RPG Adventure - Blood and Coin

[STM1993]

Henry believes it is best to focus on getting the duke to Milan safely.

[Nyamaiku]

steer clear of them seems like a good idea, unless the adviser is willing to help us investigate.
vote for not messing with them.

[LutiChris]

Advantages:
*Friends with a few mafia leaders
*Has amazing sense of vision and can spot things easily
*Can fight werewolves really well after his first encounter

I mean maaaybe we could... thanks to Fiz
And if his Advisor helps out that would be good too
But I'm still not too confident about surviving the round.
I almost died from Hobo's

any thoughts?

[STM1993]

To be fair, our group was effectively separated during those encounters, and then we had bad rolls.
Suppose Fiz can share what he knows and what preparations we'd need to fight werewolves? I mean, for all we know, he could've stabbed the werewolf(or werewolves) in his personal encounter with a silver fork.

Then again, wolves are a crafty lot. They may be a greater conspiracy in play here, plus werewolves seem to be a lot stronger than our level can handle even with that advisor with us. We don't want to have to deal with both assassins after the duke and werewolves especially given our track record.
Furthermore, Henry is supposed to be good at fighting undead, yet I was the first to be incapacitated by the skeletons during the necromancer fight. Just because we have a proficiency doesn't mean we have a 100% success rate.

I still recommend ignoring the wolves and moving on for now. I'm not confident we can win either.

[LutiChris]

Speaking of our track record...
here's a summary of what happened so far:

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Getting on the Train (Click to View)

The Duke suggests to sell the horses but the group decides not to.
Henry, Amadis and Fiz paid to get their horses on board the train heading to Milan.
However, both Jeremy and & John didn't want to lose their horses or their coin. John attempted to forge their names on the record paper, saying they had paid for their horses but failed to write in the accountant's handwriting. Jeremy hired a group of homeless people to distract the guards so they could sneak the horses and shred the forged paper. When three homeless people sought payment for their hard work Jeremy swung at them. Jeremy was quickly over taken by the lucky trio and rendered unconscious but was saved by John and Amadis who quickly killed two of them and let the other one go. No one accused the group of any wrongdoing. The record keeper showed the group to their rooms. Amadis was left with the Duke for the night. Jeremy and Liana paired up in the middle compartment. John and Fiz laid side by side in the next room over while Henry was left all by himself. Everyone woke up at full health by the next morning.

• Jeremy and John gain 300 EXP for sneaking horses.
  
• Amadis lost 8 silver, Henry lost 2 silver and Fiz lost 5 silver for getting their horses on the train.
  
• Fiz coated 2 darts with 1 vial of paralyzing poison (3/5 of poison remaining)
  

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Jeremy

• Coin: 4 gold 6 silver
  Exp: 1315/2000
  Items: Double Axe, Chain Mail, Bag of Coins.
  

John

• Coin: 4 gold 6 silver.
  Exp: 1315/2000
  Items: 2 Daggers & Short Bow
  

Henry

• Coin: 0
  Exp: 527/1500
  Items: Club, Dagger, Small Shield, 2 vials of Potent Sleeping poison
  

Fiz

• Coin: 1 gold 8 silver
  Exp: 527/1500
  Items: 13 darts, 1 vial of Paralytic poison, 2 vials of Venomous poison.
  

Amadis

• Coin: 3 gold 9 silver
  Exp: 527/1500
  Items: Battle Axe, Leather Armor
  

GM's commentary: "really pathetic"

Trouble on the Train Tracks (Click to View)

