Help! I'm in charge of making a huge distraction next session so my party members can complete a very important heist.
Ok, so here's the setting:
My party of 7 players is currently in a dwarven city. This city has a big tower surreounded by water in the middle of it where they keep their prisoners locked up and it just so happens that an EXTREMELY IMPORTANT magic item of our's got confiscated and is being kept in there (if we don't get it back, our brains are getting literally fried by an eldrich creature).
It took us some time and the exploitations of some (many) of our contacts, but we finally made a plan of action. We spent the last couple of sessions getting everything ready and began acting on it last session. To kickstart the plan, we infiltrated the sewers, laid waste to a criminal gang hiding in there and blew up a pipe ment to flood the tower. Our alchemist, however is (quite literally) a gunpowder-loving terrorist and put too much of the stuff in it. End result: not only did it flood the tower, but also every single manhole in the city blew up as well and is now gushing sewer water everywhere.
With the city now in panic (a lot more panic that planned), it was easy for 5 of the party members to dress up as the local plumbers and infiltrate the tower, claiming "The tower is the pride of the city, it takes priority over everything else", leaving me - the bard - and a second PC to formulate a distraction so that people won't see them leaving with our valuable magic item. That's what I need help with. The entire population has gathered in front of the goddamn tower, waiting for the "plumbers" to get out of it so they can fix the rest of the city. How the hell am I supposed to distract all of them?
Some things you should know: My character is a local hero, having gained that title after he talked down a rampaging rhino using the Speak with Animals spell. He's so gaddamn famous he can barely walk the streets in broad daylight without atracting a swarm of fangirls, but I doubt they're just gonna forget the shit-flood that's ingulfing their city and ask for my autograph.
You can try using major image to make sewer monsters and pretend to fight them. Tell everyone to retreat to their homes. If any guards or other brave citizens help you fight the monsters, lead them away from where your allies will be exiting.
Can you use major image to make it look like the "plumbers" exit the tower and start fixing the rest? That would probably make everyone stop watching the tower.
Help! I'm in charge of making a huge distraction next session so my party members can complete a very important heist.
Ok, so here's the setting:
My party of 7 players is currently in a dwarven city. This city has a big tower surreounded by water in the middle of it where they keep their prisoners locked up and it just so happens that an EXTREMELY IMPORTANT magic item of our's got confiscated and is being kept in there (if we don't get it back, our brains are getting literally fried by an eldrich creature).
It took us some time and the exploitations of some (many) of our contacts, but we finally made a plan of action. We spent the last couple of sessions getting everything ready and began acting on it last session. To kickstart the plan, we infiltrated the sewers, laid waste to a criminal gang hiding in there and blew up a pipe ment to flood the tower. Our alchemist, however is (quite literally) a gunpowder-loving terrorist and put too much of the stuff in it. End result: not only did it flood the tower, but also every single manhole in the city blew up as well and is now gushing sewer water everywhere.
With the city now in panic (a lot more panic that planned), it was easy for 5 of the party members to dress up as the local plumbers and infiltrate the tower, claiming "The tower is the pride of the city, it takes priority over everything else", leaving me - the bard - and a second PC to formulate a distraction so that people won't see them leaving with our valuable magic item. That's what I need help with. The entire population has gathered in front of the goddamn tower, waiting for the "plumbers" to get out of it so they can fix the rest of the city. How the hell am I supposed to distract all of them?
Some things you should know: My character is a local hero, having gained that title after he talked down a rampaging rhino using the Speak with Animals spell. He's so gaddamn famous he can barely walk the streets in broad daylight without atracting a swarm of fangirls, but I doubt they're just gonna forget the shit-flood that's ingulfing their city and ask for my autograph.
- LVL 1: Comprehend Languages / Cure Wounds / Tasha's Hideous Laughter / Speak with Animals
- LVL 2: Invisibility / Silence / Suggestion
- LVL 3: Enemies Abound / Major Image
If you’re that well known... how are you convincingly passing as a “Plummer”?
a secondary explosion by your terrorist party member could have been set up on a “time delay” to trigger again like an hour or two later as an “aftershock” kinda thing.
Major image is your best bet. And hoping no one realizes you are casting it.
you can make it look like the tower collapses killing your “plumber friends” again. Some minor coordination for a secondary explosion would be needed here.
Help! I'm in charge of making a huge distraction next session so my party members can complete a very important heist.
