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Kanodoesn't have enough time to take off his costume, let alone set it on fire. He dives into the brush once more, easily heating this time several others skulking the flora looking for you.
"We've got this bit surrounded. Come out, do as we say and you won't be hurt!" Kano hears from what he can only assume is outside the bushes.
Stealth Check: Pimster (Cat) - 12
It gets a bit dicey sometimes, especially with the scampering kobolds, to make it back to camp, where you find Burra and Kano, resting.
"Ooh, what's this? Good on ya, half-orc! A new challenger!"
At this Tengar hears a lot of calls for bets being put on him. Fuelled with liquid courage, Tengar steps into the arena. The smell of sweat and alcohol is a place most welcome as the dwarf raises his fist...
With this, we'll make the damage 1d4 plus modifiers. Tengar can guess spells are not allowed.
He looks around at the crowd, chuckling before raising both fists to the air, “Tengar!” he rumbles. Bending a bit at the knees, the half-orc circles the dwarf carefully, grinning while watching the redbrand scum. He breathes in deeply through his nose, trying to clear the sounds and shouts of the onlookers. Tengar will then rush in and attempt a grapple:23
When he hears the commotion, if there is no sign of Kanu, Karib gathers his shield, pulls his hood over his head, and moves toward the noise. He keeps a wary eye out for Kanu, and if he encounters anyone actively searching he asks, "What's all the commotion? I was trying to sleep! Thought we were being attacked."
Perception (trying to spot Kanu and/or determine his direction of travel): 13 (passive 16)
With impressive resistance, but simply not enough; the Redbrand's strength caves to Tengar's. Despite being unable to move, the dwarf swings a backfist at the half-orc!
Unarmed Strike: 17Damage: 4 (bludgeoning)
Kanois left in open, hoping to sneak by unnoticed as he dives from one bit of shrubbery to next. All seemed to be looking up until a call out seizes his focus for just a moment from a cultist member 20 ft. away, "Halt! By order of a Wearer of Purple, come with me!"
What is Kano going to do?
It does not take long for Karibto find a cultist guard looking around while unable to spot his fellow party member Kano.
The cultist guard does not acknowledge Karib's presence and simply states, "Back to your tent, mercenary. we will sound the proper alarm if we are under - Actually... here." The cultist guard chucks a small money pouch towards Karib. With a deft catch, he finds it holds a few gold pieces. "Help us find a man with colourful scales. We will make worth your lost beauty sleep, trust me."
Karib catches the money pouch, frowns, rubs his eyes and opens it to check what is inside. "Not gonna get much sleep, anyway" he mutters.
His eyebrows rise a little at the sight of gold, and he bashes his fist to his chest in salute. "I heard something strange over there a while back..." he says, pointing roughly in the direction of Tengar's fight. "Thought nothing of it at the time. Them Redbrands are touchy though, so I don't go near 'em..."
Deception (if it is) or Persuasion (if necessary): 12 + 3 (Guidance, if still running)
So saying, he keeps searching nearby for the man with colourful scales...
With impressive resistance, but simply not enough; the Redbrand's strength caves to Tengar's. Despite being unable to move, the dwarf swings a backfist at the half-orc!
Unarmed Strike: 17Damage: 4 (bludgeoning)
Both hands on the squirmy little humanoid, Tengar just grins widely as he sees the dwarf's hammy fist come at him and moves his head backwards. He looks around to the crowd, "Oh ho! The little one has some spice in him!" Looking back to the dwarf, Tengar rushes his head forward for a vicious head butt! Attack:9Damage:8
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attack is +6 (prof. + STR) damage i put 1d4 + 5 (1+STR) But if that's wrong the STR mod is just 4. if that's wrong i'm fine with you subtracting what you think is necessary.
"No, it is not yet my time!" Kano replies in a powerful voice, spoken in Draconic. Ducking quickly back into the foliage, Kano quickly finds a convenient spot and quickly sheds his disguise. Setting it on fire with one of his fire shuriken, he tries to sneak away and exit in his normal guise from another angle...
Performance: 15
Stealth: 21
Kano:
Having spent several tense moments moving through the tall grass and using what bushes there were available for cover, Kano is nearly back to his campsite (in the thick of the bushes between areas 1 and 2) when he hears the call from the cultist guard as he passes through one last gap in the foliage. Cursing under his breath and realizing he does not have the time for an elaborate ruse (like taking off his disguise and burning it along with his cloak), he instead moves into the bushes and crouches to the ground and uses his finger to trace out the Draconic rune for flight onto the ground below him.
