Kebre2

Liatai has connected.

Techubi has connected.

Saphroneth has connected.

VAE:oh, here ya are

Liatai:VAE, quick question for you. What's a gryphon B's base land speed? ^^;

VAE:I think we set it to be 40 last time

Saphroneth:Yeah, needed to find the right build.

Saphroneth:Sorry, was explaining laterz ness.

VAE:oh, that's all OK

Saphroneth:Ah, my new token seems to work.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Also, if everyone could fill in their token details (as in, stats etc) to the tokens, would be nice

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I've filled in everything I can using the basic template.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Same.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Well, techcubi hasn't

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Hang on.

VAE:<font color="#000000">also, how do you get the other sort of ttemplate?

VAE:<font color="#000000">I mean... i had to resort in flling BAB and saves into &quot;description&quot; to at least have them somewhere

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It's pretty simple, actually.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Edit &gt; Campaign Properties.

VAE:<font color="#000000">well, the only type there is basic

Liatai:<font color="#000000">The syntax is all right there, it's easy to edit. :3 Just make sure to save your work once you make changes.

VAE:<font color="#000000">you can apparently import it... aah

VAE:<font color="#000000">Ok, something to deal with for next week

VAE:<font color="#000000">but now....

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Roll call, and i don't mean bread rolls :3

Firo:<font color="#000000">Chii!

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Rollout!

Techubi:<font color="#009999">TECHUBI, SIR!

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">So.. last week on EyeBlea... erm DnDMFA, the intrepid lot composed of two young creatures and two &quot;professional money collectors&quot; has been forcibly recruited into the service of the two-headed eagle (well, not literally)

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Oh, are we working for a Mythos?

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">*tentacle-baps Saph* They do actually live in Kebre, they just aren't smart enough to rule.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">VAE, are audience members welcome?

Zora:<font color="#000000">So, upstairs you lot... at least nobody'll listen up there

VAE:<font color="#000000">they are

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Fine, whatever.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">also, why does the portrait instead of the side-bar pic .. oh

Karis:<font color="#993300">Excellent suggestion. And, of course, it means we have none of the attendant issues with tables.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Now, this is compelling, lia

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Okay...&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Your characters, the token showed when talking, aand portrait showed n mouseover

<font color="#0000ff">Dr. Hatari has connected.

</i>VAE:<font color="#000000">those here, the portrait tries to show when talking, and fails horribly due to size/scale

Liatai:<font color="#000000">That's because the token image and portrait image for my characters are the same. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">No.. for Barbarus it wasnt so

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It is so.

VAE:<font color="#000000">he had a token and a full body portrait... .how?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">His portrait shows when he talks in the chat.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Not his token image. :3

VAE:<font color="#000000">*sigh* maybe

Techubi:<font color="#009999">We ready to continue now?

VAE:<font color="#000000">yeahh

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I assume we *are* moving upstairs? Rather than just discuss it, of course.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;What do you think, Voltie?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;You DON'T want to know what I'm thinking, Fironi...&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">The cat walks upstairs first, and traces a pattern on the door of one of thhe rooms above.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;I dunno, maybe I do. Think I might be able to learn how to read people's minds someday? Like that demon guy! That was so cool!&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">&quot;Get in! &quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Hold your horses, already.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Spacious.&quot;

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Wait a sec...

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Vae ACTUALLY just used Quotation marks.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">*slashes Techcubi*

Techubi:<font color="#009999">OW

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">I sometimes forget.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Where are we going? ^^;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Suppose that this work of yours pays well, then?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Or has good benefits, anyway.&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">You are going to one of the rooms along the hall.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I mean, where should we be on the map?

VAE:<font color="#000000">it's OK

VAE:<font color="#000000">is mainly descriptive

VAE:<font color="#000000">you know how bad the lynx is at mappery

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He walks into the room.

Zora:<font color="#000000">&quot;As if the service to your country isn't enough!&quot; *stoneface for a moment, then she bursts into laughter*

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Okay...&quot; And the little gryphon follows, looking around. His tail twitches curiously, still not quite understanding what's happening here yet... but new jobs meant adventure! And more shinies!

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Well, happy and motivated people serve their country better.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Let's see... main benefit is that noone finds out about the business you had in this place earlier... but yeah, i DO have an fund to pay informants and ... people of good will

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Good to know. I'm glad we... understand each other.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">After all *sigh* the other side has a budget of our whole department, or soo it seems

Zora:<font color="#000000">*shuts the door*

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;The other side? Other side of what?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Now.. as i was saying earlier... everyone here knows where Ti'baltr is?

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Government work is always interesting. The continuation of bureaucracy by other means, I take it? And yes, I have some idea.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Kinda. It's the piratey place on the coast, right? Eyepatches and hooks an' jolly rogers?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Heh.. glad you take it that way. We also get nice pensions.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">You know, I'd probably be more ticked about this, but...for some reason, I think I'm suddenly finding her attractive...Maybe that bullet graze somehow injured me more than I thought...

</i>Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">With regard to earlier lynx comment on maps, a bit of an aside: Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Interesting, actually, is a difference in how VAE and I design large scale maps. He goes for national level and focuses on social/trade relations and the terrain from that angle, I go for continental/oceanic level and design based on past and present wars, and grand social structure.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Pensions? Always good, especially since I rather plan on living to collect.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Anyway, she hopefully can't read minds.

</i>VAE:<font color="#000000">heh... i actually went in half and half-i set the base country up, then thought on where the cities would be... but yeah

VAE:<font color="#000000">She can... she's justnot gonna waste a spell on ya :3

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">And your entire map would be an inch square on my big one, but yeah.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Yes, that's correct

VAE:<font color="#000000">I started with one country then built outwards

Zora:<font color="#000000">Riight... glad you see it that way. I plan on it too... Regardless.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;So, what do you want us to do, exactly?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Ti'Baltr gets nice profits from the piracy going on, see? On one side, less trade reaches us as opposed to their safe waters... and there's the stolen cargo.

Zora:<font color="#000000">What.. well.. do you realise what city you are in?

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Okay. So, long journey, different location, excitement, adventure, and most importantly a plan with ? followed by Profit.&quot;

Techubi:<font color="#009999">What's the name of the city again? Veldun?

Zora:<font color="#000000">Heh, not so fast.. i wanna get out of this smokey hellhole too, to be honesst.

* Firo sneezes.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Gesundheit.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Veldun... and it's responsible for about two thirds of metal production in this country.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I don't really mind the smell. The sound is what gets to me, there's so much that only bats can hear in this place. Messes with my senses a little.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Thanks.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Never mind associated industrial goods, and more importantly, ship parts.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Now... The stuff that goes on in Novzgrad is all nice, but there, it is all state-owned and guarded and all...

* Firo headtilts.

Zora:<font color="#000000">The trouble is, stuff gotta be made somewhere, and tht somewhere is around these parts.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;And now it is laid bare. There are issues with the level of return on investment due to these pirates. Well, pirates are as everyone knows outside the law, and who in the world can object if a set of citizens decides to ferret, weasel or even mongoose out a piratical den masquerading as decent men and women.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Huh?&quot; The gryphon child tilts his head the other way.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Pirates bad.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;What, you mean, you're not at all like that?&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Oh. Okay.&quot; =3=

Zora:<font color="#000000">Indeed... now, for quite some time, they have been trying to mess with our production, and siphon some ... interesting stuff.

Zora:<font color="#000000">hell, according to the report, the navy sunk a pirate ship which somehow appeared excruciatinngly similar to one of our newer designs using ironwood/steel composites

VAE:<font color="#000000">Oh, just in terms of world etc - your characters might know thi

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;So... you want us to go hunt pirates?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Ironwood based on price of manufacture and properties is the CFRP of Kebre

Zora:<font color="#000000">Well,in a way.

Zora:<font color="#000000">I want you to help with the pirates and their.. helpers here.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;I dunno, I mean, I'm a messenger, not a fighter. Not like Maiza.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">And that is useful.

Zora:<font color="#000000">People like me... aren't as secret as we'd like to be.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Not like it's going to be hard. You have a Taun-descended on your side, remember, Fironi?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;There are other paths than fighting. It just seems like I'm barred from most of them through no fault of my own.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Now.. You were to deliver letter at Kotva, right?

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;We already finished that.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm-hmm.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Indeed. now, what do you say at Krupp, the director?

Karis:<font color="#993300">*takes out a dagger used in the altercation, and begins cleaning it with a soft cloth. Caring for weapons is important!*

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;He's, um, uh...Firo?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">It indeed is *begins to file her claws*

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;He seemed nice. An' he knew some cool tricks, too!&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Heh... it can be said that way.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Now,what happens is... there is a suspected information leak from the factory..

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Well, we can't have that. Information is best kept at high pressure.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">It actually *does* make more than ship hulls, see? It's just... the workers are ...extremely unwilling to talk about it.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Except one or two of them?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">*giggles* at least after one of my colleagues went through the new employee info presentation with them.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Ah, a black project. Those are interesting, I remember reading of some several centuries ago in the cities under Cross. Nobody ever worked out what he needed so much copper for, at least not while he ruled there.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">*sighs* It might be the case..it's just that neither Stein, nor my boss think any of them is ... willful enough to break an enchantment like that.. Ooh, a history fan! *ears perk up*

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Copper's not black.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sometimes it turns green, but it's not black.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Figure of speech - the project's hard to see. And before you mention how it's easy to see something black, they assume it to be night.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">The stories about Cross are intriguing... i mean...he didn't mess like we do... he just got rid of all the problemmakers

Zora:<font color="#000000">I wish i could do that more often

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;And yet they never found the bodies. That's a concern, after all.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Well that's still easy to see -- oh. Right. Not everybody can see in the dark.&quot; The grphon flattens his ears sheepishly.

Zora:<font color="#000000">This would be a nicer place.. lot nicer. Hee... we have ways of doing that too...

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Who the heck is cross?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Johan Cross? Perhaps the greatest cubi who ever lived.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;One of the vest-pocket despots of the past. Unusually ruthless, unusually smart.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">*fangirl face*

Zora:<font color="#000000">Anyways... *looks a bit embarassed* The point is, we suspect Krupp, or someone around there.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Meh, I think most of the history I know is about the clan histories of Taun and Owona.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">And a second point is... we can't get rid of him like usually, as his brother is the secretary of the Minister of trade back in Oriss, as you might know.

<font color="#0000ff">TMG has connected.

</i>Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Oh, I see, he has connections.&quot;

* Firo headtilts.

Zora:<font color="#000000">And what's worse, he has been doing his job... suspiciously well.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;And a connected person is harder to cut out, because of all the loose threads.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Who has?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">*sighs*

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Soooooooo, let's get straight to the point, if you don't mind.&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">Some guy named Krupp... never heard of him. He likely doesn't owe anyone.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;What do you want us to DO, exactly?&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sorry, just wanna make sure I've got everything right.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I can see you're new to this. No appreciation for the dance.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Say, VAE, do our audience members have tokens? ^^;

VAE:<font color="#000000">ouch

VAE:<font color="#000000">i forgot

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Isn;t that what Vanya is for? And his gloomy trousers?

