00:02:52: Okay, so 00:03:02: Last time on Eberron! 00:03:35: You managed to send Frosty into one of the dragonshards to talk to whatever was inside 00:04:06: And you met an entity named Thakashtai... did you learn what they actually were? I forget 00:04:14: yeah we did 00:04:16: but i forget too 00:04:35: They were Quori, dream-beings 00:04:38: Things from dreams, yar. 00:04:56: I don't think our characters know that they are related to the shadar kai, but yar. 00:05:06: is everyone actually here 00:05:09: or are just in the chat 00:05:21: ben said yo a bit ago. 00:05:29: alright 00:05:36: I don't think they are related? I don't entirely trust 4e lore on the matter 00:05:52: Ah, yar, especially since this is a new edition as well. 00:05:57: So nevermind what I said then. 00:05:59: Quori come from dreams, shadar-kai come from the Shadowfell 00:06:10: Oh wait no, I said the wrong race. 00:06:27: you may have meant kalashtar 00:06:49: you may have meant *30 second farting sound* 00:06:54: Yar, I meant kalashtar, I need to work on my brain connections. 00:07:30: The kalashtar is a sort of fusion of quori soul and mortal body 00:07:51: anyway 00:08:27: WELP 00:08:28: RUDE 00:08:44: good evening 00:08:47: frosty junior 00:09:02: you found out some other things that might have been useful, you can see last session's logs if you want a refresher 00:09:03: http://champion.uwaterloo.ca/~igfich/pwotdnd/logs/pwot_dnd_2014-07-06.txt 00:09:35: Woops! 00:09:39: Kicked my power strip. 00:09:47: Yeah, I learned stuff from the garden, melding of civilization and nature, how the warforged grow as a person, I had a question in relation to that though. 00:10:05: and then you went to Aruldusk to rendezvous with the mithril warforged who seemed to know something about the shards 00:10:11: sure, ask away 00:10:28: Which is, can I tell what kind of person that warforged who tended the garden grew into? 00:10:56: Groot. 00:10:59: He turned into Groot. 00:11:21: well, there's only so much you can tell from a garden... but you would imagine them a gentle soul 00:11:45: Alrighty then, yeah I didn't think I'd get too much, but figured I didn't ask it during the garden thing and I probably should have. 00:12:31: this sort of thing takes a big chunk of your day to keep in such good condition, so they must have cared about it a lot 00:12:47: the house doesn't really seem big enough to have servants or gardeners 00:12:54: fuckin nerds 00:13:01: it had enough room for a DEAD KING 00:13:07: which we should really get along to dealing with 00:13:15: The dead take up notoriously little space. 00:13:17: Oh yeah. 00:13:20: anyhoo, you found that they weren't there, their place was lightly trapped with alarms, and also there was the king of karrnath, dead in there 00:13:24: It is surprisingly easy to fit dead people into places, yar. 00:13:45: so 00:13:45: Some rugs, couple throw pillows, a dead king, all work to really tie a room together I think. 00:13:47: i say 00:13:52: we definitely hide the body 00:14:00: or maybe call the police 00:14:36: Well let's think, I don't know if Eberron has fingerprinting so just in case we shouldn't touch it without gloves. 00:14:49: yes id say lets not touch anything and ruin the crime scene 00:14:59: right now our only evidence against us is that we clearly broke down a door 00:15:12: and a window 00:15:14: Second off we are pirates, I don't know if we've done much work in this particular region or in the region of Karrnath, but calling the police might not be the best. 00:15:17: and a window 00:15:30: idk if we just leav eit here we are going to be serious suspects 00:15:37: i vote call the police 00:15:38: If anyone saw us. 00:15:44: also are you all int he kitchen where the body was, or what? 00:15:53: yeah we all gathered there last time i remember that 00:16:07: Frosty found it, I don't remember if we all went into that room right away though. 00:16:16: we did IR EMEMBER THIS 00:16:29: So first, an Int-based insight check 00:16:31: so 00:16:32: I think before he found the body I was on my way to the basement and someone was on their way to the second floor or something. 