HT Aliaver/Player DS Character Name Type Status/Notes Sex -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- R1.John Haight.......HY..Arawn.............Druid .Normal/Alfar .. Ma --.Tobie Bonahoom....YY..Fremea............Sidh....Normal/Faerry.. Fe R3.Mark Murtha.......HN..Kell..............Trader..Normal/Human....Ma R1.David Sanders.....HN..Kiet.Sunan........Acrobat Normal/Human ..Ma R4.J H Hooten........YN..Raban.Usherwood...Bard....Normal/Human....Ma W4.Wout Broere.......YY..Unali.............Ninja...Normal/Human ..Fe R1 John.Stowman......YN..Will..............Hunter..Normal/Human....Ma R4.Alex Koponen......YY..Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human ..Fe -- Npc...............YY..Etain.............Teacher.Normal/Elf......Ma Animals: Corona [Eagle] Z'leyra, Squirt (Ferret) Kell, Wolf - Will Game Web Site - http:/nrgcomputers.com/pbem/ Public posts/actions to pnpgm@list.powersandperils.org (mailing list) Private emails (not public actions) to pnpgm@comcast.net Game Update #114 in sequence (file #441) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Admin Notes: None. ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Recap] From David: [Re: Actions] I cannot wait until little Kiet makes that next step up in MEL. Oh, goody! GM: Ack. Gotta spend magic to get experience. :) But your little Kiet? :) Sadly I doubt you will do it this adventure unless you spent tons of magic. You got at least another 200 odd more mep to get. From Fremea: [Re: Actions] Fremea sits in contemplation about the events that just ... She shakes her head to clear herself. Realizing they are back at the Inn now. "Ok, the newcomers can help. I would say they... GM: Ack. From Fremea: [Re: Actions] So, attack estate, fast combat. Use allies, but in a safe manner. She does not want them to be killed trying to get to loved ones (family, kids). Depending on if Z can use Oblivion to just drop Grosis inside the grounds for distraction. Otherwise, will come up with a different plan for his body. Kell, Arawn and Etan can get Mavac's stuff. The rest will go to the estate. GM: Ack. /Fast combat will work. Typically most combat is only a few minutes. I was considering 1 Minute updates which is 5 Turns or 20 phases. I may cut that down to 30 seconds or even less depending on situation like if someone gets hurt and needs immediate help. Only issue with fast combat for a pbem is limited use of actions. So it will have to be planned in that time span (a minute). So if you plan to use magic you will need to do IF-THENs or such comments. But it will speed things up. From Z'leyra: [Re: Actions] Z'leyra replies "Oblivion is taught to vanish living entities. I With that she frowns at the body, reaches into her satchel and brings out a silver chain that she loops over the wrist of the corpse. She then takes her staff, casts a EL0 Balance purification then turning the silver chain into a figure eight loops the other end over her left wrist and thru the staff casts Oblivion EL0 on the Corpse [She expects the Spellchain to improve the chance of success.] Later when the time comes to drop off the body she will see if there is a good spot where she can do it, exclaim "Oh my goodness! A body!" then leave and circle around while the guards find the body, though if necessary she will cast invisibility EL0 to get to a better spot to drop the body. Note the she thinks dropping it in line of sight of a guard would be unwise as it would tell them that a spellcaster is nearby. GM: Ack. Don't think he wanted body dealt with right now but will hold the second part till later if that is the case. ------------------------------------------------------------ [New Stuff] [Sepes 29th, 1634TH] [Location: City of Samma, Donara] [Time: 1:28:00 pm - Samma city, Donara] The party is now all back together. Those outside leave the wagon and head inside. One of the new men looks to Raban. "You can go inside with the others." Raban stretches and yawns a bit as a cool breeze whips down the alley. "I'm fine." "I'm not going inside like the others. I have...issue with drinking. So I'll guard him." He waves a hand toward the body of Grosis under the blanket. "Plus with you here it would attract more attention. No offense." "None taken. I could use a dri-", Raban pauses and stops himself, "a nice hot roll or something." The man climbs on the back of the wagon and pulls out a apple from his bag and begins to carve it up for eating. From the roof Corona keeps a tab of the wagon as well. Roerick tells the other men, "go get the others. Have them assemble as quickly as we can. I don't know how long before they leave. Tell them their best gear. No flashy clothing. If we can get greens to blend in the trees that might help." The other three men nod and move down the alley deeper into the city proper. Kell notices and considers following to ensure the new allies are indeed friendly. But