[Adventure]: The Missing Professor (DM: H.M.Gimlord, Looking for a Judge)

[Luinnar]

BTW: I'm still waiting for Draglin.

OOC: Draglin for treasure for him? By the way, I have a lot for gold from the DM credits I used. When he gets the treasure would you mind if I "spent" some of the gold to "find" the items I "bought"? If not will there be shopping opportunities soon?

Draglin let the man go and he slips down to the ground. It will take me a week to wash your slime off my armor. he mutters.

Vyth Darastrix, an anagram for Steel Dragon in Draconic, cute. Draglin says. Lets go pay a visit to our "friend", he obviously knows more then he is telling us. Draglin says, accidentally walking in the wrong direction to the other room.

OOC: Need to watch more film noir. May as well see if anything was missed in the other room. Passive Perception= 23

 

[H.M.Gimlord]

OOC: When he gets the treasure would you mind if I "spent" some of the gold to "find" the items I "bought"? ..If not will there be shopping opportunities soon?

OOC: Before your party goes to its next destination, I suppose you could negotiate with the others to enter the city once more and "stock up", or check out the merchants at the harbor.

 

[Iron Sky]

Seraph walks out of the room and give the room a more thorough search, checking any daggers with blue gems in the hilt.

(Assuming she didn't find it) She looks at the thief. "So where would you say the dagger is now since it doesn't seem to be here?"

[sblock=Perception, Diplomacy]Perception: 1d20+12=19, Diplomacy: 1d20+12=25[/sblock]

[sblock=Seraph's Statblock]Seraph, Female Human Blackguard(Rogue)/Adroit Explorer 12
Passive Perception: 22, Passive Insight: 19
AC: 32, Fort:26, Reflex: 27, Will:29, Resist 6 Ongoing -- Speed:5
HP:97/97, Bloodied:48, Surge Value:24, Surges left:13/13
Initiative +8, Action Points: 1
MBA: +20 vs Ref, 1d8+14 damage. RBA: Range 5/10, +10 vs AC, 1d4+2 damage.
Powers: Virtuous Strike, Dread Smite x 2, Mocking Smite x 2, Virtue, Vice's Reward, Shroud of Shadow, Reactive Surge, Destined for Greatness, Sneak Attack, Second Wind, Majestic Halo, Glorious Charge, Servant of Vice, Astral Splendor
Items: Summoned Armor, Apoli's Sun Blessing, Madstone x2, Healing Potion x2, Potion of Cure Light Wounds x2, Symbol of Scorned Fate, Apoli's Sun Blessing, Vanguard Weapon, Ring of the Radiant Storm
Notes: *Charge attacks don't provoke OAs, deal +1d6+1d8 damage, and can shift 1 after the attack *Roll radiant damage twice and take the highest *+8 damage with CA *+2 damage vs bloodied *1/round take 6 damage while have THP to deal +6 damage on next attack *+5 power bonus to next attack roll against first enemy to bloody *DR 10 TenT on AP *Save vs daze/stun at start of turn *Gain CA first round of combat

Serras, Spirit Tiger (Displacer Beast) Companion
Passive Perception: 14, Passive Insight: 14
AC: 29, Fort:23, Reflex: 27, Will:27 -- Speed:7
HP:48/48, Bloodied:24, Surge Value:12
MBA: +17 vs AC, 1d8+6 damage and gains concealment TenT.
Notes: *Allies adjacent to Serras gain +1 defenses *Enemies adjacent to Serras grant CA[/sblock]

 

[dimsdale]

Vyth Darastrix, an anagram for Steel Dragon in Draconic, cute. Draglin says. Lets go pay a visit to our "friend", he obviously knows more then he is telling us.

Max nods to the dragonborn. Yes...his role in organized crime is a lead that we need to pursue.

 

[Velmont]

Gloom lean toward Aaron "You can call me a murderer, I don't care, but before accusing me of a crime, you better be sure of accusation. I could kill you for your offense, so is the justice of my tribe. But you are too pathetic and meaningless, and over that, you give us information." Gloomswings his sword and cut Aaron's bound. "Now, if you have one last thing to say, it's time, after that, you leave usand next time we meet, I don't garantee I'll be so gentle with you."

 

[TwoHeadsBarking]

GM: [MENTION=82251]TwoHeadsBarking[/MENTION]: Give me till tomorrow to show Haruka the results of her search.

OOC: So... did I find anything?

