison: *up
ranzunar: (then that's where we go, if anyone is coming with me)
Darkest Prison: At the dockside inn, people are enjoying their grilled filets, the air filled with a sweet aroma, assuming you like the smell of fish. If not, this is probably like hell for you
BardicLasher: To the university with a bunch of us!
JoviCreamePuff: Today, annette loves fish. She's not leaving until she gets some fish.
Darkest Prison: (what is annette doing?)
JoviCreamePuff: "Excuse me! Would anyone mind sharing their fish?"
Darkest Prison: They all just ignore her
JoviCreamePuff: "Gold piece for a fish?"
Darkest Prison: At the university, you are able ot find a few people studing in one room
Darkest Prison: One man pipes up, "not for sale!"
BardicLasher: Charir brought plenty of dried meat in his pack from his... earlier kill... And is much happier with that than fish.
JoviCreamePuff: "Not for sale? But everything can be for sale! ...What if I was suitably impressive?"
Darkest Prison: "It doesn't matter. We can't surive without food."
Darkest Prison: "And fish ain't so plentiful any more."
BardicLasher: Charir calmly walks up to the men. "Excuse me, we're looking for a scholar, a very learned man we were told would be around here."
Darkest Prison: Several of the others nod, then go back to their own conversations and bickering
JoviCreamePuff: "Oh come one... Just one fish? I promise to entertain the lot of you for just one fish."
JoviCreamePuff: "Perhaps make your day a little brighter?"
ranzunar: (Dolo starts asking about mysterious places of interest in the area, hoping the conversation will lead to the island temple, and figure stuff about that until, the smart guy comes into play)
Darkest Prison: "Well, there are many learned men here. What area of specialty are you concerned with?"
Darkest Prison: "No. Gods know if we'll be able to fish again tomorrow at all. We need to keep stock of what we can."
BardicLasher: "Theology."
Darkest Prison: "...An island? Off our coast? Hahaha! there's only one island within so much as a week's ship travel from here. And there is nothing on it."
Darkest Prison: "Really, such foolishness. You sound like that pathetic fool, thomas."
ranzunar: "Thomas?"
Darkest Prison: The other scholars all laugh.
JoviCreamePuff: "...That's just horribly depressing. You're not even trying to heckle me into a performance. If food was so bad, you'd be branching out into that fertile forest we just walked here from."
Darkest Prison: "Yes, we like to think of him as the village idiot. well, he's not actually brain-dead. He just wastes his talents on rubish."
ranzunar: "What do you mean?"
BardicLasher: "Then it sounds like he's the one we need to talk to."
BardicLasher: "Where can we find this Thomas?"
Darkest Prison: "we're a village of fishers, we're not too good at hunting, and we have done that."
Darkest Prison: "It's not enough."
Darkest Prison: "i mean, he spouts the most absurd and outlandish ideas! he was laughed out of the school! Not to mention how pathetical fearful he is."
JoviCreamePuff: "Then you need to be better hunters. Or like, trade. Which gold helps, funnily enough... Oh well. The fish probably sucks anyway." Highly disappointed, Annette strolled off, grumbling under her breath as she played her guitar irately, noisily, and still skillfully, heading towards the college.
Darkest Prison: "No matter what his little conspiracy theory, it all ends with whatever it is being out to get him."
Darkest Prison: He looks to Charir, "He hoels up in a shed at the east edge of town."
ranzunar: "What conspiracy theory?"
BardicLasher: "Excellent," Charir said. "To the east edge of town!" And he promptly opened the window and flew out.
Darkest Prison: "I don't even know. Countless."
Darkest Prison: "...your friend seems to have jumped out of the window."
BardicLasher: "This way, rassy!" he said, landing by her and starting east. "We have a lead!"
JoviCreamePuff: "Oh! Hurray! I hope he has fish, the villagers are dumb."
ranzunar: "Thanks for the help gentlemen"
Darkest Prison: Dais heads out as well.
Darkest Prison: surely enough, there is a beat up old shed at the edge of town, between the otherwise regular looking single family houses
JoviCreamePuff: "...Kind of a dump." She remarked, watching it curiously, strumming lightly on her guitar.
BardicLasher: "Why are they dumb?" Charir asked, heading to the shed.
ranzunar: "I hope he's the helpful kind of eccentric genius"
JoviCreamePuff: "They wouldn't give me any fish. I offered to play and pay, even!"
Darkest Prison: "I thought dumb just came with being a villager"
JoviCreamePuff: "Some crap about "there's no fish anymore" and "we can't hunt.""
Darkest Prison: "There's no fish?"
BardicLasher: "Ahem... allow me..." Charir prepared to cast a spell and knocked on the door.
Darkest Prison: No one answers
BardicLasher: Charir knocked louder.
ranzunar: "A port town with no fish can be an ill omen"
BardicLasher: If no one responds there, helooked around for a window.
JoviCreamePuff: "They said they'd be lucky if they could fish tomorrow."
JoviCreamePuff: "I said they should hunt or trade."
Darkest Prison: There were no windows
JoviCreamePuff: "What's this guy's name?"
Darkest Prison: Only the front door
Darkest Prison: "Thomas."
BardicLasher: Charir cleared his throat. "Thomas! In accordance with the prophecy, the chosen ones request to speak with you!"
Darkest Prison: No reply
JoviCreamePuff: "Hey, I was gonna do that.."
ranzunar: "I come here looking for the genius Thomas!"
BardicLasher: "He might not be home..."
Darkest Prison: Let me make this simple: no matter how many times you call out, no reply
BardicLasher: Charir attempts to open the door, see if it's locked or stuck
ranzunar: "I bet those fools at the university will finally rue the day they mocked your intelligence with the findings you are about to discover"
JoviCreamePuff: "...Why don't we just go inside?"
Darkest Prison: It is not locked or stuck
BardicLasher: Charir opens the door.
Darkest Prison: (reflex save)
OnlineHost: BardicLasher rolled 1 20-sided die: 16
BardicLasher: 22
OnlineHost: Darkest Prison rolled 5 6-sided dice: 1 1 3 1 1
BardicLasher: 27 if it's fire.
Darkest Prison: (acid spray. you take half, so only 4)
BardicLasher: "Ow!" Charir declared, and he spat a lightning bolt at the door.
Darkest Prison: The door is lightning'd. Was going to open, regardless
Darkest Prison: Inside, it is a single room. there is a mattress, a dingy "dining area", and a hole in the wall, presumably to pee out of
ranzunar: "Okay, guy who has conspiracy theories is probably paranoid, that explains one trap, maybe more"
Darkest Prison: The room is a mess, crap laying about everywhere
BardicLasher: And nobody in here?
Darkest Prison: None that you can see
Darkest Prison: (listen checks)
OnlineHost: Darkest Prison rolled 1 20-sided die: 4
OnlineHost: ranzunar rolled 1 20-sided die: 13
OnlineHost: BardicLasher rolled 1 20-sided die: 3
OnlineHost: JoviCreamePuff rolled 1 20-sided die: 13
BardicLasher: 9
ranzunar: (15)
JoviCreamePuff: (15)
Darkest Prison: No one hears anything of note
JoviCreamePuff: "...What if he's being really really quiet?"
Darkest Prison: "We'd still see him, then?"
ranzunar: "Shouldn't dragon senses pick something up then Char?"
BardicLasher: "Clearly Thomas is dead or missing. Or behind the door. Are you behind the door, Thomas?"
Darkest Prison: (what are the limits on your blindsense? like what material blocks it?)
BardicLasher: Charir slammed the door into the wall, just in case Thomas was behind the door.
JoviCreamePuff: "Could be Invisible, maybe?"
Darkest Prison: Thomas wasnot behind the door
JoviCreamePuff: Annette fiddled with the box on her belt, looking around the room. ((Amplify, in the room))
BardicLasher: ((20 feet, blocked by anything that would block line of effect))
Darkest Prison: (does that make things louder or JUST make them audible for longer ranges?)
BardicLasher: ((Louder. Reduces all listen DCs by... 20, yes?
JoviCreamePuff: ((Lowers teh LIsten DC for the given space by 20)
Darkest Prison: (but is blocked by line of effect, I assume?)
JoviCreamePuff: (20ft radius emanation centered on creature, object, or point in space)
ranzunar: (suddenly remember Dolo using Amplify at another plot point, fun times)
Darkest Prison: (screwing the Pelor virgin?)
ranzunar: (exactly)
Darkest Prison: Amplify does nothing to help, in this circumstance
JoviCreamePuff: ((Someone fucked a pelor virgin?)
Darkest Prison: (Dolorito)
Darkest Prison: (and the whole neighborhood could hear)
JoviCreamePuff: "...Well, if he was making any noise, we should be hearing it..."
BardicLasher: "Well, maybe he should hear this..."
BardicLasher: "REEEEOOOOAAAAAARRRRR!"
OnlineHost: BardicLasher rolled 1 20-sided die: 1
JoviCreamePuff: (XD)
BardicLasher: ((Intimidate 27
Darkest Prison: (lol)
OnlineHost: Darkest Prison rolled 1 20-sided die: 4
Darkest Prison: (roll listen checks again)
OnlineHost: Darkest Prison rolled 1 20-sided die: 6
OnlineHost: ranzunar rolled 1 20-sided die: 17
OnlineHost: BardicLasher rolled 1 20-sided die: 16
BardicLasher: 22
ranzunar: (19)
OnlineHost: JoviCreamePuff rolled 1 20-sided die: 15
JoviCreamePuff: (17!)
ranzunar: wait 18
Darkest Prison: Charir can hear someone scream out in firght in response to that
Darkest Prison: *fright
BardicLasher: "Yeah, get your ass out here already! We need to talk to you!"
Darkest Prison: He doesn't show himself
BardicLasher: "Alternatively, we burn this place to the ground. You have thirteen seconds to comply. Twelve. Eleven. Nine. Eight..."
ranzunar: "Come on, I bet you like what we're going to offer you"
JoviCreamePuff: "And even if you didn't, it's better than being burned alive."
Darkest Prison: "charir...if we burn it to the ground, we'll attract attention and probably get arrested..."
ranzunar: "Hypnogogia does like volunteers to help in his cause"
BardicLasher: Facepalm at Dais' comment.
BardicLasher: Charir gestured Dais over to the side to whisper to him.
JoviCreamePuff: "...Man, what kind of people are you hanging out with, Charir?"
Darkest Prison: "Hypnogogia?"
BardicLasher: "...Look, though you're entirely right, he doesn't need to know that, and it really undermines the whole trying to threaten him thing if you suggest I shouldn't carry out the threat."
BardicLasher: "Bad Dais. No soup for you."
ranzunar: "I knew that would catch your interest, come out and we'll explain everything"
Darkest Prison: "Sorry. I'm just so used to correcting your idiocy in a high volume..."
Darkest Prison: "So what? You know his name. You could still just be trying to get me."
Darkest Prison: "Or maybe anyone who knows his name really is crazy. Why would i exposem yself to crazy people?"
Darkest Prison: *expose myself
BardicLasher: Charir laughed at the man. "Because sanity is relative. The winner's write the history books, and the ones with power determine the truth."
JoviCreamePuff: "...'I'm not neurotic! I'm too busy washing my hands!'" Annette quiped.
BardicLasher: "Am I sane? Am I crazy? What matters is this. If someone questions me, they burn in agony, and thus reality is what I say it is."
Darkest Prison: "I don't believe you! You were hired to kill me, weren't you?!"
ranzunar: "Because only true believers eould carry his symbol, Dais show him"
BardicLasher: Charir took a slow, deep breath.
Darkest Prison: (the voice is clearly coming from below the floor)
Darkest Prison: "I will show him, if he comes out."
BardicLasher: "YOU WILL SIT DOWN AND LISTEN TO THESE PEOPLE SPEAK OR BY ALL THAT IS UNHOLY I WILL BURN YOU WITH SUCH FLAMES THAT YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY TREE WILL BECOME CHARCOAL!"
Darkest Prison: (seriously? not one erson thought to make a search check? *sad*)
OnlineHost: BardicLasher rolled 1 20-sided die: 15
ranzunar: looking down "Clever man, I expect nothing less from the one man tat could help us"
BardicLasher: 41 intimidate.
