Bryn takes the leather pouch from the body and examines the contents while Brother Coltinar performs the last rites. In response to Rylia's question, he nods and says, "I'm no leecher, but based on the evidence I think probably yes. He's dead. Now the question is who is this person, why was he killed, and who did it?"
With Coltinar already working on the body, Paladin runs to the edge of the bridge and leaps over. He lands with a heavy crash, warhammer coming out in his grip, feet spread wide.
He scans the area slowly, a calculating patience coming over him as the lights of his eyes search the dark and stormy night.
R4G3 runs right after Paladin but stops at the edge and looks down the bridge where they saw the figure disappearing. If possible they keep an eye on Paladin and judge visibility through the rain. Can they see what is below the bridge and where the cloaked figure might have landed or where they could have escaped to? How high above solid ground are we?
Perception: 12 (dis/adv: 12)
On a natural instinct, Paladinruns to the edge of the bridge and leaps over. As he tries carefully to look around straining his vision to reach something beyond the darkness, R4G3approaches the railing and, looking down, realizes that Paladin is in some kind of a floating small base. One more step to the side or back and he plummets hundreds and hundreds of feet to land who knows where.
//--- Sharn is a vertical city with somewhere between 2.5/3 miles. Some of their tallest towers can reach close to 1000 feet. Falls are potentially deadly.---//
Sharn, a vertical City
FALLING Falling from potentially deadly heights presents a constant danger in the City of Towers. Whether a character is bull-rushed over the side of a bridge, knocked from a soarsled, or thrown off a balcony, the sudden stop far below can have deadly consequences. Fortunately, Sharn has precautions in place to reduce the number of deaths that result from falls. The city offers a standard reward of 25 gp to a spellcaster who casts feather fall on a falling person. The reward is large enough, and the risk of falling real enough, that spellcasters who can cast feather fall almost always keep one prepared on a daily basis. Watch patrols usually carry a wand of feather fall, but few members have sufficient ranks in Use Magic Device to activate it. Bridges in the Upper-City and Middle-City are also warded with permanent feather fall effects to protect those using them from falling bodies and other large objects. Such wards are triggered automatically when an object approaches within 30 feet of the top or sides of a bridge. This is effectively a magic trap that resets automatically and immediately.
Brother Coltinar is focused on his patient....to facilitate either healing or last rights (condensed version.)
Brother Coltinar comments looking at the others, "We will need to let the authorities know what happened here. Where is Paladin? Is there any clues on the individual? Personal effects? "
Brother Coltinar moves to the ledge when he sees R4G3, "Thank you Dol Arras for looking after Paladin. Be careful. We should meet somewhere we can all get to fairly easily from both our locations. If we need to, we can lower some ropes to get you."
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Brother Coltinar - The Shadows & the Forgotten Forge; Gildor Surion - Balder's Gate-Decent; Alsariph Safxipha - LFG ; Ral Grixora Battle for the Forest Admin;Sir Aarlin - LFG; Ving Raflamir - LFG; Sorwan Degor - LFG; Warwin Paws- LFG; Capt.Sask and Boxter Snappus; Battle for the forest;
Coltinar, anguished, tries to evoke divine energy to heal the body lying on the ground, but realizes that it is in vain. He´s dead! He says a prayer to Dol Arrah and then goes up looking for Paladinand R4G3. The floating base where the Paladin is begins to float upwards to the height of the edge of the bridge. Paladin saw nothing where he was.
Ryliaand Bryninvestigate the body.
Rylia's scan reveals that the man was stabbed quickly and precisely through the heart. The puncture, she thinks morbidly, is pretty much perfect if one is looking for an instant kill.
Bryn, knowing that in Sharn no one can walk around without an ID, checks the man's coat and finds this document. He checks and finds that the victim's name is Bonal Geldem. He appears to be a provost at the School of Pre-Galifar Studies at Morgrave University according to the details on the card.
Bryn paws through the bag, which upon closer inspection is well made and stylish, contains quills and inks, papers, a wrapped apple, and a book of some sort. He might be worried that looking through the documents thoroughly here, under the rain, will smudge whatever information might be printed on the sheets.
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Braxiel's eyes widened with horrific recognition "That man works at my university, I have seen him around campus and vaguely remember that name." Braxiel will look around frantically for arcane ruins or the smell of components in the air.
R4G3 reaches out and offers a hand for Paladin to climb back onto the bridge, then says, “This figure was prepared and knew what it was doing. The jump was no accident or chance, more the part of a plan.” Then, R4 investigates the bridge all the way back to the others.
Rylia gets up, standing reverently near the body as Coltinar says a prayer for the dead man. "Stabbed right through the heart. Whoever's responsible looks like they knew what they're doing."