 

[H.M.Gimlord]

GM: @TwoHeadsBarking , and everone else: Sorry. I got bogged down in RL, and just posted to Land Ho. You're next. I'm creating handouts for what Seraphine and Haruka find. I should be done tonight (I know I promised tomorrow about a week and a half ago, and I can only apologize, no excuses.). [sblock=My excuse?]I was installing this over the last week: [/sblock]

 

[H.M.Gimlord]

Aaron massages his wrists, shoulders, and neck after having been uncomfortably bound for so long. Turning to Gloom he offers, "Many thanks for your mercy."

"Not so fast dearie." Mab cuts in, "Gloom, here, might have let you live, but I'm afraid we can't let you go," she offers the thief and apologetic smile, "You see, you're a material witness in this case. I'm afraid you're going to have to stick around and answer other questions about your dead friends and Mr. Hallmaster." She adresses the others in the group, "When we go back into town, I'll take this fellow to Jahred for questioning," she turns back to Aaron, "If you cooperate with him, maybe he'll let you go."

Seraphine and Haruka detach themselves from the group, looking for more clues.

Though their motives are different, they find themselves looking through the same room: the lavishly decorated room containing the large four-poster bed.

Seraphine finds no magic knives, but just as she begins to grow frustrated, she hears Haruka let out a low whistle of discovery. Having been drawn, out of curiosity, to a small bureau in the corner, she had begun rifling through its drawers. Presently, she sifts through several yellowed papers that appear to be a correspondence between Lord Hallmaster and the professor concerning the very knife about which the thief spoke.

In no time Haruka has the letters in the most likely chronological order:[sblock=Letter 1]

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[/sblock][sblock=Seraphine]The inscription on the bottom of the box is written in Draconic. It reads, "ihk sia deevdru Hankel", which, when translated, reads, "For my son, Hankel"[/sblock][sblock=Letter 5]

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GM: I suppose you will all want to go into town to purchase (and find) items as well as 'interview' Vythdar Astrix. Keep in mind that the map that Haruka and Seraphine found is likely to have ties to Professor Aramista's whereabouts.

 

[Luinnar]

Draglin tries to reads the letters, but soon he tired. He then wanders off for a bit poking around to see if he can find anything and comes back when he sees everyone is done with the reading. Let us make haste! We must go interrogate Vythdar Astrix and find out where the missing professor is!

Um, but first, there was some really really cool stuff I saw for sale in town, so I thought we could stop by there first. he mumbles, embarrassed.

 

[Iron Sky]

"What the dragon said," Seraph says. "Let us find this Vythdar and see where that leads us."

OOC: Which box was that inscription on? The chest from the letter above?

[sblock=Seraph's Statblock]Seraph, Female Human Blackguard(Rogue)/Adroit Explorer 12
Passive Perception: 22, Passive Insight: 19
AC: 32, Fort:26, Reflex: 27, Will:29, Resist 6 Ongoing -- Speed:5
HP:97/97, Bloodied:48, Surge Value:24, Surges left:13/13
Initiative +8, Action Points: 1
MBA: +20 vs Ref, 1d8+14 damage. RBA: Range 5/10, +10 vs AC, 1d4+2 damage.
Powers: Virtuous Strike, Dread Smite x 2, Mocking Smite x 2, Virtue, Vice's Reward, Shroud of Shadow, Reactive Surge, Destined for Greatness, Sneak Attack, Second Wind, Majestic Halo, Glorious Charge, Servant of Vice, Astral Splendor
Items: Summoned Armor, Apoli's Sun Blessing, Madstone x2, Healing Potion x2, Potion of Cure Light Wounds x2, Symbol of Scorned Fate, Apoli's Sun Blessing, Vanguard Weapon, Ring of the Radiant Storm
Notes: *Charge attacks don't provoke OAs, deal +1d6+1d8 damage, and can shift 1 after the attack *Roll radiant damage twice and take the highest *+8 damage with CA *+2 damage vs bloodied *1/round take 6 damage while have THP to deal +6 damage on next attack *+5 power bonus to next attack roll against first enemy to bloody *DR 10 TenT on AP *Save vs daze/stun at start of turn *Gain CA first round of combat

Serras, Spirit Tiger (Displacer Beast) Companion
Passive Perception: 14, Passive Insight: 14
AC: 29, Fort:23, Reflex: 27, Will:27 -- Speed:7
HP:48/48, Bloodied:24, Surge Value:12
MBA: +17 vs AC, 1d8+6 damage and gains concealment TenT.
Notes: *Allies adjacent to Serras gain +1 defenses *Enemies adjacent to Serras grant CA[/sblock]