Darkest Prison: He's intimidated. More reason to stay hidden
ranzunar: (I was gonna search, but I leave that to poeple with ranks)
JoviCreamePuff: ((Actually, he slides closer to "Helpful")
BardicLasher: "Now, you will listen to what my friend has to say, and you will like it." A gesture to Dolo. "You have the floor."
Darkest Prison: "Gah! So you ARe out to get me! *stuttering with fear* I...I knew...it!"
ranzunar: "Damn it Char, stop scaring the one person that cloaked dream figure says can decipher the temple in that island"
Darkest Prison: (no, sometimes intimidating someone is just a bad idea, jovi)
Darkest Prison: (he's now effectively cowering in his hiding spot, thanks to Charir)
BardicLasher: ((Which means he's listening.))
Darkest Prison: "Wh...what island?"
ranzunar: "Let's start again. Hello Thomas, my name is Dolorito"
JoviCreamePuff: Annette rolled her eyes, plopping herself down on a stool, her guitar sliding into her lap as she started to play to herse;f.
Darkest Prison: "How do you know my name?"
ranzunar: "They say that an island to the north is desolate, but you think differently and I believe you"
Darkest Prison: "Yeah, they're idiots. There's anancient temple there, underneath the overgrowth."
ranzunar: "a dream led us to you, that temple is the key to our travels"
Darkest Prison: "But they don't believe me. Just because theycouldn't find any trace of it! bah!"
Darkest Prison: "I see...so you know it exists. Congratualtions, and have a safe journey. Goodbye."
ranzunar: "Then let me help you prove them wrong and you can get the respect you deserve"
Darkest Prison: "I don't care about respect. Respect means being in the spot light. All the easier to becoem a target that way"
ranzunar: "That ancient temple probably has things that no one can decipher, except you"
Darkest Prison: "It also probably has lots of traps and dangers. I'm not going there, no way!"
ranzunar: "an intellectual challenge of sorts, let's see if you can outsmart the ancient civilization that first built that temple"
Darkest Prison: *Groan* You have amazing patience, Dolo...
Darkest Prison: "Why do you keep trying to bait me with things like glory and prestige and stuff?"
ranzunar: "Curiosity and knowledge have a price, we'll help you pay that price, protect you and whatnot"
Darkest Prison: "I'd rather live a coawrd than die a hero."
Darkest Prison: *coward
BardicLasher: "Then we go with this offer instead...
BardicLasher: "Die a coward, or live a whatever the fuck we tell you to live as. My patience is wearing thin..."
ranzunar: "Then you're already dead if my friend has any say in this"
JoviCreamePuff: "Didn't he pipe up when you started talking about hypnoghonorria or whatever?"
Darkest Prison: "Don't you dare blasphemy the lord's name like that!"
ranzunar: "I like to take my cryptic dreams seriously, especially when they deal with Hypnogogia"
Darkest Prison: *draws hsi sword*
JoviCreamePuff: "Well I don't know how to pronounce it. DId I get part of it right?"
ranzunar: "Seriously, not cool Annette"
JoviCreamePuff: "What? I've heard the name, like.. once. Hypno what?"
Darkest Prison: "...Hyp....no...GO....GEE...AH...." *fuming*
JoviCreamePuff: "Go-gee-ah. Hypnogogia. Got it!"
JoviCreamePuff: Strrruummm
Darkest Prison: "fine....fine...."
Darkest Prison: "you know what, I'll take your offer."
Darkest Prison: "I help you with the temple, you protect me?"
ranzunar: "As long as you do your best to stay alive, we'll agree"
Darkest Prison: "I guarantee you, I'll do whatever it takes to live, even if it means abandoning you to die."
Darkest Prison: *laughing*
JoviCreamePuff: "Least he's honest."
ranzunar: "You do realize we'll find and make you help us then right"
BardicLasher: "Honest, clever, and a complete coward. I wonder if he has a sister."
Darkest Prison: "Well, if we're dead, we can't..."
JoviCreamePuff: "What you were expecting? He just promised to do everything he can to stay alive."
BardicLasher: "Alright, Tommy, now get your ass out here."
JoviCreamePuff: "...Do you have a sister?"
Darkest Prison: *you hear a mechanism being turned under the floor* "Just disabling the trap...hold on....And maybe"
Darkest Prison: "i mean, everyone says I don't have any siblings, but I've had this strange scar since birth, and you know what they say about evil twins?"
BardicLasher: "...That would be a guy, then. Damnit."
BardicLasher: "Wait, depends on where the scar is."
JoviCreamePuff: ((Bardic knowledge? Or is this a gag?)
Darkest Prison: "The idea I might have some vengeful twin sibling out there, conspiring to kill me for being abandoned...it's terrifying!"
ranzunar: "not all twins are identical"
Darkest Prison: (can be fraternal twins, and ossibly a sister)
Darkest Prison: (or not, I'm no expert ooc)
BardicLasher: "Right, righ, but he said scar and I assumed..." Charir pointed a finger to his hip and drew a line up to his underarm.
JoviCreamePuff: "Honest, clever, a complete coward, and nuts."
BardicLasher: "Because that's a surefire sign of an evilt win."
BardicLasher: *evil twin
Darkest Prison: A trap door in the floor beneath one of the junk piles opens up, and he crawls out of it
ranzunar: "Come on Thomas, this island is apperently far away and we need to get some transportation"
Darkest Prison: Thomas is a dwarf man, middel aged, roughly 4 feet tall. He is thin and sickly looking, and pale evne for a dwarf
BardicLasher: "And Annie needs some fish.""
Darkest Prison: He has no facial hair
BardicLasher: "...You are the strangest looking gnome I've ever seen.""
JoviCreamePuff: "Do you have any fish, Thomaaa dwarf with no hair?"
Darkest Prison: "Transportation? Well, there's only one ship that goes out that far."
BardicLasher: "...Do you even listen to yourself, 'nette? Dwarves don't have no hair."
Darkest Prison: (he has hair on his head)
JoviCreamePuff: "No, I mean, the.." Her fingers made beard shapes as she stroked the air around her chin. "The's all dwarf shaped... Kinda emaciated, but he's totally a dwarf."
Darkest Prison: "They charge a lot now, though, on account of hiring security to protect against all the pirate raids"
JoviCreamePuff: "Oh, well, that's an easy in, then."
ranzunar: "Gods, I hate pirates"
BardicLasher: "We get to be pirates?"
JoviCreamePuff: "We get to be anti pirates."
Darkest Prison: "No, I don't have fish. Blech, how could you eat a creature that cavorts aroudn in a sea of its own urine?"
JoviCreamePuff: "How can you breath the air filled with an unlimited number of humanoid farts?"
BardicLasher: "How can you breathe the same air that pe-...
BardicLasher: Charir promptly gives Annette a hug.
JoviCreamePuff: Annette held up a hand to Charir.
JoviCreamePuff: Or that works.
Darkest Prison: "Simple. I have this here magic talisman" *points to a wooden amulet* "It purifies the air around me."
JoviCreamePuff: "How do you know it works?"
Darkest Prison: "if it didn't how would i survive from breathing in the air?"
BardicLasher: "I don't have one of those, and I'm not dead."
JoviCreamePuff: "...Ew. Come to think of it, actually, the proof is in the pudding." She sniffed a little, looking around the place. "This place stinks."
Darkest Prison: "And yet, I'm fine!"
BardicLasher: "...I could go for some pudding."
JoviCreamePuff: Annette looked at Thomas. Detect Magic.
Darkest Prison: (the talisman is not magical)
JoviCreamePuff: "...That talisman isn't even magical."
JoviCreamePuff: "Is it an air freshener?"
Darkest Prison: "Har har har, it fooled ye, didn't it?"
JoviCreamePuff: "What?"
Darkest Prison: "It's got a permanent nystul's magic aura on it."
Darkest Prison: "So of course it didn't read as magic for your little spell."
BardicLasher: "...Riiight.
ranzunar: "Wouldn't the fake aura, have magical traces?"
BardicLasher: "Let's get out asses in gear, get some fish, and get to the docks."
Darkest Prison: "Agreed."
Darkest Prison: "Wait. Our bargain."
JoviCreamePuff: "...That would cost at least two-grand."
JoviCreamePuff: "And... You don't have any money."
Darkest Prison: "you said you'd protect me if I agreed to help you. That was the terms of our deal."
BardicLasher: "Yes. So let's go."
Darkest Prison: "Protect me, damnit!"
ranzunar: "Exactly, stay close when necessary"
BardicLasher: "From?"
ranzunar: "Char, won't kill you, promise"
Darkest Prison: "Hired goons! I had to borrow some money to pay the bills, and the interest rate of 200% was more than i expected..."
BardicLasher: Charir spread his wings and raised them, blocking out the light. "Look, Thomas... I don't want to deal with this shit, so here's how it works... If you see something scarier than me,, point at it, and we'll kill it. Otherwise,
Darkest Prison: "...Did he just dupe us into taking care of a loan shark?"
BardicLasher: just assume that nothing's coming close to you as long as you're with us."
ranzunar: "Then it's a good thing we're skipping town"
Darkest Prison: "It'd be nice to be able to come back to town..."
BardicLasher: "If they want to take it up with us, they can, but we're leaving. Come on, Tommy. We can deal with them later."
JoviCreamePuff: "We can kill them when we get back. Aren't we in a hurry?"
ranzunar: "Wait I have an idea. A dsguise for you"
BardicLasher: "Tell you what, Tommy? If you do a really good job, then once we're done, we'll make sure nobody in this town will ever try and hurt you ever again."
Darkest Prison: Thomas follows if you leave, rather than be left alone
Darkest Prison: "...Ok..."
OnlineHost: ranzunar rolled 1 20-sided die: 8
Darkest Prison: "Dolo...'
ranzunar: (not sure how putting a disguise on other people work)
Darkest Prison: "No visual disguise is going to fool people from thinking it's him the way he shakes and speaks in a panick."
JoviCreamePuff: "Put a beard on him."
ranzunar: "then he'll have to start taking acting classes"
JoviCreamePuff: "It'll make a HUGE difference."
Darkest Prison: "What?! I am NOT wearing a beard!"
JoviCreamePuff: "What's more important? Loansharks jumping us as we try to leave, or you wearing a beard?"
BardicLasher: "If anyone fucks with us, we'll kill them. Let's go." Charir starts off. "You still want fish before we exit town, yes rassy?"
JoviCreamePuff: "Yes please!"
Darkest Prison: "I shaved it off and pick my clothing very carefully, so I have nothing extending or hanging too far out that could get caught in a piece of machinery and get me killed."
Darkest Prison: "A beard is dangerous!"
JoviCreamePuff: "Ugh, fine, whatever. Just shut up and let's go."
Darkest Prison: "Fish would be nice."
JoviCreamePuff: "I couldn't talk anyone out of a fish. They're all stingy and mean."
Darkest Prison: (I'm really liking RPing thomas.)
JoviCreamePuff: (WHy are all your dwarves orange?))
BardicLasher: "I'm better at talking to people."
Darkest Prison: (Iwas going to have his text be yellow, to match the stripe down his back, but I didn't want to blind you)
BardicLasher: "Dolo, secure us a ride. I'll be with you as soon as I have aquired fish."
BardicLasher: And Charir made his way to aquire FISH, going to find peoples at the place with the fish.
JoviCreamePuff: Annette glommed onto Charir's arm, nuzzling.
Darkest Prison: You arrive at the dockside inn. It is now afternoon
ranzunar: "I'll see what I can find and negotiate. I'll meet you guys back at the tavern or something"
Darkest Prison: "wait! what about me?"
BardicLasher: "You follow me!"
ranzunar: "you're coming with one of us, choose wisely"
Darkest Prison: "But that guy agreed to protect me, too! He has to come."
BardicLasher: Charir starts looking, and sniffing, to find fish.
Darkest Prison: "Look, Charir may be functionally retarded and a pyromaniac, but he's an idiot savant when it comes to killing people. you're safe with him."
ranzunar: "look i'm going this way. do you want to follow nice buddyguard or the scary one"
JoviCreamePuff: "That's right, all those big words."