Having left what he hopes is a plausible reason for the trail of the dragon boy to go cold, Kano uses his superior night vision (darkvision 60') to find a path through the bushes back to his camp that will hide his trail (stepping lightly, using hard terrain if available, avoiding the limbs of the bushes, etc.).
If his Stealth 21 is enough to keep him from being spotted:
Kano creeps up to the back of his campsite and crawls under the fabric of his tent from the back side, hiding inside. He then starts to quickly take off his disguise and shed his cloak, folding it in with his bedding.
If he is spotted:
Not wanting to give away his campsite or his companions, Kano breaks into a flat-out run through the camp to the northwest, breaking out of the bushes into the open and trying to outdistance those who might follow by running in the darkest areas where those without darkvision might stumble. His intent is to leave the camp completely and hide in the wild, hoping to figure something out later.
((Nothing needs to be subtracted. Noted for going forward with.))
Tengar's head meets a lot beard as the dwarf tries to wrangle free...
Athletics Check: Redbrand - 6
The dwarf tries with all his might, and Tengar's sees the dwarf's face turn red but to no avail in the half-orc's solid grip!
Insight Check: Cultist Guard - 6
Despite the half-mask, you notice the cultist take a long pause at your suggestion. "You're right - I never did quite trust those Redbrands." He takes long strides towards the Redbrands camp to supposedly investigate.
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Tengar
The half-orc eats some stale beard and curses as he misses the dwarf. Sensing his struggling, Tengar roars, "Ah ha! The little lady wants to dance!" Still holding on to the dwarf, Tengar brings a knee sharply upward under the dwarf's jaw in an attempt to apply some sorely needed dental work! Attack:12Damage:8
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Tengar
The half-orc absorbs the hit, not taking any damage. He grins widely at the dwarf as he keeps his iron grip fast on the dwarf's shirt. Tengar sniffs the air, "Aye now, ye smell a bit like an elf!" Tengar will try another head butt to the dwarf's nose, hopefully enough to crack it open! Attack:10Damage:9
With the intention to crack, but the result is the shattering the dwarf's nose; the half-orc feels the satisfying spurt of blood on his head as the crowd cheers the grisly blow!
The Redbranddwarf however hold his own; one eye closed, his nose rounder with his lip and bread drenched in his own blood. Despite being held close, he managed to draw a fist back aim it at Tengar's face full-on! Unarmed Attack: 18Damage: 6 The large dwarven knuckle smashes into Tengar's lip and he quickly tastes blood...
Burraand Pimsterare inside the party's camp. Burra is feeling uncomfortable being kept under a large sheet of pinned down material, but also to the unknowing status of his comrades. Pimster feels relieved making it back, comfortably quiet and undetected. But, like Burra, it is a concern another is missing. This intense uncertainty is only heightened at the sudden odd calling out coming from outside and quite nearby, about 30 ft. ...
Burra and Pimster, what do you do?
Karibhas gone out to investigate further. After deceiving a guard into following their gut feeling regarding one of the hired mercenary factions. A small sprinkle of relief from one more set of eyes looking elsewhere, but this washed away as a guard reacts to someone and calls to them stop in the name of the Wearers of Purple. It takes a chilling moment, but you begin to recognise the disguise Kano was wearing, but the moment that is realised Kano begins to sprint. Sprint straight towards the northwest. The Cultist Guards, and just initiate Cultists, call after the now dashing Kano, but none of them pay the hooded Karin no mind as he is taken as one of the hired swords...
With the intention to crack, but the result is the shattering the dwarf's nose; the half-orc feels the satisfying spurt of blood on his head as the crowd cheers the grisly blow!
The Redbranddwarf however hold his own; one eye closed, his nose rounder with his lip and bread drenched in his own blood. Despite being held close, he managed to draw a fist back aim it at Tengar's face full-on! Unarmed Attack: 18Damage: 6 The large dwarven knuckle smashes into Tengar's lip and he quickly tastes blood...
Tengar spits a glob of blood out of his mouth and grins at the dwarf's mangled face. "You know, it's true what they say about dwarves: the men ARE prettier than the women!" He roars in mirth as he looks to the crowd for approval before hauling back a meaty fist, trying to sock the dwarf right under the chin: Attack:8Damage: 8
The halfling druid peeks out of the tent flap, hoping to see what the commotion nearby is all about. He was really worried that someone else was going to come into their tent to try and steal something...
