Chat Log - 2022 02 18 - Cosmological Quandaries - Cloak Check - Formatted - Story
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'Lorie' connected
BOB Hey there Lorie
Lorie (Licornah ): Hey Hey - how are things going?
BOB Life is good
Lorie (Licornah ): I saw the photos from the event last week - looks like it was a great evening
BOB It was a lot of fun
BOB did you try the hologram?
Lorie (Licornah ): I didn't.... I don't think I saw the link for it
BOB It is in the Discord
Lorie (Licornah ): and do you have a podcast that I'm not listening to?
Licornah : Okies... will go find
BOB grins, yeap, I post it on Facebook on Thursday evenings at 7:30
BOB for the library
Lorie (Licornah ): I'm missing that too... Okay will add
BOB and the monthly one is the last Tuesday of the month
Lorie (Licornah ): Are you on apple at all for that ?
BOB Nope
BOB there are no RSS feeds outside of the County
Lorie (Licornah ): Okies
BOB stinks
Licornah : No worries, will grab on FB
Lorie (Licornah ): (ugh keep going IC versus OOC - sorry)
BOB Also what ever image you like for your character, and if you want a Lorie icon you can create that too, that is what Carissa, Lemon and TMO have done
Lorie (Licornah ): Okies... I'm not that wrapped up in all the icons - I'm just me
BOB grins
BOB So the map is set up with full Line of Sight
BOB I will go over that again later
BOB but it should mean that you only see what your light course allows
BOB source
'Spring' connected
Lorie (Licornah ): You said we were going to sleep at the end of last week right? So we need watches and whatnot?
BOB no watches
BOB Hello Spring
BOB very glad the dome of no emergencies worked
Spring: knock wood
Spring: so far
Lorie (Licornah ): Hey there Spring!
BOB you will get to the cave then sleep
Spring: oddly, i'm a raven. i wonder what happened
Spring: which is fair, my middle name is LeNore
BOB you can always change to what ever you wish Spring
Spring: to be sure. just wondering why it changed without me
Lorie (Licornah ): LeNore = Eleanor
Lorie (Licornah ): Queen of Acquitaine from the 12th century -- you're royal Spring :)
Spring: oooooo
Lorie (Licornah ): you'd need an I for black or lose the o in French
Spring: my mother's middle name is Lenora. i thinkk she took liberties with my N
Spring: okay, my colleague has gone home. i am unsupervised! LOL
Spring: i guess unaccompanied would be more accurate
Lorie (Licornah ): Whooooo hooooo - congrats for that :)
BOB Wonderful
Lorie (Licornah ): Lenora is a derivative of Aileonra (there's a grave / aigue accent in there somewhere I didn't add)
Spring: is that Celtic?
Lorie (Licornah ): Lenora is a derivative of Aileonra (there's a grave / aigue accent in there somewhere I didn't add)
Lorie (Licornah ): Old English / Celtic as I read... yes
Spring: oops
Spring: i was just trying to copy/paste but i guess that's not happening
Lorie (Licornah ): So grandma and you -- named for a Queen :)_
BOB It should work
Lorie (Licornah ): Sorry BOB, why no watches again?
BOB we are being nice about that
'Lisa' connected
BOB Hello LIsa
BOB Lisa too
'Carissa' connected
Lorie (Licornah ): Evening Lisa
Spring: hi Lisa!
BOB and Hello Carissa
Lorie (Licornah ): Evening Carissa
Spring: hi Carissa!
Lisa: Hello! :)
Spring: um, potential emergency brb
Lisa: no emergencies! not allowed
Carissa: Hi all! Computer taking it's sweet time loading.
BOB grins
Spring: okay it looks like it's in an SEP field :-)
Spring: Somebody Else's Problem
Lisa: I like that!
Lorie (Licornah ): Ahhhh.... good to hear :)
BOB excellent
Spring: that's a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference
Spring: it's how improbability engines work
Lisa: :)
'TMO' connected
Spring: they generate things that people can't cope with that become somebody else's problem
Lorie (Licornah ): (Read that once a year... and Teagan likes the movie)
BOB Hello TMO
Spring: hi TMO!
Carissa: Hi TMO!
Lisa: Hi TMO :)
Carissa (Carissa): Okay nope I can't do this. I'm going to restart computer to see if that helps. brb
'Carissa' disconnected
TMO: hello!
BOB SO everyone is here but Michael (Carissa is coming back)
BOB We will expect Lemon to show up because I left her out
Lisa: She's coming
BOB you will have full hit points and full spells
BOB and you know you are going to deal with giants and if you leave there and come back to base they will have a chance to regroup
Lisa: how will they know we will come back if we run away? They might think we will not come back
BOB This is true
'Lemon' connected
Lisa: i never think that things that run away from us will come back
BOB Hello Lemon
Lisa: That would be interesting if you started making runners come back
Lisa: Hi Lemon! :)
Spring: hi Lemon!
BOB smiles with Lisa
TMO: I get no message I can see that Lemon joined. How do y'all know?
Lisa: When Bob says so
Lemon: Hello friends!
TMO: ahhh
TMO: Hi Lemon!
Lemon: That took about 12 million years to load, but I made it!
Lisa: Or her icon appears on top
Lorie (Licornah ): Evening Lemon (we don't see the welcome messages, just BOB)
Lemon: Yeah, and BOB types it too early for me to see the greeting anyway, my chat has never loaded yet
Lemon: First thing I saw was bout the runners coming back
Lisa: That was right after Bob saying hello
Lisa: You just missed him!
Lemon: oh, good, didn't miss too much then
Lemon: nothing important :P
BOB smile
TMO: gotta go run and get dinner. pizza tonight
BOB nice
TMO: y'know, that whole fortress looks like it's made of wood. Got Fireball?
BOB LOL
TMO: I expect you'll be cleaning up embers by the time I get back
Lemon: digging through ash, looking for treasures
Lisa: I had a question about killing people and creatures in this elven afterlife place - was going to ask IC
BOB Yes please ask that to the Elves In Character
Lisa: popped in my head today
Lemon: But it's not tuesday!
BOB LOL Lemon
Lisa: I know! I'm late
Lemon: or early?
Lisa: For me, probably late
Lemon: lol
Spring: we only have ideas on Tuesdays?
Lemon: when we're functioning properly, yes
Spring: i've been doing it wrong
Lemon: Only Tuesday, preferably at very late or very early hours when no one else is around
Spring: if i go silent for a bit, please indulge me. i am still keeping an eye on the emergency that so far isn't mine
BOB chuckles and then you post on the site or the discord for people to find in the morning
BOB so you have a quick chance to also plot out what you are going to do once Carissa is back
Lemon: My plan is the same as all my plans: Wait and see what everyone else says first, and then wing it
BOB The only thing you need to do Lemon is make sure you decide which Illunsionist spells you pick for the day
Spring: me too
BOB then you get to be flexible with your priest spells
Lemon: I still have them picked from before, I'm sticking with the same ones
BOB good
BOB makes it faster
BOB Lisa knows what she is doing with spells
BOB Tiberius and Youtargrim do not have spells
Lemon: And yet, for some reason, Tiberius acts like he's in no danger. Almost as if someone with higher knowledge is controlling him
Spring: hmmmmm
BOB He has always lived his life like that
Lemon: Of course he has ;)
BOB His mother was a witch
Lorie (Licornah ): (did he reek of Elderberries?)
BOB LOL
Spring: hahaha
Lemon: lol
TMO: back
'Carissa' connected
Spring: what kind of pizza?
Lemon: anyone want to tell tmo what we found in the wreckage of the fort?
BOB Welcome back TMO and Carissa
Lorie (Licornah ): Okay ... we go to the cave clearly marked "No Harm Will Come to Pass" and we sleep. In the morning, once we are unharmed we will safely continue to our destination?
Branwyn: Spells done
Lisa: And Lemon that is another reason why Branwyn likes Tiberius
TMO: I get italian sausage, black olive, mushroom pizza. Nobody else wants any.
BOB Yes to Lorie
Lisa: good plan
Lisa: I don't want any :)
Spring: sounds good to me
Lisa: Hi Carissa again!
Lorie (Licornah ): (Keep the sausage, but the rest of pizza sounds good)
Carissa: Windows won before I could shut it down. I thnk I'm good now.
Lorie (Licornah ): (How do I get my font to not be green?)
BOB Not sure Lorie
Lemon: Stop being colorblind? (joking)
Lorie (Licornah ): (That's BOB's job) :)
Lorie (Licornah ): (everyone else's text is B/W)
Lisa: Isn't that just the OOC color?
BOB I think? I am not sure
Carissa: we made character sheets for ourselves
Carissa (Carissa): ooc makes it green
BOB Lorie and Lisa look to have the same color I think
Licornah : When I type as my character...
Lemon: Oh, I thought you said fort, lol. And the picture looks kind of reddish brown for me, so I went for a colorblind joke because green and red
Lisa: When I release my character and just talk OOC it's like that
Lemon: It was a pretty good joke if I knew how to read
Lorie (Licornah ): :)
Carissa: oh huh
Lisa: lol Lemon
BOB smiles with Lemon
Lorie (Licornah ): Okay... what else do we need to do before heading to the Cave of No Harm?
BOB You are there in the Cave
Lemon: We did it!
Lorie (Licornah ): I think we call it a night here... consider this a win :)
Lorie (Licornah ): (just kidding)
Carissa: lol
BOB LOL Lorie
Lemon: lol, I was voting like, stop for a meal, congratulate ourselves on making it this far, listen to some Yogurt tales, you know, normal stuff
Lorie (Licornah ): (GMTA!)
Lorie (Licornah ): (It can only go downhill from here :: laughs :: )
Lorie (Licornah ): So... is there a map for this Cave BOB?
BOB No map for the cave
Lisa: test
BOB I can make one for next week if needed
Carissa: yes
Carissa: to Lisa
Lorie (Licornah ): (test = success)
Carissa: did we successfully paint the entrance somehow?
BOB no need to yet Carissa
Lorie (Licornah ): Where is the cave relative to the map please?
BOB only after you come back
Carissa: confused but okay
BOB you are uphill from the Steading about an hour
BOB trying to make this as straightforward tonight
Lorie (Licornah ): :: nods :: Okies... so we had a good night's sleep and we're all prepped and ready to press on into the wilderness of the elven paradise?
Lisa: good luck with that
Lemon: lol
BOB LOL with Lisa
BOB and yes to LOrie
Carissa: See and that's when I'm hung up. It feels like it should be straightforward and yet this adventure will somehow last us months which either means this part won't be straightforward or there is more to be done....
Craigh: elven paradise with evil giant fortress
Lemon: Yeah, I was like "Wow, this comic feels very personal..." when BOB posted that one in the discord
Carissa: everyone has bad neighbors, TMO
Licornah : :: hums the Smurfs tune :: la la ...le la la la. Are we there yet Papa Smurf?
BOB Exactly Carissa
BOB and this is straightforward I promise
Lemon: So now what? We go try to talk to the giants?
Carissa: lies
Carissa: You go talk to Giants
BOB Just go through an evil giant fortress and find a hidden black evil chain and bring it back to a Goddess
Lemon: Or just straight up sneak in and steal their shit?
Lorie (Licornah ): We've done worse, we're Dragonslayers...
BOB Quote
Craigh: My vote is stealth for as long as possible.
Indigo: tugs on N'laea's sleeve
Lorie (Licornah ): I've been practicing my Scooby Sneak
BOB There we go Lisa bringing us into IC
Indigo: Nlaea? This is the elven afterlife place, right?
Carissa: Tempting, but they'd probably smell us. Apparently we smell chunky which might be a good smell to giants.
Carissa: (sorry it kept freezing on me)
Lanek: hm. never been called chunky before.
N'laea: Yes.
Lanek: let alone that i SMELL chunky ..
Craigh: Hopefully stealth implies also not letting them get a whiff of us.
Spring (Lanek): whoops, that was OOC wasn't it
Raelynn: (lol but Craigh said it earlier so still works)
Indigo: So are there rules about killing in the afterlife? I mean, whenever we've run into giants we've had to kill them or get them to run away or we run away
TMO (Craigh): I think it's all IC
Craigh: Valid question. Is everyone here but us immortal?