00:16:34: o 00:16:39: thatd be me i guess since i have the int 00:16:52: Int or Insight 00:16:55: or both 00:16:56: Yeah I was upstairs. 00:16:59: int i choose 00:17:01: whch is +3 00:17:04: lemme get my dice 00:17:06: so archaic 00:17:13: Alright, that means I have a +5, 2 for int and 3 for proficiency with insight, whoo. 00:17:15: ig what was that weird roll last time 00:17:19: charisma based athletics? 00:17:23: oh okay 00:17:27: blaze you roll it then 00:17:27: I rolled a freaking 1. 00:17:31: cha based acrobatics I think 00:17:32: welp 00:17:33: I have insight. 00:17:34: oh 00:17:40: ill rol 00:17:42: well if anybody else wants to try 00:17:44: ok 00:17:45: 21. 00:17:47: Blaze doesn't know anything about kings. 00:17:49: 16+3 00:17:49: better 00:18:19: Man, and I'm using the d20 I've been using for gming too. 00:18:31: it doesnt like to be a player 00:18:34: right, so you're quite aware that, depending on who's responsible, this could easily start a war 00:18:36: Apparently not. 00:18:48: yes we are definitely aware 00:18:50: man you know 00:18:55: maybe itd be better for us to take the fall 00:19:05: but fuck that lmao 00:19:12: anyways what do our insights discover 00:19:16: oh is that what we got 00:19:17: oka 00:19:20: i figured that was obvious 00:19:32: maybe real life waffle just has good insight then 00:19:33: nah, that was it, I just wanted to make sure you all knew that spelled out 00:19:43: hmm 00:19:45: okay 00:19:45: well I dunno, that wouldn't be too far out of character for us, sorta, you wrecked a weapon research place because of horrors of war, yar. 00:19:45: ahmmm 00:20:00: yeah 00:20:01: Also, how about a perception check? 00:20:03: i mean my guy might do it 00:20:06: but idk about the rest of yall 00:20:21: what kind of perception 00:20:23: im trained in it 00:20:24: 20 00:20:24: Yeah I dunno about Blaze, considering that 1 he really wouldn't know too much. 00:20:26: I rolled a 20. 00:20:26: So. 00:20:28: I SEE ALL. 00:20:31: oh well ok 00:20:31: just ordinary wis perception 00:20:41: I shall roll as well to see if I see what it is as well. 00:20:41: well in this case it's hear all 00:20:46: I HEAR ALL. 00:20:51: 7+6 is 13. 00:21:08: specifically, a number of booted footsteps out in the street 00:21:22: fuck 00:21:25: we have to make a decision fast 00:21:28: Oh joy. 00:21:29: do we run out yelling help 00:21:39: id say thats our best option 00:21:46: we run out 00:21:48: I have a potential idea? 00:21:55: say we came to talk business with someone 00:21:58: came in to see that 00:22:01: whats ur idea 00:22:26: Well the idea is I confront the soldiers cause I'm pretty sure I'd have an easier time escaping them then the rest of us. 00:22:38: i really dont want to lay blame on us yet if we dont have to 00:22:44: right now id rather see what happened 00:22:46: Also true. 00:22:51: then see what we can do to prevent an international incident 00:22:51: We're pretty good at bluffing. 00:22:55: so in that case 00:23:00: I say we see who it is and if it's the thorities we can get their help. 00:23:08: im probably going to have to roll a persuasion check to scream shrilly actally 00:23:09: Yeah, but if we're saying we didn't do it thta isn't really bluffing, but yar. 00:23:13: since im acustomed to dead bodies 00:23:19: oh thats a good idea 00:23:22: You can hear people coming up the front walk 00:23:23: anyone got sneak? 00:23:30: Well I mean just at talking. 00:23:33: Not necessarily bluffing. 00:23:35: Being convincing. 00:23:48: oh actually 00:23:51: i have invisibility 00:23:56: We better decide fast I think. 00:24:04: so i cast it on blaze since if we need to escape fast and invisible is best 00:24:06: GO BLAZE GO LOOK 00:24:34: I go to the front door then, that noise thing is still in front of it I think? 00:24:53: Just about to knock on the front door 00:25:14: A squad of guards, ordinary enough 00:25:22: okay i say scream 00:25:29: everyone vote for loud screaming? 