[2025/03/13 14:58] Andreas: is online.
[2025/03/13 14:59] Andreas: hello kittens
[2025/03/13 14:59] Sonja Bikergrrl: guess we're all here now
[2025/03/13 15:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: so, shall we get started? We can manage an hour, I'm sure
[2025/03/13 15:01] Mecha: /me nods."Let's do this ."
[2025/03/13 15:01] Andreas: I'm gonna be more retarded than usually I'm 17 hours awake, extra long day at work.
[2025/03/13 15:01] Sapphire: Andreas!
[2025/03/13 15:01] Sonja Bikergrrl: So, last week, you were flinging flaming oil about, and Sapphire cast burning hands, and several humans went screaming into the night, soaking wet
[2025/03/13 15:02] Sapphire: Oh wow
[2025/03/13 15:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: ...j/k, they were on fire
[2025/03/13 15:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: and you'd found the trail you're following led to the village blacksmith, and Mecha found some notes
[2025/03/13 15:03] Sapphire: Ah yes, we'd gone from the farm to the village and they sent some guards to chase us
[2025/03/13 15:03] Mecha: Did I also find the crate?
[2025/03/13 15:03] Sonja Bikergrrl: and with that recap out of the way... GGGGGGGGRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEETTTTTIINGGGSSS Adventurers! Some players get to fight fire breathing dragons, you get to set thatched cottages on fire.
[2025/03/13 15:03] Sonja Bikergrrl: No.
[2025/03/13 15:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: so, you're in the village, the tavern is merrily burning, and you got the blacksmiths' open
[2025/03/13 15:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: Over to you!
[2025/03/13 15:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me adjusts notes: no more oil in Andreas' inventory
[2025/03/13 15:05] Andreas: /me nods
[2025/03/13 15:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: and Waterscales cast her spell.
[2025/03/13 15:05] Sapphire: Any oil in the blacksmiths place?
[2025/03/13 15:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: roll 1d6
[2025/03/13 15:05] Mecha: THis one sneaks around still trying to find the crate or tracks of it. Does this one hear anoything from the outside
[2025/03/13 15:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: roll 1d20
[2025/03/13 15:06] D20: Mecha rolls 9
[2025/03/13 15:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: you find a few scuffed tracks, but there's a few and you're not wholly sure where they might go
[2025/03/13 15:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: Sapphire - d6
[2025/03/13 15:07] D6: Sapphire rolls 6
[2025/03/13 15:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: you Find a bellows.
[2025/03/13 15:08] Andreas: /me growsl. Going to blacksmith's, searching for anything useful in there.
[2025/03/13 15:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: Andreas! What do you want to do/say
[2025/03/13 15:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: d6
[2025/03/13 15:08] D6: Andreas rolls 2
[2025/03/13 15:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: roll d6 again
[2025/03/13 15:09] Sapphire: A bellows! Will yoink it, might come in handly
[2025/03/13 15:09] D6: Andreas rolls 4
[2025/03/13 15:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: you Find 4 silver coins
[2025/03/13 15:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: indeed, if you had oil, you might have a flame thrower
[2025/03/13 15:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: too bad you already threw it
[2025/03/13 15:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mecha... you got two Notes
[2025/03/13 15:10] Mecha: Wait is everyone in the blacksmith shop?
[2025/03/13 15:10] Sonja Bikergrrl: yep
[2025/03/13 15:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: let's hope it doesn't catch fire
[2025/03/13 15:11] Sapphire: So cool stuff, but not yet clues to where our treasure went
[2025/03/13 15:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: other than maybe Mechas' notes
[2025/03/13 15:12] Andreas: /me "Which way now? The treasure is not here!"
[2025/03/13 15:12] Mecha: This one is going to take a quick look at teh notes
[2025/03/13 15:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: roll d20
[2025/03/13 15:12] Mecha: "Shhhh there are beings here. Beings with weapons."
[2025/03/13 15:13] D20: Andreas rolls 5
[2025/03/13 15:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: well, Andreas decyphers the first note: "Hey, Blackie, I need some horseshoes for Nibbles. And I found this crate with this thing in it, can you look at it and see what it is? Or if it's valuable. I fished it out of the river."
[2025/03/13 15:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: Seems to be from the farmer.