Indigo: I don't want to kill something here and get in trouble
N'laea: I... hmm, I do not know. I'd certainly advise it against any Elven spirits, but I do not know if these are Giant spirits or simply giants that found their way here.
Lanek: i don't wanna kill something and like unleash a demon or somethin'
N'laea: Their afterlife is not ours.
Craigh: pretends to write down notes.
Craigh: Step 1: sneak inside. Step 2: Ask giant if it can die.
Youtargim: I can do that
N'laea: Youtargim, do you know anything about Giant religion?
N'laea: I wouldn't care back home, but here.... I do not know.
Youtargim: I think that they believe they will go to their own reward to defeat their enemies
Youtargim: If they are here, where ever here is, then I would think that means they can die
Indigo: So it's okay to fight giants?
N'laea shrugs
N'laea: My gods will not care.
Indigo: Or should we just let the sneaky people try to get it and we fight if the sneaky stuff fails
N'laea: It may be expected.
Youtargim: Lots of giants understand negociation and lots of giants only believe in using their club
N'laea slight smile
N'laea: Then I hope you know how to dodge when talking to them for us.
Youtargim: I am going to say what you want me to do
Youtargim: then I am going to duck and let the Countess fireball them, that is what TIberius told me to do
Craigh: I *might* be able to get us past one or two lone sentries, if they don't see us first. But other than that, lurking is about all I'm good for.
Branwyn: looks at Tiberius
N'laea: It would be good to see what we are up against first. Perhaps sneaking would be best, but perhaps not.
N'laea: The Goddess of Moonlight expects the encounter to kill any weak adventurer so a fight is not improbable.
Branwyn: You really want to ruin the fun with me simply obbing a fireball in their direction?
Craigh: Eh, if sneaking doesn't work, you can always switch to stabbing. Harder to go the other direction with it.
Lisa (Branwyn): lobbing
N'laea: True.
Tiberius: Well I am betting if it is a giant fortress you will leave enough for me to take too
Branwyn: laughs
Branwyn: True
Carissa (N'laea): (is it day or night?)
BOB Morning
Carissa (N'laea): (of course)
N'laea: So we go see what we're up against and then make a plan. I would think a giant settlement would be easier to stakeout and see from not too far.
User has gone AFK. (Spring)
BOB You can see it from the cave
N'laea: [SKILL] Observation [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 12) [SUCCESS by 2] [d20 = 10]
Carissa (N'laea): (oh hey she can!)
Lisa (Branwyn): lol
Craigh: [SKILL] Observation [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 15) [FAILURE by 5] [d20 = 20]
BOB There is smoke coming up from the kitchens
Craigh: Fascinating rocks back here.
Bixi Fizzlebang: [SKILL] Alertness [MOD:WIS] (vs. Target 14) [SUCCESS by 13] [d20 = 1]
BOB there are no guards out front
N'laea: [SKILL] Ranger Tracking [2] [MOD:WIS] (vs. Target 17) [SUCCESS by 1] [d20 = 16]
Bixi Fizzlebang: [SKILL] Botany [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 14) [FAILURE by 6] [d20 = 20]
Craigh: No, really. Look at this glinty bit here. I don't think I've seen rocks that look like that before.
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): dang, my dice today
Carissa (N'laea): (Bixi mistakes the glinty rock for a plant)
BOB Craigh might have a point
Craigh: I wonder if any of these might make good spell components?
Branwyn: [SKILL] Observation [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 19) [SUCCESS by 4] [d20 = 15]
TMO (Craigh): (that's what a crit fail will do for you! totally random inspiration that is completely off topic!)
Licornah : [SKILL] Observation (vs. Target 15) [FAILURE by 2] [d20 = 17]
BOB Branwyn looks at the scene below and thinks, they do not have any worries, they do not expect anyone to come after them
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): lol carissa
Branwyn: You should take some in case want to come back here one day
Carissa (Raelynn): (it's a trappppp_)
Craigh: Yeah, let me see if I can pry any loose.
Branwyn: The settlement seems peaceful as if they did not have to worry that anyone or anything would disturb them
Licornah : Decides to spend time praying and giving thanks to Lurue. Squints at Giants' encampment but doesn't seem to notice anything interesting
Raelynn: Hmm...
N'laea: Hmm...
Carissa (N'laea): (oops_
Indigo: Maybe they're nice giants
Bixi Fizzlebang: Is that possible, Indigo?
Indigo: Why not? If they have no enemies here, why wouldn't they be nice?
Bixi Fizzlebang: Will they still be nice when tell them we want something of theirs?
Indigo: Probably not
Youtargim: Can they be bribed?
Licornah : Could we take the shiny rocks and trade?
Youtargim: Do you think they really need that chain?
Bixi Fizzlebang: I mean, if it's that powerful, I'm sure they won't want to give it up
Indigo: If there was a chain that could control me, I would want it more than let someone else have it
Bixi Fizzlebang: Maybe we'll get lucky and they will be really stupid?
N'laea: If they know what it does.
Indigo: Nobody's that stupid
Craigh: I'm pretty certain they won't trade a mighty enchanted artifact for some shiny gravel.
Youtargim: Giants are generally not smart but they tend to be crafty
Lorie (Licornah ): (You should meet some of the warriors I've adventured with :) )
Lisa (Indigo): Is there a big gate to pass to enter?
Lisa (Indigo): Or can we walk right in?
BOB There is a road up to the Steading
N'laea: Giants are... not my specialty. If you would like to try to talk to them first, I will not stop you. I am not used to traveling with such a big group nor one with diplomacy.
BOB nothing until you get right up to the walls
TMO (Craigh): what is this plane called again?
Indigo: Maybe some of us could talk and be a distraction while the sneaky people sneak? We could look for a weakness in the walls to sneak in another way maybe?
Indigo: Do the second first maybe
Carissa (N'laea): (Plane is Olympus, Aravaith is a spot within it)
Craigh: I like that plan, Indigo. Scout it out for weakness before revealing our presence.
Indigo: smiles
N'laea: I agree.
Indigo: So let's go?
Carissa (N'laea): nods
N'laea nods
Licornah : :: stands and readies herself ::
Craigh: can we stick to cover until we're close?
Craigh: I was too busy gathering rocks to check.
Indigo: goes to follow the elves
N'laea sneaks
'Michael' connected
N'laea: [SKILL] Ranger: Move Silently [PERCENT:Ranger: Move Silently] (vs. Target 67) [SUCCESS by 44] [d100 = 23]
N'laea: [SKILL] Ranger: Hide in Shadows [PERCENT:Ranger: Hide in Shadows] (vs. Target 59) [SUCCESS by 8] [d100 = 51]
BOB The steading is out from the hills and trees in a large flat area
Carissa (N'laea): (so...no sneaky areas?)
BOB the primary thing you notice is there is a pathway up to the front doors that a large wagon can travel
BOB from where you are up near the cave that is what you see
N'laea: (did we bring our wagon?????)
BOB how close do you want to get to look around the other sides of the steading?
BOB and no you do not have a wagon...... pity
Carissa (N'laea): (it's okay, it'd just mean an extra side of disaster)
Spring (Lanek): sorry it has become busy at work. no emergency but a flood of stuff
User has gone AFK. (Spring)
Carissa (N'laea): (err and as close as we think we can get without being seen? I guess?)
Craigh: So, I see two entrances, and 2 places to enter by climbing.
BOB you have no idea if you can be seen
Raelynn cloaks herself because she has her own way of being sneaky
Lisa (Indigo): do we have a map?
Carissa (N'laea): sigh
Lisa (Indigo): we didn't see any guards
BOB the image on the "desktop" is your view and yes I have a full map with full line of sight, light source etc
Lorie (Licornah ): This is our view from the cave BOB?
Lisa (Indigo): they don't have any windows
BOB yes to Lorie you can see down to that
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): The tallest building looks like it might have a window
BOB and yes to Lisa surprising lack of windows
Carissa (N'laea): ominous
Bixi Fizzlebang: And the smaller tower by the gates also might
Craigh: Well, those are giants, so those doors are 15 to 20 feet tall.
Lorie (Licornah ): These are Hill, Mountain, Frost or other Giants?
Carissa (N'laea): Hill is what we were told
Lorie (Licornah ): (Thank you...wanted to confirm)
Carissa (N'laea): can't confirm if we were told the whole truth, just what we were told :)
Carissa (N'laea): (and sorry, very little sleep so doing my best here)
BOB The map shows the huge timber stronghold of the local clan of hill giants. All outer walls are of logs of at least 3' diameter. Inner walls dividing rooms and the like are about 2' thick, and doors are great iron-bound log affairs of 1' thickness- single doors being approximately 7' wide and 16' high. All inside floors are of stone. Ceiling height varies from about 16' at the edges to 32' at the center, and there are great blackened rafters above which hold up the roof. The Steading is in a nasty damp area, where hard rain is a daily occurrence and wet fogs a nightly event. All wood in the place is very damp. (Normal fire will have only a 2% chance per round of burning or setting the place afire, and even magical fires will have only an 8% chance per round of doing the same.)
Indigo: Ohh!! What id someone puts on the oil of stone giant strength and challenges a giant to an arm wrestling contest for the chain?
Lorie (Licornah ): (Hence the cave of no harm)
N'laea: You like arm wrestling, do you not, Tiberius?
Craigh: Anybody know if giants have infravision and can see in the dark?
Tiberius: I have never arm wrested a giant that would be fun!
Indigo: I dunno
Carissa (N'laea): (so only 8% chance of fireball setting the whole place on fire while we're in it... that could be a good thing....)
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Did you just make up that part about the dampness becuase TMO brought up fireball earlier?
Youtargim: Giants can see in the dark to a limited degree yes
BOB Me make up things on the fly?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): So not fair
BOB but actually Tiberius brought up fireball first
Bixi Fizzlebang: glances at Tiberius
Bixi Fizzlebang: I see no reason not to let him try
Lisa (Indigo): It would take a lot for me to fireball a village if we didn't really have to
Carissa (N'laea): (Brain cannot see a good way to do the sneaking if anyone else does so we might just have to walk up to it...?)
Michael: So your saying there's a chance....
Carissa (N'laea): (Hi Michael!)
BOB smiles at Michael
Carissa (N'laea): (and lol)
Lisa (Indigo): Hi Michael! :)
Michael: Oh my god. I think i found a bug bob
Lorie (Licornah ): (Evening Michael)
BOB what?
Michael: I've been here for like 30 min
Michael: Did it only register when I finally typed???
Lisa (Indigo): I'm sorry I missed you
Lorie (Licornah ): (30 minutes???)
Carissa (N'laea): (it doesn't tell us when you're here)
Lisa (Indigo): Yes we don't see you enter
Carissa (N'laea): (only Bob can....)
BOB No that was me
Michael: OH NO
BOB I forgot to announce you
Michael: Pff You are busy bob :)
Carissa (N'laea): All his fault, see??? :)
Michael: My bad. Sorry. I was reading and then got caught up
BOB LOL
Michael: Then saw Lsa fireballing villages :)
Lisa (Indigo): lol
BOB I saw it back when but was typing
Michael: So yeah. I'm here :)
Michael: No worries :)
BOB then went to fetch that story paragraph
Carissa (N'laea): good give us ideas
Bixi Fizzlebang: yay, Michael!
BOB glad you are here Michael
Michael: Me too. I hated today. I want to be here
Michael: lol
Licornah : So... I think we should go over by whre that small "tower" is on the left?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): lol yeah, "fetch" not just "make up on the fly"
Indigo: But if the walls are high and there aren't guards we can just walk around and no one will notice us
Indigo: Sure
Craigh: This is true, unless there's someone in that tower on the left.
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): I have 10' raidius invisibility? I have no idea how it works, or for how long, or if we can all fit in that radius.
N'laea: It is a good starting point.
Indigo: Then we wave and say hello
BOB laughs with Lemon when this story arc is done will show off
Carissa (N'laea): (think that spell doesn't move with you)
BOB I have about 40 pages of stuff all ready to go
Lisa (Indigo): no it moves with you
Carissa (N'laea): (oooooh it does?)
Lisa (Indigo): anyone in it with her can't get out of the radius
BOB Lisa has it correct
Lisa (Indigo): Howard has it too
Lorie (Licornah ): Okay... so we Scooby sneak up to the guard tower on the left side.
Carissa (N'laea): lol I know yet he decided to stay home!