00:25:45: Sure? 00:25:55: varrus screams loud and shrilly and terrified 00:25:59: Yeah, let's get their help. 00:26:07: emulating his years of hearing the same from test subjects 00:26:22: tbh its prob just a wilhelm scream 00:26:42: Before they knock on the door I'll open it as hard as I can and yell help I suppose. 00:26:42: The guards are surprised at the sudden synchronized screaming 00:26:51: oh i doubt its synchronized 00:26:57: "Help! There's a dead guy in here!" 00:27:01: i un-invisible blaze 00:27:09: I didn't remember being invisible. 00:27:15: That'd be weird. 00:27:15: i invisibled you 00:27:27: We'll say you did that before I opened the door then, cause that'd be weird. 00:27:29: i imagine the screaming was me scream and orrins like why are we screaming and starts screaming 00:27:35: well yeah i did that 00:27:45: Orrin doesn't scream. 00:27:47: He leaves that to Varis. 00:27:50: and then ben starts sort of screaming in a monotone "aaaaaaah" that isnt too scary tbh 00:27:57: well okay then 00:28:14: I think opening the door would actually break blaze's invisibility anyway 00:28:23: i could check the spell 00:28:23: All good then, yar. 00:28:31: but for now lets just say i dispelled it before door 00:28:33: Either way the end goal is the same. 00:28:36: yeah 00:29:19: so the sergeant, hand still raised to knock, is taken aback by the door opening 00:29:44: "What? What's going on? What happened?" 00:29:54: i stumble out of the room 00:30:03: "there's just... some body... is dead in here" 00:30:23: i lean against the wall 00:30:27: really playing out the shocked civilian look 00:30:42: "Alright, so, we broke into the building, I admit that. It's probably why you guys got called over here, but then when we did get in here..." 00:30:47: Bluff check I think, Varrus 00:30:53: sure 00:30:53: why ddid you say thatout loud blaze 00:30:57: "There was this dead guy at the kitchen table!" 00:31:04: Truths to supplement truths. 00:31:09: excuze u thats DECEPTION 00:31:15: He raises his shield and grips his halberd tightly 00:31:17: right 00:31:26: Considering they probably were sent over here to check out the noise of us breaking in here. 00:31:37: 17+5 00:31:39: 22 00:31:53: we didnt even have to say we broe in 00:32:04: we could just say we were supposed to meet someone here and when they didnt open we just let ourselves in 00:32:07: bit late now 00:32:13: FOR NEXT TIME 00:32:23: They probably would've noticed the broken windows. 00:32:27: I don't think it'll hurt too much, plus also the whole there are signs that we did break in, broken window and the like. 00:32:34: He is still pretty suspicious, due to the broken windows and all 00:32:38: yeah 00:32:42: its fine THIS time blaze 00:32:45: but i got my eye on u 00:32:45: "Who are you? Why did you break in?" 00:33:02: "Does anybody need medical attention?" 00:33:04: "we were supposed to meet a business associate here, but when he wouldnt open the door we became worried" 00:33:22: "I believe the man in the room there is beyond medical attention though it may help for you to take a look anyways" 00:33:33: "We got a message, guy offered us money, told us to come here to see him, doors wouldn't open and yeah, we broke in." 00:33:43: blaze is TERRIBLE at this 00:33:51: "Money for what?" 00:33:56: "Our worries were obviously well founded, if you'll just step into the kitchen you'll see." 00:34:01: "Is this a drug deal?" 00:34:06: I said what you said, only without saying business associate making it sound like we know him. 00:34:10: "nothing in particular just odds and ends, we're merchants you see" 00:34:17: "It is not, in fact, a drug deal." 00:34:24: "Well I am, the big armored lug here is my guard, and that guy is my mathematician" 00:34:31: rolling deception again 00:34:34: deception check there Varrus and Orrin 00:34:35: right 00:34:47: 12+5 00:34:47: 17 00:35:02: 10+7 00:35:04: 17. 00:35:08: well that's handt 00:35:10: y 00:35:42: its weird without being able to predict the RNG of fortuna 00:35:49: this is just random luck from rolling a physical dice 00:35:57: also srry that i predict the rng from fortuna sometimes 00:37:17: "I'm going to ask you to put your hands against the wall and stand still. Tane, go look in the kitchen." 