Yoli quietly tells the group, "We need to account for the two Thacos. Let's say that the saboteur got away, and we enlisted Thaco's help to try and get them back."
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((So Peppermint is taking them where they had Kettlesteam, right? you can assume that they take a couple of minutes considering that the staff area is not that big.))
Whenever Witch notice another Thaco he'll turn to the one walking besides him and he'll be surprised as well - Mister Light Insight check - 18
Peppermint looks surprised (not hard, two Thacos was not part of any plan she’d heard) and begins casting, “Which one should I Hex?” she asks Witch as in a rush she begins.
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He'll think quickly through the situation and say "I will not be fooled by you" as he walks towards the faux Thaco. "We are about to wrap things up and I honestly hope that you are done with this. I don't know what you can possible get out of destroying the possibilities of happy memories of visitors, the poor fella that almost fell from the dragonfly could've been badly injured..."
Kettlesteam will drop the disguise as she gets triggered by Mister Witch's statement. Is he really pretending to care what is happening to visitors!? "Do you take me for a fool!?"says Kettlesteam with Candlefoot's calm voice but in a very upset tone "Do you care about others? What about Zyblina? What about the Hourglass Coven? I've been trying to talk to you for a while and you always kept your distance or pretended that nothing was wrong. Well it is time that you face the truth" If Kettlesteam's hands aren't bound she'll walk towards the owner and:
bestow curse on Mister Witch. Thaco will notice that and grabs the kenku's robe , however, Mister Witch will but his arm in the way "Stand down, Thaco. We are not going to hurt this saboteour. Peppermint please have your friends (if they were standing next to Kettlesteam when they arrived) deliver this person to the local authorities if she can't follow us through the portal she won't be a problem anymore. I wouldn't like to leave some of us behind to do that". Mister Witch looks at the whole scene one last time not really caring that a curse was laid on him he'll turn once more to Kettlesteam and say "I already told you before, our hands are tied."
You can use any time between Mister Witch's arrival to take any action, he is distracted and pays little attention to you as he is talking to Kettlesteam or preventing Thaco from attacking the kenku. The curse targeted Witch's Wisdom ability. After saying the last phrase Witch will do a WIS ST 6 lower than 13 will keep Mister Witch standing doing nothing for 6 seconds.
Peppermint will finish Hexing Mr. Witch (hexing his Wisdom based ability checks), and step forward at his order, but she faces him, rather than Kettlesteam.
”Hags?!” She has a full, angry head of steam now. “You made a deal with hags? You know better than that! Hags never come out worse in a bargain. What did you give them? Children’s joy? Lost parents? And for what? So you and Mr. Light could run the carnival?! I won’t work for hags, and neither will anybody else after I tell them. What could possibly make you do this?”
Hopefully this is enough distraction, but maybe it will also lead Witch to disclosing what they did.
Peppermint will finish Hexing Mr. Witch (hexing his Wisdom based ability checks), and step forward at his order, but she faces him, rather than Kettlesteam.
”Hags?!” She has a full, angry head of steam now. “You made a deal with hags? You know better than that! Hags never come out worse in a bargain. What did you give them? Children’s joy? Lost parents? And for what? So you and Mr. Light could run the carnival?! I won’t work for hags, and neither will anybody else after I tell them. What could possibly make you do this?”
Hopefully this is enough distraction, but maybe it will also lead Witch to disclosing what they did.
"It is not like that, it was more than an agreement than a deal " you notice Witch's voice lose all confidence and authority as he said deal as if the word was bearing some heavy weight on his heart. "You wouldn't understand and you don't have to, it is true that some people lost some things, but for the most part they were small trinkets or quirks that shouldn't stop them from having a good life... Maybe some will share your sentiment, but we've always said that you are free to join and go as you wish...I'm sure we can find some more people willing to wear some wings and who knows maybe even step up the game on some old attractions. There is no duscussion here, I owe you nothing but the payment for your services." Witch stops and stares into the void as a consequence of Kettlesteam curse for 6 seconds - during that time or as he was replying to Peppermint Yoli succesfully snatched the clock - When Witch returns to himself he'll say "Thaco, make sure that this one doesn't get away again also let know Light that I will not join him for the crowning, I need to deal with this curse - Peppermint's hex went unnoticed - then get things ready to move on to the next location... And Peppermint, if you have such strong feelings against the Witchlight Carnival and our decisions you are free to do something else."