Coltinar helps R4G3 get Paladin back on the bridge, "You may need to take heed before actions my friend Paladin, unless you did then you did right."
"We should look for the authorities and a dry place to look over the deceased's effects. Let us move on then. We have done all we can here, unless you have more concerns to share. It is sad the passing of any creature. A crime here needs to be investigated for justice to prevail we should try to find the culprits to set a wrong to right."
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Brother Coltinar - The Shadows & the Forgotten Forge; Gildor Surion - Balder's Gate-Decent; Alsariph Safxipha - LFG ; Ral Grixora Battle for the Forest Admin;Sir Aarlin - LFG; Ving Raflamir - LFG; Sorwan Degor - LFG; Warwin Paws- LFG; Capt.Sask and Boxter Snappus; Battle for the forest;
Braxiel's eyes widened with horrific recognition "That man works at my university, I have seen him around campus and vaguely remember that name." Braxiel will look around frantically for arcane ruins or the smell of components in the air.
Arcana 13
Braxiel feels some arcane energy coming from the book in the professor´s bag.
R4G3 reaches out and offers a hand for Paladin to climb back onto the bridge, then says, “This figure was prepared and knew what it was doing. The jump was no accident or chance, more the part of a plan.” Then, R4 investigates the bridge all the way back to the others.
Investigation: 18
R4G3 takes a closer look at the bridge. It looks like the other bridges in Sharn. they see rainwater running down and small puddles of water, making it impossible to identify any kind of footprints. They know that there are hundreds of then, big or small, connecting the towers and making it easy to move around the city, whether on foot or in one of those magical flying things they knows exists.
R4G3 nods at Coltinar and moves to pick up the body but then stops just before taking the men and looks to Coltinar for approval, “Shouldn’t I take them with us?”
Rylia turns to Coltinar as he suggests moving on. "Yes, but where are we going? Does someone know of a spot?"
She heads towards him, ready to follow.
(Would Rylia know of a place that stays open later? I presume she has some really inexpensive room to stay in here in town - that might not fit everyone!)
As Rylia thinks of a dry place where they can go and R4G3 carefully but clumsily drape the Professor's body over his shoulder, Brexiel takes the book out of the bag trying to analyze it more closely.
Sunddenly, everyone hears a splash behind them. Jumpy, you all look over your shoulders or turn around completely to see a cloaked figure pointing something at Brexiel. R4G3 hears the distinct click of a crossbow as a bolt flies through the rain toward Brexiel!
(Aiming at Brexiel. Attack: 18 Damage: 6
As soon as they notice the attack on Braxiel, a second arrow cuts through the air! Zupt!
(Aiming at R4G3. Attack: 17 Damage: 6
Get ready to brawl!
Initiative Order R4G3 Rylia ??? Coltinar Paladin Braxiel Bryn
///--- OOC: I will use automatic initiative roll to facilitate the flow. I cut the following map down to help you to see your tokens location. I assumed that R4G3, Bryn and Brexiel are close to the body, and Paladin, Coltinar and Rylia are close to where Paladin was investigating. However, if you think you are in other spot, let me know.---///
In response to the first bolt bouncing off Brexiel's shield spell, R4G3 begins a guttural low roar that seems to originate from their vibrating body as much as from their mouth and they let the body slide down back to the stone floor. Then, they recklessly charge the cloaked figure, taking a point blank shot that nearly took the wind out of them, and try to grab and manhandle them with their feet up over the airy space next to the bridge.
bonus action: rage move: 5ft North, 5ft NE (10ft total) action: grapple target (Athletics with advantage: 14 adv 10) move (if grappled successfully): turn 90 degrees counterclockwise so that the target hangs free in the open air, 10 ft West from where it is now. (I counted this as 20ft movement as per rules of moving a grappled creature. Correct me if this isn't possible or wrong.)
Braxiel will flick his hand up as if to cover his face and cast shield as a reaction, causing the bolt to bounce off it and leave Braxiel without a scratch.
Bryn, still absorbed in investigating the body, is surprised by the sudden flurry of motion and combat erupting around him...(which is why he's going last in the round! And because he's going last, I'll check back in a little bit to let others act. Otherwise I'll post a couple of alternate actions based on happens before he goes =)
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Bryn takes the leather pouch from the body and examines the contents while Brother Coltinar performs the last rites. In response to Rylia's question, he nods and says, "I'm no leecher, but based on the evidence I think probably yes. He's dead. Now the question is who is this person, why was he killed, and who did it?"
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On a natural instinct, Paladin runs to the edge of the bridge and leaps over. As he tries carefully to look around straining his vision to reach something beyond the darkness, R4G3 approaches the railing and, looking down, realizes that Paladin is in some kind of a floating small base. One more step to the side or back and he plummets hundreds and hundreds of feet to land who knows where.
