You bring your homebrew class 2!

[Kagehime]

"Fair enough. Okay, you mentioned money and goods? I want a share badly. Don't get me wrong, it's for--fairly--unselfish reasons. Hm? Oh," she added, glancing around to make sure everything was alright after all. "鼬 リン です. That is, I am Rin Itachi."

[SurlySeraph]

"I'm Ainariel Carnesir. Nice to know the name of at least one of the people I'm working with."

Ainariel goes to look at the loot.

[Kagehime]

"A pleasure. I doubt you'd know, but it's nice to have a full name again." Rin gives a respectful bow, then turns and calls to the others. "I want some of the gold, and let me have a look at that hood!"

[Emperor Tippy]

Akresh smiles and says "Those items are magical, at least as far as I can ascertain. I would be careful with them until we figure out what they do. as he indicates one set of items with a wave of a hand As for what everyone's cut is; that first off depends on what the actual value of all of this is and how we are going to decide to split this and any future goods that we gain over the course of this venture. I mean, that armor is worth at least twenty-six pounds of gold. And the collection of potions there is worth around the same, at a minimum. And those daggers are worth around 300 golden crowns each, so that's another 2,400 crowns worth of items. Another 1,400 crowns for that leather armor, it's all of excellent manufacture. Another 2,600 crowns for those bow's. So from just their weapons and armor we are looking at 5,400 crowns. And I don't even begin to know the value of some of these things, that armor taken from the demon for example. I can't even figure out what it's made of."

[sidhe_blooded]

Samantha

I vote we split up loot evenly, with the possible exception of the bat-&@%# crazy psion.

[Emperor Tippy]

Akresh smiles and says "And how about group expenses? Say a wand of a healing spell, who buys that? What happens if one of us gets cursed and needs to pay a cleric to break it, does that come out of his share or the groups? How about goods gained when one or more members of the group aren't present, do they get a cut? How do we handle items that one member of the group could use when splitting treasure, do we count it as full market value or just the price that we could realize by selling it? What if an item that they would find useful makes up more than their share, do they have to pay in the extra or does it just come out of their future shares?

And this is all just dealing with splitting up the goods. What about our obligations to one another? If one of us gets injured do we expect Rin here to heal us for free, or does she expect payment? How about if she needs special materials that cost a significant amount of money to obtain? If you get captured am I obligated to attempt a rescue? If I get captured are you likewise obligated? What are the conditions upon leaving the group? Does a certain amount of notice need to be provided? Does one gain a share of any group wealth or do they forfeit their share?

As for the bat-**** crazy psion, what are we going to do with him? Kill him and take his shinnies? Tell him too get lost? If we did, would he go?

Nothing is ever as easy or simple as it appears on the surface."

[sidhe_blooded]

Samantha

It is if you don't overcomplicate it, while we're adventuring together we should share expenses, Rin has already demonstrated her willingness to heal us for free, but if expensive components are required then that would be a group expense. There isn't really a protocol for leaving the group, but we are all adventuring together for the duration of our agreement with the captain. The psion has shown that he is willing to assault us, so yes, I say we ask him to leave, if he doesn't then we can take it from there.

[Oslecamo]

You wanna take the bodies? Well, you should have your reasons-says the captain, who then turns to one passing crewmand and tells him-Hey, you, take them to one of the empty storage boxes. You can put whatever you want there, and we won't make any questions about what's in there, but the box stays on the ship, so you gotta take what you want before leaving.


Then the crewman guides you to one of the lower rooms of the airship, fited with several large wooden boxes carved with red runes. He opens one of them, and when you look inside it there's an open space much bigger than the box itself, clearly some extradimensional space magic.

The following items show to be magic:

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Mythral chainshirt, faint aura.
Large chainshirt barding, moderate aura.
Large black masterwork greatsword who instantly refited to Akresh size as he grabs it, moderate aura.
Ceremonial dagger with a star ruby, faint aura.
The nine brass rings, one from each killed bandit. The one in the necromancer doesn't come out from his finger however no matter how hard Akresh tries. Moderate aura.
The pair of boots that look made of some exotic soft material, faint aura.
A stange bag, dark blue bag with black runes stitched on it, moderate.
Thirty six potions of various kinds, all faint.
Nine scrolls, all faint.
One wand, faint.

[Emperor Tippy]

"Well, does anyone have a way to identify what, exactly, the items in the magic pile do? I've mostly exhausted the extent of my abilities in that field by figuring out which ones are magical in the first place."

[Kagehime]

"Huh. Good question. I can only detect magic, too."

[SurlySeraph]

"I don't know about the rest of it, but I can definitely figure out what most of the potions and scrolls do. I'll look them over. It might take a me a while, though. As for the rest... I don't want to risk giving him anything too powerful, but perhaps we should wake the madman up and have him test some of these things. We can flatter him into telling him that we know the items are powerful and that we want him to wear them. If they're cursed, we'll know. If not, we only have to wait until he goes back to sleep to have them back."