[2025/03/13 15:14] Sapphire: "A crate!" She moves to check all the crates
[2025/03/13 15:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: There are two notes... who's going to roll another d20
[2025/03/13 15:15] D20: Mecha rolls 18
[2025/03/13 15:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: you hold the note, and don't get much, if any sense out of it. Seems to have been written by some educated guy, it's certainly very neat and flowery
[2025/03/13 15:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: Sapphire, d20?
[2025/03/13 15:16] D20: Sapphire rolls 9
[2025/03/13 15:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: You turn the note upside down. "Blackie, this is an odd artifact indeed. It's something arcane, I need to study it. I'll look at it over night and give you my opinion in the morning. If you could have that new brazier ready by then, I can pick that up at the same time. I'm just a mile to the East. Thanks! Ridcully."
[2025/03/13 15:18] Andreas: /me "East? Who knows which way is East? It's just a mile! We're gonna be heroes!"
[2025/03/13 15:19] Sapphire: "Blackie... the black SMITH!" Waterscales cackles. "I've cracked the code, blackie is a fake name... this... Ridcully has our artifact!"
[2025/03/13 15:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: Congrats! You've successfully passed the first level, and you all level up!
[2025/03/13 15:21] Mecha: Looking around making sure no one is going to run in here.
[2025/03/13 15:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me distributes new cards
[2025/03/13 15:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: You also get all spells and HP back, not that you lost HP
[2025/03/13 15:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: So, heading out to Ridcullys' place?
[2025/03/13 15:23] Sapphire: Drawing Embermaws symbol on the wall and then heading out
[2025/03/13 15:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: that'll learn 'em!
[2025/03/13 15:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: someone roll a d4...
[2025/03/13 15:23] Mecha: Yes
[2025/03/13 15:23] D4: Mecha rolls 3
[2025/03/13 15:24] Andreas: /me "The message said it's in the East, move friends, we're gonna be heroes"
[2025/03/13 15:24] Sonja Bikergrrl: roll d4 again
[2025/03/13 15:25] D4: Sapphire rolls 3
[2025/03/13 15:25] Sapphire: Eastward!
[2025/03/13 15:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: You're halfway there when you run into a pair of wild boars. These creatures are as bad tempered as they are hostile. Snarling, they charge to attack, what do you do!
[2025/03/13 15:26] Sapphire: "Wizards Beasts! Climb!" Waterscales jumps and clambers up a tree.
[2025/03/13 15:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: roll d20
[2025/03/13 15:27] Andreas: /me climbs up closest tree
[2025/03/13 15:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: roll d20
[2025/03/13 15:27] D20: Andreas rolls 1
[2025/03/13 15:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: and Sapphire
[2025/03/13 15:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mecha?
[2025/03/13 15:28] D20: Sapphire rolls 6
[2025/03/13 15:28] Mecha: Running around said tree to be
[2025/03/13 15:29] Sonja Bikergrrl: oh dear.
[2025/03/13 15:29] Sonja Bikergrrl: sure about that?
[2025/03/13 15:30] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me said that with proper DM gravitas
[2025/03/13 15:31] Mecha: For the moment. Those two are up the tree. There might be another tree nearby but before heading for new tree going to getting boars attention before climbing
[2025/03/13 15:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay, well, Sapphire and Andreas make their checks and literally fly up the tree and achieve safety
[2025/03/13 15:31] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 2
[2025/03/13 15:31] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 5
[2025/03/13 15:32] Andreas: /me "I'm surprised I could climb it"
[2025/03/13 15:32] Sonja Bikergrrl: the boars charge you, and Emberclaw smiles on you, the boars miss, and turn for another attack!
[2025/03/13 15:32] Sonja Bikergrrl: now what
[2025/03/13 15:33] Mecha: nearest unoccupied tree and up this one goes
[2025/03/13 15:33] Sonja Bikergrrl: critical success on Andreas' part
[2025/03/13 15:33] Sonja Bikergrrl: d20
[2025/03/13 15:33] Andreas: Mecha or me?
[2025/03/13 15:33] D20: Mecha rolls 12
[2025/03/13 15:34] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mecha
[2025/03/13 15:34] Sonja Bikergrrl: who -just- manages to scramble up a tree
[2025/03/13 15:34] Sonja Bikergrrl: what are Sapphire aka Waterscales and Andreas going to do?
