Your life was going along like normal until your mother fell ill/got cursed/whatever and the local spellcasters/healers could do nothing for her.  The only clue/divinations were that it was connected to your never seen father, Diridon the Dashing.  He was a bard that came through your area, made love to your mom and then left, never to be seen again.  But he left behind a gift for your mom, you.  So you have left home to find this man and find a way to cure/help your mom.  You have heard from a travelling merchant that a bard named Diridon the Dashing has been playing in inns over the pass in Molthune.
   Everyone knows Molthune has become distrustful of strangers since the fall of Kenabres to an orcish raid a few years ago. This distrust is especially virulent toward orcs and others with orcish roots, influence, or appearance, but all strangers are generally distrusted.
   After arriving in Molthune you have heard rumors that Diridon the Dashing is performing at the Gnarly Oak Inn in the city of Nerosyan.  It is evening and the inn/tavern is fairly full.


What do you do?  Whoever posts 1st arrived 1st.
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Bobble will arrive and will stable his goat. He will get a room and then get and find a seat near the stage. Might as well eat while he waits.

Bobble
  Takes a seat at the last open table.  When he orders he notices he draws some sour looks from a few other customers, probably because of his accent.  However, looks is all they do.  Being a gnome, Bobble is used to being underestimated.  They obviously don't consider him a threat.  Soon he is being ignored by the other customers, though the wait staff is suitably attentive.

  While there is no stage at the moment, these sorts of places could hold performances in 2 ways.  The performer could just wander around/among the tables or they could clear an area for the performer.   This is a fairly nice bar.
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Bobble will ask the waitress Excuse me mam, do you know where that bard went who was here a few days ago? I hear he was pretty good and I would like to find him. Also, what's keeping the rats away?

When Conan gets into town, it's well past noon and maybe even into evening, he wasn't not to sure anymore what day it was because he had struggled with his gear, his animals and almost everything else under the sun just getting to this town in order to see this bard, who might be his father but there were no real guarantees, if this were the one.   All he had been thinking about before getting into town was a hot bathe and a warm meal along with good ole fashioned sleep, he was that tired.    First things first though, he had to stable Dorsey and find the inn.    Well, he found the INN and stable and not in that order.

"Stable boy, I'm leaving this anvil here for the blacksmith, to use as he sees fit.   Ensure he gets it in the morning will ya."   Conan states to the stable attendant when he unburdens the mule with the pack saddle and places it on the ground of the stall.   "Please rub down and feed the beast, would you please, "I assure you he really is a good and gentle animal just stubborn like his master sometimes, I guess"   Conan continues and that last part was said light heartily but wearily as well.   As Conan is about to leave the stable without payment of course, he's that tired, he'll turn around with the attendant hot on his heels.   Conan pulls out a small pouch of coin, jingling it in his hand and says, "This has enough in it to pay for the lodging of the mule and my stuff and feed for my dog if he has to stay here tonight.   I am going to the concert of that famous bard in town and hopefully staying in the Inn or you can find me in the morning at the local jail and I'll settle up with you, your boss and the blacksmith."   Saying this last statement without mirth of any kind realizing the town reputation for outsider and especially Orcish kind.    He turns and leaves the stable with the dog in tow.

Getting to the inn was easier than he thought probably because of all the peole in town. everyone was rushing to and tho or maybe it was the dog, he didn't really care which because he had arrived at his destination.   Going in was no problem but possibly coming out free might be.   He walks into the main room facing the street with dog beside him.

Bobble
   The Waitress, a middle-aged lady, thinks a moment.  "Sorry sir, I don't know where he went.  He left all sudden like.  It wouldn't surprise me if he got run out of town by a group fathers and husbands with the way he was carrying on.  Still he could entertain and did draw in the business.  As for the rats, no one knows.  The Inn had normal rat problems until a few months ago.  But then they started to disappear and now we don't have any.  Nasty things and good riddance."  Bobble notices a large halforc in armor, with weapons and a good sized dog walk in.

Tulre
  As Tulre walks in, the dining area near the front door goes silent as the customers stare at the halforc. The manager near the front door holds up his hands and says "Hold on, the dog and weapons are not allowed, you must tie your dog outside and check all your weapons.  Those are the rules."  A quick glance around the room shows that to be a lie.  There's a dog and cat lying in front of the fire place and while most people don't have weapons, several do.
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 As Tulre walks in, the dining area near the front door goes silent as the customers stare at the halforc. The manager near the front door holds up his hands and says "Hold on, the dog and weapons are not allowed, you must tie your dog outside and check all your weapons.  Those are the rules."  A quick glance around the room shows that to be a lie.  There's a dog and cat lying in front of the fire place and while most people don't have weapons, several do.


As Conan enters with the dog in tow, he's patting himself off trying to in a vain attempt to separate himself from all dust and dirt of the road outside and himself.   He stops near the manager, still brushing himself off, he notices that the noise and general uproar go silent and turn to the manager and say, "What did you say?" distractedly and look around then and notice the animals and folks with weapons.

When the manager repeats what he said, Conan will straighten himself up, stop brushing himself off and then ushers Conover back out and back to Dorsey.   He will, however, keep both his flail and dagger with him by saying, "These stay with me but I left my sword and bow with my other gear, sir.    If you don't believe me, go fetch the stable hand.   What I want, is a room, bath and food, and not in any particular order either.    I'm here for the bard concert and I don't want any fights but rest assured if one does get started, I'LL SURE FINISH IT."   He said the last part with emphasis in the hope to put the fear of GOD into any and all would be trouble makers.


OOC:14:28, Today: Tulre rolled 18 using 1d20+6.  possible intimidation rolll
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  Tulre(the halforc) turns around and leaves...and talking resumes around the Inn.  He returns to the entrance without the dog and a couple of weapons (a big falchion and bow), though he still carries a big flail and a short sword.  As the Manager tries to stop him Tulre(the halforc) threatens him and walks in anyway past the cowed manager.  A waitress cautiously gives him a large tankard of ale, curtesy of the orange haired gnome in the corner.  A couple of people go quickly out the backdoors.

Bobble watches the antics of the half orc, and keeps an eye on the four guys. He will very carefully cock his crossbow under the table (slight of hand roll if needed). After the waitress gives the big lug the ale, Bobble will wave him over to his table. Hello. My name is Bobble. I am impressed with your entrance. Subtle you are not. What brings another stranger here?

Conan accept the the drink from the serving lady with respect, by saying, "Thank You."and without looking her up and down with a glance, thinking she probably gets that every day but not the gratitude.   When she leaves Conan, he will continue to the tables looking for the particular Gnome.   When he gets to him, Conan will say,"Thank You for the drink and I'm Conan, by the way.    May I sit?."   When it is okay to sit, he sits down.   "In answer to your question of way I  am here is, the bard,   I have some business with him.   In answer to my entrance, well that was to allay any would be miscreants as well to call the rules, liars, because there are animals in here as well as weapons unchecked.   I didn't mean to scare the manager but it worked so much the better."   Conan will take a drink and asks, "And you friend, Bobble, what brings you to a town that distrusts anyone they feel is stranger than them."

Bobble looks at the stranger. Hello. I also came seeking a bard. He is gone however. He will lower his voice There are four men at that one table who are looking for trouble. Your arrival was not welcome I’m afraid.

