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"If you gather you belongings, I will wait in front of the statue of the dragon. Once we're complete, I'll teleport us to my home."
Janos leaves the inn and stands in front of the statue of the red dragon.
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Quickwhip meets Fant outside and looks around at the rain, feeling the cold directly. "Seems the Goddess is pleased and wants to share herself with us." He holds out his hand to collect a sample of the rain water and brings it to his lips to drink. He smiles as he lowers his hands, letting the remaining water drip to the ground from his fingers. "A beautiful day, though a little cold for my tastes."
"And not much of a day anymore," says Fant, looking up at the cloudy, and now mostly dark, sky.
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Originally Posted by janos audron
"If you gather you belongings, I will wait in front of the statue of the dragon. Once we're complete, I'll teleport us to my home."
"Which Goddess might that be, Quickwhip?" asks Fant, stepping out into the rain towards the wizard. Important to form rapport with the fighting men. As she pulls her cloak around her body, and it's good over her head, she asks "Aren't you going to be rather uncomfortable?"
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Quickwhip looks down at his nakedness and replies "It's a matter of honor. THis is the garb of a Swordsman... and I do not think I wish to give that up just yet. Perhaps once this snow that i've heard about starts to fall." Quickwhip looks to the sky and the darkening evening and says "It was nice, however." his hairless body slick with the wetness.
Hearing the question about the Goddess, Quickwhip replies "The only Goddess. Oh, I've heard that you people also have gods of your own, but in my land, there is but one, unless one of you dring them with you, but as soon as you leave, they leave with you. SHe is the River. You see, in my land there is but one river that flows from city to city, town to town, and the Goddess brings life to the people through that river."
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Hearing the question about the Goddess, Quickwhip replies "The only Goddess. Oh, I've heard that you people also have gods of your own, but in my land, there is but one, unless one of you dring them with you, but as soon as you leave, they leave with you. She is the River. You see, in my land there is but one river that flows from city to city, town to town, and the Goddess brings life to the people through that river."
Fant nodded. She was respectful of Gods in general, although she worshipped no one in paticular. She thought of them as extremely powerful and immortal, but different only on a matter of scale from humans, rather than a fundamental difference. They were like unto Kings of Kings- and just like an insult to one's King would elicit extreme, even violent response, so it was with Gods.
"I would like to hear more of your land, at some time. I have heard vague stories of your order before- I have been fairly well educated, and my interest in matters martial made them an interesting tidbit, if not very informative," she says, standing next to Janus, a rocky outcropping from the dragon statue protecting them from the rain.
__________________ “Taxation is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo. And I'm afraid to say, that these days, all I'm getting is moo.”
Draven approaches the others, his heavy cloak covering his studded leather armor. He looks to Fant and Quickwhip, "You two have to look at this as less of a mission and more of an adventure. Even in the most foreign land, we are strangers and that offers a degree of freedom that even friendlier environs do not." His left arm emerges from his cloak, holding a light mace, though he barely looks strong enough to hold even this meagre weapon. Grendath's Holy symbol dangles from his neck, a painted wooden disk with an unpainted depiction of crossed fingers in the center.
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Jack steps up out of the rain, decked out in his worn-in traveling cloak, a light pack, a small hunting bow and arrows, and a short bush-knife. "Oh hey," he greets the others with a chuckle and a grin, "and if this little shin-dig doesn't work out, we can always go treasure hunting in the Forests of Ar, courtesy of the blessed Saint Brentford."
Janos turns his attention from the statue to you. "Take eachothers hands." he says, and he takes Jacks hand and casts his spell.
The rain suddenly stops and where only seconds before you were standing outside the Red Dragon Inn, in the twilight of the evening, now you are standing in a well lit room. The candles hanging from the walls are not lit, but they do provide, obviously magical, illumination. The room has walls of rough stone, and is mostly empty. The only exit seems to be a wooden door in the north wall. Judging from the temperature, this room is most likely underground.
A table surrounded by five comfortable chairs stands in the middle of the room. Janos places himself at the head of the table and beckons you to sit down. "Welcome to my home." he says, and he unfolds the parchment that lies on the table. "This is all the information I have about the floor plan of his mansion. I know this for sure, and though I dare speculate a lot more, this is what you should start with."
"Further, I have information about the guards: there are two constructs patrolling the hallways at night. Should one of them spot you, he will attack you. If the other sees you fighting, he runs to his master. There are also four human guards. The work in two shifts, two of them sit in the guard post, the other two in the guard room. The guards on duty wear leather armor and are equipped with longswords. I don't know what their orders are."
"The last information I can give you is about Alarm spells. All the doors leading into the mansion have Alarm spells on them. In the house, there will probably be more spells at strategic locations, though I do not know where and neither do I know the password..."
"Of course, I have thought up a plan to get inside without any trouble: I could sell you as slaves. This means you get inside the mansion, and may have time to sneak around while he doesn't suspect anything, thus being able to better form a plan. The drawback is that you won't have any gear, though I could hide it in the forest near the mansion so that you have access to it when you really need it. However, if you do not like to be sold as slaves, feel free to make another plan..."
[Attention: the file plan.bmp is not a bitmap, it is an Excel file. Rename it to plan.xls and it should work fine.]
__________________ We are Gods, Dark Gods, and it is our duty to thin the herd...
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Draven takes a seat next to Janos and looks over the parchment, "I dislike the idea of using deception to slay the wicked, as I would rather put my faith in the luck of battle, but the proposition of letting loose some slaves in order to give them the chance to strike back at their oppressors does tickle my fancy. But then, I lucked into being somewhat intelligent..." he chuckles, So i will trust your judgement, Janos..."
