PSE RPG Chatroom - 2021-01-15 (page 2 of 2)

Prince North Læraðr

04:00

"I'm not sure I quite appreciate the attitude, human."

bobble

Astrid hurries to the table with Ink

Sciborg

"You're the one who came up trying to start something, elf." His eyes glitter. "Beat it."

Prince North Læraðr

rolls insight to get a grasp of him

18+3=21

Graylocke

Ink doesn't understand the conversation between Lae and the man, but does understand the tones of the voices and his ears flatten on his head with a look of concern.

Sciborg

You can immediately tell this guy is bad news and does not like you. You also notice that under his cloak and hood, he's wearing armor and carrying a spellbook at his hip, despite obviously trying to conceal it. He seems very not friendly.

Prince North Læraðr

04:04

"I'll ask you one more time. What are you doing here?"

roll intimidation

13-1=12. Ugh

Sciborg

He blinks slowly. "Like I said. Got no business with you. Away with you."

Prince North Læraðr

And what buisness with whom?

Graylocke

Ink gently places a paw on Lae's shoulder, "Friend Lae, we are guests... perhaps we leave this man to his devices? Keep our own company?"

Sciborg

"If you're so determined to not leave me alone, then fine." He blinks again. "Have you seen a man who limps on his left side?"

Prince North Læraðr

"No, I have not. Why?"

Sciborg

04:07

"Just curious." He sits back in his chair and kicks up his boots on the table. "Shoo."

Prince North Læraðr

Lae scowls deeply. "I'll keep my eyes on you" and slowly starts walking back towards the inn room

Make one last perception roll

nat20, let's goooo

Sciborg

What are you trying to perceive specifically?

Prince North Læraðr

General environment of the inn or any sudden movements. Anything that could be a threat

Graylocke

Ink fidgets, tail tip twitching his cloak as he hurries after the elf back to the table.

Sciborg

Besides Grumpy Guy, the inn seems relatively quiet. The woman and Quilly are sitting at a table together, murmuring quietly and shooting you curious looks; you get the feeling they are gossiping about you.

Prince North Læraðr

04:10

Oblivious to gossiping

Storms into inn-room furiously

(Our inn-room, fyi)

Graylocke

Ink isn't following to a room, then, but to a table to wait with Astrid for food.

bobble

Astrid murmurs to Ink in Sylvan, "Did they say how long to wait for food?"

Sciborg

Snibby approaches the table and gently sets down two plates of fresh hotcakes with butter, a little canister of syrup, and two glasses of water. "May I get the young madams, sirs or persons anything else?"

bobble

Astrid squeals "Butter hotcakes!" and gulps down half in one bite

Then looks up and says "Thank you, I think that is all, for me"

Graylocke

Ink looks up, eyes focusing as from a long way away, thoughts clearly following Lae and Grumpy Guy and alert for the potential of danger. "Thank you kind uh... sir..? madam..? person..? I think that will be all... Let me reimburse you for the meal and the room?"

Sciborg

04:16

"Of course," Snibby says politely. "That will be two silver, please."

Graylocke

Ink nods amicably and produces them from his pouch.

Sciborg

"Thank you kindly," Snibby says, taking the money. "If the persons require anything else, they must only call me."

Prince North Læraðr

(Lae is still fuming in the room. Fen sympathetically licks his hand)

Graylocke

Ink carefully divides his plate into two portions, making sure there is some left for the elf, and eats some absent mindedly.

bobble

Astrid has vacuumed up all the hotcakes on their plate, and is now sipping some water.

Sciborg

04:21

As you enjoy your meal, the grumpy man, who was cocking his head in apparent concentration on something, suddenly stands up without having eaten or drank anything and sweeps urgently out of the bar, one hand on his spellbook.

Graylocke

(... toward the exit? or the way Lae went?)

Sciborg

Out the exit.

Prince North Læraðr

Lae happens to step out of the inn room to check on Astrid and Ink and sees the man leaving

Graylocke

As curious as Ink is, he is actually visibly relieved, even more so when Lae arrives and he pushes the half-plate of hotcakes towards him.