VAE:<font color="#000000">he is

VAE:<font color="#000000">Now, hatari has him too

VAE:<font color="#000000">and now all players do

VAE:<font color="#000000">he had a plot point... now he just tags along

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Well, no matter how subtle the government contractor, a knife between the shoulder blades will severely cramp his style. To turn a phrase.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Now... What i'd want you to do is to assasinate him, THEN steal the national treasury, and set me up a nice mansion somewhere in H-ann

Zora:<font color="#000000">However, that's ... Impossible

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;WAIT, WAIT, WAIT.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Oh.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">*snerks*

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Ok, let me rephrase that.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Aw, the nice option is never possible.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;WHAT is our MISSION?&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Killing folks isn't nice.&quot; The gryphon frowns and flicks his tail.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;But the money would be... oh, yes... *ahem* I prefer the peaceful solution so long as everyone gets what they want from it.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Now... we have to start somehow.. There's a particular minor businessman.. a demon named Nikola Subin... we know him to have TTC contacts, and he has been getting unusually active recently. We'd like to talk to him in the way that just kinda happens once, if you know.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Ah, Work with the stress on the first letter.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">The nice thing is...if we.. well you, do it well, the only one suspect will be the local.. *entrepreneurs*

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;So... you want us to talk to him... and then hunt pirates?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">After all, as you have seen today, such events aren't exactly uncommon.

Zora:<font color="#000000">More like... *convince* him to come along and talk to me and Ignat

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Who's Ignat?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Shouldn't be too hard.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;After all, I did make that ferret faint just by telling him who I'm descended from.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Ah, I see. We are to persuade him that this meeting would be in his best interests. I think that shouldn't be too much of a problem, if nothing else we can add stringent conditions to his refusal.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">You will meet him soon enough... &quot;Father Ignatius&quot; from the church two streets down... He works with me upon the &quot;extracting information&quot; part

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;I'LL do the talking, Bat boy.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Volt... um...&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Persuasive chap, then... And sorry, I will only interject if it would be important. Or amusing. Or just generally pithy. Whenever I feel like it - but I'll be deferent.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Hmm, though, he *is* a demon... be cautious.. anyways.. we'll have to wait until the evening with that

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;What, Fironi?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Now.. as an aside

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Nevermind. Don't fry his cajones.&quot; ^^;

Zora:<font color="#000000">What exactly was your business here,.. Karis. i think?

VAE:<font color="#000000">IIRC it's cojones, no?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Voltarus said cajones, Firo's just repeating what he heard. :P

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;I WILL fry his cajones if he doesn't smarten up.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">am just questioning the grammar of you two.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;But we gotta try talking to him first.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I was here ensuring that the local bartender understood that he had forgotten to pay a fee for services rendered. He took exception to being reminded.&quot;

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Aw, damnit, it IS Cojones.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Hmm... i see. Were you to collect as well, or merely to facilitate such business later?

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;We were empowered to collect, but so long as the debt was paid it wasn't really a concern. Just to be certain that he understood the situation, and that our employers would appreciate prompt redress of the issue.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Prompt like, say, the money arriving within half an hour or so.&quot;

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Btw, I might have gotten the vaporize/fry cojones thing from what Christian Slater's character said on this fox series called breaking in.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Hmm... i am wondering... Perhaps it'd be best for someone to handle the transfer... i'm thinking either the gryphon, or perhaps even your sizeable friend here.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;So, what do we do right now, exactly?&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Huh?&quot; The gryphon looked up, having been thinking about something else.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Understanding of course that any .. misbehaviours would end unpleasantly on those resident.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;That might be aggreable, yes. Wouldn't do to be demerited for lack of promptness. Michail, mind settling the good barman's debt for him, on his behalf, with the money he was of course going to pay it with?&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">As you say! 't was in the box, right?

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Yes, I believe so.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">And before that...

VAE:<font color="#000000">moment, have to look up PHB something

Zora:<font color="#000000">*waves paw at Michail* Understand, your friend here wouldn't like it if you said anything about what job are you busy with... it would be a painful experience, really. Do tell your boss you two are taking an unpaid leave&quot; DC 16 Suggestion at michail, and since it's all true, he gets a -2 penalty for a save ,too

Michail:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20- = 16 = -16&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Michail:<font color="#000000">er

Michail:<font color="#000000">1d20 -2 it was

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">You may have formatted that wrong.

Michail:<font color="#000000">er, -1 actually

Michail:<font color="#000000">stil, he fails the save :3

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Miss Zora Oak-Rana?&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">So.. Right, Unpaid holiday you say? I wonder where we are going!

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I see where you are coming from, miss. A good thought - so long as at least a little reimbursement takes place, of course. With that understanding in place, then let us be ready.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">*sigh* Do they not teach you anything wherever you come from?

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Is there something we can show Mr. Subin so he knows we're on official business?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;He is... unsubtle. But there is a use for blunt instruments.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Indeed... As soon as Michail returns we shall leave for the church.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;So, strategy. I will be the ambush element for if he is uncooperative. I know a few non lethal neutralization spells.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">We'll wait until the evening... and at least you'll know where to drag him off.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Either of you know Dot-Dash code?

Zora:<font color="#000000">Good point... the plan is to grab him as he'll be walking home.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Uh-uh. I know Chii.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Easy to teach in a few hours? I'm tired of being incommunicado in primal form.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">*clanks out &quot;Indeed&quot;* in Morse

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Exactly.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Maybe!&quot; DM, what kind of ruling do you have on teaching simple Gryphon Chii to a bat? :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">Hmm, if he has the Int for additional language

VAE:<font color="#000000">A few basic things shouldn't be a problem

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Yeah, actually. Two slots free. I can learn it over the course of the campaign, I suppose.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I think he'll actually have to make some rolls to seehhow long it takes

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Int check?

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Maybe you can teach me some dot-dash code in the meantime?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">yep

VAE:<font color="#000000">int chec

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Firo's also got space for one more language. :3

Karis:<font color="#993300">&#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 15 + 2 = 17&#160; <font color="#993300">&#187; int check.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Heh quite the nice result.. while waiting for Michail, you managed to learn at least the basic &quot;Pidgin chii&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;It's all in how long you make the chii! An' in the pitch of it, an' when you make it louder an' quieter.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Well, it's actually not very complex. It works from the basic language, and just has a set of noises, short and long in patterns, for each letter or number. The tricky thing is learning to interpret it fast.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I'm quite good at pitch control, that's good to know. Survival skill, when I got my primal form - I need it to navigate.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Why do i feel like being possessed by an omnipotent entity? I'm an atheist, dammit!

</i>Firo:<font color="#000000">Int check for Firo - &#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 11 + 2 = 13&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">*awe* how did you do ITALICS?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Just like HTML.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Could have sworn it didn't work... okay, thanks.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I generally use italics for thoughts

VAE:<font color="#000000">and i already used them in last DnDMFA

Liatai:<font color="#000000">So, DM? Results of Int check to learn some basic Morse Code?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Then I wasn't paying attention. Clearly.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Firo gets at it a bit worse, but at least now, he can do basic, one word commands, like &quot;yes&quot; &quot;no&quot; &quot;help&quot; and &quot;FUCK&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Teaching the kid to swear in Morse, are we? XP

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">In this line of job, you need it. :3

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">That last one being not quite as explicit, of course. Firo is still young. The message is more &quot;aaaaagh&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">But the sense is there.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">x3

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">The bear arrives again.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Nice n' quick!

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Ummm. It's harder than Chii.... but I think I got some of it. Gonna hafta practice!&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;The boss pleased?&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">Um.. boss is OK.. he just wonders about the holidays.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Well, we can explain when we return. Perhaps send postcards.&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">I mean, i sortta see .. taking time off starting on a friday ...

Michail:<font color="#000000">Postcards! great idea! I should send some to my family, too!

Firo:<font color="#000000">Firo leans over and whispers to Voltarus -- &#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 14 + 3 = 17&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Bluff. &quot;I dunno about you, but I got kinda a bad feeling about this...&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Sooooooooo...We gonna head to the church now, or what?&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">None of 'em been on a holiday either... only in hospital.. well, that was when dad and uncle Igor got into a fight over the sheep ...

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">XD

Zora:<font color="#000000">Shut up *tail bristling*

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Sense motive: &#171; &#160;1d20 - 3 = 5 - 3 = 2&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Bloody mountain folk...

VAE:<font color="#000000">who was that on!

VAE:<font color="#000000">?

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">*sigh*

Liatai:<font color="#000000">TC - That Bluff check was t keep from being overheard. x3

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Firo bluffed...

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Oh.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">OH

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Oh.

Karis:<font color="#993300">Hmmm... Of course you see that we Had to have a holiday, the stress was Killing us slowly. Running around from place to Another place is much less Nauseatingly samey, and the effect is Absolutely wonderful.

</i>Zora:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20-1 = 12 - 1 = 11&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Sense motive for this feline too

Zora:<font color="#000000">And, she doesn't hear a thing , either.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">A postcard like that would explain our absence, I think...

Zora:<font color="#000000">except that'd be Listen, which is two more points

Zora:<font color="#000000">and it wouldn't be enough either

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Quite clever, Saph. :3

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Thanks.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He whispers back, Bluff: &#171; &#160;1d20 + 2 = 1 + 2 = 3&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187; &quot;You have a bad feeling about this, huh?&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Hee hee.

VAE:<font color="#000000">i see

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Dangit.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">PFFT. XD

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">XD

Zora:<font color="#000000">*sigh* You know... the point of whispering is to actually speak quiet?

Zora:<font color="#000000">You are louder than the fucking gunshot!

* Firo freezes and looks guilty.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Clearly an actor at some point in the past, they stage-whisper a lot.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He growls and turns back toward her. &quot;SHUT UP!&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">BRB, sacred canine duty.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">The lot indeed steps outside of the pub, leaving the .. socially exhausted staff behind. As you walk down the street, you see quite a lot of militia patrolling the streets for such a common day.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">I would say it was scaredy-CAT, but the family dog is terrified of single inanimate chips.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">I think I'll actually be overhead as Bat.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Also, there are carriages moving somewhere south.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Roll Listen, i guess

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Listen: &#171; &#160;1d20 - 3 = 16 - 3 = 13&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 3 + 4 = 7&#160; <font color="#993300">&#187;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Heh. XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">heh.. a deaf bat

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Volt got a higher score than a BAT. XD

Karis:<font color="#993300">.-.. . ... ... --- ..-. -.-- --- ..- .-. .-.. .. .--.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Wha?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">http://www.onlineconversion.com/morse_code.htm

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">From now on, I'll post actual translations... or perhaps speak in Chii.

VAE:<font color="#000000">works well enough

VAE:<font color="#000000">you can use actual morse :3

VAE:<font color="#000000">Anyways

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Reading up.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">What are the results for the listen checks?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Less of your lip

</i><font color="#993300"> was the morse, Liatai, btw.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Meant for who?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Voltarus.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ah. x3

Techubi:<font color="#009999">You mean me.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Listen &#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 1 + 2 = 3&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; for Firo.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Sort of semi-IC. It was Volt who made the comment, so it was meant for him.

