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Chris1234 wrote:Something like a 4” long cloak pin..which could be used to fasten his cloak at one shoulder?

Shima doesn't have a cloak. So he'll buy a cloak with a cloak pin, which will cost him 5 silver pieces.

So, is everyone done? Is there anything left before we start the chapter proper now?

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Updated.

Autumn Twilight 16, Gateway
Haahqae - Haahqae locks himself up in his room and spends (1d24): 11 hours summoning a familiar. He acquires a little grey mouse named Miracle. He spends 5 silver on his room.
Kendra - Kendra goes to work and earns 1 steel piece. Sadron regains 3 HP.
Arulia - Arulia works at her father's forge all day and earns 4 silver.
Grubnick - Grubnick pays 8 silver for his room at the High Hand. He searches around for Xyleena and Yvette and Delharn in the Merchant District but has no luck.
Ne-Chanz - Ne-Chanz pays 4 silver for their room at the High Hand. He heals 1 HP. He splits the coin with Shima. The 37 PP divides into 18 PP and 5 STP each. The 375 SP splits up into 187 SP and 5 CP each.
Shima - When he first wakes up, he feels weird. It's hard to say exactly, but he just feels off. (He suffers a -1 to all saving throws.) He pays 4 silver for their room at the High Hand. He heals 1 HP. He heads to the Steel Tankard to see Haahqae, but the gnome is not available. He returns to the High Hand and splits the coin with Ne-Chanz. He asks Gobax about Gregeddin. Gobax tells him that Gregeddin was arrested for attacking the prefect. Beyond that, he doesn't know anything. Shima goes to the Masked Dragon and takes a bath for 3 CP. He tracks down Raena. She tells him to forget about it. She's lost patience with him and has decided on a different route. She no longer needs his help in this regard. It's become clear she doesn't trust him, either, nor is she buying his reasons on why it's taking so long. He gives her a silver piece so they are 'square.' He goes to see Jane. She offers to sell him a vial for 50 STP, but it will take a few days to brew it. He decides not to. He goes to see Arulia, but he has no idea where to look. He gives the pregnant woman at the Tankard 12 SP (+1 Mishakal). He asks Ne-Chanz if he knows the woman he's been hired to kill. However, the minotaur does not; he hasn't been in this city much longer than Shima has. Ne-Chanz asks why he wants to know, and Shima tells him he was hired to kill her. He splits the coin with Ne-Chanz. The 37 PP divides into 18 PP and 5 STP each. The 375 SP splits up into 187 SP and 5 CP each. Shima keeps the gemstone a secret so keeps it to himself.

Autumn Twilight 17, Bright Eye
Haahqae - He spends 5 silver on his room. However, when he goes to show off to Ismene, he finds the room in disarray. Miriam is there, nursing a black eye. She tells him that a group of draconian soldiers showed up, arrested Ismene, and refused to explain why. They also tore the room apart, trying to find something. The soldiers took all of Ismene's money, as well as Miriam's, then demanded to know where 'the rest of it' was. When Ismene expressed she didn't know what they were talking about, they started beating her up, saying things like, "The divination placed a gnome on the scene!" and "You're a well known illusionist, aren't you?" Then they took her away (to where, Miriam has no idea). Miriam tried to stop them, but that didn't work out well. Now Miriam has no coin at all, will lose her room and be forced into slavery since homelessness is a crime. He gives Miriam 20 STP.
Kendra - Kendra goes to work and earns 1 steel piece. Sadron regains 3 HP.
Arulia - Arulia works at her father's forge all day and earns 4 silver.
Grubnick - Grubnick pays 8 silver for his room at the High Hand. He searches around for Xyleena and Yvette and Delharn in the Harbor District but has no luck.
Ne-Chanz - Ne-Chanz pays 4 silver for their room at the High Hand. He heals 3 HP.
Shima - He pays 4 silver for their room at the High Hand. He heals 1 HP. He purchases ingredients for Class E poison for 30 STP from the herbalist shop. He takes them to the inn and in his room, secretly mixes them together to create a deadly venom to coat on a weapon. He looks for Gobax again and asks him where Arulia lives and works. He says he'll get back to him.

