Heroes, Inc., Day 1: Mysterious Strangers

[Hawkeye]

"A moment to confer," Fin says to Goran, and draws his companions away to speak privately.

"It's a lot of money," he states simply. "It could be a trick... though I don't think it is. It could be a mistaken prophecy, in which case it's money wasted. It could be for real, but the city might take down a demon with or without an ancient binding spell. Or it could be that this is the only thing that will keep some overfiend from wiping Waterdeep off the map."

"My instinct is to buy it. What are your thoughts?"

"The chance of being wrong about their intentions outweighs that of being right, so we should buy this spell. We certainly need to negotiate the price down. They did say the price starts at 50,000 gold. I will assist as much as I can"

OOC: Assist on Diplomacy checks.

Hawkeye

 

[Steve Gorak]

Ok, so new groupings:
Still unchosen:
Murdoch, Dyria (just post which group you are in)

Murdoch will stay with Kaarlo and go with the Forensics team.

OCC: Sorry about the delay, I was travelling on business and didn't have net access. I'm all cought up now and will be able to post 1x/day (in th evenings) this week.

Upon hearing Timrin's word Kaarlo tries to blend in (not hide) with the crowd.

Murdoch, having kept quiet till now, will stand next to Timmin to lend help to try to influence the guards.

OCC: Diplomacy +12, Intimidate +19

 

[Hypersmurf]

"The chance of being wrong about their intentions outweighs that of being right, so we should buy this spell. We certainly need to negotiate the price down. They did say the price starts at 50,000 gold. I will assist as much as I can"

"It may be non-negotiable," Fin notes. "If we end up saving the city from calamity, I think the authorities would make good on our expenses. But if it's a hoax... well, the amount will drain our coffers to the limit. It's a big gamble."

 

[kirinke]

"A moment to confer," Fin says to Goran, and draws his companions away to speak privately.

"It's a lot of money," he states simply. "It could be a trick... though I don't think it is. It could be a mistaken prophecy, in which case it's money wasted. It could be for real, but the city might take down a demon with or without an ancient binding spell. Or it could be that this is the only thing that will keep some overfiend from wiping Waterdeep off the map."

"My instinct is to buy it. What are your thoughts?"

"If it's a choice between loosing alot of coin and alot of innocent lives, I go with the loss of coin any day of the week personally. We can always charge the nobles for the cost of the scroll later. I say we buy it and worry about the paynote later. We can always earn more coin." she looks serious for a moment. "I don't believe in coincidence. We should take the gods offer of help now, I think." she says, indicating that this scroll may be the gods way of giving them an edge without interfering in their free will.

 

[Hypersmurf]

"If it's a choice between loosing alot of coin and alot of innocent lives, I go with the loss of coin any day of the week personally. We can always earn more coin."

"Noble sentiments, and they echo my own," Fin agrees with the newcomer, "but to be fair, it's not your coin we're gambling with... unless you have a spare ten thousand lying about spare?"

 

[kirinke]

She thinks for a moment, rummaging around in the bag at her side, coming up with a heavy platinum chain. Hanging from it is a medallion made of the same metal and inlaid with semiprecious stones. "This is a necklace of adaptation, a powerful and useful bit of magic, easily worth 9,000 gold. I hate to loose it, but it may help with the costs." she smiles. "Like I said, I don't like sitting idly by when the lives of innocents are at stake." she grins at Fin, handing him the necklace.

It's not quite ten thousand coin, but I can live without it. It's only money. She thinks to herself. Acquiring that item had been an adventure in of itself. A rather life-threatening one.

 

[Hypersmurf]

"If we save the world, I'll buy you a new one," Fin assures the girl, closing a gloved hand about the necklace.

"Dyria? Crimson? Should we go for this?"

 

[kirinke]

"If we save the world and survive, I'll crack open that bottle of Moon Drop wine I've been saving for a special occasion." she grins at the druid. "If you're nice, I'll share it,"

 

[Falkus]

"If I wasn't such a good natured person," Dyria grwoled, a frown upon her face. "I'd start the negotiations by killing one of them, and threatening to do it to the others. People like this, who barter human lives for money, really put a strain on my beliefs of the sanctity of life." She looked up at the ceiling for a few seconds, then back at Fin. "Lacking a better option, I say we go for it. If it turns out to be a fake, we come back here, and take our money out of their hide, with interest.

 

[Keia]

Crimson (Female 'Human' Psion) AC:26 HPs: 66 PPs: 141

"Dyria? Crimson? Should we go for this?[/COLOR]"

Crimson shrugged, "I'm not a great judge of character on the spot, I prefer to study someone for a while from afar . . . so I don't know and can't check if we should trust them. Convenient I would say. However, as said by others the consequences of buying it and having it be worthless is far less than not buying and having it be needed."

OOC: Spot +28, if needed to notice anything.