Post-Apocalyptic Eberron team 1

[wadledo]

Marcutio

"Well, that was so ****ing fun."
The halfing goes over to inspect the corpses for any of the fabled Kython natural weapon crap.
"Anybody here talk to the dead?"
The halfling checks the room that nobodies been in, preparing to blast anything that would attack him into a puddle of dessicated goo.

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2 Uses of Resistance.
Posion: (1d20+10)[19]
(1d20+10)[25]
Prepare Enervation for anything on the other side of the door that attacks me(readied action).

[sidhe_blooded]

Faolan

I hate f***ing acid, chemical burns sting like a b**ch.
Faolan says as the shadows surrounding him fade and his flesh repairs itself.
@ Marcutio-You find anything useful in there half pint?

[Oslecamo]

Behind the closed door is what seems like a simple bedroom. Except it's half covered in dried blood and on top of the bed are four onyx black eggs the size of fists half covered in some green slime. No creatures in sight. Marcutio recognizes the eggs as Kython eggs. On top of a desk is also an opened book with a quill and ink nearby, just at the side of a big wooden box.


(search checks to find kython weaponry and other valuables)

[sidhe_blooded]

Faolan

Faolan's eyes widen slightly at the sight of so much wasted blood, but he knows the group needs to find the package if they want to get paid, so he begins searching.

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search check- (1d20+24)[35]
and just in case, listen check- (1d20+26)[32]

[wadledo]

Marcutio

"That's insanely pleasant."

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Take 20 on search check: 22

[Oslecamo]

In the kitchen lay the remains of six half- eaten humanoids, one of them surely a dwarf. There's also remains of normal food everywhere, and it seems like the Kythons devoured most soft things in the house, including carpets and clothes, except the bed sheets, wich seem to have been improvised in a nest.

The wooden box is opened and empty, and at his side rests an half opened book, wich in closer inspection reveals itself to be a diary. Most of the pages are half covered in blood or ripped off, but you manage to get out the following parts:

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Bloody mission...Should never have acepted it...Stormreach deeps are hell itself...Lost two party members already...

Managed to find the place where they're breeding them... We move in tomorrow to snatch the eggs as our employer requested...

Lost rest of the party to the guards and those bloody Kythons, as they're called...But I escaped, more money for me, hehe... Gotta find new party when this's over...

Hidden at meeting point, gotta stay low for several days, then they'll send some unknown idiots to retrieve the eggs inside this box they gave me, or so goes the plan... Well, guess I can rest a little for now...

I can't fu***ing believe this! The eggs hatched! Some bizzarre larvas came out. They have big teeths, and little more. Wish I had a cage still. I hope they still pay me the same price for them. Gotta go prepare some food, they look hungry, and I doubt they'll pay me for dead specimens...

Those things are growing really fast. I wonder if I should really be feeding them this much...

The bastards are eating everything they can get their hands into! They're geting pretty strong also, had to get out of the room and lock them inside. I hope they don't grow any more or they'll manage to breack down the door at this rate. Gotta go sleep now, that bite left me feeling pretty weak, and I'm out of antidotes...

Among all the rooms you find the following things that may still be worth something:

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-40 CP
-300 SP
-1200 GP
-A fire opal on a gold ring
-Silver chain with a pendant of two hands bracing each other
-Two vials with glowing green substance.
-Vial with yellow oil.
-Three scrolls hidden inside a secret chamber
-Worn out looking wand
-4 Kython eggs
-Strange tube that is easily separated from one of the dead Kython's body and seems to pulsate in your hands, as if it was alive. One end is opened and from inside comes an acidic smell, and the other is closed and bulbous. Closer inspection reveals some kind of handle that allows it to be wielded as some exotic crossbow.

[Gorgondantess]

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grr. Won't be able to even carry my damn armor after all this.
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Vaine stumbles through the house, a dead look on his face, but it lightens up when he sees the loot. "Not bad... now, let's gather those eggs and the loot and get out of here."

[Oslecamo]

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[Gorgondantess]

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Damn forum roller... grmble...
(1d20+7)[24]
(1d20+7)[14]
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woo, only 1 strength damage! I'm at 11 now, I believe.