Prince North Læraðr

Lae rushes over to Ink and Astrid

Sylvan: "I'm going after him. I don't like his energy. He's up to no good."

Graylocke

04:24

(Sylvan) "... Uh..! Really, friend Lae?" he looks startled and concerned again... his other expression.

bobble

Sylvan, to Ink: "I'll follow Lae if you do"

Prince North Læraðr

Eye flashing bright red, and Lae's magical arm forming, Lae says, "Yes. Anyone who calls an elf "pointy-ears" is up to no good.

Graylocke

Ink hears Astrid and sighs, shrugging and murmuring in Sylvan, "... Or just uneducated... but I will follow your lead, friend Lae."

bobble

Astrid downs the rest of the water-glass and tidies up the plates before standing up and going

Prince North Læraðr

With grip on his new rapier Lae storms outside

Perception check once outside?

Sciborg

04:27

How many of you have darkvision?

Prince North Læraðr

Okay, I'm getting a new dice roller

Graylocke

(Pretty sure I do...)

bobble

I do, as a dwarf

Sciborg

It's late at night now and the streets are unlit, so it's tough to see without darkvision.

Does Lae have it too?

Prince North Læraðr

I just rolled a 1 followed by a 20 again

(yup)

Sciborg

04:28

Yeah, you might need a new roller

Roll again somewhere else :p

bobble

(I have Light, so I can make something light up... if Lae admits he needs something to see)

Prince North Læraðr

Okay new roller

Sciborg

(i need to switch over my laundry, one sec)

Prince North Læraðr

13+5=18

Sciborg

When you step outside, you just barely manage to catch a glimpse of the man disappearing around a corner, heading out of town.

Graylocke

04:32

Ink's claws are flexing and he takes a long, deep breath... preparing himself.

Prince North Læraðr

I rush after him as sneakily as I could

(roll stealth?)

Sciborg

Stealth it up

Prince North Læraðr

12+5=17, not bad

But also night :)

bobble

aw

Graylocke

Ink hurries to try to keep Lae in sight, but lags enough to keep Astrid in sight too.

Sciborg

04:34

That's pretty stealthy, you are probably well-hidden.

The man is heading very briskly down the road out of town, and doesn't seem to have noticed you.

Prince North Læraðr

Softly in Sylvan: "Astrid, some rain for me?"

bobble

Astrid asks Ink, "What are we doing?"

Prince North Læraðr

"I'm going to hunt that man."

Graylocke

Ink says with the wryest of smiles, "Keeping our friend safe"

bobble

"You're planning to hurt them? Kill them? I didn't think that was what we did"

Prince North Læraðr

04:36

Ignores Astrid

How far away is he?

Graylocke

Ink looks up at that, assuming we are hustling behind Lae behind the man.

Sciborg

The man is now heading towards an intersection in the road, and is slowing down, as though waiting for someone.

He's about 50 feet away from you.

Prince North Læraðr

Astrid, rain please?

Actually

Perception roll

Anywhere to hide?

Graylocke

Ink murmurs, "We had best not be hunting a man just because he didn't like your ears..."

Prince North Læraðr

13+5=18

Sciborg

04:37

There are some boulders and outcroppings nearby that you could conceivably hide behind and stay within earshot.

Prince North Læraðr

(Dashes over)

bobble

Astrid follows Lae, asking more insistently. "Are you planning to hurt them? For what?"

Prince North Læraðr

(Draws bow and arrow for the ready)

@bobble I need to know what they are up to.

bobble

Then why are you bringing out a bow?

Prince North Læraðr

In case they are dangerous

Sciborg

04:39

There is a person now approaching the man - a woman who is cursing and seems to be missing her boots. "Your job went wrong, asshole," she says, as the man folds his arms impassively. "I didn't get nothing off him, and these two jerks stole my boots. Some halfling and a bard. Why did you want me to swipe from the guy in the first place? He only had two cents on him."