it would maybe need three to follow if they split up. Since no orders were given to the contrary he shrugs and hopes they can be trusted. Inside the tavern the place is more deserted now that the lunch crowd has finished. Maybe only four tables are taken by anyone. The almost deaf bartender is at the bar cleaning a stack of used glasses and mugs. Kell ambles up to the bar to ask the bartender, "do you have a private eating room?" "Huh? A heating broom? My broom only sweeps." He turns around and shakes his head. "Long hair kids today talking nonsense!" "No, a eating-" Kell starts again but is stopped when a waitress grabs his arm. "Not in a separate room. But there in the rear corner we can gather the tables if needed. This time of day we get little traffic so it will be quiet and you should have privacy." She looks to the others and sees a nice set of tips coming. Fremea looks to the back. There is only one guy in the area and seems to be finishing up his meal. The next occupied table is about 20 feet away. So if they speak low they should have privacy. She nods and heads to the table. The others join them and Etain is found in the room making notes on his pad. Will is waken up form his nap in the bed and asked to join the others. Now the entire party of 8 are at the tables. Raban has to use a chair made for some local lumber jacks and should be safe to sit at the table without ruining the chair. Roerick sits alone and watches the others to study who they might be. The waitress takes any drink and food orders for those who might wish to eat a late lunch. "I appreciate being able to join. We are a small group. We had tried to ask the Sea Star group for help but they have their own agenda. We aren't real rebels like them. We support the government just not how they deal with the issue of slavery. While it is not a common thing it is ignored for the most part by the nobles. We have friends in other cities. But we do what we can in each city. I am concerned that once we attack this Count that the nobles will pay more attention to it. A crack down may happen. So we are risking much here for both of us. This is why we must not let any one live who can tie our group to this operation." The others look to the man who looks more like a tailor than a farmer. He claims to be a farmer but his bearing and speaking voice seems to show he has some bit of education. Fremea then realizes both will need help. Her friends will need a group to disperse the slaves if the are freed. These new allies can do that. The new allies need the group to demonstrate it is not just a bunch of farmers who rebel and avoid that eye of the nobles. Fremea sits in contemplation about the events that just went down. She doesn't really feel anything one way or the other. She was hoping that with Grosis' death she would be a little be relieved, but really she just feels a bit of sadness that he wasn't much of anything expect a sniveling coward. More people who feel wronged. Maybe there is something to what Arawn says. To let go of the events and live a better life. Fremea shakes her head to clear herself. Realizing they are back at the Inn now. "Ok, the newcomers can help. I would say they are mostly for either a distraction or to get the slaves to safety, no need to let them be in harms way." Thinking for a moment after looking for the rough map her thrall gave her. "Z, could you use your Obilivion on Grosis' body and then drop it in on the complex? That would most definitely cause a stir and buy us time to get inside and take out the guards. I know one thing that the guard could not tell us, is if there are any magical safeguards. I can come in invisible and surprise a few of them." Thinking about it a little bit. "I say we get a decent plan setup and take out this slaver." Arawn looks at Roerick then at Fremea. Something happened and he can't quite get it. Did they free the one they captured? Was Fremea part of it? Arawn never saw the wagon out back so stares a bit confused. Arawn figures he'll start. He goes over the things he learned from Jordi's friends. He does not go into detail of the attack on the Climans with Rorick sitting here. But hints that Jordi and his friends are actively working on something. He explains about the bird upstairs in their room and other details he learned. Kell realizes he is a bit ravenous especially after his dart attack. He chomps on a nice slab of ham. When he is done he speaks up, "So sounds like you want to go after this plant still. I just hope its on our way to the capital as we are on limited time." Fremea and the others tell of what happened in the barn. Roerick listens intently on this with a bit of excitement. Arawn frowns when he hears of the torture and looks to Kiet with a sour face. Then he learns of Mavac's death and then soon death of Grosis. Arawn turns to Fremea to see her expression but she is so impassive. He