//--- Sharn is a vertical city with somewhere between 2.5/3 miles. Some of their tallest towers can reach close to 1000 feet. Falls are potentially deadly.---//
Sharn, a vertical City
FALLING
Falling from potentially deadly heights presents a constant danger in the City of Towers. Whether a character is bull-rushed over the side of a bridge, knocked from a soarsled, or thrown off a balcony, the sudden stop far below can have deadly consequences.
Fortunately, Sharn has precautions in place to reduce the number of deaths that result from falls.
The city offers a standard reward of 25 gp to a spellcaster who casts feather fall on a falling person. The reward is large enough, and the risk of falling real enough, that spellcasters who can cast feather fall almost always keep one prepared on a daily basis. Watch patrols usually carry a wand of feather fall, but few members have sufficient ranks in Use Magic Device to activate it.
Bridges in the Upper-City and Middle-City are also warded with permanent feather fall effects to protect those using them from falling bodies and other large objects. Such wards are triggered automatically when an object approaches within 30 feet of the top or sides of a bridge. This is effectively a magic trap that resets automatically and immediately.
DM The Shadows & the Forgotten Forge Thaurea Wolf Tholake
Paladin puts away his Warhammer and looks for someone faling or flying
Paladin - warforged - orange
Brother Coltinar is focused on his patient....to facilitate either healing or last rights (condensed version.)
Brother Coltinar comments looking at the others, "We will need to let the authorities know what happened here. Where is Paladin? Is there any clues on the individual? Personal effects? "
Brother Coltinar moves to the ledge when he sees R4G3, "Thank you Dol Arras for looking after Paladin. Be careful. We should meet somewhere we can all get to fairly easily from both our locations. If we need to, we can lower some ropes to get you."
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Brother Coltinar - The Shadows & the Forgotten Forge; Gildor Surion - Balder's Gate-Decent; Alsariph Safxipha - LFG ; Ral Grixora Battle for the Forest Admin; Sir Aarlin - LFG; Ving Raflamir - LFG; Sorwan Degor - LFG; Warwin Paws- LFG; Capt.Sask and Boxter Snappus; Battle for the forest;
Coltinar, anguished, tries to evoke divine energy to heal the body lying on the ground, but realizes that it is in vain. He´s dead! He says a prayer to Dol Arrah and then goes up looking for Paladin and R4G3.
The floating base where the Paladin is begins to float upwards to the height of the edge of the bridge. Paladin saw nothing where he was.
Rylia and Bryn investigate the body.
Rylia's scan reveals that the man was stabbed quickly and precisely through the heart. The puncture, she thinks morbidly, is pretty much perfect if one is looking for an instant kill.
Bryn, knowing that in Sharn no one can walk around without an ID, checks the man's coat and finds this document. He checks and finds that the victim's name is Bonal Geldem. He appears to be a provost at the School of Pre-Galifar Studies at Morgrave University according to the details on the card.
Bryn paws through the bag, which upon closer inspection is well made and stylish, contains quills and inks, papers, a wrapped apple, and a book of some sort.
He might be worried that looking through the documents thoroughly here, under the rain, will smudge whatever information might be printed on the sheets.
DM The Shadows & the Forgotten Forge Thaurea Wolf Tholake
Braxiel's eyes widened with horrific recognition "That man works at my university, I have seen him around campus and vaguely remember that name." Braxiel will look around frantically for arcane ruins or the smell of components in the air.
Arcana 20
R4G3 reaches out and offers a hand for Paladin to climb back onto the bridge, then says, “This figure was prepared and knew what it was doing. The jump was no accident or chance, more the part of a plan.” Then, R4 investigates the bridge all the way back to the others.
|| Tryncaryn - Halfling Monk/Wizard - Dragon of Icespire Peak || Berry - Fairy Barbarian - Deathworld: Lost Mine of Phandelver || Taya - Mysterious Fighter - Echoes of Empire || Myrla Stardust - Wood Elf Rogue - After the Fall ||
Rylia gets up, standing reverently near the body as Coltinar says a prayer for the dead man. "Stabbed right through the heart. Whoever's responsible looks like they knew what they're doing."
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Coltinar helps R4G3 get Paladin back on the bridge, "You may need to take heed before actions my friend Paladin, unless you did then you did right."
"We should look for the authorities and a dry place to look over the deceased's effects. Let us move on then. We have done all we can here, unless you have more concerns to share. It is sad the passing of any creature. A crime here needs to be investigated for justice to prevail we should try to find the culprits to set a wrong to right."
