IC: Dichotomy's Age of Worms Redux, Part V(b)

[Dichotomy]

Eligos nods. "Make yourselves comfortable, then. Please, enjoy the food. Pollard will take care of any needs you have. I will return as soon as I can find some news." With that, the sage a cloak from the manservant and departs.

Nethezar quickly downs some of the food and begins working on the hair clip. About an hour later, the scholar gives a chuckle. "Now I know why you saw the guard change appearance." Nethezar puts the clip in his hair, and after a moment, a scar covers half his face. Another moment later, he appears to be a female elf. After another moment, he's a human is full armor.

"It works just like the spell I use, except that you can use it over and over. This will be helpful today."

Shortly after that, Eligos returns. "It is better than I had anticipated. The three guards still alive have already reported to their superiors that someone had enchanted them and given them a magic trinket to create a disguise. I made no mention of it, but surely the illithid was responsible for the entire thing. Not wanting word to spread of the guards being compromised, and knowing that whomever killed that guard must have been defending himself, there is already a plan in being made. They intend to sweep the whole thing under the rug. Of course, that requires them not asking any questions to find the three of you. I'm sure there is more to it than that, but I doubt the details matter. You may still want to use some discretion and disguise, but the guards should not be actively looking for you."
[sblock=OOC]The hair clip is a hat of disguise.

I THINK that Erd has a better chance of being able to activate the scroll. It requires a caster level check, and Neth's is only the equivalent of half his level, rather than his full level (from the magic domain).[/sblock]

 

[o3caudata]

[sblock=oc]We'll let Erd take it then. She's the one who'll need it anyway(i think)[/sblock]

"Convenient for us it would seem. Let's not delay then. We should find your man and his scroll and then see about finding this illithid. And if we can, try to avoid murdering any guards. I can't imagine our luck will hold forever."

"While disguises don't seem necessary are they valuable still? Given these creatures have a permanent window into our minds, superficial changes may not help much. But then again, if we have the ability, we should probably attempt it anyway."

"Any further words of advice, Eligos? If not, let's set to this."

[sblock=oc]It has come to my attention that Kushnak shouldn't have any idea what mind blank actually does. i'm assuming the others do but i'm not sure exactly how much they know so we might actually need to ask Eligos what it does first. if so, we do. [/sblock]

 

[TiCaudata]

"Mind blank is a powerful spell that will protect a person from just about any mental interference. Assuming we succeed in activating the scroll, we will have one day of protection to find the creature. The creature has been focusing on me so far, so it might be in our best interest to give the benefit of the protection to me, but I would be open to other alternatives as well. My knowledge is patchy since I...acquired it in such an unusual fashion. Have I neglected anything important Eligos?"[sblock=oc]I also think Erd should get the mind blank since she has a craptastic will saving throw...

I'm pretty sure that we made a scroll of Darkvision and Invis Sphere, and a scroll of stone shape and shatter. Since the ruse happened that night, we didn't make a scroll of dispel magic and glitterdust, one of water breathing and darkness, or one of remove curse and restorartion lesser. Erd doesn't have the right spells memorized anymore either so we probably can't just take today to make them and then hunt the Illithid tomorrow. Unless we think that spell prep was done last night before the interruption? I was assuming it was done when we finally made camp.[/sblock]

 

[Dichotomy]

Eligos nods toward Erdolliel. "That is what the spell does. I'm sure it will be a large boon against the illithid. I have no other advice to offer."
[sblock=OOC]So, I only have the most dim and vague recollection of the scrolls. I do recall that there was an intention of making them, but I don't remember anything else. As for spell prep, I'm pretty sure we've decided (more than once) that both Kushnak and Nethezar prepare spells in the morning, right?

And I'm getting ready to leave soon. I dunno that it is worth bringing my computer up. So I'm probably not posting until Monday.[/sblock]

 

[o3caudata]

[sblock=oc]I'll admit it i'm dense. I read the above post by Di to mean that he hadn't completed posting (because perhaps something was going to happen or somesuch) and that he would do so on monday... Sorry guys. :s

we did decide that we prep in the morning yes. we should go with having created:

scroll of Darkvision, Invis Sphere, stone shape and shatter[/sblock]

"Very well. That should be of a great boon. I would suggest we disguise ourselves as best we can until we're off the streets. And definitely once we've received and used this scroll. I am ready to leave as soon everyone else is."

[sblock=oc]Probably give Erd or me the clip and play a little dress up like before and then head to the mind blank guy.[/sblock]

 

[TiCaudata]

"Agreed, let's go."[sblock=oc]sounds good on going and one of us being disguised with the "hat" and one of us being disguised with Neth's help. I don't think it particularly matters which is which, but if I'm wrong, Erdollile can will take the "hat".[/sblock]

 

[Dichotomy]

[sblock=OOC]Sorry about the Monday confusion stuff. I assume that Erd is making the darkvision scroll but Neth is making the others?[/sblock]
The trio adopts disguises once more and heads out. Fortunately, either the disguises work, or the guards indeed lost interest in the trio, as they have no trouble moving about.

The first stop is to the market and "The Shoppe." When you first enter, it seems as if you've found the wrong place. Rather than an array of magical tomes, trinkets, and items, the displays all contain rather mundane and mismatched housewares, curtains, used furniture and the like. But when the note is handed to the proprietor, he recognizes it immediately and asks what is needed. He then simply reaches a hand into the small bag on his hips and pulls out a scroll and turns it over.

Nethezar whispers, "If he just happens to have a scroll of such power on his person, it would be interesting to know what else is in that bag. Something tells me we aren't likely to ever find out."

 

[TiCaudata]

"True, but maybe someday we can find our way into it..."[sblock=oc]erd made 1 scroll with both invisibility sphere and darkvision on it. Neth made 1 scroll with the other 2 on it. I'm good with continuing on to Cold Forge.[/sblock]

 

[o3caudata]

"Before we go plotting against him, lets see about our current business...."

"We should use that scroll as soon as possible. And with minimal discussion i think. It will serve us best."

[sblock=oc]assuming it works(and there's no objection) lets head to the cold forge[/sblock]

 

[Dichotomy]

[sblock=OOC]So... ummm... Erd got a 1... So the spell fails. But she got a 10 on the wisdom check. Seriously... you got screwed. Ummm... sorry about that...

So, I dunno if you guys want to do something else...[/sblock]