Lisa (Indigo): not all of us can fit in a 10 ftradius
BOB No visible entrance to the tower
BOB only that gate there at the road
BOB or the one on the side that goes to unkown and why
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): All the spell organizing I did last week DIDN'T SAVE
BOB I am sorry
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): I changed the label on EVERY SPELL
BOB so it is 42 after at ten till we will move forward
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN
BOB this is the chance to check spells, etc. while I empty and refill
BOB and no clue why I do not have an AFK but I am AFK
TMO (Craigh): sorry Lemon!!
Lisa: that sucks
Carissa (N'laea): so sneaking was just to see if we can find a weakness in the walls? is it worth using a spell for that?
Lisa: if we have one
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Ok, I'm mostly over it now. Thank you for indulging my capslock
Licornah : I vote no... for what it's worth
Lorie (Licornah ): (ugh OOC)
TMO (Craigh): I would try regular sneakage first. We have rangers and thieves with us
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): I'm also voting no, because that's a lot of pressure on poor Bixi lol
Lisa: think bob wants us to have to go through the door
TMO (Craigh): and elves
TMO (Craigh): and gnomes
Carissa (N'laea): that's the feeling I'm getting, too
Lisa: do we have a grappling hook?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Look, we are all grownups here, we can think for ourselves
Lorie (Licornah ): Depending on construction, could we walk around the fortress and pry a log out to fit through?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): They're pretty big logs...
Carissa (N'laea): OH! Can we illusion a fake wagon behind us to pretend we're bring in... whatever the reason for wagons?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): food?
Carissa (N'laea): just go from sneak to subtrafuge (or however you spell it)?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): classic trojan horse maneuver
Carissa (N'laea): I mean it might start us off bad, but I have a feeling we're not going to have giants happy to negotiate with us
User is back. (Spring)
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Ok but what if there's like a secret entrance to an outhouse or something in the back?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): and we can sneak in from the bathroom or something
Lisa: But maybe if we can get in as guests we can then sneak around and look for the chain
Carissa (N'laea): I think our problem is there isn't really a good way to sneak when it's daylight and nothing to hide behind
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): I have A LOT of half-formed ideas I'm willing to throw out here
Carissa (N'laea): yes to Lisa
Lisa: but there's no one paying attention
Carissa (N'laea): oh right
Carissa (N'laea): again, brain is mostly useless tonight, sorry
Lisa: Indigo could go to the outsie gate and dance and no one would care
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Maybe we can just bring them actual food? To the gate? See if they want to be friends?
Spring: mine too
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): pretend friends.
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): and then we murder and steal
Carissa (N'laea): are thieves are Craigh and Lanek?
Carissa (N'laea): *(our
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): "Yo, we brought you this food, let's have a feast! lol jk red wedding"
Lisa: yes
BOB back
Carissa (N'laea): we could always play fake lost and circle around back and just "casually" look around then if we get caught, just claim we came from the wrong direction
Spring: i am so behind
BOB do you see the ZZZ when I am AFK?
TMO (Craigh): no
BOB and I like all the Lemon thoughts
Lisa: no
Carissa (N'laea): (we don't see your icon at all)
Lisa: you do not have an icon at the top to ZZZ on
BOB and the idea of casually entering
BOB but you still need to get to a door first
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): If you like it, does that mean it's a bad choice?
Carissa (N'laea): (the chat bubble show sin the chat box, but no Zzzz)
BOB as TMO pointed out there are two of them
Lisa: you like the red wedding plan? sure you do Bob
Carissa (N'laea): (lol)
BOB grins, it is an excellent plan, but can you pull it off?
Lisa: we left the violins at home
Carissa (N'laea): (dunno, do these giants speak anything but giant?)
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Maybe the wood won't burn, but I don't see any reason why the giants won't?
BOB Quote for Lisa
Spring: tha
Spring: er, ha
BOB and point to Carissa
Carissa (N'laea): (giants are 72% water as well)
BOB LOL
Carissa (N'laea): (they might be bigger than humans, but the composition is the same)
Lisa: some might speak elvish. We have run into a giant or two that could speak common at home
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Can we find some oil to throw on them first?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Ok, look, idk about you, but I burn in fire.
BOB did you bring any?
Lisa: where's Ilero when we need him
BOB and ready set? it is ten to
Carissa (N'laea): Or Lara and Emerald
TMO (Craigh): at home training Lanek
Carissa (N'laea): but Lanek is here....
Michael: (Do you accept travelers checks? Oh, we do! Did you bring any?...No)
Spring: Lanek is here
Spring: allegedly
Carissa (N'laea): Poor confused Ilero doesn't know who he's training
BOB Nice Michael
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): lol michael
Carissa (N'laea): (hint: it's Thistle in disguise)
Spring: haha
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Ok, well if we've decided not to sneak, then all we can do is go walk around, or knock on the door.
BOB so to make it easier on you, two entrances to try, the front door with the road, or the side door along the wall
Carissa (N'laea): (we do have a pot of grease and a brush so we can paint a fire line if needed)
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Or illusion the equivalent of a wooden horse
Craigh: Odds are the side door is less guarded.
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Or show up with a gift
N'laea: Yes. If we do not want to try diplomacy, that would be the entrance to go for, but if we want to... attempt arm wrestling...? Perhaps the front is better.
Carissa (N'laea): (where's my ol' coin flip button??)
Craigh: Whatever you think best.
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): I guess there's still a lot of options. I'm out. I'll go with whatever the coin decides.
Carissa (N'laea): (there is no coin nor spooon)
BOB sadly I am not sure how to roll a d2
TMO (Craigh): d4 in half
Lisa: {d2}
N'laea: [-4] [d6-4 = -3]
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): roll a 6. 1-3 is door one, 4-6 is door 2
Michael: (Bob is thinking of a number between 1 and 2)
Carissa (N'laea): (I dunno what heads means though)
Lisa: lol
BOB grins
GM: [d4 = 3]
BOB Odds or evens
Carissa (N'laea): (door one is front?)
BOB so front door
BOB if you ask me
Carissa (N'laea): (Time for You to prove he has a purpose)
Carissa (N'laea): (thieves wanna check for traps along that road?)
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): He did really really really REALLY insist on coming.
Bixi Fizzlebang: [SKILL] Alertness [MOD:WIS] (vs. Target 14) [FAILURE by 4] [d20 = 18]
BOB Now I promise I am trying to move things forward as quickly as possible with out railroading you
Craigh: [SKILL] Find/Remove Traps [PERCENT:Find/Remove Traps] (vs. Target 35) [SUCCESS by 9] [d100 = 26]
Carissa (N'laea): (still lies)
BOB tonight is our first attempt at real combat with Line of Sight and the Combat tracker etc
BOB So if we screw something up I will err on the side of the characters
TMO (Craigh): still want to try for diplomacy folks? ;)
Find/Remove Traps
Carissa (N'laea): (then this is where I'll at least point out above the Rae at least has her cloak on :P)
N'laea: (lol I figured it's either fight some giants or lots of giants :) )
BOB good to point out
Spring (Lanek): okay i plainly don't know how to use my skills anymore
Carissa (N'laea): (one of those doors has less, just not sure which
Lanek: [SKILL] Find/Remove Traps [PERCENT:Find/Remove Traps] (vs. Target 70) [SUCCESS by 43] [d100 = 27]
BOB there you go SPring
BOB Lanek does not find any traps leading up to the door
BOB (which ever door you decide to go to)
Carissa (N'laea): (the dice and Lemon's statement stated front)
BOB OK so who is up front?
Craigh: Huh, if we're going in openly, shoulda kept the disawareness spell.
Spring (Lanek): if Lanek is picking, it would be the side door. if the committee is picking, then nevermind
Craigh: shrugs
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): The front looks like less giants can fit into it all at once... the side door looks like there could be a lot, so I'm good with front.
Carissa (N'laea): Nlaea forcing You to be nearby since he can speak giant, dunno about others
Carissa (N'laea): (up front
Michael: If I'm here, I can be up front
Carissa (N'laea): there we go
Michael: I do need the map link though :(
BOB OK so I have Lanke, You and Indigo on the map
Image: G1-3_M1PL
BOB Do you see how the line of sight works?
Michael: Hm This brought up a grid, but not sure how it's working per say
Lorie (Licornah ): (I'm guessing I'd be in the iddle somewhere, I have no sneak / trap skills)
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Wow, I had to zoom WAY out to see anything
Carissa (N'laea): (zoom out to see the cleared spot)
Michael: Oh, thank you
Michael: LOL
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Bixi definitly going to hang in the back where the giants might not even see her
TMO (Craigh): Craigh is back there with ya
Michael: (Getting into Character)
Spring (Lanek): i do not see lanek
Carissa (N'laea): (since Rae is hopefully invisible mostly, she'll be middle with whoever?)
TMO (Craigh): before we go, I assume we're leaving excess gear in our Cave of Safety?
Carissa (N'laea): (no Talwin, needs his armor this time)
BOB Yes to TMO
BOB Spring you see him on the map now?
BOB there are double doors just in front of him there to the left
Spring (Lanek): nope
Spell: Soften Earth and Stone
Spring (Lanek): i don't see doors
Image: G1-3_M1PL
Spring (Lanek): do i even have the right map?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Is that useful?
Talwin: (I'm not on this map)
Michael (Talwin): (I'm on the FOrest map. Am I doing this correctly?)
Spring (Lanek): i've got terrain, logs, water
BOB Correct to Michael and everyone only Lanek, Indigo and Youtargim are on the new map
BOB wanting to make sure everyone can see that first
Lisa: click on the curly S thing next to the Image G1-3
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Wait, are there any birds flying around over the fortress?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): yes, I can see that
Lanek: what is an image G1-3?
BOB No to Lemon
Image: G1-3_M1PL
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Whyyyyy, I just want to use my animal friendssssss
Lisa: that ^
Lanek: oh ok, now i have a whole new window
BOB Later Lemon
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): A bird would be such a good scout right now!
Lisa: maybe the giants will have a dog that will chase the cat and chaos will ensue
BOB grins
Carissa (N'laea): lol
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): a dog that worried the cat that chased the rat that ate the malt?
BOB NICE Lemon
Lisa: yup
Spring (Lanek): are there meant to be some doors?
BOB so everyone sees that on the map so far?
BOB doors are to the left of the word Road
BOB and your light does not go through the wood so you do not see them
BOB see past them
Carissa (N'laea): can kind of see that
Spring (Lanek): i see a brown circle with some people in it
BOB so now we double check on Indigo
TMO (Craigh): I see Lanek, Indigo, and Youtargim in a bubble, and nothing else
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): I see it
BOB first I want to see if Lisa can adjust that, can you see his light source he is carrying?
Lisa: I can see a radius
BOB Currently I think that is Indigo's vision not the Continual Light
Lisa: how far is going one square?
BOB 10 feet
BOB sorry 5 feet
Lisa: so it is morning and he can only see 20 feet in front of him?
BOB That is what I am checking
BOB it shoudl be his continual light
Lisa: even worse with 5 feet
Lisa: continual light is 60 feet radius
BOB Thank you Lemon and now I am looking for the light source
BOB is that right?
BOB there we go
TMO (Craigh): I see map corner
Spring (Lanek): oh! now i see some things
Carissa (N'laea): so much better
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): oh, it's all blue and white now
BOB now I would like Lisa to move Indigo around, no worries about movement rate
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): And the shapes on the edges changed when indigo moved
Michael (Talwin): (BRB, restroom.)
BOB just to show how the lights work
Lanek: saw how the lights worked just a minute ago
BOB But that was me doing it I want to make sure when Players do it is work as well
BOB Lisa?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): that fireplace looks like a cassette. What are the giants listening to?
TMO (Craigh): They Might Be Giants
BOB smiles with Lemon
BOB Nice TMO
BOB (LINK)
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWjG7RKFi3Q&list=PLW1c4UK-iy_bSKOlaNAcf1WCwFf43jFEV">(LINK)</a>
BOB I think Lisa is AFK?
BOB can someone else try to move Indigo?