  As Bobble and Conan chat they notice the 4 rough men take a swig from their cup, slam them onto the table.  Then they get up and head toward the table Bobble and Conan are sitting at. The men look resolute.  They are wearing leather work outfits and are armed with daggers, though they are not drawn at the moment.
  At the entrance a pair of humans enter.  One is dressed in black with white trim and the other is white with black trim.  It is too far for details, but from what you can see, beautiful would describe them best.
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You do have a way of stirring things up, don't you? Please do not draw any weapons, but there are four guys coming this way. they have no weapons out. Also a few more locals are looking interested in you. I am not planning on getting hurt today, so please don't do anything crazy, OK? Under the table Bobble will draw back the string on the light crossbow and load it. (rolled a total of 20 using slight of hand). He then sets the crossbow on the floor within easy reach. To the room at general, he says This is such a lovely inn! You good people are lucky to have such a nice place. Please gentlemen, do not do anything to damage it?

"Damn, I was afraid of that," Conan said resignedly, after hearing about the bards' departure and hearing that his presence wasn't very welcome either came as no big surprise either, in fact he says, "I've gotten used to that fact a little to often, and I'm getting a little tired of it."   He says under his breath and possibly a little louder then a whisper only loud enough for the Gnome or one or two other patrons could hear.

With that said, he'll motion Bobble forward to hear more in a lower conversational voice?

"You know the fight is either going to be in the morning when we leave, in here tonight or when we leave town but either way, and for this, I'm sorry, but those associated  with me are going to be included.   Are you up for a ruckus, my Gnomish friend, since they have seen you with me."
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Yin says to the manager "Don't mind us...", Yang finishes"...we'll just sit at the bar" as they saunter gracefully toward the bar.

  The 4 rough men finish crossing the distance to the table where the halforc(Conan) and gnome(Bobble) sit.  You can smell the alcohol on their breath.  They don't seem too drunk, but are obviously under the influence of the alcohol.  The leader, with a "surprise" move tries to grab Conan's drink off the table but misses.  He recovers from his miss and glares at Conan, "You aren't wanted here, leave now or we will make you leave."  The men have clenched fists.  Behind them the manager is saying, "Not in here, take this outside.", but the rough men are ignoring him.  The rest of the inn has gotten quiet.

We are effectively in Combat rounds and they got initiative.  The leader has used his action, but the other 3 are Delayed.  We are in combat rnds just to see when people act, that doesn't mean you have to attack.
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:32, Sun 05 Apr 2020.

Bobble will calmly pick up his mug from the table. He will shrug at Conan and then sit back. Sorry big guy, this is on you. I’ll help if you need it. Just don’t draw any dang weapons ok?

Conan takes this all in, the two beautiful people entering the inn, Bobble doing his thing and answering him, what the Manager had said and even the missed opportunity with the ale mug and especially what the thug had said before getting up or even saying anything, but now he will act or at least say something.    Before getting up he say rather tiredly and annoyed, with a bit of sharpness and loud enough so all to hear, "Gentlemen, and I use the term loosely by the way, you're interrupting a nice drink before I get my BATH, ROOM and MEAL, IN THAT ORDER."   Conan glances at the Manager purposefully in order to get those things accomplished.   Conan continues by saying in the exact tone as before, "You're drunk clearly or at the very least have your judgement impaired, or you would have taken my ale away."   As to Bobble request for Conan to not draw any weapons, "I won't draw unless they draw first, Hey , there's an idea, get them to draw daggers first, since I'm not leaving this inn until morning, Sirs."
And than another thought came to Conan to Summon the city watch by stating that fact, "I'll leave if the watch ask me peacefully and after I've voiced my OBJECTIONS to them about my treatment by this place first."   Conan says frostily so all can hear.   he says all this while trying slowly to stand up, in front of the table.   Conan gives his best toothy grin at them and goes BOO in his best growl.

OOC: 13:42, Today: Conan rolled 14 using 1d20+6.  intimidation roll.

Yin and Yang will watch and get ready.

OOC; Intimidation is vs 1 target. 

quote:

Action: Using Intimidate to change an opponent’s attitude requires 1 minute of conversation. Demoralizing an opponent is a standard action.

  So I am going to call that a demoralizing roll.
Unarmed attacks provoke, but since everyone is unarmed, no one threatens

  The leader is obviously shaken/demoralized  by Conan's confidence and muscles, but his comrades are having none of the halforc's sass and start throwing punches.  1 punch manages to land and deals 4 nonlethal damage to Conan.  The manager grabs 1 of the chairs to prevent it from being trampled on saying, "You break it you buy it."  The table is jostled and Bobble's mug spills most of his drink (dex roll and rolled a 2).
  The people nearby getup and back way from the fight, a few men more slowly than the others.  They might want to beat up Conan, but probably want to see how the fight goes first.
  The 2 beautiful people start acting.  The man(Yang) moves through the crowd and confronts the leader "Pardon me sir, but 4 on 1 is not fair odds.  You should wait your turn to be thrashed.  While my countrymen might be rude, he is in the right."  The girl(Yin) starts helping people get out of the way.

Conan will take the first punch and counter with one of his own and stepping away from the table in doing it.


OOC:16:23, Today: Conan rolled 23 using 1d20+4.  counter punch unarmed strike.

Bobble will shake his head over his spilled drink. Then he will watch the fight. In particular he is looking for anyone who may be preparing to draw or use a weapon. Action is held.

Conan, I added an Unarmed Strike "weapon" to your character.
Their Ac is 13, they are slightly drunk.
Damage
Conan 4 NL
Bobble
Yang
Yin
Ldr
1 9 nonlethal
2
3

  Conan swings and easily connects, rocking the man back with a powerful blow.  But these guys seem to have some brawling/fighting experience and the thug manages to avoid the worst of the damage.  But he does have blood coming from his lip and you don't think he can take another hit.  Bobble calmly keeps drinking with 1 hand.  His other hand is below the table.
  The leader turns on Yang.  Seeing an opponent that is less, alot less imposing than Conan, the leader throws a punch at Yang but misses.  He must be distracted by the big wall of muscle behind him (demoralized).  He blusters, trying to cover up his pathetic attack, "Just stay out of this stranger unless you want me to get serious."  Meanwhile the other 3 continue to focus on Conan.  2 continue to punch and miss as Conans armor is tough to attack around.  However, the 3rd one has an idea and tries to grapple the halforc, and almost manages to get a hold on him.  Only a timely distraction by Yang foils the thugs attack.  The manager keeps yelling, "Outside, take this outside."  But apparently no one is listening to him.
  It is clear from everyone's accents that you(Conan, Bobble, Yin and Yang) are all for over the mountain and from the same country.
  Yang does not attack.  He is fighting defensively while trying to distract the attackers (Aid Another on Conan's defense).  Yin is trying to help the other customers and stay out of the fight.
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Conan continues his attack on the first person, who attacked me first and connected his attack.   Swinging again first along with moving to get out of the flank.   He swings and misses but he still moves 5'back to the right if possible out of the flank.


OOC:10:53, Today: Conan rolled 10 using 1d20+6. to hit.

Bobble shakes his head and takes another drink. Holds action again.

I will assume everyone is doing the same thing until there is a major development.


