Hades (Campaign thread)

Treblin · Post by **Treblin** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 6:51 am

"Now that we've got a little more privacy...What do you folks know of the Midnight Owl?"

Claudius · Post by **Claudius** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 8:30 am

OOC: nobody has revealed where midnight owl. My character knows where a contact of sundowns is who he knows not the name.

Edit: fix sentence

Siberys · Post by **Siberys** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 8:57 am

@Treblin, no one has said anything close to that. Furthermore, even if it were true, they didn't actually say that specifically to you, thus it's metagaming for you to know that.

kozeph · Post by **kozeph** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:23 am

"interesting, it's neither an undead or a construct" Shile says outloud

Shile takes a five foot step forward and slams her staff on the Zombie thing head.

Attack role: d20+1= 15+1=16
Damage 1d6 = 5

Siberys · Post by **Siberys** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:34 am

@Shile-

Make a Knowledge Arcana check.

Your attack hits him squarely, but while it does cause him damage, it doesn't cause him a lot of damage.

He swings back at you using the bulk of his left arm, smashing into your sides. You take 4 damage.

Make a wisdom check.

kozeph · Post by **kozeph** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 10:15 am

Knowledge arcana d20+5 = 13+5=18

"Hmp!" (Hit points 11-4=7)

Wisdom check d20+1 = 20+1 = 21 (shiit I wish that was my attack role)

Shile attacks again, seeking to crack the zombies head.

attack roll d20+1= 13+1=14
Damage 1d6= 6

Siberys · Post by **Siberys** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 10:26 am

@Shile

Knowledge Arcana Success- You know that your voice of shadows spell only affects intelligent undead and constructs, and is even then language dependant.

Wisdom Check Success- You realize after your second blow that this zombie is too strong for you, but you could likely outrun it no problem.

Unfortunately, he still manages to get one more smack into your neck, nearly lobbing it out of place.

You take 6 points of damage.

kozeph · Post by **kozeph** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 10:41 am

Shile attempts to withdraw from the battle.

"Heh, ha! I'll be back corpsy and mysterious person behind it!"

Shile attempts to loose the zombie.

Siberys · Post by **Siberys** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:04 pm

@Shile-

You manage to easily outrun the zombie, as they are naturally slow. You eventually make it back to the nightclub where the minotaur, dwarf, pixie-faced humanoid, and red haired human are still outside conversing.

Annette · Post by **Annette** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 1:10 pm

(Again, I apologize for my silence. It's gotten to the point where the only place I can access the internet is the local library, which I can't always get to.)

Deciding that about ten minutes have passed, I take my leave of the group (I don't think anyone's addressed me?) and make my way back inside and up the stairs.

Assuming I reach the door without encountering anyone, I head inside and take a look around for any sign of danger (search: take 10, 10+2=12. If I'm allowed, then I take 20 instead.)

Claudius · Post by **Claudius** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 7:31 pm

OOC: Annette, the minotaur Nordak addressed us, but anyhow you had an engagement with sundown?

IC: Prior to sinead leaving Jeronis nods "boss is ready", he says. "Be sure to use a contraception charm" *he frowns* His ugly mug looks snoutlike.

:: We don't need any sundown junior around here. Though a baby might sweeten him up ::

Turning his head to the now Pixie-like 'play thing' "he said you should go to". He wonders at the shimmery cerulean highlights in her coloration.

Treblin · Post by **Treblin** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:35 pm

OOC - Sorry got confused with one of the 4 other games im playing, post edited.

MistSonata · Post by **MistSonata** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 1:23 am

((OOC: Wait, what? I hadn't posted for a few days, sure, but ten minutes? My character wouldn't just stand around saying nothing that long.))

Allexa groaned, she was more or less trying to ignore the dwarf, but he kept insisting on talking to her. "Look, all I know is that there's someone in a shack down the street here that might know where the man is. That's all the bartender could tell me. I don't—" she began, but stopped as she saw the minotaur approach them, asking about how they got in and what they were looking for.