He makes a quick assessment, trying to determine if the pursuers are gaining on Kano? And how far away are they, how many, and in which direction? I mentioned Karib was moving in the general direction of the exit: is Kano even nearer the exit, or further back?
(( Bear in mind that Karib has no darkvision, so he's working with pools of light and probably only has sight of the various groups intermittently -- for some strange reason he is not choosing to add light to the dark areas... )) .
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Chase Contest!
Kano, in an attempt to prevent getting caught while trying to divert any suspicion from his comrades, has resisted calls to follow the orders of the Cult of the Dragons causing a chase to happen.
Rules: The objective of this skill challenge is getting out of the camp and finding a place to hide. In 5 skill contests, Kano must NOT allow the distance between himself and his pursuers to close, or they can grapple thus ending the chase, while running towards the natural exit of the hollowed plateau where the camp resides.
The skill contests will be Athletic checks. I will allow Dexterity (Athletic) checks.
Complication Rolls take place at the end of contests. Complications cause additional Saving Throws or Checks to take place that can widen or close the gap between the quarry and pursuer.
The quarry (Kano) can cause Complications for their pursuers by RPing with the environment or casting a spell. But there is a risk of rolling a low DC and creating danger of being caught up!
Info: The gap between Kano and pursuers is currently 30 ft. There are 4 Cultist Guards (masked, tough folks) and 3 Cultists (robed folks)
Kano, after a bit of description of Kano can you please make an Athletics Check - Strength or Dexterity, your choice!
Kariband Pimster, you see eight figures got into hot pursuit (to Karib you have identified this person as Kano). However, one of the Cultist Guards stops, takes something out of their pocket and raises it to their mouths.
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The Redbrand dwarf moves his chin in just a way the strike just grazes his hairy cheek! With a grunt, the dwarf hops and goes to headbutt the half-orc! Unarmed Attack: 18Damage: 7
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Burra nervously paces around the tent in his usual visage of anxiousness. After worrying the frays on his leather armor with a talon, he decides to tune into the surroundings and glean anything he can about the surroundings. Where were his allies? Was there a unified plan? Burra wasn't the best at sticking to courses of action, sure, but that didn't excuse negligence on his part.
Perception? 23
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Kano doesn't have enough time to take off his costume, let alone set it on fire. He dives into the brush once more, easily heating this time several others skulking the flora looking for you.
"We've got this bit surrounded. Come out, do as we say and you won't be hurt!" Kano hears from what he can only assume is outside the bushes.
Stealth Check:
Pimster (Cat) - 12
It gets a bit dicey sometimes, especially with the scampering kobolds, to make it back to camp, where you find Burra and Kano, resting.
"Ooh, what's this? Good on ya, half-orc! A new challenger!"
At this Tengar hears a lot of calls for bets being put on him. Fuelled with liquid courage, Tengar steps into the arena. The smell of sweat and alcohol is a place most welcome as the dwarf raises his fist...
Initiative Rolls:
Tengar - 17
Redbrand - 4
Tengar is up!
(( @DM: Karib continues to feign sleep...but does he have any inkling of Kano's plight? ))
Tengar
He looks around at the crowd, chuckling before raising both fists to the air, “Tengar!” he rumbles. Bending a bit at the knees, the half-orc circles the dwarf carefully, grinning while watching the redbrand scum. He breathes in deeply through his nose, trying to clear the sounds and shouts of the onlookers. Tengar will then rush in and attempt a grapple: 23
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DM - Our Little Lives Kept In Equipoise: Curse of Strahd
DM - Misprize Thou Not These Shadows That Belong: The Lost Mines of Phandelver
PC - Azzure - Tyranny of Dragons
When he hears the commotion, if there is no sign of Kanu, Karib gathers his shield, pulls his hood over his head, and moves toward the noise. He keeps a wary eye out for Kanu, and if he encounters anyone actively searching he asks, "What's all the commotion? I was trying to sleep! Thought we were being attacked."
Perception (trying to spot Kanu and/or determine his direction of travel): 13 (passive 16)
Athletics Check -
Redbrand - 18
With impressive resistance, but simply not enough; the Redbrand's strength caves to Tengar's. Despite being unable to move, the dwarf swings a backfist at the half-orc!
Unarmed Strike: 17 Damage: 4 (bludgeoning)
Kano is left in open, hoping to sneak by unnoticed as he dives from one bit of shrubbery to next. All seemed to be looking up until a call out seizes his focus for just a moment from a cultist member 20 ft. away, "Halt! By order of a Wearer of Purple, come with me!"