Their Ac is 13, they are slightly drunk.
Damage
Conan 4 NL
Bobble
Yang 1 NL
Yin
Ldr
1 18 nonlethal, and unconscious with a couple points of lethal damage
2
3 7 nonlethal

Conan - miss
Ldr - miss
1 - miss
2 - miss
3 - Grapple
Conan - breaks grapple
Ldr - miss
1 - miss
2 - Grapple
3 - miss
Conan - breaks grapple
Ldr - miss
1 - miss
2 - Grapple
3 - miss
Conan - breaks grapple
Ldr - miss
1 - miss
2 - Grapple
3 - Grapple
Conan - breaks grapple
Ldr - hits (1 NL vs Yang)
1 - miss
2 - Grapple
3 - Grapple
Conan - breaks grapple
Ldr - miss
1 - miss
2 - Grapple
3 - Grapple
Conan - breaks grapple
Ldr - miss
1 - miss
2 - miss due to Yang distraction
3 - miss due to Yang distraction
Conan - miss
Ldr - miss
1 - miss
2 - miss
3 - Grapple
Conan - hits while grappled
Ldr - miss
1 - miss
2 - miss
3 - Pins Conan
Conan - breaks grapple
Ldr - miss
1 - Grapple
2 - miss
3 - miss
Conan - hits while grappled, knocks 1 out and is not grappled
Ldr - miss
1 - out
2 - miss
3 - miss

  Yang torments the Leader by gracefully weaving around, not letting the man get a good shot at him.  The leader manages to get 1 hit, but it barely connects.
  Bobble finishes his drink.
  The men who might have wanted to get into the fight decide not to, probably after watching how easily Conan was breaking grapples and how hard he was punching.
  Conan vs the 3 thugs becomes a wrestling match.  1 would get a hold, Conan would shake him off, but before he could start swinging, another would get a hold.  Conan managed to get a couple of swings in, but kept missing.  It looked grim at 1 point when Conan got grappled by 2 of them, but he shook them both off.  Finally he started using different tactics.  Once grappled he would just deliver a body blow to his grappler.  Finally, Conan knocks an opponent out and send him over to bounce off the chair the manager is holding leaving a little blood on the chair.
  The manager tries to put down the chair, but can't seem to let go....and then the chair grows teeth and licks the blood off itself.  Then the chair back violent slams into the manager as it shapechanges into a squat mass with a pseudopod sticking to the manager.  It looks like it may just eat the manager right in front of you.  The manager is still struggling, but from the looks of it he can't unstick himself from the adhesive.  None of the thugs have noticed the toothy chair yet, but several people have and there will soon be screams aplenty...
OOC; before you post your reaction to the toothy chair, please post any talking you do during the minute of battle with the thugs...



By the way, this adventures name is "The Table Laughed."

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"Sorry Bobble," says Conan as he draws out his heavy flail and charges the manager with the angry chair with teeth.   (IF MY FORMER COMBATANTS GET IN MY WAY TO THE MANAGER, CONAN WILL JUST BOWL THEM OVER, LIKE A FREIGHT TRAIN OR AT LEAST TRY.)(In short, I'm ignoring the former fighters for the newer threat.)


OOC: 16:03, Today: Conan rolled 5 using 1d20+3.  INITIATIVE ROLL TO SEE WHO GOES BEFORE ME, Bobble vs. me + monster (Purpose here is to save the uppity manager who is an innocent bystander.
16:08, Today: Conan rolled 16 using 1d20.
16:08, Today: Conan rolled 16 using 1d20.  possible bull rushes.

Mimic! Watch out for the adhesive! Someone pour some alcohol on the manager! Hurry! Bobbin will then shoot the already prepared crossbow at the mimic. Initiative slightly better than

16:36, Today: Bobble rolled 18 using 1d20+7.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:38, Mon 06 Apr 2020.

Response during the fight with the leader;
    "Sir I don't mined helping you warm up for your thrashing by Big Green over there.  But this won't help unless you put in some effort."
Then after his first hit "Sir, sense you're obviously in advancing years, maybe you should go get your sister or daughter, they might KNOW how to hit."

     After the Mimic appears. "Thanks for the dance sir but, there's a real threat over there." Yin says "something in a language"

Yin channels positive energy selecting out the mimic and the 4 ruffins.
Yang casts a spell, and his hand glows black.  He moves over to flank with Conan, drawing his weapon as he moves and tries to touch the mimic.
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I am still using the same initiatives.  It's the same fight, but a new monster has joined it.

Damage
MIMIC 15  grappled
Manager -? grappled
Conan
Bobble
Yang
Yin
Ldr
1 18 nonlethal, and unconscious with a couple points of lethal damage
2
3 7 nonlethal

  Conan draws out a cold iron flail as he moves over to attack the mimic, bringing the weapon down on the chair (15 dam).
  Bobble reaches down, picks up his crossbow and shoots, but misses.  There is just too much going on (ie cover) between him and the Mimic.
OOC: Shooting into melee -4, cover -4
  Yang casts a spell (no Aoo as opponent has no weapon out) and his hand starts glowing black.  Then he moves over to touch the mimic (drawing a weapon in the other hand as he moves), but misses. His hand is still glowing.
OOC: you have a held charge
  Yin moves and concentrates and everyone within 30' of her feels a wave of energy flow over them(heals 6 dam).  Though the Mimic and thugs don't heal any wounds.
  As Conan draws his flail the 3 conscious thugs look grim and draw out their daggers...and then they get a view of the toothy chair trying to eat the manager.  Their eyes bulge as they turn and flee out the nearest door, leaving their unconscious comrade behind.
OOC: Conan needs to make a DC 15 Reflex save or his weapon is stuck to the mimic.  If it get's stuck he can try a dc 15 str check (as a standard action) to pull it off.  If Conan still has his weapon in hand he can get an Aoo on one of the thugs with his flail if he wants to...and thinks it's a good idea?
  Most of the crowd starts panicking and backing away, and there are a couple of screams.  About half of the watchers start picking up the stuff and look like they are going to flee, leaving maybe 15 people still watching the fight.  As the crowd part you see a foreign ("Asian") girl dropping a book onto the table.  She looks over at the mimic with a weirdly calm look, stands up, moves 5', then her robe seems to elongate and grow a "pseudopod" out 10' to snatch a big mug off a table and tries to dump it on the mimic.  However, she misses.
  The mimic seems to be intent on eating the manager, but seems to want to get away from the big guy with the flail.  It drags the manager under the table and continues to constrict him.  The manager screams from the pain but continues to weakly struggle.  He is still alive, but just barely.
This message was last edited by the GM at 17:42, Fri 10 Apr 2020.

Bobble will drop the crossbow, scoop up a bottle of alcohol from a nearby table, and will move to dump it directly onto the manager and mimic.

Conan will swing with the flail hitting either the table or mimic, he not to sure all he know is that the weapon is stuck on the monster good enough that he'll draw out his broken short sword of a dagger to fight with from now on.


OOC: 13:16, Today: Conan rolled 11 using 1d20+4.  Reflex save.
13:15, Today: Conan rolled 21 using 1d20+6.  To Hit w/ flail

Yin will move back 5' and then channel positive energy again.
Yang will reply to Conan as he grabs the table and pulls.  "If you will allow me to help you, you can get a better swing."
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Damage
MIMIC 48  unconscious, seriously wounded, dying
Manager -? unconscious, seriously wounded and stable
Conan
Bobble
Yang
Yin
Ldr
1 18 nonlethal, and unconscious with a couple points of lethal damage
2
3 7 nonlethal

OOC:Lifting and Dragging: A character can lift as much as his maximum load over his head. A character’s maximum load is the highest amount of weight listed for a character’s Strength in the heavy load column of Table 7–4.

A character can lift as much as double his maximum load off the ground, but he or she can only stagger around with it. While overloaded in this way, the character loses any Dexterity bonus to AC and can move only 5 feet per round (as a full-round action).

A character can generally push or drag along the ground as much as five times his maximum load. Favorable conditions can double these numbers, and bad circumstances can reduce them by half or more.