'A cow man is asking about it now? Seriously?' she thought to herself. She looked slightly annoyed. "We're looking for a guy called Midnight Owl. Ever heard of him? My friend Sinead here needs to—" she stopped again as she turned to motion to her new found companion only to see her walking back into Sundown's. Her frustration was evident now.

"Athena's ghost!" She cursed, shouting after her. "What on gaia's green earth is your problem?! I'm trying to help you find this guy and you're just going to ditch me without so much as a word?!"

She turned her glare toward the halfling who was telling her that she should go with Sinead. "Well tell him that he can bite my ass." She spat at him. "I'm not so desperate to get boned that I'll drop everything I'm doing for the first willy that swings my way." She readjusted the bag on her back. "Now if you'll all excuse me, I need another damned drink."

Assuming no one tries to stop her, she pushes her way back inside of Sundown's and heads straight toward the bar.

Claudius · Post by **Claudius** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 2:26 am

"Can't say I blame you", the halfling replies vaguely to the pixie figure as she sets off.

Having already acknowledged Nordrak Jeronis addresses the other. "Hi I'm Jeronis" he greets the tattoed dwarf (robed?). "I haven't heard too much of the midnight owl, but from my understanding the boss doesn't like to talk about him." OOC: I assume I would have heard something?

Siberys · Post by **Siberys** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 5:58 am

@Jeronis-

OOC- Nothing more than what you just said. Your boss doesn't like him.

@Allexa-

You head back to the bar, the same faceless man greets you from before. "You look flustered, rough night?"

@Sinead-

You saunter yourself upstairs and find Sundown's room. It isn't hard, his room has a label on it that simply says King.

Right as you're about to open the door, Sundown opens the door for you from the inside, "I knew you'd be up! Come on in," he says guiding you inside.

malinzaro · Post by **malinzaro** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 10:08 am

MistSonata wrote:...
She looked slightly annoyed. "We're looking for a guy called Midnight Owl. Ever heard of him? My friend Sinead here needs to—" she stopped again as she turned to motion to her new found companion only to see her walking back into Sundown's. Her frustration was evident now.
...

Nordak looked down at the pissed off pixie before him,

I have no idea who Midnight Owl is, though I cannot stop and notice that you have quite a friend there - pointing at Sinead departing carefree. I will be in the tavern since I can use a break in this chaos and also a good mug filled with ale.

Seeing that everyone looked busy if not even confused, Nordak sighed and returned in the tavern. Just when he entered he look around thinking to himself "Probably Sundown will be pissed off if I leave the door unguarded like that, but even he cannot agree that I deserve some drink and a good meal. Afterwards I will talk to him, since this job is surely not meant for me. He either has some interesting stuff to do from which I can get some small fortune on hands or he can kiss my back goodbye."

Just when he was smiling picturing in his mind Sundown's jaw drop at his speech he saw the bartender and he immediately recalled the man without a face. "Is this the same person? How many are like him anyway?"

Nordak quickly took a seat at the bar and asked for a beer. When the bartender approached he looked at him and asked,

You were talking about someone called Kitchy earlier and his death. Who was he and what happened to him?

MistSonata · Post by **MistSonata** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 2:37 pm

Allexa slid onto a seat at the bar. "Rough? Not really, more like severely annoying. Get me something strong, would you?" She says, pulling out her money pouch as the bartender goes to work on the drink. "You know, generally I have a policy of only helping others when it suits me. I wouldn't go around helping anyone for free. But just once, just ONCE, I decide to stick my neck out and help someone, and the next thing I know I'm being tossed aside like my generosity means nothing." She puts the appropriate amount for the drink plus a tip on the countertop as the bartender sets the drink down in front of her. "Lesson fracking learned." She says, taking a prolonged draw from the cup she was given, seemingly unconcerned with what exactly she had been given.

Siberys · Post by **Siberys** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 2:59 pm

@Allexa-

The bar is thankfully empty for the time being, so for a moment your relieved that the bartender has your full attention.

He stands next to you, handing you a drink that looks utterly repulsive. It's a shotglass of something thick, black and tar-like. "That's the strongest I have, I'd recommend you close your nose when drinking it though."