BardicLasher: ((Buddyguard!
JoviCreamePuff: (Who's your buddy!)
Darkest Prison: "Ok...I'll stay with charir..." "great! I'll go with Dolo."
Darkest Prison: *under his breath* Have fun with the albatross
ranzunar: (that would explain why those "trained buddyguard classes were so cheap and the certificate was made in crayon"
Darkest Prison: (heh heh, buddyguard)
BardicLasher: And Charir is heads to the inn to see if anyone has fish.
Darkest Prison: They do, but are not willing to trade or sell them
Darkest Prison: They claim the risk of pirate attack means they must hoarde all the fish they can
BardicLasher: "Will you trade fish for other forms of nourishment?" Charir asked.
Darkest Prison: "Hmmm....what other form of nourishment?"
BardicLasher: Charir pulled out some salted, dried meat from his pack. "This stuff. It's good."
Darkest Prison: "...Trail rations?"
Darkest Prison: "I'll stick with my fresh fish."
Darkest Prison: Another man pipes up, "If you had any fresh meat, or maybe some foraged berries, I'd trade ya."
Darkest Prison: Thomas is holding is nose, and looks ill
Darkest Prison: "Ech, this horrible smell..."
BardicLasher: "Look," Charir said, holding up the meat, "What you have here is an opportunity to give up a bit of freshness in order to give up a lot of paranoia... I'm offering you twice the weight of the fish in this meat... Which I assure
Darkest Prison: He clutches onto charir. "I hate thsi place. No one area needs so many people with knives."
BardicLasher: you is delicious. I killed and salted it myself. Perhaps you'll like it less than fish, perhaps more... But it won't be fish every day, and you'll have a little extra to fall back on for a midnight snack."
OnlineHost: BardicLasher rolled 1 20-sided die: 15
BardicLasher: Diplomacy... 40?
Darkest Prison: The fishermen nearby laugh at crazy ol' Thomas
BardicLasher: 38
BardicLasher: Diplomacy 38
Darkest Prison: "Hmmm...fair enough, then. Good as fish is, it would benice to have soem variety."
Darkest Prison: (you can trade as much trail rations as you want for half the weight in fish)
BardicLasher: "Alright then," Charir said, and transaction complete, he gives some fish to Annette.
BardicLasher: (( **Hasn't been actually keeping track of weights of food because they so often hunt and whatnot... Charir's totally not trading 'trail rations' because he plans to burst into laughter later.))
JoviCreamePuff: "Eeeee!" SHe promptly hopped up and kissed his cheek a multitude of times, before taking her fish. "Fank'oo!" SHe said, around a mouthful of fish.
Darkest Prison: (...what creature are they eating?)
BardicLasher: ((Remember what happened in the last town they went to?))
JoviCreamePuff: (XD)
Darkest Prison: (umm...what was the last town, my memory's hazy)
JoviCreamePuff: ((The town with the festival))
Darkest Prison: (last one I recall is mandrake falls, before getting captured)
BardicLasher: ((I don't remember, but Charir split off from the party while they were doing stuff.))
JoviCreamePuff: ((Charir arranged with a pretty young girl to meet him outside of town when they had free time))
JoviCreamePuff: (When the party had free time*)
Darkest Prison: (oh that...)
JoviCreamePuff: (Gabe said "Yeha, whatever, I don't want to RP that")
BardicLasher: Charir then proceeded to go to catch up with Dais and Dolo.
Darkest Prison: (I thought he just fucked her and burned her to death)
ranzunar: (I thought they were eating copper dragon)
Darkest Prison: (unintentional cannibalism is funnier)
Darkest Prison: "Mmm...this is good, never tasted meat like this before."
BardicLasher: Charir calmly heads away, keeping a straight face. He'll possibly continue this little hilarity when they're done at the island.
BardicLasher: Back to the rest of the party!
Darkest Prison: (if you turned her into beef jerky, you really should have to make a cook check to see how well it came out)
Darkest Prison: (what is gabe doing?)
ranzunar: (finding a boat)
BardicLasher: ((Probably should have to, yes.))
BardicLasher: (( **rolls** ))
OnlineHost: BardicLasher rolled 1 20-sided die: 2
BardicLasher: ...
Darkest Prison: *rescinds compliment on taste*
BardicLasher: Charir cheats with Prestidigitation.
BardicLasher: **rolls CL
OnlineHost: BardicLasher rolled 1 20-sided die: 14
ranzunar: (must remember to inspire comeptence next time that hapens)
BardicLasher: 24
BardicLasher: Wait, 23
Darkest Prison: (prest is just a way to cook it. you still need skill to not over or undercook it, get the flavor out, etc...)
BardicLasher: No, prest is to flavor it.
BardicLasher: That's one of the things it can do. Flavor.
BardicLasher: It's probably overcooked but tasty anyway.
BardicLasher: Because Charir tends to cook the Charir method. AKA fire.
Darkest Prison: (fair enough. groups relying entirely on prest for cooking should expect cajun style)
BardicLasher: Okay then!
BardicLasher: Do we has boat yet?
Darkest Prison: Dolo discovers that yes, only one large ship is willing to adventure out that far, and at steep cost
ranzunar: (how steep?)
Darkest Prison: "50 gp each, to go out there."
ranzunar: (and how do we get back?)
Darkest Prison: "You expect us to go out to the middle of nowhere, wait there for you, and take you back. all while paying a band of mercenaries to rotect us from pirate attacks?"
Darkest Prison: (that's round trip)
JoviCreamePuff: (Why aren't we hiring on as protectors until we reach the island?)
Darkest Prison: "An extra 5 gp each per day you expect us to wait for you."
ranzunar: (when would they leave?)
BardicLasher: "We're our own damn merceneries."
BardicLasher: "How far out is it?"
Darkest Prison: (tomorrow, if you want)
Darkest Prison: "About four days ship travel, if the winds are fair."
JoviCreamePuff: (brb, gotta run to the kitchen))
ranzunar: (is that extra 5gp a day per person or for everybody)
BardicLasher: Charir nods. "Fifty each plus five per day of wait seems fair. But any loot from successfully defended pirate attacks is split among us after the costs of any damages the pirates did."
Darkest Prison: (per person)
Darkest Prison: "That sounds fair."
BardicLasher: "And what's room lodging?"
Darkest Prison: "Since the boat would be used just for you, you'd each be able to have you own cabin."
ranzunar: (once whole party and guest agree then we say yes and pay up)
Darkest Prison: "There are hammocks, no beds."
BardicLasher: "Alright. The private rooms was the important part."
ranzunar: (as someone who sleeps in hammocs regularly, they're not too bad)
Darkest Prison: (Unless the ship rocks too much, couldn't you fall out?)
Darkest Prison: "When do you want to leave?"
BardicLasher: "As soon as possible."
Darkest Prison: "tomorrow morning, then, aye?"
ranzunar: "Aye"
Darkest Prison: "It's bad enough you guys are having me go on a floating death trap. I'm not paying for it."
JoviCreamePuff: ((Bakc now!)
BardicLasher: "Would you rather be in a metal, spikey, superheated death trap?"
Darkest Prison: "Which reminds me, I guess for MANY reasons besides extra cost, Tony can't come..."
JoviCreamePuff: "Who's Tony?"
Darkest Prison: "I wasn't n one of those before."
Darkest Prison: "Oh crap! I left him in that pile of leaves!"
ranzunar: (can we get the onyx back for him)
Darkest Prison: (why?)
BardicLasher: ((BTW, can I do any shopping of note in this town?
Darkest Prison: (he's not gone. he's just backa few hours walk in some leaves)
ranzunar: (I thought he was following us and he was left in the outskirts of this town, like he always those)
Darkest Prison: (up to 4000 gp in individual items. upgrades are considered seperate)
Darkest Prison: (nah, Dais forgot about him :-) )
BardicLasher: ((Okay. I'ma buy a standard dagger now, and I'ma commission a pair of badass gauntlets to be ready upon our return.))
Darkest Prison: (techincally, I placed him under YOUR command...)
BardicLasher: ((Becausse you're not gonna let my buy gauntlets to my design specifications in one day))
Darkest Prison: That's fine. Gauntlets for when you come back
Darkest Prison: (are they magical? or just engraved or something?)
ranzunar: (I said "LET'S GO" let us and Tony is included in that)
Darkest Prison: (ok, ok. tony's outside of town)
Darkest Prison: "Tony is our tiger and mascot."
BardicLasher: ((I want spiked gauntlets engraved with a scale motif and with the spikes on the fingertips so they're effectively claws))
Darkest Prison: (ok...)
ranzunar: (are you even proficient in those?)
BardicLasher: ((I want them to look badass and I want to always threaten. It's that simple.))
Darkest Prison: (I think Races of Stone has a price for engraved armor, just use that)
BardicLasher: ((Yes, sorcs are proficient in spiked gauntlets))
BardicLasher: ((And I want them buil to give a +2 Circumstance bonus to intimidate checks
BardicLasher: ((Would that cost normal 50, or 75 because I'm combining two items into one slot?
Darkest Prison: (I don't think gloves are an appropriate tool to give an intimidate bonus)
BardicLasher: ((You don't think clwed gauntlets are intomidating?
Darkest Prison: (no more than spiked ones, no)
Darkest Prison: (or razor gauntlets)
BardicLasher: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/Vincent_Valentine_art.jpg
BardicLasher: ((This guy says different
Darkest Prison: (...by that logic, a massive, jagged, 2H sword is even more intimidating)
JoviCreamePuff: (Could be. No one puts the cost into it.)
BardicLasher: ((If you want to pay the extra to make it intimidating, sure?
ranzunar: (the gun seems far mre intimidating)
Darkest Prison: (lol)
Darkest Prison: (sorry. some things just don't have tools to give bonuses. and intimidate does....)
BardicLasher: ((Intimidate's normal tool is a dagger.))
Darkest Prison: (they're just torture implements you can't just use in the middle of combat)
BardicLasher: ((The dagger ALWAYS gives a bonus.))
Darkest Prison: (where does it say this?)
BardicLasher: ((I'll look, we can discuss the details of the gauntlets later
BardicLasher: ((What matter is my gauntlets are being commissioned
Darkest Prison: (ok)
Darkest Prison: "Ok, so where are we sleeping tonight?"
JoviCreamePuff: "The Inn. Duh?"
Darkest Prison: "I want at least two people on night watch while I'm asleep,"
JoviCreamePuff: "123notit."
Darkest Prison: "...We'll have to take shifts."
JoviCreamePuff: "123stillnotit."
BardicLasher: "Nah, Dais is a gnome. Like elves, they're fully awake whil asleep, so he's always watching. We'd only need one other."
OnlineHost: BardicLasher rolled 1 20-sided die: 1
BardicLasher: Bluff 20something
Darkest Prison: "We can't afford to spend much longer than 8 hours sjust because this coward wants two night guards...at an INN!"
BardicLasher: 23
Darkest Prison: (last post before the one i just made was Dais, sorry)
OnlineHost: Darkest Prison rolled 1 20-sided die: 7
Darkest Prison: "I don't believe you!"
BardicLasher: "Well, that's understandable. He's a whisper gnome. They look a lot like halflings, but I assure you, he /is/ a gnome."
ranzunar: (Damn it, I just realized that Rouge could have casted Lullaby like crazy on this guy)
JoviCreamePuff: ((She totally could have. XD)
Darkest Prison: "Look, two of us stay awak for 4 hours, then the othet two do, then fraidy cat can be awake on hisown for 4 hours while we get our beauty sleep."
JoviCreamePuff: "If I'm awake, I'm playing guitar. Just so you know."
Darkest Prison: "I know he's a whsiper gnome, clearly."
Darkest Prison: (I rolled know local, NOT sense motive.
)
ranzunar: "Well we do have our ethereal summoned guards"
Darkest Prison: "I vote to take watch with her"
ranzunar: (bluff check to see if the eternal and of unseen servant can help for this)
Darkest Prison: (it doesn't last long enough, does it?)
ranzunar: (an hour each)
Darkest Prison: "we can just take shifts"
JoviCreamePuff: "I don't care who takes watch with me, I'm playing guitar while I'm doing it."
