Sep 16, 2025 11:34 pm
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Smart idea, Nikk! I like it. No roll required!Hobb, tis your turn.
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Sep 17, 2025 7:23 pm
Being a Halfling himself, and no stranger to a fight, Hobb tries to predict where the invisible Halfling will be as Hobb brings his mace around.
It’s a shot in the dark, but the Halfling knows his stuff.
It’s a shot in the dark, but the Halfling knows his stuff.
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How to model this? Maybe an attack with disadvantage? I’ll roll to save time and you can adjudicate!OOC:
Nooooooooo! Blowing all my 20s on this!!Last edited September 17, 2025 7:23 pm
Rolls
STR - Mastery - (1d20+4)
(20) + 4 = 24
STR - Mastery (Disadvantage) - (1d20+4)
(20) + 4 = 24
Damage - (1d6+1)
(3) + 1 = 4
Sep 17, 2025 11:23 pm
OOC:
Amazing, Hobb, just...wow.OOC:
Here is what you find as you search the room on the next turns...- The Butcher had a giant meat cleaver (essentially a greataxe, but you could take it if you want an interesting story behind your weapon)
- The Baker had a rolling pin with a detachable dagger as one of the handles (essentially a club/dagger combo)
- Two more red robes, so more people can be disguised
- 5 gold
OOC:
Let's stay in initiative order so everyone gets a turn.Lillit, your turn.
Rolls
How much money did the butcher and baker have? - (2d4)
(14) = 5
Sep 19, 2025 4:02 am
A teenage woman is curled up on the floor, pushed against the shelves. She holds her head in her hands and looks up as Lillit opens the door.
Go ahead and take an action, Lillit.
And Llewllyn, go ahead and take your turn.
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This woman is also from the village.Go ahead and take an action, Lillit.
And Llewllyn, go ahead and take your turn.
Sep 19, 2025 4:03 am
Lillit recognizes the woman, so she says, "Come, dear, we are from the village and we are freeing you. We've already freed several. Come out, please. It's safe; we slew the orc out here. Are you ok?"
Sep 19, 2025 2:22 pm
The woman looks up. "Oh, it's you. Thank goodness." She stands tentatively and fidgets with her hands as she speaks. "I think I am okay." She walks out of the pantry. "They were forcing me to bring food to the main hall, and all of the cultists are having a feast in there to celebrate capturing so many to use for their rituals." She looks in disgust at the orc. "They drain us of our blood." She extends a hand to Lillit. "My name is Matilda. I recognize some of you from the village."
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Llewellyn's turn.Rolls
What is the villager's name? - (1d100)
(66) = 66
Sep 19, 2025 4:29 pm
"Aye, Matilda is that you?" Hobb says, standing over the ruined and fallen Halfling.
"Best you regain your strength before trying to go too far. Madge is not long gone! You eat something to get your legs back under you, and try catch her." he says, trying his best to sound soft!
"Best you regain your strength before trying to go too far. Madge is not long gone! You eat something to get your legs back under you, and try catch her." he says, trying his best to sound soft!
Sep 19, 2025 6:56 pm
"Matilda, hello, It is Llewellyn. I know I lived on the outskirts of Hillshire, but do you remember me? Anyway, do you happen to know where the rest of your number are, the other captives? We are here to rescue all of them. Made couldn't remember where the area was, but perhaps you can, since you've been out more? Tell us more about this blood ritual; these people seem sickly obsessed with blood," I query Matilda while trying to reassure her we are here to help.
I grit my teeth as the strange effects of the cave curse comes to affect me, trying to resist the worst of it; not willing to strike someone with reckless abandon. I suspect even as I ask, the blood ritual is part of their thirsty issue, it's some cursed either, or dark bargain where they have chosen to make it so they must draw blood, or face pain themselves.
"Damn it, damn this place...as we proceed, we should try using our disguises more convincingly to get to the captives; act as a unit of cultists, otherwise, why dress up?"
I grit my teeth as the strange effects of the cave curse comes to affect me, trying to resist the worst of it; not willing to strike someone with reckless abandon. I suspect even as I ask, the blood ritual is part of their thirsty issue, it's some cursed either, or dark bargain where they have chosen to make it so they must draw blood, or face pain themselves.
