"Tis a strange place," I say, leaning against a post for comfort, "and I've seen stranger than vampires here. A roving revenant warforged, for example. I didn't know those things could have souls, let alone one strong enough to bring em back. Purposeful thing, though. You could see that in its unblinking, phosphorescent eyes.""And I saw a gallows tree once. Hung seventeen gnome spies from it, they did, and left them there to rot. Something in that oak tree went... bad. Uprooted itself and went on a walkabout, seventeen shrieking gnome corpses swinging in the wind.""Strange place this is, yes," I say, pondering. "Vampires can be downright pleasant."
"This is a horrible country," mutters Atrelioth.
[Don't know that Mari has any intention of aiding Pepper, but I'm going to roll Initiative just in case I need to do something: 17 + 9 = 26]
[Do they sound like they're from this country?][Insight Roll(1d20)+12: 7,+12, Total:19]
[Do you want to be part of the incipient combat encounter? i.e., should I be including a Mari turn in every round?]
[Initiative, just in case, 2 + 6 = 8]
Quote from: Aden on June 11, 2016, 07:12:04 AM[Initiative, just in case, 2 + 6 = 8][Same question, am I including a Val turn in every round?]
I sit.I sometimes know when not to push my luck.
"You got a name?" I ask the commander, then jerk my head at Andri's body. "And sorry about him, for real. I shoulda knocked him out at the end, there, before... don't matter now, I guess."
Quote from: Teshi on June 11, 2016, 06:42:07 AM"This is a horrible country," mutters Atrelioth."Why are you here? Are you lost?"
The commander says dryly, "We're here for much the same reason you are, I believe."
Quote from: Teshi on June 11, 2016, 08:09:39 AMThe commander says dryly, "We're here for much the same reason you are, I believe.""Yes, but why would you be interested? I mean, you're not from around here and clearly we have... differing beliefs."
"What monstrous abuses?" I break in to ask, curious what this staff whatever thing we've been sent after actually does. Necromancy aint that useful a description, after all, seeing as how apparently some people think what I do counts as necromancy.
"Nobody said nothing to me about no twisted abominations," I reply. "I'm just here cause some guy wants his missing kid back. Why're you after us, anyway? I mean, what makes you think we can even help you?"[Just to clarify my thoughts here, I'm not rolling Bluff because to Astra's view that is the only reason she, in particular, was included on this mission; the group as a whole has another purpose as well, but she's just talking about herself. Let me know if that's skirting it too much and I'll toss in a check!]