BardicLasher: "That's fine. You know what songs I like, rassy..""
Darkest Prison: Dais turned to Thomas, "And during those last 4hours, when we're all sleeping, do NOt wake us up at the slightest disturbance!"
ranzunar: "seems fair"
Darkest Prison: "In fact...why don't you just hide yourself, and wait to see if any of use get killed. If we do, THEN scream for help."
Darkest Prison: "Aww...but I'd rather not see you die. Or you. Or you." He said, looking to Dais, Dolo, and Annette
BardicLasher: Charir promptly exhaled a line of weakeneing breath on the dwarf.
Darkest Prison: "gah! What'd you do?!"
JoviCreamePuff: "Made it easier for you to sleep tonight."
Darkest Prison: "Look, I have a skull watch spell. I'll place this skull outside our door."
BardicLasher: "Fucked with you. Now, I've a few quick errand to run, then we'll get some sleep for the night and be out in the morning. Okay? Okay."
Darkest Prison: "Ok. I still want two guards whiel i sleep." He casts an alarm spell on the room.
Darkest Prison: (what is charir doing?)
Darkest Prison: (and wow, going to end the session with basically just RP. and i really thought you'd choose to just kill some pirates and take their ship)
ranzunar: (oh there'll be time for that later)
JoviCreamePuff: ((I'm pretty sure no one here has Profession (Sailor)
BardicLasher: ((Buying the stuff I said OOC he was going to buy
Darkest Prison: (Dais has a +8 untrained)
JoviCreamePuff: (Dais does.)
Darkest Prison: (ok)
Darkest Prison: (half from the class feature you claim younever found a use for)
ranzunar: (and inspire competence during emergencies makes it +11)
JoviCreamePuff: ((Aggie has never used it over the 3 levels she's earned))
Darkest Prison: (Dais benefits from it several times a session. hell, mosto f his knowledges he only has a single rank to count as trained, and then rides the knack ranks for a moderate check bonus)
Darkest Prison: *most of
Darkest Prison: The night goes by uneventfully, because...it's an inn
JoviCreamePuff: Annette did, in fact, play guitar.
Darkest Prison: Even so, Thomas can be found huddled in a closet the next morning, petrified
BardicLasher: Aaand morning time, yay!
Darkest Prison: (and might as well end session for tonight, ship travel next week, then big dungeon)
.......
BardicLasher: ((Bracers of Murder might be cool for Dais. 8000 GP, +2 to attack and damage vs flatfooted foes, reroll 1s on SA)) Drow of the Underdark
Darkest Prison: (last I saw was "on a brance")
Darkest Prison: *branch
JoviCreamePuff: ((My post is all you missed)
Darkest Prison: Dais waits to take his shot
JoviCreamePuff: ((Spot checks? XD))
OnlineHost: BardicLasher rolled 1 20-sided die: 10
Darkest Prison: (roll if you want. or do you mean to see you?)
BardicLasher: ((Spot 16))
OnlineHost: Darkest Prison rolled 1 20-sided die: 15
JoviCreamePuff: ((I totally wouldn't see anybody)
JoviCreamePuff: ((I meant for recognition)
Darkest Prison: (30)
ranzunar: (Dolo not hiding)"Hmmm, good guitar, average singing, young woman. Could it be?"
OnlineHost: ranzunar rolled 1 20-sided die: 14
BardicLasher: Clearly, there's only one thing for Charir to do in this situation. He hurls himself forward, flies through the air, and pounces the girl. (Roll me a save vs fear)
BardicLasher: ((And I roll melee touch...
OnlineHost: BardicLasher rolled 1 20-sided die: 3
JoviCreamePuff: "Wuagh!"
Darkest Prison: The hell is he doing?
BardicLasher: Charir fails to touch flatfooted AC, and instead crashes into the ground beside her.
JoviCreamePuff: (You failed to touch 10?)
Darkest Prison: Oh well, if i fire into a grapple and hit him "by mistake," he can't get mad.
ranzunar: "Damn it Char, stop trying to burn/eat/hump every young woman we see"
Darkest Prison: (lol)
BardicLasher: ((Yes. I need to pick up Weapon Finesse next level))
JoviCreamePuff: (XD Oh wow)
Darkest Prison: (25 xp for gabe in a future game where i give bonus xp)
BardicLasher: "When done right, humping includes eating!"
ranzunar: (LOL)
BardicLasher: "Unless you're a very inconsiderate lover."
BardicLasher: ((Jovi, you need to roll will DC 18 or be shaken from almost being Charir pounced. :-P
OnlineHost: JoviCreamePuff rolled 1 20-sided die: 20
JoviCreamePuff: (She's immune))
JoviCreamePuff: "Get the hell off me you stupid monster!" The girl flailed, scrambling away from him, her guitar tucked against her side as she started to strum a power chord.. then paused, blinking.
BardicLasher: ((...I believe the only response on a will save of 20 is "Hi, Charir," Completely unfased))
JoviCreamePuff: "Oh."
Darkest Prison: (Or laughter)
ranzunar: "Forgive my friend, wait a second. Don't I know you?"
JoviCreamePuff: "...Oh! What the hell!? I've been looking for you for weeks and then you tackle me!?"
BardicLasher: "Hey, I may be stupid but... Wait... No... Yeah, that's about right." He rolled onto his back and looked up at her.
Darkest Prison: The hell are they talking about?
Darkest Prison: *casts SLA message*
Darkest Prison: Dolo, what's going on?
ranzunar: "You were with the Ashbringers weren't you"
ranzunar: to Dais: She may be an old friend of mine and Char's"
Darkest Prison: So, should I say hi, or stay here waiting to snipe just in case?
JoviCreamePuff: Up close, it's clear that suspicious glitters on her skin are actually pale green scales, lines of them dotting and outlining her cheekbones. "Were. Then they got all boring and stuffy and then I ran out of patience and burned down a library."
ranzunar: to Dais: wait for it, she's a hothead in more ways than one"
BardicLasher: "Remember boys and girls: If libraries didn't want to be on fire, they wouldn't be made of books!"
Darkest Prison: (what's it say about me if I consider burning down a library more vile than burning down an orphanage?)
BardicLasher: ((Yaphet would agree with you.))
Darkest Prison: Fine, I'll wait
JoviCreamePuff: "Which was kinda of hard, because I don't know any actual fire magic, ya know? I had to like... Work at it." She reached a hand down at Charir, frowning at him.
BardicLasher: ((It says you value eternal, immortal, preserved knowledge more than temporary, mortal, fleeting human life.))
ranzunar: "Yeah I remember you, you were with the strong arm part of the organization, I was with the diplomacy area about a year ago"
Darkest Prison: (that sounds about right)
BardicLasher: Charir reached his hand up to take Annette's... And tug. ((Annette, roll Str or dex!))
OnlineHost: BardicLasher rolled 1 20-sided die: 4
Darkest Prison: (fail to touch again? lol)
OnlineHost: JoviCreamePuff rolled 1 20-sided die: 13
JoviCreamePuff: (Dex 17)
BardicLasher: ((No. She clearly let him touch
BardicLasher: Charir clearly fails to pull her off her feet... And just winds up getting up.
JoviCreamePuff: "Stop that." She said, and after slinging her guitar behind her back, she promptly threw her arms around his middle and squeezed.
ranzunar: "Charir, haven't you worked with her before?"
BardicLasher: HUGS! Charir hugs her tight. "Course! YOu remember Annette, don't you? She wrote that song about the puppies that ended with them eating that guy?"
JoviCreamePuff: "Bitting the feeding hand!" She sang, a single refrain that ought to have conjured half a dozen horrible memories. She giggle,d nuzzling her face into Charir's chest.
ranzunar: "Funny twist indeed, I'm Dolo and you must remember Charir. We used to be with the Ashbringers too until something more interesting and fulfilling came along"
Darkest Prison: Unless she smeared contact poison on her cheeks, I'm pretty sure it's safe to come out
JoviCreamePuff: (XD)
BardicLasher: "We're going to destroy the world! Mwa ha ha ha ha ah ha ha ha ha HA HA HA HA HA!"
Darkest Prison: *throws a rock at charir's head*
JoviCreamePuff: "Of course I remember you, Dolo! ...Sorta! I think. But Charir's the whole reason I'm out here.. .You left wit-... HA HA HA HA HAAAA! -without even telling me!?"
OnlineHost: Darkest Prison rolled 1 20-sided die: 16
Darkest Prison: (-4 for nonlethal, that's...)
Darkest Prison: (21)
Darkest Prison: (flatfooted)
BardicLasher: Totally hits.
OnlineHost: Darkest Prison rolled 1 2-sided die: 2
OnlineHost: Darkest Prison rolled 4 6-sided dice: 3 6 2 4
Darkest Prison: (15 nonlethal damage)
BardicLasher: "OW! Hey! It's not my fault your lungs have one fourth the capacity of mine and thus can't grant you a full, deep, echoing laugh!"
Darkest Prison: "Idiot!"
JoviCreamePuff: "Your face is an idiot!"
JoviCreamePuff: "...Who are you?"
BardicLasher: "He's the guy who actaully knows how to do the thing we're doing."
Darkest Prison: "Dais. Who are you?"
JoviCreamePuff: "Annette! Nice to meet you, dayus."
ranzunar: "A friend that has pointed me me in the right way towards something more important"
JoviCreamePuff: (Upload finished)
Darkest Prison: "...DAY-ISS. Is that so ard to pronounce?"
Darkest Prison: (download finished)
JoviCreamePuff: "I said that."
Darkest Prison: "you said -us"
JoviCreamePuff: "No, I said -is. Dayus."
ranzunar: "Let's leave the phonology for later, what are you up to Annete?"
JoviCreamePuff: "Looking for Charir. He just up and left without so much as an evil guffaw!"
JoviCreamePuff: ((need to feed cats, brb))
Darkest Prison: "That's not like him. I'd expect he'd at least leave something on fire as he left."
BardicLasher: "I could've sworn I left a well thought out arson as my two weeks notice..."
Darkest Prison: (called it!)
ranzunar: "I remember leaving well thought out letter explaining my reasons for leaving. And threatening to kill a bunch of people should they ever cross my path again wanting to hurt me. Or something to that extent"
Darkest Prison: (it was an intimidate check in writing!)
BardicLasher: "...Yeah, that might've gotten consumed in the blaze."
Darkest Prison: "So the whole gang's back together now. Yippe."
BardicLasher: "But I really loved how you dotted your 'i's with little skulls."
ranzunar: (the first two paragraphs were a diplomacy check)
BardicLasher: "And that drawing of Leon's head shoved up his own anus? Priceless."
Darkest Prison: "even I'm not that flexible"
BardicLasher: "Neither was Leon."
JoviCreamePuff: ((Back!))
Darkest Prison: "Look, we need to get to town and seek out that scholar guy. So hurry up and say your goodbyes."
JoviCreamePuff: Annette was giggling, the sound delighted and malicious.
JoviCreamePuff: "...Goodbyes? Fuck that, I'm coming with."
Darkest Prison: "it was nice to meet you, ...Omlette."
Darkest Prison: "...What?"
JoviCreamePuff: "I'm coming with. What, can't you hear?"
Darkest Prison: "We're embarking on a religious pilgrammage. It's not a'more the merrier' kind of thing."
ranzunar: "Well, it is easier to travel with one or two more people, especially with all the people that try to kill us normally"
JoviCreamePuff: "Charir says your going to blow up the world. That true?"
Darkest Prison: (you just want your AC bonus, lol)
Darkest Prison: "...Not necessarily blow it up. But I guess so."
ranzunar: (Tony counts for that normally so not really)
BardicLasher: "In accordance with the prophecy."
Darkest Prison: (right)
JoviCreamePuff: "So why would I NOT want to be there? I don't wanna be blown up."
JoviCreamePuff: "...Or is this one of those suicidal things/"
JoviCreamePuff: "Bad charir!"
JoviCreamePuff: "No suicides!"