Graylocke

Ink reaches his paw forward, some moths fluttering in from seemingly nowhere to pick up a small rock from the ground, in preparation. (cast Mage Hand)

Sciborg

"Stop whining," the man says, dismissively. "Did you find anything on him or not? Anything about who he is? Where he comes from?"

bobble

Astrid reluctantly adjusts her handaxe to a more ready position.

Sciborg

"No," the woman says. "And now I've got to replace my damn boots, thanks to you. Jerk."

Prince North Læraðr

Ready the water, astrid. I may need it.

Graylocke

04:41

(I want to prepare a distraction - if Lae makes noise I want to throw the rock to make a noise in the other direction :P)

Sciborg

"I know he knows something," the man says. "He must be connected to them somehow. Keep following him, see what he's up to. Don't try stealing from him again, that was too bold of us."

"It's good you pay me," the woman says, and hobbles angrily off, grumbling about her wet socks. "I'll see you in Hearth."

Prince North Læraðr

(should I fire?)

bobble

Astrid rolls a drop of water off a sleeve, leftover from messy drinking. "Fine, fine, fine Lae. I got a drop ready to cast. Only if they start being a threat"

Graylocke

(you're the hot-headed one who can understand what they are saying :) )

Sciborg

The woman heads off, and the man sighs deeply and starts walking back down the road, seemingly deep in thought.

Prince North Læraðr

04:44

I put the bow and arrow away, drawing my rapier. How far away are they?

bobble

@Graylocke (who is "you" and who is "they"?)

Graylocke

(you is Lae, they is the pair who are having the meeting)

Sciborg

The woman is heading back down the road in the opposite direction, about 60 feet away. The man is about 40 feet away heading back to town.

Prince North Læraðr

(Could I reasonably jump to him from where I am? What advantage disadvantage do I have?)

Graylocke

Is there anything "of interest" nearby?

Sciborg

04:46

I've gotta look up jumping rules, uh, hang on

Roll Perception if you'd like, Ink.

> Your Strength determines how far you can jump.

Long Jump. When you make a long jump, you cover a number of feet up to your Strength score if you move at least 10 feet on foot immediately before the jump. When you make a standing long jump, you can leap only half that distance. Either way, each foot you clear on the jump costs a foot of movement.

Graylocke

Uh.. 7 + 4?

Sciborg

Besides the road, the rocks you're hiding behind, and the town in the distance, there's nothing of strategic interest nearby.

Prince North Læraðr

So could I make it to 40 feet? Or is it better rushing up to him?

Sciborg

It's basically just your movement speed, so it doesn't matter if you run or jump (unless you take Sprint action to double your speed)

Prince North Læraðr

Hm

I sprint over to him, knocking him down to the ground

Do I roll strength to see if I actually knock him?

Sciborg

04:50

Okay okay wait slow down. You take the Sprint action?

Prince North Læraðr

Yes

Sciborg

And then you try to tackle him?

Prince North Læraðr

Yes

Sciborg

You are aware that this will start combat?

Prince North Læraðr

Yikes

Hm

Okay, I just confront the man, because no combat just yet

Graylocke

04:52

(based on the idea that all we know is that he called you pointy-ears and talked about some people we know nothing about ;p)

Prince North Læraðr

Not enough time, otherwise I totally would

Sciborg

How do you confront?

Prince North Læraðr

I point the rapier at him just outside of striking range

bobble

(Do you have some devastating one-liner?)

Sciborg

"How's this for pointy??"

something like that :p

Prince North Læraðr

04:54

I'll take that

"What the hell are you up to?"

Sciborg

The man slowly swivels around. "Ah," he says. "I thought I heard something moving earlier. What's your quarrel with me?"

Prince North Læraðr

"Calling me pointy-ears, bastard. Now I heard everything that happened in that conversation. Care to explain?"

Sciborg

He raises an eyebrow. "Didn't I tell you it was none of your business? Don't go waving that sword around unless you want it to rust."

Prince North Læraðr

"Answer the question."

"I won't ask again."

