COMING SOON! -- Presents for Goblins: Festive Resources for 5E on Kickstarter! A festive softcover of holiday-themed D&D 5E resources, including the short adventure 'Presents for Goblins'.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kwargrow" data-source="post: 7604489" data-attributes="member: 6855382">Weekly post: 5xpShadow BoxingLeaving the unpleasant Captain Towers and her entourage behind, the Runners pursue the dark figure.  It is not moving that fast, and with your heightened motility you quickly cross the street and reach the skyscraper.  As you draw closer you notice more details.  The skyscraper is a mere empty frame, although it still towers to the same height as the others in the city.  The one you are chasing is running along the girders and supports with superior agility.  You see that your lack of detail on the figure is because he is cloaked in shadow as you are.  The figure leaps to the ground and drops through a trapdoor into the subbasement of the skyscraper.You are careful and don’t detect any traps or ambushes as you open the door and follow the figure down.  Down a ladder the Runners find themselves in a bright corridor with metal walls.  At the end of the corridor the shadow figure beckons you forward and opens a door.  As soon as the steel door is open you hear the sound of cheering and animal grunts and screams.  The shadow figure leads the way and you follow.  Through the door you find a balcony overlooking an underground arena filled with about three hundred patrons, cheering for a fight in a caged area.  A hog three meters long with hooked tusks is fighting two snakes five meters long.  The hog is wounded in several places, but a third reptile is already trampled and unmoving on the ground.  Focused on the action, the crowd doesn’t notice you as the shadow figure drops his cover.Who you were chasing is an orc wearing a long coat over light armor.  He has a pistol on his hip, but he holds his hands up in a gesture of non-hostility.  He is young, with small tusks protruding from his bottom lip and coarse dark brown skin.  His hair is fashioned in a tall black wave.He says, “I mean you no harm, in fact, we can help each other.  My name is Obrik Shadowstep.  I’m a member of a druidic order.  Billington was also a member.  I discovered this disgusting den of death and asked him here to advise me on what to do, but the fool brought his family.  His wife, daughter, and son.  They reported this illegal arena to Captain Towers, but Towers and her crew are on the payroll of Scarlet Pips, the gangster that runs this place.  Scarlet Pips had his thugs kill the Billingtons, but Billington’s father works for a member of the city council so he can keep pressure on this to find justice for his murdered son and the family.  That’s where you three come in.Scarlet Pips is onto me.  I was sent by the order to investigate some disappearances in the animal reserves outside the city.  The gangers are kidnapping exotic animals, fighting them to the death for the gambling money, then sell the meat and parts.  It’s disgusting; the kind of thing that used to happen before the Violent Shift.  Anyway, I can’t fight them on my own, but if you help me then I can point you at the ones that killed the Billingtons and you can collect on your contract.”As Obrik finishes his pitch three humans walk through the door you came through, two men and a woman, all with light brown skin and straight black hair.  They are carrying long black batons, and they look eager to use them.The lead man says, “Obrik, you snake-spawn.  More outsiders?  These more of your druid buddies?”[Sblock=Reaction] Syd 65+96=161, Hawkeye 61+91+100=252, Trollick 70+95+44=209, Obrik: 74+62=136,Scarlet Pips enforcers- 1: 80+94+84=258, 2: 80+11=91, 3: 80+67=147 [/Sblock]Speed of ActionEnforcer 1, Hawkeye, Trollick, Syd Vicious, Enforcer 1, Hawkeye, Enforcer 3, Obrik, Trollick, Enforcer 2, Syd Vicious, Enforcer 1, Hawkeye, Enforcer 3, Obrik, TrollickUnused numbers I have catalogued:Hawkeye: 95+67=162, 71, 88Syd: 90, 77, 89, 59, 43Trollick: 50Enforcer 1 foolishly used his first action to taunt Obrik.  It is Hawkeye's action.  Declare intentions for the number of actions that you have under Speed of Action.</blockquote>

Verification