Darkest Prison: "heh, I just realized how many religions are formed on the basis of 'join us or this bad shit will happen to you' threats, heh"
ranzunar: "Just don't get killed in the meantime, we'll help but no promises"
BardicLasher: "Not suicide. Omnicide. Say it with me. Omnicide.
BardicLasher: "Omnicide."
BardicLasher: "Omnicide."
JoviCreamePuff: "Om-ni-cide. Omnicide."
BardicLasher: "Mahogany."
BardicLasher: "Omnicide."
JoviCreamePuff: "Mahogowhat?"
Darkest Prison: "Deicide."
JoviCreamePuff: "Decide wh... Oh, that little I thing. Deucide?"
Darkest Prison: "...can we trust her?"
BardicLasher: "Look, the point is, violence," Charir said. "And we have a heading! It's..." A glance around, trying to figure out which way is the heading.
BardicLasher: "Can you trust me?"
Darkest Prison: "That's a good question."
BardicLasher: "And I assure you the answer is the same."
Darkest Prison: "You're not a good salesman."
JoviCreamePuff: She nodded her head enthusiastically.
BardicLasher: "Sure I am. I'm just the type of salesman who's out of town before you test the product."
BardicLasher: "Remember that guy I sold the cursed axe of killing your own children to? Good times."
Darkest Prison: (lol)
JoviCreamePuff: "Ooh, that must have been hilarious!"
ranzunar: "There are certainly worse people to get to join our cause, might as well give her a try"
Darkest Prison: "...Fine. we'll see."
JoviCreamePuff: "Besides, the best help you'll get that's not be is..." she looked around, scoffing. "SOme kind of.. fuckin' fairy or something."
Darkest Prison: "Where the fuck did Rouge go, anyway?"
ranzunar: "Somewhere else and I don't care?"
Darkest Prison: "Unless Hypnogogia answered my prayers and had her killed. Preferably in an ironic fashion. "
BardicLasher: "I blame that thing," Charir said, poitning to a triceratops.
JoviCreamePuff: Off in the distance.... T-rex: Urp.
Darkest Prison: (triceratops only PK if you try and move them out of the way)
BardicLasher: ((Call him on it IC. Please.))
Darkest Prison: (call him on what?)
BardicLasher: ((On blaming the triceratops. Duh.))
ranzunar: (They're CR12, no way I want to fight one of those)
Darkest Prison: "Triceratops only kill people that are stupid enough to try and get past them."
JoviCreamePuff: "So why would this Rouge person want to get past a triceratops?" Annette asked, not looking where Charir was pointing.
BardicLasher: "What? No, the... You know what? Nevermind. You can't see it because there's a triceratops in the way."
Darkest Prison: (and god knows if youever DID try to get past one, it'd be a paragon hyper-intelligent phantasmal half-vampire Triceratops with advanced HD)
JoviCreamePuff: (Anthropomorphic)
Darkest Prison: (that too)
ranzunar: "Sometimes t's better if you just don't ask why and just keep going. So let's keep going."
Darkest Prison: ("It's too late, you've awaken the triceratops. It easts you.")
Darkest Prison: *eats
BardicLasher: "Right. To the temple that must be purified with the divine fire!"
BardicLasher: Charir's wings flared, and he pointed onward.
JoviCreamePuff: "...Okay." She said, shrugging, sliding her guitar to her front again. She flipped a switch on a box that was dangling from her belt, and started to strum, an electric hum filling the air.
Darkest Prison: "your fires are hardly divine..."
Darkest Prison: Onward!
Darkest Prison: In a few hours, you arrive at the harbor town of Teiran
ranzunar: "When did you grow wings Char?"
BardicLasher: "I've always had wings. What are you talking about?"
BardicLasher: ((Bluff 32. But you know by now to take everything Charir says with a grain of salt.))
Darkest Prison: It is a large town, mostly wooden buildings (*sigh*), all the main sources of inome tied to the seas
Darkest Prison: (in other words, +2 on sense motive check)
Darkest Prison: *20
JoviCreamePuff: "Yeah, he's had wings for as long as I've known him."
BardicLasher: ((Nah, cause it still doesn't tell you if he's telling the truth or lying.))
Darkest Prison: (agreed. but they know you're a habitual liar and thus have no reason to believe anything you say)
BardicLasher: "Well, this looks promising... Let's find that guy and get him to help us."
Darkest Prison: (so if there was a sense motive check, they'd get the full +20)
Darkest Prison: "...Where do we look?"
JoviCreamePuff: "The tavern. Duh."
Darkest Prison: It's about noon time
Darkest Prison: "Right. A great scholar is in the tavern. In the middle of the day."
JoviCreamePuff: "It's what... Noon? Mid-day rush, there's bound to be something in the tavern."
BardicLasher: "The library?"
JoviCreamePuff: "If it's not the scholar guy, it's someone who knows him."
ranzunar: "Somebody's got to know this guy? Maybe we should ask around"
JoviCreamePuff: "At the tavern."
Darkest Prison: "Whatever"
BardicLasher: "Let us ask around, yes... And then we'll either get him to help us willingly or we'll kidnap his next of kin."
JoviCreamePuff: She shrugged again, grinning as she started to play a jauntier tune on her guitar, adjusting some odd knobs and changing the sound from raching machinery to crisp vibrancy.
JoviCreamePuff: "Or I'll smooth him over with this."
JoviCreamePuff: Strrrruuummm...
BardicLasher: "Split up and search, meet back at the tavern at sundown for dinner?"
Darkest Prison: You enter the tavern. There's only a few people around, mostly drunkards plus the barkeep. Cause you know...it's NOON
JoviCreamePuff: "...This town sucks."
JoviCreamePuff: "There's not even a mid-day rush? Where the hell does everyone eat?"
ranzunar: (how does Dolo not have gather info?)
BardicLasher: "...At their homes, rassy."
JoviCreamePuff: "Nonsense."
Darkest Prison: "They usually go to the dockside inn to cook the day's catches, ma'am," the barkeep answers
Darkest Prison: (how does dolo not have gather info?)
JoviCreamePuff: "Ah-ha! So we're at the wrong tavern, then... But you have all the business at nightfall?"
Darkest Prison: "Yeah, I suppose. The inn's not a tavern, though"
JoviCreamePuff: "If the inn doesn't have a bar on the first floor, it's not an Inn. Maybe a halfway house."
Darkest Prison: "Just has a nice outdoor grilling area people like to use for their own fish."
JoviCreamePuff: "...Open grill? I want a fish."
Darkest Prison: "If you want a drink,you can just get one here."
JoviCreamePuff: "No, I want a fish."
ranzunar: "I'll check the docks to see if we can get some transportation, We'll meet back up later"
JoviCreamePuff: "I'm heading to the docks, too. I want fish."
BardicLasher: "And I'm going to ask around about... We're looking for the smartest man in town, right?"
Darkest Prison: "Heh heh, good luck, miss."
Darkest Prison: "Yeah."
JoviCreamePuff: "I hope so! I'm hungry. And maybe I can attract a crowd down there, find some answers.."
BardicLasher: "Then I'm off," Charir said, and he slipped away into town to start questioning random people.
BardicLasher: ((Why does beguiling influence NOT give +6 Gather Info?
Darkest Prison: "Folks around here haven't been in a sharing mood lately."
JoviCreamePuff: "I'm almost certain I can change their minds." She said, smiling brightly as she headed off.
Darkest Prison: (i don't know. I just love that a high cha party has no one with even a +5 gather info)
ranzunar: "Wait, who with the what now?"
ranzunar: (I technically have +7 total)
Darkest Prison: (wow, impressive)
JoviCreamePuff: (Hey, I have gather info +5. Untrained.)
BardicLasher: ((I have a +5 Gather Info...
BardicLasher: ((Untrained
Darkest Prison: (I have +4, with no ranks OR cha bonus :-P)
JoviCreamePuff: ((that means we have a 75% chance of giving Dolo +9))
BardicLasher: ((How do you pull that off?
Darkest Prison: (Knack)
Darkest Prison: (4 fake ranks)
BardicLasher: ((Ah.))
JoviCreamePuff: ((I really want to like Knack, but I've never found it to be useful)
BardicLasher: ((So yes, let's all roll aid another for Dolo!))
Darkest Prison: (Dais has used it plenty)
OnlineHost: Darkest Prison rolled 1 20-sided die: 11
OnlineHost: BardicLasher rolled 1 20-sided die: 11
OnlineHost: JoviCreamePuff rolled 1 20-sided die: 7
Darkest Prison: (Dais aids)
BardicLasher: ((+2 from me.
JoviCreamePuff: (So does Annette))
JoviCreamePuff: (So +6 to dolo!)
ranzunar: (Wait, does this mean we can sell loot here and finally get our gold to normal)
BardicLasher: ((So he gets +6 on his +7, roll your +13 gather info!
Darkest Prison: (assuming you're all traveling with him)
BardicLasher: ((I think we can!
Darkest Prison: (which is NOt what you claimed)
ranzunar: (let's see what I roll)
JoviCreamePuff: ((Think of it as a montage))
OnlineHost: ranzunar rolled 1 20-sided die: 16
BardicLasher: ((We split up and search and tell Dolo if we find anyone interesting, and then let HIM talk to them. **nod-nod**
ranzunar: well 23 with no aid, 29 if aided)
JoviCreamePuff: ((And Annette is going to draw an impromptu crowd to herself at the fish-grill)
Darkest Prison: (one sec on that)
Darkest Prison: Dolo is bounced around between various people who want to be helpful but don't know shit
Darkest Prison: Finally, he's just told ot go to the university, u on the cliff overlooking the harbor
Darkest Prison: *up
ranzunar: (then that's where we go, if anyone is coming with me)
Darkest Prison: At the dockside inn, people are enjoying their grilled filets, the air filled with a sweet aroma, assuming you like the smell of fish. If not, this is probably like hell for you
BardicLasher: To the university with a bunch of us!
JoviCreamePuff: Today, annette loves fish. She's not leaving until she gets some fish.
Darkest Prison: (what is annette doing?)
JoviCreamePuff: "Excuse me! Would anyone mind sharing their fish?"
Darkest Prison: They all just ignore her
JoviCreamePuff: "Gold piece for a fish?"
Darkest Prison: At the university, you are able ot find a few people studing in one room
Darkest Prison: One man pipes up, "not for sale!"
BardicLasher: Charir brought plenty of dried meat in his pack from his... earlier kill... And is much happier with that than fish.
JoviCreamePuff: "Not for sale? But everything can be for sale! ...What if I was suitably impressive?"
Darkest Prison: "It doesn't matter. We can't surive without food."
Darkest Prison: "And fish ain't so plentiful any more."
BardicLasher: Charir calmly walks up to the men. "Excuse me, we're looking for a scholar, a very learned man we were told would be around here."
Darkest Prison: Several of the others nod, then go back to their own conversations and bickering
JoviCreamePuff: "Oh come one... Just one fish? I promise to entertain the lot of you for just one fish."
JoviCreamePuff: "Perhaps make your day a little brighter?"
ranzunar: (Dolo starts asking about mysterious places of interest in the area, hoping the conversation will lead to the island temple, and figure stuff about that until, the smart guy comes into play)
Darkest Prison: "Well, there are many learned men here. What area of specialty are you concerned with?"
Darkest Prison: "No. Gods know if we'll be able to fish again tomorrow at all. We need to keep stock of what we can."
BardicLasher: "Theology."
Darkest Prison: "...An island? Off our coast? Hahaha! there's only one island within so much as a week's ship travel from here. And there is nothing on it."
Darkest Prison: "Really, such foolishness. You sound like that pathetic fool, thomas."
ranzunar: "Thomas?"
Darkest Prison: The other scholars all laugh.
JoviCreamePuff: "...That's just horribly depressing. You're not even trying to heckle me into a performance. If food was so bad, you'd be branching out into that fertile forest we just walked here from."
Darkest Prison: "Yes, we like to think of him as the village idiot. well, he's not actually brain-dead. He just wastes his talents on rubish."
ranzunar: "What do you mean?"
BardicLasher: "Then it sounds like he's the one we need to talk to."
BardicLasher: "Where can we find this Thomas?"