Techubi:<font color="#009999">XD

Unknown command: &quot;msg Techubi You hear a militionary: Crap, i had a holiday! Why of all days!&quot;. Try /help for a list of commands. You whisper to Techubi: You hear a militionary: Crap, i had a holiday! Why of all days!

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Did we even hear our instructions or were we just nodding along?

Techubi:<font color="#009999">The last thing Volt said IC was 'SHUT UP!'

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Hence, semi IC.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Awful noisy around here...&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Militionaries have holidays...?&quot;

You whisper to Techubi: Second one: I wonder what happened this time.. did they hit a fucking gas pocket again?

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Gas pocket...?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">It be party?

You whisper to Techubi: First one: Yeah... &quot;top class equipment&quot; and it all fucks up... lucky that brother doesn't work for them anymore

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Top class equipment?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Brother? Huh...Must be talking about one of those demon bro guys.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Hey, who's moving Firo?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Not me.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Could be the Lynx.

You whisper to Techubi: Second: i only hope there won't be more of a mess

VAE:<font color="#000000">And i ain't

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Huh? Who's talking about what?&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">That was odd.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Liatai, you are the only one with ownership there

VAE:<font color="#000000">noone else could have moved it if they wanted to

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Perhaps an unusual keyboard command?

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;I think a couple of militia guys are talking about holidays, gas pockets, Tow class equipment, and something about a brother.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">also.. it's what techcubi overheard two militionaries talk about

* Firo listens closer -- &#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 5 + 2 = 7&#160;  &#187;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;This like noodle incident all again.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Gas pocket? You sure?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Are underlined bits in Morse?

Techubi:<font color="#009999">You mean what Voltarus heard.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Or in Chii?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Chii.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Yeah, one of them definitely mentioned a gas pocket.&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Hence the Pidgin pidgeon speak.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">...sorry

Firo:<font color="#000000">Chii: &quot;Noodle incident?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Hmm, crap.. that'd explain the sirens earlier.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;We no speak of noodle incident.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;So, do we keep heading to the church?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Something must have fucked up in one of the mines again.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Chii...&quot; (Translation: &quot;Okay...&quot;)

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Chii chii, chii chii chii, chii?&quot; (&quot;By the way, what's your name, anyway, mister?&quot;)

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">You do indeed, and soon enough, you reach the Church of Saint Ilya Dragonslayer.

Karis:<font color="#993300">-.- .- .-. .. ... (I don't think that one can be in Chii, as it's a string of letters)

Zora:<font color="#000000">*listening* On second thought, letting the gryphon teach him this wasn't clever 

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Karis, chii?&quot; (&quot;Karis, right?&quot;)

Karis:<font color="#993300">Yes.

Zora:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wait a moment... &quot; The cat approaches the back door to an addon slapped to the side of the church.

Zora:<font color="#000000">*knock knock....* *knock*

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Chii! Firo chii.&quot; (&quot;Nice to meet you! I'm Firo.&quot;)

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;What's going on, Miss Zora?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">Nice name, and nice meet you also

Zora:<font color="#000000">*knock*... wait, how did it go.. Right *knock knock* *knock knock*

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">I'm channeling Shan Pu from Ranma for the level of Pidgin. It helps.

TMG:<font color="#000000">whup, tiem to go. Seeya folks later

<font color="#0000ff">TMG is disconnected.

</i>T3h GM:<font color="#000000">The door opens, and you notice tall feline in black robes.

* Dr. Hatari can only imagine that this exchange sounds quite silly to passerby. |3

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Male or female?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">But of course. x3

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">Our Father bless you... notice you have.. company.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">It's a bat and a gryphon having a conversation. It indeed is silly.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Heh

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Oh, right. XD

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Hey.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Of course a priest will be male... well, of this bunch, anywaysd

Zora:<font color="#000000">Let's say that i inadvertently came to some help... Now, let's get inside.

Karis:<font color="#993300">...well damnit. So much for a good first impression. Oh well, I'll hang around, pun intended, and listen for instructions. It feels good to stretch my wings.

</i>Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;This church isn't racist against Cubi-spawn, is it?&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">Firo looks around the church as they enter. Hmm... If only he could fly! Those rafters look fun to climb on.

VAE:<font color="#000000">It depends

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Their ikon of their saint has headwings, suspiciously.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Somewhat, yes... but then the saint this place is dedicated to has headwings

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Oh. XD

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">(Saint Ilya the Dragonslayer has suspicious headwings propping up his halo, and in fact, some apocrypha state he eloped with her instead, after persuading her of the benefits of vegetarianism)

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Well, let's not forget Volt's 5 in wisdom. XD

Firo:<font color="#000000">Oh, wait -- official business! Must not climb rafters. Must be professional. =3=

VAE:<font color="#000000">Heh... besides, this guy is a waiter for Okhrana membership

VAE:<font color="#000000">He's been promised ... aid in being the one chosen for the city's bishop when the present retires

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Are you Father Ignatius, mister?&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Hmm. Getting illicit assistance in a church election... a cardinal sin?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ouch. Nice pun. XD

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Though there really was a cardinal by the name of Sin. Fun guy, called his house the House of Sin.

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Feh. Have you people never heard of the Borgia family? XD

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">Yes, child... Our Triune Lord bless all of you.

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">Come inside, now.

Zora:<font color="#000000">If only he talked like a person

</i>Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Alright...&quot; He goes in.

* Firo gives a little formal bow of the head before entering. Professional, entering a place of worship, be polite! =3=

Karis:<font color="#993300">Oh, hang on, this is the Church of Christ the Were, isn't it? Less of an issue with me being here.

</i><font color="#993300"> *lands and reverts to base form as crosses the threshold*

VAE:<font color="#000000">Heh, if anyone cares, not so much borgias as Action Spiritual of our state security.. .this guy is a bit based on an archbishop of our region, codename Svatopluk

VAE:<font color="#000000">even the appearance fit totally :3

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">Ah, so you are one of those our lord made in his image! Honoured to meet you!

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Glad you feel so. I am sure I'm unworthy of it.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">we'll just use a random space i guess

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">Don't worry.. we all are. It us but by acts of faith we can redeem ourself, after all.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;A sensical attitude.&quot;

* Firo sits and curls his tail around his paws, still looking around.

Zora:<font color="#000000">*rolls eyes* Ignat.. as usual. They bring him in, and you make sure you do .. your thing so that he talks sense, right?

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">*looks thoughtful* When?

Zora:<font color="#000000">Tonight.. nobody should be skulking around anyways..

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">Agreed.

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">Also... as for the help you wanted, i have found someone.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Oh?

* Firo 's tail twitches. Must... behave... self... no matter how climbable those rafters look...

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">One of the seminarists... quite a bright one.. a bit less on the side of restraint though. that's why he agreed... Mind if i bring him along later? Might be a good idea to begin training him in.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Sure *grins* at least this bunch'll be less likely to die on me.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">We can has healer? :D

VAE:<font color="#000000">you indeed will, but after the action :3

VAE:<font color="#000000">there'll be a bit worse one, see?

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;That sounds less than promising... what were the last bunch? I assume they were not Quick, and hence they became the other option.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">That's a good observation. No fault of my own, though.

* Firo is considering things, listening. Maybe it would be better to let this Karis guy do the talking than let Voltie do the talking... &gt;.&gt;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Understood. Well, do we have a location ahead of time we know this person will be, or will we be expected to find him as well?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Anyways... He'll be likely to spend the night in the Morningstar Club... as long as he leaves, you;ll follow him carefully... if all's clear... pacify him.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Hmm, can any of you do magic?

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He whispers to Firo, Bluff: &#171; &#160;1d20 + 2 = 5 + 2 = 7&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187; &quot;I think you were you right about that bad feeling...&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Uh-uh, not me.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;I'm a warlock.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I have some, mostly utility. Rope animation and Muscle weakening are my best, and I have a little fire element.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;So, I can do will-powered energy blast things.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Hmm, what about manipulating... readymade objects?

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Father, Miss, will there be anything we can show Mr. Sabin so he knows we're on official business? I don't wanna be mistaken for a thug or somethin'.&quot;

Techubi:<font color="#009999">So, did Zora hear what Volt whispered to Firo?

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;For me it's rope or nothing. Unless it's a tiny little thing under a pound, in which case I can move it slowly.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;How could he mistake a runt for a thug?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+1 = 3 + 1 = 4&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Listen

Zora:<font color="#000000">She doesn't .. deaf as a door nail

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">XD

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I hope we have too much class for thuggery. We're persuading him to have a friendly chat, which will benefit everyone. He'll have the chance for confession with a high ranking clergyman, an honour, see?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Haha! Indeed!

Zora:<font color="#000000">I like the way you put it, i really do.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm... still think it'd be better to have somethin' to show him.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Always good to unburden the soul.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He growls lowly.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Indeed.. especially of secrets harmful to our state.

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">As the church is a mother to us all, the state holds a fatherly, protective hand.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Like how my messenger's badge lets me go talk to people I normally wouldn't be able to.&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Sec... what are everyone's alignments? I just wondered. Karis is CN.

Firo:<font color="#000000">Poor, naive kid. Still hasn't caught on to the fact that he's dealing with the secret police. x3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">NG for Firo.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">I put Volt's as Chaotic good, but, he's actually acting abit more like Chaotic Neutral, isn't he?

VAE:<font color="#000000">The priest is LN.. the cat is NN

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Oh dear. XD The gryphon's the odd one out again, I see.

VAE:<font color="#000000">what's the gryphon?

VAE:<font color="#000000">oh, NG

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Neutral Good. XD

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">...

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I originally had him as CG, but then realized he cared a wee bit too much for protocol to be chaotic. ^^;

VAE:<font color="#000000">The bear i am not sure.. i mean, the way i played him wasn't quite smart enough about allignment

VAE:<font color="#000000">as in, to discern which one he is

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;See, what you have to understand is that it's obviously in his better interest to listen. If he's been telling people things he shouldn't, after all, then it's not long before he gets involved in more complex and less easily explained away things. We're saving him from himself, like holding an intervention.&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Anyways, any other questions, anything other to take care of or to go to?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">I think Firo's still got that sticking point about official symbolism.

VAE:<font color="#000000">sure

* VAE is starting to get symptoms of tea insufficiency

Zora:<font color="#000000">Sure, actually.. that messenger badge makes for a nice distraction.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Distraction...?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">*sighs* Let's say you talk to him, and leave the rest at Karis here.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;*I* am going to be handling the talking.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Keeps his mind off bigger problems. After all, being a messenger means carrying messages, and the message you're carrying is that someone wants a chat with him.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">And now if you mind... you are a messenger ,right?

