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[Waistcoatwill]

Sure thing, Spellcraft (1d20+14)[16]

Another 2!

[MrAbdiel]

Okay, that’ll be enough to bring down the astral construct but you’ve drawn at least some attention to your position. Where are the other three of you going next?

I just don't really wanna resolve six seconds for you at the same time as about five minutes of action from Cypher

Lamorak's plan is to give this woman a chance to talk up how chemically knowledgeable her husband is; then to take disguises from her hovel as we had first hoped, and start making out way to wherever the husband is to extract him. Having been noticed, the plan needs to be truncated; but if we're lucky, these two will atleast have enough information that we can plan more carefully for a later insertion. If we're REALLY lucky, this woman's husband will have enough knowledge that he'll be able to get our gunpowder project started, and he will be rewarded.

Plan: Convince our captive/conspirator to join us. Then find her husband and do likewise, then bug out. At some point, Cypher has to find us and rejoin; and it wouldn't hurt to loot the corpses of the murdered guards, too.

[Waistcoatwill]

Initiative (1d20+8)[28]

Will save (1d20+8)[24]

Burning through my escape/evasion abilities here! Are there obvious mages or constructs in close proximity on the wall? Trying to decide between fly or dimension door as a means to get far enough away that they can't track him.

Edit: Oh yeah, now I get a natural 20, for badness sake!

[JbeJ275]

The wall definitely had constructs on it, as well as elven guards who can be assumed to probably have some mages among their number.

[Waistcoatwill]

Another 2! Flight might have been more sensible, but if they'd still tagged him with something to reveal him he'd hVe been a sitting duck.

[JbeJ275]

Okay, that all works and with you succeediing the will roll they have no way of tracking you to more than the general area but with a two you're going to struggle to remember where along the paath you turned off to get to here. Roll something... Knowledge (Geography) maybe although I'd take other ideas... to quickly find your way back to the group and the roll will affect how long they have to wait for you, remebering that you are now being looked for so getting clear from detect spells ASAP is probably a good idea.

[Dusk Raven]

I had an idea and decided to act on it. Unfortunately, I remembered partway through that Maiabel is bad at Search.

[MrAbdiel]

I commend the initiative! Checking under the bed was my thought too - seems like she probably has some kind of escape door, or panic closet, I figure.

[JbeJ275]

OK, can Miaobell roll me an Escape Artist check for squeezing into a small space, and also a Tumble check and reflex save just in case.

[Dusk Raven]

Will do. Mind if I roll here?

Escape Artist: (1d20+5)[7]
Tumble: (1d20+18)[28]
Reflex Save: (1d20+13)[17]

[Dusk Raven]

As a heads-up, that Moonstone Mask that Maiabel has isn't just for show - it also gives her 30 feet of darkvision!

[JbeJ275]

Ah got it. I looked for Darkvision on your sheet but couldn't find the feature noted. I'll bear that in mind for the future and make some edits to the post.

Expect some minor delays on that front as I wait for the heat to stop melting my brain.

[JbeJ275]

Ah got it. I looked for Darkvision on your sheet but couldn't find the feature noted. I'll bear that in mind for the future and make some edits to the post.

Expect some minor delays on that front as I wait for the heat to stop melting my brain.

Okay, edits made. My apologies for the delay.

[Waistcoatwill]

Did we frisk the bodies of the guards yet? ID papers would be handy. How long would it take to borrow their clothes/armour as a disguise?

[JbeJ275]

You have not yet frisked them, roll search if you want to check them over.

Changing their armour for your own would take 2-3 minutes.

[MrAbdiel]

Ah HAH, there's a slave resistance! Nice work, Maiabel. DuskRaven, if you can RP your way into some kind of sustained relationship with them - perhaps the start of what might become a pipeline for escaped humans to flee to the Protectorate, paying their way with stolen magical/alchemical doodads - this whole thing will have been worth it!

[Dusk Raven]

If. Negotiations tend to be extremely difficult for me, since I have a hard time thinking of what to say. Still, Maiabel and I will do our best!

[Waistcoatwill]

Disguise as the guard or the captain? Cypher has 1 inspiration point left so he can either have +10 to disguise from alter selfing into an elf and putting on a uniform or save it to make his bluff a measly +7. Or someone else can yell through the door if they have good bluff. We could say that we have one captive cornered but tell other guards to head in x direction after the captain who is pursuing the other criminals?

Edit: @Dusk Raven. Maiabel is the only one who was able to make it down there, anything she can manage will be just peachy, no pressure!

[Darius Vibrtrar]

Well sharkan is attempting to Disguise the lord as a more convincing captive.

You can go for the officer, sharkan can aid or lead, up to you. And sharkan will try to play off as the secondary guard

Smears blood and dirt on the lord lol

[Waistcoatwill]

Cypher speaks Elvish, does anyone else? If not he'll take the lead but would appreciate aid from his allies who actually have ranks in bluff!

My suggestion would be to try to send then to secure the other assailants who escaped because we have this area locked down. Would adding something about disfiguring magic help the others keep their distance maybe? Any other ideas?

[Darius Vibrtrar]

nope, no elves in here, or elvish

[MrAbdiel]

Alas, I speak only the tongues of men and devils. Good luck Cypher!

[Waistcoatwill]

Well that roll went far better than expected!

[Dusk Raven]

Indeed it did, hopefully they roll poorly.

Meanwhile, I... never actually picked languages for Maiabel. Oops. I suppose it would be poor form to pick Elvish now.... what other languages would she have been likely to encounter? I can pick two.

[Waistcoatwill]

I surprised myself when I realised I'd already picked them!

[Waistcoatwill]

Cypher is stalling for time for the other guards to move out of earshot and ideally get one of the newcomers in range for death attacks etc. His aim will be to throw insults and commands in common at Lamorak so that the others understand the situation.

[Waistcoatwill]

I can't believe I'm missing the 3.0 innuendo skill! It would actually fit for once. Cypher is definitely not implying that Sharkan should successfully get Lamorak to move. Hopefully we can annoy the newcomers and get one or both up close.

[JbeJ275]

It seems to be a divination spell of some kind.

[MrAbdiel]

I kind of want to see the Pit, so I reckon I’m following along for the moment. atleast until we pass through a discrete murder locale!

[JbeJ275]

That’s fine, the question then is whether Miabell is staying behind or trying to follow somehow.