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I'll take 10 on Spellcraft checks (for a total of 25) to identify the potions and scrolls. I'll do the same for Spellcraft checks to determine whether the brass rings were created or shaped by magic.

If I can, I'll do the same on Knowledge (Arcana) checks (for a total of 18) to see if I know anything about the other items.

[Emperor Tippy]

Akresh seems lost in thought and then snaps his fingers and says "Oh wait, I just remembered something" as he pulls out a small cube from his belt, it's jet black and about 4 cubic inches in size. "I received this from an artificer a few years back and never got a chance to see if it actually worked. It's supposed to identify the properties of magic items."

With that he places it on the mithral armor and says "Identify"

[Oslecamo]

After some carefull study and smelling, Ainariel quickly discovers the purposes of the potions and scrolls:

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8 potions of pass whitout trace lv1
8 potions of shield lv1
8 potions of shield of faith lv1
8 potions of camouphlage lv1
2 potion of cure light wounds lv1
2 potions of jump lv1

Scroll of expeditous retreat lv 1
2 scrolls of ghost sound lv 1
Scroll of true strike lv1
Scroll of pass whitout trace lv1
Scroll of disguise self
2 scrolls of cure light wounds
Scroll of shield of faith lv1
Scroll of shield lv1

[Oslecamo]

With a click, the upper face of the cube lights up, and in the air above it appears a floating blue glowing text:

Welcome to Identify Visao, your daily identifying tool for work and home.
You've requested to identify an item. Are you sure you wish to identify the the item?

When someone says yes, the text changes and becomes:

Analyzing, please wait...

Wich some seconds later are replaced by:

This magic item has been brought to you by WondrousSoft. All crafting rights reserved.

Wich then changes again to the analyzing text, untill around a quarter hour later the text becomes green and says the following:

Item analysis complete:
Level one enanchment bonus armor with silent moves adition.

[Emperor Tippy]

Akresh seems a bit stunned at the cube and says "Well it appears that it does work. Time to identify the rest of these items."

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Just repeat the process for all the other magical items. Feel free to list them all at once.

[Kagehime]

"Okay, that was just...odd," mutters Rin, crouching down to take a look at the identified potions and scrolls. Nothing she needs there, she notices with a sigh, fiddling with her hair as she would her whiskers in hybrid form. Well, that could just mean more gold for me. Or those magic items will turn out to be useful, who knows?

[Emperor Tippy]

"Yeah. Odd about covers it."

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Are the 69 arrows masterwork or just regular arrows?

Tally of items and their GP values:
8 Masterwork Daggers - 2,416
8 Masterwork Shortbows - 2,640
8 Masterwork Studded Leather - 1,400 GP
Coins - 4,017 GP
+1 Mithral Chainshirt of Silent Moves - 5,850 GP
Bag of Holding I - 2,500 GP
Boots of Elvenkind - 2,500 GP
Black Fleshgrinder - 11,050 GP
Sacrificial knife - 8,302 GP
Demonmight ward chainshirt barding - 5,000 GP (an estimate)
Servant Rings - 4,000 GP
8 potions of pass without trace - 400 GP
8 potions of shield - 400 GP
8 potions of shield of faith - 400 GP
8 potions of camouflage - 400 GP (what book is this from?)
2 potion of cure light wounds - 100 GP
2 potions of jump - 100 GP
Scroll of expeditious retreat - 25 GP
2 scrolls of ghost sound - 25 GP
Scroll of true strike - 25 GP
Scroll of pass without trace - 25 GP
Scroll of disguise self - 25 GP
2 scrolls of cure light wounds - 50 GP
Scroll of shield of faith - 25 GP
Scroll of shield - 25 GP


Items that haven't bee priced yet:
-Six brass mugs with jade inlays, empty.
-Six golden idols of a bald man with a goatee.
-A beautifully black velvet mantle with numerous onyx stones in the interior
-Sixteen black and red opal stones incrustated in the demon's carapace

[sidhe_blooded]

Samantha

Weird it may be, but it appears to work.

[Oslecamo]

The storm seems to finally come down as the identifying box analyzes the remaining items.

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Sacrificial knife, +1 dagger that grants +3 to knowledge religion to performing sacrificial checks and +3 bonus to all knowledge religion ten minutes after performing a sacrifice.

Demonmight ward chainshirt barding:+1 to AC and saves against attacks and spells from good creatures, an extra +1 to AC and saves against creatures with the good descriptor and spells with the good descriptor.

Black fleshgrinder: adamantine greatsword, when it hits a foe the user may activate it as a free action and drop it. The weapon keeps attacking by itself the foe for five turns, hiting automatically and dealing damage just as if the user was still wielding it, whitout need of any extra action by part of the user. Can be stoped by a sucessfull strenght check of DC20, in wich case the foe is now using the fleshgrinder.

Bag of holding type 1

Boots of elven skin. Grant +5 competence bonus to move silently checks.

Servant rings. Those rings are connected to a master ring. Three times per day, the master ring may exchange a message spell with each of the servant rings.