00:37:34: i see no reason to say no to this 00:37:37: I guess I do that, yar. 00:37:41: im a wizard after all 00:37:45: i can fuck them up with butt wiggles 00:37:49: "Gladly." 00:37:53: though i imagine casting from butt wiggles would be disadvantage 00:37:59: no you can't you need your hands Varrus 00:38:13: next feat im taking handless casting 00:38:36: the other guards keep swords trained on you... halberds are a bit too big to swing easily in here 00:38:48: the guard presumably named Tane goes to look in the kitchen 00:38:56: and then hops back in surprise 00:38:56: thats an odd presumption 00:39:12: "There's a fire elemental in there!" 00:39:29: "He's with us!" 00:39:30: OH RIGHT 00:39:33: I FORGOT ABOUT BEN 00:39:43: "He's fine. Loves to pull the cork, but other than that he's harmless." 00:40:07: "think of him as a pet!" 00:40:26: "Pull the cork? ...Right then." 00:40:36: "Drink. Alcohol." 00:40:50: "Something about burning. Doesn't speak a lot of Common, y'know?" 00:41:15: Tane edges past Frosty, looks at the body, and then.. silence. 00:41:38: "Sir," she says. "You're going to want to see this." 00:41:39: "What's wrong?? Well you know besides the dead person" 00:42:00: ig do we know he's a king in a "yeah obviously thats the king" sort of way 00:42:07: or in a more "i pay attention to politics" way 00:42:27: (I'm pretty sure we know that that is obviously the king guy.) 00:42:40: like how i know who obama is but not who our PM is 00:43:20: The former, probably? I can recognize Obama, Harper, a few other heads of state, and what with the war just passed I expect people would be more interested in politics than usual 00:43:48: so you would have seen pictures of all of them in the papers if you read those at all 00:43:48: ah 00:43:49: alright then 00:43:53: in that case i wont ask who it is 00:43:56: oh 00:44:00: well we are pirates 00:44:02: traveling all around 00:44:03: so no 00:44:09: and if we claim to be merchants 00:44:16: we could say being on the move keeps us seperated from the news 00:44:19: Just keep your mouth shut for now I'd think. 00:44:24: okay okay 00:44:28: Orrin spends a lot of time in cities. 00:44:31: He would know who the king is. 00:44:45: If asked we can say we were too busy freaking out about there being a dead guy to realize who it was. 00:44:56: thats a much better idea 00:45:08: The average person on the street would know what the kings and queens look like, this is a more connected setting than your standard fantasy world 00:45:16: think 1920s, 1930s 00:45:21: alrighty then 00:45:35: Yar, epsecially with alll the trains and airships and probably newspapers going around. 00:45:36: there are movie theatre equivalents, even 00:45:42: definitely newspapers 00:45:45: Ooooh fun. 00:46:01: So the sergeant looks at you oddly and goes in 00:46:08: and then there is an exclamation 00:46:15: and then he comes back out 00:46:19: an exclamation mark destroys the wall and devours a guar 00:46:20: d 00:46:59: "WHY IS THE KING OF KARRNATH IN THE KITCHEN" 00:47:35: "maybe he wanted a sandwich hayooo" 00:47:38: i didnt actually say that 00:47:51: "That's an excellent question, and one we were hoping you could find the answer to." 00:47:55: "are you sure he's dead check that he's dead somebody call for backup oh Host oh Host" 00:48:18: "That's the king?! Oh your god we were so focused on it just being a dead body we never even thought to check who it was!" 00:48:28: deception please 00:48:41: 13+5 00:48:42: 18 00:48:56: That was the most wondrously phrased lie ever. 00:49:01: 14. 00:49:17: i was literalyl just quoting bender 00:49:27: even though that looks dumb in writing, you delivered it with such feeling 00:49:41: im an actor at heat 00:49:43: also he is very flustered 00:49:44: heart too 00:51:26: Two of the guards leave to get backup, the other two start looking around the house 00:51:43: everybody's pretty freaked out 00:52:00: the captain starts to recover 00:52:28: "Okay, okay. Okay. Are we sure it's him? Could this be an imposter?" 