Ok, so here's the setting:
My party of 7 players is currently in a dwarven city. This city has a big tower surreounded by water in the middle of it where they keep their prisoners locked up and it just so happens that an EXTREMELY IMPORTANT magic item of our's got confiscated and is being kept in there (if we don't get it back, our brains are getting literally fried by an eldrich creature).
It took us some time and the exploitations of some (many) of our contacts, but we finally made a plan of action. We spent the last couple of sessions getting everything ready and began acting on it last session. To kickstart the plan, we infiltrated the sewers, laid waste to a criminal gang hiding in there and blew up a pipe ment to flood the tower. Our alchemist, however is (quite literally) a gunpowder-loving terrorist and put too much of the stuff in it. End result: not only did it flood the tower, but also every single manhole in the city blew up as well and is now gushing sewer water everywhere.
With the city now in panic (a lot more panic that planned), it was easy for 5 of the party members to dress up as the local plumbers and infiltrate the tower, claiming "The tower is the pride of the city, it takes priority over everything else", leaving me - the bard - and a second PC to formulate a distraction so that people won't see them leaving with our valuable magic item. That's what I need help with. The entire population has gathered in front of the goddamn tower, waiting for the "plumbers" to get out of it so they can fix the rest of the city. How the hell am I supposed to distract all of them?
Some things you should know: My character is a local hero, having gained that title after he talked down a rampaging rhino using the Speak with Animals spell. He's so gaddamn famous he can barely walk the streets in broad daylight without atracting a swarm of fangirls, but I doubt they're just gonna forget the shit-flood that's ingulfing their city and ask for my autograph.
- LVL 1: Comprehend Languages / Cure Wounds / Tasha's Hideous Laughter / Speak with Animals
- LVL 2: Invisibility / Silence / Suggestion
- LVL 3: Enemies Abound / Major Image
If you’re that well known... how are you convincingly passing as a “Plummer”?
a secondary explosion by your terrorist party member could have been set up on a “time delay” to trigger again like an hour or two later as an “aftershock” kinda thing.
Major image is your best bet. And hoping no one realizes you are casting it.
you can make it look like the tower collapses killing your “plumber friends” again. Some minor coordination for a secondary explosion would be needed here.
I'm not passing as a plumber, if you read it again you'll see that I said that they left me to create a distraction. This "left me" is quite literal. I'm currently walking around the nearby market with the ranger's cloak on my head so people won't immediately jump me.
We didn't really think about setting a second explosion. Also our alchemist is a crazed explosions maniac and he wanted to "blow his load all at once" in his own words, so it wouldn't happen anyway.
Major image a stage with amplified sound, throw a rock show to "improve morale" while the experts work?
Hm... sounds interesting, but how would I make my character get up on the stage? Major Image makes non-physical illusions, which is exactly the problem with every single plan I come up with. I later remember "****, that's right, I can't touch it!"
What about making a monster(s) to scare everyone away, or making it seem as if your friends returned to draw everyone to a different area (both mentioned above)?
What about making a monster(s) to scare everyone away, or making it seem as if your friends returned to draw everyone to a different area (both mentioned above)?
Holy shit. I know it may be hard to believe, but I'm so not used to the interface of this site I hadn't even seen the first few answers. My apologies to the others I didn't respond to.
How big is the magic item? Wouldn't it be simpler for the "plumbers" to hide it rather than making an elaborate distraction? Or, why not both? :p
About the size of the item, it is a box that two people should have no problem moving (think of a small coffin). About the need to move it in secrecy, that's mainly because the moment people see them taking a step out of the tower, they will surely get rushed by panicking bystandards that need the plumbers to come fix their problems ASAP. We have to take this thing out of the city as fast as possible.
You can try using major image to make sewer monsters and pretend to fight them. Tell everyone to retreat to their homes. If any guards or other brave citizens help you fight the monsters, lead them away from where your allies will be exiting.
This one I found a pretty good idea. There is a clan of devils in the outskirts of town that I could make an illusion of, but it would probably be best if I came up with some flying creatures, since guards couldn't fight them so easily.
Quite literally left you, and you're not disguised. Okay. changes things up.
Alright. For this, you might have to spend a day or two in Jail.
You're a public figure and quite famous?
Drink a TON of alcohol (borderline alcohol poisoning), and Assault, quite literally, some random person. Think over exaggerrated schoolyard fight. that's going to be a major distraction and buy time.