(Camophlage is from complete divine, druid spell)

[Kagehime]

Rin sighs, hearing the...thing read off the properties of items. Still nothing good. "Well. You guys take those things then, I've already got a magic bag, so I'll take jewels and gold...it's more what I want, anyway."

[Emperor Tippy]

Akresh says "Well, none of those items are of particular interest to me. I propose that we place all of this stuff in the bag of holding and sell it as the opportunity arises and then split the proceeds. In fact I propose that that is what we do with all the wealth gained on this venture. The coinage can be used to cover incidental expenses for the group that we can't get the captain to pay for."

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What's the wand of and how many charges does it have left?

[SurlySeraph]

Ainariel looks over the equipment, with a wince of distaste at the elven skin boots. He thinks for a moment. "That sacrifical dagger could be useful to me. I'll take it. Other than that, I don't mind if you sell the rest."
Ainariel pulls a dagger hidden in his boot out, places it into the bag of holding, and sheathes the sacrifical dagger where the mundane dagger was.

[Emperor Tippy]

Akresh shrugs and says "Fine with me, I'll remember and count it's cost against your final cut."

[The Glyphstone]

“…Ghat ‘ey, dat stuff done pack a whallop…”

Seemingly out of nowhere, a small pocket window opens near the roof, disgorging a short rope that hangs out of thin air. Moments later, a colorful, wiry figure emerges from the extradimensional pocket and slides down the rope, landing on the deck with a small thud.

Standing up, the unexpected arrival proves to be an elf of some sort, though one of clearly exotic origins. He is tall and well-tanned, though sporting all manner of decorative tattoos in various colors on his face and arms, many of which continue under the darkleaf breastplate he is wearing. A number of small trinkets and charms, some of which resemble crude dolls, hang from his belt, but for the moment, he is looking around in rather bleary-eyed confusion.

“Rhaatid!? Ya people not be da Flamerazahs, and dis ain’t de Silvah Phoenix…wha in da spirit’s name be going on here?”

[Emperor Tippy]

As the window opens daggers appear in both of Akresh's hands and within seconds he has one across the elves throat and the other pokeing him in the kidney "You have about 6 seconds to tell me why you are here, honest answers would be the most conducive to your surviving the conversation."

[SurlySeraph]

Ainariel jumps up. The sudden arrival of an elf, even a confused one, throws him into a panic. Inverting Akresh's reaction, Ainariel immediately draws his rapier and dagger and skitters backwards. "Who are you?! Are you here for me?! Are you a druid?! How did you get here?! What do you want?! Why are you people still trying to kill me?! Who ARE you?!"

[Kagehime]

"This is going to be a long trip, I can t--"

Instead of completing that sentence, Rin is distracted, and whirls as something catches her attention. Seeing what it is, she has to blink. Yes, some strange, brightly outfitted elf really did just drop onto the deck. Hearing his words, she sighs again.

Wonderful. More crazies. Especially as paranoid what's-his-name attempted to stab him. She glanced over at the two, and smoothed back her hair, trying--perhaps, as the priestess here--to be the voice of reason.

"Now let's just calm down here..."

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Diplomacy check to settle the situation down with the others: (1d20)[13] + 9.

...What is he, an Ork?

[The Glyphstone]

The movement of Akresh seems to sober up the new arrival immensely, though not fast enough to dodge the daggers. Despite this, he seems remarkably calm, turning his head to look Akresh directly in the eyes despite the knife at his throat. The elf's eyes are a dark blue, and as far as the assassin can tell, completely unconcerned - combined with the wild tattoos across his face, it would be mildly disconcerting at the very least.

"If we're gonna be talkin' bout anythin' mon, I'd strongly suggest ya take ya daggahs away - it not be too conducive to ya health eaythah tah be threatenin' me like dat."

[SurlySeraph]

Rin's words don't stop Ainariel from hyperventilating, but they do calm him down a bit. "I am calm, Rin. I will continue to be calm if this man is not an Aerenal druid come to get me the moment I made the mistake of coming back into the open. If he is what I suspect he is, though on second thought he doesn't look like one of my people but of course you get lots of odd sorts these days so he still could be but then - " Ainariel gasps for breath. "Okay. Talk to him, then. I'm going to be back here until I'm sure he won't turn into a fire-breathing bear." Without taking an eye off of Ikatani, Ainariel retreats until his back hits a wall, and calls his skeletal dinosaurs to his side.

[Emperor Tippy]

Akresh smiles evilly at the elf who turned his head at an unnatural angle as his eyes turn red and his canines lengthen and sharpen into fangs. "Within the past two hours over a dozen people and one demon have tried to kill me. I'm still alive, they aren't. Now you just appeared inside our airship, which is supposed to be a reasonably secure location. I would like to know why, especially since my friend here seems to think that you might be here to kill him. Personally, you don't seem like the type of person that any of my enemies would send to kill me but I've learned that it's best to not take chances. So how about you start talking and if I like your answers the daggers go away? If you don't like that option, I can always just stab you. And even if you manage to survive the stabbing, there are five of us and one of you."

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Using my minor shapechange ability to the red eyes and fangs