Sciborg

"If you must know," he says, clasping his hands behind his back, "that friend of mine was sent to get the identity of someone who I suspect is a dangerous criminal. She decided to be a bit overzealous and rob him. Not my intention, I assure you."

Prince North Læraðr

04:59

I call bs

Insight roll

17+3=20

Sciborg

He's being truthful that he wants to know this person's identity, but he's lying about the rest of it.

Or at least, he's concealing information.

Prince North Læraðr

Okay, enough I will engage in battle... the next session, if that's okay

I need to head out

bobble

Astrid remains crouching where Lae used to be hiding. They're stressed and making all the plants around them grow one by one.

Sciborg

Next time on D&D: COMBAT?

Prince North Læraðr

Hehehe

Graylocke

05:02

Ink is remaining where he is still prepared.

Prince North Læraðr

dun dun dun!!!

Sciborg

DUN DUN DUUUUN

bobble

(imagine individual blades of grass sprouting higher)

Sciborg

did you like how i'm secretly tying the campaigns together :p

bobble

so subtle

Graylocke

05:03

so sekritly ;p

Prince North Læraðr

Yes :)

Sciborg

very subtle, much secretive

i feel bad that Astrid is so quiet, we need to find ways to help them talk more ;-;

we love shy dwarf friend

bobble

So far Astrid has been in situations where they can rely on Lae or Ink to do the talking

Prince North Læraðr

Lae does the bashing, you mean

bobble

Does Astrid earn an award for Creative Use Of Druidcraft?

Sciborg

05:08

Yes :P

Prince North Læraðr

Could Astrid use Druidcraft to get material for Light?

Graylocke

I promise to learn Common -.-;

Prince North Læraðr

Because Light needs either a Firefly or Phosphorescent Moss

bobble

Are there fireflies around at night here?

Sciborg

Next time on D&D: Combat and Firefly Catching

Prince North Læraðr

05:10

You could just grow phosphorescent light

bobble

* And getting shy dwarf friend to talk more

Sciborg

Yes

Prince North Læraðr

could druidcraft create phosphorescent moss?

Sciborg

Sure, I'd allow it :D

Prince North Læraðr

Dang bobble, unlimited light!

Also, how long does the rain last for create/destroy water?

bobble

05:13

It says I can touch an "object"

Does "object" include party members?

Prince North Læraðr

You may NOT turn me into a disco ball, dwarf!

bobble

that was not the exact plan

Prince North Læraðr

(Also, subtly notice that Lae switches from "Dwarf" to "Astrid" during tense moments)

bobble

@PrinceNorthLæraðr forever, I think

It's "instantaneous" to create, no indication of going away

Prince North Læraðr

Just like a natural course of rain then? It stops when the weather feels like stopping?

bobble

05:15

Oh I thought you meant the water existing

It exists forever, but I only make a 30-ft cube, once that is gone no more rain

Prince North Læraðr

Ohhhhh

How long would it rain for that I could stay hidden in?

Graylocke

Sorry for Ink being annoying, North :)

bobble

3

Q: What effect would 90 gallons of rain falling on 30 sq ft have?

Create or Destroy Water can create 10 gallons per upcast-level of rain in a 30 ft cube, up to a total of 90 gallons. It can also be cast so it falls as rain. It looks like that would produce a rainfall of about 100 mm/hour or twice the violent shower listed here. I've calculated that the water ...

> Assuming that the rain is "Instantanous[ly]" created uniformly throughout the "30-foot cube" where they represent about 1-9 in 400,000 of the volume (while not stated, this seems a reasonable ruling) and given that terminal velocity of raindrops is about 10m/s, they will hit this speed in about 1 second. However, a 3 m fall takes about 0.75s so all the rain is on the ground in less than a second.

less than a second of rain

Prince North Læraðr

Oh drat

That actually doesn't do me any good if I'm trying to hide

bobble

How long would you need?

Constricting it to a smaller area might help.