Kettlesteam still fired up will say "Is that it? you'll simply walk away? What about Zyblina? I need to know what happened to her!" Initiative for Kettlesteam and Thaco (Mister Witch exit's the wagon): Thaco - 12 Kettlesteam - 10
((@peppermint you are free to engage in any other type of encounter or answer back to Mister Witch but it is clear that he is not interested in continuing the conversation, as
"I need to deal with this curse - Peppermint's hex went unnoticed - then get things ready to move on to the next location... "
Hazel sees the chain dangling on Mr Witch Vest and is impressed by Yoli skills. She hasn't seen anything.
As Mr Witch starts to walk away from the group, Hazel calls him out. "Excuse me Mr Witch, but I heard that you needed your watch to get the carnival moving. Tell me, how are you going to do this without it." She points towards his vest and the silver chain that once was holding the precious watch. "It looks like you lost it..."
As Hazel addresses Mr Witch, Yoli places the watch in her hand, but stays invisible for the moment. Hazel doesn't grab onto the watch, so Yoli keeps it.
Peppermint quirks her masked head to the side, “Oh, are you missing a trinket? I’m sure it won’t keep you from having a good life. I wonder what the hags will think when your agreement gets out… I wonder if Dirlagraun will care.”
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ey/em/eirs, or they/them works, too (just not he). Role-playing since that keep on those borderlands. I love it so.
Peppermint quirks her masked head to the side, “Oh, are you missing a trinket? I’m sure it won’t keep you from having a good life. I wonder what the hags will think when your agreement gets out… I wonder if Dirlagraun will care.”
"What is going on!? Hand it over! who took it?" Says Mister Witch as he pulls the chain in his pocket "Star (Dirlagraun's cub) was an accident, we have enforcers like you and Rood to keep away the hag's snatchers, they are off the deal but they are smart and often hide in the attractions, that's how they reached us...through them the small girl with the pig mask, the shadow and the froglike person. Star was last seen with one of them...that's off the deal but it is not like we have any leverage..." At this point Mister Witch calls on Thaco to stop and he sits anywhere, takes his hat off and continues "We are not the original owners of the carnival, we swaped another one with whole different tone and attractions. You see, Mister Light and and I come from another realm, a darker one, deprived from any joy and smiles. The deal with the original owners is that we are going to swap our carnivals back whenever we meet again, we rapidly grew to love this place the people attending and working on it so when the hourglass coven made it clear that they would do work the odds for us to meet the former owners very soon, we panciked and agreed to their terms: they were going to steal something from anyone that wouldn't pay the entrance fee. We thought that the fee isn't even that high so who would try to sneak in anyways! And they swore that they wouldn't steal anything significant."
"What about Zyblina!?" asked Kettlesteam after Thaco stoped any hostility. "We've never heard of Zyblina, but if she has ties with the Feywild, I know that the hourglass coven has taken over a place called Prismeer, that's were they take anything and anyone from the carnival."
Peppermint grits her teeth so hard you can hear it through the mask. “You let a hag coven take children!? Children!” She shudders involuntarily. “You didn’t even get anything, you just let them blackmail you… I should gut you from stem to stern, but I think I’ll let Dirlagraun do that.”
She turns and walks a few paces away, her hand unclenching from her sword’s pommel. “You need to get them back,” she says, quietly.
"So don't you think you should do something as Peppermint said ? You were just hoping it will go away ? Nothing goes away with hags."
Hazel continues: "Should someone go to this Prismeer and have a word with the Hags, bring back Star and look for Zyblina ? I mean we could maybe force the hags to give us back what she stole from us. I am sure Andrick will be down for that. He seems to have lost something quite precious."
Peppermint grits her teeth so hard you can hear it through the mask. “You let a hag coven take children!? Children!” She shudders involuntarily. “You didn’t even get anything, you just let them blackmail you… I should gut you from stem to stern, but I think I’ll let Dirlagraun do that.”
She turns and walks a few paces away, her hand unclenching from her sword’s pommel. “You need to get them back,” she says, quietly.