  Bobble swiftly, well as swiftly as little gnome legs move, darts across the floor and grabs a mug off the table from above the mimic and splashes directly onto the mimic. He can tell that it works because the struggling manager is able to struggle more freely now.
  Conan's flail initially got stuck to the mimic, but as he is trying to pull it off it comes loose due to Bobbles actions.  He's about to swing it but pauses when Yang says "If you will allow me to help you, you can get a better swing " and starts trying to shift the table.  Things are not going well until the girl in the magic robe(?) says, "Hmm, that's a good idea."  She reaches out with the robe and grabs the middle of the table next to Conan and helps Yang flip it over, almost hitting Bobble in the process(he made a ref save), "Oops, Sorry."  There is now a table sized wall(4'tall) between Bobble and the mimic.
  Yin steps back and channels again, healing the manager of 6 hps.
  With a clear view Conan swings and lands a mighty blow, opening a nasty wound in the mimic.  The adhesive is gone for now so the flail does not stick.  The manager continues to struggle, but even without the adhesive he can't seem to break free from the monster.
  The mimic Constricts the manager until he stops moving, takes a bite and then lets him go.  The manager lies bleeding on the floor with a massive bite wound.  If he isn't dead, he soon will be.  Then the mimic picks up the bench between it and Conan to use as a improvised shield.
Conan swings again, but his flail is deflected by the bench/shield.  Yang manages to touch the monster, doing damage but not quite bringing it down.  Bobble moves 5' and pokes at it with his rapier, hitting and taking it down. The mimic lies on the floor bleeding mimic blood.  The girl in the robe moves over and touches the manager, and his wounds stop bleeding.  A black cat comes up beside her.

<Orange>The battle is over, what are you going to do?
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Now that was strange. Well, even stranger than having it appear here. It acted like it was starving to death. Perhaps it had a spell on it?

Yin sees that the manager is stable and goes over to the mimic and casts a spell, causing it to stop bleeding, "-starts in unknown language- wanted a bite, poor thing."  Her brother Yang starts an argument in the same unknown language.  They go back and forth a bit before Yin says "Fine, has anyone ever complained about bite marks on there butts?  Maybe it's a nice mimic." and moves over to look at the manager.  Yang facepalms as if this discussion has happened before, then turns to Conan, "you can give it a clean death, yes?", gesturing at the halforc's "dagger"(ie; short sword).
This message was last edited by the GM at 17:42, Wed 08 Apr 2020.

While the beautiful siblings(Yin and Yang) are talking the girl with the magic robe(?) uses it to carefully move the manager to the nearby table.  The black cat jumps up and meows at the girl who responds "Really Chito," and then to Bobble "Pardon me sir, you know about mimics?  You think this one was starving or maybe a spell?"  Her accent is very strange, she isn't from around here.
This message was last edited by the GM at 17:43, Wed 08 Apr 2020.

I am no expert, but it is very strange that a mimic would be in an occupied room like this without attacking someone already. It didnt act until that thugs blood got on it. That makes me wonder if it was under a spell of some sort. Kind of makes me wonder about the rest of the furniture... Hmmm, is there any loot? Bobbin will quickly deliver a precise thrust of his rapier to finish the thing off.

After Bobble kills the mimic and Yin is healing the manager, the cloaked girl and black cat go over to the mimic and starts using a dagger to examine it.

  Yin cast a spell on the manager and heals 7 dam.  Then she moves over to the thug and says, "Could you leave the mimic there for a moment, I'm not quite done with it."  She turns the thugs head toward the mimic and channels positive energy (1 hp healed).  As the thug wakes up she says "You should get a better class of friends.  They left you to die.  Luckily" pointing at Conan, "he was here and he's just a big softy with a forgiving heart."  In an aside to Conan, "Don't smile while I am upselling, it ruins the effects."  Back to the thug, "I would suggest you go to your local healer and get something for the headache.  I would suggest aspen bark tea."

  Yang meanwhile says "Greetings friends I am Yang, that's my sister Yin.  Thank you for kil...subduing that mimic."  Then to the mysterious cloaked girl, "Your accent sounds like our mothers."

"I, thank you for the assist with the attack on the Mimic and the table," says Conan to both the beautiful fellow and magically robed girl.   "I was after all trying to save the manager."   He continues and when he sees that the battle has ended and Yang has introduced himself and sister, Conan will introduce himself as well.   When asked to do the honor of the final blow to the creature, he'll agree until he notices that Bobble has all ready done that with his rapier, but will offer anyway, "Need a bigger sword, Bobble, ole chap?"

The cloaked girl pokes around the mimic a bit with her dagger.  She doesn't seem squeamish at all, more curious than anything as she goes "Hmmm, Chito look at this, hmmm, hmmm."  While this is going on a woman comes in from upstairs and rushes up to the unconscious manager, "What has that brute done to my husband" as she stares at Conan.   And then she get a glimpse of what the cloaked girl is dealing with she goes white and says hysterically, "What is that thing?"  More staff are appearing and taking control of the situation, though they don't seem to know what to do about all these strange, and some heavily armed, characters.  And with the manager unconscious no one seems to be in charge.

Bobble looks at the strangers gathered around the dead mimic. It sounds like we are all from over the mountains. My name is Bobble. I came here seeking a bard who is apparently my father. I know the big guy said he was looking for a bard as well.

In reply to Bobble (msg # 46):
   " Really Master Bobble..." intones Yin "...We to search for a bard that is our Father," finishes Yang, then in unison, with a note of disdain     "Diridon the Dashing!"
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Conan looks at all the people coming back into the inn and hangs his head crestfallen with his index finger pointing in the air by saying, "I didn't do.... I tried to save him."    In response to the lady's rebuke.



OOC: From this distance can I tell if the manager is alive.    Mainly breathing by his chest going up and down?   19:51, Today: Conan rolled 13 using 1d20+5.  heal check.    If I can here is the heal check I rolled.

OOC:  The manager has had multiple healing spells and abilities used on him, yes he is alive.

  As the group chats the crowd around them disperses as the staff takes payments and customers leave.  Only Conan responds to the managers wife.  Finally the cat looks toward the front door and meows at the still unnamed cloaked girl who suddenly looks up from her examination of the mimic "What, yeah that's a good idea."  She gets up and casts a healing spell on the manager who returns to consciousness.  After he is updated on the situation and your statements are corroborated by witnesses he takes control, and just in time as a well armed group of guardsmen arrive.
  The manager takes control and you eventually find yourselves eating a nice (free)dinner at the semiprivate table near the front door.  There introductions are made and you discover 4 of you have the same story;

However, how can this be as Bobbles(age 46) father was a gnome, Conans(24) a human and Yin/Yangs(17) was a halfelf.  According to what Bobble heard, Diridon the Dashing "He left all sudden like.  It wouldn't surprise me if he got run out of town by a group fathers and husbands with the way he was carrying on."  The manager can tell you he got a letter and left for Dawnton, a town a couple days away to the west.  This DtD is a 40-50 year old human male, good looking and a fine entertainer...and quite the womanizer.  Only Makoto doesn't seem to have the same backstory.
  The cloaked girl with the black cat introduces herself with a formal bow, "My name is Makoto Kowata(18), it is a pleasure to meet you.  This is my friend Chito, I hope we can all be good friends." She is a witch from the orient(the other side of the world) and is on a wandering journey as is customary for witches from her society when they become adults.  Admittedly, most witches don't usually go quite as far as this.  She knows who her parents are but hasn't seen them for 2 years.  She is averageish in looks with long straight black hair, but she has a weird formal way of talking and gives off a strange vibe.  She appears to be a little absentminded as well.
  According to Makoto the mimic was still young("teenager") and starving.  Apparently the rat population at the inn has almost disappeared, probably thanks to the mimic.  The local population of stray dogs and cats have also seen a decrease and food has been disappearing from the kitchen, so they put in a night watchman with a dog last week.  Mimics breed by budding/splitting, usually in 2 but sometimes more than 2.  So there is a possibility of there being more of them around.

