(IC) DND 3.5 Enter Planescape

Luke Cinder

Sticking to the main thoroughfares is the best way to move through the Hive. The side alleys twist like a razorvine, hiding things you’d much rather see coming from three streets away. Best not to let the Hive surprise you; it has a habit of doing that only once. Out here, the air is thick with the stink of too many bodies and too few honest intentions.
You’ve got all manner of denizens drifting through the muck:
Fortune tellers who read omens; Cagestruck bodies who wandered in through the wrong Door and haven’t stopped panicking since; Locals who’ve lived here long enough to be half-feral, moving in packs for safety. Then there are the plane touched swaggering about like they own the place, their tempers as short as their knives; Madmen muttering philosophy to the shadows; and the occasional dustman dragging a half-dead body to the Mortuary because business is business.
Every one of them knows something about someone, but none of them talk for free and even when they do, you can’t trust a word. Still, you already know where your mark holes up. What you need now is information and in the Hive, the only way to get that is to sift through its people just like they sift through its refuse, never sure which scrap will cut you and which will pay off.
You may roll up to twice on a gather information; each roll is accompanied by a d4+1 hours required for the search. If you decide to roll twice word may get around of your questioning.
 

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Mr. Black
Perception: 4
Sense Motive: 2
Search: 5
AC: 14;
FF: 13;
Touch: 11
Spell Slots"
0: [X] [] [] [] []
1st: [] [] [] []
HP: 8
Init: 1
Fort: 2
Ref: 1
Will: 2
Buffs
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none-


Mr. Black stays calm, running options through his mind as the best way to deal with this person.

Is he a threat?

They're obviously in some kind of slum. He's used to slums.

He relaxes so as not to look like a threat. He raises his arms up,

"Listen, mate, you gots me mixed up with some other...biter..."

Trying hard to use the local lingo. It's obviously Common Tongue so even magic won't be able to translate it. He just needs to learn the dialect. Fast.

"You look like hell, yerself. How you gonna get to your lathly house like that? You'll stumble into some gutter an' get your throat cut. Then it'll be them,"

He points to the robed men across the way,

"takin' you away. Listen, mate, look at me! I ain't got nothin' to do. I might as well get'cha home first, before you... earn me that page."

He's not sure if any of the stuff he said made sense but he offers his hand out as a truce.



Okay!

I think Lathly is a swear word?
Not sure what Earn a Page means but I think it means to beat me up.
biter? just an insult?
Not sure what Styx is...other than he's an Aasimar and maybe that's an insult?

Anyways, I'm trying for a diplomacy check here:
The guy is hammered and I'm making a guess that he's about to walk home. We're in dangerous slums so walking home alone drunk is a dangerous thing that anyone in the slum would know is a death wish (or inviting yourself to be mugged). So I'm offering to help him make sure he gets home.

diplomacy: 1D20+5 = [17]+5 = 22
Long term plan is to have a 'safe' place for the night and mine this guy for information.
 
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