Heroes, Inc - Heroic Mercs in FR OOC Thread

[DM_Matt]

DM - are we able to pick up our expenses from Peregion's accountant before the festivities tonight?

25k for the company fund;
9k for Alethia's necklace (she's already been paid back - this would split as another 1k for PCs, 500gp for cohorts).
16k for Fin's bracers (not already paid back - oops!)

Yes.

 

[DM_Matt]

Re: Permanent Antimagic Field



Do we have any contacts in Castle Waterdeep, and do we know if they ever rent unoccupied cells out to people who want a magic-free conference?

Aleena could help you out with that. She lives there, and wit her father dead will be temporarily in charge of it until they choose a new open lord.

 

[DM_Matt]

We really need to figure out what to do. I'm thinking false vision and some sort of illusion that makes it seem like the main players are heading off to the boat. If nothing else, it will confuse the issue. Then we do some serious scrying. We should look for 3 things. One, places where the vision is obscured. Two, where there is a high concentration of evil and activity which wasn't there before and three places that seem to be vacant, places where lowlifes should be and usually are, but aren't. The underworld, both criminal and supernatural ususually know something baad is up before the authorities and vacate the premises before they become sacrificial bait.

1. There are a decent number of those places in Waterdeep, almost all of them being either definately secure or places where investigating means fighting whoever is there.

2. Scrying for evil auras throughought a large city isn't really feasible.

 

[kirinke]

Possibly. It could be his daughter. Or it could be a rat-bastard DM move to make us turn around in a funny pierroette.

Not individual evil auras persae, but a concentration of evil, something that really pops. If nothing else, it would make us investigate it to rule it out. Plus, we could also look for those places that we should be able to scry but can't and those areas that look far too innocent and normal (hinting at false vision). Mostly going by instinct here, but basically things that look really off in certain areas. I would concentrate on places like the light house. Places where the victims can safely scream their heads off without drawing undue attention and where we can't scry into.

 

[DM_Matt]

DM - one of the things Fin definitely wants to do today is a regressive Object Reading on the garage-door opener, to see if one of the owners before Alath was Al-Hulath.

If so, try using it as a scrying focus to scry on him.

Owners:
Alath
Garan
Garan got it from an entity referred to as "The Emissary." indeterminate intellegent undead race and indeterminate gender, CE, seems to have made the device him/her/itself.

Whoever it is is behind a powerful scrying shield.

 

[DM_Matt]

Hyp beat me to it a bit.

I would gladly chip in 5-6k for the wand/staff, and possibly more.

If we have time to prepare, 7 minutes should be plenty of duration. If not... the more costly Scarab or Bone Ring (from MoF) is the only way to go. Many (including myself) will not be able to afford one however.

I would like to chip in for the Wand and perhaps a few scrolls of Greater Restoration (4775 gp each - ouch) or Restoration (800 gp each).

Ah-ha! Pending DMs permission I may have another solution - add Deathward ability (MoF) to an existing set of armor. It is a +2 equivalent cost adder. It basically is a contingency Deathward effect - the 1st time you are exposed to a death/negetive energy attack each day the armor instantly activates a deathward spell for 70 minutes.

This is a 3E book and the duration for Deathward has changed from 10 min/ level to 1 min/ level. If the duration of the effect is lessened it might also be fair to reduce the cost.

DM-Matt do you have any thoughts regarding this ability and if it's even available?

Frostrune

I'd allow it at +2 with the shorter duration. It activates automaticallys when first needed in a day, and usually thats a fight that will be over in less than seven minutes. Regardless, it isnt a good enough decrease to drop it to +1. Its still a +2, just a slightly weaker one than before.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Al-Hulath
Alath

Coincidence?

Yeah, I noticed that the first time Alath mentioned Al-Hulath's name... I'm not sure.

Between Alath, Al-Hulath, Aleena, and Alethia, today's episode was brought to you by the letter 'Al'...

-Hyp.

 

[Keia]

I'd allow it at +2 with the shorter duration. It activates automaticallys when first needed in a day, and usually thats a fight that will be over in less than seven minutes. Regardless, it isnt a good enough decrease to drop it to +1. Its still a +2, just a slightly weaker one than before.

How about 2/day, then?

Keia

 

[Hypersmurf]

OK. Now I am confused. Do I have 21,500 or 10,750?

21,500 (but see below).

If we sold everything, at half price, we'd end up with enough money for everyone to get 38,000 gp.

But we didn't sell everything. You, for example, didn't sell the ring, the gloves, the headband, or the ki straps. These are worth 33,000 if you wanted to buy them new... but since we can only sell them for half price, the fact that you are keeping them means that we miss out on 16,500 gp that we could have sold them for.

Thus, your share (38,000) is docked 16,500, leaving 21,500gp in your hands.

... except that it's now 22,500, since we were reimbursed 9,000 by Peregion's crew, giving us an extra 1k each.

-Hyp.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Re: Expense claim

Yes.

Okay - I'll add the extra to the split.

-Hyp.