He listens to your story with what you perceive to be enthusiasm and attentiveness and then ponders for a moment. He leans in and half whispers, "Perhaps she's not recognizing your advances. It doesn't help that you look...well, female as opposed to what you actually are."

Assuming you have a bit of a wow-expression on your face he responds with, "Don't look so surprised. Various facial features, the way you carry yourself, the way you talk, they're all disguised fairly well but it's just a disguise, I can still see it quite easily. I'm a bartender, it's my job to be able to read faces and people, afterall I need to know when an orc has had too much to drink or if he's just really pissed off. Very hard to tell the difference by the way.

Anyway, if I were you, I'd go with your friend anyway. She's in dang..." he stops himself looking over at the minotaur sitting down. He shouts that he'll be with the minotaur in just a minute, and then he leans down to you and whispers, "Get her away from sundown."

If/When you drink some of the drink, make a fortitude save.

@Nordak.

"Hey, be there in just a moment," he shouts to you. You see him lean down and whisper something to the pixie-faced girl, but there's no way you could make it out considering the music drowning out most of the sound here. He makes his way over to you after a moment though.

"Nordak! Buddy, hows it going?" He stops to listen to you for a moment. "Kitchy? Yeah you probably didn't meet him. Really tall guy, kind of skinny though. He used to work here, occasionally busing out deliveries of something or other to somewhere around here.

Not sure what happened to him. I just know Sundown has presumed him dead and I haven't seen him in a couple of days, he's vanished I think."

"Wait a moment though, what are you doing here at the bar? Your shift's not over, this mean you're done working here?"

MistSonata · Post by **MistSonata** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 3:41 pm

"Perhaps she's not recognizing your advances. It doesn't help that you look...well, female as opposed to what you actually are."

Allexa looked somewhat livid as the bartender revealed that he knew her secret. It was the first time she had been read like that since the man who kept her as a slave died. She leaned in toward the bartender then. "What I really am" she began slowly and deliberately "is quite a bit more disturbing than just a changeling crossdresser."

Fortitude Save wrote:1d20+1
19+1 = 20

"Don't look so surprised. Various facial features, the way you carry yourself, the way you talk, they're all disguised fairly well but it's just a disguise, I can still see it quite easily. I'm a bartender, it's my job to be able to read faces and people, afterall I need to know when an orc has had too much to drink or if he's just really pissed off. Very hard to tell the difference by the way.

Anyway, if I were you, I'd go with your friend anyway. She's in dang..." he stops himself looking over at the minotaur sitting down. He shouts that he'll be with the minotaur in just a minute, and then he leans down to you and whispers, "Get her away from sundown."

She scoffs at the bartender's last words. "What do I care? She wouldn't be in danger at all if she wasn't so eager to ditch me just to get a dagger in her little trouser sheath." She was talking mostly to herself now, as the bartender had left to greet the mancow, who he seemed to know. "Only difference now is that she might get it sheathed in her heart instead."

With that she held her nose and drank the last half of whatever the bartender had given her. She winced, eyes watering as she struggled to keep it down, placing the glass back onto the countertop as it seemed to settle. For a moment she stared at her glass, thinking; seemingly torn with a decision. Suddenly she cursed and smacked her balled fist against the counter. She stood up, turning in one swift, fluid motion and striding toward the staircase.

About halfway up she put a hand on the handle of her bow and checked to make sure her quiver was in place. She approaches the hallway cautiously, making sure that she doesn't get into close quarter combat, since all she has right now is a ranged weapon.

Siberys · Post by **Siberys** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 3:47 pm

@Allexa-

Fortitude Success.

Whatever was in that drink was also quite...chunky. Your stomach manages to tolerate this one glass, but with some reprecautions.

You take a -1 to attack and damage and all skill checks for the next four hours (if you had failed, this would be so much worse :mischief: ).

OOC- You're a bit ahead of Annette right now as you had a minute or two of a conversation with the bartender when she was already being greeted by Sundown, so I'm gonna wait for her to respond.