Nobody will pay attention to your party mates, vs a public image figure doing something completely insane. (think janet Jackson boob slip, or Brittney Spears head shaving, or Miley Cyrus dry humping a blow up doll, or Justin bieber running over paparazzi)
Aside from that, set up a Major image, for the background kind of area, like a Looney tunes style cartoon picture of the road and canyon and sun and everything, of where your party is supposed to be/come from. So that anyone who looks that way, will see that.
Hm... sounds interesting, but how would I make my character get up on the stage? Major Image makes non-physical illusions, which is exactly the problem with every single plan I come up with. I later remember "****, that's right, I can't touch it!"
A couple Ideas,
1: any elevated surface and the illusion makes it look like an impressive stage
2: Freaking holograms, seriously might as well have an illusory performer on stage depending on how far your dm lets you spread the it can move part of the spell (if i was dm I'd still have you roll a perform for getting/keeping attention)
Thank you all for the amazing suggestions! The session will be played tomorrow, but if anybody wants to keep adding ideas - maybe for other interested users who might see this thread - feel free to do so.
You can try using major image to make sewer monsters and pretend to fight them. Tell everyone to retreat to their homes. If any guards or other brave citizens help you fight the monsters, lead them away from where your allies will be exiting.
I like this one. Add that Major Image can create smells too, so I would give it a heinous stench to keep people from getting too close to notice its fake.
You can try using major image to make sewer monsters and pretend to fight them. Tell everyone to retreat to their homes. If any guards or other brave citizens help you fight the monsters, lead them away from where your allies will be exiting.
I like this one. Add that Major Image can create smells too, so I would give it a heinous stench to keep people from getting too close to notice its fake.
Would adding the smell, not add another sense element that people would be able to attempt to figure out is fake? Now not only can they see it, or if they get close enough touch it, but they can also smell it?
Also, in general, i'm not keen on sewer monsters as a distraction would be effective. In an entire city, someone is bound to throw a rock, or shoot an arrow, or etc. but thats my opinion.
Can't any of your party members shrink themselves to exit through the sewer pipes that were blown up? Enlarge/Reduce? Gaseous form? Simply bluff their way through the entrance, saying that they need have inspected the damages and knows what parts they have to get to fix it? Kinda late now, but your escape doesn't *have* to use spells.
Thank you all for the amazing suggestions! The session will be played tomorrow, but if anybody wants to keep adding ideas - maybe for other interested users who might see this thread - feel free to do so.
Well, in the end some unexpected things happened and the plan had to go out the window, basicaly. By "unexpected things" I mean that, due to my local celebrity status, a dwarven woman on the street imediately noticed me and started hitting on me with the old "Wouldn't you like to come to my house and fix my pipes?"... Yes, I know.
My character, being under the obligation of helping his teammates, promptly runs away from her, when my other teammate, who stayes on the surfice with me, sneakly casts Fog Cloud in between me and her, so I could easily escape the crazy fangirl. Something just snaps to me, and I notice that this combination of sewer water exploding everywhere and random gas cloud popping out of thin air could work really well. I Minor Illusion the voice of that crazy dwarven woman and make it scream "POISON GAS!!". Everyone in the market place goes into a panic and starts running for their lives.
When it was time to talk to the guards and bystenders near the tower, I tried to use my charisma to convince them that they're not safe from the poison gas here or that this may be an attack from the nearby tribe of devils, so they should go and reinforce the walls... After failling every single one of those rolls, I just turned to my friend and Messaged him "Just fog them up already". He did and I, again, Minor Illusioned that woman screaming. In the end it all worked out well, in a completely unexpected way.
Well, in the end some unexpected things happened and the plan had to go out the window, basicaly. By "unexpected things" I mean that, due to my local celebrity status, a dwarven woman on the street imediately noticed me and started hitting on me with the old "Wouldn't you like to come to my house and fix my pipes?"... Yes, I know.
My character, being under the obligation of helping his teammates, promptly runs away from her, when my other teammate, who stayes on the surfice with me, sneakly casts Fog Cloud in between me and her, so I could easily escape the crazy fangirl. Something just snaps to me, and I notice that this combination of sewer water exploding everywhere and random gas cloud popping out of thin air could work really well. I Minor Illusion the voice of that crazy dwarven woman and make it scream "POISON GAS!!". Everyone in the market place goes into a panic and starts running for their lives.