Autumn Twilight 18, Night's Eye
Haahqae - He spends 5 silver on his room. He tries to seek out Kendra. She tells him she doesn't know who Ismene is or has any idea where she is being held, but she offers to find out (but assures him it won't help him any).
Kendra - Kendra stays in the shop and spends the day trying to sell the crystal wine glass [CHA check (1d20): 6, pass]. She sells it for 500 STP. Haahqae visits her and asks where Ismene is being held; Kendra has no idea what he's talking about. Sadron regains 3 HP.
Arulia - Arulia works at her father's forge all day and earns 4 silver. Grubnick visits her.
Grubnick - Grubnick pays 8 silver for his room at the High Hand. He searches around for Xyleena and Yvette and Delharn in the Farmer District but has no luck. He checks the old Belzorite lair, and it is occupied by goblin soldiers. He goes to the smithy and tells Arulia that Shima is searching for her. He then returns to Shima to tell him she works at the smithy.
Ne-Chanz - Ne-Chanz pays 4 silver for their room at the High Hand. He heals 3 HP.
Shima - He pays 4 silver for their room at the High Hand. He heals 1 HP. He attempts to visit Haahqae again, but he is too busy. Gobax tells him Arulia works at the smithy. Shima scouts out Una's Weaponsmithy and spots Cassilda, his target. (He now has a -2 to all saves.)

Autumn Twilight 19, Dead Eye
Haahqae - He spends 5 silver on his room. He makes an attempt to break into the mageware shop, but is unable to pick the lock on the front door. He returns to Miriam to discuss making a plan. She agrees to help him if she can.
Kendra - Kendra goes to work and earns 1 steel piece. Sadron regains 3 HP.
Arulia - Arulia works at her father's forge all day and earns 4 silver. Cassilda brings home 2 steel pieces from her job.
Grubnick - Grubnick pays 8 silver for his room at the High Hand. He searches around for Xyleena and Yvette and Delharn in the Merchant District but has no luck.
Ne-Chanz - Ne-Chanz pays 4 silver for their room at the High Hand. He heals 3 HP.
Shima - He pays 4 silver for their room at the High Hand. He heals 1 HP. He sells the gemstone he stole to Jane for 15 STP. Shima restores the rusty long sword by spending 1 STP at the weaponsmithy for supplies, then follows Cassilda home again. Shima buys a cloak with a cloak pin for 5 SP. (He now has -3 to all saves.)

Autumn Twilight 20, Dream Dance
Haahqae - He spends 5 silver on his room. He heads to the temple, pretending to worship, but is actually trying to scope the place out. He uses detect magic but doesn't learn very much. He makes himself invisible and heads into the noble district. He finds the prefect's mansion is guarded by an even larger red dragon. He spots Kendra enter the building and a short time later, exit. He approaches her and asks her about Ismene.
Kendra - Kendra goes to work and earns 1 steel piece. Sadron regains 3 HP. Haahqae asks her about Ismene, so she looks into it and then reports back to him that Tethys has set up anti-invisibility measures in his mansion, the fort and the temple and is going to be enacting a law that forbids unregistered magic use.
Arulia - Arulia works at her father's forge all day and earns 4 silver. Shima tells her that he was hired by the church to kill Cassilda.
Grubnick - Grubnick pays 8 silver for his room at the High Hand. He searches around for Xyleena and Yvette and Delharn in the Harbor District but has no luck.
Ne-Chanz - Ne-Chanz pays 4 silver for their room at the High Hand. He heals 3 HP.
Shima - He pays 4 silver for their room at the High Hand. He heals 1 HP. He attempts to visit Haahqae again. Haahqae is in a bad mood and offers little company to Shima. He asks why and if there's anything he can do. Haahqae tells him Ismene was arrested. Shima follows Cassilda to work, and spots Arulia escorting her. After she is alone, he approaches her and confesses everything to her. She tells him off. (He now has -4 to all saves.)

