toasterferret
Explorer
Anna stands from her seat with the rest of the group.
"And I!" she proclaims, her face beaming.
"And I!" she proclaims, her face beaming.
[LPF] Distant Relations
- Thread starter jkason
- Start date
"All Hail Owbej for swift wisdom!" the basso voice of the man in black robes rings out.
"All Hail Owbej!" the gathered faithful parrot back.
The speaker claps his hands together and points to the bar.
"Barkeep! A feast for the newly faithful! We celebrate," he says. The barkeep nods and bows slightly as the men in robes move to the tables.
"The road to purity is a hard one, friends. Tonight, then, you rest and enjoy, for the real work is to begin. Order whatever you like, and the acolytes shall bring it you, compliments of The Living God!"
"I knew this was gonna work out," the previously-sullen half elf says with a smile. He turns to the figure in white robes who approaches him. "If you all are paying? Get me the best honeyed wine this place has, and a hefty steak, eh?"
The masked acolyte bows and moves to the bar, where the barkeep, having heard the order across the small room, runs back to the kitchen.
The three remaining white robes stand ready before the party's table, as the gray robes help the man in black down from the stage.
"All Hail Owbej!" the gathered faithful parrot back.
The speaker claps his hands together and points to the bar.
"Barkeep! A feast for the newly faithful! We celebrate," he says. The barkeep nods and bows slightly as the men in robes move to the tables.
"The road to purity is a hard one, friends. Tonight, then, you rest and enjoy, for the real work is to begin. Order whatever you like, and the acolytes shall bring it you, compliments of The Living God!"
"I knew this was gonna work out," the previously-sullen half elf says with a smile. He turns to the figure in white robes who approaches him. "If you all are paying? Get me the best honeyed wine this place has, and a hefty steak, eh?"
The masked acolyte bows and moves to the bar, where the barkeep, having heard the order across the small room, runs back to the kitchen.
The three remaining white robes stand ready before the party's table, as the gray robes help the man in black down from the stage.
Yoshiki Akita (Human Monk 4)
Yo thinks to himself, "It is not right to prosper off the stolen goods of others, but I must act like I belong with the rest of them. Something light though, I don't want to be sluggish in case something happens." He looks up at the white robed folk standing before the table and says, "I could really go for a nice lobster tail with butter and some steamed mixed vegetables. And a glass of your best white wine." He looks at the others, a look of inquiry on his face.
[sblock=Ministats]Initiative: +4
AC: 19 Touch 19 Flatfooted 14
HP: 28/28
CMB: +8 CMD: 23 Fort: +4 Reflex: +8 Will: +7 (+2 vs. Enchantment)
Defensive Abilities: Evasion, Deflect Arrows
Speed: 40 ft
Conditions in Effect: None
Elemental Fist: 4/4 remaining
Ki Pool: 5/5 remaining
Additional Gear: 1 CLW Potion (Not currently on him)
[/sblock]
Yo thinks to himself, "It is not right to prosper off the stolen goods of others, but I must act like I belong with the rest of them. Something light though, I don't want to be sluggish in case something happens." He looks up at the white robed folk standing before the table and says, "I could really go for a nice lobster tail with butter and some steamed mixed vegetables. And a glass of your best white wine." He looks at the others, a look of inquiry on his face.
[sblock=Ministats]Initiative: +4
AC: 19 Touch 19 Flatfooted 14
HP: 28/28
CMB: +8 CMD: 23 Fort: +4 Reflex: +8 Will: +7 (+2 vs. Enchantment)
Defensive Abilities: Evasion, Deflect Arrows
Speed: 40 ft
Conditions in Effect: None
Elemental Fist: 4/4 remaining
Ki Pool: 5/5 remaining
Additional Gear: 1 CLW Potion (Not currently on him)
[/sblock]
GlassEye
Adventurer
Elenka breathes deeply and lets the air out of her lungs in a rush.
"Ah, all hail Owbej! And I'll take anything, as long as it isn't dried biscuit and salt pork! And a bottle of sweet red wine."
She glances over at the sullen half-orc.
"A steak sounds divine."
[sblock=Actions/OOC]Elenka
Move --
Standard --[/sblock][sblock=MiniStats][size=+1]Elenka[/size] Human Summoner 3
Initiative: +2 Perception: +5
AC: 15 (12 touch; 13 flat-footed)
HP: 23 Current: 23
CMB: +3 CMD: 15 Fort: +1 Ref: +3 Will: +5
In Hand:
Spells:
1st level: 4/4 remaining.
Special: Summon Monster 2 6/6
[size=+1]Drevezh'Korol[/size] Eidolon
Initiative: +1 Perception: +0; Darkvision 60 ft.