When it was time to talk to the guards and bystenders near the tower, I tried to use my charisma to convince them that they're not safe from the poison gas here or that this may be an attack from the nearby tribe of devils, so they should go and reinforce the walls... After failling every single one of those rolls, I just turned to my friend and Messaged him "Just fog them up already". He did and I, again, Minor Illusioned that woman screaming. In the end it all worked out well, in a completely unexpected way.
That poor fangirl is going to be captured, tortured, interrogated, and possibly murdered, as an accomplice to the theft, once its found out what happened that needed the distraction. She's a loose end.
You created a "scatter brain Jane" (Archer reference)
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Help! I'm in charge of making a huge distraction next session so my party members can complete a very important heist.
Ok, so here's the setting:
My party of 7 players is currently in a dwarven city. This city has a big tower surreounded by water in the middle of it where they keep their prisoners locked up and it just so happens that an EXTREMELY IMPORTANT magic item of our's got confiscated and is being kept in there (if we don't get it back, our brains are getting literally fried by an eldrich creature).
It took us some time and the exploitations of some (many) of our contacts, but we finally made a plan of action. We spent the last couple of sessions getting everything ready and began acting on it last session. To kickstart the plan, we infiltrated the sewers, laid waste to a criminal gang hiding in there and blew up a pipe ment to flood the tower. Our alchemist, however is (quite literally) a gunpowder-loving terrorist and put too much of the stuff in it. End result: not only did it flood the tower, but also every single manhole in the city blew up as well and is now gushing sewer water everywhere.
With the city now in panic (a lot more panic that planned), it was easy for 5 of the party members to dress up as the local plumbers and infiltrate the tower, claiming "The tower is the pride of the city, it takes priority over everything else", leaving me - the bard - and a second PC to formulate a distraction so that people won't see them leaving with our valuable magic item. That's what I need help with. The entire population has gathered in front of the goddamn tower, waiting for the "plumbers" to get out of it so they can fix the rest of the city. How the hell am I supposed to distract all of them?
Some things you should know: My character is a local hero, having gained that title after he talked down a rampaging rhino using the Speak with Animals spell. He's so gaddamn famous he can barely walk the streets in broad daylight without atracting a swarm of fangirls, but I doubt they're just gonna forget the shit-flood that's ingulfing their city and ask for my autograph.
I'm a lvl 6 College of Whispers Bard gnome
Spells Known:
- Cantrips: Message / Minor Illusion (Racial) / Vicious Mockery / Blade Ward
- LVL 1: Comprehend Languages / Cure Wounds / Tasha's Hideous Laughter / Speak with Animals
- LVL 2: Invisibility / Silence / Suggestion
- LVL 3: Enemies Abound / Major Image
You can try using major image to make sewer monsters and pretend to fight them. Tell everyone to retreat to their homes. If any guards or other brave citizens help you fight the monsters, lead them away from where your allies will be exiting.
Can you use major image to make it look like the "plumbers" exit the tower and start fixing the rest? That would probably make everyone stop watching the tower.
How big is the magic item? Wouldn't it be simpler for the "plumbers" to hide it rather than making an elaborate distraction? Or, why not both? :p
Subclass: Dwarven Defender - Dragonborn Paragon
Feats: Artificer Apprentice
Monsters: Sheep - Spellbreaker Warforged Titan
Magic Items: Whipier - Ring of Secret Storage - Collar of the Guardian
Monster template: Skeletal Creature
If you’re that well known... how are you convincingly passing as a “Plummer”?
a secondary explosion by your terrorist party member could have been set up on a “time delay” to trigger again like an hour or two later as an “aftershock” kinda thing.
Major image is your best bet. And hoping no one realizes you are casting it.
you can make it look like the tower collapses killing your “plumber friends” again. Some minor coordination for a secondary explosion would be needed here.
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Major image a stage with amplified sound, throw a rock show to "improve morale" while the experts work?
I'm not passing as a plumber, if you read it again you'll see that I said that they left me to create a distraction. This "left me" is quite literal. I'm currently walking around the nearby market with the ranger's cloak on my head so people won't immediately jump me.
We didn't really think about setting a second explosion. Also our alchemist is a crazed explosions maniac and he wanted to "blow his load all at once" in his own words, so it wouldn't happen anyway.