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm'kay.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm-hmm.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Yeah.. here's twenty silver, and go get us some lunch.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Okay, what kind of lunch?&quot; Congratulations, you have a gofer. :B

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Oh, no, you are not turning the kid into your little personal assistant.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;I'LL get lunch.&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Hm. Are insectivores still insectivorous in furrae?

Zora:<font color="#000000">Something cheap enough, i'm no Krazt. Better be meat though, and better be from a mammal :3

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Come to that, is a filling meal in alternate form still filling?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Makes me wonder

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Alright. Hand me the money, then.&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Sausage, BTW, is 10 SP/pound according to AEG.

Firo:<font color="#000000">Not... me getting lunch? &gt;: Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">If it's pork.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Actually... how's everyone else?

VAE:<font color="#000000">If it's pork

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Kid, you are a messenger. That's something you can be proud of? Personal assistant? Not so much...&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">*.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I mean, she probably eats the sort of stuff like Cut Me Own Throat sold

Zora:<font color="#000000">Know what, here's 50, get somethin' for everyone, and consider it partial payment in advance.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I'll have some insects, actually. It's quite easy to get my fill in primal form, and it seems to be vaguely consistent how full I am. Either that or I'd explode when I shifted.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Yeah, fine, whatever. What does everyone want?&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sandwich!&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">Ooh, moths. They're always a challenge... ow! Those little snappers hurt my ears. Well, you're not getting away now, you've shot your bolt!

</i>Zora:<font color="#000000">And better be quick.. .no use in cover work when your guts have National Opera going on inside

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Alright. Anyone else want anything?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">*currenly engaged in the accoustic form of electronic warfare with the moths in the church*

Michail:<font color="#000000">A beer would be nice... and some borsc or something.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Some wha?&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Local cuisine throughout the Eastern Bloc. And since we're in pseudo-eastern europe...

Michail:<font color="#000000">Where you are from, kid? Don't you eat borsc at home?

* Firo sits patiently and waits, tapping out an alphabet in Morse with his claws for practice.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;I'm from Oriss.&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">He's eitherr way too rich, or way too poor for his own good.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Is it this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borscht

VAE:<font color="#000000">A soup made of red beet, meat, carrot, cabbage and some stuch stuff

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ah, yes it is. x3

Karis:<font color="#993300">Good, but all O dash same long. Leng? Length.

VAE:<font color="#000000">also, mind if i go make tea, folks?

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Chii! Chii chii.&quot; (&quot;Oh! Thank you.&quot;)

VAE:<font color="#000000">mess along yourself.

Karis:<font color="#993300">It hard letter, lots of dash. Easy to get mix up.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Also, if anyone would particularly like two characters, i guess Michail is for grabs, but that's later to deal with.

VAE:<font color="#000000">i mean, i am fine dealing with him either way.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Chii chii, chii chii chii? Chii chii chii chii.&quot; (&quot;By the way, what's your bear friend's name? It's good to know the names of your coworkers.&quot;)

Karis:<font color="#993300">Could ax -ASK him, I think he remember.

Karis:<font color="#993300">But if it for practice...

Karis:<font color="#993300">-- .. -.-. .... .- .. .-..

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Chii.&quot; He nods; that doesn't need translation. &quot;M I C ... um... Michail?&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">(Another moth drifts past, and is slapped in the face by a Prestidigitation effect. Low level magic: making hunting easy!) Right.

VAE:<font color="#000000">and the lynx is here

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Chii!&quot; (&quot;Thanks!) The gryphon watches the moth hunting curiously. &quot;Chii chii!&quot; (&quot;Cool trick!&quot;)

Karis:<font color="#993300">It practiss spell. But practiss strong for person powerful for moth, yes?

VAE:<font color="#000000">heh.. if you have some fun in mind, we can go along with that too .. just tell me later to make a time cut :3

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Anyway, I'll be back soon.&quot; He goes to leave the church... But stops. &quot;Where's the nearest food place, again?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">*sigh* Sergej's Sumptious Servings would be one, you double to the left ,tehn carry on straight.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Alright, thanks.&quot; He leaves and follows her instructions.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sure you don't want me to go get it? I'm quick.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">Argh bird! Bad bird! I am of a higher order and - ACK!

</i><font color="#993300"> A full size bat were glides down from the rafters, a puzzled looking pidgeon following him. &quot;I was full anyway...&quot;

* Firo watches the pigeon fly away a little wistfully.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Roll an Int check to follow the directions

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Kay.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Knowledge(local) really, but i doublt you have

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Bird brain. You'd think it would go eat seeds or something, but no. First carnivorous pidgeon in the entire world I bet, and of course it's my luck.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Int: &#171; &#160;1d20 + 3 = 7 + 3 = 10&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">You do indeed manage to find the place.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;My uncle Trikk looks like a pigeon, an' he eats meat like nobody's business. I saw him eat a whole cow once!&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">You see a rather decrepit house wiith a sign of 'Sergej's Scrumptions Servings&quot; hanging above the entrance in a slightly unstable way.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I don't want to talk about it.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm.&quot; And Firo goes back to practicing Morse code.

Zora:<font color="#000000">*salivates slightly at the mention of beef*

Zora:<font color="#000000">Wish i got a raise .. then i could afford beef more often

</i>Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He walks inside and looks around.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Actually, working somewhere with *grass* so that beef hasn't to be imported would be enough

</i>Sergej:<font color="#000000">A rather bored looking cat addresses him from the counter. He's drinking a can of beer.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Hmm... makes me wonder.. does this city have any livestock except the street rats?

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;I dunno.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;There's the moths, but they only really count for me.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Yeah, bloody weres, you have it easy.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I only actually had my magic stabilize recently. Been able to shift for a year or two, no more.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He walks over to him. &quot;Hey. Ok, um, I'll have some cheap meat, a beer, something called a Borscht, and a...Beef sandwich, I guess?&quot;

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">The blessings of our lord are varied... As those on heavens they require little sustenance.. but then, they aren't known for physical endurance and bulk.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Any idea how hard it is to learn a whole new way of moving? Flapping is hard. But at least I get to avoid the traffic now, and there's nothing like the feeling of being in Primal where magic's concerned. It sort of fills you up to overflowing, wants to be used.&quot;

Sergej:<font color="#000000">&quot;Beef sandwich, borscht, cheap meat.. beer?&quot; NATASHA! MEAT, THRICE!

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm... can't wait 'til I'm able to fly.&quot;

Natasha:<font color="#000000">*from the kitchen* Yes dear!

Sergej:<font color="#000000">And here's the beer *drags out a half-litre can* That'll be 38 gold five copper.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;There's nothing in all the world like it, I assure you.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;It looks like so much fun...&quot; The kid gryphon has a dreamy look on his face.

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">*looks thoughtful* I.. our lord grants me some form of magic..but no, not like that...

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Um, ok...&quot; He hands him 45 gold. &quot;Keep the change.&quot;

Sergej:<font color="#000000">Woo! Rich boy, are ya?

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Of course, in my case I'm taking all my weight on my fingers. Your flight surface is going to be much better reinforced.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Didn't really spend much on Adventurer supplies before getting teleported to this city.&quot;

* Firo stretches his wings and flaps them a little. &quot;An' it's gonna make my job so much easier, too.&quot;

Natasha:<font color="#000000">Natasha arrives, bearing three food packets. Our today's special! Rodent a'l Sergius!

<font color="#0000ff">TMG has connected.

</i>Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;There is that. &quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mr. Karis?&quot;

Sergej:<font color="#000000">an the beer..... *counts money, bites one* And they aren't even fake!

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;When I mentioned my brother Maiza earlier. You sounded like you've heard of him.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He grabs the meat and the beer. &quot;Well, thanks.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Well, heard of him yes. A most notable person, see... it's not often you hear of a Gryphon who takes up the ways of the spiritual. And even less common you get one who's able to beat people black and blue seven different ways.&quot;

Sergej:<font color="#000000">Nice going, kid! I'll drink to ya *burp* Come again!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Why do I feel like Voltarus just got majorly gypped? :B

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Becuase he asked for beef and got rat.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">That's a lot for a meal, even if you are feeding a gryphon. :B

VAE:<font color="#000000">*hee hee hee*

VAE:<font color="#000000">they are nice portions.. but see, it's the wisdom thing

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You and your low Wis, Voltarus. XP

VAE:<font color="#000000">i should have made him roll Sense Motive

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Alright. Might be in town longer, anyway.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Actuall,y i still might

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He leaves the place.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Do I need to do another Int check to get him back to the church?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">With that kind of penalty, there's not much point. And in my case, there's a reason I keep Michail around. He's surprisingly perceptive.

VAE:<font color="#000000">don;t think so

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm!&quot; He nods, grinning. &quot;He's tough, all right!&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">i just wanted to see if he got a 20 and realised how much he's been robbed

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;... D'you know where he is now?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">I wonder where that bloody cubi is with the lunch.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;His last few letters back home didn't have return addresses on 'em...&quot; The gryphon's tail twitches a little.

Father Ignatius:<font color="#000000">Patience is a virtue, sister.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Easy to say that for someone who's had lunch already.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Also, idid i say how i love PF tokens, Liatai?

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Not sure. Heard a few things, but mainly he and his little group were passing through an area. I'm sure he's fine, after all if you're on the road you can't be sure where you'll be. Might even be he'll check at a messenger post to see if there are letters for him, not as if distance is a problem when you're with a group of travelers. Warp-Aci are more popular than ever.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm. Hope you're right.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">and i think i said, have Voltarus arive whenever you feel like it

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;And there's always spells like Whispering Wind, or Animal Messenger. They'll find him.&quot;

* Firo 's ears perk up. &quot;Really? You think so? I always heard those spells -- you had to pick a spot for the message to go to, it doesn't just find people.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's why we messengers are important. We find people.&quot; :3

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Sending? I think that one targets a person.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;I dunno.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">OOC, yep, Sending does, as does Message. :3

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Wonder where Volt is... hope he didn't get lost.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Yes, it does. It's only a very short message, but you can ask him where to send your letters. *heh* that or use Owl Post like that Harry Porcupine series...&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;That's why I wanted to go. I don't get lost easy in strange places.&quot; The gryphon shuffles his wings, tapping his claws on the floor. He clicks his beak amusedly at the owl post idea.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;That one about the boy who survived being soul eaten, I think. Seems interesting, I suppose that's the point of fiction though. Imagine, a world where you needed a wand to cast spells!&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Man, that'd suck!

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Yeah, that one! My little sisses love those books. Think they should've made it gryphon post, though. Lot faster. An' harder to get lost!&quot; The gryphon puffs his ruff proudly.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Bloody wands break up after a bunch of uses

Zora:<font color="#000000">Though not the worst.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I suppose it'd be harder to fit a hundred gryphons in the attic.&quot;

* Firo chitters amusedly.

Zora:<font color="#000000">A bunch of stuff i've read... a guy working for a state agency that had something to do with clothes. They had to use bloody machines for everything... and the best magician among them couldn't bloody muster a fireball!

