[GRIM TALES] Wulf Ratbane's SLAVELORDS of CYDONIA

[BryonD]

Haskins and Rawley are about equal on Bluff (unless Rawley gets time to study his opponent), so either one of us can support that and assist each other, as needed. Man! They should be running cons together instead of traipsing through the jungle on some damn fool crusade. (not sure which one of us is the concerned brother and which is the spanish prisoner).

If we're gonna talk straight stats off of char sheets, then I'll give you a nudge about using some intuition about A) bashing the chest and B) sneaking off in general. You got a 50/50 shot at the save and with an action point its better than even. What other three things will you need it for today?

 

[Fenris]

Haskins and Rawley are about equal on Bluff (unless Rawley gets time to study his opponent), so either one of us can support that and assist each other, as needed. Man! They should be running cons together instead of traipsing through the jungle on some damn fool crusade. (not sure which one of us is the concerned brother and which is the spanish prisoner).

Who says we ain't? How do you think this traveling circus got paid for, corpses?

Listen, why don't we sneak off into the jungle and run away. You know away from the scary blue light, the hiding monsters and dinosuars we haven't found, the pits we haven't fallen down.

But if you all are so eager to go rushing to your deaths, well, I'll hold the rope.

Mind you if we do con our way in, then Piggy will be mighty peeved at us and may not treat us so nicely back at camp. Right now we are guests not prisoneers (well as such). We could jeapordize that by some damn-fool con that is supposed to get us what exactly?

I think the best way is along the lines Byron has been getting at and use Brig's "talents" to get us in. Either through flim-flam or pure scholarship.

My best idea: Demand to see the Doc. March over there en masse if needed and demand to see him. Then say that Brig wants her stone back. He has said it was our, but couldn't leave the valley. Fine, let's take it and go find our own blue-light-freaky-death-bringing thingy, or at least tell him that. It's our stone and he's using it with out regard for us. Now do we have much leverage? No. But there'll be a damn-sight fewer guards there than at camp

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Haskins and Rawley are about equal on Bluff (unless Rawley gets time to study his opponent), so either one of us can support that and assist each other, as needed.

If you work a con together, and you both roll, we'll take the higher roll and, provided the other result is at least a 10, add +2.

 

[Hjorimir]

OOC: Bill is willing to go along with any plan really. As far as bluffing goes, Bill is okay at +3, but if we do actually decide to intimidate Bill has a stare of death at +6, which may help us in a jam, but will probably hurt us down the road if we have to bully our way through.

 

[nakia]

Well, I don' t think Brigitta will just let us run off into the woods and go home. Besides, what fun is that? We could, however, try to see what the natives have to say about this little opperation and get some more info from them. I'm not sure if any of them speak English or not.

Teddy will gladly go get the other chest and smash it open, if that's what needs to be done (i.e. if that's what Brigitta wants. Teddy is such a sucker.) But I am not sure we really need to. The doctor and Malouz have been gone for over a day. They could be dead or worse, which helps our chance of bluffing them considerably.

Teddy's intimidate is a 6 as well. Between Teddy's show of meaty arms and Bill's stare of death, we're pretty scary.

 

[Old One]

[OOC: I think our best bet is just to march down to the site and ask to speak with Dr. Parthenis. I don't know that we need to get all tricky right now...it is a simple request. If asked why, we are concerned that they have been gone so long and want to offer our assistance and skills to help expedite the process so we can go home.

Simple and straightforward. If we are rebuffed, then we can go with the "we have new information that Dr. Parthenis will absolutely want to see" tact...]

~ OO

 

[BryonD]

Sounds like a plan.

Perhaps Brigitta has had a vision that the Doc and fat man are dead. Or will be soon.....
We're only trying to help.

Let's go.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

The doctor and Malouz have been gone for over a day. They could be dead or worse, which helps our chance of bluffing them considerably.

Unless I lost track, not quite a day, yet.

You guys were at the archway yesterday evening. You came back and retired here, ate, slept, tried to concoct poison. Dr. Parthenis (you assume) worked through the night.

The next morning Brigitta botched another batch, you had breakfast, but had to scrounge for lunch. It's getting on into the afternoon of the second day but it's not yet been quite 24 hours since the (apparently underwhelming) spectacle of the archway blazing with blue light was set before you.

Last chance for anyone to update before I update based on your current plan of marching down and demanding to see the Doctor. If that is the plan, anybody who is doing any talking should pretty much just hit me with a Diplomacy or Bluff check as the signal for me to update.

By the way, I mentioned above briefly how I handle cooperative skill checks. I do this for any kind of skill check where everyone is attempting essentially the same task. You all roll. I take the highest result and add +2 (as Aid Another) for anyone else who gets at least DC10.

The same kind of process would apply if two or three guys are making STR checks to force a door, etc.

In this particular instance (talking your way past the guards) I might impose a penalty for "bad check results" if too many of you pitch in at once-- overwhelming force does have its limits when we're talking blather.

Ok-- back to you guys...

 

[Old One]

[OOC: Boy, do I need to read my PC sheet...

Wulf, Brig has a +11 in Disable Device, not +9, so the "take 10" on the chests are 21 and the real rolls were 22 (11+11) and 31 (20+11)...don't know if that makes any difference.

Also, I thought they had been gone longer than 24 hours as well...patience isn't one of Brigitta's virtues, so she will probably want to push ahead with a visit, but can certainly be dissuaded. She is definitely a bit worried that the native lunch woman failed to show up and is certain something bad is about to happen.]

~ OO

 

[nakia]

Do we go this afternoon or wait until morning and see what happens?