Lisa: sorry
BOB and also Spring move Lanek
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): oh man, that's a throwback
BOB and thank you Lisa but you need to move farther
Carissa (N'laea): I see shadows moving
BOB now with Lanek moving again with Indigo around the corner
Spring (Lanek): some of the shadoes are moving for Lanek but i didn't think he had a continual light
BOB yeap right now it is set to all icons revealing
Spring (Lanek): i mean, i'll take it! lol
BOB This is true for Spring taking things step by step
Spring (Lanek): cool
BOB Ok so everyone sees how that worked?
BOB now will bring everyone to this map
BOB So now everyone is here on the map
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): I like the way we have equalized the portraits. Like a Bowser Revolution of picture size
Michael (Talwin): I am back
BOB I will be resizing in a moment Lemon
Carissa (N'laea): that's a good point, I kind of miss tiny Bixi....
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): noooo
Lisa: there are 2 indigos
BOB as Bixi and the Cat and Indigo will be half
Carissa (N'laea): Lanek now looks like Indigo?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): I shouldn't have said anything
Spring (Lanek): hahahaha
Spring (Lanek): Lanek sees the implications
Lisa: weird
BOB I have no idea what is going on
Carissa (N'laea): yeah his portrait is normal above, but not on the map
BOB yes to Carissa
Carissa (N'laea): would releasing him help?
BOB when I click on Lanek do you see the full map
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Nothing on the map has changed for me
Spring (Lanek): the map just changed for me
Carissa (N'laea): morning light?
BOB OK so now I removed Lanek
Spring (Lanek): i released Lanek and reacquired him and it changed nothing
TMO (Craigh): clicking on your character token does something to the map
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): now it's back to brown and gray
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): When I click bixi, it's more brown and less gray, but the same shape/revealed areas
BOB Ok so I fixed the Lanek image problem
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): when i click someone else, it's way LESS brown and way more gray
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): sometimes no brown and all gray
Spring (Lanek): i don't get changes when i click anyone
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): when i click on lanek, it's still all black squares
Carissa (N'laea): infravision?
BOB Yes to it showing Indigo's infravision
Carissa (N'laea): humans would be black, indigo less with light, full infravision races would be full brown
BOB not sure why
Carissa (N'laea): no I mean reason it switches depending what portrait is clicked
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): ah
Carissa (N'laea): so Lanek by default would be all black because human
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): oh there it goes
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): bright and sunny again
BOB Ok turned on ambient lighting
Lorie (Licornah ): Oh... why is it going from Brown to White?
Lorie (Licornah ): Ahhh nevermind, that's why
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): someone tell the cat to calm down
BOB now can someone move to the far right to see if the light source is working properly on your side too please
Carissa (N'laea): yeah good luck there
BOB Hmmm
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): looks right to me?
BOB the light did not change when you moved but when I moved the icon it did?
Michael (Talwin): Hm. Mine is having diff.
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): yes
Michael (Talwin): NM. I works perfectly
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Did you have to approve it first?
Michael (Talwin): Just took a second to load up
Michael (Talwin): If he approved it, then it worked when the command was actually issued
Carissa (N'laea): Yeah, I thought when we move it's us suggesting but you have to accept it for it to happen
Michael (Talwin): Right
Spring (Lanek): aha
Michael (Talwin): Nice feature
BOB SO TMO please move to the lower left to see around that corner please
TMO (Craigh): the shadows on the wall move for me, so the visibiity is personalized
BOB OK so it seems to me that when Craig moved the light did not change for everyone but when I moved him it did change for everyone correct?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): yeah, i couldn't see all that way on the other side, even with tmo there
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): although if i click on him I can
BOB I am confirming what TMO said and what is supposed to be happening is that each icon's visible line of sight is individualized for what you can see from that point of view
Michael (Talwin): For the players end, that is correct. If I click on another's icon, I "see" there perspective.
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): seems right on my end
BOB and because the last icon I moved was Criagh the doors are now in shadow for Who?
TMO (Craigh): just craigh, I think
BOB That is what I am trying to accomplish TMO just checking for everyone's point of view
BOB Lorie? you see the doors still?
Lorie (Licornah ): The whole room is alit for me
Michael (Talwin): I see the doors to the right of the stairs as well
Michael (Talwin): (left)
Michael (Talwin): I'm so sorry
BOB just to be clear those stairs down up fireplace are just indications of what the icons on the map are when inside
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Those aren't real stairs, just a map legend, right?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): lol
BOB correct to Lemon thank you Legend is the term I should have said
Michael (Talwin): Thank you bob
Michael (Talwin): Thats good to know I'm sorry again lol
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): I was panicking that I was totally misunderstanding the map hahahahah, phew
BOB But everyone except where Craigh is should see the doors
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): I 100% would have immediately fallen down the stairs once we started
BOB LOL with Lemon
Spring (Lanek): same
Michael (Talwin): (So...is the secret door to our left also a legend?)
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): yes, that is what I see
Talwin: To heck with this. I'm confused LOL. I'm snipping this and uploaing to discord. Someone tell me if I'm understanding
BOB Yes to Michael those things on teh far left side are part of a map legend too
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): I just had three cups of coffee and I am NOT confused for once! BOB, what you have asked in terms of POV has all been correct for me
BOB Thank you Lemon
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): and has also been correct for whoever I click on
TMO (Craigh): I'min Discord Voice if anyone wants to discuss things
BOB so also a note for everyone you should see a gold icon in your lower right corner
Carissa (N'laea): (has been correct for me as well)
BOB you can click and "drag" that to pan around the map
Lisa: that is nice. Thanks
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): oh heck, gamechanger
Lisa: I clicked on it but didn't drag
TMO (Craigh): clicking mouse wheel is also a map drag tool
Michael (Talwin): (You can also center mouse click and drag for WHITIN the tile)
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): whoa, so many gamechangers
Lisa: nice!
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): insert mind blown emoji
BOB I am trying to open the door for you now
Spring (Lanek): whew okay center mouse wheel button trick is what i was looking for, thanks
BOB so that is maintains the light without just deleting it
BOB You can all move to how you want to be in front of the door when which ever of you opens/knocks/what you choose to do
Talwin: (I can knock on it if you guys want)
Michael (Talwin): (Or not. Just let me know)
Carissa (N'laea): you'll probably have to approve more than once before we're happy; it gets crowded with the arrows
Carissa (N'laea): go for it
Michael (Talwin): Cool benas. One sec
Carissa (N'laea): I keep forgetting Nlaea is range since she hasn't done that much so while she has great HP, she's technically built to shoot out eyes, lol
Michael (Talwin): (Just hear to borrow a cup of sugar)
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Get You-gart up there with you though
Carissa (N'laea): It's called Go-gurt, Lemon
Michael (Talwin): LOL
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Ah, my mistake
Lisa: move Youtargim up for translating?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): And now I am only calling him Gogurt from now on ooc
Carissa (N'laea): lol
Michael (Talwin): (Put gogurt next to me, we'll call it good)
Carissa (N'laea): you should call him that IC and see what he says
Michael (Talwin): (Also, what am I asking for? Look around, visitors, we're here to kill you, make it easy? what?)
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): I mean, I assume they don't have gogurt if they don't even have CHOCOLATE so he'd just be like, "Actually hrm I am a stuffy boring dude and it's actually prounounced this way hrm."
Carissa (N'laea): distance is going to take my brain time to remember
Carissa (N'laea): I can't tell if this is far or not even though it says it in big bright letters
Carissa (N'laea): and numbers
Carissa (N'laea): He'd probably think it's some Gnomish thing
Carissa (N'laea): uhh we're lost travelers trying to figure out where we are, can we look around?
Carissa (N'laea): I think?
Lisa (Indigo): tell them we've been travelling a long way and Indigo is hungry
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): maybe it is. Next time we get back to Bran's house I want to spend a few weeks inventing gogurt, ok bob?
BOB chuckles
BOB you will need to spend time with him so he can tell you all about the yak milk and goats, and how they make yogurt so you can learn about that new delicacy
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): barf
TMO (Craigh): pass
BOB so we have everyone set? and I know how to open the doors for you
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Yeap. Go for it Michael
Spring (Lanek): can we tell which way the doors open? inward or outward?
Carissa (N'laea): think so although dunno what the random black arrow is there for
Michael (Talwin): (One sec)
Spring (Lanek): i think the arrow means a move is requested
BOB No someone drew an arrow
BOB I deleted it
BOB again thank you everyone for being patient
Michael (Talwin): Alright. I think I know how to begin the conversation assuming they don' timmediatly lop my head off
BOB ready for our first encounter?
Michael (Talwin): Yep
Talwin: :)
Carissa (Raelynn): nope
Michael (Talwin): Oh. I can wait
Michael (Talwin): Sorry
Carissa (Raelynn): lol I mean yes but nope
Michael (Talwin): Oh
Michael (Talwin): Then yes bob
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): lol
Talwin: KNOCK..KNOCK...KNOCK...
Craigh: watches the tower and roof for spears or rocks.
N'laea: [SKILL] Observation [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 12) [FAILURE by 7] [d20 = 19]
BOB No answer
Carissa (N'laea): notices those glinty rocks
N'laea notices those glinty rocks
BOB Lanek can do a hear noise
Craigh: [SKILL] Alertness [MOD:WIS] (vs. Target 12) [FAILURE by 1] [d20 = 13]
Talwin: (Cocks head)
Bixi Fizzlebang: [SKILL] Alertness [MOD:WIS] (vs. Target 14) [FAILURE by 3] [d20 = 17]
Talwin: (Shrugs)
Carissa (N'laea): ouch
TMO (Craigh): glinty rocks are everywhere!
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): wow, we are all very distracted
Talwin: KNOCK...KNOCK...KNOCK...
Youtargim: [SKILL] Detect Noise [PERCENT:Detect Noise] (vs. Target 15) [FAILURE by 26] [d100 = 41]
Talwin: [SKILL] Observation [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 13) [SUCCESS by 2] [d20 = 11]
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): try shouting
Carissa (N'laea): come on Lanek
Talwin: GOOD EVENING THIS EVENTIDE
Carissa (N'laea): prove all these whippersnappers you're not too old for this!
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): do we have any fireworks?
Talwin: HELLO THE HOMEFRONT
Talwin: MAY WE SPEAK WITH THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE
Indigo: Does the gate just open?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): "WHAT A NICE PILE OF UNBURNABLE WOOD YOU LIVE IN!"
BOB I think only Lanek is left to go for hear noise
Carissa (N'laea): IT WOULD BE A SHAME IF IT... BURNED
Michael (Talwin): (I passed OBS if you are willing)
Craigh: [SKILL] Detect Noise [PERCENT:Detect Noise] (vs. Target 5) [FAILURE by 93] [d100 = 98]
Michael (Talwin): (Bob :) )
Carissa (N'laea): what about elf ears?
Lanek: [SKILL] Detect Noise [PERCENT:Detect Noise] (vs. Target 55) [FAILURE by 16] [d100 = 71]
Craigh: Are the glinty rocks making a ringing noise for anyone else? Or just me?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): what about just trying to open the doors?
Talwin: (One moment. That's next)
Michael (Talwin): (Sorry. One moment. That's next)
Carissa (N'laea): that's called tinnitus, Craigh
Michael (Talwin): (I'm being polite before I lop their heads off)
BOB no elf ears up near the door
Lisa (Indigo): it's ok Indigo asked that IC
BOB and what do you see on your map right now?
Carissa (N'laea): oh near door, right
Michael (Talwin): (I see nothing besides what we already see on my prior discord)
Carissa (N'laea): letting Lemon do the snipping tonight
Michael (Talwin): (snip)
Talwin: (Should I see something different?)
Lisa (Indigo): behind the gate is flashing on and off
BOB No you should see nothing
BOB Thank you Lisa that was what I was asking
Lisa (Indigo): it's not now - just did it a couple times
BOB When I use an NPC I get to see everything and it confuses me for what you can see
TMO (Craigh): the inside of the map is grayed out, but I can see it
Bixi Fizzlebang: [SKILL] Botany [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 14) [FAILURE by 6] [d20 = 20]
Talwin: Bran, permission to enter?
BOB you can see what TMO?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): oh man, I give up
TMO (Craigh): interior walls
BOB still?
Michael (Talwin): (We can see the "Fog of war" of the map with gridlines and stairs and stuff, but not as if we were actually htere is what TMO is saying. Right?)
