Night's Embrace: Part 1--A Touch of Darkness

[Legildur]

Blunt pats his body in several places with both hands. "No glass cutter," he says. "Trying to give them up - they're bad for your health," he explains sheepishly.

"Kel, what if we lowered you on the rope down to the windows. Do you think you could try and open a window without breaking it?" he suggests.

 

[Jolmo]

Once on the roof, Shan seems to get an idea and starts looking intently downwards.
[sblock=OOC]Just realised that Detect Evil works through walls. Or, well: The spell can penetrate barriers, but 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood or dirt blocks it. So, any auras to detect? What's the roof made of anyway? And would I know how far down it got blocked?[/sblock]

 

[Rystil Arden]

[SBLOCK=Shan](OOC: Nope, wouldn't know where it got blocked--you can only tell if you ping evil auras)

*Shan does not detect the presence of evil auras from up here. If there are any aura-bearing objects in the warehouse, they either aren't in range or are behind a solid barrier thick enough to foil his detection.*

(OOC2: Now is probably a good time to talk about Detect-n-Kill. While using Detect Evil to find this evil wizard guy and kill him is definitely a viable strategy, in general the fact that a random peasant detects as evil is not enough reason to disembowel him IMC. Just a heads up!)
[/SBLOCK]

 

[jkason]

Titus Farrab, human ranger

Blunt pats his body in several places with both hands. "No glass cutter," he says. "Trying to give them up - they're bad for your health," he explains sheepishly.

"Kel, what if we lowered you on the rope down to the windows. Do you think you could try and open a window without breaking it?" he suggests.

As Blunt waits for an answer, Titus pulls his sling off his belt and loads a bullet in it.

"I think you had the right idea before, Sul'. Best to be ready if we're caught," he whispers to the elf. "My eyes aren't made to see much in this dark, but hopefully neither are whoever's running guard duty."

Titus moves closer to the edge of the roof that Kel may or may not wind up hanging from, then squats down to try to make himself less noticeable. While the others figure out how the group plans to enter, Titus sets his senses to trying to notice any adversaries before they notice him.

[sblock=OOC]Hide +4, Spot/Listen +5 (+7 vs. humans). I figure spot won't really be worth much unless someone's carrying their own light, but hopefully Titus' ears might pick up any approaching folks who aren't inclined to carry such a convenient beacon. [/sblock]

 

[Boddynock]

Kel scratches his head and says, "If you tie the rope around my waist, and lower me down to the window, I can have a look and see if I can open it. Otherwise, if anybody has some paper and some water, I can wet it and press it on - it might keep the glass from falling if I break the window. What do you think?"

 

[Legildur]

"Good idea," agrees Blunt as he assists Kel with the rope to make double sure it is secure.

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: Did we ascertain if anyone had use rope? Because you didn't need it to just hold onto the rope and have people climb, but if you fail the check to knot Kel by five or more, it will seem secure and then fail after a bit (as per the Use Rope skill) which could be deadly )

 

[Jolmo]

(OOC: That only seems to be for throwing a grappling hook according to the SRD, but if that's wrong isn't take 10 applicable this time? It's only DC 10 and we shouldn't be too stressed up here.)

 

[Boddynock]

(OOC: Did we ascertain if anyone had use rope? Because you didn't need it to just hold onto the rope and have people climb, but if you fail the check to knot Kel by five or more, it will seem secure and then fail after a bit (as per the Use Rope skill) which could be deadly )

Gee, thanks!

Kel doesn't have any ranks in Use Rope.

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: Yep, take 10 is applicable This would probably count as a 'special' knot since you want it to be tight enough to be safe while being loose enough not to strangle Kel, but you could do that with Aid Another)

*Tying Kel to the end of the rope, the group lowers him slowly to the window. Kel determines that the window is basically just a pane in a frame, so it can't really be opened. It's too high up for people to expect to be opening it easily anyway, really.*

(OOC: Did anyone actually have paper and water? I don't remember seeing any paper)