[2025/03/13 15:34] Sapphire: Helping Mecha get up
[2025/03/13 15:34] Sapphire: oh wait, unoccupied tree
[2025/03/13 15:35] Sapphire: Hmmmmmm.....
[2025/03/13 15:35] Andreas: /me wait up in the tree and growls
[2025/03/13 15:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: ...nothing, Sapphire?
[2025/03/13 15:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: the boars circle around, snuffling furiously, but, you're up trees and they can't climb... they give up after a while and wander away
[2025/03/13 15:37] Sapphire: thinking
[2025/03/13 15:38] Sonja Bikergrrl: guess they got.... boar-d
[2025/03/13 15:38] Sapphire: but yeah, kinda just letting the boards get board
[2025/03/13 15:38] Sapphire: what direction did they come from?
[2025/03/13 15:38] Sonja Bikergrrl: the left
[2025/03/13 15:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay.... so... jumping down and moving on?
[2025/03/13 15:39] Andreas: /me nods
[2025/03/13 15:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: roll d6 for fall damage
[2025/03/13 15:39] Andreas: what a trap
[2025/03/13 15:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: J/K! J/K :)
[2025/03/13 15:39] Sapphire: "Hah!" She clarefully climbs down.
[2025/03/13 15:40] Sonja Bikergrrl: you get down safely and follow the trail. The trail leads on to the wizards' tower. The wizards' tower is a three story tower, 30' diameter, with a small stable to one side.
[2025/03/13 15:40] Mecha: Starts climbing down to the ground.. Where were we going again?"
[2025/03/13 15:40] Sapphire: "We tricked the wizards guards, but should move confusingly to evade any further patrols...."
[2025/03/13 15:40] Sonja Bikergrrl: The three-story wizard's tower rises majestically from the surrounding landscape, its stone walls adorned with intricate runes that shimmer faintly in the light. Attached to the tower is a sturdy wooden stable, its rustic charm contrasting with the tower's arcane elegance.
[2025/03/13 15:41] Sonja Bikergrrl: The tower is in the centre of a 50' diameter wooden picket fence. The stable is open, and a wagon can be seen in the middle, with a horse in a stall. There's nothing in the wagon, though.
[2025/03/13 15:41] Sonja Bikergrrl: How you going to approach this?
[2025/03/13 15:41] Mecha: Very carefully would be best
[2025/03/13 15:41] Andreas: /me nods
[2025/03/13 15:42] Sonja Bikergrrl: indeed, a wizards' tower should be... approached carefilly
[2025/03/13 15:42] Andreas: /me lurking around in a distance to see if there are any guards and way in like hole in a fence or so.
[2025/03/13 15:42] Sonja Bikergrrl: roll d20
[2025/03/13 15:43] D20: Andreas rolls 5
[2025/03/13 15:43] Sapphire: Also scouting for stuff like windows or ivy to climb
[2025/03/13 15:43] D20: Sapphire rolls 9
[2025/03/13 15:43] D20: Mecha rolls 17
[2025/03/13 15:43] Sonja Bikergrrl: it's a fence that consists of poles supporting horizontal poles, so, lots of spaces. no obvious guards.
[2025/03/13 15:44] Sonja Bikergrrl: Plenty of windows around the lower floor, apart from a large wooden door. And the stable, with the cart, and one horse watching you, looking as stupid as a horse can look
[2025/03/13 15:45] Andreas: /me is it day or night and what's the visibility?
[2025/03/13 15:45] Sonja Bikergrrl: It's night time, about 3AM, so your visibility is good.
[2025/03/13 15:46] Andreas: /me tries to get over the fence, close to the tower, and peaks into the closes window.
[2025/03/13 15:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: you look in... hard to see inside. looks like some big area with things all round. Typical human abode.
[2025/03/13 15:47] Sapphire: Getting to the stable and checking the wagon, probably gonna let the horse out too
[2025/03/13 15:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: sure you wanna let the horse out?
[2025/03/13 15:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: roll d20
[2025/03/13 15:48] Mecha: Sneaks in and watches this going on.
[2025/03/13 15:48] Sonja Bikergrrl: in the barn?