"Like I said, we never agreed on children, the snatchers take stuff behind our back that's why you are here. From what I know, they'll lure visitors or hands with gifts or promises but we are free to send them away...they're just very sneaky. But you are right I should've explained Dirlagraun what we knew from Star, and I will...guting me won't bring anyone back and even though you have a temper, I'm sure you can agree that the carnival does bring beautiful memories to many and I'm not running away, I'm running the carnival I can't go fetch some trinkets and people that allowed themselves to be lured by promises of candy or who knows what."
"So don't you think you should do something as Peppermint said ? You were just hoping it will go away ? Nothing goes away with hags."
Hazel continues: "Should someone go to this Prismeer and have a word with the Hags, bring back Star and look for Zyblina ? I mean we could maybe force the hags to give us back what she stole from us. I am sure Andrick will be down for that. He seems to have lost something quite precious."
"You are from the group that we wanted to thank for keeping the spirtis high in the carnival, I remember your friend who got very upset...I assume some of you are holding on to my watch so if you are listening let's at least agree that you are blowing things out of proportions and honestly you need to grow up. You snuck here before and paid the consequences of an action that's not good or legal. We implemented the cloth wings to make sure that our security would detect easily people that got in without paying, many cause trouble when they feel to cool to use the wings and many others find their way inside by tricks like forgery or magic. You want to put this on Mistler Light and me that's fine but you should agree that you are also responsible I can make you a deal. You give me my watch back and I'll take you to Prismeer, maybe you can still get your things back and - looks at peppermint - maybe you'll satisfy that bloodthirst that's always been an issue around here."
Yoli (still invisible) says: "How can we know that you will live up to your word? What will stop you from carrying on as normal if we return your watch to you?" After saying this, Yoli quietly moves to a different location so he can't be captured.
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Yoli quietly tells the group, "We need to account for the two Thacos. Let's say that the saboteur got away, and we enlisted Thaco's help to try and get them back."
Wizard - Yoli Garrick, Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Peppermint puts her mask back on as she walks with Witch and Thaco.
ey/em/eirs, or they/them works, too (just not he).
Role-playing since that keep on those borderlands. I love it so.
((So Peppermint is taking them where they had Kettlesteam, right? you can assume that they take a couple of minutes considering that the staff area is not that big.))
Whenever Witch notice another Thaco he'll turn to the one walking besides him and he'll be surprised as well - Mister Light Insight check - 18
Peppermint looks surprised (not hard, two Thacos was not part of any plan she’d heard) and begins casting, “Which one should I Hex?” she asks Witch as in a rush she begins.
ey/em/eirs, or they/them works, too (just not he).
Role-playing since that keep on those borderlands. I love it so.
He'll think quickly through the situation and say "I will not be fooled by you" as he walks towards the faux Thaco. "We are about to wrap things up and I honestly hope that you are done with this. I don't know what you can possible get out of destroying the possibilities of happy memories of visitors, the poor fella that almost fell from the dragonfly could've been badly injured..."
Kettlesteam will drop the disguise as she gets triggered by Mister Witch's statement. Is he really pretending to care what is happening to visitors!? "Do you take me for a fool!?" says Kettlesteam with Candlefoot's calm voice but in a very upset tone "Do you care about others? What about Zyblina? What about the Hourglass Coven? I've been trying to talk to you for a while and you always kept your distance or pretended that nothing was wrong. Well it is time that you face the truth" If Kettlesteam's hands aren't bound she'll walk towards the owner and:
bestow curse on Mister Witch. Thaco will notice that and grabs the kenku's robe , however, Mister Witch will but his arm in the way "Stand down, Thaco. We are not going to hurt this saboteour. Peppermint please have your friends (if they were standing next to Kettlesteam when they arrived) deliver this person to the local authorities if she can't follow us through the portal she won't be a problem anymore. I wouldn't like to leave some of us behind to do that". Mister Witch looks at the whole scene one last time not really caring that a curse was laid on him he'll turn once more to Kettlesteam and say "I already told you before, our hands are tied."
You can use any time between Mister Witch's arrival to take any action, he is distracted and pays little attention to you as he is talking to Kettlesteam or preventing Thaco from attacking the kenku. The curse targeted Witch's Wisdom ability. After saying the last phrase Witch will do a WIS ST 6 lower than 13 will keep Mister Witch standing doing nothing for 6 seconds.