BOB screen shot please
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): yeah gray and kinda shadowed but yes, I can see the blueprint
Michael (Talwin): diong right now
Lisa (Indigo): it's dark gray not blacked out
Craigh: sharing my video
Talwin: Watch his video. Easier. HOpping on vocal for discord too
Carissa (N'laea): (abre los ojos, what do you see?)
Carissa (N'laea): (LINK)
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrMxx8EV4JU">(LINK)</a>
Lanek: okay, sorry, duty calls again
User has gone AFK. (Spring)
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): I was thinking of that part in gremlins where the christmas song is playing... "do you see what I see?"
Carissa (N'laea): I haven't seen that in forever
BOB So Talwin opens the doors
Bixi Fizzlebang: (LINK)
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwzqiTDnTik">(LINK)</a>
The place is bare, but there are many pegs along the walls, and various items of giant outerwear (capes, cloaks, etc.) and bags hang from them.
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): thank goodness it's not giant UNDERwear
Lisa (Indigo): lol
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): After we're done being attacked, I want to rifle through their pockets. Don't let me forget.
BOB There are the giants
TMO (Craigh): Who sees H icons?
Lisa (Indigo): me
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): I see them
TMO (Craigh): I see 2 f them
Michael (Talwin): (Sorry guys. we just had a quick chat on Discord. The H's are the giants)
Carissa (N'laea): is it a pocket to Bixi? or like... a cave?
Lorie (Licornah ): ((raises hand ))
TMO (Craigh): Talwin sees none, somehow
Michael (Talwin): Can you all see them?
Carissa (N'laea): (yes)
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): lol, well then Bixi is about to become a speulunker
Carissa (N'laea): (two with Nlaea, one when clicking Rae)
TMO (Craigh): ah, Talwin was just Slow, as always
BOB 2 snoring hill giants, supposedly guarding the entrance (H.P.: 40, 34). There is a nearly empty keg of ale between them.
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Indigo steals the ale
Lanek: sorry, y'all. i gotta go
Lanek: gnite!
Indigo: pust his fingers in his ears to stop all the loud giant snoring noise
TMO (Craigh): g'nite!
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): goodnight!
Michael (Talwin): nite!
Carissa (N'laea): night :(
'Spring' disconnected
Lisa (Indigo): Goodnight Spring!
Lorie (Licornah ): (Ciao)
User has gone AFK. (Lemon)
BOB You see the two giants in the room
BOB right now I am accepting the moves
Michael (Talwin): They are asleep (whispers)
BOB what we shoudl do is roll Init
BOB but they are sleeping
BOB so you can move
Talwin: (Will do INIT. Right now)
Branwyn: [SKILL] Observation [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 19) [SUCCESS by 3] [d20 = 16]
Carissa (N'laea): (ooohhh I can click to open or close the door?)
Licornah : [INIT] [d10+10 = 20]
Craigh: [INIT] [d10+10 = 11]
N'laea: N'laea tried to roll initiative again. (hold alt-key while rolling to force re-roll)
N'laea: N'laea tried to roll initiative again. (hold alt-key while rolling to force re-roll)
N'laea: N'laea tried to roll initiative again. (hold alt-key while rolling to force re-roll)
N'laea: N'laea tried to roll initiative again. (hold alt-key while rolling to force re-roll)
Lisa (Branwyn): why are we doing INIT?
Talwin: [INIT] [d10+10 = 18]
Lisa (Branwyn): they are sleeping. we walk on by
Talwin: (Bob asked us too)
Carissa (N'laea): (err oops hold on)
BOB No I did not
BOB I said what would normally happen is Init but they are sleeping
Carissa (N'laea): (oh we didn't finish reading what you wrote)
Michael (Talwin): Er. Sorry, I got the wrong impression from that thread I guess. Nevermind everyone
N'laea: [SKILL] Ranger: Hide in Shadows [PERCENT:Ranger: Hide in Shadows] (vs. Target 59) [SUCCESS by 35] [d100 = 24]
N'laea: [SKILL] Ranger: Move Silently [PERCENT:Ranger: Move Silently] (vs. Target 67) [SUCCESS by 50] [d100 = 17]
Lisa (Branwyn): ok now we have big red Hs
BOB Yes I was trying to put the giants on the map
BOB That is where they are sleeping
Carissa (N'laea): (well that changes movement some)
Lisa (Branwyn): good thought there were more
BOB Yes I know
Talwin: (Edges open the door to the next gallery)
Lisa (Branwyn): Carissa want to lead? I'm just moving around
Michael (Talwin): Oh, I'll follow Carissa
BOB please just stop
Talwin: Stopping
User is back. (Lemon)
TMO (Craigh): chuckle
BOB I want to make sure that Michael and Carissa intend to split the party and go off into other rooms while some are dealing with the sleeping giants
BOB if that is what you want to do then you can
Carissa (N'laea): (are we dealing with them? I thought we were just going to sneak by them and let them sleep it off)
BOB But tell people what you are doing
Michael (Talwin): (I thought we were just ignoring htem? We need to select decision leader fo rthis session otherwise this is going to get confusing)
BOB I did not see anyone say that in character Carissa
BOB you are in a room with sleeping giants
BOB what do you do?
N'laea puts finger to lips and sneaks by them, waving others to follow
Michael (Talwin): (I said they were sleeping, and then we all passed htem. Therefore I thought that meant we were ignoring them)
BOB Michael you can ignore them, but no one said in character to do that
BOB you said that as Michael not as Talwin
Talwin: They are asleep (whispers)
Talwin: This is what I wrote Michael as (Talwin)
Talwin: Is this not correct?
Talwin: I'm confused
Talwin: I need to fix it
Lorie (Licornah ): (Do we need to go back to our original positions then?)
BOB No where people are is fine
Lisa: you said they were snoring so I thought we all know they are sleeping
BOB you all moved one full move
BOB yes to Lisa that the group shoudl understand they are sleeping
Talwin: WHISPERS THEY ARE SLEEPING. WE"RE GOING TO GO THIS WAY GUYS< ARE YOU OKAY WITH THAT?
Bixi Fizzlebang: (also whispering) they might wake up if there is a lot of noise if we move on, though.
Talwin: OR DO YOU WNAT TO DO SOMETHING ELSE
Talwin: <Shrugs Helplessly. "If you want I'll kill them?"
Bixi Fizzlebang: Is there a way we could just wake one and keep him quiet? Try to find out what we're heading into? (still whispering)
Talwin: >
Talwin: "Hes a giant? How will we do that?"
Talwin: He can trhow me at his buddty and then we'll have two.
Bixi Fizzlebang: I don't know, I've never seen a giant before! (still whispering)
Talwin: Smiles
Talwin: One moment
Talwin: Bran, what should we do? Scout, or kill?
Lisa: I think we will follow the leaders unless someone wants to do something else. Do we want to have a discussion for every move?
N'laea: quietly, frowning, "We did not come to kill."
Craigh: looks for somewhere to take cover in the room.
Talwin: Gestures helplessly again
The place is bare, but there are many pegs along the walls, and various items of giant outerwear (capes, cloaks, etc.) and bags hang from them.
Craigh: [SKILL] Hide In Shadows [PERCENT:Hide In Shadows] (vs. Target 55) [SUCCESS by 17] [d100 = 38]
Talwin: Then I'm going to keep exploring
Lisa: I don't think waking two giants by attacking them is a good move
Talwin: Nods
Talwin: (Making two rolls)
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): I'm just worried we'll run into a few in the next room and then these two will join them lol
This 80' long passageway is dim, shadowy, and generally deserted and ignored, for all of the feasting and fun is beyond in the Great Hall. A few torches burn smokily along either wall. There is singing, talking, laughing, shouting, arguing, wrestling, joking, and the like going on, so the place is a veritable din of noise.
Licornah : Let's not kill as our first option. I agree moving on is a good option.
N'laea: still quiet, "We are after an artifact that leeches into the water. This place is damp. If we spot signs of the blight we are close."
Chief Nosnra: Advanced Effect ['RESIST: fire'] -> [to Chief Nosnra]
Branwyn: nods
Talwin: [SKILL] Engineering [2] [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 10) [SUCCESS by 9] [d20 = 1]
Talwin: [SKILL] Observation [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 13) [SUCCESS by 6] [d20 = 7]
BOB Ok so now is Init
Talwin: (How loud are the acoustics in this building)
Talwin: (And Obs)
Talwin: (Please)
Bixi Fizzlebang: [INIT] [d10 = 5]
Licornah : Licornah tried to roll initiative again. (hold alt-key while rolling to force re-roll)
Licornah : Licornah tried to roll initiative again. (hold alt-key while rolling to force re-roll)
Licornah : Licornah tried to roll initiative again. (hold alt-key while rolling to force re-roll)
Licornah : Licornah tried to roll initiative again. (hold alt-key while rolling to force re-roll)
Talwin: Talwin tried to roll initiative again. (hold alt-key while rolling to force re-roll)
Talwin: Talwin tried to roll initiative again. (hold alt-key while rolling to force re-roll)
Talwin: Talwin forced re-roll of initiative.
Craigh: Craigh tried to roll initiative again. (hold alt-key while rolling to force re-roll)
Talwin: [INIT] [d10+10 = 14]
Licornah : Licornah forced re-roll of initiative.
Licornah : [INIT] [d10+10 = 20]
N'laea: N'laea forced re-roll of initiative.
N'laea: [INIT] [d10+8 = 14]
Raelynn: [INIT] [d10+10 = 16]
Branwyn: [INIT] [d10+8 = 9]
Indigo: [INIT] [d10-2 = 0]
Craigh: Craigh forced re-roll of initiative.
Craigh: [INIT] [d10+10 = 19]
BOB I am trying to make all the icons visible for you
BOB that are in that description
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): It's a lot. Can we just assume we all die and go to sleep now? hahah just kidding. Mostly.
BOB OK so that is what Talwin and N'laea see when they open those doors
BOB what do they do?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): definitely we need to stneak into the side door or something, right? this is terrifying.
Carissa (N'laea): (so....we slowly close them again and take a few steps back? :) )
BOB I will give you that
BOB because of the chaos going on in there, adn the chaos OOC as well
BOB so you are all back in the first room
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): seems like front door was not the way to go
BOB with two sleeping giants
N'laea silently curses to herself
TMO (Craigh): all I see are the two Hs. Do we need to move everyone back outside to our starting places?
BOB with the two main doors there, that you saw, the small door to the far left and the stairs up
Carissa (N'laea): if you aren't at the door you probably can't see fully inside
Lorie (Licornah ): can we go farther down the hall? (to the left of Indigo)
BOB for some reason it is putting H instead of the image for a hill giant
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): We could try upstairs in the tower first
Lisa (Indigo): I don't know what they saw
Carissa (N'laea): yeah well not all of them are hill giants
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Also looks like there's a small door in the top left corner of the room we're in
Carissa (N'laea): (yes we need to tell them)
BOB Correct to Lisa, N'laea and Talwin opened the doors, loud sound emerged and they shut the doors
N'laea: very quietly, "22 Hill Giants, the Chief, a Cloud Giant, Five Ogres, A Stone Giant, and a Bear."
Michael (Talwin): (You caught all that?)
N'laea: Having a feast. If we want to interrupt... we'd need a good plan to handle that if it goes south.
Carissa (N'laea): (I count faster than Bob removes icons ;) )
Carissa (N'laea): (And her name is Nosnra but we don't know that yet!)
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): she's an elf
Carissa (N'laea): (or his? I dunno)
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Pretty sure elves can count really fast
Talwin: Nods gravely
Talwin: I see why our two giants here are hammered
Carissa (N'laea): (are these still two? did one get remove by accident? or did he somehow sneak off?)
Bixi Fizzlebang: (still whispering) they just look drunk to me?
Indigo: But this will give us a good chance to explore other places
Indigo: If they are feasting
Talwin: (I thought in the chaos of everything the seocn dhill giant is still here, but we don't see the ICON)
Talwin: (I'm throwing bob a bone LOL)
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Bixi is too afraid to get the double meaning. bang ban maxwell's silver hammer...
N'laea: Yes. Diplomacy sounds good in theory but that is... many. Exploring may be best.
Talwin: I do think we should have a plan. We have no chance agains tthat many hostiles
Talwin: If we get caught, we should all have a fallback point and point of egress
BOB You should see two giants on your map right now
N'laea: Sleep spells? Illusion tricks?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA, OMG, I first saw that as "that many hotties"
BOB and Indigo moved to see the stairs going up
Carissa (N'laea): Oo lala!