[2025/03/13 15:49] Sapphire: Well, when I say that I mean with the barn door -also- open
[2025/03/13 15:49] Sonja Bikergrrl: well, the horse is in a stall
[2025/03/13 15:50] Sapphire: hmmmmmmm
[2025/03/13 15:50] Sonja Bikergrrl: so you can check the wagon and not lose the horse
[2025/03/13 15:50] Sonja Bikergrrl: and, d20 to take a look
[2025/03/13 15:51] D20: Sapphire rolls 15
[2025/03/13 15:51] Sonja Bikergrrl: roll d6
[2025/03/13 15:51] Sapphire: ....but kobolds can't.... use horses?
[2025/03/13 15:51] D6: Sapphire rolls 6
[2025/03/13 15:52] Sonja Bikergrrl: you find: A Potion of Sanitatem
[2025/03/13 15:52] Sapphire: that sounds dangerous
[2025/03/13 15:52] Sonja Bikergrrl: also, in the wagon, bits of wood, which were recently soaked in river water
[2025/03/13 15:53] Mecha: If nothing is found this one hangs her head, and realizes what's up.
[2025/03/13 15:53] Sonja Bikergrrl: the moon.
[2025/03/13 15:53] Mecha: ...
[2025/03/13 15:53] Andreas: /me moving around the tower to see if every window is pointing in a same room or if I can see anything else.
[2025/03/13 15:55] Sonja Bikergrrl: you're pretty sure the windows all point in different directions, at tangents to the circular plan. Inside the tower - just looks like a jumble of human stuff
[2025/03/13 15:56] Andreas: /me looking for any open window, where I could get in
[2025/03/13 15:56] Sonja Bikergrrl: They're all closed.
[2025/03/13 15:56] Mecha: Come into the stable and moves to Sapphire."It's a crate, in a wizards tower.. Willing to bet it's in the tower. Probably at the top. Wizards are dumb like that
[2025/03/13 15:57] Sapphire: "yeah, we have to get up there!"
[2025/03/13 15:57] Sonja Bikergrrl: wizards are also weak, and not likely to lug crates up to the top of tall buildings.
[2025/03/13 15:57] Andreas: /me "how we get up there? All windows are closed. Should we try door?"
[2025/03/13 15:57] Sapphire: "Let's get one of those windows open."
[2025/03/13 15:58] Sonja Bikergrrl: you -could- try the door...
[2025/03/13 15:58] Andreas: /me lurking to the door and very very carefully and very very slowly tries to open them.
[2025/03/13 15:59] Sonja Bikergrrl: The main entrance to the tower is a large arched portal, with a doormat outside, reading: "Welcome to the Arcane Abode: Step Lightly, Leave Your Spells at the Door!" The door is locked.
[2025/03/13 15:59] Sapphire: "They'be trapped the door...."
[2025/03/13 16:00] Mecha: is there a door inside in the barn / stable?
[2025/03/13 16:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: Maybe they knew you'd think that, and didn't trap the door, but trapped the windows.
[2025/03/13 16:01] Sonja Bikergrrl: No, the wizard doesn't appear to have prioritized getting to the barn from his tower.
[2025/03/13 16:01] Sapphire: hmmmmm
[2025/03/13 16:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: if only you had a Scout... like Andreas... who could try to unlock the door...
[2025/03/13 16:02] Mecha: Since this one doesn't know it's locked being in the stable she looks around."Now what?"
[2025/03/13 16:02] Andreas: /me "Maybe we could set fire the tower, they are locked there" giggles
[2025/03/13 16:02] Sonja Bikergrrl: the tower is made of stone.
[2025/03/13 16:04] Andreas: /me "the humans stuff could burn, they may open the door. Or shell we rather open the window?" Holding a stone he found nearby, not too big not too small.
[2025/03/13 16:04] Sapphire: ( you hav elockpicks, no? )
[2025/03/13 16:05] Andreas: /me afaik I don't, that was for Thief right?
[2025/03/13 16:05] Sonja Bikergrrl: ie., Scout
[2025/03/13 16:07] Andreas: /me "do we have a way in other than break a window?"
[2025/03/13 16:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: try the lock, or, break a window...