Yoli eats Hazel's 1d4 acorn, and sneaks up to Mr Witch while he is incapacitated, and attempts to detach Mr Witch's watch from it's chain
Stealth at advantage from the potion: 9
+1d4 from acorn: 4
Sleight of hand check with Thieves' tools check at advantage: 25
+ bardic inspiration: 1
Wizard - Yoli Garrick, Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Peppermint will finish Hexing Mr. Witch (hexing his Wisdom based ability checks), and step forward at his order, but she faces him, rather than Kettlesteam.
”Hags?!” She has a full, angry head of steam now. “You made a deal with hags? You know better than that! Hags never come out worse in a bargain. What did you give them? Children’s joy? Lost parents? And for what? So you and Mr. Light could run the carnival?! I won’t work for hags, and neither will anybody else after I tell them. What could possibly make you do this?”
Hopefully this is enough distraction, but maybe it will also lead Witch to disclosing what they did.
ey/em/eirs, or they/them works, too (just not he).
Role-playing since that keep on those borderlands. I love it so.
Andrick sees the events unfolding, and starts heading towards Witch & Light's wagon...
(Not running, as he knows that will draw attention, but walking briskly. He'll find somewhere discreet before he gets there...)
Hazel follows the conversion with an inner smile, so much chaos, she enjoys that. From the corner of the eye she is also trying to guess where is Yoli
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"It is not like that, it was more than an agreement than a deal " you notice Witch's voice lose all confidence and authority as he said deal as if the word was bearing some heavy weight on his heart. "You wouldn't understand and you don't have to, it is true that some people lost some things, but for the most part they were small trinkets or quirks that shouldn't stop them from having a good life... Maybe some will share your sentiment, but we've always said that you are free to join and go as you wish...I'm sure we can find some more people willing to wear some wings and who knows maybe even step up the game on some old attractions. There is no duscussion here, I owe you nothing but the payment for your services." Witch stops and stares into the void as a consequence of Kettlesteam curse for 6 seconds - during that time or as he was replying to Peppermint Yoli succesfully snatched the clock - When Witch returns to himself he'll say "Thaco, make sure that this one doesn't get away again also let know Light that I will not join him for the crowning, I need to deal with this curse - Peppermint's hex went unnoticed - then get things ready to move on to the next location... And Peppermint, if you have such strong feelings against the Witchlight Carnival and our decisions you are free to do something else."
Kettlesteam still fired up will say "Is that it? you'll simply walk away? What about Zyblina? I need to know what happened to her!"
Initiative for Kettlesteam and Thaco (Mister Witch exit's the wagon):
Thaco - 12
Kettlesteam - 10
((@peppermint you are free to engage in any other type of encounter or answer back to Mister Witch but it is clear that he is not interested in continuing the conversation, as
Hazel sees the chain dangling on Mr Witch Vest and is impressed by Yoli skills. She hasn't seen anything.
As Mr Witch starts to walk away from the group, Hazel calls him out. "Excuse me Mr Witch, but I heard that you needed your watch to get the carnival moving. Tell me, how are you going to do this without it."
She points towards his vest and the silver chain that once was holding the precious watch. "It looks like you lost it..."
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In Pause: Grimnir " Shadow-Feet", Lv 11 Owner of "The Basilisk & the Monk" (OotA) - Kurma Kappa, Lv 8 Priest of Oghma (ToA)
Currently DM'ing: Princes of Apocalypse >> Tomb of Annihilation
As Hazel addresses Mr Witch, Yoli places the watch in her hand, but stays invisible for the moment. Hazel doesn't grab onto the watch, so Yoli keeps it.
Wizard - Yoli Garrick, Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Peppermint quirks her masked head to the side, “Oh, are you missing a trinket? I’m sure it won’t keep you from having a good life. I wonder what the hags will think when your agreement gets out… I wonder if Dirlagraun will care.”
ey/em/eirs, or they/them works, too (just not he).
Role-playing since that keep on those borderlands. I love it so.