AC: 15 (11 touch; 14 flat-footed)
HP: 29 Current: 28
CMB: +7 CMD: 18 Fort: +4 Ref: +2 Will: +3
In Hand:
Conditions: In the Other World[/sblock]
"Ah, all hail Owbej! And I'll take anything, as long as it isn't dried biscuit and salt pork! And a bottle of sweet red wine."
She glances over at the sullen half-orc.
"A steak sounds divine."
[sblock=Actions/OOC]Elenka
Move --
Standard --[/sblock][sblock=MiniStats][size=+1]Elenka[/size] Human Summoner 3
Initiative: +2 Perception: +5
AC: 15 (12 touch; 13 flat-footed)
HP: 23 Current: 23
CMB: +3 CMD: 15 Fort: +1 Ref: +3 Will: +5
In Hand:
Spells:
1st level: 4/4 remaining.
Special: Summon Monster 2 6/6
[size=+1]Drevezh'Korol[/size] Eidolon
Initiative: +1 Perception: +0; Darkvision 60 ft.
AC: 15 (11 touch; 14 flat-footed)
HP: 29 Current: 28
CMB: +7 CMD: 18 Fort: +4 Ref: +2 Will: +3
In Hand:
Conditions: In the Other World[/sblock]
Two of the white robes at your table bow and hustle off to put in Yoshiki and Elenka's orders as the third waits patiently for Quioan and Anna to order. The room is already filling with the aromatic scent of cooking beef as the barkeep hustles about gathering the various wines and placing goblets on trays for the white-robed faithful. The man in black sits at a table only one removed from the new converts, the gray robes moving to serve him themselves.
"Clearly Owbej chooses men and women with good taste!" calls the deep voice as he hears people ordering. "Eat well, my friends, for soon the real work begins!"
"Clearly Owbej chooses men and women with good taste!" calls the deep voice as he hears people ordering. "Eat well, my friends, for soon the real work begins!"
Yoshiki Akita (Human Monk 4)
Okay, here goes nothing...
Yoshiki lifts his newly filled glass of wine in the air and says to the man in black, "All Hail Owbej!" before taking a drink. After sitting the glass down gently, he looks back over at the black robed man and asks as politely as he can, "Kind sir, if you don't mind me asking, what kind of work will our road to self-purity entail?"
[sblock=Ministats]Initiative: +4
AC: 19 Touch 19 Flatfooted 14
HP: 28/28
CMB: +8 CMD: 23 Fort: +4 Reflex: +8 Will: +7 (+2 vs. Enchantment)
Defensive Abilities: Evasion, Deflect Arrows
Speed: 40 ft
Conditions in Effect: None
Elemental Fist: 4/4 remaining
Ki Pool: 5/5 remaining
Additional Gear: 1 CLW Potion
[/sblock]
Okay, here goes nothing...
Yoshiki lifts his newly filled glass of wine in the air and says to the man in black, "All Hail Owbej!" before taking a drink. After sitting the glass down gently, he looks back over at the black robed man and asks as politely as he can, "Kind sir, if you don't mind me asking, what kind of work will our road to self-purity entail?"
[sblock=Ministats]Initiative: +4
AC: 19 Touch 19 Flatfooted 14
HP: 28/28
CMB: +8 CMD: 23 Fort: +4 Reflex: +8 Will: +7 (+2 vs. Enchantment)
Defensive Abilities: Evasion, Deflect Arrows
Speed: 40 ft
Conditions in Effect: None
Elemental Fist: 4/4 remaining
Ki Pool: 5/5 remaining
Additional Gear: 1 CLW Potion
[/sblock]
|
Anna bats her eyelashes at the white robe and asks the acolyte to surprise her. He bows, and rushes to the kitchen.
Food and drink arrive in short order: Succulent steaks for the unnamed half-elf and Elenka, plump roast and veggies for Quioan, lobster drizzled with butter for Yoshiki, and Anna's 'surprise': a small pheasant cooked in aromatic herbs. However unassuming The River's Tears might be, they certainly seem to have a wide variety of cuisine. And, as each person samples the food, tasty cuisine, to boot.
Bottles of white and red wines, as well as a pitcher of chilled water, make their way to the tables, as well, poured for each supplicant by the white-robed acolytes. As the party eats, the black-robed priest picks at a plate of fruits and cheeses and surveys the newcomers.
Partway through the meal, Yoshiki raises his glass and calls to praise Owbej; the assembled robed figures almost instinctively repeat "All hail Owbej." The priest cocks his head to one side a moment, as if considering. The unmoving mask he wears makes the assessment a bit disturbing. Finally, he raises his own glass.
"All hail," he says and carefully drinks through the large frown built into the mask. "The tests of Owbej are many, tests of body and soul, of endurance and loyalty. But the rewards far outstrip the hardships, friend." he offers. As with the street preaching, this priest seems to specialize in speaking much without saying anything.
