Jorah attempts to make them match the earlier iterations of the pattern, making the actual gems replicate the placement of the drawn ones on the pages.
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Ratswarms! 10521913 Lif 21
When Lif is alerted to the infestation, a gust of cold air bursts through the tap room while rats begin to fan out across the floor. Outside you can hear what sounds like two voices both shouting in the street. "Rats! Trullskull manor is infested with'em! Run for your lives! Don't eat or drink there! Rats! They're what's for dinner!" Before the voices start to fade and you can assume whoever is doing the shouting is moving away from the tavern. The rats begin to swarm around you and bite and claw at your feet.
Rat swarm #1 17 Rat swarm #2 15 Flowers 15 Rat Swarm #3 13 Rat Swarm #4 12 Misha 10 Jen 12 Alexa 8 Lif 6 Rat Swarm #5 3
Rats swarm 1 and 2 begin to swarm up the legs of Misha and Alexa!
Rat 1 vs misha Attack: 13 Damage: 4 Rat2 vs alexa Attack: 18 Damage: 3
Flowers is up!
When Jorah moves the gems in to the proper locations, the back of the book clicks and the inside of the back cover opens like a door. Inside appears to be a large razor sharp tooth. The base of the tooth has been filed and fashioned into a handle wrapped in fine leather. Jorah is able to recall seeing one of the pages in the book describing the authors fight with a green dragon and creating a powerful dagger from it. The description in the book matches this weapon...
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Jorah quickly looks around to make sure the shopkeep ain't watching, before slipping the dagger quietly into his own clothing. Then closing the hidden compartment.
Sleight of Hand: 13 or Stealth: 20
Then, regardless of success, he will struggle to pick up the book, carrying it over his head to the counter and pushing it up onto it. Once that is done, he would stand on his toes and look at the Golden Dragonborn, eyeing him a little before asking, "Whatz you wantz for zhiz?" He expected the man to say gold, but he wanted to leave negotiations open for other possibilities.
Marla detects a glow of something magical coming from within Jorah's clothing that she didn't notice when they came in (because of her still active detect magic.) Jorah (even if she doesn't see him take the dagger, the glow coming from under his clothes would catch her eye.
Misha had a brief moment of indecision whether to try and apprehend the two people who did this outside, or squish rats. After a mild grunt of surrender, she sidestepped a rat attack and readied for battle against a swarm of vermin.
The Dragonborn doesn't notice Jorah do anything suspicious as he chats with a young woman that appears to be returning a book she had borrowed. "Oh, Uhh.... Well I haven't had the chance to really examine it much like I said. It is very old and judging by its construction.... the book itself is worth quite a bit.... and that doesn't include the value of the information that might be held within its pages." He adds with a smile. "I would say a couple hundred gold at least. I would be willing to trade it to you if you happen to have any kind of magical books however." He says with a smile.
Giving a pondering frown, Jorah shakes his head, looking down at the book longingly before turning to leave. "I'll be back." He then his way out of the shop, walking casually with his hood back up, before he passed 2 other buildings, at which point he began impatiently rushing home. He was eager to get back to his den, so he could examine the dagger. A DRAGON dagger!
Making a mental note to check with Jorah later, Marla heads back to speak with Rishaal.
‘I find myself a little short of funds at the moment, just at the time we’re trying to raise some money to repair Trollskull Manor. I wonder if we could work something out.’ she brings out the spellbook and Paper Bird. ‘I need supplies to finish copying spells from this book, and then I was planning to sell the book. I was hoping you might have supplies I could use. I’m happy to leave the book in your keeping, and to transcribe the spells here...?’
"I would be more than happy to provide you with supplier supplies needed to copy the spells from your book" The dragonborn says wih a smile. "We sell everything you need. not only do I buy and sell books here, I also sell magical scrolls that I transcribe myself using my existing collection of spell books" Rishaal would then gesture back towards the display case where the magical books amd scrolls are kept. "If you show me the spell book you wish to sell, I can tell you what I would be willing to pay. I might be able to work out a deal that involves your supplies and your friends book depending on the value your magical tome....