Autumn Twilight 21, Winged Trade
Haahqae - He spends 5 silver on his room. He spends the day searching for Yvette and Xyleena in taverns (he finds nothing), try to find out where people being arrested are taken (he doesn't find any), and looks for people openly speaking poorly of the occupation in taverns (he doesn't find any).
Kendra - Kendra goes to work and earns 1 steel piece. Sadron regains 3 HP.
Arulia - Arulia works at her father's forge all day and earns 4 silver.
Grubnick - Grubnick pays 8 silver for his room at the High Hand. He searches around for Xyleena and Yvette and Delharn in the Farmer District but has no luck. He checks the old Belzorite lair, and it is occupied by goblin soldiers.
Ne-Chanz - Ne-Chanz pays 4 silver for their room at the High Hand. He heals 3 HP.
Shima - He pays 4 silver for their room at the High Hand. He heals 3 HP. (He now has -5 to all saves.)

Autumn Twilight 22, World Tree
Haahqae - He spends 5 silver on his room. He spends the day and most of the night (invisible) studying patrols and trying to learn more about them.
Kendra - Kendra goes to work and earns 1 steel piece. Sadron regains 3 HP.
Arulia - Arulia works at her father's forge all day and earns 4 silver. Aaron approaches her and tells her that the meeting has been set up for tomorrow at Third Watch at an abandoned warehouse on the docks. After work, she heads to the High Hand and informs Gobax.
Grubnick - Grubnick pays 8 silver for his room at the High Hand. He searches around for Xyleena and Yvette and Delharn in the Merchant District but has no luck. Arulia visits him in the evening and tells him she has set up a meeting for Yvette and Xyleena.
Ne-Chanz - Ne-Chanz pays 4 silver for their room at the High Hand. He heals 1 HP.
Shima - He pays 4 silver for their room at the High Hand. He heals 1 HP. (He now has -6 to all saves.)

Autumn Twilight 23, Gateway
(Chapter 13 begins)

During Twilight 21 & 2 Shima will polish up the long sword.

I have very little idea of how to proceed from here, but it appears that Haahqae's week is full without much room for other stuff to do during the break.

Chris1234 wrote:Shima glances around to see that there's no one to listen in (otherwise biding her to walk with him), "Well, I have been looking for you. I haven't made any secret of that. But what I haven't made clear, is why. And, that, although I would rather have said it under other circumstances, is that I wanted to find you, talk to you, get to know you."

He sighs. "My own race despise me because my mother took up with a gnome. To them I'm outcast. Happenstance lead me to a profession where I'm less trusted than most. I came here hoping for a new start; to make friends. Instead there are the occupation forces. But I ran into you and some of your associates." Shima pauses, swallows, and continues, "Look, I'm beating around the bush. I wanted to get to know you and to see if it could lead anywhere. That is why I was asking after you."

He scratches his neck nervously. "And that is where it get complicated. In an effort to be useful, to make friends if you will, I was trying to help Ne-Chanz track down a pair of female thieves. To get information on that, we had to do a job that I can't talk about, and in doing that I was getting beaten to the point where I would not be able to continue. To be able to continue, I made a deal, a bad, bad choice in hindsight. I went to the dragon temple and asked them to fix my woulds. They did. But they wanted me to do a job for them. I was going to cheat them, but their top priestess was too clever for me a cast some enchantment that makes me increasingly unlucky for each day that I don't do their job."

The dwarf swallows again, finding no moisture in his mouth. " I know you're going to hate me for this, but for at least once in my life I choose, I choose! to be decent and honest and take the consequences. So, that job was to do in someone. That 'someone', it turns out, was your sister. I'm not going to do it. So be wary that they, SHE!, will try again and in a manner not traceable back to them. I don't expect to survive this; I'm just sorry I never had the chance to try and be 'special' to you. I wish you and Cassilda well." Shima turns, now more at peace with himself, and walks away.

(IC: Arulia listens to Shima's long explanation without speaking, but expressions give her emotions away--first embarrassment, then confusion, then alarm. But when he speaks of assassinating Cassilda, fury wipes away any other emotion. But she attempts, without completely succeeding, to keep her voice calm when he's finally done speaking.