Prince North Læraðr

05:19

Probably about 12 seconds, or two rounds at minimum

Graylocke

(I want to get Darkness! That will help :)

Prince North Læraðr

I need one round to hide, another round to attack

Ah, I don't think it's possible to use it as a weather effect

One of the answers explains how it's instantaneous, so it wouldn't really last for any real use

Which makes sense

It's not a concentration spell

@Graylocke Oh no, I thought Ink was great :D

bobble

the rain bit seems intended as an area-effect fire-fighting spell

Prince North Læraðr

Yeah

Hm

I was planning to multi-class into light cleric, so it might help any forest-fire setting I might accidentally do, but now I'm not sure I'll actually multi-class

Ranger has a lot of fun stuff

bobble

My justification for Bless, by the way, is that Pan is a god of shepherds and flocks, and so Bless would allow a priest of Pan to support their "flock", keep them safe

Prince North Læraðr

05:25

Okay so weather control is a level 8 spell, sooooooo I doubt I'll get my instant hide anytime soon :(...

(Sorry everyone for Lae being so hotheaded)

Sciborg

to be fair, he was pretty racist :p

understandable

Prince North Læraðr

"pointy ears"

I'll stick some points into your body, punk

Graylocke

@PrinceNorthLæraðr Ink is just very aware of "not fitting in" ... and isn't so quick to anger :P

Prince North Læraðr

It's a good balance

Graylocke

Though also aware that his only option is burning them ;p

Prince North Læraðr

05:28

Lae is less awkward and more tactless, I realize

Has very little idea of social norms

I had to break character just slightly during the bargaining process of shopping

I knew Lae would be rather rude (not on purpose, but just ignorant) but I (player) could not piss off shopkeeper

Sciborg

shopkeeper is a little... unusual

Graylocke

worryingly forgetful

Prince North Læraðr

Indeed

Good thing I rolled a 20 on that investigation

Sciborg

there is an explanation for shopkeeper's weird behavior, but there weren't any rolls that were sufficient to realize it :p

Prince North Læraðr

Ah

What was it?

Sciborg

05:32

smiles cryptically

Prince North Læraðr

aww, come on

I gotta get something for rolling so many 1s

Sciborg

mysteries make things more fun

Prince North Læraðr

Pleeeaaaasssee?

Sciborg

well you'll just have to go back there and find out

:p

unless it's going to kill you in which case i can just tell you

Prince North Læraðr

please

It will kill me if I don't know

LAE MUST KNOW!

Sciborg

05:37

Henry Molaison

Henry Gustav Molaison (February 26, 1926 – December 2, 2008), known widely as H.M., was an American man who had a bilateral medial temporal lobectomy to surgically resect the anterior two thirds of his hippocampi, parahippocampal cortices, entorhinal cortices, piriform cortices, and amygdalae in an attempt to cure his epilepsy. Although the surgery was partially successful in controlling his epilepsy, a severe side effect was that he became unable to form new memories. The surgery took place in 1953 and H.M. was widely studied from late 1957 until his death in 2008. He resided in a care institute...

Prince North Læraðr

eeek

Sciborg

he's got a similar thing to this guy, basically

Prince North Læraðr

How'd he remember the sword and stuff, though?

Sciborg

he can remember stuff for about 8-9 minutes if he concentrates really hard, so he usually focuses super hard on sales until they're completed and then he can forget about them again

got brained in the head with a mace

Prince North Læraðr

yikes

Sciborg

05:39

he's a very nice guy, though

Prince North Læraðr

yea

I wonder if I could've convinced him to also silver it for free :P

Sciborg

sometimes i put a lot of work into minor NPCs for no reason

Prince North Læraðr

With my rolls, I either get flat out no with 1 or hell yes with a 20

bobble

So far I've made 4 rolls

You roll much more often

Prince North Læraðr

fair, but I knew that roller was broken when I kept alternating between 1s and 20s

I was so dumbfounded after I rolled a 1, that I rolled again and got a 20 and then I was like, nope, not using this anymore

Wasn't planning to take the reroll, I was just trying to see if the roller was okay

