Creamsteak
Explorer
There are a lot of elementals, but I think Genasi are not considered one for such purposes.
D&D 5E [OOC] A Light Hearted Princes of Elemental Evil Hack and Slash
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CanadienneBacon
Explorer
Hey, all, I had something at work blow up unexpectedly today and need to spend tonight prepping for what is highly likely to be a nasty, contentious, and long hearing tomorrow afternoon. I'll be up late tonight but will try to get a post in, if time permits and I need a break. Thx.
Steve Gorak
Adventurer
Ok, fair enough. I thought perhaps that it was like half elves that are both elves and humans, so genasi would be both human and elementals, this is why I asked.
In retrospect, I think that this spell could end up being useful, especially since we seem to be dealing with a cult dedicated to evil water elementals ;-)
Cheers,
SG
CanadienneBacon
Explorer
Hey. I am done prepping and am loaded for bear for tomorrow's hearing, but I'm also exhausted. I just sat down with a glass of Bush Mills, and my next move is to go to bed. No energy left in the tank to review the IC and post. I will , however, return to the site Friday evening, and will post then. Catch you guys on the flip side.
Edit: OK. The Bush Mills soaked in, so I posted. It's not much, but hopefully it'll be useful.
Edit: OK. The Bush Mills soaked in, so I posted. It's not much, but hopefully it'll be useful.
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Steve Gorak
Adventurer
Break a leg tomorrow [MENTION=11146]CanadienneBacon[/MENTION]
CanadienneBacon
Explorer
Oh, Ima break something. Hopefully not my leg. Thanks.
I haven't been filled with this much righteous indignation over a disfavorable fact pattern in a long time.
I haven't been filled with this much righteous indignation over a disfavorable fact pattern in a long time.
Forged Fury
First Post
My thoughts on the Keep:
- We have, I think, three or four people capable of creating very compelling disguises for themselves either by spell or ability. I have proficiency with a disguise kit but no actual kit.
I wanted to put an evil mustache on someone.
- If we can infiltrate all the way to Jolly, we could probably bypass a lot of fights. If Tom is right, Jolly's death might be an incentive for the bandits to flee or surrender. The more fanatical of these water guys will probably still fight, but the fights would probably be easier without the bandits taking up space. Not sure about the bugbears, maybe we could pay them to leave?
- We should probably do this after evening falls. We all have darkvision or better, so none of us would be bothered by the lack of light and it would provide disadvantage to any perception checks attempted against us by those that don't have darkvision. We should particularly try to do it after dinner so we're not trying to pull this off in the dining area filled with everyone in the Keep, LOL.
- The basic idea would be that the Shoalar was taken prisoner by the adventurers he was supposed to kill. The rowboat encountered the adventurers, resulting in a pitched battle. Only a few survivors remained, with deaths on both sides. Having been told of the prophecy, Shoalar thought it best to keep the prisoners so Jolly could interrogate them.
- At least, that's what I brewed up. Mechanically, I can probably do a pretty good job pretending to be Shoalar, assuming I can keep people from touching me (or find a change of clothes in the keelboat and shed my armor). I have Advantage on Deception checks when pretending to be someone else due to the Actor feat.
- We have, I think, three or four people capable of creating very compelling disguises for themselves either by spell or ability. I have proficiency with a disguise kit but no actual kit.
I wanted to put an evil mustache on someone.- If we can infiltrate all the way to Jolly, we could probably bypass a lot of fights. If Tom is right, Jolly's death might be an incentive for the bandits to flee or surrender. The more fanatical of these water guys will probably still fight, but the fights would probably be easier without the bandits taking up space. Not sure about the bugbears, maybe we could pay them to leave?
- We should probably do this after evening falls. We all have darkvision or better, so none of us would be bothered by the lack of light and it would provide disadvantage to any perception checks attempted against us by those that don't have darkvision. We should particularly try to do it after dinner so we're not trying to pull this off in the dining area filled with everyone in the Keep, LOL.
- The basic idea would be that the Shoalar was taken prisoner by the adventurers he was supposed to kill. The rowboat encountered the adventurers, resulting in a pitched battle. Only a few survivors remained, with deaths on both sides. Having been told of the prophecy, Shoalar thought it best to keep the prisoners so Jolly could interrogate them.
- At least, that's what I brewed up. Mechanically, I can probably do a pretty good job pretending to be Shoalar, assuming I can keep people from touching me (or find a change of clothes in the keelboat and shed my armor). I have Advantage on Deception checks when pretending to be someone else due to the Actor feat.
Steve Gorak
Adventurer
I agree with everything. However, impersonating Shoalar may cause more suspicion, since he's expected to be dead (likely from a divination spell), so you could encounter serious disbelief regarding your illusion. Perhaps impersonating the halfling would be preferable (and I am sure your arch devil would love that ;-)
So, logistically speaking, on the first row boat, Damien could be rowing disguised as either shoalar or one of the more recently fought reavers, with another from the party, say Carradoc, also disguised with an illusion. On the second row boat, the rest of us, under an illusion of the loot that was found on the barge. The story to get in could be that the barge was found, we were on it and were defeated and killed, and the survivors are bringing back some of the loot from the barge. Just an idea.
So, logistically speaking, on the first row boat, Damien could be rowing disguised as either shoalar or one of the more recently fought reavers, with another from the party, say Carradoc, also disguised with an illusion. On the second row boat, the rest of us, under an illusion of the loot that was found on the barge. The story to get in could be that the barge was found, we were on it and were defeated and killed, and the survivors are bringing back some of the loot from the barge. Just an idea.
Forged Fury
First Post
From what I can tell, that gets us to the dock. We'd basically have to sneak the rest of the way from the dock to the interior of the keep. Personally, I'd prefer some way to get to Jolly with the entire party without a fight and I'm not sure how well sneaking would work.
By my reading of Tom, it sounded like more of a foretelling than a scrying. Maybe Shoalar's "miracle survival" will draw out this Prophet person too.
By my reading of Tom, it sounded like more of a foretelling than a scrying. Maybe Shoalar's "miracle survival" will draw out this Prophet person too.
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