[2025/03/13 16:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: or, bash the door down
[2025/03/13 16:08] Andreas: /me tries to lockpick the lock and open the door
[2025/03/13 16:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: d10, success on 1 or 2
[2025/03/13 16:09] D10: Andreas rolls 8
[2025/03/13 16:09] Andreas: ofc
[2025/03/13 16:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: the door stays locked :P
[2025/03/13 16:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: I tried :D
[2025/03/13 16:10] Mecha: *how smart are Kobolds? I have an idea but it might be Too smart*
[2025/03/13 16:10] Sonja Bikergrrl: well, "you must be kobold stupid" is a common expression
[2025/03/13 16:11] Andreas: /me *giggles*
[2025/03/13 16:11] Sonja Bikergrrl: what's the idea? Catapult yourself up?
[2025/03/13 16:11] Mecha: No, would be cool though
[2025/03/13 16:11] Sapphire: Checking the tower for ivy or other handholds.
[2025/03/13 16:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: It's a magically smooth tower. Apart from the windows.
[2025/03/13 16:12] Mecha: Walks over to the others."An idea. One of you bang on the door, hide before it opens. once open set the horse loose and they will go out after it and we run in
[2025/03/13 16:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me facepalms
[2025/03/13 16:13] Sonja Bikergrrl: are you SURE you want to do that
[2025/03/13 16:13] Andreas: /me "Kobold clever" ... holding a stone in his hand
[2025/03/13 16:14] Mecha: As you said... "you must be kobold stupid" is a common expression
[2025/03/13 16:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: so... what are you doing.
[2025/03/13 16:15] Sapphire: You seem to think kobolds are able to ride horses?
[2025/03/13 16:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: not what I indicated.
[2025/03/13 16:16] Sapphire: well, you keep asking "are you sure" whenever we mention affecting the horse
[2025/03/13 16:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mmhmm.
[2025/03/13 16:16] Mecha: If we do this idea we need a knocker a horse freer and a look out
[2025/03/13 16:17] Sapphire: a what now?
[2025/03/13 16:17] Andreas: /me "we can break the window and try to get in fast and hide in"
[2025/03/13 16:19] Sapphire: Waterscales is generally in favor of the go through a window plan... the door proved locked alriready, yeas?
[2025/03/13 16:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: it did
[2025/03/13 16:19] Mecha: Someone to knock, someone to set the horse free and someone to be a look out and signal between the two
[2025/03/13 16:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: d20 to hit the window with the stone....
[2025/03/13 16:20] D20: Andreas rolls 5
[2025/03/13 16:20] Andreas: 🤦
[2025/03/13 16:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: I was just kidding again :D
[2025/03/13 16:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: luckily for you
[2025/03/13 16:20] D20: Andreas rolls 10
[2025/03/13 16:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: CRASH! the window shatters.
[2025/03/13 16:20] Sapphire: it shatters?!
[2025/03/13 16:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: There, on a desk in the middle of the room... you see it!
[2025/03/13 16:21] Sapphire: he had glass in there?
[2025/03/13 16:21] Sapphire: Ah ha, excellent! moving to sneak in
[2025/03/13 16:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: And on that note... we'll find out WHAT is there next week )
[2025/03/13 16:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: I gotta be up in 5.5hrs, so... I need to be gone.
[2025/03/13 16:21] Sapphire: please come back!
[2025/03/13 16:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: That's our cliffhanger... I take it you enjoyed (so far)?
[2025/03/13 16:22] Andreas: yeah was fun
[2025/03/13 16:22] Andreas: I've slept 5.5 hours today
[2025/03/13 16:22] Mecha: Not gonna lie IF this one would have been caught in the blacksmith shop Would have turned it around trying to be cute commenting on looking for work. DO what can be done to survive
[2025/03/13 16:23] Mecha: It was fun :)
[2025/03/13 16:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: can't wait for the thrilling conclusion :)
[2025/03/13 16:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: also... not to spoiler, but....
[2025/03/13 16:23] Sapphire: thrills! chills! spills!
[2025/03/13 16:24] Sonja Bikergrrl: How would you move the mcguffin if you had a wagon, but no horse to pull the wagon?
[2025/03/13 16:24] Sonja Bikergrrl: see, you gotta think of these things.
[2025/03/13 16:24] Sapphire: how big is the macguffin tho?
[2025/03/13 16:24] Sapphire: I figured I was gonna stuff it in my bra and start running
[2025/03/13 16:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: big enough to be in a crate :P