Zora:<font color="#000000">I mean ,a guy raised a bunch of zombies and almost died there.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Not as strange as those books with the polka zombie dragon, though... I thought I was seeing things when I read that bit.&quot;

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Alright, if you want Voltarus to arrive back soon, start complaining again. XD

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;We gotta wait for the big-page editions of books most of the time... little books for beings're sometimes hard to turn the pages on...&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Yeah.. what some people write these days...not a touch of realism.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yes, please come back! XD

Zora:<font color="#000000">*stomach growl* Where's that bloody cubi, anyways?

Zora:<font color="#000000">This is why i wanted to send someone who's. you know, a messenger.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He finally arrives back. &quot;Hey.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Voltie!&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Hey! Did you hunt it down yourself?

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Bought it.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He starts handing around the meat thingies, and the beer to Michail.

Zora:<font color="#000000">I mean, with the time it took... one could grow the beet for his soup.

* Firo wolfs down the sandwich in a few snaps of his beak. Yum! :9

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">The food packets contain a bunch of strongly spiced sausages immersed in rather floury broiled (?) cabbage, and a chunk of rye bread each.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Though he doesn't say it, his favorite series is one which, in our world, produced this bit of fan art: http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs15/f/2007/093/1/b/Vlad_Taltos_by_ShardGlass.jpg

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Probably because it reads like a set of personal goals.

VAE:<font color="#000000">haha, yeah

Liatai:<font color="#000000">:D

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I need to find those books again.

VAE:<font color="#000000">heh.. and i bet the cat would kill for an erich zahn violin

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I read one of them a while back... Dzur, I think?

VAE:<font color="#000000">well, that's how you make one, anyways.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">They are awesome. Dzur... that's the one where he meets Sethra Lavode, right?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Couldn't find the first one at the local bookshop, grabbed the only one I could find. ^^;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Also, whoever's eating.. roll Spot?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Or is it where he's first gettig used to his Great Weapon?

Firo:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+6 = 8 + 6 = 14&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Michail:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 12 + 3 = 15&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">First getting used to the weapon, I think.

Zora:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20=1 = 17&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Ah. Yeah, that one. Where about a third of the book is a really delicious meal.

Zora:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20-1 = 3 - 1 = 2&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">YES. XD

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Oh my gosh, I got so hungry reading that book. XD

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Heh. I like that one because he has NO idea what Lady Teldra/Godslayer can even do.

VAE:<font color="#000000">hmm. .. whioc roll shoudl i appy

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">&quot;Oh, She seems to have died randomly. Did I do that?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">16 corrected, or 2? Which'd be funnier.

* Liatai loves books with good food descriptions... :9

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">2.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">I think her being completely unaware of it not being beef, and both others noticing.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Despite her beef fangirlism.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Those of you rolling above 10 notice that this isn't beef at all, furthermore that the meat is doing a cosplay of vegetable matter, with respect to hue anyways

Zora:<font color="#000000">*chomps down on stuff* mmm, spicy!

Karis:<i><font color="#993300">Ouch. Good thing it's hard to fake a moth.

</i>Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;... um, Volt... how much did you pay for this?&quot;

* Firo wolfs down the bread and cabbage at least. They look okay. :9

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;45 gold. Told them to keep the change. Why...?&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">Appraise &#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 19 + 2 = 21&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Karis:<font color="#993300">*facewing*

* Firo facepaws.

Zora:<font color="#000000">What. the. hell?

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Voltie, you just got ripped off something fierce.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Nice lunch, sure, but 45?

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;What do you mean...?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">WHAT DO YOU THINK I AM, A MILLIONAIRE?

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;That's more than all my kit costs put together. Including the weapons.2

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Voltie, this isn't worth anywhere near 45 gold.&quot; ^^;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Yeah.. nice sausages.. but still, about 20.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;I'm not caring unless it's fake meat.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;More like 45 silver, if that... um.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">um, it was silver

VAE:<font color="#000000">can liatai read?

* Firo looks down at his sausage. Sweatdrops.

VAE:<font color="#000000">she gave him 50 silver, unless i am an utter idiot who can't write

Techubi:<font color="#009999">VAE, you had Sergej say '38 gold 5 copper'

Karis:<font color="#993300">Voltarus: &quot;Um, ok...&quot; He hands him 45 gold. &quot;Keep the change.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sergej: And here's the beer *drags out a half-litre can* That'll be 38 gold five copper.

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Or, something like that.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">It's pretty consistently been a LOT of gols.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">GOLD

VAE:<font color="#000000">38 silver 5 copper.. didn't it seem strange to you?

VAE:<font color="#000000">*facepaws*

Liatai:<font color="#000000">YES. XD

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">We thought it was an elaborate joke.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">That's why I brought up the fact that I thought he was getting ripped off! XP

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Well, elaborate...

VAE:<font color="#000000">It still was a ripoff

VAE:<font color="#000000">it's just.. this means he paid it from his own pocket, too

VAE:<font color="#000000">I suppose Sergej was mistaken when speaking... and he went along with it

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Fail barter.

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Should I have my Volt go back in a raging mood?

Techubi:<font color="#009999">*Have Volt

VAE:<font color="#000000">yeah. that sounds likely *headdesks* and here's my pretence of knowing what i do

VAE:<font color="#000000">it's allrigth

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Well... it was paid for, an' meat is meat...&quot; The gryphon gulps, then wolfs down the meat as quickly as he can. Fort save &#171; &#160;1d20+1 = 10 + 1 = 11&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Wait... Firo.. you said 38 GOLD?

* Firo gags a little, but keeps it down.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Okay, when bartering, you're not supposed to offer over ten times the original price. Unless you're nuts.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;The guy said, '38 gold five copper'&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Voltie... Next time, just let me go get the food.&quot; ^^;

Zora:<font color="#000000">*sigh* HOW did i end up with this lot... one would guess sending him with 50 silver, he'd guess that's around the price

Zora:<font color="#000000">Well, either way, i'm glad that didn't come off my pocket.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He sighs. &quot;Ok, that does it.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Enjoy, folks.. probably the most expensive meal either of us will ever eat.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He stomps out of the church.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Volt! Where you goin'?&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Where to?

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He heads back to the 'Meat' place.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Revenge tiem I think.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;... Should we stop him?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Do i look like i care &gt;:3

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;We could... or we could spectate... bit of a toss up, really.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;I mean, I'm sure he didn't ask for rotten rat meat.&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">The place is still open...the owner is now rather drunk, and singing.

* Firo looks a little queasy. &quot;Please don't say rotten...&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He storms inside.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Sorry. Seasoned, then.&quot;

Sergej:<font color="#000000">Tri tambori sli jednou z vojny domu .. .tri tambori sli jednou z vojny domu ratata bum ratatata.... &quot; Oh, you again?

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;I want my money back.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Rotten? Pretty tasty in my opinion.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Matured. Spicy. You know, they actually use so called bad meat in the best meals? It sort of sucks up the cooking spices.&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">Seriously?

Zora:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20-1 = 15 - 1 = 14&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Sense motive

VAE:<font color="#000000">bluff tome

VAE:<font color="#000000">*time*

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Yeah. It's a way of making the flavour be right through the meal.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;I'd still rather have it raw than rotten... oog, don't feel so good.&quot; @.@

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Believe it or not, that is actually true.

VAE:<font color="#000000">heh, it might

VAE:<font color="#000000">just that.. it's a bit hard to believe

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">*Pokes da lynx*

VAE:<font color="#000000">sorry.. i have two threads of conversation to deal with

Sergej:<font color="#000000">*your* money back?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">It's dry, see, so it has open pores and absorbs the flavour.

Sergej:<font color="#000000">Where did you lose it?

VAE:<font color="#000000">i mean, hard to believe for the characterr. too

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;...&quot; He sighs. &quot;The money. You know, all that 'Change' I told you to keep?&quot;

Sergej:<font color="#000000">Well.. i s'ppose

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">...how do I handle THAT then? It's true, so what do I roll?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Diplomacy ? i dunno, whatever's higher

VAE:<font color="#000000">and you get a bonus +2 i guess

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;... m'gonna lay down for a bit...&quot; The gryphon curls up on a pew.

Karis:<font color="#993300">&#171; &#160;1d20+9 = 15 + 9 = 24&#160; <font color="#993300">&#187; then.

Sergej:<font color="#000000">But then.. not how you do the &quot;trade&quot; thing, man.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;...Hey, I'm descended from a certain clan leader. I'll give you a hint who it is...&quot;

Sergej:<font color="#000000">I guess it was a bit unusual of you.. but that's how it goes. I ask for a price, you pay, or you don't and then we try reaching an arraangement

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Rhymes with 'Scmaun'&quot;

Sergej:<font color="#000000">Clan leader? Ooh, you are one of the mob boys 'round here?

Sergej:<font color="#000000">'xplains the money! *hic*

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;I want my money back. NOW.&quot; Intimidate: &#171; &#160;1d20 + 6 + 2 = 11 + 6 + 2 = 19&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">The correct term is &quot;members of the Organisation.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">hehe

VAE:<font color="#000000">what's save against intimidate?

VAE:<font color="#000000">can't quite remember

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sense Motive, I believe.

VAE:<font color="#000000">also, mind a bit? gonna roll his stats

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">1d20+ character level +wis

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">It's a modified level check.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">That's for combat, I think.

VAE:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;4d6d1 = 13&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

VAE:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;4d6d1 = 17&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

VAE:<font color="#000000">also, mind a bit? gonna roll his stats

VAE:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;4d6d1 = 11&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

VAE:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;4d6d1 = 11&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

VAE:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;4d6d1 = 9&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

VAE:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;4d6d1 = 14&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Intimidate (Cha) Check You can change another&#8217;s behavior with a successful check. Your Intimidate check is opposed by the target&#8217;s modified level check (1d20 + character level or Hit Dice + target&#8217;s Wisdom bonus &#171; &#160;if any = Invalid expression: if any.&#160; <font color="#993300">&#187; + target&#8217;s modifiers on saves against fear).

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">...what did you just roll?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Stats

VAE:<font color="#000000">for the guy

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">His stats, Saph.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">No, I don't recognize the syntax.

VAE:<font color="#000000">roll 4d6, drop lowest 1

Liatai:<font color="#000000">4d6, discarding the lowest 1.

VAE:<font color="#000000">4d6d1

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Ah, okay. Handy.

VAE:<font color="#000000">maptool can do that, liatai taught me

VAE:<font color="#000000">haha

Sergej:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 15 + 5 = 20&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Ooh, so close.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">He is unimpressed.

VAE:<font color="#000000">yeah, they get to choose class skills (expert level 1)

VAE:<font color="#000000">and as a shopkeeper.. bluff and sense motive are a must

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">But this is not a skill check.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">It is a LEVEL + WIS check.

VAE:<font color="#000000">wait, level + wis?

VAE:<font color="#000000">*headdesks*

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Intimidate is not opposed by a skill. I posted this above.

VAE:<font color="#000000">sorry

VAE:<font color="#000000">am used to liatai system

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Right after the stats thing.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">So, what's Sergej's wisdom?