Sciborg

05:44

no worries. there are lots of better rollers out there

Prince North Læraðr

Found this

Keeps a log of all my rolls too so

bobble

>

First session! Woo! 1/10/21, 7:17

Rolled d20+3 and got 13
Note for above roll: Perception roll

Shopping excursion 1/14/21, 5:04

Going into tavern 1/14/21 7:17

Rolled d20+3 and got 18
Note for above roll: smelling for hotcakes
Rolled d20 and got 1
Note for above roll: Seeing if Astrid has encountered Snibby's kind
Rolled d20+3 and got 14
Note for above roll: Perception after Snibby comes in

my incredibly impressive log

bow to my programming skills

Sciborg

Very long :P

don't worry, i take notes on every session to keep track of what's happened so far

bobble

do you also keep a list of all the unexpected things we do? :P

Sciborg

oh, absolutely

> They're, uh, taking her boots

> Okay I genuinely forgot Ink did not speak Common, oh no

> Astrid you savage

etc.

bobble

05:49

savage?

Sciborg

that was when you were passive-aggressively snuffing out his pipe

bobble

and I would've kept doing it

serious those things smell terrible

Prince North Læraðr

Geez

My school paid for a tutoring system

And it's pretty bad, not going to lie

I got tranferred three times

bobble

does the PSE tutoring system work better?

Prince North Læraðr

Which wasted close to an hour

@bobble Way better

Sciborg

05:55

PSE tutoring is top-tier

Prince North Læraðr

And my last tutor thought sin^-1 meant 1/sinx for a moment

bobble

are the tutors told what they're be helping with beforehand?

I've had cough some unplanned anecdote breaks cough when I needed to quick google something

Prince North Læraðr

Nah, I explain the problem to them

I spent like 2 hours and I have been completely unenlightened

I have to go to sleep yawn

Good night! I am excited for combat the next time (tm)

Sciborg

good night! :D

i had fun double-DMing

bobble

:D

Graylocke

05:59

sleeps well, dreams nice!

(Ink needs to actually learn Common - I promise that I will learn...)

Prince North Læraðr

Oh btw this whole like "no hesitancy before hunting/attacking" is what makes Lae a true neutral

Graylocke

I figured that he could know a couple of really broken words but not understand sentences ^^;

bobble

I must zzz as well

Graylocke

Sleep well bobble!

Sciborg

zzzzz time for me as well probably <3

Graylocke

06:01

Sleeps well dreams nice evilDMick :)

msh210

08:28

@Sciborg since João and Kithri don't know about that ^ interaction, they can't act as though they do. Right?

Mithical

09:25

4 hours ago, by Sciborg

> They're, uh, taking her boots

I very much want to see the rest of the log now

Sciborg

13:35

@msh210 yup, that is meta-knowledge you cannot use :p

Prince North Læraðr

17:30

Having a speed of 35 ft is really really useful, I have to say

I can outrun a lot of humanoids

And I'm planning to cough get mobile at level 4, because being able to move at 45 ft sounds hilarious

Sciborg

17:45

Yeah, wood elves be fast :P

Prince North Læraðr

17:57

I be zooming

God I'll be able to dash 90 feet at level 4 with the mobile feat

Who's the runner now, Johnny? :P

Sciborg

Oh I could walk five hundred milessss

Prince North Læraðr

(In under a minute)

Who even needs a horse when you have a wood elf with mobile feat?

Pfft, I can run faster than a horse

Sciborg

"So uh, Lae, do you want to travel to the next town on foot?"
"Yes."
"But you have a horse -"
"Yes."

Prince North Læraðr

Though a bit deceptive- most humanoids can run at 60 feet so

I can't wait for a humanoid to try to run from Lae, only to just get tackled by him

Humanoid runs into forest Lae: "Omae o wa mou shindeiru"

Doesn't realize that difficult terrain in the forest doesn't impeded speed "So, you have chosen death"

bobble

is there DRAMATIC MUSIC?

Prince North Læraðr

18:05

DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN

bobble

(and we cut to commercial break)

Prince North Læraðr

Meanwhile, Astrid huffs in the background

@bobble Next time, on Dragonball Z

@Sciborg The horse is too slow

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