[sidhe_blooded]

Faolan

@ Vaine-I knew you smelled funny, you're a bloody dragon. What are you doing down here with us mere mortals?

[Ryuuk]

Elail

"Gesh, poor bastard... Could hardly move when he was eaten. And someone down there's actually breeding the things?" He looks over their findings, 4 live, 4 eggs, and checks what few bit are legible in the diary for some concrete number. The guild would have had a field day with this one...

"I wouldn't exactly call anyone that moves that fast a mortal. At least you're not as normal as you could be. Nowadays nobody really is anymore." He shrugs and puts he diary in the box, putting the lid back on it once the eggs are placed inside. "Still, if the dragon says we should be going, lets scram. Anyone that doesn't want to walk back, get over here." The markings on his hands and neck seem to change in color, bouncing between blue and purple.

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Assuming there's no arguments, he'll use his Greater Dragonmark's Teleport to get back to the temple.

Should we split the loot IC or OoC?

[Gorgondantess]

"Why do you think I walk in disguise? To be left alone from you people and your stares. No, I will not go into the wilds and make a lair... some upstart hero would kill me, if only to be named dragon slayer. I will make my hoard your way- through work. Now, let's go. The longer we stay here, the likelier those things will hatch. Come on." He casts alter self, and walks over to Elail.

[sidhe_blooded]

Faolan

Oh, I'm entirely mortal. I've picked up a few skills in my travels is all.

@ Vaine- I was not suggesting you move off into the wilderness, merely curious as to what you're doing here is all.

Faolan responds to the grumpy dragon before moving to Elail's side.

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I think we should split up loot OOC personally, but if people want to do it IC then that's fine too.

[Oslecamo]

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It's still around 16 hours before you're suposed to deliver the box. You have time for some gathering information or walking around or whatever. Or do you want me to skip the time to that moment?

[Ryuuk]

Elail

Elail shrugs as the group gathers, "Just make contact for a second, 's all need." The marks grow particularly bright and in a flash, the dingy, bloodied room disappears and are replaced by the busy streets in front of the temple, the wooden box in the middle of the four.

"We have a bit of free time, so I'll be back before we're due to meet the man. See ya'll in a bit, good luck with those burns." That said, he wanders off.

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16 hours, so a pair of Gather Info checks are doable. He'll try to find out anything regarding the trade of Siberys shards, trying to find a specialist in high quality ones, not only in selling them, but also their practical application.

Gather Info: (1d20+7)[24] in (1d4+1)[3]
Gather Info: (1d20+7)[22] in (1d4+1)[2]

[sidhe_blooded]

Faolan

Thanks for the ride.

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Faolan will go look for his daily meal, gonna attempt to find a stray animal or a homeless guy or something.

spot check- [roll0]
hide check- [roll1]

assuming I find a guy and he's not the 1 in 10 who's not actually a normal homeless guy/animal con damage- [roll2]

[Oslecamo]

Elail

After buying some drinks and cheap trinkets to several people, the crusader discovers the following:

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Since the day of Mourning, Shiberys shards have been even more rare than normal due to the breack of the trade routes and the increase of danger of the wilderness.

However, there are still groups that hunt for them, specially in the jungles of Xen'drink, and then sell them in towns for a living.

In Stormreach in particular every few weeks appears some group who has managed to collect some handfulls of shyberis shards. Normally in a matter of few days all the shards have been bought by particulars, artificers and others interested. Only in those moments are shards available in the open market.

There's however one exception Elail discovers when offering a beer to a dwarf. In the second layer of Stormreach there's an duergar artificer, Pedregulho, who has studied shyberis dragonshards for all his life and their pratical aplications, the main reason why he stablished himself in Stormreach more than two hundred years ago, and still lives there.

