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Good to know. Was wondering if dwarven armpits needed freshening up.

By the way, if you have any quidange on how Gregeddin should enter/re introduce himself let me know, otherwise I just posted as I think I ususaly did

No, I can work with that. To answer your OOC questions, though:

OOC Does he know if [the forged permit] works or not?

It has so far, although there was a point where he showed it at a checkpoint and they conversed over it and sent a guard toward to the temple. They let him pass, but it was a really suspicious thing.

Forgive my memory but what exactly did Magnus wan't Gregeddin to to again?

Magnus hired Gregeddin to locate the Belzorites. It turned out there were a few of them left and the church wanted them wiped out. But they were using some kind of magic to avoid scrying. So the church hired Magnus to take care of them, and Magnus in turn hired Gregeddin.

JadedDM wrote:Re: Haahqae, Tulbas, Felran and Grubnick

While you all agreed to do something, nobody actually wrote they were doing it. You just had them say, in dialogue, they would go. I tend not to assume just because a character says something means they will do it. I thought you were reluctant to actually leave the room to avoid Shima. Because all you were doing was writing dialogue:

"We should go to the lair."
"Indeed, we should."
"Well, let us be off."
"Yes, quite so."
"Then we're all in agreement."
"So it would seem."

I seriously thought you all were just stalling for time until Shima left. It was only today that someone finally wrote, '[my character] walks downstairs' which is what I was waiting for.

On my part I didn't want to force to others to leave if they still wanted to say something in the room, and the other players might have thought the same...

I said nothing...

@Jaded:
I was reading something the other day (5th Ed) about Dragonborn. They get a damage-type immunity and corresponding breath weapon according to their dragon-type heritage.
There's a sidebar that says in DL they are known a Draconians and baaz (brass heritage) and kapak (copper heritage) have "unique magical abilities... in place of their {5th Ed} draconic breath weapon".
Would Shima know anything, rumours perhaps, about the "magical abilities" of baaz or kapak?

I assume the 'magical abilities' it refers to are the death throes.

It's my understanding, though, that Shima had never even heard of draconians at all when he first entered the city. So I would assume he wouldn't know about their abilities, either. He could try finding out in-game, though.

It was the player that hadn't heard of baaz or kapak.
If I recall correctly, from Shima's background [can't find a copy, annoyingly -my HD played up and ended up getting formatted], wasn't it an (undefined) unit of draconians that Shima wanted revenge on?

You're suggesting then that Shima has already done his research then?

Well, draconians were bred to be the perfect soldier. This means that, even in death, they can be destructive. Each kind of draconian has a 'death throe' that is triggered when they reach 0 HP.

Baaz turn to stone. This has been witnessed by Haahqae, Gregeddin and Kendra already. Upon death, baaz petrify immediately, often trapping the weapon they were killed with inside them (assuming said weapon is piercing or slashing, anyway). The killer must make a DEX check with a -6 penalty or their weapon gets stuck in the stone corpse and they can't use it anymore. (Eventually the statue turns to dust, and any trapped weapons are freed, but usually not until after the battle is over.)

Nobody in the party has fought a kapak or witnessed its death throe, but they turn into a puddle of acid, damaging anyone standing nearby. The acid eventually evaporates, but usually not until after a battle. This means the more kapaks killed, the more hazardous the battlefield becomes. In my Dragonlance Chronicles game, I remember one battle with kapaks where the party was not hit once, but were still near death by the time it ended, because there were so many puddles of acid they had to keep walking through during the fight.

Well, if memory serves there was something in his past that he was tracking down a unit to try and do some damage to (revenge).
But I'm running from memory here. I just knew that draconians existed from the novels which I read once when they first came out.
And you told me they were units of them in the city so it seemed a convenient way to pull Shima into the location of the party...

Thanks v much Jaded - I do have a vague recollection of the stone thing, but I thought that was in an early Forgotten Realms Harpers' book. Certainly I had never come across the acid thing.

No problem.

Bozaks, Sivaks and Auraks have their own throes, as well. But it's unlikely the group that killed Shima's father contained them, so I won't say anything about them.

Also, a couple of things:

Chris1234 wrote:{OOC: I did do a post here already, but it seems to have mysteriously disappeared}

It's still there, just a page back.

Chris1234 wrote:Shima tries to make a bee-line for Haahqae, hands well away from weapons, arms raised as if in greeting;

Shima left his weapons back at the High Hand, in his room. If he took them with him, he would have been arrested long before he made it to the Steel Tankard, just so you know.

JadedDM wrote: Shima left his weapons back at the High Hand, in his room. If he took them with him, he would have been arrested long before he made it to the Steel Tankard, just so you know.

Well that makes keeping his hands away from them rather easy doesn't it?

That's extremely funny. TBH I'd forgotten about the no-weapons rule. But moving on:

The post that disappeared was the same one (well as good as my memory can make it) as the one where I said ..."hands away from weapons..."

Also running from memory, relating to weapons, I'd understood that you were allowed to carry them to the place that you intended to stay at.
Shima stayed last night at the posh place (High Hand?) because he'd already paid for the room.
He did not then book a room for the coming night (shortage of funds and, more to the point, to locate Haahqae {that's dreadful to spell correctly!})
Therefore he was moving to the grotty place (Steel tankard?) to relocate for the coming night. If this required him to wrap the weapons up in something ?cloak? and tie them in a bundle to get there without being arrested then he would have.
Is this ok?

In that case, he'll need to head to the old fort and put in a request for a temporary permission pass that will let him carry his weapons to the new inn. This will cost 5 steel pieces.

Do you want me to retroactively remove 5 STP from his inventory and assume he took care of that on the way to the Tankard?

How about for leaving the city? Do they charge you 5 steel for that?
How many days of staying at the expensive place would he get for 5 steel?

I had a post to Haahqae too, but that seems to have disappeared. Odd..
Was something like:

@Haahqae: 1st impressions of Haahqae are that he's awesome. (At least in his own mind.) But gave me a jolly good chuckle. TY