"I...I don't know why you've seen fit to tell me all of this," she begins. "I suppose that I should be grateful that you've warned me that Cassilda's life is in danger, so that now maybe I can keep her safe knowing that. But know this: you will not come near her again. If any harm comes to her, I will hold you personally responsible.")

Other than warning Cassilda and the rest of the family that Cassilda's life is in danger and questioning her just why it is so, Arulia has nothing else that she wants to do before starting the new chapter. I mean, she wants to get her to safety, but that's not likely to be possible...

Shima half turns, and just looks at Arulia.
After the pause he adds, "Because I cared," and then walks away.

Chris1234 wrote:During Twilight 21 & 2 Shima will polish up the long sword.

He already did that on the 19th.

Okay, I've updated the stat blocks to account for all of the healing, buying, selling and so forth.

Haahqae is rank (a week without a bath), and currently has enough coin to stay at the Steel Tankard for 239 days.

Kendra is at full health, while Sadron is nearly so (he's one HP off from full health). She needs to earn 7 STP to pay for her family's finances before the end of the month. She has earned enough coin to support herself and Sadron for the rest of this month and all of Autumn Dark, as well. Her new masterwork studded leather armor will be ready on Autumn Dark 4th, so in 12 days.

Tulbas remains untouched. We'll resume where we left off with him, a week ago.

Arulia is now rank (a week without a bath). She and Cassilda have earned 15 STP so far from work this month, which means she can support herself and 2 family members next month. She has one week left to earn enough to support the other two (5 STP each).

Grubnick is rank (a week without a bath). He has enough coin to stay at the High Hand for another 7 days, at best.

Ne-Chanz is at full health and no longer in encumbrance. Also, he's now repugnant (three weeks without a bath). He has enough coin to share a room with Shima at the High Hand for 328 days (or get a room by himself for 164 days).

Shima is at full health but is cursed (-6 to all saving throws). He has enough coin to share a room with Ne-Chanz for 308 days (or get a room by himself for 154 days). Also, if he wants to maintain Gregeddin's place, too, he'll need to pony up 200 STP by the end of the month.

I think that's it. I'll try and get the new chapter up tomorrow, barring anything further (however, tomorrow is Thanksgiving, so no promises on that).

As it's now 23rd, shouldn't Shima now be a -7 to saves?

No, he didn't receive a penalty on the day he actually bought the ingredients and brewed the poison, like he was going through with it.

It seems we're running into a problem we've had before a couple times. It's really hard for us to get a hold of each other while we're all running off and doing stuff. Which is why I was trying to push for Arulia and Gobax to decide if they wanted Haahqae to come before the chapter started.

I'm constantly attempting to make interesting things happen and to move the story along, while still staying in character as much as I can, and while I can understand that not making the decision might have been in character, I'm not overly fond of running around the city failing to meet up with people as I don't find that conducive to interesting or moving the story along.

Props to you if you can prove me wrong and make it do one or both of those things!

If only cell phones existed on Krynn. But yeah, it's a big city and the PCs haven't all worked together since back in the first arc (there are some PCs that have not even met each other yet). However, as time progresses and things become more challenging, running solo (or even with just one or two others) might not be possible anymore. Then again, many of their agendas conflict (even the ones who want the same thing are sometimes working against each other, because they are going about it in different ways). So who knows?

Lol. We need tulbas back with a message spell or 'telepathic bond'

Message only has a range of 30' + 10' per level, so not terribly useful in communicating with people all over the city. You might be thinking of Sending, which is 5th level, so far beyond Tulbas' current grasp. Rary's Telepathic Bond is also 5th level.

I was indeed thinking of "Rary's..." as it was recently used by tbe group in The Labyrinth of Madness game. But yes, my mind also went to 'message' being a low level spell and I didn't bother to re-check the range. Even so, cellphones might make things too boring, right

JadedDM wrote: .... Despite this, there are still a gaggle of baaz drinking and carousing...

I've been wondering what the collective noun for a group of Baaz was
Does that go for all draconians, or is it a "Murder" of Kapaks, like with crows?

Oops, just noticed Tristan posted something 3 minutes before my post. Probably I was writing my post while he posted it, then my post started a new page so I didn't see it until now.

I'll get a reply to him shortly.