Please give a description and introduction of your character.
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Conan is 6'2" and weighs around 230, with violet eyes and mostly Human features but is a Half-Orc.   He wears an archaic knightly armored breastplate.   His great sword is of archaic vintage as well.   Someone with knowledge in nobility would know that it is from a monastic order.    Conan's hair is jet black with auburn highlights naturally.   He has an average intelligence but is still is intelligent, most people just think because of his strength he must be stupid and he isn't that at all.

He wears a great axe (FALCHION) on his left side and a heavy flail on his right, his longbow is on his back and his broken short short sword turned dagger is also on the right.   What he wears under his breatplate is a double breasted leather shirt and form fitting pants, on his feet are knee length doe skinned boots.

Even though he has an eight charisma, he really is a likeable sort of guy, that is once you get to know him and can overlook the fact that he is a Half Orc.   He moves rather fast for someone of his size and he's quite hearty.
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Bobble is a small gnome, standing about 3 1/2 feet tall and weighs about 50 pounds. He is lean and quick, and charismatic. Orange hair and green eyes makes for an interesting combination. He wears a dark grey travel cloak with a hood, over fine studded leather armor. He had a rapier across his back and two daggers on his belt. Also he carries a small crossbow.

  Yin and Yang are twins that. even though 1 is a girl(Yin) and the other a boy(Yang), still look very similar.  They are exotic looking with long black with blue highlights hair and hazel eyes with arched eyebrows that indicate a mixed heritage.  Dad was a halfelf and mom was a human from the "orient".  They move with the natural grace of a dancer and speak with the voice of a singer.  The are well formed and healthy but on the short side, 4' 11"/5' 1".  They wear matching studded(iron wood yin/yang symbols) leather armor, wood shields and cloaks with opposite motifs.  Yang's is black with white trim and Yin's is white with black trim.  They also have darts, clubs and knapsacks.  As you have already noticed, they tend to finish each others sentences and argue in a language they identify as celestial.  Apparently, when she get's excited Yin can only speak in celestial.  You also notice that Yang has a little trouble at dinner.  His eating utensils and drink glass tend to move around when he sets them down so he has to look before he reaches for them.  He doesn't even seem to notice this is happening, but for you it's the first time seeing a haunted oracle.

   The manager comes over and as dessert is served he introduces himself, "I am Mr Asgrim, thank you for saving my life earlier.  After a careful count the number of chairs in the room is what it should be.  I would like to hire you to make sure the Inn is free of these mimic things.  I can pay you 100gp each + 250gp per dead mimic if you will clear it right now.  What do you say?"
OOC: I want to run 2 in-character discussions at the same time.  Please use the following headlines to mark each section;
Discussion of Diridon the Dashing
What you want to do after this adventure with regard to the overall plot...and tracking down Diridon the Dashing.  This is In-character and basically during dinner...

Discussion of how to go about dealing with the mimics
Plans to deal with the mimics. This is In-character and basically during dessert and after dinner...
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Discussion of Diridon the Dashing

Hmmm, it sounds like we all are all on the same quest, except for our exotic young lady. We can travel together to search for our mysterious father. I would be glad of the company for the road is not always safe for small folk.

Discussion of how to go about dealing with the mimics

Bobble will sit quietly for a time, thinking about mimics. (Knowledge Dungeoneering?) I'm ot sure. But this one reacted to the blood that got on it. Perhaps if we could get a pig to kill, we could try painting a bit of blood on any object we want to test?
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Discussion of Diridon the Dashing
Yang gracefully avoids blowing wine out his nose "I'm sure you do better than most master Bobble."  Yin says "He has a point dear brother, travelling together is safer. and if miss Makoto would join us I could avoid being surrounded by barb...all these men folk."  Yang has a pained social wounding look.  Yin continues with scorn in her voice, "Despite your god given grace, you still manage to miss the chamber pot in the mornings", with a wink to Makoto.

Discussion of how to go about dealing with the mimics
At the mention of pouring blood on stuff Yin's nose wrinkles, "Poor Mim, no wonder he had trouble socializing.  Couldn't we just bait it with something?"
Yang we will say "Since he seems to know about these things, perhaps we should bow to Master Bobble's knowledge."

Discussion of Diridon the Dashing

  Makoto responds with a serious expression, "Perhaps your brother has a medical problem and should seek a healer for it."  She seems to be serious.  She then nods her head "Thank you for the invitation.  We look forward to travelling with you."  She oozes politeness and formality.

Discussion of how to go about dealing with the mimics
  Between Makoto, with help from Chito the cat, and Bobble you know the following about mimics;
- they have human levels of intelligence
- they can probably understand language(s)(common most likely), but can they speak?
- they are ambush predators and have lots of patience and will power.  It was in the dining room all day with food smells and didn't attack anyone until there was a battle near it and fresh blood.
- their adhesive is dissolved with strong alcohol or Universal Solvent.  It also breaks down shortly after the creature is killed.  It can probably exude more adhesive after an unknown length of time.
- They are very difficult to detect.  Both Bobble and Conan were mere feet from it and had no idea it wasn't a chair.
- They are strong, about as strong as Conan
- They are slow (movement speed), slower than Bobble
- While they can change shape, their mass and size remain the same and their appearance has a hard and rough texture.

Discussion of Diridon the Dashing

Yin says, "Yes, he's male."

Discussion of how to go about dealing with the mimics
Yang asks the manager, "Is there a particular room that has had deadbeats skipping out on paying lately?"  Then he proposes that you go into the room and he will channel negative energy which should damage a creature and hopefully you will be able to see the damage.  Be sure there is plenty of alcohol on hand.
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Discussion of how to go about dealing with the mimics
  The manager thinks a moment, "Yes there is.  Twice in the past couple of weeks there have been lone travelers who have skipped out.  But we didn't find any of their belongings left behind, are you sure that could be a mimic?"  Chito meows and Makoto responds, "I think you are right Chito, they could be smart enough to hide their victims belongings."  She thinks Yang's plan is fine for a room they suspect a mimic to be in, but what about all the other rooms?

Discussion of Diridon the Dashing
  AT DINNER he continues to listen than speak up for the first time since the battle's aftermath being lost in thought.
"I'm at a loss as to where to go to search for my father.    You see I've been trying for a few months to try and find him and this was my best shot.   I guess I'll have to keep searching for him.    If only I could get one step ahead of him. "   He states rather lost like.   "I assume we, all excluding Makoto, are searching for Diridan because he in some way can cure our Mothers?   There is really only two ways I can think of how if the bard can procreate with a Gnome, or as a Human.   One is a Creation Druid or something such or two he's using the Dragon King's Procreation Soul Gem."   And like a switch turning off, "Enough, of my morose mood dampening the festive mood," Conan get up and says with a great big grin on his face, <Rose>"I'd like to propose a toast, TO FAMILY, MOTHERS, EVENTUAL CURES & TO FINDING SIBLINGS YOU DIDN'T YOU HAD."


Discussion of how to go about dealing with the mimics
"You know I still would like my bath before we do anything else as well as buy a room for the night," Conan says to no one in particular.  "In this way, I can be the bait for the Mimic and I can get this dust and dirt of the road off me at the same time."   He continues, "The mimic can be anything and anywhere by now."

  Conan listens to the various people talking about mimics and such, AT DESSERT , wondering if this is what a family talks about, he likes it.   Having never really having had a real family.   After hearing the more smarter individuals talk and come up with his solutions first, he'll chalk it up up to how fast he thinks, which he knows just isn't very speedy.
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Discussion of how to go about dealing with the mimics
Bobble gives the problem some thought. Well, I think it would be good for us to kill the one in the room tonight. Then we can get a good nights sleep. Tomorrow we can try to find any more of them.
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Discussion of Diridon the Dashing

  Yang comments to Conan, "That's simple, just follow the letter and go to Dawnton."  Yin says, "And if we miss him there we all go get an augury and compare the answers to weed out false replies."

