Arabesu's Eyes of the Lich Queen - IC

Fenwick looks over at the altercation happening and sees Trent keeping an eye on the jungle so he walks over and stands next to him. Although he can't understand what they're saying Fen's a little uncomfortable with the treatmant from Hightower, but knows better than to get in his way.

OOC - I must agree with you Vertexx.... I played a half-ogre barbarian who had a 25 STR when raging and picked up a halfling rogue and due to his 6 CHA the halfling laughed in his face when he tried to intimidate him. Needless to say he was thrown across the room, but we still didn't get the info we wanted.

OOC sure, but I have to give a cookie to those characters who, unlike hightower, are optimized for other things. Since there is a limited amount of resources, i.e. stats, skill points, and feats, it is presumed that if you are optimized for intimidate or diplomacy then you are less optimized for combat and vice versa. The ramifications of being less optimized for combat manifest MUCH more often that the ramifications of being less optimized for social interactions, so I think you have little room to complain. Intimidate is a class skill for fighters and barbarians; its their one "social" option.

If its any consolation I had planned on giving you a nice circumstance bonus for your well honed speech. Unfortunately the dice weren't with you. That sucks. However, because of size differences (+4) and your speech (+4) and roll (3) you get a 11.

Enough to give Rosa a +2 bonus from aiding another, good cop, bad cop style, or to force him to make his wisdom check to save versus your intimidate.

Choose one or the other.

If you expend one of your daily rages, you become actual size large, versus just powerfully built, which provides an additional +4 to the DC. Additionally, you can spend an action point to raise the DC if you want...

Resources used, summarized for convenience since its been awhile.

Hightower - 5 damage; Cure Light Wounds potion; 1 action point; Rage used.

Trent - 9 damage

Fenwick - Spells: magic missile (X2), acid splash, mage armor, scorching ray; Mage armor and Protection from Arrows [from boon]; Ghost Sound [gnome spell-like ability]

Rosa - Spells:* Blinding Color Surge, Obscuring mist, Silence, Whelm, Glitterdust.

Faris - 5 damage (reduced from 7 by Trent's DR2/magic aura)

Saris - some arrows... henceforth, you get back half of your missed shots if you have the time to hunt for them. Arrows that hit are expended. I haven't gone through and counted, but you are expected to keep track.

* - Rosa has not yet cast the Charm Person spell that she was going to once he woke up, since he has just now woken up. She can cast that if she chooses.

[sblock=ooc] I wasn't trying to offend. I agree with you whole-heartedly on the cookie-idea. I also know that some people aren't the strongest role-players and maybe aren't the best at bluffing, but it wouldn't be fair to penalize them when trying to sneak past the guard. [/sblock]

Diplomacy (1d20 13=19)

OOC Hmm, I thought the charm happened before he woke up. Given a choice, Rosa would probably want to do it without a penalty active. Given no choice, I suppose she would still try.

EDIT: Wrong modifier, that should be a +6 . . . so subtract 7; Diplomacy is only 12.

OOC

Well, whether he has the penalty when he initially saves or not, threatening him later on either gives him a new save with the +5 modifier or applies the +5 modifier to his existing save. Since Hightower has already threatened him its a moot point now, he has the +5. So I'm giving you the option of holding your spell unless you feel you need it.

Moritheil, you have action points should you want to bump up your result...

I'm waiting on a decision from Vertexx69 as to whether he wants to apply a bonus to your check or to let his modified intimidate result stand and see how the poison dusk fares against his DC 11.

OOC - Unfortunately I have already used my 1 rage/day in the fight against the big lizardman. So lets just roll on. But given the fact that this lizardman attacked him with poison unprovoked coupled with his chaotic nature, he wasn't even really trying to indimidate so much as stating soon to be verifiable fact, and was thinking that it might want to spare itself some pain

a brave one this one.

Perhaps it is his fierce spirit or perhaps it is that Hightower revealed too much of his enthusiasm toward torturing the whelp. Whatever the reason, he doesn't seem to believe that he will leverage softer treatment from the stone tongued golliath, no matter what he reveals. Or perhaps he just doesn't care.

"You will learn nothing from me. Do your worst. Verdin will track you to your doom."

He then spits on the gauntlet clutching his left arm and raises his chin to ready himself for whatever will come.

OOC vs DC 11. Result = 22 Nice waist of twenty. :\

Fenwick notices that Saris and Faris have stepped closer toward the temple. Perhaps they are scouting, or perhaps they are simply trying to get away from the "interrogation." Nevertheless thanks to a quick circle by Faris in avian form they get the general layout of the temple site, although Faris is not quite observant enough to make out individuals from his extreme height.

OOC the foggy bits represent parts that will only be revealed as you get closer... i.e. fog of war and so on. You group is several hundred feet southwest of the map, on the path coming in from the lower left corner of the map.

Rosa sighs; this situation is completely different from how she imagined it. She tries one last attempt before simply turning the prisoner over to Hightower to be incapacitated.

"Verdin this, Verdin that. Come." She leads them to view the recently slain large lizardfolk and watches the prisoner's reaction.

OOC It's obvious this guy is pretty zealous and Rosa's original plan involved no overt hostility plus a blindfold for that cloaked casting edge. Since that plan is pretty much shot, I'm not sure she would commit any resources - spells, AP, or even any more time.

I have assumed that he can't actually see the large, dead lizardfolk - in which case Rosa would guess that is Verdin.

He seems to have noticed the body of the dead Blackscale, so you interpret that he is referring to someone else. Reading between the lines, you guess that this Verdin is skilled rather than being a brute. Probably some kind of tracker or hunter.