Talwin: LOL lemon
N'laea: You have invaded fortessess before, Talwin?
Talwin: I have survived invading fortresses before
BOB and for Michael that is the cave you started at this morning that is your safe place
BOB witht eh magic paint that N'laea has
Bixi Fizzlebang: What does egress mean?
Talwin: (It's for the team Bob. We are seeting procedures)
N'laea: Then your input will be valuable.
BOB Yes to Michael, just letting you know what they discussed last session you missed
Talwin: Egress means that if we are compromised and have no chance, a place to retreat where we can prevent us all dying
Talwin: We cannot be separated
Lisa (Indigo): Can you please try to use Alt Enter of OOC - otherwise it will all show up as IC and we will have to manually fix
N'laea: There are no windows, either. Fewer escape points.
Talwin: (Sure, but now I'm IN)
TMO (Craigh): she means instead of ( )
Lisa (Indigo): the parens are OOC
Bixi Fizzlebang: cringes
Talwin: Separated will be our death, despite Bran's power.
BOB yes
Bixi Fizzlebang: I don't like the sound of that
Michael (Talwin): (Gotcha)
Lisa (Indigo): Thx
Talwin: Shrugs. They are occupied with a feast
Talwin: We can set a limit of say, twenty min?
Talwin: Meet all back here in that time?
Indigo: We just don't get caught doing anything bad. Wandering around isn't necessarily bad
Talwin: Nods
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): really? splitting up? when you know this is our combat practice?????
Lorie (Licornah ): (I am not for splitting the party if we can avoid)
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): agreed
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): that scares me lol
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): like, irl, not just scares bixi. It scares me AND Bixi.
Carissa (N'laea): yeah trying to figure out if you said don't split then do OR if you just meant if we got seperated by accident
Lisa (Indigo): so is that a separate door by raelynn?
N'laea: So we go upstairs or one of the side doors.
N'laea: (yes, if you hover over it is says "open" so you know it's a door)
Carissa (N'laea): (blarg)
Lisa (Indigo): I read it as no splitting party
Carissa (N'laea): (no splitting)
Bixi Fizzlebang: We saw the tower from outside... I wouldn't think they would keep something so important in such an obvious place?
Lisa (Indigo): oh handy
Indigo: If they are tossing it in the stream all the time who knows where they keep it
Carissa (N'laea): (just trying to think if there's an easy way to find a chain besides turning over everything.... like gunky water trails or something? if only it had gems in it)
TMO (Craigh): trails is a ranger thing.
Lisa (Indigo): augury spells
Carissa (N'laea): (also where is Tiberius? still stuck in the forest?)
Craigh: Do you want Lanek or me to go upstairs quietly?
BOB I will give Indigo an Intuition check (Wisdom)
Bixi Fizzlebang: Well where do we think there might be something that would connect to the stream? The basement maybe?
Carissa (N'laea): (and actually forgot I meant to ask if we saw a river near the steading from outside)
BOB Tiberius is there inside the door
Indigo: [CHECK] Wisdom (vs. Target 10) [FAILURE by 1] [d20 = 11]
Lisa (Indigo): he almost had a thought
Carissa (N'laea): (oh he left his body double in the forest)
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): lol
N'laea: [SKILL] Ranger Tracking [2] [MOD:WIS] (vs. Target 17) [FAILURE by 2] [d20 = 19]
Carissa (N'laea): (hard to track a non-living thing)
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): If we want someone to run up the huge giant stairs and check the tower, I'm fine with that. It's not going to be Bixi though, I'm guessing it's much more of a workout if SHE tries to climb giant stairs.
N'laea: I can go with you, Craigh.
BOB I will give Bixi a Wisdom check too
Lisa (Indigo): so you DO want to split the party :D
Carissa (N'laea): (lol)
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): My inclination is to go downstairs not up to find the water, though. Or towards some kitchens at least.
TMO (Craigh): Just a thought. We can send everyone.
Lisa (Indigo): my guess is the kitchens will be busy during a feast
Carissa (N'laea): (lol, also true; it's just hard to not split the party but also look out for choke points)
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): or bathrooms
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): wherever they might be getting water from
User has gone AFK. (TMO)
Carissa (N'laea): (Lemon roll some good WIS for tips for us_)
Bixi Fizzlebang: [CHECK] Wisdom (vs. Target 13) [SUCCESS by 1] [d20 = 12]
Lisa (Indigo): I'm okay with some scouting
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): ha!
Carissa (N'laea): (she caught Indigo's thought!)
Lisa (Indigo): lol
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Bixi is smarter than all of you right now!
Carissa (N'laea): wiser
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): whatever :P
Carissa (N'laea): I mean it was technically a wisdom roll, not intelligence ;)
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): yeah yeah yeah
Lisa (Indigo): lol
BOB Bixi can say for certain that down is better to find sources of water than up in the tower, and she also knows from listening to Talwin and Tiberius talk before that you do not leave people behind you, or doors that you do not know where they go
BOB Now Lemon cand have Bixi impart that knowledge
Bixi Fizzlebang: If we are looking for where the... blight... is coming from, it definitely seems like we need to go lower down... they're not contaminating the stream from this tower
BOB In the future I will do more of that in whisper mode but right now trying to keep the new things to a minimum
User is back. (TMO)
Lisa (Indigo): thx
Bixi Fizzlebang: And um... I'm very afraid of not being together with 20 giants and a bear and whatever else you said was right there on the other side of the door.
Carissa (N'laea): (what was the second part of the wisdom?)
Bixi Fizzlebang: I can handle the bear maybe but I have no faith in my abilities with giants.
Carissa (N'laea): (I get not leave people behind but the doors sentence is missing a word or something my brain cannot fill tonight)
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): I just assumed it meant don't split up when you're going into unknown doors
Indigo: So we all go downstairs. That's fine
Nightshade, Cat, Elven : [Translation] Puuurrrrrsssss
<font color="##000000">Puuurrrrrsssss
[understood by: Licornah , Carissa, N'laea, Raelynn]
Indigo: Who's going first?
Bixi Fizzlebang: nods, clearly relieved
N'laea : [Translation] You have an idea?
<font color="##000000">You have an idea?
[understood by: Licornah , Carissa, N'laea, Raelynn]
Indigo: Shhhh kitty!
Rubs up against Rae
Talwin: Walks down the stiars
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): talwin, those go up
TMO (Craigh): those are Up stairs
Talwin: [SKILL] Observation [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 13) [FAILURE by 6] [d20 = 19]
Raelynn: Shh, I'm trying to remain hidden!
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): lol, the roll fits
Raelynn: What is it?
Michael (Talwin): OH MY GOD
Michael (Talwin): Sigh
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): talwin falls going up the stairs, because he thought he was going down
Michael (Talwin): lol
Carissa (Raelynn): (lol_
Lisa (Indigo): lol
Craigh: Craigh makes a note to have Talwin's eyesight checked when they get home.
Michael (Talwin): One second. I have a roll fo rthis bob
Lorie (Licornah ): lol
<font color="##000000">GM : [Translation] go for it Michael
<font color="##000000">go for it Michael
[understood by: Licornah , Carissa, N'laea, Raelynn]
Talwin: [SKILL] Engineering [2] [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 10) [FAILURE by 5] [d20 = 15]
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): hahahahha
BOB Sorry Go for it michael
Carissa (Raelynn): michael doesn't speak elvish
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): talwin tries to engineer the stairs to change directions. It does not work.
Carissa (Raelynn): lol
TMO (Craigh): I am somewhat handicapped by having some memories from reading this module a couple decades ago. Thus my attitudes and biases are compromised.
BOB I will say that while Talwin is moving around the stairs he hears snoring from up above
Michael (Talwin): By the structure, looking for where the building would best find a spot for a dungeon or internal well. i succesffully mad ethe check eariler, but I asked about the acoustics. Not for the stairs, which I have just failed
Michael (Talwin): Engineers can pinpoint exactly where (civil engineers) a basement will be
Lisa (Indigo): do you need to recuse yourself?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): ahhh
TMO (Craigh): I am mostly recusing myself voluntarily.
Talwin: Rolls eyes points up. Snoring from above
BOB I do not think that TMO will have any issues, it is straight forward enough
BOB I would like to deal with these 2 (3) giants tonight though
Bixi Fizzlebang: So do we want to try one of these other doors, or go back outside and try the other entrance we saw?
Lisa (Indigo): only for knowledge of where the basement is - strategy input is always appreciated from you
BOB so you know how that will work
Raelynn: (we were following Talwin downstairs)
Carissa (Raelynn): (BLARGH)
BOB and those stairs go UP
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): talwin didn't go downstairs
Talwin: (LOL)
Lisa (Indigo): I would NOT like to deal with these 2 (3) giants at all
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): he tried and failed
Carissa (Raelynn): (.....I'm so tired)
Carissa (Raelynn): (also three??)
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): the snoring from upstairs
Carissa (Raelynn): (you want us to murder in cold blood??)
BOB Lemon is awake
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): is at least a third
Michael (Talwin): Frankly, I am too Bob. I don'tw ant to get my ass handed to me by two/three giants unless they are evil and really want to kill us
Michael (Talwin): And tired. Sorry
Lisa (Indigo): I don't think we would lose but I don't see the point
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): And no one seems inclined to wake the giants up. We are all still sneaking.
BOB Yes Giants are evil, these giants living here at doing something to put a blight on the Elven holy lands
Lisa (Indigo): Can Craigh pickpocket them?
TMO (Craigh): this is old-style module - unless Bob has updated it (hi might have), the style is go in, kill everything, take the look. Talk if you get captured. ;)
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Ok but we don't know for sure if they're evil, maybe it's a byproduct of something they have to do to survive.
Carissa (Raelynn): (we can always attempt to tie them up)
Carissa (Raelynn): (although it's nearly as suspicious as the other giants finding these dead)
Michael (Talwin): OK. So let's say we kill these two. Evne without making a sound. We go explore. We now have HOW many other powerfulc reatures that won't listen to us and will immedietly try to kill us? I mean, this party is a good size,but even I heard what Carissa said
TMO (Craigh): Lanek might have a better pick pockets skill, but I can try.
Michael (Talwin): OK Guys. Can someone case silence on the two giants while I try and behead them?
BOB I am not saying you have to kill everything, you are doing what you think it right
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): So I understand you're trying to get us to fight these giants, but honestly Bixi's inclination is to go back outside and try the other door, or follow the others if they decide to try one of these other inside doors
TMO (Craigh): QUESTION: Coup de Grace rule works for sleeping giants, as well as unconscious beings?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): She's SO not that brave lol
Carissa (Raelynn): (if it's clear to at least the Elves that these giants are evil and need to be killed, then N'laea would help Talwin slit throats, but I don't know OOC)
BOB but everyone seems scattered right now on what you are trying to do
Talwin: I know Giants are evil and all that. But they have negotiated well with Hugh in the past, and if they HAVE been the ones poisoning then I get it. But we are literally walking into someone's house and slitting their throats. Thta is hard for me
Carissa (Raelynn): (yes)
Lisa (Indigo): yes
TMO (Craigh): that's old-style D&D for you Michael. ;)
Carissa (Raelynn): (With Bob's wording it's a bit easier for me with that point of view. If they set up shop here to destroy Elven Holy Land, then yeah, they need to go although straight murder is a little harsh, it kind of works here)
TMO (Craigh): Monsters are People Too came about later.
Carissa (Raelynn): (but it so goes against what we normally do)
Talwin: I mean... I will feel like utter shit for doing this, but fine.
Carissa (Raelynn): (we can keep talking first Michael)
Talwin: Pulls out sword. Lopping his head off
Carissa (Raelynn): (if there are other ideas)
Talwin: one second
Lorie (Licornah ): (uuhhhh....)
Lisa (Indigo): I think the elves just want the chain so they can control the giants which is kinda not nice in itself but I'm not bringing that up ...
BOB Michael there are walls you can see you cannot just walk through them, you need to move around them
Carissa (Raelynn): (I'm only saying I can kind of see Bob's point now)
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Bixi already asked should we try one of these two doors or go around the side, those are the only two options that seem feasible to her right now.