VAE:<font color="#000000">it's habitual

VAE:<font color="#000000">13

Liatai:<font color="#000000">1d20+2, then, most likely.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">So, that'd be +1 instead of +5, right?

Sergej:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 2 + 2 = 4&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; indeed

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Success! :D

Sergej:<font color="#000000">*stares*

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Well, the Liatai sytem is not the correct system then. The normal rules for Intimidate mean that only brave or powerful characters (or those with high WIS) can oppose Intimidate well.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Also, dare I say that he would take a penalty to Wis for being drunk? x3

Sergej:<font color="#000000">Fine, fine..just don' call yer boss.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Saph - Normally, Intimidate isn't used often in my games, so I'm not too familiar with it. Mea culpa. ^^;

Sergej:<font color="#000000">I wanna keep on sellin' stuff... thought yo' were juss some street dummy wit' too much cash!

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Heh. This idea he has of Voltarus being a mob boss... it's the only reason he's not basically collapsed. The idea that TAUN might turn up would probably result in muscles turning to water were it seriously considered.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;...&quot; His eyes start glowing purple.

Sergej:<font color="#000000">*gives the 38 GP back* 'ave that meal on' the house!

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He grabs the 38 gold. &quot;Eh, Good enough for me, I guess.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">His eyes go back to normal and he starts heading back.

Sergej:<font color="#000000">I'.. we'll welcome whenever *hip* you want to .. peruse our fine estabilishment.

Sergej:<i><font color="#000000">Did they do a bank again? meh, better not to know

</i>VAE:<font color="#000000">so, once again, tell me when he arriives

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Since the splatting of this guy we're supposed to get can take very little time (Ray of Enfeeblement FTW), are we going directly on to that or going to do more character development first?

VAE:<font color="#000000">heh, you hope it will

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Also, is that REN selling rats?

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He soon arrives back at the church, this time.

VAE:<font color="#000000">He is !

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">I finally IDed the token.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Don\t tell him!

Liatai:<font color="#000000">XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">i'll deny everyhing!

VAE:<font color="#000000">He just seemed liek the perfect sleazy businesscat

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Alright, now that I've gotten some of my money back, I'm going to just nap on one of the pews until it's mission time, alright?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">some? all except the 5 copper!

* Firo has gotten over his queasiness by now, and makes room on a pew for Volt.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">So... is there a fridge in the shop?

Zora:<font color="#000000">You back?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">XD

Liatai:<font color="#000000">A Joshua-fridge? xP

VAE:<font color="#000000">Fridge? um.. it can be called that, sure!

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He lays down next to Firo, and, soon falls asleep.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Purring sounds can be heard from him.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Meh, not my money, anyways.

Zora:<font color="#000000">Any questions, anyone?

Zora:<font color="#000000">*is currently tonguewashing paws and face*

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Can we timeskip to the mission, now?

Karis:<font color="#993300">&quot;Does the target have any especial resistance to magic?&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Disregard, timeskip away.

Zora:<font color="#000000">I don't think so.. no

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;What does Mr. Sabin look like, anyway?&quot;

Zora:<font color="#000000">A doberman or something.. there aren't many demons around, anyways

Zora:<font color="#000000">You should recognise him straight off

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">I smell Dorcan token.

VAE:<font color="#000000">you do indeed

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Same. :B

Techubi:<font color="#009999">VAE, can we please timeskip?

VAE:<font color="#000000">i mentioned it in the thread too... with the green sweater he does look the part

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Just one last question. What's the name of this church?

VAE:<font color="#000000">*sigh* allrigth allrigth

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Church of the Dragonslayer saint mentioned befor.e

VAE:<font color="#000000">church as in building, or as in ?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">For details, see the Guide to Religions.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">The building.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Church of Saint Ilya Dragonslayer

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Thank ye. :3

VAE:<font color="#000000">The only entertaining saint i have thought up ATM :3

VAE:<font color="#000000">there'll be more

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Well, Dragon something. Not sure of the s being there.

VAE:<font color="#000000">exactly

VAE:<font color="#000000">That's how legends get build

VAE:<font color="#000000">a letter falls off or adds itself

Techubi:<font color="#009999">You know what, why don't you guys just forget about the skip?

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Aanyways

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Two words: The office.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">As the dubiously titled Heroes waited outside the club...

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">It is now indeed nightfall, and as someone with a dubious relation to saffron just mentioned...

VAE:<font color="#000000">also, what to do with &quot;the office&quot; ?

Techubi:<font color="#009999">It's on.

Techubi:<font color="#009999">On NBC, right now.

VAE:<font color="#000000">oh, right

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Okay. So, what's the plan?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">hmm, i suppose we can reuse a map of a street i have elsewhere

VAE:<font color="#000000">wait a moment for teleport

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;I can go up an' tell him there's a message for him to come to the Church of Saint Ilya Dragonslayer.&quot;

Karis:<font color="#993300">We ask. If yes, fine. If no, Spell.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He wakes up.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Is it time?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Noone forget that I'm doing the talking.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Chii chii. Chii chii chii...&quot; (&quot;Okay. Though maybe you or I should do the talking instead of Voltie...&quot;)

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Which map?

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Nvm.

VAE:<font color="#000000">should be there, everyone

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Voltie, you just paid ten times what a meal was worth.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">i did an enforce

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;I got it back.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Well, most of it, anyway.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;But we want this to work the first time, not go back later.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;IT WILL.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;I wasn't TRYING to intimidate the meat shop guy the FIRST time.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;I think it would be better if me or Karis did the talking...&quot; &#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 4 + 4 = 8&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Diplomacy time!

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">I can't diplo, can I? I'm in Primal for better aim.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;*I'M* doing it. END OF DISCUSSION.&quot; Intimidate: &#171; &#160;1d20 + 6 = 17 + 6 = 23&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">What you see is one of common Veldun streets... there's a handy dumpster in the alley near the nightclub.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+1 = 18 + 1 = 19&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Rolling for twenties.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Heh, I just realized I get a HUGE to hit bonus in primal form. Neat.

* Firo 's tail bristles! &quot;Okay okay okay fine sorry it was just a suggestion!&quot; O.O

VAE:<font color="#000000">oh?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">4 from size.

VAE:<font color="#000000">right!

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">I'm Diminutive.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Not just a bat, but a Microbat.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">The Morningstar club is located up front - you still hear music from inside and time on time someone leaves or enters.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;C-can't I at least try telling him there's a message for him?&quot; The gryphon gives a nervous smile.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Firo...&quot; He sighs. &quot;Fine. But, that's IT. You got it?&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Okay, okay.&quot; ''Geez... Volt's scary... ^^; ''

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">There are other buildings around - houses, a closed shop...

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">looks nice ,safe and dark.

Karis:<font color="#993300">Hide in the shadows above the door: &#171; &#160;1d20+15 = 5 + 15 = 20&#160; <font color="#993300">&#187;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">You indeed succeed in hiding beind the shadows

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Psst! DM!

VAE:<font color="#000000">oh: VAE:<font color="#000000">what's up?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You may want to set vision to Day. ^^;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">We can see the security tokens.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Or night, if it is night.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He opens the door.

VAE:<font color="#000000">hehehe.. i s'ppose

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Er, why are you almost in the club? We can ambush.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;W-wait, Volt!&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Or, knocks.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">That was Teh Plan.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Or whatever.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;We're s'posed to wait for him!&quot;

Bored Security:<font color="#000000">What's goin' on?

* Firo tries to tug Voltarus back.

Bored Security:<font color="#000000">'ave yer card?

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Ummmmm...Nevermind.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sorry, mister, got the wrong door.&quot; ^^;

Bored Security:<font color="#000000">Can y' read? PRIVATE club

Karis:<font color="#993300">No battle plan survive enemy? Survive friend, maybe.

Bored Security:<font color="#000000">*spits*

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;...&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He growls, eyes glowing purple again.

* Firo chiis back. (&quot;Seems that way...&quot;)

Bored Security:<font color="#000000">Some people...

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Volt, c'mon, calm down.&quot;

Watchful Security:<font color="#000000">Don't tell ... fingers his rapier.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;The fuck should I, Firo?&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Don't worry!&quot; The gryphon gives a charming smile. &quot;We'll just be on our way.&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">Stands behind the dumpster.

Watchful Security:<font color="#000000">You better!

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He growls. He starts trying to head back to the door.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;C'mon, Voltie, let's go find the right place.&quot; Draaaaag.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">The best laid plans of Dice and DMs...

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">How about some grappling checks, or whatever?

Firo:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 7 + 3 = 10&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Grapple if it's needed.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">ooh ,this is actually funny!

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Voltie, c'mon! This is the wrong door!&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">What are the grappling rules again?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">I can't help the side of sanity thanks to my having only three Rays left.

VAE:<font color="#000000">the plan isn't so much coming apart, though certain peoples might be.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">What are the bonuses to grappling?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Saph

VAE:<font color="#000000">Sanity is for the Weak

VAE:<font color="#000000">I have it on a t-shirt

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">AHEM

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">What stuff applies to grappling checks?

VAE:<font color="#000000">grappling?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">BAB + Str

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">+4 each size category, +1 each Str, +1 each BAB, and a bonus for quadrupedal.

VAE:<font color="#000000">you make an attack first

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Grappling check: &#171; &#160;1d20 = 11&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Oh? There's a bonus for quadrupedal?

VAE:<font color="#000000">i think so

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Add a bonus to Firo's then. x3

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Oh, It seems I may have been wrong... but then, not as if they'd mention it.

VAE:<font color="#000000">well, if anything,, i declare

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">So, what is the bonus for Quadrupal anyway?

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">I declare Firo has a +2 due to being quadruped

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Yeah, the Horse has a bonus from nowhere. +2.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Half a size bonus's

Firo:<font color="#000000">So, 12.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">So, firo starts SLOWLY dragging Volt back? XD

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Indeed.. slowly and comically

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Legs windmilling on the floor...

Firo:<font color="#000000">Firo chomps the back of the 'cubi upstart's shirt and drags him along...

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He growls and tries to resist.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Can we do another round of grappling? XD

Michail:<font color="#000000">You two! you make a lot of noise!

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm'chill... hlp?&quot; the gryphon says to the bear through a closed beak.

VAE:<font color="#000000">you can!@

Firo:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 13 + 5 = 18&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Grapple check!

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Grapple: &#171; &#160;1d20 = 6&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Right, Voltarus has lost if the Bear helps. The bear has like 20 Str,.

VAE:<font color="#000000">and while you do, nature's calling the GM

VAE:<font color="#000000">brb

Firo:<font color="#000000">Firo pushes Voltarus back toward the bear.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He growls.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Listen, Voltie. You gotta be more professional.&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Heh, snuck around to push instead of pull while Voltarus wasn't paying attention.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Or nobody's gonna take you seriously.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Who cares about PROFESSIONAL?&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Me.

VAE:<font color="#000000">back

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;I do!&quot; the gryphon growls. &#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 12 + 3 = 15&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Intimidate.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;I want to see the shock in eyes as he-&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;WHO CARES?!&quot; Intimidate: &#171; &#160;1d20 + 6 = 18 + 6 = 24&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Wait.

