Waterdeep: Camel Heist (2020)

21 (Vs 15)

The sections of fence collapse like dominoes. Strix awakens to a tuneless whistling, finding himself sitting up, blowing into what looks like an orc's leg. Before he can react he's already speaking.

"Two of you may leave, but as for the third.... I want his bones! Now unhand the sot before I turn the the three of you into a ******* orchestr... Oh great you woke the oaf."

Strix looks around for a weapon. There are a surprising amount of bone clubs and daggers of varying quality on his dresser, among chisels, saws and dust piles. Where has he been and what has he been doing? That can wait. He addresses the interlopers. 

"Please...." He starts as the bones of his face crack and flow. (Bonus action : shift)

"...run!" He growls.

Dekhan moves as quickly and quietly as he can to Vaz’s room with talon drawn. Stealth 1

(weeeelllll just quickly then.)

 Strix, you finish speaking just as Dekhan pushes the door to the room with more force than he expected, and it slams open with a loud bang.  The three of you are standing in the room, with Varinth still on his bed and the rather startled three 'messengers' crowded around the bed still attempting to grapple and restrain him.  Strix, please make an Intimidation check, with advantage given how badly this has suddenly gone from their point of view, and also shifter.

Intimidation 17

Any hand that’s still on my friend by the time I count to 3 is forfeit. 1..2..3 

Hey now, says the leader, putting up his hands, no need to get violent here.  We're just taking the young master back to his family.  No-one's getting hurt. 

The other two continue to try to hold and and gag Varinth. 

An intimidation check from Dekhan as well, please.

Intimidation 22

((Jeezy friggin creezy)

Dekhan, the leader smirks.  You even know how to hold that thing properly?  He points at the longsword in your hand, a much deadlier weapon than his own plain shortsword.  (Corrected)

These guys are clearly less experienced and less skilled than any of you, but they are too stupid, and in the leader's case too arrogant, to realise it. 

Dekhan adjusts his grip on Talon menacingly

Dek looks at the one who mentioned the bugbear. That bugbear you saw, the one your leader here was too foolish to believe you about? The man you’re holding reduced him to cinders. Strix and I did for his two bugbear friends. Ask yourselves, if we did for them, what will we do to you? No doubt our friends are roused and on their way. Choose carefully now, live or die? Dekhan raises Talon and points it at the three men as his eyes begin to glow a dark slate blue.

"asked nicely" Strix hisses.

Strix grabs a bone knife from the dresser and lunges at the speaker. 

Init if needed 7

If permitted to attack (assuming shift was bonus action so skipping martial arts attack/flurry)

25 dagger 6 (martial arts damage)

Edit : editing to see if it clears up dice error, code looks fine. 

Back at the party that night...Scupper will of course offer to teach Pru some moves...

"I can show you all about enucleation. If ye remove an eyeball jest right, ye can hold em by the nerve and show to the old owner...er if yer jest looking to stab someone, I can show ye that too...or jest stab em for ye?"

Scupper, Pru looks at you solemnly.  Yes, I can see how that might work.  She smiles.  You really know how to charm a lady, don't you.  The dance music stops, and she grabs your hand and pulls you to go with her away from the town green.  Do you go?

Leave the party? Aye, sure...we could go to the Sleeping Giant...probably not as fun without trying to pull one on a bunch o' Redbrands but I'm pretty sure Gristla owes me a few drinks...I haven't been to the inn much as I'm staying at the old Redbrand hideout now...why let it rot? Right? The lads probably got all the good wine from there...Vaz can smell a good wine at 40 yards...course the Bugbears... probably had some kind o' booze...and the there was a card game on the table afore we killed all the Redbrands...been curious who would've won that...

Scupper is less used a "non-transactional romance" that was part and parcel of the pirate life.

Scupper, Pru grabs a couple of bottles of cheap wine from the table.  The hideout?  Under the old manor?  I'd love to see it.  

Scupper will lead her to the hideout...by now I'd say hedh have put a couple few crates in the pit to make stairs down and back out...through the storeroom, past the crevasse (does he see Blinkie) and on a quick tour of Redbrand, Bugbear and wizard quarters, drinking wine, making merry and being socially awkward and confused for the first time in a long while. 

"If dis is yer kinda ting ye should consider piracy..."

"piracy is an industry sorely lacking in gender diversity..."

"It does make one a little paranoid...at one point tonight I tought ye might even be a secret agent, come to take advantage..."

"Listen to me gowan...sure and I haven't asked what kinda life yer looking for... you'll probably be away from that farm first chance ye get..."

"Yer an awful good dancer...fancy feet and good teacher besides..."

OOC: Jeez I go away for one night and come back to getting kidnapped?!

Varinth will do what any normal person would do if awoken by people trying to take him. Thrash.

Acrobatics : 6

Athletics : 7

Varinth, you're not able to resist being grabbed and restrained, though you make some loud noises against your kidnapper's hand. 

Strix, you attack the lead kidnapper, and he doesn't even manage to get his weapon drawn in time to defend himself.  Your bone knife goes into his shoulder and he screams from shock.  As you pull it out, he clutches the wound instinctively, and then puts his hands, covered in blood, into the air.  Stop,  shit!  Stop!  We don't want to fight.  Let him go, he shouts at the other two.

His two follows release Varinth, and similarly put their hands in the air away from their weapons.  Varinth, you are now able to move and speak.