[FR]Against the Storm

[Thanee]

Don't ask me!

But what about Calim? Isn't Ravin around, too?

He might not be posting as frequent as you two, but from my browsing through the main thread I have found Ravin being quite present in the last few scenes as well. Not nearly as much as Elone or Ubaar, tho. Same with shaff (Rannos).

Bye
Thanee

 

[DM_Matt]

The email address in my profile was not up-to-date. I have reactivated it.

 

[Thanee]

Gah! I tohught I posted last night...and it didn't take. Ok, lesse, redoing it...

Thank you! The boards are really weird sometimes...

Hey Matt! I hope I'm not too annoying, but I need to know better what happened... a few things you wrote don't seem to fit with the earlier occurances... Please, let me elaborate!

The guards glow and emit faint dark blue pulses of energy. Rahja turns back into a human from a pixie.

Can Rahja discern (Spellcraft?), what they did? Area dispel?

Rahja touches the halfling and the last prisoner, and they wind up outside.

The halfling probably is Danilo here, right? As the halfling has been left outside already in the first escape!

Just then, a carriage races by, followed by a cage-cart. Both bear the holy symbol of Talos, goddess of plagues. A human woman on a black horse is chasing them from behind. She is wearing a blue cloak, and you see long blonde hair flowing out the edges of her hood. In one hand, she holds a gold staff with dragon heads carved on each end. The two horse-drawn vehicles stop suddenly outside the Excelsior Trading Company Building that you just left, as another owman on a black horse, this time a drow with a very long white-wood staff with a huge array of gems on top. Ten guards and a robed cleric get out of the vehicles and draw weapons. Eight guards from inside the building appear right behind you. The cleric says to the guards "TRAITORS!! DECIEVERS!!! You set us up!" One of the guards answers "INCOMPETANT FOOL, you led them here. <to the other guards> recover the prisoners." The Talosans face off against the two riders, who dismount and wave their staves.

Ok, to quickly recap what happened...

Rahja used Dimension Door spells to get two prisoners and the halfling out of the prison (as she can only bring three medium-sized creatures along with her).

She left them 800' away from the building (not right outside)!
How can guards from inside the building appear right behind us?

Then she headed back to retrieve the last two prisoners and Danilo, where the guards intervened and we didn't continue yet...

When is the above happening?

I suppose, after Rahja got out of the building the second time (with Danilo, not the halfling, and the last two prisoners)?
So did her last Dimension Door spells succeed as described, without the two guards harrassing her further (except for dispelling her Polymorph spell)? That's good to hear!

So, is the above scene happening right before the building (a couple hundred feet away from the group)?

Bye
Thanee

 

[Mithreander]

Woof, I have to agree as to my confusion also, and will edit my last post accordingly as soon as everything is clear.

 

[Mithreander]

I think, at this point, a summary of events would be nice indeed! THings are jumping around to much for me to make an acurate post. If at all possible, she would have cast her 'pumping' spells, if Ines had been left up above previously. If not, then I'll keep her actions as they are.

Yes, a summary would be very nice.

 

[Thanee]

I've posted now, but I did ignore a few passages of the above (mainly the guards being nearby, because that really shouldn't be the case).

Here's again, where Rahja's Dimension Door spells were aimed at:

Rahja thinks of a decent direction in which to flee from here. Thinking about this, she tries to determine - if that is in any way possible - from what she has seen here, from which direction the carriage had come to the house. This is the direction, she will flee to. If there is no way to derive this direction from the information she has, she will ask Danilo, he should know at least.

...

If the halfling accepts, Rahja will cast silenced Dimension Door three times in rapid succession, taking the halfling with her and landing next to another prisoner, taking that one with them and landing next to yet another prisoner and finally moving full distance into the direction she has decided upon earlier.

Full distance is 800', not just 50'!

Bye
Thanee

 

[Thanee]

Yes, a summary would be very nice.

I can at least summarize from my pov!

Rahja was meeting the five gentlemen in Waterdeep.
Ines - for some reason - was there, too, listening at the door.
Later Rahja left with the gentlemen entering a carriage.
Meanwhile Ines was addressed by that strange fellow and then beaten unconscious outside.
Rahja got heavily drunk and was brought into the carriage, driving off to Skullport, upon their arrival, she was also beaten unconscious.
Both awakened in their cells.
Rahja cast Dominate Person on Danilo and found out a lot of what was happening from him.
She robbed the treasury, also aquiring Ines stuff, using his information.
She then investigated the prison area to find Ines and 4 other (sleeping/unconscious) prisoners.
Using a few Dimension Door spells, Rahja brought Ines and two of the prisoners to a place roughly 800' away from the prison, somewhere on the road from Skullport to Waterdeep, I guess.
Using more Dimension Door spells, she fetched the remaining two prisoners and Danilo, having a bit of trouble with the prison guards (who seem to be more than they look like!).
Outside, they see the two wagons now (the Talosans are early, as it seems, they were only expected in a few hours by Danilo at least) and the ensuing chaos breaking loose.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Mithreander]

Thxs, that's what I figured, but DM+Matt seems to have a different interpratation. Let's see what his is.

 

[Thanee]

I believe he missed the above part, which I repeated, that Rahja wanted to clear as much distance as possible from the building... other than that, everything looks pretty fine, I guess!

Bye
Thanee

 

[Thanee]

Mithreander, I believe - judging from his posts - that Matt currently posts in quite a hurry (he also wrote in the other IC thread, that his time is rather limited right now), thereby missing some parts of our posts (like that Ines has been hiding herself).

About your questions, I guess he considered them answered by my post already, where I quoted the part with the Talosans. I really think they are quite dead there.

Bye
Thanee