Darkest Prison: "we're a village of fishers, we're not too good at hunting, and we have done that."
Darkest Prison: "It's not enough."
Darkest Prison: "i mean, he spouts the most absurd and outlandish ideas! he was laughed out of the school! Not to mention how pathetical fearful he is."
JoviCreamePuff: "Then you need to be better hunters. Or like, trade. Which gold helps, funnily enough... Oh well. The fish probably sucks anyway." Highly disappointed, Annette strolled off, grumbling under her breath as she played her guitar irately, noisily, and still skillfully, heading towards the college.
Darkest Prison: "No matter what his little conspiracy theory, it all ends with whatever it is being out to get him."
Darkest Prison: He looks to Charir, "He hoels up in a shed at the east edge of town."
ranzunar: "What conspiracy theory?"
BardicLasher: "Excellent," Charir said. "To the east edge of town!" And he promptly opened the window and flew out.
Darkest Prison: "I don't even know. Countless."
Darkest Prison: "...your friend seems to have jumped out of the window."
BardicLasher: "This way, rassy!" he said, landing by her and starting east. "We have a lead!"
JoviCreamePuff: "Oh! Hurray! I hope he has fish, the villagers are dumb."
ranzunar: "Thanks for the help gentlemen"
Darkest Prison: Dais heads out as well.
Darkest Prison: surely enough, there is a beat up old shed at the edge of town, between the otherwise regular looking single family houses
JoviCreamePuff: "...Kind of a dump." She remarked, watching it curiously, strumming lightly on her guitar.
BardicLasher: "Why are they dumb?" Charir asked, heading to the shed.
ranzunar: "I hope he's the helpful kind of eccentric genius"
JoviCreamePuff: "They wouldn't give me any fish. I offered to play and pay, even!"
Darkest Prison: "I thought dumb just came with being a villager"
JoviCreamePuff: "Some crap about "there's no fish anymore" and "we can't hunt.""
Darkest Prison: "There's no fish?"
BardicLasher: "Ahem... allow me..." Charir prepared to cast a spell and knocked on the door.
Darkest Prison: No one answers
BardicLasher: Charir knocked louder.
ranzunar: "A port town with no fish can be an ill omen"
BardicLasher: If no one responds there, helooked around for a window.
JoviCreamePuff: "They said they'd be lucky if they could fish tomorrow."
JoviCreamePuff: "I said they should hunt or trade."
Darkest Prison: There were no windows
JoviCreamePuff: "What's this guy's name?"
Darkest Prison: Only the front door
Darkest Prison: "Thomas."
BardicLasher: Charir cleared his throat. "Thomas! In accordance with the prophecy, the chosen ones request to speak with you!"
Darkest Prison: No reply
JoviCreamePuff: "Hey, I was gonna do that.."
ranzunar: "I come here looking for the genius Thomas!"
BardicLasher: "He might not be home..."
Darkest Prison: Let me make this simple: no matter how many times you call out, no reply
BardicLasher: Charir attempts to open the door, see if it's locked or stuck
ranzunar: "I bet those fools at the university will finally rue the day they mocked your intelligence with the findings you are about to discover"
JoviCreamePuff: "...Why don't we just go inside?"
Darkest Prison: It is not locked or stuck
BardicLasher: Charir opens the door.
Darkest Prison: (reflex save)
OnlineHost: BardicLasher rolled 1 20-sided die: 16
BardicLasher: 22
OnlineHost: Darkest Prison rolled 5 6-sided dice: 1 1 3 1 1
BardicLasher: 27 if it's fire.
Darkest Prison: (acid spray. you take half, so only 4)
BardicLasher: "Ow!" Charir declared, and he spat a lightning bolt at the door.
Darkest Prison: The door is lightning'd. Was going to open, regardless
Darkest Prison: Inside, it is a single room. there is a mattress, a dingy "dining area", and a hole in the wall, presumably to pee out of
ranzunar: "Okay, guy who has conspiracy theories is probably paranoid, that explains one trap, maybe more"
Darkest Prison: The room is a mess, crap laying about everywhere
BardicLasher: And nobody in here?
Darkest Prison: None that you can see
Darkest Prison: (listen checks)
OnlineHost: Darkest Prison rolled 1 20-sided die: 4
OnlineHost: ranzunar rolled 1 20-sided die: 13
OnlineHost: BardicLasher rolled 1 20-sided die: 3
OnlineHost: JoviCreamePuff rolled 1 20-sided die: 13
BardicLasher: 9
ranzunar: (15)
JoviCreamePuff: (15)
Darkest Prison: No one hears anything of note
JoviCreamePuff: "...What if he's being really really quiet?"
Darkest Prison: "We'd still see him, then?"
ranzunar: "Shouldn't dragon senses pick something up then Char?"
BardicLasher: "Clearly Thomas is dead or missing. Or behind the door. Are you behind the door, Thomas?"
Darkest Prison: (what are the limits on your blindsense? like what material blocks it?)
BardicLasher: Charir slammed the door into the wall, just in case Thomas was behind the door.
JoviCreamePuff: "Could be Invisible, maybe?"
Darkest Prison: Thomas wasnot behind the door
JoviCreamePuff: Annette fiddled with the box on her belt, looking around the room. ((Amplify, in the room))
BardicLasher: ((20 feet, blocked by anything that would block line of effect))
Darkest Prison: (does that make things louder or JUST make them audible for longer ranges?)
BardicLasher: ((Louder. Reduces all listen DCs by... 20, yes?
JoviCreamePuff: ((Lowers teh LIsten DC for the given space by 20)
Darkest Prison: (but is blocked by line of effect, I assume?)
JoviCreamePuff: (20ft radius emanation centered on creature, object, or point in space)
ranzunar: (suddenly remember Dolo using Amplify at another plot point, fun times)
Darkest Prison: (screwing the Pelor virgin?)
ranzunar: (exactly)
Darkest Prison: Amplify does nothing to help, in this circumstance
JoviCreamePuff: ((Someone fucked a pelor virgin?)
Darkest Prison: (Dolorito)
Darkest Prison: (and the whole neighborhood could hear)
JoviCreamePuff: "...Well, if he was making any noise, we should be hearing it..."
BardicLasher: "Well, maybe he should hear this..."
BardicLasher: "REEEEOOOOAAAAAARRRRR!"
OnlineHost: BardicLasher rolled 1 20-sided die: 1
JoviCreamePuff: (XD)
BardicLasher: ((Intimidate 27
Darkest Prison: (lol)
OnlineHost: Darkest Prison rolled 1 20-sided die: 4
Darkest Prison: (roll listen checks again)
OnlineHost: Darkest Prison rolled 1 20-sided die: 6
OnlineHost: ranzunar rolled 1 20-sided die: 17
OnlineHost: BardicLasher rolled 1 20-sided die: 16
BardicLasher: 22
ranzunar: (19)
OnlineHost: JoviCreamePuff rolled 1 20-sided die: 15
JoviCreamePuff: (17!)
ranzunar: wait 18
Darkest Prison: Charir can hear someone scream out in firght in response to that
Darkest Prison: *fright
BardicLasher: "Yeah, get your ass out here already! We need to talk to you!"
Darkest Prison: He doesn't show himself
BardicLasher: "Alternatively, we burn this place to the ground. You have thirteen seconds to comply. Twelve. Eleven. Nine. Eight..."
ranzunar: "Come on, I bet you like what we're going to offer you"
JoviCreamePuff: "And even if you didn't, it's better than being burned alive."
Darkest Prison: "charir...if we burn it to the ground, we'll attract attention and probably get arrested..."
ranzunar: "Hypnogogia does like volunteers to help in his cause"
BardicLasher: Facepalm at Dais' comment.
BardicLasher: Charir gestured Dais over to the side to whisper to him.
JoviCreamePuff: "...Man, what kind of people are you hanging out with, Charir?"
Darkest Prison: "Hypnogogia?"
BardicLasher: "...Look, though you're entirely right, he doesn't need to know that, and it really undermines the whole trying to threaten him thing if you suggest I shouldn't carry out the threat."
BardicLasher: "Bad Dais. No soup for you."
ranzunar: "I knew that would catch your interest, come out and we'll explain everything"
Darkest Prison: "Sorry. I'm just so used to correcting your idiocy in a high volume..."
Darkest Prison: "So what? You know his name. You could still just be trying to get me."
Darkest Prison: "Or maybe anyone who knows his name really is crazy. Why would i exposem yself to crazy people?"
Darkest Prison: *expose myself
BardicLasher: Charir laughed at the man. "Because sanity is relative. The winner's write the history books, and the ones with power determine the truth."
JoviCreamePuff: "...'I'm not neurotic! I'm too busy washing my hands!'" Annette quiped.
BardicLasher: "Am I sane? Am I crazy? What matters is this. If someone questions me, they burn in agony, and thus reality is what I say it is."
Darkest Prison: "I don't believe you! You were hired to kill me, weren't you?!"
ranzunar: "Because only true believers eould carry his symbol, Dais show him"
BardicLasher: Charir took a slow, deep breath.
Darkest Prison: (the voice is clearly coming from below the floor)
Darkest Prison: "I will show him, if he comes out."
BardicLasher: "YOU WILL SIT DOWN AND LISTEN TO THESE PEOPLE SPEAK OR BY ALL THAT IS UNHOLY I WILL BURN YOU WITH SUCH FLAMES THAT YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY TREE WILL BECOME CHARCOAL!"
Darkest Prison: (seriously? not one erson thought to make a search check? *sad*)
OnlineHost: BardicLasher rolled 1 20-sided die: 15
ranzunar: looking down "Clever man, I expect nothing less from the one man tat could help us"
BardicLasher: 41 intimidate.
Darkest Prison: He's intimidated. More reason to stay hidden
ranzunar: (I was gonna search, but I leave that to poeple with ranks)
JoviCreamePuff: ((Actually, he slides closer to "Helpful")
BardicLasher: "Now, you will listen to what my friend has to say, and you will like it." A gesture to Dolo. "You have the floor."
Darkest Prison: "Gah! So you ARe out to get me! *stuttering with fear* I...I knew...it!"
ranzunar: "Damn it Char, stop scaring the one person that cloaked dream figure says can decipher the temple in that island"
Darkest Prison: (no, sometimes intimidating someone is just a bad idea, jovi)
Darkest Prison: (he's now effectively cowering in his hiding spot, thanks to Charir)
BardicLasher: ((Which means he's listening.))
Darkest Prison: "Wh...what island?"
ranzunar: "Let's start again. Hello Thomas, my name is Dolorito"
JoviCreamePuff: Annette rolled her eyes, plopping herself down on a stool, her guitar sliding into her lap as she started to play to herse;f.
Darkest Prison: "How do you know my name?"
ranzunar: "They say that an island to the north is desolate, but you think differently and I believe you"
Darkest Prison: "Yeah, they're idiots. There's anancient temple there, underneath the overgrowth."
ranzunar: "a dream led us to you, that temple is the key to our travels"
Darkest Prison: "But they don't believe me. Just because theycouldn't find any trace of it! bah!"
Darkest Prison: "I see...so you know it exists. Congratualtions, and have a safe journey. Goodbye."
ranzunar: "Then let me help you prove them wrong and you can get the respect you deserve"
Darkest Prison: "I don't care about respect. Respect means being in the spot light. All the easier to becoem a target that way"
ranzunar: "That ancient temple probably has things that no one can decipher, except you"
Darkest Prison: "It also probably has lots of traps and dangers. I'm not going there, no way!"
ranzunar: "an intellectual challenge of sorts, let's see if you can outsmart the ancient civilization that first built that temple"
Darkest Prison: *Groan* You have amazing patience, Dolo...
Darkest Prison: "Why do you keep trying to bait me with things like glory and prestige and stuff?"
ranzunar: "Curiosity and knowledge have a price, we'll help you pay that price, protect you and whatnot"
Darkest Prison: "I'd rather live a coawrd than die a hero."
Darkest Prison: *coward
BardicLasher: "Then we go with this offer instead...