TMO (Craigh): we're not used to walls stopping us from moving. :)
BOB Thank you Michael
Carissa (Raelynn): (although it'd be much nicer to get them the chain, slightly less nice but nicer and let the gods dirty their hands)
TMO (Craigh): we are the dirt on the gods' hands
Talwin: Talwin tried to roll initiative again. (hold alt-key while rolling to force re-roll)
Talwin: Talwin forced re-roll of initiative.
Talwin: [INIT] [MOD:Two-handed Sword] [d10+10 = 19]
Carissa (Raelynn): (that's why Rae lost her one APR point! she is dirt :( )
Carissa (Raelynn): (WAIT)
BOB To be clear on what you see here right now. The two doors leading OUT the way you came in, then the two doors heading into that hall, then the small doors, one on the far right one of the far left, then the stairs going up.
Michael (Talwin): Haven' tattacked yet, rolled initiative
BOB Upstairs seems to be a giant, and then these two giants here
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): lol, ic this took a really c razy turn. Talwin's all like "shhh, sleeping giant" and then just suddenly goes and attempts to murder a sleeping giant.
BOB Yes to Lemon
Lisa (Indigo): yes
Craigh: If we're going to do this the bloody way, we might want to set it up to do all 3 at the same time.
Talwin: It's because generally things aren' t usally like this. So, in the spirit of fuck it and to keep things going, Figure this shit out
Lorie (Licornah ): (Could we maybe take a moment and go around the horn for what folks are doing? This feels a bit chaotic)
BOB I want everyone to speak up OOC
BOB to make sure
Carissa (Raelynn): (exactly TMO)
Lisa (Indigo): it is kind of a Talwin thing to do
BOB Thank you Lorie
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Yes, and Bixi suggesting going through the small doors, or going back out and trying the side door we saw from the cave.
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): suggested*
Carissa (Raelynn): Yes, but I think the point was, our goal is to "take care" of three giants before the night's end
Lisa (Indigo): Bob's goal
Carissa (Raelynn): (however we decide to "take care" of them)
BOB Lorie, then Lisa, then Carissa, then Michael, then TMO, then Lemon
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Yeah, but it doesn't have to be. Since when do we do what BOB wants?
Carissa (Raelynn): (true, I can always go to sleep before that happens)
Carissa (Raelynn): (he can't stop that :P)
Talwin: (I'm twent min away fro mthat outcome)
TMO (Craigh): *sniff* Lemon has grown up so quickly in our group....
Michael (Talwin): (and sorry lisa. I keep forgetting alt. I'm working on that)
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): I'm a pretty quick learner lol
Lorie (Licornah ): (So what we know so far is we don't know the way downstairs, but it's probably via that room of giants, ogres, and a bear?)
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): except when it comes to klooge
BOB Or the two unknown doors you have not checked yet
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): I don't think the stairs to the basement would be in the great hall necessarily
BOB Bixi passed along that thought earlier
TMO (Craigh): Question: Do we want to just do a trial combat against these giants tonight, and then next week just say it didn't happen and we're back here with 3 sleepers deciding what to do?
Licornah : (Okay, I vote to go check out the unknown doors, I'm not in favor of killing giants) //end discussion
Lorie (Licornah ): (end discussion as that's my input for now)
BOB Lisa your turn
TMO (Craigh): and we can use the intervening week to discuss our methodology on Discord
TMO (Craigh): sorry, out of turn.
Lisa: I agree. Not a fan of starting a fight right outside the feast. Let's open some other doors
BOB Carissa?
Carissa (Raelynn): (that's fine)
BOB TMO
BOB and Michael
Michael (Talwin): (TMO First)
TMO (Craigh): I play thieves. Sneak is what we do. If the main goal is to have a trial combat, let's do that before we lose players to sleep.
BOB Michael
Michael (Talwin): (I vot for not indinscrimintly killing the giants until I know exactly what they are or ar enot guilty of. There is always a chance to avoid violence if we don't just slit thr throat of every creature we meet that isn't instantly attacking. i have no problem killiing them right now, but it immedietaly shuts of any negotiating attempt later because its "revenge" on us for killing. Additionally, not sure if it will rouse the castle. Additioanlly, not sure what to expect. I am honeslty at a loss here
BOB and then Lemon
Michael (Talwin): I will say to the violence credit, that if it comes to a fight later, they will be awake and ready to rumble.
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): i already voted. Either going through one of the doors (if you ask specifically, I will guess left because that's the first one I saw) or going outside to try the side door
BOB thank you
BOB so then the choices are the left door here? (past Indigo to the left) or go back outside to the side door into the Steading
BOB same Order
BOB Lorie? Lisa?
Lisa: Left
Lorie (Licornah ): (I think left ahead is fine since we're here)
BOB there we go Lorie, Lisa, and Lemon pick Left
BOB hmmmmm
Lisa: The Ls have it!
TMO (Craigh): Craigh picks Counterclockwise
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): lol, but my name irl starts with R. Now I don't know what I want anymore.
Lisa: lol
TMO (Craigh): Ambixidextrous
Youtargim: [SKILL] Detect Noise [PERCENT:Detect Noise] (vs. Target 15) [SUCCESS by 8] [d100 = 7]
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): finally
Youtargim: I do not hear anything back there,
Youtargim: Who wants to go first?
Craigh: I can
Carissa (Raelynn): (sorry feeling naseous, brb, forgot how to do afk)
Lisa: shoves Bixi in giant door
BOB lol
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): lol, that's what she gets for finally having an opinion and not just following everyone
Lisa (Indigo): go Craigh!
Tiberius: Ready to follow you in Bixi
Craigh: [SKILL] Observation [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 15) [SUCCESS by 9] [d20 = 6]
Craigh: looks through the doorway
Bixi Fizzlebang: looks terrified and frantically shakes head
BOB Craigh sees it is not locked
BOB looks to be a solid door
BOB smaller than the others you have seen so far
Craigh: Question: Is Craigh physically strong enough to open this door?
TMO (Craigh): dangit
BOB Yes
Craigh: quietly opens the door and looks through
TMO (Craigh): your wall on the left is transparent
BOB darn it you see right through that one wall?
TMO (Craigh): yes
Lisa (Indigo): but there is nothing in it
BOB Or do you see down to the corner?
Craigh: has achieved X-Ray Visiion!
BOB OK I need to fix that for next week
TMO (Craigh): np, sharing so you can see
Craigh: Hallway, empty. Follow carefully.
Craigh: heads up the corridor.
BOB Yes I spotted it after I moved you, the module is missing the wall section there for lighting
Craigh: is going to peek around the hallway corner before listening at doors.
Carissa (Raelynn): (sorry I can't do this anymore, it's either normal health issues triggered or I'm coming down with something)
Carissa (Raelynn): (I need to go, night guys)
TMO (Craigh): feel better!
BOB HUGS Carissa, go be sleepy and recover
Talwin: night!
Lorie (Licornah ): (Sorry to hear, feel better, night)
'Carissa' disconnected
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): goodnight!
Lisa (Indigo): Goodnight Carissa
BOB Michael you with us? Talwin moving up to behind Lecornah?
Talwin: Yeah, sorry. I'm fading fast too
Michael (Talwin): One second
Lisa (Indigo): Is Bixi sitting on Indigo?
Lisa (Indigo): thx
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): we're small, the squares are 5 ft across, we definitely can both fit
BOB yes
Craigh: Giants can't fit in here.
BOB Point for Craigh
Craigh: looks down the next hallway.
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): nice! we found a really really safe passageway then!
Indigo: Is that a good thing?
Michael (Talwin): Well a retrate point at the very least
Talwin: Well, a safe place from Giants at the very least Indigo
Talwin: We might have better chances here
Talwin: if it comes down to an all out brawl.
Talwin: [SKILL] Engineering [2] [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 10) [FAILURE by 2] [d20 = 12]
TMO (Craigh): just to confirm: Nobody in sight?
Michael (Talwin): Thickness of Walls and Materials
BOB No one in sight
TMO (Craigh): since we had issues with the giants
Bixi Fizzlebang: [SKILL] Botany [MOD:INT] (vs. Target 14) [SUCCESS by 11] [d20 = 3]
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): potted plants?
BOB You have this hallway, Tiberius closed the door behind you
BOB You have the one door in front of Indigo, the other door in front of Craigh
Craigh: Double door down this hallway on the right. Go on, or try one of these doors?
Bixi Fizzlebang: looks up
BOB the rest of the group is one round behind, they will pop in in front of Branwyn next week
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): How high are the ceilings here?
BOB 20 foot tall
Lorie (Licornah ): (there are now two doors on the map BOB)?
TMO (Craigh): and 5 wide. nice
Lisa (Indigo): go ahead and pick tmo
Lorie (Licornah ): (three with the one behind us)
BOB Yes to Lorie
Craigh: tries the door in front of him, gently.
BOB Into another hallway
TMO (Craigh): still empty?
BOB still empty but three more doors down there
TMO (Craigh): all doors are closed, as shown on the map, correct?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Why are there hallways leading into hallways with doors in between? This is some strange architecture.
BOB yes to TMO and grins with Lemon
Craigh: At a guess - servants quarters.
Bixi Fizzlebang: Small servants?
Craigh: same size as us.
BOB actually I think it is a problem with scale on the map these hallways are wide enough for a giant
Craigh: But this path has less visibility. Less chance of being seen from a distance.
Bixi Fizzlebang: If we are in servants quarters, this might be a good area to find stairs that go down... maybe they have to transport things from storage basement?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): ughhhhh, (whines) Bahhhhhhhhhhhb
TMO (Craigh): so squares are 10'x10'?
BOB Just making sure you know, as the contents of some of these rooms will give away some things
Lisa (Indigo): of course they will
BOB and at least TMO I will have to verify that, the notes said ten foot but giants are bigger than that
Lorie (Licornah ): (BOB it's not letting me follow - says the door is closed - is it a spring-loaded one?)
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Isn't that the point of exploring? To find things out?
TMO (Craigh): we walk into one, Elven Goddess sitting there with Giant King. "Oh, took you long enough to get here."
BOB Not spring loaded not sure why it closed? someone clicked on it maybe
BOB You should be able to click on them to open or close
TMO (Craigh): I can still see through it
Licornah : (Okies, thanks)
BOB the one that Licornah just came through TMO?
TMO (Craigh): yes
BOB and Bixi
BOB ok
BOB Lisa does it look closed or open to you?
Lisa (Indigo): it says open
BOB ok
BOB Michael move Talwin up
Talwin: Im uh, not able to really think clearly right now. I'm sorry, but I need to go bob
BOB ok
BOB have a great night Michael
TMO (Craigh): g'nite
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): goodnight!
BOB we made progress tonight
Lorie (Licornah ): Night
Lisa (Indigo): Goodnight Michael
Michael (Talwin): sorry huys
'Michael' disconnected
TMO (Craigh): s'ok
BOB both in Game Mechanics and in the adventure
TMO (Craigh): carry on, or pause here?
BOB carry on
Lisa (Indigo): teeny tiny bit of progress
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): I definitely feel like I have made progress in map movement... yay mouse wheel click
Craigh: goes back to try the door by Indigo.
Craigh: Ready, Indigo?
Indigo: Sure
Craigh: peeks through.
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): beyond that I feel like we have made both more AND less IC progress than I anticipated. Somehow both of those things are true.
TMO (Craigh): nt a door I can click open
The place has 10 cots, 10 boxes, 4 stools, 1 table, 2 benches, and with a few cloaks, some hides on the floors and walls, etc. A small chest on a stool in the northeast corner of the room.
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Giant sized cots? or people sized cots?
BOB giant sized
TMO (Craigh): Anybody in here?
BOB no
Indigo: Let's open the chest!
Craigh: Do we want to take the time to rummage, or keep on?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): lol
Craigh: I'm game. Branwyn?
Branwyn: A quick look will likely not hurt
Craigh: unless it's trapped.
Craigh: grins
Branwyn: I wouldn't spend much time opening all these boxes
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): If we're rummaging, I want to check the cloak pockets, if there are any
Craigh: Locks aren't my specialty, but I'll give it a shot.
Craigh: goes to the chest.
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): pockets are where you find money you forgot about. I'm going to need funding to invent gogurt.
TMO (Craigh): Bob - on my stream, do you see the stream of light thru the wall?
