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[1d20 = 14]>>32271Spot check for what the monsters are doing - what is their activity?
[1d20+19 = 31]>>32275Better off with a Sense Motive check for that one.
In fact, that's what I'll do.
[1d20 = 10]>>32276I think we are too far way, but fuck it. Sense Motive
>>32274No sign of either.
>>32275Occasional pockets of conversation occur, and a few scraps break out, but they appear in standby of a sorts. Mostly they are just keeping an eye on the city and one another. At the center of the city is a oddly shaped mound with sheer sides. Aside from what amount to shacks, it is the only apparent building.
>>32278I'm guessing we've stumbled upon something like an early English Hillfort?
>>32279Something like that, yeah.
>>32281Spot check again. What's the biggest, baddest creature and how well armed? How many creatures?
[1d20+21 = 24]>>32280Can Tracy roll Spot again, to determine how the city is being guarded, before approaching?
Who's watching?
>>32284Uhm, well there's a Truly Horrid Umber Hulk, there's a bunch of derpy-looking and non derpy-looking ogres, oh hey there
is a minotaur (not Infernius), there's a weird gray-skinned giant thing with 6 eyes across its forehead, there' a gorilla with 4 arms,... its almost like the GM went flipping through the Monsters Manual and just started picking things to add to the list. Oh, there's plenty of smaller monsters too (orcs and such).
>>32285More or less, everyone is watching and the humanoids have a fair amount of ranged weapons on/about their equipment.
Thez <whoooof> appears next to both. "The walls are enchanted, or magical, or something. I can't phase through them at all, and without seeing inside the place I can't risk teleporting in."
>>32286>everyone is watchingWell fug.. Idk how to roll stealth for that..
The crowd sounds tasty though.
[1d20+21 = 30]
Are there any rivers near? What's supplying the city with water? (they might have a sewer)
Search check to look for plausible alternative entrances.
>>32288NO! These things are probably infected with the mind control worms. In nature, the vast majority of parasites that alter a host's behavior do so in order to make the host more likely to be preyed upon, and transferred to the actual definitive host. For all we know, infernius was infected when he ate the troll hearts. I'm not going through all this same bullshit again just because Tracy wants to be le edgy. If she's hungry, eat gruel from Torcuil's sticks. Or a steak later
Torc wakes up, finding himself duct taped to someone
"What the bloddy hell?"
>>32291"It was either this, or the bag."
>>32291I am not sure, but I think you're 30 minutes out
>>32292I'm assuming Tor is aasically laying on Tracy's back, and the duck tape is wrapped around.
"Oh yay, I'm taped to you. Hi stabby-hoers, can you let me down?"
>>32295>>32296This, and she's running, so its uncomfortable.
>>32295>>32296Oh fuck, thats worse
"Uh, could you guys get me down?"
>>32298Only if she's caught up with us. You were an hour away, so I do not know
>>32298It'll be a bit before you meet up with Trump and Tracy. Might was well try and get comfortable. Nah, you can be there already, it doesn't change much.
>>32287>>32289"So then, what's the plan?"
>>32300"Oh thank Kek, Hi Tracy and Trump. Would you mind getting me off this...
Uuhh, creature."
>>32302"Her Name is Fae, and she's a dragonne"
*Cuts Torcuil down, and lets him fall, with duct tape still clinging to him*
>>32303"Ow"
Torc picks himself up, brushing off.
"Sorry I don't remember everything. Whats the plan?"
>>32304>>32301"I still want to talk our way in. Maybe think of a clever lie or something"
[6d20 = 92]>>32301Thez shrugs. "I doubt we're going to get in undetected. That middle,... mound-thing looks to be the center of the place, but there's so many doors that there's no way of knowing which will lead to Infernius, especially if the inside is as chaotic as the outside." She <whooooof> disappears and reappears about 100' over the mound. Shouts immediately react, and several of the humanoids fire arrows.
>>32305"Wait, where are we? Last I remeber I was a hawk."
>>32306Brb
Thez <whoooof> appears next to the others and shrugs. "Well, it looks like we've already been spotted, and I don't think they're going to let us in the front door exactly."
>>32308In a forest outside the fort
>>32309"Wish I had our armies"
>>32306[confused pony noises]
"So, how long until they come storming out?"
*kicks soil, preparing for a charge*
>>32310What fort?
>>32309I hope an arrow lands near Torc.
If it does, he inspects it
"Well this will be fun"
>>32308>>32301>>32311"Kill 'em all seems to be our only option. Recommend having a rider make themselves visible outside the gate, prompt some of the guards to give chase and leave the gate, kill those, then burst through the open gate"
>>32312The city thing we are outside of
>>32311"And Tracy, don't eat any of these creatures. I'll bet you every single one of them has a worm. You might get a worm doing that. Whatever you think you stand to gain is not worth the risk"
>>32315Back read, and specifically read GM's posts
>>32313What if we wait until they've opened the gate, make arun check while ethereal to charge right through them, then go through the gate while it's open?
>>32313"Not necessarily. I saw a few places on the mound we could land. In fact, while I can't go through the walls, I can get us up there without much of a fuss."
>>32312The fort ~80 mi south of Port Barry, where Infernius seems to run off to.
>>32311"They don't seem to be gearing up for a charge."
>>32310"It could take a week or more to gather and move that many men, plus the logistics of supplies are a nightmare."
>>32317Ugh
>>32318Torc could fireball the gate
>>32318I think they have a barrier, but see Thez's plan
>>32319Okay, land the four of us on the mound
>>32316Imma' taking parts home anyway. Living creatures can't stay in the bag, so any bugs should suffocate.
>>32318>>32319Or, we could try to bait them into charging at us, then charge through the open gate
>>32322If you start this cycle of shit all over again because you are being reckless and allow a worm to live that should have been burned - like you did with the tarasque - I am killing your character
>>32323Or teleport right in front of the gate while it's open.
Let's go with Thez's plan though.