BardicLasher: "Die a coward, or live a whatever the fuck we tell you to live as. My patience is wearing thin..."
ranzunar: "Then you're already dead if my friend has any say in this"
JoviCreamePuff: "Didn't he pipe up when you started talking about hypnoghonorria or whatever?"
Darkest Prison: "Don't you dare blasphemy the lord's name like that!"
ranzunar: "I like to take my cryptic dreams seriously, especially when they deal with Hypnogogia"
Darkest Prison: *draws hsi sword*
JoviCreamePuff: "Well I don't know how to pronounce it. DId I get part of it right?"
ranzunar: "Seriously, not cool Annette"
JoviCreamePuff: "What? I've heard the name, like.. once. Hypno what?"
Darkest Prison: "...Hyp....no...GO....GEE...AH...." *fuming*
JoviCreamePuff: "Go-gee-ah. Hypnogogia. Got it!"
JoviCreamePuff: Strrruummm
Darkest Prison: "fine....fine...."
Darkest Prison: "you know what, I'll take your offer."
Darkest Prison: "I help you with the temple, you protect me?"
ranzunar: "As long as you do your best to stay alive, we'll agree"
Darkest Prison: "I guarantee you, I'll do whatever it takes to live, even if it means abandoning you to die."
Darkest Prison: *laughing*
JoviCreamePuff: "Least he's honest."
ranzunar: "You do realize we'll find and make you help us then right"
BardicLasher: "Honest, clever, and a complete coward. I wonder if he has a sister."
Darkest Prison: "Well, if we're dead, we can't..."
JoviCreamePuff: "What you were expecting? He just promised to do everything he can to stay alive."
BardicLasher: "Alright, Tommy, now get your ass out here."
JoviCreamePuff: "...Do you have a sister?"
Darkest Prison: *you hear a mechanism being turned under the floor* "Just disabling the trap...hold on....And maybe"
Darkest Prison: "i mean, everyone says I don't have any siblings, but I've had this strange scar since birth, and you know what they say about evil twins?"
BardicLasher: "...That would be a guy, then. Damnit."
BardicLasher: "Wait, depends on where the scar is."
JoviCreamePuff: ((Bardic knowledge? Or is this a gag?)
Darkest Prison: "The idea I might have some vengeful twin sibling out there, conspiring to kill me for being abandoned...it's terrifying!"
ranzunar: "not all twins are identical"
Darkest Prison: (can be fraternal twins, and ossibly a sister)
Darkest Prison: (or not, I'm no expert ooc)
BardicLasher: "Right, righ, but he said scar and I assumed..." Charir pointed a finger to his hip and drew a line up to his underarm.
JoviCreamePuff: "Honest, clever, a complete coward, and nuts."
BardicLasher: "Because that's a surefire sign of an evilt win."
BardicLasher: *evil twin
Darkest Prison: A trap door in the floor beneath one of the junk piles opens up, and he crawls out of it
ranzunar: "Come on Thomas, this island is apperently far away and we need to get some transportation"
Darkest Prison: Thomas is a dwarf man, middel aged, roughly 4 feet tall. He is thin and sickly looking, and pale evne for a dwarf
BardicLasher: "And Annie needs some fish.""
Darkest Prison: He has no facial hair
BardicLasher: "...You are the strangest looking gnome I've ever seen.""
JoviCreamePuff: "Do you have any fish, Thomaaa dwarf with no hair?"
Darkest Prison: "Transportation? Well, there's only one ship that goes out that far."
BardicLasher: "...Do you even listen to yourself, 'nette? Dwarves don't have no hair."
Darkest Prison: (he has hair on his head)
JoviCreamePuff: "No, I mean, the.." Her fingers made beard shapes as she stroked the air around her chin. "The's all dwarf shaped... Kinda emaciated, but he's totally a dwarf."
Darkest Prison: "They charge a lot now, though, on account of hiring security to protect against all the pirate raids"
JoviCreamePuff: "Oh, well, that's an easy in, then."
ranzunar: "Gods, I hate pirates"
BardicLasher: "We get to be pirates?"
JoviCreamePuff: "We get to be anti pirates."
Darkest Prison: "No, I don't have fish. Blech, how could you eat a creature that cavorts aroudn in a sea of its own urine?"
JoviCreamePuff: "How can you breath the air filled with an unlimited number of humanoid farts?"
BardicLasher: "How can you breathe the same air that pe-...
BardicLasher: Charir promptly gives Annette a hug.
JoviCreamePuff: Annette held up a hand to Charir.
JoviCreamePuff: Or that works.
Darkest Prison: "Simple. I have this here magic talisman" *points to a wooden amulet* "It purifies the air around me."
JoviCreamePuff: "How do you know it works?"
Darkest Prison: "if it didn't how would i survive from breathing in the air?"
BardicLasher: "I don't have one of those, and I'm not dead."
JoviCreamePuff: "...Ew. Come to think of it, actually, the proof is in the pudding." She sniffed a little, looking around the place. "This place stinks."
Darkest Prison: "And yet, I'm fine!"
BardicLasher: "...I could go for some pudding."
JoviCreamePuff: Annette looked at Thomas. Detect Magic.
Darkest Prison: (the talisman is not magical)
JoviCreamePuff: "...That talisman isn't even magical."
JoviCreamePuff: "Is it an air freshener?"
Darkest Prison: "Har har har, it fooled ye, didn't it?"
JoviCreamePuff: "What?"
Darkest Prison: "It's got a permanent nystul's magic aura on it."
Darkest Prison: "So of course it didn't read as magic for your little spell."
BardicLasher: "...Riiight.
ranzunar: "Wouldn't the fake aura, have magical traces?"
BardicLasher: "Let's get out asses in gear, get some fish, and get to the docks."
Darkest Prison: "Agreed."
Darkest Prison: "Wait. Our bargain."
JoviCreamePuff: "...That would cost at least two-grand."
JoviCreamePuff: "And... You don't have any money."
Darkest Prison: "you said you'd protect me if I agreed to help you. That was the terms of our deal."
BardicLasher: "Yes. So let's go."
Darkest Prison: "Protect me, damnit!"
ranzunar: "Exactly, stay close when necessary"
BardicLasher: "From?"
ranzunar: "Char, won't kill you, promise"
Darkest Prison: "Hired goons! I had to borrow some money to pay the bills, and the interest rate of 200% was more than i expected..."
BardicLasher: Charir spread his wings and raised them, blocking out the light. "Look, Thomas... I don't want to deal with this shit, so here's how it works... If you see something scarier than me,, point at it, and we'll kill it. Otherwise,
Darkest Prison: "...Did he just dupe us into taking care of a loan shark?"
BardicLasher: just assume that nothing's coming close to you as long as you're with us."
ranzunar: "Then it's a good thing we're skipping town"
Darkest Prison: "It'd be nice to be able to come back to town..."
BardicLasher: "If they want to take it up with us, they can, but we're leaving. Come on, Tommy. We can deal with them later."
JoviCreamePuff: "We can kill them when we get back. Aren't we in a hurry?"
ranzunar: "Wait I have an idea. A dsguise for you"
BardicLasher: "Tell you what, Tommy? If you do a really good job, then once we're done, we'll make sure nobody in this town will ever try and hurt you ever again."
Darkest Prison: Thomas follows if you leave, rather than be left alone
Darkest Prison: "...Ok..."
OnlineHost: ranzunar rolled 1 20-sided die: 8
Darkest Prison: "Dolo...'
ranzunar: (not sure how putting a disguise on other people work)
Darkest Prison: "No visual disguise is going to fool people from thinking it's him the way he shakes and speaks in a panick."
JoviCreamePuff: "Put a beard on him."
ranzunar: "then he'll have to start taking acting classes"
JoviCreamePuff: "It'll make a HUGE difference."
Darkest Prison: "What?! I am NOT wearing a beard!"
JoviCreamePuff: "What's more important? Loansharks jumping us as we try to leave, or you wearing a beard?"
BardicLasher: "If anyone fucks with us, we'll kill them. Let's go." Charir starts off. "You still want fish before we exit town, yes rassy?"
JoviCreamePuff: "Yes please!"
Darkest Prison: "I shaved it off and pick my clothing very carefully, so I have nothing extending or hanging too far out that could get caught in a piece of machinery and get me killed."
Darkest Prison: "A beard is dangerous!"
JoviCreamePuff: "Ugh, fine, whatever. Just shut up and let's go."
Darkest Prison: "Fish would be nice."
JoviCreamePuff: "I couldn't talk anyone out of a fish. They're all stingy and mean."
Darkest Prison: (I'm really liking RPing thomas.)
JoviCreamePuff: (WHy are all your dwarves orange?))
BardicLasher: "I'm better at talking to people."
Darkest Prison: (Iwas going to have his text be yellow, to match the stripe down his back, but I didn't want to blind you)
BardicLasher: "Dolo, secure us a ride. I'll be with you as soon as I have aquired fish."
BardicLasher: And Charir made his way to aquire FISH, going to find peoples at the place with the fish.
JoviCreamePuff: Annette glommed onto Charir's arm, nuzzling.
Darkest Prison: You arrive at the dockside inn. It is now afternoon
ranzunar: "I'll see what I can find and negotiate. I'll meet you guys back at the tavern or something"
Darkest Prison: "wait! what about me?"
BardicLasher: "You follow me!"
ranzunar: "you're coming with one of us, choose wisely"
Darkest Prison: "But that guy agreed to protect me, too! He has to come."
BardicLasher: Charir starts looking, and sniffing, to find fish.
Darkest Prison: "Look, Charir may be functionally retarded and a pyromaniac, but he's an idiot savant when it comes to killing people. you're safe with him."
ranzunar: "look i'm going this way. do you want to follow nice buddyguard or the scary one"
JoviCreamePuff: "That's right, all those big words."
BardicLasher: ((Buddyguard!
JoviCreamePuff: (Who's your buddy!)
Darkest Prison: "Ok...I'll stay with charir..." "great! I'll go with Dolo."
Darkest Prison: *under his breath* Have fun with the albatross
ranzunar: (that would explain why those "trained buddyguard classes were so cheap and the certificate was made in crayon"
Darkest Prison: (heh heh, buddyguard)
BardicLasher: And Charir is heads to the inn to see if anyone has fish.
Darkest Prison: They do, but are not willing to trade or sell them
Darkest Prison: They claim the risk of pirate attack means they must hoarde all the fish they can
BardicLasher: "Will you trade fish for other forms of nourishment?" Charir asked.
Darkest Prison: "Hmmm....what other form of nourishment?"
BardicLasher: Charir pulled out some salted, dried meat from his pack. "This stuff. It's good."
Darkest Prison: "...Trail rations?"
Darkest Prison: "I'll stick with my fresh fish."
Darkest Prison: Another man pipes up, "If you had any fresh meat, or maybe some foraged berries, I'd trade ya."
Darkest Prison: Thomas is holding is nose, and looks ill
Darkest Prison: "Ech, this horrible smell..."
BardicLasher: "Look," Charir said, holding up the meat, "What you have here is an opportunity to give up a bit of freshness in order to give up a lot of paranoia... I'm offering you twice the weight of the fish in this meat... Which I assure
Darkest Prison: He clutches onto charir. "I hate thsi place. No one area needs so many people with knives."
BardicLasher: you is delicious. I killed and salted it myself. Perhaps you'll like it less than fish, perhaps more... But it won't be fish every day, and you'll have a little extra to fall back on for a midnight snack."
OnlineHost: BardicLasher rolled 1 20-sided die: 15
BardicLasher: Diplomacy... 40?
Darkest Prison: The fishermen nearby laugh at crazy ol' Thomas
BardicLasher: 38
BardicLasher: Diplomacy 38
Darkest Prison: "Hmmm...fair enough, then. Good as fish is, it would benice to have soem variety."
Darkest Prison: (you can trade as much trail rations as you want for half the weight in fish)
BardicLasher: "Alright then," Charir said, and transaction complete, he gives some fish to Annette.
BardicLasher: (( **Hasn't been actually keeping track of weights of food because they so often hunt and whatnot... Charir's totally not trading 'trail rations' because he plans to burst into laughter later.))
JoviCreamePuff: "Eeeee!" SHe promptly hopped up and kissed his cheek a multitude of times, before taking her fish. "Fank'oo!" SHe said, around a mouthful of fish.