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Brother Coltinar - The Shadows & the Forgotten Forge; Gildor Surion - Balder's Gate-Decent; Alsariph Safxipha - LFG ; Ral Grixora Battle for the Forest Admin; Sir Aarlin - LFG; Ving Raflamir - LFG; Sorwan Degor - LFG; Warwin Paws- LFG; Capt.Sask and Boxter Snappus; Battle for the forest;
Braxiel feels some arcane energy coming from the book in the professor´s bag.
DM The Shadows & the Forgotten Forge Thaurea Wolf Tholake
R4G3 takes a closer look at the bridge. It looks like the other bridges in Sharn. they see rainwater running down and small puddles of water, making it impossible to identify any kind of footprints. They know that there are hundreds of then, big or small, connecting the towers and making it easy to move around the city, whether on foot or in one of those magical flying things they knows exists.
DM The Shadows & the Forgotten Forge Thaurea Wolf Tholake
R4G3 nods at Coltinar and moves to pick up the body but then stops just before taking the men and looks to Coltinar for approval, “Shouldn’t I take them with us?”
|| Tryncaryn - Halfling Monk/Wizard - Dragon of Icespire Peak || Berry - Fairy Barbarian - Deathworld: Lost Mine of Phandelver || Taya - Mysterious Fighter - Echoes of Empire || Myrla Stardust - Wood Elf Rogue - After the Fall ||
Coltinar nods yes to R4G3 in approval.
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Brother Coltinar - The Shadows & the Forgotten Forge; Gildor Surion - Balder's Gate-Decent; Alsariph Safxipha - LFG ; Ral Grixora Battle for the Forest Admin; Sir Aarlin - LFG; Ving Raflamir - LFG; Sorwan Degor - LFG; Warwin Paws- LFG; Capt.Sask and Boxter Snappus; Battle for the forest;
R4G3 carefully lifts up the body and shoulders it, trying to make sure not to injure it further with any of the utensils attached to his pack.
|| Tryncaryn - Halfling Monk/Wizard - Dragon of Icespire Peak || Berry - Fairy Barbarian - Deathworld: Lost Mine of Phandelver || Taya - Mysterious Fighter - Echoes of Empire || Myrla Stardust - Wood Elf Rogue - After the Fall ||
Rylia turns to Coltinar as he suggests moving on. "Yes, but where are we going? Does someone know of a spot?"
She heads towards him, ready to follow.
(Would Rylia know of a place that stays open later? I presume she has some really inexpensive room to stay in here in town - that might not fit everyone!)
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Braxiel will go into the bag and investigate the book more closely.
Investigation 19
As Rylia thinks of a dry place where they can go and R4G3 carefully but clumsily drape the Professor's body over his shoulder, Brexiel takes the book out of the bag trying to analyze it more closely.
Sunddenly, everyone hears a splash behind them. Jumpy, you all look over your shoulders or turn around completely to see a cloaked figure pointing something at Brexiel. R4G3 hears the distinct click of a crossbow as a bolt flies through the rain toward Brexiel!
(Aiming at Brexiel. Attack: 18 Damage: 6
As soon as they notice the attack on Braxiel, a second arrow cuts through the air! Zupt!
(Aiming at R4G3. Attack: 17 Damage: 6
Get ready to brawl!
Initiative Order
R4G3
Rylia
???
Coltinar
Paladin
Braxiel
Bryn
///--- OOC: I will use automatic initiative roll to facilitate the flow. I cut the following map down to help you to see your tokens location. I assumed that R4G3, Bryn and Brexiel are close to the body, and Paladin, Coltinar and Rylia are close to where Paladin was investigating. However, if you think you are in other spot, let me know.---///
DM The Shadows & the Forgotten Forge Thaurea Wolf Tholake
In response to the first bolt bouncing off Brexiel's shield spell, R4G3 begins a guttural low roar that seems to originate from their vibrating body as much as from their mouth and they let the body slide down back to the stone floor. Then, they recklessly charge the cloaked figure, taking a point blank shot that nearly took the wind out of them, and try to grab and manhandle them with their feet up over the airy space next to the bridge.
|| Tryncaryn - Halfling Monk/Wizard - Dragon of Icespire Peak || Berry - Fairy Barbarian - Deathworld: Lost Mine of Phandelver || Taya - Mysterious Fighter - Echoes of Empire || Myrla Stardust - Wood Elf Rogue - After the Fall ||
Braxiel will flick his hand up as if to cover his face and cast shield as a reaction, causing the bolt to bounce off it and leave Braxiel without a scratch.
Bryn, still absorbed in investigating the body, is surprised by the sudden flurry of motion and combat erupting around him...(which is why he's going last in the round! And because he's going last, I'll check back in a little bit to let others act. Otherwise I'll post a couple of alternate actions based on happens before he goes =)
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