Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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D&D Beyond Basic Rules
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"Yes, that sounds like a good idea," Vars agrees. "I also think an Abernathy disguise might be a good idea as well. Whether or not this is a friend or foe, their reaction to seeing him might help indicate what we are up against."
[Yeah, I can hang onto the scroll. I'm no good at Arcana though -- happy to pass it off to someone who is.]
Bjorn casts Disguise Self and appears as Abernath from the paintings, with his hands clean and his clothes chosen from whichever painting's outfit is less flashy. He conceals a dagger and pockets his spell focus, grabs the thieves' tools and leaves the rest of his gear in his backpack, in the library.
He heads downstairs and tries on a pair of Abernath's boots, in order to leave Abernath's own footprints. [They might not fit, he's a pretty tall fellow. But he'll try.] And puts on one of Abernath's coats, tucking the thieves' tools into a pocket.
He performs a dramatic bow to the party and swirls his coat as he turns for the door. "The time is not yet right to announce my return fully, so I dearly hope no one recognizes me under my hood..!" He winks and heads out the door.
"Oh, there he goes again." Sorsha sighs as Bjorn heads out the door too quick to stop. "I guess we scrap the plan with using the back door then." She says to the others, then sneaking to the front door to peek out to see the reaction of the spy as Abernathy approaches him.
Stealth: 7 Perception: 15
"he's in the ally, lets send someone to one side and corral him toward the others. I can be pretty intimidating." Sparhawk uses his awareness of the area where he saw the man to pick a good location. Who wants to "catch him?" I can escort my good friend Abernathy here toward one end, guard style while someone moves in from the rear."
(So Sparhawk will go to one end of the alley, and try to get their attention with Abernathy, while the others close in from the rear.)
The boots won’t fit, but you do find a suitable large jacket
Sorsha is practically invisible as she peeks out the door. She doesn’t see the man at the alley that Sparhawk talked about, but there is a large pile of garbage/ debris blocking your view from here.
Realizing she can't see their target Sorsha, being practically invisible, sneaks the other way and around the house, hurrying to try to get around from the back to cut off the spy from retreating.
Here is the map of the area outside the house. The spy was seen roughly around the w
I will make up a clearer map so we can get a more precise bead on where everyone is going to be
Vars follows Sorsha, stepping lightly behind her.
Stealth: 20
Perception: 5
Frangipani concentrates and becomes a sleek blue-black cat with somewhat sharky teeth.
She slips out after Sorsha, not bothering to hide......cos cat.
Eberk, not being the sneaky type, continues to the next room. He opens the door and looks inside.
Perception: 22 (rolled in game log)
He sits down in the doorway and does a ritual casting of Detect Magic.
Eberk opens the door to peek inside the room. It is very dark, with just a little light coming in through curtains covering a window to the balcony. He sits down in the doorway and conducts his ritual to illuminate any magic within as his companions seek to surround the spy seen from the balcony.
"Abernathy" wanders over in the direction of the alleyway, keeping his head down and pausing to look at various stalls or passing birds. Basically trying to give the others enough time to get in position.
Sparhawk and "Abernathy" head to the left (or north side), while the others head to the right to try to not give the spy an exit. Sparhawk makes some small talk with Abernathy while keeping his eyes inconspicuously scanning for the spy he saw initially, yet counting on the others to corral him in (like wolves closing in on their prey. He has a javelin at the ready as his role standing guard over the wizard.
{Don't do too much Barbosa, don't want Eberk to get attacked by another rug while we are out and about.)
(And perhaps don't use lethal force now. Even in a place like Luskan I think we could get in trouble if we killed a man because he spied on a house. ;-) Better just grapple him or something if he tries to escape.)
[He can't answer our questions if he's dead!]
Bjorn says quietly, "If our observer wants to ambush me, I think we ought to encourage him, right? Try not to look as good at your job as you are."
Sparhawk makes a show of looking around and being satisfied, puts his javelin away. "All clear boss!" He also starts looking around at the the birds, and seems to be quite unconcerned about his job. "In broken common/ orcish) "Boss, you wants me to catch you a piggy or goat to eat?" Licking his lips in anticipation of the yummy potential meal
As Vara follows Sorsha, his foot clips a bottle in the alleyway, sending careening into the wall of the next house. It doesn't break, but makes a nice pinging sound until it skids to a stop.