Hm... sounds interesting, but how would I make my character get up on the stage? Major Image makes non-physical illusions, which is exactly the problem with every single plan I come up with. I later remember "****, that's right, I can't touch it!"
What about making a monster(s) to scare everyone away, or making it seem as if your friends returned to draw everyone to a different area (both mentioned above)?
Holy shit. I know it may be hard to believe, but I'm so not used to the interface of this site I hadn't even seen the first few answers. My apologies to the others I didn't respond to.
About the size of the item, it is a box that two people should have no problem moving (think of a small coffin). About the need to move it in secrecy, that's mainly because the moment people see them taking a step out of the tower, they will surely get rushed by panicking bystandards that need the plumbers to come fix their problems ASAP. We have to take this thing out of the city as fast as possible.
This one I found a pretty good idea. There is a clan of devils in the outskirts of town that I could make an illusion of, but it would probably be best if I came up with some flying creatures, since guards couldn't fight them so easily.
Quite literally left you, and you're not disguised. Okay. changes things up.
Alright. For this, you might have to spend a day or two in Jail.
You're a public figure and quite famous?
Drink a TON of alcohol (borderline alcohol poisoning), and Assault, quite literally, some random person. Think over exaggerrated schoolyard fight. that's going to be a major distraction and buy time.
Nobody will pay attention to your party mates, vs a public image figure doing something completely insane. (think janet Jackson boob slip, or Brittney Spears head shaving, or Miley Cyrus dry humping a blow up doll, or Justin bieber running over paparazzi)
Aside from that, set up a Major image, for the background kind of area, like a Looney tunes style cartoon picture of the road and canyon and sun and everything, of where your party is supposed to be/come from. So that anyone who looks that way, will see that.
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A couple Ideas,
1: any elevated surface and the illusion makes it look like an impressive stage
2: Freaking holograms, seriously might as well have an illusory performer on stage depending on how far your dm lets you spread the it can move part of the spell (if i was dm I'd still have you roll a perform for getting/keeping attention)
Thank you all for the amazing suggestions! The session will be played tomorrow, but if anybody wants to keep adding ideas - maybe for other interested users who might see this thread - feel free to do so.
Let us know how it goes ;)
I like this one. Add that Major Image can create smells too, so I would give it a heinous stench to keep people from getting too close to notice its fake.
Would adding the smell, not add another sense element that people would be able to attempt to figure out is fake? Now not only can they see it, or if they get close enough touch it, but they can also smell it?
Also, in general, i'm not keen on sewer monsters as a distraction would be effective. In an entire city, someone is bound to throw a rock, or shoot an arrow, or etc. but thats my opinion.
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Can't any of your party members shrink themselves to exit through the sewer pipes that were blown up? Enlarge/Reduce? Gaseous form? Simply bluff their way through the entrance, saying that they need have inspected the damages and knows what parts they have to get to fix it?
Kinda late now, but your escape doesn't *have* to use spells.
I have to know. How did it go?
Well, in the end some unexpected things happened and the plan had to go out the window, basicaly. By "unexpected things" I mean that, due to my local celebrity status, a dwarven woman on the street imediately noticed me and started hitting on me with the old "Wouldn't you like to come to my house and fix my pipes?"... Yes, I know.
My character, being under the obligation of helping his teammates, promptly runs away from her, when my other teammate, who stayes on the surfice with me, sneakly casts Fog Cloud in between me and her, so I could easily escape the crazy fangirl. Something just snaps to me, and I notice that this combination of sewer water exploding everywhere and random gas cloud popping out of thin air could work really well. I Minor Illusion the voice of that crazy dwarven woman and make it scream "POISON GAS!!". Everyone in the market place goes into a panic and starts running for their lives.
When it was time to talk to the guards and bystenders near the tower, I tried to use my charisma to convince them that they're not safe from the poison gas here or that this may be an attack from the nearby tribe of devils, so they should go and reinforce the walls... After failling every single one of those rolls, I just turned to my friend and Messaged him "Just fog them up already". He did and I, again, Minor Illusioned that woman screaming. In the end it all worked out well, in a completely unexpected way.
That poor fangirl is going to be captured, tortured, interrogated, and possibly murdered, as an accomplice to the theft, once its found out what happened that needed the distraction. She's a loose end.
You created a "scatter brain Jane" (Archer reference)
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