00:52:37: "WHY ARE YOU ASKING US" 00:53:09: Actually I am a master of disguise, I could look. 00:53:17: that IS true 00:53:20: but they wouldnt let you 00:53:22: and also lets not reveal our err 00:53:22: "If you'll allow me to step away from the wall, I know a thing or two about makeup, costumes and the like." 00:53:24: piratey skills 00:53:30: I'm a traveling performer. 00:53:35: And I can perform if need be to sell that. 00:53:39: sure 00:53:49: "You look like a wizard... don't you have some kind of... elf magic?" 00:54:07: I do? 00:54:08: "Elves know things about dead people, right?" 00:54:12: "I already told you i was a merchant but yes my father taught me some magic though... I'm not very good" 00:54:13: I'm a dwarf in full plate. 00:54:15: "wow." 00:54:17: "w o w." 00:54:20: "that is horrifically racist" 00:54:46: "Sir, I'd be happy to give him a look." 00:54:49: it sounds like he has horrifically misunderstood how elven ancestor worship works, yes 00:55:06: "I recommend the armored bloke he really is quite good with costumes" 00:55:43: "O...kay? Please do. Ah, don't disrupt the crime scene though." 00:55:57: "I won't disturb a hair." 00:56:10: orrin trips knocks out a table leg the body crumples to the floor and the king smacks his holy face into a potter plant 00:56:22: err, royal face 00:56:34: Would this be Wis or Cha? 00:56:38: Wis 00:56:38: Is it still royal if he is dead? 00:56:38: I guess CHA is more for my disguises. 00:56:51: yeah blaze royalty continues into the afterlife 00:57:09: I suppose so, least in rememberance. 00:57:27: Iiiiig. 00:57:32: yes? 00:57:41: Wis or cha for a check on his disguise? 00:57:42: He said Wis, yar. 00:57:48: Oh so he did. 00:57:51: Not sure how I missed that. 00:58:01: 21. 00:58:08: Okay 00:58:23: i must say we are handling this well 00:58:40: If this is an imposter, it's quite a good one 00:58:53: same pale craggy features 00:59:45: "Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to be wearing any kind of disguise. Unless the king has a brother I don't know about, this seems to be him." 01:00:10: (sup?) 01:00:23: not much we havent fucked up for once and i assume its cause you have been afk 01:00:25: clothing is a bit unusual, in that it's not nearly as regal as one might expect 01:00:43: basically the cheapest stuff you can buy 01:00:56: now thats odd 01:00:59: so basically rags 01:01:01: (There are police and they know we broke in, but they seem to know that we didn't kill him ourselves, least we made effort to make sure they know that, also they freaked out cause you are a fire elemental, that is sup.) 01:01:03: "However, when he died he was clearly trying to pass incognito. These clothes are common, to say the very least. Whatever he was doing, he wasn't with his retinue." 01:01:44: "It pains me to ask but... did the king have any vices that might've led him to leave the palace underdressed and unprotected in the dead of night?" 01:01:51: (cool) 01:02:26: Oh, and he's pretty clearly dead from something long and sharp to the back of the head 01:02:57: ( the king wasn't wearing a condom?) 01:03:02: orrin turn your weapon into a dagger for a little while 01:03:07: so if htye ask to se eour weapons we're good 01:03:11: "How would I know? This is Thrane, he's not our king!" 01:03:24: ? 01:03:50: "Hey, you're more likely to know than we are." 01:03:56: We are not in this guy's kingdom. 01:03:59: Hence the looming war. 01:03:59: what do you mean that is thrane 01:04:03: OSHIT FOOTBALL. 01:04:11: Al Michaels, how I missed your dulcet tones. 01:04:40: This is why this guy is so worried 01:04:56: and making perhaps bad choiced 01:04:59: *choices 01:05:06: like racism 01:05:09: Chris Collinsworth, how I missed your... pencil neck? 01:05:13: worse than tasteful mooing even 01:05:26: "what do you mean 'this is thrane' ? " 01:05:34: Thrane is where we are, Waffle. 01:05:37: That means that we are in the kingom of thrane, yar. 01:05:41: This is the king of another kingdom. 01:05:47: