Gaming W/Jemal: Planar Quest IC (Prologue)

[Voda Vosa]

"You want someone big that appears dumb? There are no better candidates than ogres, I say." Tutek says with a sheepish grin. "Indeed master, you do a great interpretation of a dumb ogre, you got me fooled all this time." the chain speaks up, before Tutek shakes it angrily.

 

[Scott DeWar]

*snort*"I have to agree with tutec about that."

 

[D'Raven]

"Get there within the day?" Darrian chuckles. "We can get any where. I'm part the teleport network, there's a circle here. Using that we can instantly go to any part of the Bazaar, that isn't protected that is."


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[Shayuri]

"Given the stakes, I don't think splitting up is the best course," Mei-Ying opines. "We have no idea what we're stepping into. And negotiations will be aided if we have strength to back up our demands."

"I will not be shopping, but I have no objection to waiting while the rest of you do."

She regards Ur and nods at him. "I want to hear more about your thoughts about your goddess and the Power, but perhaps for now we should stay focused on the immediate task at hand. Especially since information in all our minds will be more vulnerable, considering who we will be treating with."

 

[Scott DeWar]

OOC: I sure wish my character could cast mind blank. blah

 

[Binder Fred]

"Get there within the day?" Darrian chuckles. "We can get any where. I'm part the teleport network, there's a circle here. Using that we can instantly go to any part of the Bazaar, that isn't protected that is."

"Get that here," carefully articulates the dwarf with a significant look at the cup of red wine in Darrian's hand (at breakfast no less). "The magical protection against mind-prying. Times three if three are going."

<Response Darrian?>

She regards Ur and nods at him. "I want to hear more about your thoughts about your goddess and the Power, but perhaps for now we should stay focused on the immediate task at hand. Especially since information in all our minds will be more vulnerable, considering who we will be treating with."

Ur grunts assent, adding a slashing, negative gesture on significant results so far anyways... which he follows, unexpectedly enough, by a rare, almost childlike smile twisting the edges of his mouth, lighting up the fires under his bushy eyebrows: "She was so *real*, Ying. Like all the rest of the world, we're just... rough strokes on a piece of parchment. She- She was the world." You know what I mean? he asks with a look to her and Braham.

OOC: Please see the OOC thread for a discussion on tactics.

 

[D'Raven]

Darrian lets out a sigh, "I guess it would be best if we all went together then. While i believe you can never be too cautious, the mind protection for dealing with the Illithid might be a bit much. With so any beings immune or protected from mind effecting abilities they get kinda cocky and never notice they are mined for information in more classic methods. Protecting your thoughts doesn't do much when they can read your face." Darrian notices Ur's displeasure and sticks out his tongue. "Relax it's mostly watered down with juice. If one smells liqueur on the opposing party's breath they have a tendency to under estimate them. Also a word of warning about the gods. Yes they are real out here, 'Realer' then back where you came from. They can actually act on their own here, they are not limited to acting through clerics or secondary agents. It is not unheard of, not common place mind you, that a god to visit the Bazaar in the immortal flesh. Which means at some point if we make the wrong choices and a god steps in our way it could just very well be 'the god that steps in our way."'


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[Binder Fred]

Darrian lets out a sigh, "[..] Also a word of warning about the gods. Yes they are real out here, 'Realer' then back where you came from. They can actually act on their own here, they are not limited to acting through clerics or secondary agents. It is not unheard of, not common place mind you, that a god to visit the Bazaar in the immortal flesh. Which means at some point if we make the wrong choices and a god steps in our way it could just very well be 'the god that steps in our way."

Ur shrugs: "We weren't aware They couldn't back home." So it makes little difference. Except to make him glad they *did* come here after all!

He pushes back from the table, ready to go.


OOC: Which I'm guessing (finally ) activates Jemal's post about the trip over there. Reposted below for simplicity's sake:

With that, the group ventures out of the compound, into the Bazaar itself.
From this angle, it looks like any other merchant crossing, though it stretches as far as anybody can see in all directions. Tents and stalls line the pathways, interspersed among other more permanent seeming structures: Stone and wood buildings, Shacks, Towers, complexes like Darrian's.. After several minutes of walking, they pass buildings and stalls selling more than they could have guessed, and many products whose use they couldn't - or in some cases, didn't want to - imagine.

Most of the larger, more permanent buildings don't appear to be 'selling' anything, one in particular rises a hundred feet and appears to be made of nothing but glass. Through the clear walls, they see figures moving about in odd suits carrying papers. The sign out front says "Wolfram and Heart", and there is a good 10 foot clearing around it: No stalls, shacks, or anything - A seeming oddity, as the only open space they've seen thus far has been for traffic. The place practically radiates evil magical vibes.

"Shatter spell?" suggests Ur, already matter-of-factly eying the place with a builder's eye for structural weaknesses...

<Response Any? Oh, and Stonemason +15, Architecture +5 >

Fortunately, the Mind Flayer that Darrian is leading them to is relatively close, and it only takes about 20 minutes of walking through the endlessly confusing, twisting streets before they arrive at an odd circular building. It appears to be a Mithril Saucer, 60 feet in diameter, resting on the ground with no apparent foundations. There is a metalic ramp leading up to an open doorway, and the sign above says in various languages "Savant Neurosciences"

The dwarven monk, first to arrive by a few leisurely lengths of his ground-eating pace, stops across the street from the large oval entrance.

"Braham, you going in?" he asks when the others catch up, calmly adjusting his bracers for the upcoming action.

<Response Braham?>


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ALL: Is there anything you would like to do/investigate/buy before heading into the Illithid Lab?

Has Ur puchased that Blindfold add-on to his goggles yet or not?[/sblock]

 

[kinem]

"Oh, I don't like the looks of this" Braham says after taking a long look at the structure. "A man would have to be crazy to go in there. Sure, I'm in."

[sblock=ooc]detect magic; standard 24 hr buffs (See the Unseen, Fell Flight, Voidsense)[/sblock]

 

[Binder Fred]

Ur smirks in reply, teeth showing in the dark of his beard: no matter what, Braham wasn't the League's founder for nothing.

He gestures after you with the same expression, ready to follow.

OOC: Ur activates Psionic Freedom of Movement (7PP) and Body Equilibrium (3PP). Both have a duration of 90 minutes, which should cover us, I think.