What is Kano going to do?
It does not take long for Karib to find a cultist guard looking around while unable to spot his fellow party member Kano.
The cultist guard does not acknowledge Karib's presence and simply states, "Back to your tent, mercenary. we will sound the proper alarm if we are under - Actually... here." The cultist guard chucks a small money pouch towards Karib. With a deft catch, he finds it holds a few gold pieces. "Help us find a man with colourful scales. We will make worth your lost beauty sleep, trust me."
Karib catches the money pouch, frowns, rubs his eyes and opens it to check what is inside. "Not gonna get much sleep, anyway" he mutters.
His eyebrows rise a little at the sight of gold, and he bashes his fist to his chest in salute. "I heard something strange over there a while back..." he says, pointing roughly in the direction of Tengar's fight. "Thought nothing of it at the time. Them Redbrands are touchy though, so I don't go near 'em..."
Deception (if it is) or Persuasion (if necessary): 12 + 3 (Guidance, if still running)
So saying, he keeps searching nearby for the man with colourful scales...
Both hands on the squirmy little humanoid, Tengar just grins widely as he sees the dwarf's hammy fist come at him and moves his head backwards. He looks around to the crowd, "Oh ho! The little one has some spice in him!" Looking back to the dwarf, Tengar rushes his head forward for a vicious head butt! Attack: 9 Damage: 8
DM -
attack is +6 (prof. + STR) damage i put 1d4 + 5 (1+STR) But if that's wrong the STR mod is just 4. if that's wrong i'm fine with you subtracting what you think is necessary.
DM - And In The Darkness, Rot: The Sunless Citadel
DM - Our Little Lives Kept In Equipoise: Curse of Strahd
DM - Misprize Thou Not These Shadows That Belong: The Lost Mines of Phandelver
PC - Azzure - Tyranny of Dragons
Kano:
Having spent several tense moments moving through the tall grass and using what bushes there were available for cover, Kano is nearly back to his campsite (in the thick of the bushes between areas 1 and 2) when he hears the call from the cultist guard as he passes through one last gap in the foliage. Cursing under his breath and realizing he does not have the time for an elaborate ruse (like taking off his disguise and burning it along with his cloak), he instead moves into the bushes and crouches to the ground and uses his finger to trace out the Draconic rune for flight onto the ground below him.
Having left what he hopes is a plausible reason for the trail of the dragon boy to go cold, Kano uses his superior night vision (darkvision 60') to find a path through the bushes back to his camp that will hide his trail (stepping lightly, using hard terrain if available, avoiding the limbs of the bushes, etc.).
If his Stealth 21 is enough to keep him from being spotted:
Kano creeps up to the back of his campsite and crawls under the fabric of his tent from the back side, hiding inside. He then starts to quickly take off his disguise and shed his cloak, folding it in with his bedding.
If he is spotted:
Not wanting to give away his campsite or his companions, Kano breaks into a flat-out run through the camp to the northwest, breaking out of the bushes into the open and trying to outdistance those who might follow by running in the darkest areas where those without darkvision might stumble. His intent is to leave the camp completely and hide in the wild, hoping to figure something out later.
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((Nothing needs to be subtracted. Noted for going forward with.))
Tengar's head meets a lot beard as the dwarf tries to wrangle free...
Athletics Check:
Redbrand - 6
The dwarf tries with all his might, and Tengar's sees the dwarf's face turn red but to no avail in the half-orc's solid grip!
Insight Check:
Cultist Guard - 6
Despite the half-mask, you notice the cultist take a long pause at your suggestion. "You're right - I never did quite trust those Redbrands." He takes long strides towards the Redbrands camp to supposedly investigate.
Tengar
The half-orc eats some stale beard and curses as he misses the dwarf. Sensing his struggling, Tengar roars, "Ah ha! The little lady wants to dance!" Still holding on to the dwarf, Tengar brings a knee sharply upward under the dwarf's jaw in an attempt to apply some sorely needed dental work! Attack: 12 Damage: 8
DM - And In The Darkness, Rot: The Sunless Citadel
DM - Our Little Lives Kept In Equipoise: Curse of Strahd
DM - Misprize Thou Not These Shadows That Belong: The Lost Mines of Phandelver
PC - Azzure - Tyranny of Dragons
With impressive speed, dwarf brings his own knee up and solidly blocks Tengar's strike from connecting!
The dwarf deftly uses his other leg and goes for a side kick at Tengar's legs!
