The Royal Artificery Society - OOC

[Prehysterical]

So, here's a thought... If I cast Grease directly under the bear, would the wagon be able to ride by without the horses getting into the grease?

[WindStruck]

Um... How about you save the grease for AFTER we pass the bear? If we do pass it.

For the time being, I think Bolten has got two crossbows at his disposal loaded with poisoned sleep bolts.

Edit: something else I realized. If Xavier is getting down from the wagon, I think we'll definitely need someone to keep the horses in check too. They'll probably go wild and crazy with a bear charging at them.

[DeTess]

The problem is that the road you're on isn't very wide. Right now there is just enough room to squeeze past the bear if it is incapacitated. Grease would make that more tricky, especially if the bear is flailing around in the grease trying to get up.

[WindStruck]

Yeaaa common sense would indicate that, though I suppose it was questionable how wide the road is. And now that's been answered.

So anyway, here's the thing. Color spray is probably only disabling the bear for about 2-5 rounds. The drow poison might only knock it out for a minute. We might only have barely enough time to get back on the wagon and get the horses moving around an incapacitated bear. If it happens to wake up and begins chasing us, then I believe grease would be the perfect thing to slow it down or deter it.

I'm also wondering if this bear is actually just some druid who doesn't like us. Or maybe a foresty person sent a bear after us... It just might be persistent!

Shandara nailed that nature check pretty handily, and Bolten came pretty close to that too. But in any case, I think we'll have to give her a few seconds to connect the dots and let her paranoia start bleeding into everything, which is what Drow are good at.

[Prehysterical]

Then I guess Bolten will ready an action to fire his poisoned bolt at the bear if it tries to charge us. I will go ahead and roll the attack just to save some time.

Attack: (1d20+6)[16]
Damage: (1d10)[8]

Don't know the poison's stats.

[WindStruck]

Stats are here.

DC 13 fortitude save required upon hit (and I think you did hit it!).

If it fails the initial save upon hit, it will be unconscious for a minute. The next minute (or two) failing the save again makes it unconscious for 2d4 hours.

[WindStruck]

The bear is fairly likely to make its fortitude save... if it does charge us and the poisoned bolt doesn't stop it, Shandara will cast color spray at it when it gets in range. (her readied action)

That will be a DC 15 will save.

[DeTess]

That was indeed a hit. Let's see if this'll go easy or not:

fort save: (1d20+8)[9]
will save: (1d20+2)[21]

[DeTess]

let's see if the bear takes a long or a short nap : [roll]/1d20+8[/roll]

[DeTess]

let's try that again: (1d20+8)[15]

[WindStruck]

Well, I think the good news is, Bolten's first shot did the trick, and Shandara didn't bother wasting her color spray.

On the other hand, perhaps that will save roll means if she tried to use it on the bear later it would just auto-fail?

[DeTess]

sorry for the multi-post, but I need one more roll: (1d20)[8]

[DeTess]

Ah, the eternal DM debate. Do I go with what I had initially planned, or do I take a look at the player's speculation and say 'you know, that sounds good too' :P

[WindStruck]

Heh.

Honestly, I'm not sure what else to make of that high knowledge nature result you gave me.

[DeTess]

Heh.

Honestly, I'm not sure what else to make of that high knowledge nature result you gave me.

No, I get it. You both got unlucky that that perception check I rolled whiffed, as it would have made it a lot clearer, but that does leave me some freedom in changing the actual reason it was angry at you for something potentially more interesting.

[WindStruck]

Huh, now I'm getting more confused and curious. Who was making a perception check and why.. the bear? Something else? Maybe it's better left a mystery.

Leaving it as is, or actually changing things works. I guess there's nothing wrong with the boring old thing too. Just let Shandara be very paranoid.

[WindStruck]

I guess real life is at it again!

[DeTess]

Yeah, sorry, still that illness coming back to kick my but. I'm doing better again, but still very tired. I'll try to have some sort of post tomorrow.

[MrAbdiel]

Just checking in to say I’m still here, still reading and still happy to chill until both real life troubles and IC timelines are resolved. Wishing I had been there to charm the bear with soothing banjo music.

[WindStruck]

That WOULD have been nice... or maybe, at least, you'd have made a suitable distraction, or your instrument a nice chew toy.

[MrAbdiel]

I have it on good authority that bears, at least in the country, enjoy a good jamboree, thank you very much. :)

[WindStruck]

Now that I think about it... maybe the bear just wanted our picnic basket.

[DeTess]

Just to make sure I don't stretch out the coming scene into 8 posts when it could be 1, @windstruck, @prehysterical, apart from, you know, not getting into trouble with the guard or getting mugged, is there anything else you want to do while going through the entry procedure? Maybe take another shot at figuring out that spell, or anything else I haven't thought off?

[WindStruck]

I'll pass on figuring out the spell. It intrigued Shandara a bit, but it's something she'll feel ultimately isn't that important. Until of course, a situation arises where it later might be.

I think I'll pass on getting mugged and causing trouble with the guards. But, I think I'd just like to report the presence of a particularly vicious bear near that abandoned quarry....

[Prehysterical]

We've made our Jim Henson carpenter friend wait long enough. No need to stretch this out. Go ahead.

[DeTess]

Alright, I think the next thing on the docket for you two was presenting all this to your employer, is that right?

@Mrabdiel, I think the next thing you had planned was working on that small sailing boats for those kids in the harbor district, is that right?

[WindStruck]

I think that's true, though we have some last minute adjustments to make, I believe. And Shandara intends to enchant each tip of the climbing claws with tiny permanent silence enchantments... similar to the beetle, but it should be much simpler since it can be a blanket ban on all sounds, rather than trying to filter out certain sounds.

[MrAbdiel]

Alright, I think the next thing on the docket for you two was presenting all this to your employer, is that right?

@Mrabdiel, I think the next thing you had planned was working on that small sailing boats for those kids in the harbor district, is that right?

Yeah! I had a loose plan to invite the lads over daily to work on their boat and have Marian cook meals for them while they do. I want them to wake up one day and realize they've been tricked into nourishment and a shipwright's apprenticeship under the tutelage of Banjo-Dad.

Aiden also has a secret side project - he's putting together a fantastic dress for Marian, now that has her measurements from the uniform. But he'll hide that from her and present it to her at an appropriate time. I did the crafting calculations for it somewhere, too.

Oh, and Aiden had agreed to entertain at a party that his graphic designer recruited him for! Though I didn't know if that was going to be a campus wide event or like a coffee shop jam.

[Prehysterical]

Yes, we are planning to present both projects to our employers. Since Bolten cannot think of alternate forms for the clockwork tick (besides the clock), he will just ask what Dukkear prefers as alternate disguises. Oh, and the tick will need camouflage, so that needs doing. If my memory serves correctly, didn't Bolten still need to develop some way to transmit sound live from the tick per the Lady's request?

[DeTess]

@windstruck, @prehysterical, in addition to silencing the SCOPRS steps, what other things do you want to try to adjust.

@mrabdiel, what do you want to do first, spend some RP on working on the dress, or have the lads over for work on the boat?