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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Telsar" data-source="post: 1728477" data-attributes="member: 18837">Flashback, Neevis Loquiter – Pest ExterminationNeevis sits back, ignoring his paperwork, and says “A plaything?  That certainly sounds interesting.  Someone completely under your control, I hope.  Or at least unable to tell anyone anything about us.  But if not, bring him or her anyway… I can bring a few rats with Kronig’s Silencing Disease… will rot their tongue right out of their head.”“And the Aberrance doesn’t have any effect during incubation, just when the disease would normally start to attack the body.  They wouldn’t have to take it until they started showing the barest hint of symptoms.  Now, if you don’t want to wait so long… six moths isn’t it?  Horribly slow…”  He opens a drawer in the desk he’s sitting at, and pulls out a small vial, handing it to the warrior; Accalon can see there’s a dozen or so identical small containers in the drawer.  “That’s an Infection Accelerant.  Halves the incubation time of any diseases in the body, unless your body rejects it.  I take one every other day or so, always on the days of our meetings, just because I hate waiting to feel the effects of one or our master’s glorious diseases.  I can only spare the one, unless you have some money, but if your subject took half a dozen, they’d feel Asteral’s Doom upon them within days instead of months.”  Neevis offers more of the Accelerant at 50 gold each, if Accalon is interested.[OOC target’s get a fortitude save vs DC 12 to resist the Accelerant.  Technically, by the rules, one can voluntarily fail a save, even a fortitude save, but I think the target would have to be doing something harmful to himself, going without eating, subjecting himself to extremes in temperature, or something similar to say they were voluntarily giving up their save chance]Current (later than the Boone fight), near Max’s Martial Training SchoolAlicia from her vantage point in the alley, can see Girdra through the window of the training school, in what appears to be a heated conversation with two people.  After a few minutes, a horse-drawn cart pulls up in front of the place, the cart having a sturdy looking metal covering over it.  It’s driver hops down, leaving another man sitting up front, and Alicia sees both wear just a simple white robe.  The driver steps to the back of the cart, pulls out a key, and unlocks a panel in the metal enclosure.  He takes out a small rack of vials, then quickly closes and locks the panel again, as one of the men Girdra seemed to be arguing with steps outside and approaches the cart.  This man is wearing a chain shirt and has a sheathed longsword at his side.Alicia quickly downs two of her potions, her skin becoming tougher and muscles rippling with new strength.  Feeling like she can take on anything like this, she decides since only the man from the school is armed, it’s best to take him out first.  Alicia charges at him, the man failing to see the danger he’s in before it’s too late.  Alicia slams into the man with her greatsword, ripping into his flesh, sending blood and entrails everywhere.  The man is critically wounded, barely managing to stay on his feet after the vicious attack, and backs away twenty feet from the hulking half-ogre, yelling “We’re under attack!” to whoever might still be inside.[Alicia rolled Hide 8+1(dex)+10(potion)-4(size)=15, man failed to see her coming, gets a surprise round  Alicia’s attack rolled 16+8+2(charge)+2(new Str)=AC 28, hit.  Rolled 10+13+3(new Str)=26 damage.  Man makes a fortitude check and is disabled instead of dying; he can now only take move actions without leaving him dying, and any damage will also leave him dying or kill him.  Won’t bother mapping yet; the man is 20 feet away from Alicia, one robed man is adjacent to her, the other is 15 feet away on the cart.  The man next to her wouldn’t get an AOO if she moved since he’s still flatfooted.][Characters by initiative, damage:Alicia, unhurtTwo robed men, unhurtArmed man, disabled]Current, Outside Boone’s AntiquesLydia tries to strike Azallin with her mace, but the dodging wizard easily avoids the attack.[Lydia rolled 7+3=AC 10, missed][Accalon was up next by initiative, but I thought his actions might change from circling around and attacking the wizard with the bat here sinking his teeth in him.  Waiting to hear from BS on that before resolving his actions, then waiting to give GFA a chance to post T’aria’s actions this round.  Since their actions probably won’t affect him, Aligor could say what he’s doing next as well.][Characters by initiative, damage:Accalon, HPs:22/32T’aria, unhurt (probably; she’s at HPs: 5/13 with no healing)Aligor, HPs:11/37Bane, dyingMen with short swords, unhurtMan on Aligor, very hurtLeeza, unhurtSundilar, unhurtHectaras, unhurtAzallin, very hurtFiendish dire bat, unhurtLydia, HPs:10/20]</blockquote>

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