Hello all! First time player here. I just recently snuck into a goblin’s hideout and infiltrated their kitchen disguised as a Goblin. I was attempting to add poison to the soup, but the cook grabbed my hand before I could, and the session ended. I’m leagues away from my group, so I really need this to go well. I’m playing as a rouge with mage hand and high charisma. What route would you guys try to take?
I'd try to bluff the cook and explain it's a valuable ingredient, something called "bull yawn," you stole from a rich guy. Tell them, "Let me go and I show you." Use performance, pretend to taste and enjoy it - making a big, goblinish show of it. Dump it in the soup quickly before they can think too much, and make an excuse to leave - the more confusing, the better: "Me have to go now, dog is on fire."
Bear in mind that mage hand has verbal and somatic components, so it will be obvious to anyone nearby that you're casting a spell. Good for a distraction if you can get it up and running in private, but probably not too helpful in the moment.
I mean, you can try to bluff or fight your way out of this, but you might just be out of luck at this point. However, unless your DM is really brutal I doubt they'll actually kill you. Now, you might end up captured for a little bit, but that's the kind of risk you take breaking away from the party like that.
1st bluff. Try to convince the cook it's something that will make it taste much better. If that doesn't work, kill the goblin cook, and escape with his body, so it looks like he just disappeared, so there's nothing suggesting anything happened to the food, and they might still eat it... they are goblins after all. But even if they don't, by the time they realize something happened, you'll be away from the scene.
(If you can't trick the cook, your deception won't likely last long enough to impersonate the cook to serve the food)
Hi charisma you say? I mean, this poison is obviously a very highly prized ingredient, integral to this dish, a delicious delicacy that you stole from a merchant on his last legs… anyways it tastes pretty good.
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Hello all! First time player here. I just recently snuck into a goblin’s hideout and infiltrated their kitchen disguised as a Goblin. I was attempting to add poison to the soup, but the cook grabbed my hand before I could, and the session ended. I’m leagues away from my group, so I really need this to go well. I’m playing as a rouge with mage hand and high charisma. What route would you guys try to take?
Kill him, poison the soup and get out fast.
I'd try to bluff the cook and explain it's a valuable ingredient, something called "bull yawn," you stole from a rich guy. Tell them, "Let me go and I show you." Use performance, pretend to taste and enjoy it - making a big, goblinish show of it. Dump it in the soup quickly before they can think too much, and make an excuse to leave - the more confusing, the better: "Me have to go now, dog is on fire."
Bear in mind that mage hand has verbal and somatic components, so it will be obvious to anyone nearby that you're casting a spell. Good for a distraction if you can get it up and running in private, but probably not too helpful in the moment.
I mean, you can try to bluff or fight your way out of this, but you might just be out of luck at this point. However, unless your DM is really brutal I doubt they'll actually kill you. Now, you might end up captured for a little bit, but that's the kind of risk you take breaking away from the party like that.
1st bluff. Try to convince the cook it's something that will make it taste much better. If that doesn't work, kill the goblin cook, and escape with his body, so it looks like he just disappeared, so there's nothing suggesting anything happened to the food, and they might still eat it... they are goblins after all. But even if they don't, by the time they realize something happened, you'll be away from the scene.
(If you can't trick the cook, your deception won't likely last long enough to impersonate the cook to serve the food)
Hi charisma you say? I mean, this poison is obviously a very highly prized ingredient, integral to this dish, a delicious delicacy that you stole from a merchant on his last legs… anyways it tastes pretty good.