Darkest Prison: (...what creature are they eating?)
BardicLasher: ((Remember what happened in the last town they went to?))
JoviCreamePuff: (XD)
Darkest Prison: (umm...what was the last town, my memory's hazy)
JoviCreamePuff: ((The town with the festival))
Darkest Prison: (last one I recall is mandrake falls, before getting captured)
BardicLasher: ((I don't remember, but Charir split off from the party while they were doing stuff.))
JoviCreamePuff: ((Charir arranged with a pretty young girl to meet him outside of town when they had free time))
JoviCreamePuff: (When the party had free time*)
Darkest Prison: (oh that...)
JoviCreamePuff: (Gabe said "Yeha, whatever, I don't want to RP that")
BardicLasher: Charir then proceeded to go to catch up with Dais and Dolo.
Darkest Prison: (I thought he just fucked her and burned her to death)
ranzunar: (I thought they were eating copper dragon)
Darkest Prison: (unintentional cannibalism is funnier)
Darkest Prison: "Mmm...this is good, never tasted meat like this before."
BardicLasher: Charir calmly heads away, keeping a straight face. He'll possibly continue this little hilarity when they're done at the island.
BardicLasher: Back to the rest of the party!
Darkest Prison: (if you turned her into beef jerky, you really should have to make a cook check to see how well it came out)
Darkest Prison: (what is gabe doing?)
ranzunar: (finding a boat)
BardicLasher: ((Probably should have to, yes.))
BardicLasher: (( **rolls** ))
OnlineHost: BardicLasher rolled 1 20-sided die: 2
BardicLasher: ...
Darkest Prison: *rescinds compliment on taste*
BardicLasher: Charir cheats with Prestidigitation.
BardicLasher: **rolls CL
OnlineHost: BardicLasher rolled 1 20-sided die: 14
ranzunar: (must remember to inspire comeptence next time that hapens)
BardicLasher: 24
BardicLasher: Wait, 23
Darkest Prison: (prest is just a way to cook it. you still need skill to not over or undercook it, get the flavor out, etc...)
BardicLasher: No, prest is to flavor it.
BardicLasher: That's one of the things it can do. Flavor.
BardicLasher: It's probably overcooked but tasty anyway.
BardicLasher: Because Charir tends to cook the Charir method. AKA fire.
Darkest Prison: (fair enough. groups relying entirely on prest for cooking should expect cajun style)
BardicLasher: Okay then!
BardicLasher: Do we has boat yet?
Darkest Prison: Dolo discovers that yes, only one large ship is willing to adventure out that far, and at steep cost
ranzunar: (how steep?)
Darkest Prison: "50 gp each, to go out there."
ranzunar: (and how do we get back?)
Darkest Prison: "You expect us to go out to the middle of nowhere, wait there for you, and take you back. all while paying a band of mercenaries to rotect us from pirate attacks?"
Darkest Prison: (that's round trip)
JoviCreamePuff: (Why aren't we hiring on as protectors until we reach the island?)
Darkest Prison: "An extra 5 gp each per day you expect us to wait for you."
ranzunar: (when would they leave?)
BardicLasher: "We're our own damn merceneries."
BardicLasher: "How far out is it?"
Darkest Prison: (tomorrow, if you want)
Darkest Prison: "About four days ship travel, if the winds are fair."
JoviCreamePuff: (brb, gotta run to the kitchen))
ranzunar: (is that extra 5gp a day per person or for everybody)
BardicLasher: Charir nods. "Fifty each plus five per day of wait seems fair. But any loot from successfully defended pirate attacks is split among us after the costs of any damages the pirates did."
Darkest Prison: (per person)
Darkest Prison: "That sounds fair."
BardicLasher: "And what's room lodging?"
Darkest Prison: "Since the boat would be used just for you, you'd each be able to have you own cabin."
ranzunar: (once whole party and guest agree then we say yes and pay up)
Darkest Prison: "There are hammocks, no beds."
BardicLasher: "Alright. The private rooms was the important part."
ranzunar: (as someone who sleeps in hammocs regularly, they're not too bad)
Darkest Prison: (Unless the ship rocks too much, couldn't you fall out?)
Darkest Prison: "When do you want to leave?"
BardicLasher: "As soon as possible."
Darkest Prison: "tomorrow morning, then, aye?"
ranzunar: "Aye"
Darkest Prison: "It's bad enough you guys are having me go on a floating death trap. I'm not paying for it."
JoviCreamePuff: ((Bakc now!)
BardicLasher: "Would you rather be in a metal, spikey, superheated death trap?"
Darkest Prison: "Which reminds me, I guess for MANY reasons besides extra cost, Tony can't come..."
JoviCreamePuff: "Who's Tony?"
Darkest Prison: "I wasn't n one of those before."
Darkest Prison: "Oh crap! I left him in that pile of leaves!"
ranzunar: (can we get the onyx back for him)
Darkest Prison: (why?)
BardicLasher: ((BTW, can I do any shopping of note in this town?
Darkest Prison: (he's not gone. he's just backa few hours walk in some leaves)
ranzunar: (I thought he was following us and he was left in the outskirts of this town, like he always those)
Darkest Prison: (up to 4000 gp in individual items. upgrades are considered seperate)
Darkest Prison: (nah, Dais forgot about him :-) )
BardicLasher: ((Okay. I'ma buy a standard dagger now, and I'ma commission a pair of badass gauntlets to be ready upon our return.))
Darkest Prison: (techincally, I placed him under YOUR command...)
BardicLasher: ((Becausse you're not gonna let my buy gauntlets to my design specifications in one day))
Darkest Prison: That's fine. Gauntlets for when you come back
Darkest Prison: (are they magical? or just engraved or something?)
ranzunar: (I said "LET'S GO" let us and Tony is included in that)
Darkest Prison: (ok, ok. tony's outside of town)
Darkest Prison: "Tony is our tiger and mascot."
BardicLasher: ((I want spiked gauntlets engraved with a scale motif and with the spikes on the fingertips so they're effectively claws))
Darkest Prison: (ok...)
ranzunar: (are you even proficient in those?)
BardicLasher: ((I want them to look badass and I want to always threaten. It's that simple.))
Darkest Prison: (I think Races of Stone has a price for engraved armor, just use that)
BardicLasher: ((Yes, sorcs are proficient in spiked gauntlets))
BardicLasher: ((And I want them buil to give a +2 Circumstance bonus to intimidate checks
BardicLasher: ((Would that cost normal 50, or 75 because I'm combining two items into one slot?
Darkest Prison: (I don't think gloves are an appropriate tool to give an intimidate bonus)
BardicLasher: ((You don't think clwed gauntlets are intomidating?
Darkest Prison: (no more than spiked ones, no)
Darkest Prison: (or razor gauntlets)
BardicLasher: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/Vincent_Valentine_art.jpg
BardicLasher: ((This guy says different
Darkest Prison: (...by that logic, a massive, jagged, 2H sword is even more intimidating)
JoviCreamePuff: (Could be. No one puts the cost into it.)
BardicLasher: ((If you want to pay the extra to make it intimidating, sure?
ranzunar: (the gun seems far mre intimidating)
Darkest Prison: (lol)
Darkest Prison: (sorry. some things just don't have tools to give bonuses. and intimidate does....)
BardicLasher: ((Intimidate's normal tool is a dagger.))
Darkest Prison: (they're just torture implements you can't just use in the middle of combat)
BardicLasher: ((The dagger ALWAYS gives a bonus.))
Darkest Prison: (where does it say this?)
BardicLasher: ((I'll look, we can discuss the details of the gauntlets later
BardicLasher: ((What matter is my gauntlets are being commissioned
Darkest Prison: (ok)
Darkest Prison: "Ok, so where are we sleeping tonight?"
JoviCreamePuff: "The Inn. Duh?"
Darkest Prison: "I want at least two people on night watch while I'm asleep,"
JoviCreamePuff: "123notit."
Darkest Prison: "...We'll have to take shifts."
JoviCreamePuff: "123stillnotit."
BardicLasher: "Nah, Dais is a gnome. Like elves, they're fully awake whil asleep, so he's always watching. We'd only need one other."
OnlineHost: BardicLasher rolled 1 20-sided die: 1
BardicLasher: Bluff 20something
Darkest Prison: "We can't afford to spend much longer than 8 hours sjust because this coward wants two night guards...at an INN!"
BardicLasher: 23
Darkest Prison: (last post before the one i just made was Dais, sorry)
OnlineHost: Darkest Prison rolled 1 20-sided die: 7
Darkest Prison: "I don't believe you!"
BardicLasher: "Well, that's understandable. He's a whisper gnome. They look a lot like halflings, but I assure you, he /is/ a gnome."
ranzunar: (Damn it, I just realized that Rouge could have casted Lullaby like crazy on this guy)
JoviCreamePuff: ((She totally could have. XD)
Darkest Prison: "Look, two of us stay awak for 4 hours, then the othet two do, then fraidy cat can be awake on hisown for 4 hours while we get our beauty sleep."
JoviCreamePuff: "If I'm awake, I'm playing guitar. Just so you know."
Darkest Prison: "I know he's a whsiper gnome, clearly."
Darkest Prison: (I rolled know local, NOT sense motive.
)ranzunar: "Well we do have our ethereal summoned guards"
Darkest Prison: "I vote to take watch with her"
ranzunar: (bluff check to see if the eternal and of unseen servant can help for this)
Darkest Prison: (it doesn't last long enough, does it?)
ranzunar: (an hour each)
Darkest Prison: "we can just take shifts"
JoviCreamePuff: "I don't care who takes watch with me, I'm playing guitar while I'm doing it."
BardicLasher: "That's fine. You know what songs I like, rassy..""
Darkest Prison: Dais turned to Thomas, "And during those last 4hours, when we're all sleeping, do NOt wake us up at the slightest disturbance!"
ranzunar: "seems fair"
Darkest Prison: "In fact...why don't you just hide yourself, and wait to see if any of use get killed. If we do, THEN scream for help."
Darkest Prison: "Aww...but I'd rather not see you die. Or you. Or you." He said, looking to Dais, Dolo, and Annette
BardicLasher: Charir promptly exhaled a line of weakeneing breath on the dwarf.
Darkest Prison: "gah! What'd you do?!"
JoviCreamePuff: "Made it easier for you to sleep tonight."
Darkest Prison: "Look, I have a skull watch spell. I'll place this skull outside our door."
BardicLasher: "Fucked with you. Now, I've a few quick errand to run, then we'll get some sleep for the night and be out in the morning. Okay? Okay."
Darkest Prison: "Ok. I still want two guards whiel i sleep." He casts an alarm spell on the room.
Darkest Prison: (what is charir doing?)
Darkest Prison: (and wow, going to end the session with basically just RP. and i really thought you'd choose to just kill some pirates and take their ship)
ranzunar: (oh there'll be time for that later)
JoviCreamePuff: ((I'm pretty sure no one here has Profession (Sailor)
BardicLasher: ((Buying the stuff I said OOC he was going to buy
Darkest Prison: (Dais has a +8 untrained)
JoviCreamePuff: (Dais does.)
Darkest Prison: (ok)
Darkest Prison: (half from the class feature you claim younever found a use for)
ranzunar: (and inspire competence during emergencies makes it +11)
JoviCreamePuff: ((Aggie has never used it over the 3 levels she's earned))
Darkest Prison: (Dais benefits from it several times a session. hell, mosto f his knowledges he only has a single rank to count as trained, and then rides the knack ranks for a moderate check bonus)
Darkest Prison: *most of
Darkest Prison: The night goes by uneventfully, because...it's an inn
JoviCreamePuff: Annette did, in fact, play guitar.
Darkest Prison: Even so, Thomas can be found huddled in a closet the next morning, petrified
BardicLasher: Aaand morning time, yay!
Darkest Prison: (and might as well end session for tonight, ship travel next week, then big dungeon)
.......
BardicLasher: ((Bracers of Murder might be cool for Dais. 8000 GP, +2 to attack and damage vs flatfooted foes, reroll 1s on SA)) Drow of the Underdark