Pedregulho keeps a small but well stocked magic items shop on the second layer, togheter with a low profile to don't atract unwanted atention. It seems like he pays good money to make sure he has first pick on any shyberis dragonshards that arrive in Stormreach, and keeps a stock of them all the time. He's more than willing to talk about the subject, to anyone who can endure his bad manners. He's also ready to part with his beloved dragonshards, as long as you offer him enough gold for the trouble. Pedregulho charges at least twice as much as the normal market price for shyberis dragonshards, but you're assured to receive a beatifull (and effecient) piece of duergar craftmanship in return.

There's still time for a small visit to Pedregulho and going back to the temple in the time missing to meet again with your employeer.

Faolan

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Can't see the rolls.

Well, random ecounter in a 1:(1d10)[1]

[wadledo]

Marcutio

"Well, I'm confused as to why they choose some random guys off the street to take a box from a guy who they should have known was either a target or in danger of dying by creatures who have absolutely no business being here."

[Oslecamo]

Faolan

After three hours of carefull search, the skirmisher finally spots dirty elf wich seems completely harmless, sleeping inside a ragged blanket at the shadowy corner of a house. With a little discretion, Faolan should be able to aproach, drink his fill of blood and go away whitout anyone noticing anything

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Hide, move silently and Con damage

[sidhe_blooded]

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hide- (1d20+45)[60]
move silently- (1d20+41)[44]
con damage- (1d4)[3]

[Oslecamo]

A discrete aproach, a quick bite when no one's looking and then keep going, Faolan satisfies his thirst for blood. For today. As for the elf maiden, she'll awake specially tired...

(So, anyone else wanna do stuff before the meeting?)

[wadledo]

Marcutio

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I'm going to randomly follow someone.
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Faolan: 1
Elail: 2
Vaine: 3
Hide mod: +4, but I am flying, and using invisibility, and using extended Alter Self.
Move Silently: +6, but *as above*.

[sidhe_blooded]

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In the highly unlikely event that you can keep up with me
spot- (1d20+26)[36]
listen- (1d20+26)[28]
I also have scent, if I detect you I'm going to do my best to lose you, and I'm pretty sure I'm faster than you and if I'm not I have hide in plain sight.

[Oslecamo]

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Well you're in a pretty crowded place and he's invisible.

If Marcutio is smart enough to keep out of scent range(30 feet) then Faolan just hears something flying at a good distance from him.

However if Faolan is too paranoid about the flying thing behind him and chooses to hide in plain sight, Marcutio very probably loses him and loses Faolan's trail.

[Gorgondantess]

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Vaine will attempt to rest off the poison.

[wadledo]

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He is most likely smart enough, but if Faolan gets really paranoid and disappears, Marcutio will just stop hiding, try to find a glimpse of him and give a big hearty shout of "Hey Faolan, how's it going?" then fly away.
Only if he finds a few wing-beats in a packed-underground-city teaming with a huge number of various different types of creatures odd, that is.

[sidhe_blooded]

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a few wing beats of something he can't see, especially when he knows there's an ornery little fairy guy that he might have to work with again. yeah, he's a little paranoid about people finding out what he is so he'd disappear.

[Oslecamo]

The day passes as you take care of your businesses, night falls and then the sun rises again.

On the streets you can clearly hear the news of how some beasts with acidic blood were found dead in the second layer, inside a house wich was clearly robbed and contained several other dead half-eaten humanoids. There aren't any witnesses but the rumors have spread wide, since a cannabilistic cult to some breeding experience gone horribly wrong. The forces of order from Stormreach promise to work to solve the case, but everybody knows most kills in Stormreach get unpunished by the law(what's left of it anyway).

For those of you return to the temple at the combined hour, the hooded figure appears again, with incredible precision, but this time doesn't take you to inside. Making a quick look around, it turns to you and asks in a low calm voice:

You got it?

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Well if you don't want to do anything else then I'll skip the time untill the new meeting.

[sidhe_blooded]

Faolan

There were a few surprises down there, did you know anything about it before you sent us?

[Ryuuk]

Elail

That's probably why he sent the four of us Elail puts the box before their employer. "The crew taking care of it made a mess of things. They also ran out of luck, as I'm sure you've already heard. What could be salvaged, and what's left of their log is inside, for your inspection."