"What is going on!? Hand it over! who took it?" Says Mister Witch as he pulls the chain in his pocket "Star (Dirlagraun's cub) was an accident, we have enforcers like you and Rood to keep away the hag's snatchers, they are off the deal but they are smart and often hide in the attractions, that's how they reached us...through them the small girl with the pig mask, the shadow and the froglike person. Star was last seen with one of them...that's off the deal but it is not like we have any leverage..." At this point Mister Witch calls on Thaco to stop and he sits anywhere, takes his hat off and continues "We are not the original owners of the carnival, we swaped another one with whole different tone and attractions. You see, Mister Light and and I come from another realm, a darker one, deprived from any joy and smiles. The deal with the original owners is that we are going to swap our carnivals back whenever we meet again, we rapidly grew to love this place the people attending and working on it so when the hourglass coven made it clear that they would do work the odds for us to meet the former owners very soon, we panciked and agreed to their terms: they were going to steal something from anyone that wouldn't pay the entrance fee. We thought that the fee isn't even that high so who would try to sneak in anyways! And they swore that they wouldn't steal anything significant."
"What about Zyblina!?" asked Kettlesteam after Thaco stoped any hostility. "We've never heard of Zyblina, but if she has ties with the Feywild, I know that the hourglass coven has taken over a place called Prismeer, that's were they take anything and anyone from the carnival."
Peppermint grits her teeth so hard you can hear it through the mask. “You let a hag coven take children!? Children!” She shudders involuntarily. “You didn’t even get anything, you just let them blackmail you… I should gut you from stem to stern, but I think I’ll let Dirlagraun do that.”
She turns and walks a few paces away, her hand unclenching from her sword’s pommel. “You need to get them back,” she says, quietly.
ey/em/eirs, or they/them works, too (just not he).
Role-playing since that keep on those borderlands. I love it so.
"So don't you think you should do something as Peppermint said ? You were just hoping it will go away ? Nothing goes away with hags."
Hazel continues: "Should someone go to this Prismeer and have a word with the Hags, bring back Star and look for Zyblina ? I mean we could maybe force the hags to give us back what she stole from us. I am sure Andrick will be down for that. He seems to have lost something quite precious."
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In Pause: Grimnir " Shadow-Feet", Lv 11 Owner of "The Basilisk & the Monk" (OotA) - Kurma Kappa, Lv 8 Priest of Oghma (ToA)
Currently DM'ing: Princes of Apocalypse >> Tomb of Annihilation
Yoli stays invisible, holding Mr Witch's watch, in order to keep the leverage that the party has on him.
Wizard - Yoli Garrick, Wild Beyond the Witchlight
"Like I said, we never agreed on children, the snatchers take stuff behind our back that's why you are here. From what I know, they'll lure visitors or hands with gifts or promises but we are free to send them away...they're just very sneaky. But you are right I should've explained Dirlagraun what we knew from Star, and I will...guting me won't bring anyone back and even though you have a temper, I'm sure you can agree that the carnival does bring beautiful memories to many and I'm not running away, I'm running the carnival I can't go fetch some trinkets and people that allowed themselves to be lured by promises of candy or who knows what."
"You are from the group that we wanted to thank for keeping the spirtis high in the carnival, I remember your friend who got very upset...I assume some of you are holding on to my watch so if you are listening let's at least agree that you are blowing things out of proportions and honestly you need to grow up. You snuck here before and paid the consequences of an action that's not good or legal. We implemented the cloth wings to make sure that our security would detect easily people that got in without paying, many cause trouble when they feel to cool to use the wings and many others find their way inside by tricks like forgery or magic. You want to put this on Mistler Light and me that's fine but you should agree that you are also responsible I can make you a deal. You give me my watch back and I'll take you to Prismeer, maybe you can still get your things back and - looks at peppermint - maybe you'll satisfy that bloodthirst that's always been an issue around here."
When he says candy with intent, Peppermint nearly hurls herself at him, but Billiam holds her back.
(OOC > using Bill here for effect)
ey/em/eirs, or they/them works, too (just not he).
Role-playing since that keep on those borderlands. I love it so.
Yoli (still invisible) says: "How can we know that you will live up to your word? What will stop you from carrying on as normal if we return your watch to you?" After saying this, Yoli quietly moves to a different location so he can't be captured.
Wizard - Yoli Garrick, Wild Beyond the Witchlight