He would then examine the single paper bird and look through the spell book. "At face value I'd give you 350 gold for this book and 20 gold for the bird. Normally when you buy these single use birds they come in a box containing multiple pages of birds. Not many people come looking to buy just one." He says as he places the bird down and looks through the spell book once more. "If I buy the book from you, I need to be able to turn a profit. I have examples of many of these spells recorded already. There is one is in this book that I do not have in my collection at the moment. If you were to sell me the book It would allow me to expand my list of services we offer here in my humble shop... How many spells from the tome do you plan to copy? How many dragons worth of supplies do you require?"
‘Thank you Rishaal, that sounds very reasonable. I’m just starting my studies, so I need to copy 5 of the spells unfortunately. I’m also open to work, if you need any assistance at all?’ Marla looks at Rishaal hopefully...
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Flowers crushes an old sickly rat as the rest of the swarm jumps out of the path of the heavy weapon. Two other swarms rush to bite and claw Jen and Flowers.
rats 3 vs jen Attack: 15 Damage: 5
rats 4 vs flowers Attack: 4 Damage: 9
Misha, jen, alexa, amd lif are up.
Rishaal rubs his scaly chin and looks to marla. Well... I had a shipment of rare scrolls and books scheduled to arrive from the dock ward yesterday but it never showed up. The shipment was coming from the far away lands of chult. I was told by the watch that as they were unloading the ship, a gang of grung burst from a number of the crates and barrels... took over the ship and tried to sail off. They wrecked the ship into some rocks a few hundred feet from the docks but the watch can't reach them. Seems the frog folk found my shipment of scrolls and have been using then to defend themselves against anyone that tries to recover the cache of goods. I'd pay 300 good of you could recover my shipment for me. I'm sure the watch would appreciate it as well."
Marla nods. ‘We’re booked out for the start of this evening, but we can certainly look at the situation and see if we can assist. In the meantime I’ll leave both the book and bird with you. I’ll be back when time allows to copy the spells, and you can pay me the balance of the value of the items, less the materials I use after I’m finished..?’ she holds out her hand to shake on the deal.
"Sounds like a deal to me." The Golden dragonborn would say with a smile before taking the book and the paper bird and placing them behind his counter.
Rat swarm #1 17 - 5 damage Rat swarm #2 15 - 6 damage Flowers 15 Rat Swarm #3 13 13- damage Rat Swarm #4 12 Misha 10 Jen 12 Alexa 8 Lif 6 Rat Swarm #5 3
Cold air continues to swirl around the room... causing the hair on your heads to sway and the hair on your arms to and neck to stand up. Suddenly as the air gets colder.. the faint silhouette of an old man appears as though made of frost. The [monster]specter[/spell] of Lif draws what looks to be a spectral beer bottle and crushes it in his hand. The shimmering ghostly shards of glass fly towards the nearby swarm of rats (#5), threatening to tear them to shreds....
Attack: 11 Damage: 6 Rat con save 1
(Dex save from before... 10)
The shards slam into the rats, shearing pieces off of the creatures as they immediately fall to the ground and begin to shrivel and decay. The Entire swarm is destroyed in an instant.
***Round 2****
The rats continue to bite and claw at Misha And Alexa!
Rat 1 vs misha Attack: 9 Damage: 10 Rat2 vs alexa Attack: 4 Damage: 8
Jorah attempts to slide the gems around, both cause they're shiny, but also from an intellectual curiosity.
he is able to easily slide the gems around within the grooves on the back of the book. do you try to slide then anywhere in particular?
Jorah attempts to make them match the earlier iterations of the pattern, making the actual gems replicate the placement of the drawn ones on the pages.
"Lif, there's an intruder in the tap room!"