During their time on the train, the adviser crossed paths with Fiz and was nice enough to lend Fiz a book of Milan. Fiz uses the book to attempt to teach John how to read with little success. Jeremy went around the train listening to the guards tales and past adventures. Amadis also went and spoke with the guards and later met up with Jeremy. Henry inspected the kitchen after guarding the Duke. His adviser chimed in to take Henry's place. Henry purified the Duke's food and decided it was time to take a nap so he would be able to stay alert during the night. The rest of the gang headed back to their rooms and sleep the night off. The second day goes by very similar to first, nothing special happens. However, on the third day a terribly noisy storm woke the adventure's by surprise. The adviser walked out of the room where he and the Duke were and told everyone to get ready. Fiz and Henry got drenched in heavy rain when they look outside their windows. The train comes to a screeching halt and everything in the train gets whiplashed. Fiz, John and Liana are the only party members that seem to have lost consciousness. Jeremy, Henry, and Amadis find themselves and their teammates outside the train soaking wet. Three of the guards protected the Duke by his side. The adviser was no where to be seen. A giant beetle towered over the train and four shadowy figures were inside. Jeremy and Henry engage the would-be villains and discover that the cloaked figures are actually skeletons controlled by a strong sorcerer. Henry and Amadis struggle to hold onto dear life as the skeletons are mercilessly defeating them. The guards go and aid the rest of the party while Jeremy and the duke fall back. Luckily, the adviser came to the rescue and destroyed the necromancer and scared away the giant beetle. The guards rush to aid the fallen heroes and use their medical equipment to heal them up. The train is wrecked and almost everyone is incapacitated, everyone decides to rest.

• Everyone receives 2 damage from the trains impact.
  
• (Too lazy to score total damage from combat)
  

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It's exactly the same as the one above

GM's commentary: "Funnily I thought this fight wouldn't be so bad but I was wrong"

A Pit Stop Town (Click to View)

The clouds disperse and its a sunny beautiful morning. Everyone recovered only one point of health and found five casualties. Roughly fifty passengers are wandering about the crash site. The group notices they have low rations. Jeremy brings up cannibalism but was immediately frowned upon by the group. Henry does a ritual on some of the dead soldiers while the rest of the group refurbish a working freight wagon to carry them to the next town over. With the passengers on board the cart, the horses pull them for hours on end. With nothing to do, Fiz tried to teach John how to read again but they find out it was impossible because of the noisy crowd. Fiz discovered the adviser is part of the order of mages bound to serve a noble advising and protecting him. He got powerful because of the many years that he had practiced and learned magic. After a couple of more hours they finally reached the outskirts of some small town. The passengers disbanded and the rest of the group moved the wagon away from the track and rested at the local place. Afterwards, the team once again split and roamed around the shops to see if there was anything worth buying. Jeremy and John stick like a team while Fiz and Henry wander in the opposite direction. Amadis is left alone to do the same thing as the others. Some of the strangers seem to have weird symbols and markings on their bodies. Other than that, neither one of the party members finds anything remarkably interesting. The party members arrive back at the local inn where DeFusco informs you that you will be traveling by horse so the passengers on board do not get harmed again. They all leave within the hour on horseback. His adviser sent two guards to scout ahead while he talks to Fiz about magic. Unfortunately, Fiz doesn't learn very much from him since its all rather overwhelming and complicated. Fiz changed the subject to Politics instead. The two scouts arrived back with the group to inform them that there was a nice place to camp out of site from any bandits that walk the paths. Once there, the party makes camp.

• I'm assuming at this point we're fully healed from all the resting we've been doing.
  

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It's exactly the same as the one above

GM's commentary: "Apology again for late replies"

Current Adventure (Click to View)

The morning comes. The group leaves the camp site and on the way they spot five wolves eating a dead deer. Approaching the wolves apprehensively, it becomes clearer that the wolves were no longer just ordinary wolves. They seemed to be much larger with eyes that glowed crimson red, and some parts of their bodies lacked fur which looked as though it had been burnt off. To be continued...

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It's exactly the same as the one above

[Elias]

I never mentioned they were werewolves or anything close, just odd looking wolfs, When Amadis and Nathaniel post I will continue on

[Nathan]

I wanna investigate but they seem to be not werewolves they just seem to be bigger and more aggressive wolves.
And I don't get a proficiency against regular wolves.
It would probably safer to not fight them though because we're still low level.
Not to mention we almost died several times to other easier things.

[Elias]

Yes you do not get any proficiency against wolves, you would get against other werebeast, but not wolves.
And you do not have to fight them, as long as you keep distant they won't charge at you for no reason, I promise to that.

[LutiChris]

can anyone play my char for 2 days? ... will have no time to post.

since the majority of the group wants to keep their distance from the wolves why not have us continue on to our destination.

[Elias]

You guys are no fun. Fine the next day you venture on in the morning. You can see the town on the outskirts, you are unsure what it could actually be but at the same time you pass by a lone house, which looks like it belongs to a woodcutter. When you approach it you see blood everywhere and torn limbs of what looks like a man.