Cardamonelaw

Tales of Maoria: A 5E D&D Adventure

Can someone explain how using this sites die roller works? I assume we'll be needing to roll initiative soon.

Tales of Maoria: A 5E D&D Adventure

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Arius Dav'ian Trenton

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Arius is a bit concerned by the fact that no one was indicating they could actually take care of the door once he'd dropped the ward, as he was not such an infinite a font of magic as to simply cast spells flippantly. However, he had offered and the majority of those present and speaking seemed to be in favor of dispelling the ward.

"Alright then, we'll go in together.", Arius noted as he gives his blade a bit of flourish causing the sheen of purple to seemingly shatter like delicate glass before evaporating entirely. Once he's sure the ward has broken, he turns in the direction of both Ada and Thanath, "So brawn or finesse, which shall it be?", as well as toward Kethan, who had suggested he could help them in some presumably magical way, "Also, I believe time is still a factor."

Mechanics

Casting Dispel Magic on the front door. Arcane Lock is only a 2nd level spell, so it should be automatic. Since we are still not in action yet, I'm also having Arius tap his rod so he gets the slot back, but making a note that this use of the rod is done for the day.

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@Cardamonelaw Pretty sure you can't get your money back for a bad murder hobo...that's how you get murdered...by murder hobos

@The Mighty Hero

Well, if your murder-hobo murders you than its clearly not defective and you're not really entitled to a refund. A murder-hobo murdering is a murder-hobo working as advertised. :P

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To avoid any present confusion. IC Arius is pointing out he can cast either Dispel Magic on the door if the party wants to continue with the direct approach and knock it down or he can cast Misty Step to just go inside the front alone causing a distraction when whoever comes to see what caused the *BOOM*, while everyone else sneaks around back, since the plate windows give him line of sight inside. Neither he nor I (as a player) are in any way suggesting thus are the only options. Not trying to force either on anyone.

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Arius Dav'ian Trenton

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Arius is on his way back towards the tavern when he notices one of the villager come running around from its direction. For the briefest of moments it doesn't even occur to Arius that the man is actually running towards the manor, but glancing over his shoulder that was indeed the villagers trajectory. Taking a deep breath, the young noble can't help but be a bit curious as to what the human was up to. What part of a trap could such an innocuous individual serve? Perhaps the warrior's story had actually been on the level... perhaps... maybe.

Glancing just once more in the direction of the tavern, as he is still a bit wary of the entire situation, Arius nonetheless shakes his head and follows after the villager, mumbling various obscure Slyvan profanities under his breath as he does so.

Once he has caught up with the man, roughly in time to see the imposing figure of Thanath collide with the warded door, Arius stands back silently as the villager has his exchange with the warrior, whom Arius now knows to call Alric, while cutting yet another glance in the direction of Ada, this time more apologetic in affect.

Then, after the two humans have finished their exchange and Alric has presented the map, Arius finally chimes in, gesturing to the warded door and then plate windows, "I could lower the ward upon this entrance, but we would still need to deal with the actual door... or if you would like a distraction while you slip around to this back entrance, I could likewise simply transport myself inside here. The later would, of course, be somewhat perilous for myself, but I do feel somewhat obliged after having questioned the veracity of your plight."

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<Snipped quote by Cardamonelaw>

I laughed so hard....

@The Mighty Hero

I won't lie, I kind of want to see that slave auction.

Auctioneer: Murder-Hobos! Getch-yah murder-hobos here! We've got big murder-hobos, short murder-hobos, fat murder-hobos, skinny murder-hobos... why you name a type of murder-hobo and if we ain't got it, then it just can't be got, I tell you what! Murder-Hobos! Getch-yah murder-hobos here! That's right folks each one of these fine specimens is a guaranteed jobless, bloodthirsty, corpse-looting bastard... or your money back! MURDER-HOBOS! GETCH-YAH MURDER-HOBOS HERE!

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@The Grey Dust
If not clearly spelled out enough in the posts, Arius' particular suspicion (notably incorrect based on additional OOC knowledge) is that no citizens have been seized by the mayor at all, that Alric is actually just bait to get wandering murder-hobos passing through the village to foolishly raise arms against the local mayor, lead them into the trap, and once the would-be rebels are subdued... they are the ones actually sold into slavery, which is still a lesser punishment then the usual penalty for their willful crime of treason... death, and the mayor/village reap the profits. Lather, rinse, and repeat whenever the village's dues to the crown are due and tax revenues come up short, since you know... murder-hobos are a bountiful resource.

Arius suspicions don't give him reason to go warn any authorities or stick around to help the mayor.

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@The Grey Dust
A law abiding person is not obligated to intervene on the behalf of local authorities, particularly when the circumstances have them outnumbered seven-to-one. There is a pretty wide gap between not engaging in an act of treason and personally fending off an insurrection. No alignment dictates your character be suicidal.

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@Cardamonelaw Perhaps instead of your character sitting out he alternatively tries to find out more information from the town folk and can end up meeting up with the other players further along this quest? If that's something you would be interested in to keep you active in the RP and to give your character a chance to get loot/XP along with the other characters PM me and we can work it out.

@The Mighty Hero

If sitting things out is a genuine inconvenience as @JBRam2002 worries, honestly, almost ANYTHING in-character (and not a thought bubble) tipping the balance in favor of Alric not seeming like he's full of crap would probably be sufficient to have Arius turn around. Like even ONE, just ONE other villager randomly noting something like, "I heard Alric is trying to get our friends back.", indicating that Alric is not lying and people have in fact been taken would do it.

The main problem for Arius is that his background makes him disinclined to engage insurrection/rebellion because he's a noble from a family stalwartly loyal to the Crown. He doesn't like his family's allegiances and is ethically at odds with them, but he still honors their position when possible. He's only begrudgingly pro-King, but he's still pro-King nonetheless (he's LN as opposed to straight-up LG for a reason). So when a random stranger calls for insurrection against the local political figure, based on an unsupported allegation that said politician has done wrong, he's reluctant to participate but willing to give it a look based solely on the severity of the allegation. But then when all the facts observable in-game indicate said random stranger is a liar... well, it would be really out-of-character for him to keep going along with things, even with Ada's alternative motivations.

I honestly didn't even think this would be a serious issue, as the game recruitment seemed to imply the individual character positions on being for or against the King/current regime were an anticipated/planned for dynamic element of the game. When a DM makes a game where individual players can choose for their characters to be either Team Red or Team Blue and has the very first in-game quest be Assault a Red Team Base, I'm inclined to assume they are anticipating that Red Team-affiliated PCs probably aren't simply going to go along with that and are prepared to work around it.

I'm certainly not trying to be rude/insensitive toward either the DM or my fellow players.

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@Cardamonelaw

But you'll be missing out on Exp and Loots D:!
Not to mention hanky-panky with the obviously swooning Daughter (who has thus far been unnamed and unaged...) who will clearly develop an infatuation for one of her saviors.

@The Grey Dust

LOL, not going to make IC choices based on what will net my character the most Exp and Loot. :D