The half-elf scoffs. "What's it even matter, little man?" he says, gulping down his wine to wash down a particularly large bite as he finishes off his steak. "Life's hard all over the place, so we just take what they dish out, and ... and ..." he doesn't manage to finish his sentence, though. The young man's eyes roll up in his head, and with a groan, he slumps over onto the table, where his attending white-robe stops him from falling fully to the floor.
"Well said, supplicant," the man in the black robes says. "What we've dished out is first food, then sleep. Everyone sleeps, and wakes again ready to earn Owbej's embrace," he finishes, standing and swaying. No, he's not swaying. The room is. Spinning and swaying, darkness moving in at its edges.
Yoshiki's legs give out from under him, but again, an acolyte is there to catch him.
Elenka isn't far behind, slumping to the tabletop, avoiding smacking her forehead by the ready hand of a white robe.
Anna and Quioan barely have time to recognize what's happening before they, too, fall into darkness.
*****
When the world comes back, The River's Tears is long gone. Instead, you each awake on a simple straw mat, scratching at bites from the fleas it clearly contains. You are each in individual, small cells arrayed along one side of a stone corridor. Each cell has iron bars that swing on a hinge, though they are also all locked at the moment.
You barely have time to realize that your gear is all missing before you hear, "Bollocks," coming from a familiar, moody voice. "Should'a known nothin's that good." The half-elf, as well, appears to be locked in one of the cells.
"Ah, but Owbej provides," comes another familiar voice, the deep bass of the priest from the Tears. He comes down the corridor with white-robed acolytes, each bearing a folded white cloth and a bowl of water.
The masked, black-robed priest paces down the narrow stone hallway, looking in each of the cells. “I must apologize for the way that you were brought here,” he begins with a calm, even tone. “We must be sure that you are pure and properly prepared to join the faith. Today you shall fast and meditate on the glory of Owbej. This evening, you shall be sworn in and given your masks, made one piece of the greater whole. You shall become acolytes, and be allowed upon the first step of enlightenment. Rejoice! The path of glory and fortune shall be open to you.”
The cultists place the cloth and water before each of your cells, bow to you, and follow the man in black out of the area.
"Guess we're supposed to put these on, eh?" the half-elf says, lifting the fabric and seeing it's a robe. "Name's Thon, by the by. Thon Vissior." He chuckles. "Guess this is the hard part they were talkin' about, huh?"
[sblock=ooc]Fort saves (DC 30) vs poison: Elenka; Anna; Quioan; Yoshiki (1d20+1=9, 1d20+2=19, 1d20+3=19, 1d20+4=8)
The knockout poison was more or less inevitable given the way the adventure's written. I apologize if anyone feels shoehorned.[/sblock]
|
Last edited:
toasterferret
Explorer
|
Anna sits up, her head still spinning slightly from the drugged meal.
"Nothing is ever easy is it?" she asks no-one in particular, before wearily rubbing the sleep from her eyes.
Yoshiki Akita (Human Monk 4)
Yoshiki sits up, coming to a cross-legged position, and closes his eyes after the men leave. He mediates for a few minutes, trying to cleanse himself of the poison. He tries to think clearly, preparing himself for whatever tests of loyalty that is to come his way. "Thon, the hard part is yet to come", he says to the half-elf without moving or opening his eyes. He does not offer his name in return.
[sblock=Ministats]Initiative: +4
AC: 19 Touch 19 Flatfooted 14
HP: 28/28
CMB: +8 CMD: 23 Fort: +4 Reflex: +8 Will: +7 (+2 vs. Enchantment)
Defensive Abilities: Evasion, Deflect Arrows
Speed: 40 ft
Conditions in Effect: None
Elemental Fist: 4/4 remaining
Ki Pool: 5/5 remaining
Additional Gear: 1 CLW Potion (taken by the men in the white suits... er robes.)
[/sblock]
Yoshiki sits up, coming to a cross-legged position, and closes his eyes after the men leave. He mediates for a few minutes, trying to cleanse himself of the poison. He tries to think clearly, preparing himself for whatever tests of loyalty that is to come his way. "Thon, the hard part is yet to come", he says to the half-elf without moving or opening his eyes. He does not offer his name in return.
[sblock=Ministats]Initiative: +4
AC: 19 Touch 19 Flatfooted 14
HP: 28/28
CMB: +8 CMD: 23 Fort: +4 Reflex: +8 Will: +7 (+2 vs. Enchantment)
Defensive Abilities: Evasion, Deflect Arrows
Speed: 40 ft
Conditions in Effect: None
Elemental Fist: 4/4 remaining
Ki Pool: 5/5 remaining
Additional Gear: 1 CLW Potion (taken by the men in the white suits... er robes.)
[/sblock]
Similar Threads