Michail:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 17 + 2 = 19&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; save

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You didn't roll your opposed level check.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">INTIMIDATE WAAAAAR!

* VAE rofls

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Firo used Scary Face! Voltarus used Scarier Face!

VAE:<font color="#000000">Saph, what's an appropriate theme music for this? Tintin?

VAE:<font color="#000000">they are like Dupond and Dupont

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Try &quot;Ditty for Daddy&quot; from Bleach.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Come on. I rolled for Firo. I should at least get the courtesy of a check. XD

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Lia, since when in regular games can players get skills used on them from other players, anyway?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmM64ndD_WA

VAE:<font color="#000000">bloody fits

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Why can't it be intimidate versus intimidate? XD

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Ever since the books got published

Liatai:<font color="#000000">DM's call, really. X3

Liatai:<font color="#000000">And it does fit! XD

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">And this DM considers it hillarious

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">So, we players can continue countering each other with skills?

Michail:<font color="#000000">Wait, Michail gets a size bonus +4

Michail:<font color="#000000">Still, 23

Michail:<font color="#000000">You even manage to scare the bear somewhat 0_o

* Firo 's tail bottlebrushes, but he keeps up a glare. &quot;M-m-Michail. Can you keep him quiet for a bit?&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">BWAHAHAHAAHHAH! &gt;: D

Michail:<font color="#000000">Uh... *shudders*

Michail:<font color="#000000">N.now lissen.. we gotta make this c.clean..

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Also: Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jQabZW1NN4

Michail:<font color="#000000">b.best wait t.till he's a b.bit further.

VAE:<font color="#000000">ahahhaa

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He growls. Then sighs.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Say liatai

VAE:<font color="#000000">Can characters get rewards for player actions?

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;I better get to make whoever's in charge jizz his pants...&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Because Saph's music choice would warrant one

VAE:<font color="#000000">hmm, whoever's in charge has a skirt... also she can do fireball.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">I do not think that verb means what you think it means, Voltarus... I think you may mean piss

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;J-just let me try my way first. Y'said I could.&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">indeed

VAE:<font color="#000000">if someone makes a good joke of it IC, automatic reward

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;That was BEFORE I learned this guy hired jackass guards.&quot;

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Anyways, while the group argues...

Karis:<font color="#993300">That may be one way to get them to go quietly... or not, depending...

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">(Sudden proficiency for comedic effect, of course!)

Michail:<font color="#000000">*sigh* He's in a private club. They tend to have gurds, they do. Best way to bust such places with a blunderbuss or sumthin'

* Firo just moves out into the streets and waits.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Lissen checks, all of ya

Firo:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 7 + 2 = 9&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Listen: &#171; &#160;1d20 = 3 = 11&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187;

Karis:<font color="#993300">&#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 2 + 4 = 6&#160; <font color="#993300">&#187;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Minusing the 3...

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">That's apparently a zero. -_-;

VAE:<font color="#000000">wait, whaa?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">No, it was an 11, so -3 is 8.

VAE:<font color="#000000">=3 = 11

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">It's strange the way it reacts. Hang on. &#171; &#160;1d1=3 = 1&#160; <font color="#993300">&#187;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">It just disregards things after an =

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">So, eight then?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Yeah.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">So, what's the result for Volt, then?

Firo:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 18 + 2 = 20&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Spot, since I'm assuming it's dark.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">8.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Since it was an 11 rolled.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">....

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">I MEANT, what does he HEAR?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Oh, OK.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Anyways, nobbody hears a thing, but as the door opens, Firo can see the target still entanggled with a blonde vixen

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Patience, Techubi... let the DM type. ^^;

* Firo clears his throat and preens a little, trying to calm himself. Professionalism time.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">The doberman grabs his coat, and walks off.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He sighs.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Excuse me! Mister!&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">As for the deal, we sort it ou- ?

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Who are you?

* Firo approaches, holding his messenger's badge prominently. &quot;Are you Nicola Subin?&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">*Nikola

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Yes i am, birdie.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Messenger? Aren't y'all supposed to be off at this time?

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;I thought so! I have a message for you.&quot; The gryphon then puffs proudly. &quot;We're always on duty, sir! Rain, sleet, snow, or hail, we'll deliver what you mail!&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 11 + 3 = 14&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Sense Motive

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;One of the fathers at the Church of Saint Ilya Dragonslayer wants to talk to you.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;He said it was important.&quot;

Tokens dropped onto map 'dnd_maps_0002'* Dr. Hatari heads off to work, but leaves the client open. *wave*

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Later~!

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Me? Them? What the hell? *surprised face* I thought Christ the Furry were the annoying preachy ty.. what?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Wow, you're off to work? It's 2:40 AM here.

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Seeya.

VAE:<font color="#000000">see ya

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Bai.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;I dunno, sir. I just deliver messages, I don't interpret them.&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">I.. wonder if someone made a prank off ya... there are 'nuff cubi around.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He growls audibly, although tries to stop himself in time. Bluff: &#171; &#160;1d20 + 2 = 8 + 2 = 10&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187;

VAE:<font color="#000000">hee.. it is mostly truth.. it's just one of those &quot;stranger than fiction&quot; cases

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Oh, dear. Someone get the Poor Impulse Control tattoo equipment...

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+1 = 7 + 1 = 8&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Listen

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">whoever said dogs hear well? he LIED&gt;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">He asked for volunteers to test. The deaf dogs didn't know there was a test.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">XD

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+1 = 11 + 1 = 12&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Int check

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;I dunno.&quot; The gryphon tries a charming, if somewhat meek, smile. &quot;Though, if there's a chance it isn't, would you like to come along to the church? And can I tag along? I wanna know if I'm being made a fool of. Nobody should mess with messenger gryphons, it's not nice.&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Looks strange, kid. Know what? I'll give you 20 if you tell me who the folks were.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">They probably didn't pay ya a quarter that.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">May as well tell the truth - it was the very person who wants to talk to him.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He mutters to himself, &quot;I swear, if he buckles under coin...&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;One of the fathers at the church... I don't remember his name.&quot; Bluff &#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 8 + 3 = 11&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">The best lies are mostly true. In fact, mob bosses probably are more truthful than the news nowadays.

Firo:<font color="#000000">Though there's probably a bonus if that's believable. ^^;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 13 + 3 = 16&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

VAE:<font color="#000000">even with a +2 bonus ,it ain;t

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Leonine, I think.&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Hmm.. so you don't remember.. let's make it 50.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">In fact.. best we move along.. the streets ain't safe at this time.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sorry, mister. I can't accept gratuities on the job.&quot; He smiles sheepishly again. &#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 15 + 3 = 18&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; &quot;But I'll point him out to you when we get there!&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He mutters, &quot;You gotta be kidding me.&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">That was Diplomacy.

VAE:<font color="#000000">rigth

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Well, i suppose if y' can't... Guess what... here's the 20. You go tell whoever sent you along not to .. erm.. piss me off. Also, Ringtail.

* Firo flicks his tail... wait... is that Morse? Follow.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Ooh, ingenious.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Per how many feet is each move silently check?

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Pity I have a plan to essentially render him incapable of movement. Rays of Enfeeblement STACK.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">It'll cost most of my remaining spell slots, but I am a trickster sorceror damnig.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Just make sure to remember the end of it... if he knows me, he'll know, if he doesn't then he's lucky.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">*hands 20gp to the gryphon*

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;I can do that... but are you sure you don't wanna check yourself? He said it was urgent.&quot;

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">I'll cast the Ray as soon as things get violent.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Or similar.

* Firo does accept the 20, though. That's a fee. That's not a bribe. Besides, at least Karis will do something to help if this doesn't work. =3=

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Air support.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He growls annoyedly, but tries to stop again. Bluff to try to keep Nikola from hearing: &#171; &#160;1d20 + 2 = 15 + 2 = 17&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187; &quot;This is getting irritating...&quot;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Lissen kid..this is a lame attempt of someone, doesnt' take a genius.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Never heard of whoever you're mentioning.. and if he wanna meet me, then he better do it where i say.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Now, let's go.. i have stuff to do.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">*sets walking*

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;All right. Tell them not to piss Nikola Subin off, and Ringtail. Can do.&quot; And the tail flicks again... All yours.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Alright, bear boy, let's follow him...&quot;

Nikola Subin:<i><font color="#000000">This was weird..

</i>Voltarus:<font color="#009999">So, about the move silently checks, VAE?

Nikola Subin:<i><font color="#000000">Whoever thought this up must be bonkers.. poor kid though, someoen else would have hurt him

</i>Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Oh, one half normal speed.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Does he look like he's going to go past the alley where everyone else is waiting?

VAE:<font color="#000000">see?

* Firo moves back the other way... but readies an action to pounce as soon as the spell flies.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">NOPE.

Karis:<font color="#993300">Ray of enfeeblement: To hit: &#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 17 + 7 = 24&#160; <font color="#993300">&#187; Str damage: &#171;  &#160;(1d6+1)*1d3/2 = (5 + 1) * 2 / 2 = 6&#160; <font color="#993300">&#187;

VAE:<font color="#000000">ooh!

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">A solid hit, that!

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Not a bad roll.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 10 + 3 = 13&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; pounce! That's to hit; and if it hits, &#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 4 + 5 = 9&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Grapple.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">THE FUCK?

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Sorry, mister... he said it was really urgent.&quot;

Nikola Subin:<i><font color="#000000">Idiot.. of course it was assasination

</i>Voltarus:<font color="#009999">So, roll for init?

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">He feels badly weakened, but still stronger than most

Firo:<font color="#000000">Results on the pounce?

VAE:<font color="#000000">do you have to meet or exceed AC?

Firo:<font color="#000000">It's touch AC, and meet or beat is the rule.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Then the pounce does hit

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">So, no init?

Firo:<font color="#000000">Roll Grapple, then! Firo unfortunately rolled low at a 9...

VAE:<font color="#000000">now, opposed grapple is strength plus bab plus size?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yep.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">And I have two shots left. I'll fire them off until the guy hits STR 0 or I run out. After that, Daze will DC 13. Also, init= &#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 4 + 3 = 7&#160; <font color="#993300">&#187;. I really have to go off now, I have lectures at nine, sorry guys.

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">And for me, it's 3 AM.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sleep well!

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 6 + 3 = 9&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ooh!

VAE:<font color="#000000">See ya Saph

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Highest modifier wins! :D

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Save me the rest of the game file, yeah?

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">So, we ARE rolling Init?

Nikola Subin:<i><font color="#000000">Little fucker.. and i offered him cash

</i>Firo:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+3 = 1 + 3 = 4&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; initiative!

VAE:<font color="#000000">K

Saphroneth:<font color="#993300">Currently it's Surprise I think.

<i><font color="#0000ff">Saphroneth is disconnected.

</i>Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+1 = 2 + 1 = 3&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Initiative: &#171; &#160;1d20 + 1 = 16 + 1 = 17&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;He said we should bring you along ASAP.&quot; And the gryphon puts his paws up on the man's shoulders... getting ready to push him over!