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Ratswarms! 10 5 2 19 13
Lif 21
When Lif is alerted to the infestation, a gust of cold air bursts through the tap room while rats begin to fan out across the floor. Outside you can hear what sounds like two voices both shouting in the street. "Rats! Trullskull manor is infested with'em! Run for your lives! Don't eat or drink there! Rats! They're what's for dinner!" Before the voices start to fade and you can assume whoever is doing the shouting is moving away from the tavern. The rats begin to swarm around you and bite and claw at your feet.
Rat swarm #1 17
Rat swarm #2 15
Flowers 15
Rat Swarm #3 13
Rat Swarm #4 12
Misha 10
Jen 12
Alexa 8
Lif 6
Rat Swarm #5 3
Rats swarm 1 and 2 begin to swarm up the legs of Misha and Alexa!
Rat 1 vs misha Attack: 13 Damage: 4
Rat2 vs alexa Attack: 18 Damage: 3
Flowers is up!
When Jorah moves the gems in to the proper locations, the back of the book clicks and the inside of the back cover opens like a door. Inside appears to be a large razor sharp tooth. The base of the tooth has been filed and fashioned into a handle wrapped in fine leather. Jorah is able to recall seeing one of the pages in the book describing the authors fight with a green dragon and creating a powerful dagger from it. The description in the book matches this weapon...
Jorah quickly looks around to make sure the shopkeep ain't watching, before slipping the dagger quietly into his own clothing. Then closing the hidden compartment.
Sleight of Hand: 13
or Stealth: 20
Then, regardless of success, he will struggle to pick up the book, carrying it over his head to the counter and pushing it up onto it. Once that is done, he would stand on his toes and look at the Golden Dragonborn, eyeing him a little before asking, "Whatz you wantz for zhiz?" He expected the man to say gold, but he wanted to leave negotiations open for other possibilities.
Marla detects a glow of something magical coming from within Jorah's clothing that she didn't notice when they came in (because of her still active detect magic.) Jorah (even if she doesn't see him take the dagger, the glow coming from under his clothes would catch her eye.
Misha had a brief moment of indecision whether to try and apprehend the two people who did this outside, or squish rats. After a mild grunt of surrender, she sidestepped a rat attack and readied for battle against a swarm of vermin.
The Dragonborn doesn't notice Jorah do anything suspicious as he chats with a young woman that appears to be returning a book she had borrowed. "Oh, Uhh.... Well I haven't had the chance to really examine it much like I said. It is very old and judging by its construction.... the book itself is worth quite a bit.... and that doesn't include the value of the information that might be held within its pages." He adds with a smile. "I would say a couple hundred gold at least. I would be willing to trade it to you if you happen to have any kind of magical books however." He says with a smile.
Giving a pondering frown, Jorah shakes his head, looking down at the book longingly before turning to leave. "I'll be back." He then his way out of the shop, walking casually with his hood back up, before he passed 2 other buildings, at which point he began impatiently rushing home. He was eager to get back to his den, so he could examine the dagger. A DRAGON dagger!
Making a mental note to check with Jorah later, Marla heads back to speak with Rishaal.
‘I find myself a little short of funds at the moment, just at the time we’re trying to raise some money to repair Trollskull Manor. I wonder if we could work something out.’ she brings out the spellbook and Paper Bird. ‘I need supplies to finish copying spells from this book, and then I was planning to sell the book. I was hoping you might have supplies I could use. I’m happy to leave the book in your keeping, and to transcribe the spells here...?’
"I would be more than happy to provide you with supplier supplies needed to copy the spells from your book" The dragonborn says wih a smile. "We sell everything you need. not only do I buy and sell books here, I also sell magical scrolls that I transcribe myself using my existing collection of spell books" Rishaal would then gesture back towards the display case where the magical books amd scrolls are kept. "If you show me the spell book you wish to sell, I can tell you what I would be willing to pay. I might be able to work out a deal that involves your supplies and your friends book depending on the value your magical tome....