Discussion of how to go about dealing with the mimics
      "For tonight it's easy.  We go to the room in question with a flagon of ale and I channel negative energy until one of the pieces of furniture flinches.  As long as there are only the 5 of us...(Meow!)  Oh yes, sorry master Chito.  As long as one of us stays back 30" I can keep the rest safe.
      My money is on the bed.  Your food just comes in, and goes to sleep on top of you.  Talk about room service!"
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Discussion of how to go about dealing with the mimics
    "That's good brother." intones Yin.  "For tomorrow we could do it like Uncle Sato would.  Go get a Detect Aberration scroll from some Druids and a young Priest for a use of their touch of law ability and then we can sweep the whole inn."
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Discussion of how to go about dealing with the mimics
  Makoto looks concerned, "Well if this mimic was starving, what about any others?  Who knows what could happen tonight."  The manager also looks concerned, "I am concerned about my guests.  I can send some of my staff to try and pickup any items within reason you might need.  But I really need it done tonight."

Discussion of how to go about dealing with the mimics
   Yin, with a deep breath and wide eyes, "Yes, we need to save the patrons, they're innocents.  We need to get this done as soon as possible" and she crosses her arms beneath her breasts in a gesture that brooks no further commentary.  Yang rolls his eyes in resignation.
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Discussion of how to go about dealing with the mimics
"This is all good, but what is the plan of attack," asks Conan who looks clearly antsy.
"So I guess we have to kill the monster before my bath, which is really good because that way I can wash all the blood and dirt off at the same time than I can crawl into a bed all nice and clean like, right ladies," he continues sounding dejectedly and emphasizing that last part while winking at the ladies at the table.
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Bobble is agreeable with the plan. But he will kick Conan in the shin for being lewd around the ladies. Be respectful around these ladies! My mom would twist your ear right off! Let’s get this done and save some people!

  The manager looks relieved when you agree to help, he asks "So what things do you need?"  He will start a list.

In reply to Bobble (msg # 66):

"Ouch," exclaims Conan when Bobble kicks him.   "I wasn't being being lewd, I was saying in a subtle way, you have to take baths whenever you can get them, am I right!"   He continues his defense after a moment of thought, "Gross, get your mind out of the gutter, one of these ladies is my sister."   He finishes with a horrified look at Bobble.

In reply to aaaFate (Makoto n Chito) (msg # 67):

     Well Master Inn keep,  4 scrolls of Magic Weapon
                            4 scrolls of Shield of faith
                            2 scrolls of Detect Aberrations
                            2 scrolls of grease if you have a local wizard
                            & a cleric with the Law domain, any rank will do.

     "Now then Bobble, you seem to fight even more dirty than me.  So you will go in to the room with Conan as a team of flankers, each of you with magic weapon for hitting, shield of faith for not being hit, grease for getting out of grapples, and anything else that Ms'Makoto  can place on you.
     I will then channel Negative Energy, until the mimic flinches. Then Makoto, Yin, and maybe myself will use ranged weapons if we have a clear shot.  You 2 will then attack in melee.  All the while My sister keeps us alive.  Remember, don't go into melee until the ranged attacks go off.
     Any questions?
     We also need a couple of flagons of your cheapest alcohol, no sense in abusing good alcohol.  And the patrons will need to be kept at least 30' from us."
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"Yes," replied Conan, "What if the Mimic isn't in the room anymore?    I'm sure the good Innkeeper will not want us conducting a room to room search.   Don't furniture get moved around frequently in these places?    You'll have to excuse my ignorance of magic stuff but being an Outdoorsy Fighter Type well you know..."    He trails off.
This message was last edited by the player at 22:40, Sat 11 Apr 2020.

   While the manager will attempt to collect what you have asked for, you go to the room you suspect a mimic is in and prepare for battle.  You have a couple of inn staff(bouncer/guard types) to help evacuate the guests and keep them out of harms way.
   The alcohol is easy to get, it is an Inn after all, so everyone can be carrying 1 or 2 containers of the stuff.  Jugs/mugs would be easier to deploy, but harder to carry (splash and spillage and must be carried in hand) while bottles would be easier to carry but harder to deploy quickly.  Please note what containers you prefer.
   Makoto will explain that she has magic that can help protect someone from attack by increasing their personal luck.  One at a time she will take Bobble, Yang and Conan's hands, concentrate for a moment and then say "The next time you are attacked this magic will activate."
This message was last edited by the GM at 10:04, Thu 16 Apr 2020.

Bobble will take 2 bottles of strong spirits. He will keep one in his left hand and draw his rapier with his right. As he is quieter than the others he will go in first and move near the window, with his back to the window.

Conan will not carry any alcohol because he's unsure about his footing around everyone since he doesn't really partake of the stuff but that isn't really why he doesn't have any right now.    It might have something to do with the fact that he doesn't really know how to use it against anything or anyone let alone a mimic.

Conan carries his heavy flail in both hands and will follow Bobble into the room and will have his back towards the door.    Moving on the balls of his feet, once he gets into position to flank with the Gnome, ready to be flexible and change his positioning.

OOC: Here are some pictures to help you visualize what I am saying.
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/CBD1...otel-room-CBD1H3.jpg
https://media-cdn.tripadvisor....ic-inn-creekside.jpg
https://pix10.agoda.net/hotelI...2415400032979381.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals...66658241810e4c7c.jpg
http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com...6472_Luxury_Room.jpg

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  You open the door and see the room as light from the hall spills into the dark room, dim evening light shines in from the window (curtains are open).  The inside walls, floors and 8' tall ceiling are all made of wood planks.  The outer wall is made of stone covered with plaster.  To the left are 2 beds/headboards(without mattresses), which could be slid together to make 1 larger bed, for couples.  In that case the Inn would provide an extra double sized straw mattress. Above the headboards are hooks for lanterns.  To the right are a wardrobe, small table, chair(you must ask for a 2nd chair if you need one) and a small built-in chest.  A few standard and all the luxury rooms have these.  For an extra fee you can rent the key that unlocks them and use them to store valuables.  Chamber pots, lanterns, straw mattresses and things like that are supplied when a room is going to have a guest staying in it.
This message was last edited by the GM at 20:44, Sun 12 Apr 2020.

Bobble is prepared to act, and will attack from flanking as soon as the mimic is revealed.



Standard Action : Held, will attack as soon as mimic is identified
Move Action     :
Swift Action    :
Free Action     :


HP: 19/19  |  AC/TH/FF: 19/17/13  | CMB/CMD : +0/14   | Saves: F/R/W +1/7/-1 (+2 vs illusion)
[list]
       (De)Buffs :
       Abilities :
           Wands :
       Medallion :
  L1 Spell like abilities DC15 : dancing lights, ghost sound,
prestidigitation, and speak with animals

     Before they begin Yang will cast Shield of faith on Bobble & Conan, then he will draw out his shield and cast Inflict light wounds line up behind the Meat-shields to follow them in tucking in next to the door.  Then he will wait for Yin to come up to the door with her sling out.
     Yin will cast Magic stone in the hall wait for the boys to go in and then take up a position just out of the room, checking both directions for stray patrons, and when all is clear say;  "We are ready."
      Yang then will channel Negative energy, selecting out all ally characters.   Wash, rinse, repeat.
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:45, Sun 12 Apr 2020.