Unarmed Strike: 13 Damage: 5 (bludgeoning)
Tengar
The half-orc absorbs the hit, not taking any damage. He grins widely at the dwarf as he keeps his iron grip fast on the dwarf's shirt. Tengar sniffs the air, "Aye now, ye smell a bit like an elf!" Tengar will try another head butt to the dwarf's nose, hopefully enough to crack it open! Attack: 10 Damage: 9
DM - And In The Darkness, Rot: The Sunless Citadel
DM - Our Little Lives Kept In Equipoise: Curse of Strahd
DM - Misprize Thou Not These Shadows That Belong: The Lost Mines of Phandelver
PC - Azzure - Tyranny of Dragons
With the intention to crack, but the result is the shattering the dwarf's nose; the half-orc feels the satisfying spurt of blood on his head as the crowd cheers the grisly blow!
The Redbrand dwarf however hold his own; one eye closed, his nose rounder with his lip and bread drenched in his own blood. Despite being held close, he managed to draw a fist back aim it at Tengar's face full-on!
Unarmed Attack: 18 Damage: 6
The large dwarven knuckle smashes into Tengar's lip and he quickly tastes blood...
Burra and Pimster are inside the party's camp. Burra is feeling uncomfortable being kept under a large sheet of pinned down material, but also to the unknowing status of his comrades. Pimster feels relieved making it back, comfortably quiet and undetected. But, like Burra, it is a concern another is missing. This intense uncertainty is only heightened at the sudden odd calling out coming from outside and quite nearby, about 30 ft. ...
Burra and Pimster, what do you do?
Karib has gone out to investigate further. After deceiving a guard into following their gut feeling regarding one of the hired mercenary factions. A small sprinkle of relief from one more set of eyes looking elsewhere, but this washed away as a guard reacts to someone and calls to them stop in the name of the Wearers of Purple. It takes a chilling moment, but you begin to recognise the disguise Kano was wearing, but the moment that is realised Kano begins to sprint. Sprint straight towards the northwest. The Cultist Guards, and just initiate Cultists, call after the now dashing Kano, but none of them pay the hooded Karin no mind as he is taken as one of the hired swords...
Karib, what do you do?
Tengar spits a glob of blood out of his mouth and grins at the dwarf's mangled face. "You know, it's true what they say about dwarves: the men ARE prettier than the women!" He roars in mirth as he looks to the crowd for approval before hauling back a meaty fist, trying to sock the dwarf right under the chin: Attack: 8 Damage: 8
DM - And In The Darkness, Rot: The Sunless Citadel
DM - Our Little Lives Kept In Equipoise: Curse of Strahd
DM - Misprize Thou Not These Shadows That Belong: The Lost Mines of Phandelver
PC - Azzure - Tyranny of Dragons
The halfling druid peeks out of the tent flap, hoping to see what the commotion nearby is all about. He was really worried that someone else was going to come into their tent to try and steal something...
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He makes a quick assessment, trying to determine if the pursuers are gaining on Kano? And how far away are they, how many, and in which direction? I mentioned Karib was moving in the general direction of the exit: is Kano even nearer the exit, or further back?
(( Bear in mind that Karib has no darkvision, so he's working with pools of light and probably only has sight of the various groups intermittently -- for some strange reason he is not choosing to add light to the dark areas... )) .
Karib puzzles over what is going on, and until he has a clear picture is reluctant to take any precipitate action...
He spends a round to use insight or perception to try to make more sense of the scene.
Perception: 11 (passive 16)
Chase Contest!
Kano, in an attempt to prevent getting caught while trying to divert any suspicion from his comrades, has resisted calls to follow the orders of the Cult of the Dragons causing a chase to happen.
Karib and Pimster, you see eight figures got into hot pursuit (to Karib you have identified this person as Kano). However, one of the Cultist Guards stops, takes something out of their pocket and raises it to their mouths.
You can both edit in Perception checks if you want more detail.
The Redbrand dwarf moves his chin in just a way the strike just grazes his hairy cheek! With a grunt, the dwarf hops and goes to headbutt the half-orc!
Unarmed Attack: 18 Damage: 7
Burra nervously paces around the tent in his usual visage of anxiousness. After worrying the frays on his leather armor with a talon, he decides to tune into the surroundings and glean anything he can about the surroundings. Where were his allies? Was there a unified plan? Burra wasn't the best at sticking to courses of action, sure, but that didn't excuse negligence on his part.
Perception? 23