Skirmish In the Iron-Heart caverns

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"Speaking of getting in, how did you find your way here?" Callo asks.

[(George) 3.5./ ZEM ( 4.0)]

( Dm is still working on that aspect, for story-line reasons it was easiest for you all to meet sooner than it was to meet later. Also wanted it to be not that complex as to why the team was sent. So for the sake of moving things along we will just say He is honest in how they got in thus far. My current idea is they got in via the sewer system. )

There are 4 sets of double doors to enter the main control room of this section. One set at the North,South,East,West.

Your current disguised guard is at the East set of doors. Callo would know her friends' spell would only last her an hr since she cast it on herself.

Doing the math in her head and given the strategy that was being implemented when they first came in: It took about 15 mins to wait for the rotations to be right after the first guard was killed. Hiding the first body did not long at all yet stealthing around waiting for the prime time to strike on each. That all took about 10 mins. Then clearing out the rest with the new arrivals would take another solid 10 mins just to insure you got them all and then gathered any dead bodies back in the hiddy-hole. So there was still enough time on the spell but time could become a factor at some point


How does the current team wish to proceed.

[(George) 3.5./ ZEM ( 4.0)]

Not sure if players were waiting on me or not : so we were dm hand waving how they got inside to help move story along.

The next task in freeing the prisoners would be to open the bars above their indevidual cell pit. However doing one by one would take forever. So the fastest means to free them all at the same time or different sections without this area, such as freeing West block. Only way to do so would be to get inside the cell block controll and raise them up from there.

[ Tag all players]

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Callo looks up towards the cell block control area, asking those who had been prisoners here, "are there wards or barriers protecting the control room? I can disguise myself and one other as a guard, or perhaps a bird to fly in through a window, but not if the anti-magic field extends this far"

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Katril answered, "The anti-magic is only inside the cells themselves. "

OOC: So no keys on the guards outside, so the inner area needs to be opened from inside. So does Katril remember anything about their usual procedure, as under what conditions the inner area was openned?

She continues, "My brother can try to pick the lock, but they might hear that inside."

[(George) 3.5./ ZEM ( 4.0)]

That would be an Intelligence roll for her to try and recall any key parts of that kind of information

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Katril INT hNAYZjA7p_1-20+1=6

Looks like she doesn't remember anything...1-20

[(George) 3.5./ ZEM ( 4.0)]

Nothing comes to her mind/memory. Likly because none of you were let into any of the central comand areas at any point when you were there.

Nor was the lv of security talked about outside those comand rooms while the gaurds were talking near enough to be overheard.

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Katril suggests, "Unless someone has a better idea, my brother can just pick the lock. That would probably be faster than trying to beat down the door, those doors look pretty sturdy."

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Switching back into her disguise Callo adds "i'll watch for guards and provide cover"

(she can make one of you invisible if desired, but only one)

[(George) 3.5./ ZEM ( 4.0)]

So it saddens me to say Bryn's player has notified me they are not able to continue with our play by post at this time. Things in real life have came up in such a way that they are unable to be able to keep up with game.

So I'll do my best to rework a few things for the story to be as congruent as possible, however it might not make the most overall seance but I'll do my best.

Bryn to Arianna : " Its good to see they did not mistreat you and that your well. As much as I would like to help free those wrongfully imprisoned. The elders of Danda Provence will likely not survive without substantial medical aid. They have been working to gather resources on the down low, but it would be a major blow to lose such leadership. Those who would likely take up the seats should The elders parish would have their pockets lined with blood-coins of the Red Army Empire. At that point any progress there will grind to a halt and would not be able to aid in the cumming months. I know our side of the continent has been overlooked by those who wish to do something, but we want to do our part. Are second task here was to if possible deliver a decisive blow, that being to take out a Young Red Lord who governs this area of Sira. I fear if we wait to long we won't make it back in time. I know my words alone might not be enough so i have a scroll by the elders hand. should it fall into enemy hands it would self-destruct, once read it will burn away leaving no trace of its contents. It is meant for you and you alone to read."

He hands her a scroll. Callo has never seen a scroll case such as this, but can feel faint evocation from it. Nothing on the exploding side but clearly Bryn was not joking or lying about the parchment burning if opened by the wrong receiver.

Arianna : " I'll give everyone some space and i'll need to insure it does not cast to bright light, I don't want to give away where we are."

Arianna steps deeper into the cave to insure what she stated to the group. Before she opens she will cast Enhance ability on herself. When she gets to the end as Bryn said its burns away and even the scroll case is now just dying embers inside a cave.

She dries her eyes but is fighting back tears on her re-entrance, she never had that astute of a poker face. Varis knew these types of fighting back ones tears. Its is not not of sadness or grief but ones of pure anger. Yet knew this was not the time to bring up such a topic.

A: " Everyone what i have just read I can't share with you as of now but it does mean i need to set off post haste. I do wish i could see this part all the way to the end but the divine it seams has a different goal for me at this time. Someday when we reconnect I hope to be able to.

She looks at the twins. " If you could help me find your Mistresses' Temple it would be of great help on our way back." 


She will give out hugs to those who want one. The twins are able to give her instructions as to how to not get lost this time around.

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So how many player characters are left? I know of myself (Katril), Fiseath, and Callo. Anyone else?

[(George) 3.5./ ZEM ( 4.0)]

As of right now that is all we have as far as current players.

An idea I was mulling over and i wanted player input before we do so.

I had the Idea for a while now of possibly putting it on a play by post on discord server and have that be our posting board. I would still use this board to keep track of character and npc sheets so it will still get a lot of use just not the active board posts. I would also be able to use it for our map locations when needed.

I know its important to have active games so my star wars game will still be by posting on these boards. For i don't feel like i could keep up with that type of system on discord.

One of the many reasons i did not try this option before was that I did not know a dice roller bots existed. In last few weeks i finally got a dice roller bot for discord roll20 games to work.

As I was looking for others to possibly join us I found quite a few had the idea to do play by posts over discord. Given our current number I think possibly a few more could be interested in possibly joining something of that sort.

This way when new players join we can hopefully interrogate them just like we did here. I also want to thank you all for being open and in-convulsive to new players joining us i know even as Vet players its not easy adjusting to others rp styles.

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I've played play-by-post on Discord before, in fact that was my first experiance with Discord. It works, and I'll follow if you move the game there. But I think these boards do have some advantages. Specifically it's easier to access old posts by checking old threads or moving back pages. In Discord, you need to scroll and scroll and scroll.

Another problem is a tendancy to have posting storms when some players are online at the same time. They respond to each other rapidly. Those who are offline at that time get left behind.

Discord doesn't send me emails like this board does, but I leave discord running all the time, so I'd notice new posts there.

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I'm not familiar with discord, but you can certainly give it a try.

[(George) 3.5./ ZEM ( 4.0)]

Np, it realy easy to use and its free.

In short its a better version of skype.
We won't be using the voice chat feature

However i use that feature for mostly my weekly roll20 games and to keep up with friends.

Once you have it on your computer or phone the link should put you into our server.

Discord is set invite only so random people can't just log on to say hey.

The dice bot will make rolls when you put !1d20. Or say !2d6 etc.

( I have it on both my computer and phone.)
Here is the link some are set to expire while some are set to never this one is set to not expire :
discord.gg/MtGFZXf

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ok. I'm not going to be able install it on my work machine - though the web interface shouldn't be a problem.