had hoped to see some reaction. Lack of emotion by humans leads to a person who acts without morals and empathy. But he is reminded that she is no human. A being who has been nothing but abused by the humans. So why doesn't she show a bit of glee at their deaths? Glee would at least show show she enjoyed it. Arawn is a bit happy on that because it shows that maybe some ground has been made with her and her old nature. Maybe there is hope after all. [Time: 2:21:12 pm - Samma city, Donara] Almost an hour passes once the party is fully updated, fed and plans are started to be made. Z'leyra waits till everyone is done with the past events before she speaks up on Fremea's initial comments. Z'leyra replies, "Oblivion is taught to vanish living entities. I am unsure of what might happen when using it to vanish someone or something dead or that never lived...though logically it should work as clothes and carried items are also vanished when one casts oblivion. Note that Oblivion has a normal time amount measured in months that the vanishing occurs for, depending on how strong one makes the spell. To summon back a vanished before that time expires requires twice the mana that it took to cast the spell in the first place." Etain explains that he has not found much in the documents. But when the name of the count was given he does go through the papers and finds one. "This one seems to be some notes Mavac had in his papers. It is a interview process of notes like he was asking about someone. The idea is that he was asking some architect who made an estate for a noble of some sort. Seems the architect was confused by the back area." He taps the map of the estate's rear. "I believe this area is what he was talking about. The architect seemed confused on the addition. The estate was there decades ago. But this new addition was added only 15 years ago. He was confused by the tunnel here and the back that had no doors and no windows. He simply laid out the area and never saw the finished inside. The architect usually says nobles like to have a hot steam area or a wine area if underground. But he mentions there was only one small vent at the top made for air and steam would not do much with that. Mavac jots in his personal notes that it was a dead end. My guess Mavac was trying to figure out this back area as well. He must've been to the estate but never there. I guess he tried to question the architect for information. Mavac seems like a wise guy to know about his "friends." Unless he was trying to find out more about them for other reasons." Fremea nods and there it is a connection to the noble and Mavac. She frowns if only Mavac's body was left this would be a bit easier. Grosis is out of the picture and may not even be known by the estate people. Kell looks to Arawn and leans closer. "I guess we go after Mavac's stuff. I have a plan. Can you do some kind of illusion?" Raban's stiff body tries to remain in place not to stress the chair. He studies the map. "The Oblvion thing is interesting. Wish Farseeker was here he could get this figured out. Even that General guy Arawn met. I thin Unali has the next best tactical training by Aren. But I am no fighting elite in methods. But I do have a idea or two. So it will be us six and a dozen of our new friends." He looks to Roerick and back at the others. "We could deliver the body two ways..or rather three if you use that oblivion thing. I could drop it by air." This causes Roerick to become curious but the giant does not elaborate. "Fremea's friend could drive him in the wagon toward the estate. The guards would rush and pull guards away. The guard could be directed to say or do stuff. Too bad we can't use Mavac as it would get more reaction." Kell perks up, "we can still. Why not use some illusion to look like him? He could walk to the door and see if he can meet the Count. That would get one person inside. He could bring the body and show how they have been betrayed and see how things go or such?" Raban nods and continues, "If that ball thing Kiet uses had longer range we could see more but this is a big place. If we could get him and the new allies to the rear and see about checking that area first. I could...arrive more or less and maybe make a door if there is none there." Fremea realizes the giant could probably knock a hole through most home walls With a mallet could do it a bit faster. Kell nods, "so there are two ways in. The front gate and the fence. Once there is open territory with no trees till the house about what? 100 feet? Means making entry there will be hard. But if the rear building has no windows that means folks can use a straight line toward that area without being seen? So maybe Kiet, Raban and if able the allies? Guard and Grosis in wagon at the gate. Fremea can.." He pauses and is not sure if Roerick knows about her wings. "Can get inside through other methods