LPDnD: You'll Never Walk Alone

[Jimer Lins]

Trinal smiles genially. "Excellent. Thank you for helping, sir."

He'll lead the way to the door with Theos (chosen at random). Opening it, he stands aside to let the Major in and follows him inside.

"Hello, Theos. I must apologize for the trouble we've been putting you through. We'll try to make this as brief as we can."

[Blackferne]

Theos stands as you and the Major enter.
"Sir, yes sir."

The Major takes a seat and says "Theos, this is just a big misunderstanding I'm sure. Let's help the gentleman with his little project and get on with it. Have a seat and talk freely."

Theos sits.

[Jimer Lins]

Trinal keeps a friendly expression and a neutral tone.

"Theos, were you working with the essences for the gate earlier today?"

[Furiel]

@Tony and Syric.

You two travel along the path prescribed. You take care to walk in places that your footprints in the snow won't be so obvious and do what you can to cover them up. You see a few patrols but none are very close and your ability to evade is nothing to worry about. You make the target insertion point about 3am. Sunrise won't be for another 4 hours and much of this part of the camp is asleep except a few sentries widely spaced.

The fields ahead of you have tents and a few fires going and there is a large pasture of horses being watched by a drowsy sentry. Please make a perception check to figure out the best place to walk in. (honor roll since dicemod is not working)

Tony perception
1d20+11: (9)+11 = 20

[Blackferne]

Trinal keeps a friendly expression and a neutral tone.

"Theos, were you working with the essences for the gate earlier today?"

He looks at you with reservation and then looks to the Major who signals with his hand to answer. "Yes sir. I am assigned to your task group and I was moving the jars with essence from their storage to the work table."

[Blackferne]

@Tony and syric

Looking over the scene you notice the sentry seems to be sloppy in his sweep and you can get to where the horses are pretty easily and then you can blend in with the herd. The downside is if you spook any of the horses you will definitely get his attention. Alternately you can go for the servants tents but you think there might be a greater chance he'll notice you and you may have to answer some questions. What do you do?

[Furiel]

Tony Plush believes the best option would be to go through the horse lines. The longer we can go without having to talk to anyone the better IMO.

[Whiteness]

Syric nods in agreement as Tony silently shares his plan with signals and gestures.

[Whiteness]

Syric says a quick prayer to Melora before following Tony towards the horses.

Nature - to try and avoid spooking the horses

Roll(1d20)+5:
15,+5
Total:20

[Blackferne]

@Tony and Syric. Tony keeps an eye out for the sentry and Syric goes into a quick prayer to Melora imploring easy with nature. Tony gives a tap on his shoulder. It is go time. The two hurry into the herd of horses and they seem docile and generally ignore you. You quietly and quickly make your way through the herd to the far side where the massive encampment starts. The tents are lined up in largely a grid like manner and while a few fires burn here or there most people are asleep. In the distance north closer towards the clifface where the citadel stands you see the large towers with purple glow about them. You see that the tent layouts have major roads and smalley "alley" like configurations. What would you like to do?

[Furiel]

Tony will start moving through the alleys as much as possible avoiding fires and people as much as we can working toward the nearest tower.

In Tony's mind he adds a prayer to Avandra "Avandra, goddess of luck, please watch over your servant as we undergo this task. May our steps be light, our minds quick and your luck always in our favor."

Stealth for Tony to not have anyone else but Syric detect him.
Stealth: 1d20+20 (4)+20=24

[Whiteness]

Syric keeps his head down and follows Tony, trying to mimic his stealthy nature.

Stealth
Roll(1d20)+6:
16,+6
Total:22

[Jimer Lins]

"Of course. Can you tell the Major and myself when the last time you saw the jars was, and where?"

[Blackferne]

"Of course. Can you tell the Major and myself when the last time you saw the jars was, and where?"

"Like I said I moved the essences from the storage to the worktable. Then I attended to some of the mason supplies prepping them for the carvers. I didn't put them away since Ocruna or Ashkoral usually have magical cleanup." His face lights up with a realization "Wait if you think I took them, I didn't. I wouldn't know what to do with them if I took them. You gotta believe me sirs. I might be a lot of things, but I'm not a thief!

The major signals for him to settle down. "No one is accusing anyone of anything. We got orders son, and we want to finish this mission. This is all about finding what went missing and getting the gate up and running.

[Blackferne]

@Tony and Syric

Tony moves along but not as sleek and stealthy as he'd hope. Maybe it is this dumb looking armor, maybe it is the time this mission has taken so far. Luckily his extensive training kicks in and more than compensates for not being on his A Game. Syric however having significantly less training in such matters somehow lucks into being graceful and stealthy as a black cat on a new moon.

You two make your way along the alley to the next major E/W road. The alley continues ahead but you can see than in about 10 tents the alley will stop on the far side blocked by a large wooden structure. The nearest seige tower is past the wood structure by maybe half a mile. Paths to get there you figure are down the alley and maybe around the wooden structure, take the main E/W road either E or W to the next major street or subsequent alley and continue N.

What do you two do?

[Furiel]

Tony votes we wait a moment for the street to be clear, then we take the major street west until the next alley headed north.
While walking on the street we would walk openly, not sneaking and not hurrying, but walking with a purpose and trusting to our disguises and Avandra's luck to keep us from being stopped.

[Whiteness]

" I agree, I hate to find out that's a dead end up the head"

Syric will follow Tony and try to fly casual.

[Blackferne]

@Tony and Syric make a bluff or intimidate roll (your choice).

[Whiteness]

There's a plus 2 bonus to intimidate if you're 5 squares away from Syric.

Bluff
Roll(1d20)+13:
14,+13
Total:27

[Furiel]

I'm probably less than 5 squares away from Syric so Tony will put on his talk to me and I'll curb stomp your ass face.

Intimidate 1d20+5+2: (20)+5+2=27

[Blackferne]

@Syric and Tony you two take to the street. Tony with a snarl and shoulders squared. Syric a bit more relaxed. It is the classic good guard bad guard routine. You walk up the street and pass a cart with a caged dragonborn being pulled. The dragonborn is bound and gagged. The cart guards nod with that "more of this crap" vibe. You pass the cart and you see it goes up the major street just east of where you guys emerged from the alley.

You pass the next major N/S road and get the alley behind it.

[Furiel]

Tony will take a mental note of the prisoner and we'll start heading up the alley. Tony is going stealth mode again.

Stealth: 1d20+20 - (17)+20=37

[Whiteness]

Seeing the dragonborn reminds Syric of Gobo and the thief that stayed behind.......but he quickly follows behind the Plush.

Stealth
Roll(1d20)+6:
12,+6
Total:18

[Jimer Lins]

"Please stay calm. No one is making accusations. We are simply trying to find out what happened.

So you moved the essences in their jars to the worktable, right? Do you recall about what time that was? Did anyone else help you move them?

What happens to the essences after you moved them to the worktable?
"

[Blackferne]

@Trinal "It was towards the middle of the shift so maybe noonish. You know how it is in this place, time is sometimes hard to track without the sun. The jars aren't very big so I moved them all on my own on a cart. Then I went to the stone prep area."[/b} he says.