VAE:<font color="#000000">Add yourself, folks!

VAE:<font color="#000000">i regularly do add Miron, so it should work

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Can't. You've got to add us to the initiatve bar.

VAE:<font color="#000000">i .. don't think so

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I add PCs to the bar before initiative is rolled. That's the only way setting your own initiative works.

VAE:<font color="#000000">in yout game, i actually added miron to the list

VAE:<font color="#000000">last game i did it

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yes, because I had him already on the bar.

VAE:<font color="#000000">fune

VAE:<font color="#000000">er, fine

Liatai:<font color="#000000">He had no value set, but his portrait was there. All you did was set the value.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">So, you gonna roll for Michail, VAE?

VAE:<font color="#000000">true

Michail:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+1 = 8 + 1 = 9&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Voltarus has received initiative.Voltarus:<font color="#009999">So, Volt's up first, right?

VAE:<font color="#000000">see the small chunk of text above

VAE:<font color="#000000">heh.. Karis is good at this...what with the bat being too small to notice

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">So, can he still attack even though he moved the whole forty feet, right?

VAE:<font color="#000000">yes, as that's your base speed

VAE:<font color="#000000">cats get 40 ft

VAE:<font color="#000000">and you don't have armour or similar, i guess

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Eh, he has padded.

VAE:<font color="#000000">i don't think that one has a penalty.. lia?

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">It doesn't.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">No speed penalty.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">The speed penalties come in when you get to medium armor and above.

VAE:<font color="#000000">so, indeed.. he gets to do his job

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He slashes at the canid &#171; &#160;1d20 = 19&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;1d6 = 3&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187; damage.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">With his claws.

VAE:<font color="#000000">though might wanna avoid noisy stuff.. oh well, what am i saying - he has wisdom 5

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Solid hit.. negligible damage :3

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">What does Negligible mean again?

Michail:<font color="#000000">The bear approaches as well.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">It means 3 out of 38 HP

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Oh. XD

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">seriously, Saph rolled extremely well, and the tactics worked.. a bat is hard to notice and the gryphie looked totally confuzzled

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Wait a second...With three HD?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Yed

VAE:<font color="#000000">*yes

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Let me guess constitution?

VAE:<font color="#000000">this is demon you are talking about

VAE:<font color="#000000">fine, you have three guesses :3

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">ANYWAY

Karis has received initiative.Liatai:<font color="#000000">Well, he posted what his actions would be.

Karis:<font color="#000000">The bat does his magic, too &#171; &#160;1d20+7 = 18 + 7 = 25&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Ray of Enfeeblement for &#171;  &#160;1d6+1 = 4 + 1 = 5&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;*1d3/2 Str Damage

Karis:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d3/2 = 1 / 2 = 0.5&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Regardless of were-nature misfiring a little, that still did its job.

Firo has received initiative.Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Please, just come along with us, mister...!&quot; &#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 14 + 5 = 19&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; Grapple check to pin!

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 4 + 2 = 6&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Ouch.. this dog shouldn't have drunk so much...

* Firo pushes the man over to the ground and holds him fast there. And taking the option to not allow him to speak!

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">Mmfght..

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">*mouth full of feathers*

Liatai:<font color="#000000">XD

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;You seriously deserve this, you know?&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">hmm, does he get a chance to break the pin now?

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Michail, can you help me, please?&quot;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yes, actually.

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 5 + 2 = 7&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 11 + 5 = 16&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">*mmMFGH*

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Not ONLY are your guards jackasses, but, you just HAD to make this hard.&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">Sat on by a gryphon! Oh the humanity! =3=

Nikola Subin:<i><font color="#000000">It's a dog's life ...

</i>Voltarus has received initiative.Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Are there any areas not being sat on by gryphon?

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Well, some ,i suppose... ends of legs ,and such

Liatai:<font color="#000000">You can try to intimidate him into submission. =3=

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Instead of using it on party members. ;P

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">hee, in any case, the bear will knock him out with +7 nonlethal per hit

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">that's what he does

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Oh! I completely forgot! :O

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Listen, you annoying demon canine...I'm descended from TAUN. Unless you want to be close to dismembered, YOU WILL FREAKING GIVE UP NOW!&quot; Intimidate: &#171; &#160;1d20 + 6 = 5 + 6 = 11&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187;

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Initiating a grapple causes unarmed damage! &#171; &#160;1d3+2 = 2 + 2 = 4&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; for the doberman. ^^;

VAE:<font color="#000000">Yeah. bears, when large, are complete strenght machines

VAE:<font color="#000000">I am using the / AC to keep track of nonlethal

VAE:<font color="#000000">it's a bit idiosyncratic, but on;y place i could stuff it that's token/visible

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+4 = 18 + 4 = 22&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; resist intimidate

Nikola Subin:<font color="#000000">The doberman isn't intimidated, mainly because he's in a ton of other crap at the moment. One cubi more or less makes it no better.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">So, Volt can still attack, right?

VAE:<font color="#000000">yep

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">He slashes at whatever's vulnerable with his claws &#171; &#160;1d20 = 8&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187; for &#171;  &#160;1d6 = 6&#160; <font color="#009999">&#187; damage.

VAE:<font color="#000000">Touch AC?

VAE:<font color="#000000">who am i kidding, doesn't hit even with -4

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">End turn.

Michail:<font color="#000000">Michail on the other hand &#171; &#160;1d20+7-4 = 12 + 7 - 4 = 15&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; &#171;  &#160;1d3+7 = 2 + 7 = 9&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Michail:<font color="#000000">That's a decent bear slap, isn't it?

Karis has received initiative.Karis:<font color="#000000">I guess it is fair to say that Karis just flutters around, conserving his spells

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Is anyone surprised that guards haven't heard us yet...?&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">I suppose it's the music inside.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">*That the

Michail:<font color="#000000">But, don't do nothink loud.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">He said he'd keep going until the doberman was down to 0 Str or close...

VAE:<font color="#000000">well, but see

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Ah well. =3=

VAE:<font color="#000000">he can't drop him to 0 no matter what, i think

VAE:<font color="#000000">and... it's almost dealt with

VAE:<font color="#000000">i mean, at this point i can safely *declare* an end to the combat by bearpaw

VAE:<font color="#000000">no use wasting time, really.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">If you say so. :3

VAE:<font color="#000000">depends... know what?

VAE:<font color="#000000">Roll me three grapple checks by gryphie. If neither is a 1, we will end it.

VAE:<font color="#000000">3 d20s, really

Firo:<font color="#000000">&#171; &#160;1d20+5 = 20 + 5 = 25&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; &#171;  &#160;1d20+5 = 9 + 5 = 14&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187; &#171;  &#160;1d20+5 = 3 + 5 = 8&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

VAE:<font color="#000000">see?

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">And after a few more bearpaw baps, the doberman does indeed faint.

* Firo finally stops squishing the doberman and nudges... how much does the doberman weigh?

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Possibly around 200 pounds - he's muscular and has a heavy leather overcoat.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Haha.

VAE:<font color="#000000">?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Still within Firo's weight limit. x3

Firo:<font color="#000000">The gryphon then proceeds to maneuver the demon so that he's draping over his back. &quot;Can someone -- umph. Someone tie him to my pack saddle?&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;So he doesn't fall?&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">Can try.

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Do any of us even have rope?&quot;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;There are straps, see?&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">Use Rope &#171; &#160;1d20+2 = 20 + 2 = 22&#160; <font color="#000000">&#187;

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;And there's rope in one of the packs -- here.&quot;

Michail:<font color="#000000">Michail ties an ARTISTIC knot with the straps.

* Firo shakes a little. &quot;Feels nice an' secure. Thanks.&quot; :3

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">&quot;Alright, let's get going.&quot;

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">End of session?

Michail:<font color="#000000">Not even devil himself would run out of this, and looking at the loops of rope you think there's an exposition somewhere showing just this.

Firo:<font color="#000000">&quot;Mm-hmm!' And while the gryphon's load is heavy, he bears it without complaint, if a bit slowly.

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Indeed. I assume you all are sensible, and with the bat scouting ahead for militionaries and on-walkers, you drag the indisposed character off to the church.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Yes indeed. :3

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">Isn't that a name of one of Ambarg's story arcs, anyways?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">XD

T3h GM:<font color="#000000">DA ANN'D (for tonight, anyways_

VAE:<font color="#000000">Now

VAE:<font color="#000000">All of you do get 100XP for RP and 400XP for a job well done (eg, if he got to fire his gun, it'd have roused the inside, and maybe the militia)

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I nominate Voltarus for the Scary Face Award!

VAE:<font color="#000000">Techcubi?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">And Karis for Eloquence.

VAE:<font color="#000000">any nominations yourself?

Voltarus:<font color="#009999">Well, um...How about Firo for Grapple master?

VAE:<font color="#000000">No? Well, let's put it forth

VAE:<font color="#000000">Firo: +50 XP Innocentface murder gryphie.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">And yet he's the least likely of the group to murder someone. XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">Voltarus +50XP Ain't no such thing as free lunch.. at least unless you're a local mob boss.

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Well, at least this session gets us to level 2, right? XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">it indeed does,

Liatai:<font color="#000000">It does?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">I think I'm still 100 away.

VAE:<font color="#000000">and finally, Karis: +50 XP I'm the dagger in your back

VAE:<font color="#000000">hmm you might be

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Wait, not all of us got 450 last session?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Voltarus got two RP awards last time, so... most of us got 350. ^^;

VAE:<font color="#000000">yeah.. but gryphie did get one, i think

VAE:<font color="#000000">not sure

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Really? TWO?

VAE:<font color="#000000">yep

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Woah.

VAE:<font color="#000000">I am giving smaller ones worth 50.

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Gryphie got one, Karis got one, Volt got two. :3

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Wow. XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">this time ,everyone got one..

VAE:<font color="#000000">there were some hillarious moments there

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Indeed. XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">so 550 XP all of ya

Liatai:<font color="#000000">So... close... to level...

VAE:<font color="#000000">heh, i actually thought you all would :3

Techubi:<font color="#009999">So, what'd I do right that Volt got TWO RP awards, last time? XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">this makes it more fun for next week... what did you do right?

VAE:<font color="#000000">One was insane insight

VAE:<font color="#000000">He's got a gun! Of course he's the bad one!

Techubi:<font color="#009999">XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">second was &quot;I'm nothin' much but my grandma's scary&quot;

VAE:<font color="#000000">The whole mentioning Taun and rolling a 20

Techubi:<font color="#009999">Heh. I do have him mention the word 'TAUN' alot, don't I? XD

VAE:<font color="#000000">yes he does.

VAE:<font color="#000000">also, anyone noticed Corgatha got a vorlon avatar?

VAE:<font color="#000000">gains major points from the lynx - babylon 5 fan right here

VAE:<font color="#000000">anyways.. do we kill this place and to thhe IRC?

Liatai:<font color="#000000">Sure. Gonna save the map and the log...