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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iron Sky" data-source="post: 5439394" data-attributes="member: 60965">Session 15Usual trio tonight, though slightly different  cast due to the deaths in the group. The attachments are the portraits  of our characters: Siltstorm, Pakran, then Jinn. Siltstorm knows almost  nothing about humans but is pretending he is one so I'm playing him a  bit like Zoidberg from Futurama. Arin joined us an hour in or so.Sample  quotation: "Secrets? Vibrations that enter my skull holes will not  continue through my tooth flaps!" I try not to have him talk to much  'cause it's pretty derailing.We started with Humar Humis the  Human(Siltstorm's common name, to fit in better with the meatskins) and  Pakran meeting with Captain Rais, leader of a small pirate fleet and  also secretly a member of the Veiled Alliance. We had just arrived at  Balic and Rais sent us to find a certain Ermak somewhere in the city,  currently going by Raan, taking Jinn to a certain warehouse in the city.Raan/Ermak told us of the mysterious massacre at Patrician Iago's estate where supposedly everyone died. Raan asked us to find their friend Jinn Rajin, some minor lord from Tyr who owned some property by the Wavir compound.Meanwhile,  back at the estate we purchased, Arin showed up with Kyden's blade,  Eberk's boots, and wearing fresh bloody bandages. While he was  summarizing what happened to Kyden and Eberk, a group of city guards  showed up and demanded that Jinn come in for questioning since two of  his companions were found dead with Lord Iago.Jinn delayed(32 Bluff, 30 Diplomacy)  and sent Arin (disguised as a servant) to the Wavir compound across the  street to get help. Humar and Pakran arrived at Jinn's estate to see  the pile of guards at the door. Pakran decided it would be better to  climb the wall into the estate. Humar and Pakran made it(no failures on Athletics, but Humar got a 9 Stealth),  but Humar managed to alert the guards in the process. Rock awaited us  on the balcony with her weapon drawn, questioning our motives.Jinn  went upstairs to investigate what was happening, telling the guards the  house was under attack before slamming the door in the guard's face.  Pakran let him know what was up and Jinn proposed that everyone start  making noise like there was a battle going on upstairs. Humar got really  into it: "Face destruction wooden portal! Hey, this sack was full of  feathers!"The guards pulled back, Arin in the midst of the  guards in the back of the estate disguised as one of them and using his  Wild Talent Thought Projection to let Jinn know they were about to assault the place, before disguising himself as a Sergeant and making a 40(!) Bluff check to convince all the guards to go help attack the front.After being called by another Thought Projection,  the group slipped out of the back of the estate and into the streets of  Balic. We didn't get far before we ran headlong into a swarm of  reinforcements and they immediately attacked.We faced 2  Sergeants and 8 regular guards, Pakran initiating combat by leaping 9  squares and unleashing a Fallen Needle Blast 2, dropping 2 minions and  injuring both the Sergeants. Pakran got Crit by a greataxe (shuddering  IRL since that's how Eberk died). After that, we took only minor  damage, thanks in part to Siltstorm's Knight Aura locking them down,  Pakran getting in the thick and using Bursts and Blasts, and Arin  hammering the Sergeants with massive damage while Jinn did his usual  temp-granting and healing. We definitely have a much more balanced  group, combat only took 3 rounds and the only real damage we took was  the crit.At the end of the fight, after violating Siltstorm's Defense Aura a few times said "oh, that's right, he's a Fighter!"Random  note: Hexblades + Dark Sun work great. Weapon-breakage on a 1 and a  weapon that's summoned from beyond as a minor action are highly compatible.We  quickly headed to the warehouse where we met Ermak who examined the  scroll, lens, and urn we took from Bodach, giving us some downtime to  get to know each other. Siltstorm took a dust-bath (his version of  survival days - he needs just the right sands to keep his form  maintained) to strange looks from the others and proceeded to profess  his humanity in as many ways as he could think of to avoid suspicion  that he might not be human.Meanwhile, Ermak found out the ritual  required a large amount of concentrated magic and he'd need a magical  artifact to power it. One ex-Kyden +1 Learning Fullblade later, he had a  handful of residuum that he used to break the Geas on Jinn, though he  told Jinn that there was an astral link still between Jinn and Uralek  the Lich.He then proposed we assassinate Praetor Hiraxis. Arin  proposed that instead they kill him and replace him with Arin disguised  as him, revealing his changling talents by altering his appearance to an  almost perfect image of Heraxis(Bluff 36), which everyone took to be amazing Athasian Minstrel tricks.The next day the group began gathering info to infiltrate and imitate Hiraxis, rolling several 30+ Streetwise, Diplomacy, and Bluff checks between Arin and Jinn.Pakran  helped his boss cheat another pirate out of shipping lane rights(who  gets to attack each one) for information, Jinn infiltrated Heraxis'  house disguised as a slave, and Arin wandered the streets gathering  information.After that, we called it a night.</blockquote>

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