"The last information I can give you is about Alarm spells. All the doors leading into the mansion have Alarm spells on them. In the house, there will probably be more spells at strategic locations, though I do not know where and neither do I know the password..."
"What about windows? Fireplaces with chimneys?" Jack asks.
Fant sits at the other end of the table, opposite from Janos, and looks at the map, thinking hard.
"I can't say I much like the idea of pretending to be a slave- nor do I like the idea of leaving my equipment out in the woods." Her hand drifts unconciously towards the hilt of her sword, then back to the table. "What are the disadvantages of a simple, straight-on assault? If local mercenaries could be obtained- and if we charge the going rate for hazardous missions, we could get ten men for as little as six gold pieces- I see no reason why we couldn't do that. Although that would be best combined with a slave-plan, or somehow getting inside. They open the door, and then after that it should be easy work." She looks up at Janos. "That depends on the contructs, to a degree. How difficult will they be to overcome?"
Edit: can't seem to view the map- could you e-mail it to me? zipped, preferably.
__________________ “Taxation is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo. And I'm afraid to say, that these days, all I'm getting is moo.”
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"I don't know why you favor a frontal assault if deception can potentially give greater results with less risk... The problem I see with a frontal assault is that you might have to face four guards and two constructs at once. Though the guards aren't very competent and I think you are able to handle the constructs one at a time, I think it's quite hard to face them all at the same time. When you are slaves, you are able to pick your battles and that will work to your advantage. The last problems with a frontal assault is that the wizard will be awake and might prepare himself for a final stand and that you won't have time to secretly look for evidence."
"I don't like the idea of hiring local mercenaries. They might plunder or destroy his house or do a thousand things I wouldn't like. You, on the other hand, will not do any such things, I am sure."
"Jack, the house has only one chimney, though it has many fireplaces, I don't think entering through the chimney is possible, but if it is there will no doubt be an Alarm spell. The house doesn't have a lot of windows, but I figure they too are trapped."
__________________ We are Gods, Dark Gods, and it is our duty to thin the herd...
"Your character is a collection of every broken part of D&D." - Kalanyr
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"Jack, the house has only one chimney, though it has many fireplaces, I don't think entering through the chimney is possible, but if it is there will no doubt be an Alarm spell. The house doesn't have a lot of windows, but I figure they too are trapped."
"Do you know how those alarm spells work?" Jack asks, "If we have a way to dispel one or two of them, I can footpad my way into that house easy-like. Maybe let everyone else in through a back door... or a least case the joint to find out who's with what's where."
"An alarm spell guards an area and it can either ring or give a mental alarm to the caster. Anyone who knows the password can pass without triggering the Alarm."
"I can give you a scroll of Dispel Magic for, say, a hundred gold pieces, but then you still need someone to cast it and I see no one here capable of casting arcane spells..."
"I have heard that some really experienced thieves are able to disarm an Alarm spell in six seconds, without triggering it. I don't know how experienced you are, but can you do it?"
__________________ We are Gods, Dark Gods, and it is our duty to thin the herd...
"Your character is a collection of every broken part of D&D." - Kalanyr
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"An alarm spell guards an area and it can either ring or give a mental alarm to the caster. Anyone who knows the password can pass without triggering the Alarm."
"I can give you a scroll of Dispel Magic for, say, a hundred gold pieces, but then you still need someone to cast it and I see no one here capable of casting arcane spells..."
"I have heard that some really experienced thieves are able to disarm an Alarm spell in six seconds, without triggering it. I don't know how experienced you are, but can you do it?"
"No, not me," Jack admits, "I never learned any magic but the smoke and mirrors hand trick type. Maybe there's another way...
"The thugs and the maids must know the password, otherwise they'd be tripping the noisemakers everytime they went out to the market. Awfully annoying to a wizard at his studies, that, I'd suspect. We could always catch one of them, and... *AHEM* ...'convince' them to share the password with us."
[Jack, you can find alarm spells and disable them, though it just takes two minutes, so what's the problem??]
"I think you are right about them knowing the password, so what if they say that the password is "divinity"? Are you gonna trust them? You can not know if they tell the truth...tripping an Alarm ruins the surprise. But if you have a fool proof way of telling whether or not they are lying, then I'd say go for it."
__________________ We are Gods, Dark Gods, and it is our duty to thin the herd...
"Your character is a collection of every broken part of D&D." - Kalanyr
[Jack, you can find alarm spells and disable them, though it just takes two minutes, so what's the problem??]
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Originally Posted by Janos Audron
"An alarm spell guards an area..."
[Metagame]From the SRD, "Area: 20-ft.-radius emanation centered on a point in space"... The Alarm spell will be tripped before we get anywhere near a door or window.[/Metagame]
[Check the area of a Glyph of Warding. In the description of Disable Device it says you can disable a GoW (I imagine this is without triggering it). I see no reason why you cannot disable an Alarm without triggering it.]aaa
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Quickwhip, not liking the idea of being sold into slavery. In his land, there are slaves, and many people are movesd to be slaves because they displeased the gods. In his land, they mark out the ranking tattoos with black bands. Tattoos are permanent. and cutting his hair to the lenth of a slave he's not about to do! "I'm sorry, but I can not and will not become a slave. I have done nothing to this point where the Goddess would force me to undertake such a task. This wizard has to get supplies, no? which is the closest village or market to this wizards abode? We can fond our way in without erivokably staining ourselves and our honor." He frowns at the man who looks to 'free' the slaves. Who is he to fight the will of the gods?
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