"Damn it, damn this place...as we proceed, we should try using our disguises more convincingly to get to the captives; act as a unit of cultists, otherwise, why dress up?"
Last edited September 19, 2025 6:58 pm
Rolls
Blood Lust - (1d4)
(2) = 2
Sep 21, 2025 11:58 am
Lillit points at the two red robes hanging on hooks in this room and says, "Anyone else want a robe?"
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Is there another door out of this room? And any chance we could get a map that shows all the rooms we've visited so far? I'm having trouble visualizing where they are in relation to each other, and to the skull entrance.Sep 21, 2025 10:39 pm
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I am sorry, drgqwen, you are totally right. Here you go...[ +- ] Map So Far
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Y'all are in the room at the bottom right, and yes, there is another door.Matilda looks at the ground. "Um, I'm really sorry, but I haven't seen much other than this room, the great hall, and the room with the cages." She points to the North. "The cages are that way, past the great hall."
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I am going to call Matilda released to the village. Everyone earns 1 xp. I will also say that your group investigates the hallway. It is empty and leads to the door to the great hall. A quick peek reveals a bunch of tables, several villagers, and a bunch of robed figures laughing, drinking, eating, and tormenting the villagers.[ +- ] Towards the Great Hall
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I will also say that the center hallway from the skull statue leads to the same great hall.I will give the group some time to formulate a plan, and then we'll move ahead.
Sep 22, 2025 12:44 am
Ivar will grab the orc and drag him into the pantry"Someone grab the baker and stash him also into the pantry." Looking around "Grab those other red cloaks and let us go have a meal."
Sep 22, 2025 8:51 am
"The blood is hot in here! I don’t know that the cloak will keep me from cracking a cultist’s skull for too long!" Hobb says, in an unusually graphic bit of language.
Hadn’t he spoken of clubbing* and not cracking back when they had been sent by the village?…
Hadn’t he spoken of clubbing* and not cracking back when they had been sent by the village?…
[ +- ] *
Sep 22, 2025 2:53 pm
Lillit whispers, "What is our plan? Infiltrate the great hall and kill the cultists? How can we do so in a way that tilts things further in our favor?"
Sep 22, 2025 5:35 pm
"Perhaps we can fool them into believing orders of a prisoner transfer," I reply to Lillit. "Perhaps make like there usefulness is worn here and we're here to supervise the transfer away from the cave. We can lead at least the captive, and some of the more gullible out, and ambush them and free our captives where we have the advantage...otherwise, it's sneakery and skullduggery within, and I don't know if we can keep doing that...their rejoicing has to end here at some point and they have to have some overall objective; perhaps someone in the great hall knows more, but otherwise it looks like the room with the cages has many of Hillshire's number."
Sep 22, 2025 5:36 pm
"Good idea, Ivar", Nikk mumbles as he helps stash away the bodies. He then sneaks over to take a look in the great hall. "Not sure I can get in there inconspicuously, but perhaps someone else?"
Then, looking back at Ivar, an idea strikes him, and a very goblinish grin spreads across his face. "Say, did someone wiser than me remember to bring along that sleeping draught?"
Also, does Nikk recognize Father Marcus among the captives in the great hall?
Then, looking back at Ivar, an idea strikes him, and a very goblinish grin spreads across his face. "Say, did someone wiser than me remember to bring along that sleeping draught?"
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Is it possible to tell rough numbers of the cultist, are we talking like 4-5, or more like 10+?Also, does Nikk recognize Father Marcus among the captives in the great hall?
Sep 22, 2025 5:46 pm
Orm grins as he follows along Nikk's thinking. "Aye, I've got it right here." patting his belt pouch. "Ideally, if we can slip this into their drink and have a toast after, get them all at once so as not to rouse suspicion."
"Hobb, perhaps your invisibility, a most remarkable thing by the way, can assist us?"
"Hobb, perhaps your invisibility, a most remarkable thing by the way, can assist us?"
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were we able to see if there's essentially a punch bowl, or central source where the alcohol is being distributed from?Sep 22, 2025 5:50 pm
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I was just thinking the invisibility might work! I’ve got two more goes today! Let me at em, captain!load next