Edwyd's Pie Parade Brigade! (A Short Vignette) [Judge: Bront] [CONCLUDED]

[AGFlynn]

Cludge Slatefist, Pie Escort

Cludge shakes his head, clearing the dust from his eyes.
Weeeell, looks like like we've kept tha pie safe from harm so far. Nice work, boys. Let's carry on with tha parade! C'mon folks, help us deliver this pie ta Master Edwyd's missus without harm! It's time we was on our way!
He grins broadly and once again hoists his great sword high, like a major domo.

[sblock=Diplomacy check] Diplomacy check to sway the crowd into helping deliver the pie. (1d20+1=17) [/sblock]

[sblock=OOC] How far have got to go now? Was there any effect on us or the crowd from the "love potion" gas?[/sblock]

 

[Wik]

Galwynn takes one look at Saithnar, and another look at the pacified mage. He looks at Saithnar once more, his jaw open. "...what the...?" Shaking his head, he picks up his discarded scabbard and throws it over his shoulder like a backpack.

Muttering as he catches up to the group, he says "You're testing me, aren't you, lady Halina? Very funny. Very... funny.

 

[Rae ArdGaoth]

Thanks to Cludge's surprisingly effective charisma, the crowd understands that the Brigade was just trying to protect the pie, and the Pie Parade continues down Allimon street. The children are busy hustling adults away from the pie, telling them all the while how they fought off the mage and his invisible minions who tried to steal the pie. "Ye cou'n't see them, but we fought 'em off, li'l bugger monstahs they were, invisible ones, we fought 'em back wit' our bare hands, we did!" The adults, glad to see the normally delinquent children feeling the joy of responsibility, laughed and humored the kids. The pie has a nice radius of space around it now.

The trek down Allimon Street is uneventful. The intersection with Thunis comes up, just past Livingston. The brigade turns right, onto N. Thunis, and the Edwyd house is in sight. The fiddler ups his tempo and the crowd begins clapping in earnest. However, the noise of the crowd drowns out an important sound:

[sblock=Listen check, DC:20]The loud ringing bells of the watch are coming from S. Thunis. A quick turn around reveals the reason: A man in plain gray pants and shirt with broken manacles around his wrists and ankles is running for all he's worth, right towards the parade. He's about 45' from the crowd now. Behind him, about 120' from the crowd, is a lone guard, huffing and puffing.[/sblock]
OOC: Everybody make a listen check and roll initiative. If you pass the listen check, you can post your action for the surprise round.

To AGFlynn: Almost done! If this combat takes as long as the last few, we'll be all wrapped up in less than a week. Are you wanting to get Cludge back to the RDI for Wik's vignette? If so, he's right here, I'm sure he'd be willing to delay for a few days.

 

[AGFlynn]

Cludge Slatefist, Pie Escort

Finding his ears still plugged with dust (possibly worsened by a long-neglected buildup of wax) Cludge (who is partially deaf to begin with) inserts a blocky, gauntleted finger into his ear and wiggles it hard.

[sblock=Listen check] Listen check (1d20-1=1) [/sblock]

[sblock=Initiative] Initiative roll (1d20=13) [/sblock]

[sblock=OOC] Yep, another stellar listen check. I actually did build the character as deaf in one ear, so this plays right into it [/sblock]

 

[Rae ArdGaoth]

[sblock=OOC: ]

Was there any effect on us or the crowd from the "love potion" gas?

I forgot to answer this: As far as you can tell, the "love potion" gas has had no obvious effect on the crowd. Though they do seem happier now...[/sblock]

 

[AGFlynn]

To AGFlynn: Almost done! If this combat takes as long as the last few, we'll be all wrapped up in less than a week. Are you wanting to get Cludge back to the RDI for Wik's vignette? If so, he's right here, I'm sure he'd be willing to delay for a few days.

I'd like that, yes. Would be good to get right into another one!

 

[Wik]

[sblock=OOC]Yeah, I'll keep the vignette open for whoever wants in. It's gonna be a lot of fun.[/sblock]

Galwynn's Listen Check (1d20+1=12) (ouch!)

Galwynn's Initiative (1d20-1=2) (double ouch!)

Galwynn stoically marches on, listening with rapt attention to the tales of the children that follow him. He even asks numerous questions, and isn't paying nearly enough attention to the streets around him.

 

[Phoenix8008]

Saithnar is calculating what the odds were of his successfully affecting that mage with his charm spell as they continue down the street towards their destination. As the crowd noise picks up, so does the noise of their thoughts, making it doubly hard to hear anything for poor unwitting Saithnar who is very slow to respond indeed...

Listen check (1d20+4=8) and Initiative (1d20+1=3)

 

[Wik]

[sblock=OOC]I hereby dub this group: "Team Helen Keller". We SUCK. [/sblock]

 

[AGFlynn]

Eh?