He would then examine the single paper bird and look through the spell book. "At face value I'd give you 350 gold for this book and 20 gold for the bird. Normally when you buy these single use birds they come in a box containing multiple pages of birds. Not many people come looking to buy just one." He says as he places the bird down and looks through the spell book once more. "If I buy the book from you, I need to be able to turn a profit. I have examples of many of these spells recorded already. There is one is in this book that I do not have in my collection at the moment. If you were to sell me the book It would allow me to expand my list of services we offer here in my humble shop... How many spells from the tome do you plan to copy? How many dragons worth of supplies do you require?"
Flowers switches from a broom to his maul and gets to rat whackin'
[Maul: 13 Damage: 8 bludgeoning]
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‘Thank you Rishaal, that sounds very reasonable. I’m just starting my studies, so I need to copy 5 of the spells unfortunately. I’m also open to work, if you need any assistance at all?’ Marla looks at Rishaal hopefully...
Flowers crushes an old sickly rat as the rest of the swarm jumps out of the path of the heavy weapon. Two other swarms rush to bite and claw Jen and Flowers.
rats 3 vs jen Attack: 15 Damage: 5
rats 4 vs flowers Attack: 4 Damage: 9
Misha, jen, alexa, amd lif are up.
Rishaal rubs his scaly chin and looks to marla. Well... I had a shipment of rare scrolls and books scheduled to arrive from the dock ward yesterday but it never showed up. The shipment was coming from the far away lands of chult. I was told by the watch that as they were unloading the ship, a gang of grung burst from a number of the crates and barrels... took over the ship and tried to sail off. They wrecked the ship into some rocks a few hundred feet from the docks but the watch can't reach them. Seems the frog folk found my shipment of scrolls and have been using then to defend themselves against anyone that tries to recover the cache of goods. I'd pay 300 good of you could recover my shipment for me. I'm sure the watch would appreciate it as well."
Marla nods. ‘We’re booked out for the start of this evening, but we can certainly look at the situation and see if we can assist. In the meantime I’ll leave both the book and bird with you. I’ll be back when time allows to copy the spells, and you can pay me the balance of the value of the items, less the materials I use after I’m finished..?’ she holds out her hand to shake on the deal.
"Welp, time to smash rats!" Misha raised her sword up.
Rat Smash Attack: 25 Damage: 11
Kablamo.
Alexa targets the swarm attacking her with sacred flame.
DC 13 Dex ST or 6 radiant damage.
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Jen calls three missiles down at the swarm attacking her.
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"Sounds like a deal to me." The Golden dragonborn would say with a smile before taking the book and the paper bird and placing them behind his counter.
Rat swarm #1 17 - 5 damage
Rat swarm #2 15 - 6 damage
Flowers 15
Rat Swarm #3 13 13- damage
Rat Swarm #4 12
Misha 10
Jen 12
Alexa 8
Lif 6
Rat Swarm #5 3Cold air continues to swirl around the room... causing the hair on your heads to sway and the hair on your arms to and neck to stand up. Suddenly as the air gets colder.. the faint silhouette of an old man appears as though made of frost. The [monster]specter[/spell] of Lif draws what looks to be a spectral beer bottle and crushes it in his hand. The shimmering ghostly shards of glass fly towards the nearby swarm of rats (#5), threatening to tear them to shreds....
Attack: 11 Damage: 6
Rat con save 1
(Dex save from before... 10)
The shards slam into the rats, shearing pieces off of the creatures as they immediately fall to the ground and begin to shrivel and decay. The Entire swarm is destroyed in an instant.
***Round 2****
The rats continue to bite and claw at Misha And Alexa!
Rat 1 vs misha Attack: 9 Damage: 10
Rat2 vs alexa Attack: 4 Damage: 8
Flowers is up