maybe by window. If we use the Mavac illusion thing then that's anther person inside. This would leave Unali, Will and Z'leyra to obtain entry or join the others. The house itself ahs the main front door and that side door." Raban Grins, "we could get some horses. Will, Unali and Z'leyra could chase the wagon by horse to the gate. Mavac or the guard could then yell for help. This would draw off the guards at least on both sides and front to help. Those in the rear if on patrol may no go. But it would draw off many of them. All these are various ideas we can use." Roerick, adds, "most of us can ride as well. We could join the "attackers" as well if needed behind the wagon or come in once the gate is opened. If all of us are not needed in the rear. But we don't know know how many are inside." Fremea turns to the thrall guard who stares at the others with a blank expression. She asks mentally how many guards does the count usually have? "Unsure. Grosis learned that he hires many of the river pirates to raid ships. Some estimate he could have a force of a hundred in that regard including possible road bandits. I estimated when I tried to spy on the estate at least two dozen." Roerick sips some water, "even for a Count that is a bit much on the guard side. He is guarding something more than just himself. That has to be the slaves." "Could be riches as well." Kell adds as he finishes the ham and beans. "Why else a fence like that? " Raban frowns, "too bad we can't just go to the government and report him and get help. The city here might be friends of his and that could backfire." Roerick waves a hand, "I think that is why Mavac was in their payroll. The Count could have more City guards or officials but I suspect he was the main contact." As the others start to add in their views Kell leans to Arawn and whispers. "This illusion idea has merit. Can you look like Mavac at the money lenders? Maybe his tongue could be removed. I could interpret and demand his funds because he needs to leave town or such stuff. Unless you have a better idea to get the funds. The coin will help and the vouchers we found. But the password will be the hard part. Thus the missing tongue." [Time: 2:30:00 pm - Samma city, Donara] Actions? Comments? Next Update...Thursday... GM: Ok. A good place to stop. Idea need to be ironed out. The npcs gave some suggeetions. It needs to be tweaked on and then decided on by Fremea. Several different possible plans can be made from above or something different if needed. It would even be more a suprise to Air drop Grosiss body and have it appear suddenly. But then they'd might panic fearing magic users plus how to get Raban invisible and then the body to appear suddenly. So iron out the details. We have Thursday and Monday. Since X-mas is next week I suspect no one will want to get an update out then. I will be off but others may be busy or out of town. So unless a sudden plan is given by Fremea and orders given then let's try to get a firm plan in place by 12/31. I figured we might be done with this adventure by then but no go. We are only 75% done. That's why a fast combat will be good. So iron out the details. Fast and furious email/posts can be done to iron out things. Heck even chat or such it can be arranged. If any questions then just ask. I'm off Thursday so will work on next update if I get enough posts Thursday afternoon. So it will be Kell, Arawn, Etain to Money lender. Other six will go with the 12 possible human allies toward the estate as needed. GM: Tasks to do - * Find mysterious Mage - Upcoming updates * Sell loot if possible Upcoming Updates GM: Maps - ___________________ Rough overview map only! NOT to scale I I I E ___A__ I A - Building behind estate (100'x100') I [ B ] D I B - Actual 2 story estate 200'x200' I [____] I C - Small wooden barn I C I D - Outside patio area I F I E - Shed of some sort I_______[]________I [] - Front gate I and _ = Iron fence 5 feet tall with thick shrubs blocking 90+% view F - Guard wooden small shack (50'x50') Count's Estate (to Scale) /I\ 1 Row = 20 feet (200') North 2 Column = 4 feet (200') ___________________ No I 100 feet by I Windows-> I 60 feet I I________ _______I I I No windows-> I I I I I------------------------- -----------------------I I ?? I I 200 feet x 200 feet I I / Side door I I to patio I Two Stories I I I I I I I I I I I I-------------------------/\-----------------------I Front door ?? - A smoke stack likely where kitchen or fireplace is for both floors. Smoke was seen from it. Windows dot the main house every 5 feet along all wall but the hallway to the back building and rear building area. Front gate is a thick iron gate wide enough for a wagon. Windows are both ground and second stories. Most windows on ground floor have curtains or last seen by guard open. He claims second story windows were mostly closed (curtains). No idea on what is on roof.