Engelian Adventures

"That sounds excellent. I'll make sure we are fully locked and barred in and put up the Alarm spell tonight. Are there any other precautions you think we should take?" 

"I'd suggest putting one of those alarming spells over the door to the privy as well," Granny says as she heads off towards the kitchen.

[OOC: Please describe what spells you place and where.]

"Will the night soil man be coming tonight. Can we lock that way of getting in?"

"Don't think so," she says from the kitchen. "But they don't really have a set schedule."

OOC Is there a map of the house? Given the 20-foot cube area is it further than 20ft the front door to the toilet hatch? Alternately is there a 20ft cube that will cover all the back entry ways including the toilet access?

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OOC Is there a map of the house? Given the 20-foot cube area is it further than 20ft the front door to the toilet hatch? Alternately is there a 20ft cube that will cover all the back entry ways including the toilet access?

[OOC: There is no map of the house. If you would like to perhaps make a rough sketch based on the areas that have been mentioned and/or can be implied (i.e., there should be two separate bedrooms, a backyard, a rooftop area suitable for drying, a shot, etc.) and photograph it and send it to me I could draw one up for future reference for both of us. Phil didn't something similar for his family's residence.

With regard to the distances you mentioned above. It would definitely be a lot further than 20' between the front entrance of the shop and the toilet hatch in the back fence of the back yard. However, a 20' cube could readily cover both the back gate and the toilet, as I see it.]

OOC I will draw something up and send through. I'll have to work out which room the crystal chandelier goes.

In the meanwhilst before turning in cast a 20ft sphere Alarm spell covering all back entrances with a mental alarm. Have sword and spell compenents for dancing lights ready by the bedside. Wear underclothes to bed.

Also pop some more salve if not quite fully healed yet. 

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OOC I will draw something up and send through. I'll have to work out which room the crystal chandelier goes. [LOL]

In the meanwhilst before turning in cast a 20ft sphere Alarm spell covering all back entrances with a mental alarm. Have sword and spell compenents for dancing lights ready by the bedside. Wear underclothes to bed.

[Check.]

Also pop some more salve if not quite fully healed yet. 

[Salve applied, though probably unnecessary at this point. With my homebrew rules for healing (see 'Recovery of hit points and exhaustion levels' under the Homebrew Rules category on the world site) the sensible thing for Guilliame to do is to just have a quiet night (i.e., another short rest but roll 0 hit dice and just recover his Constitution bonus in hit points, i.e., 1 hit point) to recover the hit point he is down and then hopefully have a long rest to recover his missing hit dice. This should leave him on full hit points and hit dice in the morning. If he doesn't achieve the long rest, he will be on full hit points, but still down the hit die he used earlier today. If he gets neither the short rest or the long rest, he will still be down 1 hit point and 1 hit die.]

Guilliame has a nice evening meal and settles in for a quiet and early night after placing his Alarm spell over the back entrances to the property...

Guilliame awakes next morning with the Dawn Rush feeling well rested and with only a few minor aches and pains to remind him of his run-in yesterday.

However, as he is about to get out of bed he realised he doesn't have to. Today is the 20th of Khorhalas and therefore the end of the current tenday and it is Holyday; a day set aside for rest and general worship for the Sorendenese people. 

Is the school library open? If so go and try to learn running away spell.

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Is the school library open? If so go and try to learn running away spell.

[OOC: The School will be open, but it is unlikely that Velma will be working today.]

Go down to library and try to learn the spell.

An adjusted roll if necessary:

6

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An adjusted roll if necessary:

6

[OOC: Guilliame should add +2 to his Check, but that is still not enough to succeed. You can roll again for experience though and his DC for his next attempt is now 15.]

Guilliame spends several hours in the School's library unsuccessfully researching and the leaves feeling a little disgruntled because a lead he thought was promising led him down a completely wrong path.

Spellbook and writing utensils in hand, he makes his way towards the entrance of the School and happens to meet up with Master Narim coming the other way.

Roll for experience:

21

"Master Narim. Do you have time for a quick question?"

[OOC: Guilliame gains 15 experience points]

"Oh, hello de Marchant," says Master Narim. "Hitting the books I see. Haven't you graduated already?"

"There is plenty still to learn, Master. Talking of which I would like to teach a couple of lads at the western markets a lesson, but I wanted to make sure I wasn't going to be stepping outside of school guidelines. Basically two thugs have been hanging around the markets stealing from who they like. I tried to stop them once and failed. Next time I went they tried to bash me up. I thought taking a couple of your trainees for a bit of real life practice might help them learn the ways of the world faster. I intend to hand the ruffians into the guard if things go well. What do you think?""

 [OOC: Make a Persuasion check.]

11

Narim looks at Guilliame for a long moment and then smiles. 

"Sure, why not," he says. "I know a couple of promising students who should get a chance to see what real combat is like... But don't tell any of the other masters... It's not the done thing."

Then, looking around belatedly, he asks, "When do you want to do this thing? I may have to change mine and their schedule."

"I'll keep quiet about it. I want to ask around the shopkeepers first. If I have got their support I'll let you know a time."