Makoto will cast a Mage Armor on herself.
Bobble(14rdnds left) and Conan(15 rnds left) have a buff; Shield of Faith +2 deflection ac
Bobble and Yang have Buff; Protective Luck, until attacked

Damage
MIMIC  ? dam 

Conan
Bobble
Yang
Yin
Makoto
Chito

Bobble enters the room, rapier at ready in 1 hand and a bottle in the other.
Conan enters behind him, his big flail in a 2handed grip.
Makoto, dagger and Jug in her hands, and Yin, rocks in hand, flank the door in the hallway.
Yang, with shield and glowing black hand, walks into the doorway behind the door and starts concentrating.  You can feel waves of energy coming from him, icky negative energy that threatened to drain your life, but oddly feels muted and distant and doesn't hurt at all.  6, 5, 1, 5.  After this channel Bobble notices the floor between the beds start to move, but doesn't react fast enough to act before it.  Everyone had looked at that part of the room in looking around and had noticed nothing wrong.  Mimics are scary.
OOC: There is a surprise round, the Mimic goes first.

Now Bobble goes on the Surprise round(1 action) and Conan, Yang and Makoto go before the Mimic at the top of the 1st round(full round).

Round Surprise
Mimic
The floor suddenly comes alive and roars "arghhh..." as it pushes Conan back 5', knocking over the table and chair in the process.  It almost seems to slip and miss, but it gets lucky and hits.  The floor behind it is now a hole exposing a couple of floor joists and the ceiling of the dining room down below.  One wrong step and you could have a leg go through the floor below.  You get the impression that the mimic is angry and hurt, and eyeing Yang as his next meal.

Now Bobble goes on the Surprise round(1 action) and Conan, Yang and Makoto go before the Mimic at the top of the 1st round(full round).
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     "HELLFIRE & DAMNTION!  this this thing is fast!" Yang thingks to himself.  Then in a cool and collected voice.
     "Now Ms'Makoto your up, get some ale on this thing!"
     Then He will reserve an action to attack with his inflict wounds.
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In the surprise round Bobble will attack with his Rapier with a dexterous lunge.
Not very good, rolled a 2 for an 8 total...

Standard Action : Attack
Move Action     :
Swift Action    :
Free Action     :

HP: 19/19  |  AC/TH/FF: 19/17/13  | CMB/CMD : +0/14   | Saves: F/R/W +1/7/-1 (+2 vs illusion)
[list]
       (De)Buffs :
       Abilities :
           Wands :
       Medallion :
  L1 Spell like abilities DC15 : dancing lights, ghost sound,
prestidigitation, and speak with animals
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"What the ....!" exclaims Conan as the floor comes alive, he was ready for combat but just a shocked when the floor comes barrelling down at him with the table and chair.   He deftly moves aside from the Mimic's attack  but will swing his flail at it ready to pull out his dagger once the flail is stuck.

Standard Action : attack with flail
Move Action     : draw out dagger
Swift Action    :
Free Action     :

HP: 26/26   |  AC/TH/FF: 19/113/18 | CMB/CMD : +6/+17   | Saves: F/R/W +6/+4/+3

       (De)Buffs : Shield of Deflection: +2 deflection to AC (15 rnds)
       Abilities : Power Attack:Trade melee attack bonus for damage/ Furious Focus:No PA PENALTY for 1st combat rnd
           Wands :
       Medallion :
(Conan didn't do power attack this first rnd. But will use all other rnds = wanted to see if I hit the monster first)
OOC: 14:27, Today: Conan rolled 21 using 1d20+6.  To Hit w/ flail.
     14:31, Today: Conan rolled 14 using 1d10+9.  possible Mimic Damage.
     14:37, Today: Conan rolled 5 using 1d20+4.  Reflex save to see if flail gets stuck to monster
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Damage
MIMIC  ?+14 dam 

Conan 9 dam
Bobble
Yang
Yin
Makoto
Chito

Bobble enters the room, rapier at ready in 1 hand and a bottle in the other.
Conan enters behind him, his big flail in a 2handed grip.
Makoto, dagger and Jug in her hands, and Yin, rocks in hand, flank the door in the hallway.
Yang, with shield and glowing black hand, walks into the doorway behind the door and starts concentrating.  You can feel waves of energy coming from him, icky negative energy that threatened to drain your life, but oddly feels muted and distant and doesn't hurt at all.  6, 5, 1, 5.  After this channel Bobble notices the floor between the beds start to move, but doesn't react fast enough to act before it.  Everyone had looked at that part of the room in looking around and had noticed nothing wrong.  Mimics are scary.
OOC: There is a surprise round, the Mimic goes first.

Now Bobble goes on the Surprise round(1 action) and Conan, Yang and Makoto go before the Mimic at the top of the 1st round(full round).

Round Surprise
Bobble attacks with his rapier and misses.

Round 1
Yang waits for someone to use some alcohol on the thing...

Conan swings his flail down onto the mimic...and it gets stuck again.

Makoto moves around the corner and dumps her jug of alcohol all over the mimic.  Conan's flail comes loose.  She has a knife out so she is flanking with Bobble.

...Yang easily touches the mimic with his black glowing hand.  The black glow seems to flow into the mimic and a wound appear on it.
OOC: 19+ to hit, but min dam, ouch

Mimic switches focus to Conan, slamming into the halforc with tremendous force, 9 dam.  You can swear it looks surprised when it's adhesive doesn't work.

Your turn.  Use the previous map(below) except Makoto is now in the doorway next to the mimic.  Also, please record the buff spells and durations (see msg 77) in the buff section...Bobble and Yang.

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Take that beast! Bobblle flanks and hits! He makes up for his miss with a critical

15:40, Today: Bobble rolled 25 using 1d20+6.
15:40, Today: Bobble rolled 26 using 1d20+6.

Sadly he only did 6 points of Damage
Standard Action   continue to flank and attack
Move Action     :
Swift Action    :
Free Action     :

HP: 19/19  |  AC/TH/FF: 19/17/13  | CMB/CMD : +0/14   | Saves: F/R/W +1/7/-1 (+2 vs illusion)
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       (De)Buffs :
       Abilities :
           Wands :
       Medallion :
  L1 Spell like abilities DC15 : dancing lights, ghost sound,
prestidigitation, and speak with animals
This message was last edited by the player at 22:47, Sun 12 Apr 2020.

Standard Action : grabbing back flail and swinging it again (attack) Conan rolled 23 using 1d20+6.  To Hit w/ flail/  Conan rolled 14 using 1d10+9.
Move Action     :
Swift Action    :
Free Action     :

HP: 17/26   |  AC/TH/FF: 19/13/18 | CMB/CMD : +6/+17   | Saves: F/R/W +6/+4/+3

       (De)Buffs : Shield of Deflection: +2 deflection to AC (15 rnds)
       Abilities : Power Attack:Trade melee attack bonus for damage/ Furious Focus:No PA PENALTY for 1st combat rnd
           Wands :
       Medallion :

     "Dang! she's faster than Mim was."  Yin intones.
      Looking in Yin doesn't see many wounds to her allies; besides Conan looks very tough, so she will attack with a -4 with her magic stone.  She could get lucky.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:43, Sun 12 Apr 2020.

Damage
MIMIC  ?+35 dam   dying

Conan 16 dam
Bobble
Yang
Yin
Makoto
Chito

Round 1
Bobble attacks with his rapier and does damage.

Yin waits for Makoto to get out of her way....

Round 2
Conan swings his flail down onto the mimic...and hits it a glancing blow.  The mimic is seriously hurt (at 0 hps), but not dead yet.

Makoto moves back carefully so as not to provoke an AOO.

...Yin throws a magic stone, but misses.

Yang ducks behind the door, letting Conan and Bobble fight the thing.

