[GRIM TALES] Wulf Ratbane's SLAVELORDS of CYDONIA

[Fenris]

When Sutu leaves, or if there are bars on the door through which he can speak, or if the door has been left ajar:

Haskins address the guards, in his best Sli'ess, searching for the best term, he wavers between the english equivalent of soldier and warrior, and thinking warrior has more esteem here uses that.

"Warriors, how goes it with our master? We wish to aid him and are no friends to Vert’jaal. What will happen? What news can you tells us?"

Diplomacy:
Diploamcy to speak to the guards (1d20+9=13)

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Though he marveled at the feeling of actually laying on a real bed, or as real as these reptiles could manage, Rawley dragged himself up and moved back into the main room. Seeing Sutu, fear flared in his belly, and he knew they had to get out of here. The man looked like a zombie shuffling through some hellish unlife.

"Sutu," he said, approaching him. "What's wrong, buddy? What's going on in this house?"

OOC: He'll try to study him for a full minute. I'm using Diplomacy for the questions, but Sense Motive with Empathy bonus is his goal if he can get the full minute of study:

http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=536269

Diplomacy = 8...
Sense Motive = 25 (that includes the empathy +3....-3 if I don't get the full minute).

Nah, I think you have a minute to study him.

You don't get any kind of answer from him. His thoughts seem to be elsewhere, actually.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

When Sutu leaves, or if there are bars on the door through which he can speak, or if the door has been left ajar:

Haskins address the guards, in his best Sli'ess, searching for the best term, he wavers between the english equivalent of soldier and warrior, and thinking warrior has more esteem here uses that.

"Warriors, how goes it with our master? We wish to aid him and are no friends to Vert’jaal. What will happen? What news can you tells us?"

Diplomacy:
Diploamcy to speak to the guards (1d20+9=13)

Haskins sidled over to the open door while the slave was at work, to have words with the crocs.

"Warriors, how goes it with our master? We wish to aid him and are no friends to Vert’jaal. What will happen? What news can you tells us?"

The bru laughed derisively.

"The slave is no friend to Vert'jaal? Vert'jaal, the Empire's most feared slave hunter? You don't say!"

The other bru quickly cut his laughter short and slammed the door shut as the Sutu slave departed.

"Show some respect, vermin! Vert'jaal is the honored cousin of your master, upon whose sole beneficence you continue to draw breath!"

 

[BryonD]

Well, it's confirmed that the auto-notification isn't working. Glad I checked in.

Brigitta, you don't notice any outward signs of damage.

CRAP!!!!

I'm sorry. Wulf is quite right and I just stupidly assumed things were still lagging.

Joshua snaps out of his daze over the sudden change in fortunes.
We went out of the frying pan and into the fire already. Exactly where is it we've gone from the fire to?


Trying to find any opening he does his best to read the guards as Haskins speaks.
Any sign of impending execution or any slightest hint of uncertainty or even tiny respect coming from the guards. Obviously they don't respect us, but I'm thinking we may be more valueable than even before. And us getting hurt could be really bad for the guards? Any hint of anything along those lines?
Sense motive: guards reaction to Haskins (1d20+14=25)

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

CRAP!!!!

I'm sorry. Wulf is quite right and I just stupidly assumed things were still lagging.

Joshua snaps out of his daze over the sudden change in fortunes.
We went out of the frying pan and into the fire already. Exactly where is it we've gone from the fire to?


Trying to find any opening he does his best to read the guards as Haskins speaks.
Any sign of impending execution or any slightest hint of uncertainty or even tiny respect coming from the guards. Obviously they don't respect us, but I'm thinking we may be more valueable than even before. And us getting hurt could be really bad for the guards? Any hint of anything along those lines?
Sense motive: guards reaction to Haskins (1d20+14=25)

You don't get any kind of a read off the guards in that direction, no.

You can tell that they seem nervous about Vert'jaal's presence and despite their kind words, they don't seem to like him much, either. But you don't need a DC25 Sense Motive check to chalk that up to the usual internecine tension of the sli'ess-- House to House, cousin to cousin-- hell, you just came away from a dinner party where it's entirely possible the son tried to assassinate his mother.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

We're lagging again. I recommend that everyone delete your old subscription to the thread and resub.

 

[Fenris]

Haskins sidled over to the open door while the slave was at work, to have words with the crocs.

"Warriors, how goes it with our master? We wish to aid him and are no friends to Vert’jaal. What will happen? What news can you tells us?"

The bru laughed derisively.

"The slave is no friend to Vert'jaal? Vert'jaal, the Empire's most feared slave hunter? You don't say!"

The other bru quickly cut his laughter short and slammed the door shut as the Sutu slave departed.

"Show some respect, vermin! Vert'jaal is the honored cousin of your master, upon whose sole beneficence you continue to draw breath!"

"So the Slave Hunter huh? I wonder if he is jealous of his cousin's slaves? This power struggle will not go well for us if Vert'jaal comes out on top." surmises Haskins.

In a lower voice "Did anyone manage to nick anything from the party that we could use?"

 

[BryonD]

We're lagging again. I recommend that everyone delete your old subscription to the thread and resub.

That seems to work for me. But maybe we need to track others down to let them know.

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

I've been keeping track, but I'm on GenCon hiatus till Monday.

 

[ragboy]

I'm here....