BOB yes
BOB the walls are not very well done, they have those leaks
Craigh: np, just making sure you knew
TMO (Craigh): I hit ALT!!!
BOB grins
TMO (Craigh): no dangit on that one!
TMO (Craigh): is the chest locked?
BOB no
Craigh: opens the chest.
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): are there pockets to rummage through?
TMO (Craigh): I bet there are. ;)
BOB Yes to Lemon will get to that next
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): ok, I will be patient.
BOB A small chest on a stool in the northeast corner of the room contains some dwarven and elven ears, and one of them has an earring in it
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): lol next question, can I reach them? :P
Lisa (Indigo): the chest has to exploide in Craigh's face first
TMO (Craigh): I like doing the careful sneakery, but dislike that it tends to hog the action for a while.
Craigh: Craigh salvages the earring, but leaves the ears.
BOB and I added the Earring to the inventory on the Party Sheet
Treasure
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): ohhhhhkay
TMO (Craigh): on the site, or is there a Party Sheet here?
BOB Party sheet here
BOB everyone can see that
Lorie (Licornah ): (Under menu --> Party Sheet)
TMO (Craigh): nice!
Indigo: What was it?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): what kind of ears?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): if it's elf ears, that might be enough for us to attack heh
Craigh: Ears. Trophies. One had an earring.
Craigh: Looks like dwarf and elf.
Use random bag contents for any opened.
Indigo: Yuck! Why would you wanna keep ears?
Craigh: At least, these are hairy and those are pointy
GM: [TABLE] Giants Sac Contents = [d100 = 25]
Cheese hard, Slightly moldy and stinky
Indigo: Let's go
BOB That is what Bixi finds searching through the pockets and sacks
Craigh: I keep body parts of some creatures we kill. Hunters keep deer antlers. And so on.
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Hahaha, wow. Giants are weird.
Craigh: Craigh goes back to the door.
GM: [TABLE] Giants Sac Contents = [d100 = 16]
[3x] Boulders, small
BOB and the bits she cannot pick up
TMO (Craigh): why are we rummaging through their sacs? That sounds like an invasion of privacy. :P
Indigo: I think they would just smell and then get all rotten
TMO (Craigh): Sacks I could see, but sacs?
BOB Bixi is able to do that while Craigh is rummaging through their chest
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): I just said cloak pockets /shrug
Craigh: Left or right?
Indigo: You're leading
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): listen at the next door?
Craigh: will listen at this door
Craigh: [SKILL] Detect Noise [PERCENT:Detect Noise] (vs. Target 5) [FAILURE by 2] [d100 = 7]
Youtargim: [SKILL] Detect Noise [PERCENT:Detect Noise] (vs. Target 15) [FAILURE by 27] [d100 = 42]
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Craigh gets distracted thinking about those rocks and doesn't hear any noise, if there was any
Indigo: I don't think anyone's here
BOB Neither of you hear anything
Craigh: open door slightly and peek carefully in.
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): so much failure tonight lol
The place has 10 cots, 10 boxes, 4 stools, 1 table, 2 benches, and various odds and ends.
Craigh: This is not quite what I trained for. Close, but not quite.
Indigo: These rooms are boring
Craigh: I'm going to check the table, see if there's any notes.
Indigo: We're in the wrong section I think
Bixi Fizzlebang: At least we haven't attracted any attention yet
Craigh: Boring means no dying. A successful spy mission is the most boring thing in the world.
BOB It has been just over a half hour so far that you have been sneaking around
Indigo: But it would be good to do this before they stop feasting too
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): That feels like an extremely long time for the two rooms we've seen
Craigh: Running through the halls, killing everything you meet, happens only in bards' tales.
Lisa (Indigo): it's all that listening and checking
Craigh: we're going slowly and quietly
BOB Three room, plus the debates on where to go what to do, etc.
TMO (Craigh): Anything on the table?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): most of that debate was ooc though
BOB nice old game reference too TMO
Indigo: There isn't anything to kill
BOB and nothing on the tables
Craigh: Anybody want to open a box? If not, on to the next room.
Bixi Fizzlebang: I would think when they're done feasting most of them will be so drunk we might be able to convince them we are a hallucination
Craigh: Pick a box, any box, see what prizes lie within!
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): I vote moving on, if it's taking that much time to check boxes
Indigo: Probably just more ears or underwear or something
Craigh: Could be the Tiara of the Moon Goddess, you never know.
Bixi Fizzlebang: Please, no more goddess artifacts
Indigo: Not in a barracks room
Craigh: Youtargim, your door.
Bixi Fizzlebang: This one is bad enough
There are 6 beds, 4 chairs, 4 stools, 7 chests, and two tables in the room. Various skins and hides cover the floors, several hang on the walls, and there are giant garments on several pegs. One torch burns smokily at the west end of the room in a wall sconce; at the east end of the room is an unlit torch in a sconce.
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): is = has been
Indigo: There sure are a lot of giant beds in this place
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): should we check it for a secret door!?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): unlit torch is always a secret door
Craigh: I'll check the tables again, just in case. 7 chests will take a while to open, but I can if you want me to.
Bixi Fizzlebang: shakes head
BOB Lemon what does Bixi get as bonuses with Illusions?
Bixi Fizzlebang: I don't think anything valuable will be here in the common rooms
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): um? i dont' know?
Indigo: These are better giants. They have beds and not cots
TMO (Craigh): Illusionists get a bonus to save, I believe.
Craigh: Oh, good point Indigo. A better class of giant lives here.
Craigh: I'll pop open one chest, just to see.
BOB Different levels get better things and some immunities
Indigo: We could all take a chest and open them together
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Um... sensei?
BOB and yes to Indigo having a very good point
Craigh: Go for it!
Indigo: goes to one of the chests
Indigo: It
Indigo: It's chest opening time!
TMO (Craigh): Illusionists add a +1 bonus when rolling saving throws against any type of illusion.
Craigh: goes to another chest.
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): i can't get in the rooooom
Craigh: you have to go thru the doorway
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): I did!
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): twice!
TMO (Craigh): well there's your problem! twice would put you back in the hall!
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): I guess I'll open a chest too
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Lol, I mean I attempted twice
Indigo: Ready?
Craigh: If everybody's at the party, this is the best chance to do this exploration.
Craigh: Ready
Lisa (Indigo): flips open his chest
Craigh: opens his chest
Bixi Fizzlebang: opens chest
Branwyn: opens another chest
TMO (Craigh): Help! I'm being flashed by a gnome lady!
BOB Chests are empty or have misc clothing in them with no valuables
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): of course
Craigh: Well, that was exciting.
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Ok, I want to go take a closer look at the unlit torch
Indigo: More boring stuff
Craigh: Anybody want a shirt? It'll never shrink too small.
Indigo: you wanted to pull on that sconce Bixi?
Indigo: laughs
Bixi Fizzlebang: It seems a little out of place
BOB A torch at the other end is what appears to be an unlit torch, but it is actually a giant sword
Craigh: Trust your instincts, apprentice.
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): I knew it!
BOB it is touched the special illusion is dispelled.
TMO (Craigh): but does it have a giant attached to it?
Bixi Fizzlebang: Um... can anyone carry this?
Craigh: laughs bitterly.
BOB No giant but Bixi needs to roll a d20 please
Bixi Fizzlebang: [d20 = 20]
BOB She easily commands
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): the roolllllls tonight
TMO (Craigh): oh boy... that's either very good, or very very bad
BOB Note that the sword is unique, with 14 intelligence, 8 ego, and speaking hill, stone, and frost giant languages in addition to the common tongue and the language of Neutral Good (which alignment the weapon is). It detects enemies, but the sword has no other powers. It is +2 in general and +4 versus any sort of giant (scoring that plus in damage, of course).
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): commands?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): WHAT!
BOB It is a Giant sword of Giant slaying
TMO (Craigh): SO.... the Gnome Illusionist now owns an intelligent gigantic sword?
Lisa (Indigo): Can she even lift it?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Oh, I am about to murder SO MANY GIANTS
BOB and now Bixki of all people has controlled it
BOB and sadly no her strength does not let her wield it
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Wait, this isn't what the elf wants is it?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?
Craigh: we have a potion of giant strength
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): CAN'T I COMMAND IT TO FOLLOW ME OR SOMETHING!?
Craigh: Talwin can probably use it.
BOB She can only pick up 40 pounds to walk around
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Can I transfer control?
Lisa (Indigo): can an elf use it?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Can I take it to a blacksmith and have it turned into a dagger of giant slaying?
Lisa (Indigo): Talwin already has a pretty kick ass sword
BOB no to transferring control but you can talk to it about the other person in the hopes of getting it to accept the new person
Craigh: So, apprentice, now what must we do?
Bixi Fizzlebang: looks at Craigh, wide-eyed
Bixi Fizzlebang: shrugs
Craigh: Besides get one of these strapping young lads to carry your fabulous treasure for you, of course.
Craigh: We have to put a torch back in its place.
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): who should I talk to the sword about, y'all?
BOB also yes to TMO about the potion and that would work
BOB I think this is a good stopping point
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): WHY DO I ALWAYS GET THE CRAZY THINGS!?
'Lorie' disconnected
BOB all the characters in this room, 45 minutes have gone by
TMO (Craigh): Because you were smart enough and perceptive enough to notice it.
BOB hope we have a little more understanding now
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): oh look, the cloak of a goddess. oh look, a giant talking giant slaying sword.
BOB and we have a little less chaos next week
BOB smiels
BOB smiles
Lisa: what is the equivalent size?
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): You don't mention an "unlit torch" in a room if it doesn't MEAN something
Lisa: like the giant dagger we found was equal to a long sword I think
TMO (Craigh): I will not deny, the chaos is not my favorite part. Spent a fair amount of today putting out fires caused by another department.
Lisa: or short sword rather
BOB Will check on that
BOB My memory is that it is 10 foot long? maybe 12?
TMO: Nice wall-hanger trophy, if nothing else.
Lisa: so unwieldy for a human
BOB which is a good hint that it is not a Hill Giant sword
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): Was it because of what I rolled, or was it always that sword?
BOB it was that sword, but it was the illusion that you saw through
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): ah
BOB if you had not said that then you all would have left the room and it would still be there
TMO: It's actually safe for Bixi to talk to the sword. She can't use it even if she could pick it up
Lemon (Bixi Fizzlebang): I just wondered if it would have been a different treasure if I had rolled differently after checking it out
TMO: Swords are not in an illusionist's wheelhouse
BOB no to different treasure,
TMO: BUT, I wonder how much this intelligent sword knows about what's been going on here?
Lisa: can we make youtargim carry it around - it is huge!
TMO: Intelligent *TALKING* sword
BOB if you had an immunity to illusions, or something like that then yes you might have seen it as a sword and had someone else pick it up
Lisa: spins around with a 12 ft sword knocking everybody over
Lemon: Hahahahha
BOB no indication it is a talking sword so far
Lemon: This is bonkers
TMO: oh, but it speaks languages, so I assumed
BOB welcome to old school D&D adventure modules too
Lemon: Next time I'm definitely not going to be something so small
TMO: maybe it's just a Listening Sword
Lemon: lol
BOB that will be next week
TMO: It can Listen to you in 3 languages.
Lemon: ngl, I could use a listening sword sometimes
Lemon: A nice sword to run ideas past for my next ghost story
BOB we pick up here with Bixi turning around in surprise to tell everyone what she found
Lisa: yay!
TMO: My new henchman - Bixi's Very Frustrated Giant-Slaying Sword
BOB Have a great night everyone
Lemon: lol
BOB I am working tomorrow (today now)
Lisa: Goodnight everyone!
Lemon: goodnight friends
TMO: PLEASE! Just one swing? At an ankle! At a toe? Anything?
BOB Will post this tonight for everyone
'Lisa' disconnected
BOB LOL with TMO
TMO: You need to work out more, build up those muscles. So you can pick me up.
Lemon: I want tmo to be my sword's voice
TMO: Eat more protein. Less cakes.
Lemon: I do have persuasion... does that work on swords?
BOB yes
Lemon: oooh
BOB works on anyone you can talk to
BOB as long as they understand you
BOB even ghosts, grins
TMO: lol. g'nite
Lemon: hahahha
Lemon: ok, I'm out. my mind has exploded. goodnight
BOB closing this down so I can capture the chat
'TMO' disconnected
'Lemon' disconnected