Mimic desperately tries to fight for it's life as it reaches out to grapple Conan.  Conan tries to avoid it and counter attacks(AOO), but fails to connect with his AOO.  Conan feels the pseudopod wrap around him, doing 7 dam, and then it goes limp as that action caused the mimic's wounds to worsen and it starts dying.
OOC:  We are out of combat for now.
This message was last edited by the GM at 12:14, Mon 13 Apr 2020.

Bobble will be sure to deliver a coup de gras to the dying mimic.
This message was last edited by the GM at 14:26, Mon 13 Apr 2020.

Bobble carefully kills the mimic and it ceases movement.  Makoto comes over and starts examining the mimic, "Hmmm...".  After a few moments of silence Chito wanders into the room, looks in the hole in the floor before she moves over near Makoto.

What are you going to do now?

Hmmm, there must be some loot around here. This thing ate people. Let me look in the hole. Bobble will search carefully around the hole and then in it.

Bobble looks in the hole with the exposed floor joists and the ceiling of the dining room down below.  He notices that the "floor" of the space between the 2nd floor floor and 1st floor ceiling is cleaner 1 way than the other.  Something has been recently shoved down that hole.  Gauging the space, Bobble could probably fit down the joist space but it would be tight (ooc: no escape artist check needed).

Bobble slips a length of silk rope from an inside pocket of his cloak and ties it around himself. He tosses the other end to Conan and says Pull me out if I start screaming or if I give 2 sharp tugs on the rope please. Who knows if there are young ones down there. He will pull a dagger and place it in his teeth and enter the hole.

Bobble crawls into the space between the joints.  He is pretty light so the ceiling doesn't collapse.  Makoto continues her examination while Conan holds onto the rope near the hole.
This message was last edited by the GM at 20:41, Mon 13 Apr 2020.

In reply to Bobble (msg # 91):

Conan will look at the magic users once the fight is over and say, "Can one of you clerical types heal me, I seem to have sprung a few leaks, as he looks himself over."   Once Bobble throws him the rope with instructions, Conan will pull on the rope and say with a good natured grin on his face, "Just checking the rope and your responses."   As Conan lets him go down the hole.

Bobble will use his appraise skill to sort through the stashed stuff under the floor and pull out any valuable items. The ordinary items he will put aside for the innkeeper to deal with later. He will keep his eyes open for any baby mimics.

It takes Bobble a few trips to get everything out of the crawl space.  Then he starts going through it.  The floor boards that the mimic replaced are also there.  Makoto is of the opinion that this mimic was the same age but better fed.


several broken potion/alchemical bottles
1 intact potion bottle with opaque greenish liquid in it, made of stronger glass, marked jump
Scroll tube with scrolls, several have been ruined by the lost potions/alchemical items
4 scrolls have survived
Spellbook with some pages ruined,
masterwork rapier medium
masterwork longbow medium
2 daggers
20 arrows
112 gp
Wayfinder/ https://aonprd.com/MagicWondro...?FinalName=Wayfinder
clothes, 2 spell component pouches and bags, mostly ruined by exposure to the lost potions/alchemical items

  As you are sorting the loot the manager arrives with some stuff.  He can also identify the items as belonging to the 2 guests who "left without paying".  They left, but not by the door, by a mimics stomach.  1 was a male elf probably a wizard and the other a nondescript human, neither was a usual guest.
  The manager will introduce you to Silanthe, a female elf cleric of "Abdar"(LN, God of cities and money).  She has been hired to provide you the touch of law and channel positive energy healing.  She also has available a wand of magic weapon (20gp for a use) and a wand of liberating command (manager will pay if she needs to use this).  The manager can also provide 1 scroll of Detect Aberrations (CL1).  Everting else was unavailable.  Also, the local wizard was busy and the local druid was on a trip.
OOC: I rolled for availability and had MY levels of luck.
This message was last edited by the GM at 17:01, Tue 14 Apr 2020.

With the fight over and things have settled down to a dull roar as it were, Conan will seek out a bath and than a room for the night by saying to all present ans motioning the manager aside to conduct his business, "I bid you all a doo and we can divvy up the spoils come morning.    I am tired from both the fighting and from the road and because of such I will probably sleep, sleep of the dead tonight."

Hmm, you know you haven't finished searching the Inn yet.

OOC;  I am waiting for you guys to tell me what your plan is and what you are going to do with the "stuff" from msg95.

quote:

  The manager will introduce you to Silanthe, a female elf cleric of "Abdar"(LN, God of cities and money).  She has been hired to provide you the touch of law and channel positive energy healing.  She also has available a wand of magic weapon (20gp for a use) and a wand of liberating command (manager will pay if she needs to use this).  The manager can also provide 1 scroll of Detect Aberrations (CL1).  Everting else was unavailable.  Also, the local wizard was busy and the local druid was on a trip.

 

You have a cleric with the law domain.  She will do the following for free (the manager has already paid for her services;
- touch of law
- positive energy healing
- use the spell liberating command if needed
As a separate service she will use a wand of magic weapon for 20gp per use.

There is also 1 scroll of Detect Aberrations (CL1).
This message was last edited by the GM at 23:54, Wed 15 Apr 2020.

I am curious about the scroll of detect aberration. What is the duration? Is it mobile? Would it cover the whole inn? If so, we need to cover as much ground as possible to find any more of the critters. Then we kill them. Otherwise we kill a chicken and see if we can attract any of them with the blood.

Makoto will explain the spell ( https://aonprd.com/SpellDispla...=Detect%20Aberration ).  Yin and Yang believe they can use ( https://aonprd.com/Skills.aspx...Use%20Magic%20Device ) the scroll with the help of the Cleric of laws Touch of Law ( https://aonprd.com/DomainDisplay.aspx?ItemName=Law ) ability.
This message was last edited by the GM at 10:23, Tue 21 Apr 2020.

"Hell's Bells," exclaims Conan when he finds out that he isn't finished fighting yet.   "You know if I don't get my 8 to 12 hours of beauty sleep, I become cranky, and that is BEAUTY sleep, folks.   Seriously though, it might be easier if the cleric could cast the aberration detection spell on the whole inn, that way we could attack the nest or these things one by one."

  Yin/Yang arrived at an Inn while tracking down their father. After engaging in a fist fight with some locals and then rescue the manager from a mimic, they met Conan, Bobble and Makoto.  After killing another mimic, they made sure the Inn was clean of mimics and then had a discussion about their (except for Makoto) supposed common father.  They come up with 2 leads, a village called Dawnton and Laketown.  You decide to split up with Yin/Yang going to Dawnton and Conan, Bobble and Makoto going to Laketown.
  It also turns out there was another mimic in town that your actions alerted the authorities to, so in recognition your group is given a 1/2 full wand of clw.  The manager can also give you an Ioun Torch and your promised reward for 2 dead mimics.  In this case the grateful town will buy the goods at full price if you want to sell them.


This is where I will list Loot and stuff.
Yin
Yang

CHP 1
gp   item
150  scroll of invisibility(cl 3)
25   scroll of magic weapon(cl 1)
150  scroll of Silence(cl 3)
138  Spellbook with some pages ruined,
320  masterwork rapier medium
375  masterwork longbow medium
1    20 arrows
4    2 daggers
50   1 intact potion bottle with opaque greenish liquid in it,
                     made of stronger glass, marked jump
25   scroll of obscuring mist(cl 1)
112  gp
500  Wayfinder/ https://aonprd.com/MagicWondro...?FinalName=Wayfinder
375  wand clw(cl 1, 1d8+1, 25chgs) to group CBM
75   Ioun Torch/ https://aonprd.com/MagicWondro...nalName=Ioun%20Torch
500  reward for 2 mimics
2800 + 100gp each

2800/5 +100 = 660gp each